| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul H. Mattingly. Suburban Landscape: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community. (Creating the North American Landscape.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 333. $39.95.

Paul H. Mattingly aims to "examine the contrasting viewpoints—call them landscapes—which suburbanites have used to understand and shape their communities" (p. 1). Given the potency of suburban ideology, this aim is a good one, especially as he strives to move past long-held clichés of suburbia as urban escapism, homogeneity realized, and cultural vacuity. Instead, Mattingly finds a suburban landscape that interacted deeply with the city, showed a relaxed acceptance of diversity in its early years, and became culturally rich in its own right. He ultimately sees something positive in suburbia, notably a neighborhood dynamic of civility. 1

Mattingly focuses on Leonia, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City, from the 1850s to the 1950s to explore these landscapes. Leonia was small, its population never exceeding 8,000 during the years of the book's focus. It became home to a significant artists' colony, providing Mattingly with a rich trove of cultural representations by these suburban-based artists for exploring suburban sensibilities. . . .

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