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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Richard R. Beeman. The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 366. $39.95.

In this work, Richard R. Beeman, one of the most respected scholars of colonial American politics, provides a synthesis of recent scholarship dealing with political behavior in eighteenth-century America. His intent is to provide a sharper understanding of the emergence of democracy in the American colonies. He does not intend to analyze the evolution of ideas about democracy; rather, he wishes to study the political behavior that lay behind the development of those ideas. The principal theme that ties his material together is the belief that there was no single American political culture. Instead, Beeman sees "numerous, diverse political cultures, diffuse and fragmented, often speaking altogether different political languages" (p. 2). Further, he admits that his thinking regarding eighteenth-century politics has been shaped by those scholars working within the republican paradigm. For Beeman, though, republicanism exists as a starting point for testing, rather than endorsing the "power and efficacy of republican rhetoric in shaping the reality of eighteenth-century American political behavior" (p. 4).

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