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Southwestern Historical Quarterly April tional networks, created by the West's entrance into the modern era. Amy Kastely's "Esperanza v. City of San Antonio: Politics, Power, and Culture," examines the struggle of a Chicana-organized group to fight for "a vision of cultural rights and a place for such rights in U.S. domestic law" (289). Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West is an outstanding anthology. Applying cultural geography to western history may not be new--Wilber Zelinsky's The Cultural Geography of the United States (Prentice Hall, 1973, 1992), for example, helped set the groundwork for understanding cultural persistence of immigrant movement into the West, and Massy's concept of space and place seems implicitly to undergird many works of western history--but Gray and Gullet have repurposed it beautifully. The essays are excellent in their own right; Gray and Gullet's selection of diverse ethnic experiences, and their ability to thread temporal and analytical similarities together deftly, provide important insights into studying women in the American West. University of Wyoming Renee Laegreid Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains. By Kevin Z. Sweeney. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. 304. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.)
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association
Published: Mar 22, 2017
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