| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789–1860. Ed. by Scott C. Martin. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. vi, 298 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-7425-2770-0. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-7425-2771-9.)

Cultural historians are an unusual breed. They labor not only to uncover the past but to understand what this past meant to the people who lived it. Prior to the advent of social history, cultural history remained the poor sibling of more traditional disciplinary specialties; as scholars uncovered the everyday lives of ordinary people, however, cultural life also became the object of historical recovery. More recently, cultural historians have escaped the periphery of the discipline and have begun to integrate their scholarship in sophisticated ways with the work of the siblings who had once marginalized them. Scott C. Martin's edited collection Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America engagingly reflects this new scholarship. Taking his intellectual lead from Neil Harris, whose work in the 1970s integrated urban and cultural history, Martin has chosen pieces that successfully combine economic, political, and cultural methodologies.

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