| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764. By Patrick Griffin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xviii, 244 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-691-07461-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-691-07462-3.)

My reading of The People with No Name was haunted by another book published forty years ago. During the 1960s, Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (1963) led a revolution in historical scholarship. Powell's exquisite reconstruction of Sudbury, Massachusetts, at its founding in the 1630s and his illumination of its English origins fed prominently into a powerful current of scholarship swelling under the influences of the Annales school, the Cambridge group, new computer technologies, and a realization amid the political upheavals of the 1960s that ordinary people can change history. Patrick Griffin's book has something of the air of that earlier volume. . . .

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