| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

The American South and the Italian Mezzo-giorno: Essays in Comparative History. Ed. by Enrico Dal Lago and Rick Halpern. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. x, 256 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-333-73971-X.)

This book is an excellent example of the current enthusiasm for breaking out of the encrusted national boundaries that have confined historical thinking since the beginnings of our profession. It is also an illustration of how a powerful tradition of national specialization may obstruct that endeavor. Enrico Dal Lago, an Italian historian of the United States trained at London University and now teaching in Galway, Ireland, together with Rick Halpern, an American teaching at London University and now the University of Toronto, seem ideal for the task. Their Commonwealth Conference at London University drew dozens of historians from the United States, Italy, and Britain together to examine the "two Souths": Dixie and the Mezzogiorno (literally "midday" and usually referring to the area south of Rome).

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