| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Andrew Burstein. Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image. New York: Hill and Wang. 1999. Pp. xxi, 406. $28.00.

Many cultural historians face the challenge of avoiding both structuralist synchronic description and traditional diachronic narrative. For them, culture is neither uniform nor stable enough to support sweeping analyses based on ubiquitously embodied codes, which too often have excluded agency, conflict, negotiation, exchange, appropriation, representation, particularism, irony, chance, and confusion. Yet the grand narratives of yore are, of course, no less exclusionary, for, after all, such traditional storytelling imposes its own structures on the richness of the past. . . .

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