| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

Continental Crossroads: Remapping U. S.-Mexican Borderlands History. Edited by Samuel Truett and Elliott Young. Foreword by David J. Weber. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xvii + 344 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $22.94, paper; $79.95, cloth.)
Continental Crossroads is an original, provocative collection of essays shedding new light on the construction and negotiation of borderlands identity from the early-nineteenth century into the 1940s. Extending analysis beyond traditional frontier stories and national periodizations, Truett and Young and the other contributors capably interweave insights of Spanish borderlands and Chicana/o history with western U. S., southwestern U. S., and northern Mexican history in order to open up new conversations about transnational relationships.	1
Paying tribute to the multiplicity of narratives and histories found in the borderlands region, Truett and Young divide the volume into four thematic sections. Part One, "Frontier Legacies," looks at the Texas and California borderlands during the colonial and national periods, asking readers to reexamine traditional assumptions of frontier life. Raúl Ramos challenges the stereotype that Indians and Mexicans in Texas constantly fought one another in the Mexican North; Louise Pubols argues that the conventional declension narrative of Californio elite post-1848 fails to take into account re-fashioned patriarchal relationships that helped maintain Californio political power for years after the U. S. conquest.	. . .

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