| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Jaffee. People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630–1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 306. $39.95.

Unlike real gold mines, historical ones usually do not get played out: intellectual prospectors prefer to dig in the same productive ore beds over and over again—and for good reason. The qualities that make a subject interesting are difficult to deplete; rich sources stay rich. Few riches in American history have been as thoroughly mined as the colonial New England town. Built on the bedrock of Puritanism, the New England town continues to this day to charm and fascinate students of the American past and present. We know so much about these little villages, and yet, there always seems to be so much more to know. Puritans and their towns remain elusive, and New England's rocky soil remains a profitable place to do some historical digging. . . .

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