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textile mill town of Fall River, Massachusetts. She argues that the labor struggle there cemented English ethnic awareness because of the organizing experience mill workers brought from their homeland. In contrast, Joseph Hardwick focuses his essay on clergy of the Church of England. While many fled from the United States during the American Revolution, new Anglican clergy arrived in the following decades. Hardwick examines how these clerics adjusted themselves to the democratic environment they entered, while at the same time preserving their Englishness. Turning to yet another field of endeavor, Dean Allen argues that cricket and other traditionally English sporting activities of the late nineteenth century influenced American perspectives on sports as well as on moral and social values. Further, English sporting clubs were a factor in the retention of English ethnicity during that era. Gleeson’s own contribution on the antebellum South begins by reviewing the close associations between England and the South and the pride with which many southerners acknowledged their English roots. He then proceeds to investigate the dichotomy of white southerners maintaining pride of origin while at the same time England increasingly distanced itself from the South during theAmericanCivilWar. While the other chapters deal generally with the retention of English ethnicity, James McConnel’s chapter investigates the question of erecting monuments to that English heritage in North America. Despite the positive relations between the two nations, there was a noticeable reluctance in the United States to promote this type of commemoration, and thus it did not form a basis for the retention of English identity. The final two essays in the collection deal with the twentieth-century revival of English customs. Monika Smialkowska argues that the rising interest in folk customs in England at the end of the nineteenth century spread across the Atlantic as a response to the rapid industrialization and concurrent changes in society then taking place. Not surprisingly, by this time the original folkways had become, as she writes, “hybridized” American versions of the originals (p. 208). In the volume’s concluding essay, Mike Sutton continues this theme, focusing on how the ceremonial morris dance crossed the Atlantic and was adapted after arrival in the United States and Canada. While many collections of this nature are uneven due to the multiple authorship and topics, these essays complement one another well. Each is based on sound research that includes a mix of primary and secondary sources. In the end, this volume is a fitting sequel to Gleeson’s previous scholarship on the Irish.