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Journal Article
Borderlands and the Future History of the American West
2011
Overview
Hernandez discusses essays on borderland history. Spanish borderlands scholars have detailed the lives of everyday men, women, and families living in the interstices between empires and nations. Against narratives of frontiers at the edge of indomitable empires and nation-states, these scholars have found power disputes everywhere. Focused on life, politics, and culture in the regions at the outermost reach of the empire, then nation-state, then back to empire again, they have deftly chronicled the vibrant and complicated life that existed in the American West before Anglo-Americans arrived; their accounts show the incompleteness and uncertainty of that push into the region. The shift from dueling empires to the multicultural West required an array of new methods attuned to voices and experiences long ignored. In this essay, Hernandez discusses how new regional, conceptual, and methodological approaches to life in border areas will, in the years ahead, deepen understanding and challenge the history of the region. While historians have, for the most part, remained focused upon colonial domains and national borders, geographers, anthropologists, constitutional scholars, cultural theorists, and many others have explored how borderland regions are not simply created by national territories abutting one another. Borderlands, they suggest, are zones defined by any consequential social, political, or cultural divide.
Publisher
Western Historical Quarterly,Western History Association
