| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

*Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands*. By Samuel Truett. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 259 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)
Focusing on the region that stretches from Tucson to Guaymas, Nogales to Bavispe, Samuel Truett seeks to recapture how the "copper borderlands" of Mexico and the United States were constructed as both a unified and divided region. Describing Spain's and Mexico's imperial designs on a distant lands, indigenous resistance, expansive American capital, the struggles to link remote mines by road or rail, occasionally militant labor, and political insurgency, Truett links these stories together to construct a regional history "of a shifting palimpsest of spaces, each with its own circuits and borders. This history of the region unfolds ... like transparent maps that can be read individually or stacked as a collective whole" (p. 8) each layer representing a different aspect of regional development and change.	1
Cutting through these landscapes, from the middle of the 19th century, is the confounding fact of an international border that has come to represent the sharpest divide in the world between the global north and global south. Truett's goal is to develop a regional history that shows how borders "both divide and connect" (p. 7) and his preferred method is what he calls "transnational history," a history that "treat[s] the borderlands as a shifting mosaic of human spaces—some interwoven, others less so; some transnational others national; some colonial, others modern" (p. 9).	. . .

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