| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity. By Julia B. Rosenbaum. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xii, 203 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4470-8.)

Through several case studies Julia B. Rosenbaum examines the relationship between regional and national identity from the late 1880s into the 1930s. Her primary interest is in the articulation of part and whole in images of America. She focuses on New England as a section that illustrated several alternative visions of the organization of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For much of the book, New England is both a powerful synecdoche, frequently described as the essence of the country, and a developmental stage on the verge of exhaustion, derided for its limited economic resources and apparent failure to keep pace with the social and cultural transformations of the modern era. Rosenbaum traces those ideas, which are sometimes opposite sides of the same coin, through a variety of art works.

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