| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890. By Eugene P. Moehring. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. xxx + 408 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

The terminal date of this detailed study of far western town founding, 1890, is of course the famous census year that Frederick Jackson Turner used to mark the ending of the American agricultural frontier. But as Eugene P. Moehring, a noted contemporary scholar of western urban history, indicates, this choice of date, necessary to encompass the final stages of original town founding around Los Angeles and in Idaho, in no way reflects a Turnerian view. The author is committed to the key concept of the "new western history" that states that the settlement of the Far West was not a process of agrarian development of virgin land but was one essentially of continuous imperialist conquest. He is also committed to a not so new concept of the "new urban history" that holds that the United States development of the Far West centered on towns and cities.

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