The Historical Journal

Table of Contents - 01 September 1993 - Volume 36, Issue 03  

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Review Articles

Culture, ideology and social change in America, 1700–1860

Christopher Clarka1

a1 University of York

The heart of the commonwealth. Society and political culture in Worcester county, Massachusetts, 1713–1861. By John L. Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xxi + 446. £30.00.

The refinement of America. Persons, houses, cities. By Richard L. Bushman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Pp. xix + 504. $40.00.

Boston's lower criminal courts, 1814–1850. By Theodore Ferdinand. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1992. Pp. 234. £29.95.

The American deists. Voices of reason and dissent in the early republic. By Kerry S. Walters. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Pp. x + 394. $35.00.