| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture. By Elaine G. Breslaw. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xvi, 348 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3278-4.)

Teachers and students of eighteenth-century British America have long been grateful for the life of Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Hamilton passed scarcely two decades in Maryland before his early death in 1756 but amply justified his self-characterization as "Loquacious Scribble" by leaving behind an extensive archive. Best known is the journal of his travels through the seaboard colonies in 1744 that, from its first printing in 1907, has furnished scholars with a treasury of pithy comments anatomizing contemporary manners, morals, and beliefs. More recently, we can draw upon Robert Micklus's fine three-volume edition of Hamilton's mock-heroic masterpiece of comic writing, The History of the Ancient and Honourable Tuesday Club (1990), celebrating the exploits of the convivial group Hamilton gathered about him in Annapolis.

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