| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Richard Connors and Andrew Colin Gow, editors. Anglo-American Millennialism, From Milton to the Millerites. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, volume 113.) Boston: Brill. 2004. Pp. xviii, 210. $126.00.

The goal of this book of essays is to contribute to the study of millennialism—the belief in a future thousand-year age of blessedness, beginning with or culminating in the Second Coming of Christ—in England and America. However, contrary to the editors' claim that "the history of millennial, millenarian, and apocalyptic thought in the Anglo-American world," especially "in the earlier or colonial period, has received little attention" (p. ix), apocalyptic and millenarian thought in fact has been explored and analyzed in many excellent studies. It is embarrassing therefore to find that one of the contributors to the book, Stephen A. Marini, flatly repudiates the editors' claim above: "Over the past several decades the role of millennial religious beliefs and symbols in America culture has been well established by historians and other cultural interpreters" (p. 159). Furthermore, the title is misleading: the book does not deal with the period from Milton to the Millerites. Instead, the focus of the two central essays, which comprises half the book, is the period before John Milton lived.

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