| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Susan Wiley Hardwick. Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast. (Creating the North American Landscape.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 175. $42.95.

Celebrated by singer Glen Campbell, Galveston is a place that invites visitors to stroll along its beaches and marvel at its historic buildings. Yet for generations of immigrants, it was also the Ellis Island of the South. This slim but meticulous study recaptures the lives of those immigrants and how they shaped this Texas city. Susan Wiley Hardwick, a cultural geographer, argues that it was the relentless boosting by merchants and the waves of immigrants who passed through Galveston that made it a "key part of a distinct and as yet undefined geographic region" (p. 10). It is in the city's vernacular forms and archival materials that she finds evidence for Galveston as the lynchpin for America's "Third Coast" (p. 150), building on the work of her noted colleague, Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, along with the late John Brinckerhoff Jackson. But for all of its strong insights into Galveston's built and social environment, Hardwick's book tends to overlook the historical complexities that put the city on the map.

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