| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760–1830. By Elizabeth Mancke. (New York: Routledge, 2005. xii, 214 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-95000-7. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-415-95001-5.)
Elizabeth Mancke provides a new twist on a hallowed genre: the New England town study. She compares two settlements: Machias, in the eastern reaches of Massachusetts (after 1820, the state of Maine), and Liverpool, in Nova Scotia. This valuable analysis sheds light on the development of the two towns as well as on the cultures of New England and British North America from 1760 to 1830.	1
What makes the comparison so fruitful is how much the towns shared, despite their location in very different political systems. Both were settled by Yankees in the early 1760s. Both had excellent harbors and poor soil, and both depended on fishing and the sale of timber. They grew at the same pace. Most significant, both groups of settlers brought with them similar values: faith in old-line Calvinism and respect for the traditions of New England town government.	. . .

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