| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century. Ed. by Geneviève Fabre, Jürgen Heideking, and Kai Dreisbach. (New York: Berghahn, 2001. viii, 308 pp. $69.95, ISBN 1-57181-237-7.)

European scholars have long studied their own history of public festivals, but fewer scholars have looked at American festive culture. This volume fills a gap in an otherwise understudied and fascinating topic. It is a collection of papers presented at the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies held in Lisbon in 1998. What makes for such rich and rewarding reading here is that these interdisciplinary essays, generally of high quality, take what might otherwise be a narrowly focused collection—on public festivals and processions—and yield broad theoretical insights and implications.

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