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disasters. It is perhaps regrettable that McKibbin does not apply some of the methodological inventiveness and historiographical range on display here to the earlier chapters, which cite hardly any scholarship published in the last decade, apart from McKibbin’s own. In this respect, Democracy and Political Culture marks the continuation of an ongoing and somewhat eclectic conversation between McKibbin and his earlier scholarly selves. As ever, however, it is one worth listening to attentively.