| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Le città della rivoluzione: Alle origini delle metropoli americane (Cities of the Revolution: Toward the origins of the American metropolis). By Marco Sioli. (Milan: Selene, 2000. 324 pp. Paper, Lit 35,000, ISBN 88-86267-44-4.) In Italian.

Readers of the Journal will know the work of Marco Sioli, whose article on 'Huguenot Traditions in the Mountains of Kentucky' (March 1998) won the Organization of American Historians prize for best foreign-language article in 1996. Through a sensitive reading of Daniel Trabue's personal memoirs, Sioli located the persistence of a deeply ingrained vernacular tradition shared by other North American Protestants. 'It is, perhaps, not excessive to find the characteristic physiognomy of the Protestantism of the French provinces,' he wrote, 'in the radical politics of American frontier inhabitants after the Revolution.' Indeed, he argued that frontier Democratic-Republican societies, 'minus the nobles,' shared not only the ideas but also the social composition of the Huguenot Nimes consistory of 1596-1602. 1

Sioli's new book applies that same interpretative framework to a study of revolutionary American cities. His chapters on colonial Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charles Town begin with descriptions of events from their early histories that crystallized in each an urban 'subaltern' political culture whose traditions continued into the eighteenth century, the Revolution, and the Founding. . . .

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