| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Informal Empire?: Cultural Relations between Canada, the United States, and Europe. Ed. by Peter Easingwood, Konrad Groß, and Hartmut Lutz. (Kiel, Ger.: l&f, 1998. 440 pp. Paper, DM 30, ISBN 3-930275-23-6.)

Informal Empire? is not exactly what one might surmise from the title. It is a collection of essays from a conference at the University of Greifswald, on Germany's Baltic coast, in 1996. All but four of the twenty-six essays deal with critical theory or literary criticism, and only the keynote address, Hans Hauge's "Continentalism versus Nationalism," explicitly deals with the trilateral cultural relations implied in the book's subtitle. The intended audience for the book appears to be primarily literary critics and some cultural geographers, rather than historians, but the essays are useful to anyone interested in how literature creates and moderates nationalism. . . .

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