| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Susan Traverso. Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940. (Political Development of the American Nation: Studies in Politics and History.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 164. $34.95.

Susan Traverso examines the evolution of welfare policy during the early decades of the twentieth century, focusing on one particular location: Boston. She takes a local historian's approach to state and national policy that is certain to add rich detail to an area of study that often focuses more on policies than on people. Indeed, as Traverso herself suggests, "Boston provides a rich context in which to examine the impact of politics and ethnicity on the development of welfare policy" (p. 8). Ethnic and religious diversity—though as Traverso admits little racial diversity—color the landscape in Boston, and while it is clear that Boston is not necessarily "typical" in its experiences, there is much here that applies to other urban centers during the new immigrant period.

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