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NED BLACKHAWK. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. 372. $35.00.
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NATALIA MOLINA. Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939. (American Crossroads, number 2.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 279. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.