Rachel St John

Biographic Data

ID3768241
NAMERachel St John
GIVEN NAMESRachel St
FAMILY NAMEJohn
SIGNATUREJOHN R S
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Contingent Continent

    Rachel St JohnARTICLEPacific Historical Review2017

    This article highlights how Americans used intertwined arguments about space and geography to justify and denounce different territorial configurations from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War. These arguments wove together ideas about geography (a set of physical, topographical features) and space (the human constructs that shape movement and human relations) in everything from theoretical arguments about the ideal size of republic…

  • Imperial Spaces in Pekka Hämäläinen's the Comanche Empire

    Open AccessRachel St JohnARTICLEHistory and Theory2013

    This review focuses on Pekka Hämäläinen's characterization and analysis of the Comanche empire as a spatial category in The Comanche Empire and discusses how this work relates to broader discussions about space and power in borderlands and imperial histories. Although empires have long been central actors in borderlands histories, “empire” has not necessarily been a category of spatial organization and analysis and certainly not one used to descr…

  • Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border

    Open AccessRachel St John, Rachel C St JohnBOOKLine in the sand2011

    This book details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.–Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican–American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. The book explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Gra…

  • Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border

    Rachel St JohnBOOKLine in the Sand2011

  • Selling the Border: Trading Land, Attracting Tourists, and Marketing American Consumption On the Baja California Border, 1900-1934

    Rachel St JohnCHAPTERLand of Necessity2009

  • Selling the Border: Trading Land, Attracting Tourists, and Marketing American Consumption on the Baja California Border, 1900–1934

    Open AccessRachel St JohnCHAPTERLand of Necessity2009

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  • Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands

    Alexis Mccrossen, Amy S Greenberg et al.BOOKLand of Necessity2009

  • Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush

    Rachel St JohnARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush Get access Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. By McGuinness Aims. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiii + 249 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, £17.95.) Rachel St. John Rachel St. John Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1…

  • Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic

    Rachel St John, Cynthia RaddingARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007Cited by: 4

    Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic Get access Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. By Radding Cynthia. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xxiv + 431 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $89.96, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Rachel St. John Rachel St. John Harv…