| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia. Ed. by Edward J. Cashin and Glenn T. Eskew. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xvi, 240 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-2257-1.)

This book is the outgrowth of a symposium held at Augusta State University in 1996. Although there was apparently no intent to organize the symposium around a central theme, the seven panelists whose papers are published in this study found that they shared one: paternalism. Race, religion, gender, and class, a variable not listed in the book's subtitle, also enter the analysis. All the essays are written clearly, though they are mostly aimed at an academic rather than a general audience. The essays' chronological sweep is broad and ranges from insights into Augusta's colonial history to reflections on the present. . . .

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