| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857. By Paula Rebert. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xx, 259 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-292-77110-X. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-77111-8.)

The Mexican-American War of 1846–1848 is one of the most significant and most controversial events in North American history. This conflict and its outcome furthered the "manifest destiny" of the United States initiated at the conclusion of the American Revolution with the Treaty of Paris and advanced by the Louisiana Purchase; it impeded Mexican participation in North American affairs for over a century; and it widened the separation of the United States and Mexico. Even into the present, a principal symbol of that division has been the approximately fifteen-hundred-mile boundary between the two countries first described and ordered mapped by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 1

In La Gran Línea, Paula Rebert, an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Wisconsin whose excellent training there is evident, considers the eight-year boundary survey as a major chapter in the history of North American cartography. She does this objectively and with full command of the extensive sources, American and Mexican, relating to her topic. The exposition of the Mexican documentation alone makes this volume an important contribution to understanding not only the ramifications of the war but the history of North American cartography and exploration as well. . . .

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