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Boundaries - lines imposed on the landscape - shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. Historian Derek Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular.

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With Derek Everett as our guide, what might seem one of the simplest acts of creating the West-defining its states by drawing lines on the map-becomes a revelation into the many crosscurrents-political, social, ethnic, economic, and, let's face it, idiosyncratic-that shaped the emergence of a distinctive American region. Creating the American West is also a reminder of how the lines we draw have always both divided and united us."" - Elliott West author of The Essential West: Collected Essays

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      Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
      Published 30 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780806168449
      978-0806168449
      ISBN-10 0806168447
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Boundaries - lines imposed on the landscape - shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. Historian Derek Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular.

      Trade Review
      With Derek Everett as our guide, what might seem one of the simplest acts of creating the West-defining its states by drawing lines on the map-becomes a revelation into the many crosscurrents-political, social, ethnic, economic, and, let's face it, idiosyncratic-that shaped the emergence of a distinctive American region. Creating the American West is also a reminder of how the lines we draw have always both divided and united us."" - Elliott West author of The Essential West: Collected Essays

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