| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5 | The History Cooperative

Carla Gerona. Night Journeys: The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2004. Pp. x, 290. $35.00.
This is a work that is impressive, persuasive, provocative, and, perhaps inevitably, occasionally disconcerting. It has much to say about subjects ranging from race to religion to the supernatural to class to imperialism. Generally, its conclusions are thoughtful and measured, based on a clear and compelling reading of appropriate evidence. Occasionally, at least in the judgment of this reviewer, Carla Gerona's speculations lead her astray, but not so much as to detract from what this book accomplishes.	1
Gerona argues that what she calls "dreamwork," dreams and visions, were central to the development of Quakerism in the British Isles and North America. Certainly previous historians have seen Quakers as visionaries; how else could anyone interpret a movement that was founded on the possibility, indeed necessity, of direct communication with God? Gerona, however, makes a convincing case that Quakers systematically used dreams as a way of defining their communities and responding to the larger world.	. . .

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