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Book Review
On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. x + 291 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $26.00.)
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Antonio is a city shaped by its borders. Geographically, it is located
where the Great Plains meet the gulf coastal plain, in a zone of
transition between the humid East and the arid West. Culturally,
San Antonio is situated at the crossroads of Anglo America and Latin
America. Perhaps most important, the city's social landscape has
been organized along the virtually impenetrable boundaries of race,
class, and ethnicity. As the title of this interdisciplinary anthology
of original essays suggests, San Antonio's environmental history
springs from the intersections of these borders, especially as they
gave rise to political struggles over water management, the provision
of park land, economic development priorities, and historic preservation. |
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