| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution. By Nicole Eustace. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 613 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3168-7.)

This remarkable book examines the rich public and private expression of emotion in Pennsylvania from the 1730s to 1770s with such insight as to compel even skeptical readers to realize that passion, feeling, and sentiment merit close scrutiny as historical subjects. Nicole Eustace persuasively argues that "expressions of emotion inevitably served as the vector for social communication, for the assertion and contestation of status, never simply for the realization of inner consciousness" (p. 12). The deeply contested nature of communal versus individualistic notions of the self in this period fully imbricated emotion with power and formal politics. The centrality of emotion to Native American diplomacy and Anglo-American values of legitimate authority should shatter preconceptions that emotions were narrowly private in the early modern world.

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