| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England. By Anne S. Lombard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xii, 244 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-01058-2.)

This work adds to the growing field of works focusing on white masculinity in America's past. Anne S. Lombard frames "Puritan" (p. 3 and passim) farmers as family-centered male heads of households whose principal motivation in life was to secure a "competence" with sufficient land to settle their sons close to home (pp. 4–7). When land became scarce in the eighteenth century, farmers needed cash to buy land elsewhere for their sons or to help them enter crafts, commerce, or the professions. The father-son bond was thereby weakened, and to acquire money farmers began sending products to market, borrowing money, and buying new imported goods, thus falling into debt. These activities made men increasingly vulnerable to outside forces, and they expected a paternalistic government to protect their interests. When Great Britain sought to raise revenues from the colonies after the Seven Years' War through direct taxation, farmers not only felt economically threatened but believed that monarchical corruption had turned the father-king into a tyrant to be resisted. The author argues that revolutionary resistance sought not to overthrow patriarchy, but to reform and preserve it.

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