| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America. By Mark Simpson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xxxii, 193 pp. Cloth, $56.95, ISBN 0-8166-4162-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8166-4163-3.)

Trafficking Subjects draws on a wide range of genres and refers to a range of historically relevant struggles for social justice to fashion a metatheory of the politics of mobility in nineteenth-century America. Drawing on material that ranges from The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832) to works of fiction by Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, and Stephen Crane, Mark Simpson sees mobility as a form of social contestation that legitimates some material and discursive practices at the expense of others. His analysis works best when he shows how the politics of mobility "draws political economy into play" (p. xxi) or when he illustrates the intersection between epistemology, economy, and traveling practices.

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