| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development. Ed. by Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii, 372 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-691-05703-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-691-05704-4.)

This book emerged from the Princeton University Press project called Studies in American Politics, edited by Ira Katznelson, Martin Shefter, and Theda Skocpol, and it seeks to illuminate external influences on the United States—in particular, "the relationship between America's changing location in the international economy and state system and the development of its political institutions" (p. ix). It takes as its starting point a brilliant 1978 article by Peter Gourevitch ("The Second Image Reversed," International Organization, Autumn 1978), which argued that much about American domestic politics "'derives from the exigencies of the international system,'" and thus the usual academic distinctions between international and American history, or international relations and domestic politics, might as well be erased (p. 3). A quarter century later those distinctions still hold strong, but we are much the worse for it, according to Katznelson: "Conspicuously absent" from both political science and history are "investigations by Americanists either of international sources of domestic politics or the mutual constitution of international relations and domestic affairs" (p. 4). Since I share this judgment, I read this book with keen anticipation.

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