| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.2

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Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America

By John Howe

(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 281. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95.)

There is little doubt of the substantial role played by vocabulary in determining the outcome of public events. Whether deployed in the service of great historical struggles or of fleeting political squabbles, language can produce deadlock, or it can reframe the very manner in which citizens understand the questions at issue.	1
Professor John Howe devotes considerable effort to recounting the evolution of language in late colonial America, and to investigating its influence on the political struggles of the era. His book does not attempt to create an overarching theory of language during the several decades of the Revolutionary period, but it does provide useful insights into the interplay of language and politics.	. . .

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