| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Traxel. 1898: The Birth of the American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1998. Pp. xiii, 365. $28.95.

In 1899, John Dewey wrote: "One can hardly believe there has been a revolution in all history so rapid, so extensive, so complete" as the growth during the century then ending "of a world-wide market as the object of production, of vast manufacturing centres to supply this market, of cheap and rapid means of communication and distribution between all its parts." David Traxel, who writes history with a diverse reading public in mind, has a keen eye for appropriate quotations to introduce chapters. He chose a lengthy excerpt from Dewey's The School and Society (1943) for the epilogue to this book. The similarity between Dewey's thoughts and those that now appear frequently in reflections on the coming millennium sums up Traxel's argument that the main outlines of the century now coming to an end were apparent at its beginning. To show his readers how the United States looked to its disparate inhabitants as it shot, sold, and invested its way into the ranks of the world's imperial powers, Traxel offers a panorama of events featured in the nation's press between the tumultuous public celebrations that greeted the advent of 1898 and the Christmas shopping that marked its conclusion. . . .

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