| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870–1960. By Anthony Brundage and Richard A. Cosgrove. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv, 341 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5686-0.)

The "great tradition" of the title of this extensively researched book is the practice of English constitutional history by professional historians and the idea that it provided the key to understanding the formation of national identity, both in Britain and in the United States. That tradition is related closely to the Whig account of English constitutional his tory, to which the authors devote considerable attention. By discussing the work of individual historians in depth, they trace the rise of constitutional history as a field of inquiry in the nineteenth century and its slow decline in the twentieth, replaced by a new emphasis on social history.

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