| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism. By Robert H. Wiebe. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xxii, 282 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-691-09023-8.)

The late Robert H. Wiebe, whose valedictory this book is, never painted on a small canvas. The Search for Order (1967) was a sweeping synthesis of the Progressive Era, whose concepts (island communities, village values) are now part of the historical vocabulary. It is one of the most widely taught U.S. history texts of the last half century, an imaginative and powerful interpretation of a notoriously diffuse period. The Search for Order also announced the themes that informed all of Wiebe's subsequent work: the loss of community control that follows integration of diverse places; the problem of how to reconcile local particularity and generalizing ideologies; and a heartfelt suspicion of state power. "Small-scale diversity constitutes the world's best hope," Wiebe wrote (Who We Are, p. 220). Who We Are expands the argument to global scale: the importance of local communities, coupled with a certain wistfulness that the many might somehow become one.

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