| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840–1940. By Glenda Riley. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. xii, 360 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8263-3111-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8263-3112-2.)
Glenda Riley's new book demonstrates her facility with research, this time expanding beyond the American West that she knows so well to the settlement period (1890–1940) in the British colony of Kenya. Her intent is to compare the role of women in the settlement of the American West with the role of women in the settlement of Kenya, thereby clarifying issues of settlement in both places. She concludes that the similarities between these historical experiences contradict claims of exceptionalism for the American West.	1
Riley's introduction offers a lively discussion of frameworks for the study of settlement in these two regions. Here she reviews theories of human behavior that may be applied to historical studies from such fields as a comparative world systems approach, biohistory, psychology, and ethology. She then posits four elements of frontier history: philosophy, place, process, and product. The addition of philosophy to the usual two-point understanding of frontier as place and process is probably the most important contribution Riley makes to existing literature. Her fourth element, product, better known as legacy, works well in this examination of two distinct frontiers.	. . .

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