| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. By Frank Van Nuys. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xvi, 294 pp. $35.00,ISBN 0-7006-1206-8.)

This book's title, Americanizing the West, captures two distinct arguments of its author. First, Frank Van Nuys explores how national campaigns to Americanize immigrants through social engineering and bureaucratic methods played out in the West. The second, more provocative, argument posits that the West's participation in Americanization programs was

a key element in modernizing and nationalizing the West. Making American citizens was tantamount to making the West thoroughly American as well. Integration into a progressive national state brought the West into a closer, more vital, less colonial relation with the nation. (p. 7)

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