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On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio

On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller. (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 291. $26.00, ISBN 0-8229-4163-5.)

On the Border is an interdisciplinary collection of eleven essays on the natural, human, and built environments of the San Antonio region from the end of the seventeenth century to the present. Rather than a single theme, place ties the chapters together, although the control and uses of water are the focus of several contributions. In the opening essay James E. Petersen sets the stage by situating San Antonio amid a string of settlements located on springs rising along the Balcones Escarpment, an outcropping ...

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