Volume 44, Number 18 · November 20, 1997
Doing the Continental
By Gordon S. Wood
The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
by Lester D. Langley
Yale University Press, 374 pp., $35.00
Historians have become more cosmopolitan these days. Many of them have broadened their horizons and have begun to escape from the traditional preoccupation with their own national pasts. Historians of the United States in particular have become increasingly skeptical about their long-existing habit of interpreting America's past as a matter of what is called 'exceptionalism.' Indeed, some historians have come to think of American 'exceptionalism' as a kind of bogey that must be exorcised from the American historical profession and indeed from the culture at large.
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