| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 161 words from this article are provided below; about 371 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. By Shelley Streeby. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi, 384 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-520-22314-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-22945-2.)

The lack of attention paid to the U.S.-Mexican war by United States historians is somewhat baffling, given the plethora of works on the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Indeed, one could argue that the primary historiographical importance accorded the war with Mexico has been the role it played in increasing sectionalism and provoking the Civil War. Certainly America's "forgotten war" (p. 6) was an important catalyst in that later conflict, but it also had a serious and lasting social and cultural impact of its own. In her impressively argued study of mid-nineteenth-century empire building, Shelley Streeby gives the Mexican war its due by using understudied works of literature to map out the way the war and other antebellum imperial ventures throughout the Americas shaped U.S. politics and culture.

. . .

There are about 371 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.