| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.2

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History and September 11th

Edited by Joanne Meyerowitz for The Journal of American History

(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 273. Notes, illustrations, maps, index. Clothbound, $59.50; paperbound, $19.95.)

For many people, especially those who travel, daily life bears sharp reminders that things have not been the same since September 11th. In Washington, D.C., there are now concrete barriers surrounding the Capitol, the White House, and the Washington Monument. In New Zealand, too, there has been a dramatic increase in airport security. We seem to have lost our innocence. However, the scholars who contribute to this valuable collection of essays placing the events of September 11th in historical perspective argue that there was no Western innocence to be lost suddenly in the devastation caused by the deliberate crashing of four American jets. There is never a complete severance, according to editor Joanne Meyerowitz, between the before and after of a great historical rupture. Instead, we may discern intricate connections, however unpalatable, between the terrorist attacks and U.S. foreign policy, reaching back at the very least to the aftermath of the Second World War, and perhaps to the imperialist intervention of western countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

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