| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America. By Eric P. Kaufmann. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. x, 374 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-67401303-4.)

In his new book, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, Eric P. Kaufmann offers an original answer to an often asked question: Why did American Anglo-Protestants fall from their dominant perch during the period from the seventeenth century to today? Kaufmann finds unsatisfactory the argument that fertility differentials, the arrival of diverse immigrants, and minority movements of resistance overwhelmed Anglo-Protestants. As confidently he dismisses the assertion that Anglo-Protestants have actually maintained a superior position by incorporating other Euro-Americans and morphing into a white racial group. Taking a comparative, international perspective on the history of ethnicity and nationalism in the United States, Kaufmann contends that the decline of Anglo-Protestants was of their own making. Characteristic ideas of the ethnic group—expressive individualism and egalitarianism—were ultimately incompatible with a position of dominance.

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