| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Ireland, Philadelphia, and the Re-invention of America, 1760–1800. By Maurice J. Bric. (Dublin: Four Courts, 2008. xx, 363 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-1-84682-089-2.)

This book explores the rise of political pluralism, a perennial theme in American history, by focusing closely on the social and political history of the Irish in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia. The study's interpretive arc—tracing the shift from an ideally harmonious, single-interest polity to a more combative form of politics marked by ethnic and ideological diversity—squares with most other recent works on American political development, though some scholars may disagree with Maurice J. Bric's claim that genuine political pluralism did not emerge until the last half of the 1790s. Despite its fairly predictable central argument, this exquisitely detailed study offers many original observations about the evolving relationship between ethnicity and politics in early America.

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