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From the Bookshelf: Rosenthal – Reimagining Indian Country
Nicolas G. Rosenthal. Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration & Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Readers may be catching on to the fact that I am a sucker for scholarship that, to paraphrase David Weber, takes the familiar and makes it strange. For this reason, I am often drawn to Western history that pulls familiar themes from the 19th Century (or earlier) and pulls them fully into the 20th and 21st century. I love studying the "Modern West." This slim volume by Nicoclas Rosenthal, an associate professor at Loyola Marymount University, does just that. In its broadest strokes, the text asks readers to Continue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Rosenthal – Reimagining Indian Country