| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Samuel Truett. Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2006. Pp. xii, 259. $40.00.
In this richly textured history of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, Samuel Truett deftly peels off layers of multiethnic, transnational history to reveal what he calls fugitive landscapes. My first inclination upon reading in the prologue that "What follows is a history of this lost world, which became by the early twentieth century one of the most industrialized and urban places in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands" (p. 6) was one of skepticism. After all, articles and books on this section of the border (Arizona-Sonora) are so numerous that the promise seems brash. Further reading, however, revealed a fresh methodology, buttressed by previously untapped sources and unpublished episodes. Indeed, the promise is fulfilled.	1
Conventional histories of the late nineteenth-century borderlands portray stages of modernization, accommodation, and resistance. Modernizers are outsiders, armed with investment capital and industrial technology; with the help of local allies, they supply raw materials to a rapidly industrializing world. While this vision is tentatively present in the book, the author also delineates a more excruciating process taking place in transnational communities like Bisbee, Tombstone, Douglas, Naco, Agua Prieta, and Cananea. Traditional culture, preindustrial methods of production, and beast-driven transportation existed side by side with the modern, often blending dialectically into a whole. There is no extinguishing of one historical level in favor of the other.	. . .

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