| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Todd M. Kerstetter. God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 213. $36.00.

Todd M. Kerstetter has produced an important book of comparative history. He addresses the vital question: "Did religion make a difference in the American West?" (p. 12). Utilizing three compelling case studies from two centuries, Kerstetter demonstrates the federal government's often violent coercion of people seen as religious extremists. He builds his analysis on key themes from the well-established, and thus no longer "New," western history. Most clearly he knows the works of Richard White, Donald Worster, and Patricia Nelson Limerick. Their insights about the role of the U.S. government in shaping the American West of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries informs his interpretation. Yet, he also knows his scholars of American religious history and demonstrates the ongoing influence of Sydney Ahlstrom, Ferenc Szasz, and Jon Butler.

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