| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Gilbert G. González. Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880–1930. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 245. Cloth $50.00, paper $22.95.

This ambitious book provides a new interpretation of U.S. public policy toward Mexican immigrants and their descendants by weaving together three different factors shaping the formulation of that policy: the U.S. economic conquest of Mexico since the 1880s, the discourse of U.S. fictional writing and travel literature about Mexico, and the effects of Mexican immigration itself. Gilbert G. González therefore forges a new explanatory model that rests as much on the transnational history of U.S.-Mexican relations as it does on the narrower confines of domestic policy toward a rapidly growing minority group in the United States. As a result, this book is of interest to U.S. and Latin American historians as well as specialists in American and Mexican studies.

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