| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870. By Trish Loughran. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xxvi, 537 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13908-3.)

Americans have a significant investment in the notion that the country was founded on the basis of a national consensus achieved largely through the dissemination of printed objects. That potent myth must be revisited in light of Trish Loughran's withering critique in The Republic in Print. Loughran believes that historians have far overestimated the links between print culture and nationhood in the late eighteenth century. Loughran suggests instead that a fantasy of U.S. nationhood could be promoted in the late eighteenth century precisely because the absence of a national infrastructure capable of transporting printed goods or any other material objects allowed regional identities to remain secure. The mid-nineteenth century, as Loughran makes clear, was another story.

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