| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.1

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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. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. $45.)

This fascinating book examines the place that eighteenth-century Americans of British descent accorded emotion in the articulation of social and political identities. Focusing on the specific cultural context of Pennsylvania, Nicole Eustace argues that colonists there saw the cultivation and expression of emotion as an important marker of gender, class, ethnicity, and race—alongside the exercise of reason, which has received so much attention from historians of this period. In privileging particular kinds of emotion as being indicative of gentility, civility, and manliness, colonial elites distinguished themselves from other North American inhabitants—white commoners, Indians, and black slaves—whose lack or excess of emotion signified their deficiencies.

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