Book Reviews

• • Nina Silber

  White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Martha Hodes. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xii, 338 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06970-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 734-735 doi:10.2307/2567057
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• • David S. Cecelski and
  • Timothy B. Tyson

  Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. By Leon F. Litwack. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xxii, 599 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-394-52778-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 735-737 doi:10.2307/2567058
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• • Jonathan M. Hansen

  Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. By Daniel T. Rodgers. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 634 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-05131-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 737-738 doi:10.2307/2567059
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• • Colin M. MacLachlan

  The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By Friedrich Katz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xviii, 985 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-8047-3045-8. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8047-3046-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 739-740 doi:10.2307/2567060
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• • Prasenjit Duara

  Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges. By Mark Poster. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x, 173 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-10882-6 and The Postmodern History Reader. Ed. by Keith Jenkins. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiv, 443 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-13903-1

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 740-742 doi:10.2307/2567061
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• • Peter C. Mancall

  Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 742-743 doi:10.2307/2567062
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• • Charles H. Lesser

  South Carolina: A History. By Walter Edgar. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xxvi, 716 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-255-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 743-744 doi:10.2307/2567063
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• • Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

  New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. Ed. by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998. x, 358 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87013-434-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 744-745 doi:10.2307/2567064
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• • Rev. Peter J. Powell

  The Cheyenne. By John H. Moore. (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996. x, 342 pp. $27.95, ISBN 1-55786-484-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 745 doi:10.2307/2567065
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• • Howard L. Harrod

  The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. By Raymond A. Bucko. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. viii, 336 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-1272-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 745-746 doi:10.2307/2567066
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• • Paula Marie Kane

  American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church. By Charles R. Morris. (New York: Random House, 1997. xiv, 511 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8129-2049-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 746-747 doi:10.2307/2567067
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• • Randy J. Sparks

  Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie. By Wayne Flynt. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. xxiv, 731 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-0927-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 747-748 doi:10.2307/2567068
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• • Yvette Alex-Assensoh and
  • A. B. Assensoh

  Islam in the African-American Experience. By Richard Brent Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. x, 300 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33238-9 and African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. By Allan D. Austin. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiv, 194 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-415-91269-5

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 748-749 doi:10.2307/2567069
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• • Christie Farnham

  A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson. (New York: Broadway, 1998. x, 355 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-7679-0110-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 749-750 doi:10.2307/2567070
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• • Bruce Laurie

  Laboring for Freedom: A New Look at the History of Labor in America. By Daniel Jacoby. (Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, 1998. x, 209 pp. Cloth, $61.95, ISBN 0-7656-0251-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7656-0252-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 750-751 doi:10.2307/2567071
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• • Edward K. Spann

  American Metropolis: A History of New York City. By George J. Lankevich. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5148-2 and Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiv, 1,383 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511634-8

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 751-752 doi:10.2307/2567072
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• • Henry F. Dobyns

  Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate. By David Henige. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xii, 532 pp. $47.95, ISBN 0-8061-3044-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 752-753 doi:10.2307/2567073
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• • Elise Marienstras

  French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 359 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02364-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 753-754 doi:10.2307/2567074
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• • David D. Hall

  Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. By Jane Kamensky. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 291 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-509080-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 754-755 doi:10.2307/2567075
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• • Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe

  The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England. By Mark A. Peterson. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv, 325 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-2912-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 755-756 doi:10.2307/2567076
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• • Richard Buel, Jr.

  The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolutionary War. By David Syrett. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 213 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-57003-238-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 756 doi:10.2307/2567077
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• • Rhys Isaac

  The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America. By Michal J. Rozbicki. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xiv, 221 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-1750-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 756-757 doi:10.2307/2567078
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• • Clark A. Elliott

  Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 1: 1743–1768. By Whitfield J. Bell Jr. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997. xx, 531 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-87169-226-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 757-758 doi:10.2307/2567079
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• • Joseph S. Tiedemann

  The Murrays of Murray Hill. By Charles Monaghan. (Brooklyn: Urban History Press, 1998. x, 166 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-9662430-0-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 758-759 doi:10.2307/2567080
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• • Joanne Pope Melish

  Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution. By Patricia Bradley. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xxiv, 184 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-052-4.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 759-760 doi:10.2307/2567081
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• • Scott D. Gerber

  The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed. Ed. by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xii, 463 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8139-1759-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 760-761 doi:10.2307/2567082
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• • S.J. Thomas E. Buckley

  Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New England. By Charles P. Hanson. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. x, 277 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-1794-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 761 doi:10.2307/2567083
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• • Richard D. Shiels

  “Asylum for Mankind”: America, 1607–1800. By Marilyn C. Baseler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv, 353 pp. $39.95 and The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. By John T. Noonan Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiii, 436 pp. $35.00

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 762-763 doi:10.2307/2567084
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• • James Campbell

  Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. By Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 285 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2375-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4681-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 763-764 doi:10.2307/2567085
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• • R. Arthur Bowler

  The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. By Anthony S. Pitch. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xviii, 298 pp. $32.95, ISBN 1-55750-692-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 764-765 doi:10.2307/2567086
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• • Leonard L. Richards

  John Quincy Adams. By Lynn Hudson Parsons. (Madison: Madison House, 1998. xviii, 284 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-954612-54-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 765-766 doi:10.2307/2567087
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• • Gerald N. Grob

  Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. By Thomas J. Brown. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xviii, 422 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-21488-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 766 doi:10.2307/2567088
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• • Sandra F. VanBurkleo

  Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law. By David A. J. Richards. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 531 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-71206-0. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-226-71207-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 766-767 doi:10.2307/2567089
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• • Kathleen Waters Sander

  Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair. By Beverly Gordon. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxviii, 285 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-57233-014-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 767-768 doi:10.2307/2567090
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• • Joan R. Gundersen

  Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba. By Christina Vella. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xiv, 426 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2144-4.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 768-769 doi:10.2307/2567091
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• • Martha Hodes

  The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Patricia Cline Cohen. (New York: Knopf, 1998. viii, 432 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-679-41291-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 769-770 doi:10.2307/2567092
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• • Patricia Cline Cohen

  The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney. By Grace Karskens. (Carlton, Aust.: Melbourne University Press, 1997. xx, 304 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-522-84722-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 770 doi:10.2307/2567093
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• • Richard Stott

  Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. By Amy S. Greenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 233 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01648-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 771 doi:10.2307/2567094
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• • Tony A. Freyer

  Shifiing the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America. By Nan Goodman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii, 199 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01199-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 771-772 doi:10.2307/2567095
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• • Claude A. Clegg

  UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission. By Tunde Adeleke. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xvi, 192 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8131-2056-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 772-773 doi:10.2307/2567096
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• • Bobby H. Johnson

  The Alabama-Coushatta Indians. By Jonathan B. Hook. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xvi, 152 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-782-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 773-774 doi:10.2307/2567097
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• • Madeline Duntley

  Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Forty World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southwest. By Douglas C. Comer. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xiv, 321 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20429-8. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-520-20774-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 774-775 doi:10.2307/2567098
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• • Douglas Monroy

  Juan Alvarado: Governor of California, 1836–1842. By Robert Ryal Miller. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xiv, 216 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3077-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 775-776 doi:10.2307/2567099
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• • Patricia Etter

  Migrants West: Toward the Southern California Frontier. By Ronald C. Woolsey. (Claremont, Calif.: Grizzly Bear, 1996. xviii, 221 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-88159-114-X.) and Sierra Crossing: First Roads to California. By Thomas Frederick Howard. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x, 218 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-520-20670-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 776-777 doi:10.2307/2567100
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• • Ralph Mann

  Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy. By Brian McGinty. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. ix, 579 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-3145-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8047-3146-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 777-778 doi:10.2307/2567101
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• • James M. McCaffrey

  Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory. By Timothy D. Johnson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 315 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0914-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 778-779 doi:10.2307/2567102
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• • David M. Pletcher

  Politica y Negocios: Ensayos sobre la Relación entre México y los Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX (Politics and business: Essays on the relation between Mexico and the United States in the nineteenth century). Ed. by Ana Rosa Suárez Argüello and Marcela Terrazas Basante. (Ciudad Universitaria: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1997. 388 pp

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 779-780 doi:10.2307/2567103
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• • Johanna Nicol Shields

  Theodore O'Hara: Poet-Soldier of the Old South. By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Thomas Clayton Ware. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xiv, 208 pp. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-008-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 780 doi:10.2307/2567104
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• • Thomas J. Davis

  Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. By Mark E. Brandon. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xviii, 248 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-01581-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 780-781 doi:10.2307/2567105
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• • Robert Coles

  The Children's Civil War. By James Marten. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 365 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2425-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 781-782 doi:10.2307/2567106
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• • J. Matthew Gallman

  Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life. By Donald C. Pfanz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863–1865. Ed. by Henrietta Stratum Jaquette. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War. Ed. by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 782-784 doi:10.2307/2567107
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• • Brian Dirck

  With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers. By Joseph Allan Frank. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xii, 304 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1975-9.) and Was Jefferson Davis Right? By James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. (Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1998. 352 pp. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-56554-370-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 784-786 doi:10.2307/2567108
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• • Michael B. Ballard

  Collis Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War. By Edward J. Hagerty. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xviii, 357 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-2199-1.) and Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War. By Mark Perry. (New York: Viking, 1997. xii, 500 pp. $31.95, ISBN 0-670-86225-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 786-787 doi:10.2307/2567109
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• • Gaines M. Foster

  Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. By Gary W. Gallagher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xvi, 298 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8071-2286-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 787-788 doi:10.2307/2567110
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• • Marvin L. Brown, Jr.

  The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy. By Charles M. Hubbard. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-002-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 788 doi:10.2307/2567111
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• • Allen W. Trelease

  The Reconstruction Presidents. By Brooks D. Simpson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 276 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0896-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 789 doi:10.2307/2567112
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• • Daniel W. Stowell

  Religion, Race, and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s. By Ward M. McAfee. (Albany: State University of New York, 1998. x, 317 pp. Cloth, $65.50, ISBN 0-7914-3847-3. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-7914-3848-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 789-790 doi:10.2307/2567113
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• • Timothy Walch

  For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805–1925. By JoEllen McNergney Vinyard. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii, 310 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02405-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06707-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 790-791 doi:10.2307/2567114
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• • Sydney Stahl Weinberg

  Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community. Ed. by Dan Rottenberg. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xxxvi, 142 pp. Cloth, $19.95, ISBN 0-253-33243-5. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-253-21206-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 791-792 doi:10.2307/2567115
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• • Jonathan M. Chu

  Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives. By Huping Ling. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xviii, 252 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-3863-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-3864-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 792-793 doi:10.2307/2567116
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• • Dirk Hoerder

  Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930. By Jose C. Moya. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 567 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-07229-4. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-520-21526-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 793 doi:10.2307/2567117
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• • John D. Buenker

  The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900–1925. By James J. Connolly. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 260 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-90950-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 793-794 doi:10.2307/2567118
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• • Steven Conn

  History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States. By David Hamer. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8142-0789-8. Paper, $19.95 and Bostons “Changeful Times”: Origins of Preservation & Planning in America. By Michael Holleran. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii, 337 pp. $39.95

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 794-796 doi:10.2307/2567119
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• • Carl Smith

  Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York & Boston. By Mona Domosh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. x, 185 pp. $30.00 and The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History. By Richard Lehan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi, 330 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-21042-5. Paper, $17.95

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 796-797 doi:10.2307/2567120
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• • John Howard

  Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975. By Thomas W. Hanchett. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 380 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2376-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4677-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 797-798 doi:10.2307/2567121
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• • Lisa M. Fine

  Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920. By Perry R. Duis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 430 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02394-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 798-799 doi:10.2307/2567122
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• • Roy Rosenzweig

  Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870–1920. By Madelon Powers. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 323 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-226-67768-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 799-800 doi:10.2307/2567123
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• • James Whiteside

  Coal: A Memoir and Critique. By Duane Lockard. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xvi, 225 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1784-0.) and Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster. By Alan Derickson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xviii, 237 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8014-3186-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 800-801 doi:10.2307/2567124
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• • Robert H. Zieger

  A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871–1896. By Karin A. Shapiro. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 333 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2423-2. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4733-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 801-802 doi:10.2307/2567125
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• • Dana Frank

  All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek. By Elizabeth Jameson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-252-02391-9. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-252-06690-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 802-803 doi:10.2307/2567126
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• • John H. M. Laslett

  The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848–1876. By Timothy Messer-Kruse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 319 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2403-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4705-4.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 803-804 doi:10.2307/2567127
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• • James Green

  Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864–97. By Richard Schneirov. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x, 390 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02374-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06676-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 804 doi:10.2307/2567128
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• • R. Alan Lawson

  Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890–1922. By Brian Lloyd. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiv, 472 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5541-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 804-805 doi:10.2307/2567129
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• • Susan L. Smith

  African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birthy Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 287 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00852-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 805-806 doi:10.2307/2567130
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• • Diane Hamilton

  Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898–1998. By Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. x, 308 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-472-10966-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 806-807 doi:10.2307/2567131
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• • Robyn Muncy

  Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America. By Elizabeth J. Clapp. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. x, 214 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01777-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01778-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 807-808 doi:10.2307/2567132
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• • Alice Wexler

  Helen Keller: A Life. By Dorothy Herrmann. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xvi, 394 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44354-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 808 doi:10.2307/2567133
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• • Samuel L. Webb

  The Peoples Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925. By Elisabeth S. Clemens. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 459 pp. Cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-10992-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-226-10993-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 809 doi:10.2307/2567134
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• • Dennis A. Deslippe

  Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status. By Robert Max Jackson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 216 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-674-05511-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 809-810 doi:10.2307/2567135
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• • Shelley Armitage

  The Material Culture of Genden the Gender of Material Culture. Ed. by Katharine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames. Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997. viii, 457 pp. $39.95 and The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography. Ed. by Miriam Formanek-Brunell. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. xiv, 154 pp. $24.95

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 810-812 doi:10.2307/2567136
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• • M. David Samson

  Männerblicke: Zur Konstruktion von “Männlichkeit” in der Literatur und Kultur der amerikanischen Jahrhundertwende (Men's views: The construction of maleness in American literature and culture at the turn of the century). By Stefan Leonhard Brandt. (Stuttgart: M&P Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1997. 398 pp. Paper, DM 55, ISBN 6-476-45190-9.) In German

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 812-813 doi:10.2307/2567137
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• • Michael S. Sherry

  Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA. By John Donald Gustav-Wrathall. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 267 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-226-90784-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 813 doi:10.2307/2567138
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• • Peter N. Stearns

  Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America. By Sharon R. Ullman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20954-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-520-20955-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 813-814 doi:10.2307/2567139
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• • Joanne Meyerowitz

  Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America. By Philip Jenkins. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 302 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-07387-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 814-815 doi:10.2307/2567140
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• • Eli Zaretsky

  Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy. By Eric Caplan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 242 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21169-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 815-816 doi:10.2307/2567141
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• • Carol Kolmerten

  The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America. Vol. I: 1900–1960. By Timothy Miller. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. xxvi, 254 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-2775-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 816-817 doi:10.2307/2567142
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• • Jacques Portes

  Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age. By Harvey Levenstein. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 378 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-47376-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 817-818 doi:10.2307/2567143
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• • David E. Nye

  Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960. By Gail Cooper. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 229 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5716-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 818 doi:10.2307/2567144
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• • Wyn Wachhorst

  Edison: A Life of Invention. By Paul Israel. (New York: Wiley, 1998. viii, 552 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-471-52942-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 818-819 doi:10.2307/2567145
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• • Philip Scranton

  Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business. By Roland Marchand. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 461 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-08719-4.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 819-820 doi:10.2307/2567146
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• • John A. Thompson

  From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role. By Fareed Zakaria. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 199 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04496-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 820-821 doi:10.2307/2567147
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• • Joel R. Davidson

  Planning Wan Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xx, 432 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-0890-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 821-822 doi:10.2307/2567148
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• • William O. Walker III

  Diplomatie Realism: William R. Castle, Jr., and American Foreign Policy, 1919—1953. By Alfred L. Castle. (Honolulu: Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation, 1998. xvi, 251 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-8248-2009-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 822-823 doi:10.2307/2567149
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• • Clark C. Spence

  The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining. By Charles Wallace Miller Jr. (Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1998. xii, 200 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89301-195-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 823 doi:10.2307/2567150
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• • Alexander R. Stoesen

  Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College. By Katherine Chaddock Reynolds. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xviii, 236 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-2203-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 823-824 doi:10.2307/2567151
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• • Paul H. Carlson

  Life among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives. By David La Vere. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. xviii, 270 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-809-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 824-825 doi:10.2307/2567152
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• • Sayuri Shimizu

  Nyu Diiru seiji chitsujo no keisei katei no kenkyu (A study of the emergence of the New Deal political order). By Eisaku Kihira. (Kyoto: Kyoto University Academic Press, 1993. iv, 532 pp. ¥5,600, ISBN 4-87698-007-1.) In Japanese

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 825-826 doi:10.2307/2567153
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• • Thomas N. Guinsburg

  The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s: Beyond the Merchants of Death. By Matthew Ware Coulter. (Westport: Greenwood, 1997. xiv, 182 pp. $57.95, ISBN 0-313-30394-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 826-827 doi:10.2307/2567154
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• • Bradley F. Smith

  Im Visier des FBI: Deutsche Exilschriftsteller in den Akten amerikanischer Geheimdienste (In the sight of the FBI: Exiled German writers in the documents of the American secret service). By Alexander Stephan. (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1995. xii, 596 pp. DM 68, ISBN 3-476-01381-2.) In German

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 827 doi:10.2307/2567155
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• • Ron Robin

  Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees. By Arnold Krammer. (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. xii, 209 pp. $21.95, ISBN 0-8476-8518-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 827-828 doi:10.2307/2567156
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• • Astrid M. Eckert

  You Cant Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. By Allison B. Gilmore. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 226 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-2167-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 828-829 doi:10.2307/2567157
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• • Robert J. McMahon

  Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944–1982. By David Hanlon. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. xvi, 305 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8248-1894-6. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-8248-2011-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 829-830 doi:10.2307/2567158
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• • Brewster Chamberlin

  “Do not fraternize”: Die schwierigen Anfänge deutsch-amerikanischer Freundschaft, 1944–1949 (“Do not fraternize”: The difficult origins of German-American friendship, 1944–1949). By Johannes Kleinschmidt. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1997. ii, 256 pp. DM 49,50. Paper, ISBN 3-88476-269-9.) In German

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 830-831 doi:10.2307/2567159
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• • Lloyd Kramer

  Crosscurrents: African Americans, Africa, and Germany in the Modern World. Ed. by David McBride, Leroy Hopkins, and C. Aisha Blackshire-Belay. (Columbia: Camden House, 1998. xviii, 260 pp. $75.00, ISBN 1-57113-098-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 831-832 doi:10.2307/2567160
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• • Emily S. Rosenberg

  If You've Seen One, Youve Seen the Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture. By Rob Kroes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xvi, 195 pp. Cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-252-02200-9. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-252-06532-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 832 doi:10.2307/2567161
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• • Richard Pells

  Living with America, 1946–1996. Ed. by Cristina Giorcelli and Rob Kroes. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1997. iv, 329 pp. Paper, ISBN 90-5383-548-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 832-833 doi:10.2307/2567162
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• • Kathleen De Grave

  Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. By Lori Landay. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. xii, 258 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8122-3435-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8122-1651-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 833-834 doi:10.2307/2567163
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• • William I. Hitchcock

  The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945–1960. By John Killick. (Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997. x, 209 pp. Paper, ISBN 1-85331-178-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 834-835 doi:10.2307/2567164
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• • Helge Ø. Pharo

  Scandinavia and the United States: An Insecure Friendship. By Jussi M. Hanhimäki. (New York: Twayne, 1997. xviii, 223 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-7935-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 835-836 doi:10.2307/2567165
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• • Douglas Little

  The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914–1945. By Michael Brown. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 396 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8143-2536-X.) and Israel and the Western Powers, 1952–1960. By Zach Levey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv, 203 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2368-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 836-837 doi:10.2307/2567166
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• • Arnold A. Offner

  Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World. By James Chace. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 512 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-80843-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 838 doi:10.2307/2567167
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• • Andreas Wenger

  Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace. By Caroline Pruden. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xviii, 350 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-2204-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 838-839 doi:10.2307/2567168
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• • H. W. Brands

  Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. By Campbell Craig. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xviii, 216 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-11122-3. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-231-11123-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 839-840 doi:10.2307/2567169
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• • Roger W. Lotchin

  One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland. By Gayle B. Montgomery and James W. Johnson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 361 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21194-4.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 840-841 doi:10.2307/2567170
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• • Dean J. Kotlowski

  Richard Nixon: A Psycho biography. By Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, and Andrew W. Dod. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 190 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-231-10854-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 841-842 doi:10.2307/2567171
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• • Robert E. Quirk

  Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program. By Victor Andres Triay. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. xiv, 126 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8130-1612-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 842 doi:10.2307/2567172
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• • Thomas R. Maddux

  John F. Kennedy und der Kalte Krieg: Die Aussenpolitik der USA und die Grenzen der Glaubwürdigkeit (John F. Kennedy and the Cold War: The foreign policy of the United States and the limits of credibility). By Harald Biermann. (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997. 305 pp. DM 68.00, ISBN 3-506-77504-9.) In German

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 843 doi:10.2307/2567173
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• • Lloyd Gardner

  The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms: A Biography. By Kai Bird. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 496 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-684-08970-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 843-844 doi:10.2307/2567174
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• • Klaus Larres

  Das wechselseitige Bild der Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA und der UdSSR in den Zeitungen “Pravda,” “Izvestija,” “Washington Post” und “New York Times” der Jahre 1985 und 1989 (The mutual representation of the foreign and security policies of the USA and the USSR in Pravda, Izvestiia, the Washington Post, and the New York Times between 1985 and 1989). By Uwe Brodersen

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 844-845 doi:10.2307/2567175
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• • Ronald Kahn

  The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice: A Critical Issue. By Morton J. Horwitz. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xii, 132 pp. $18.00, ISBN 0-8090-9664-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 845-846 doi:10.2307/2567176
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• • Robert A. Pratt

  Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. Ed. by Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Boston: Bedford, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-12811-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 846-847 doi:10.2307/2567177
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• • V. P. Franklin

  Getting around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools. By Gregory S. Jacobs. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xvi, 291 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8142-0720-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8142-0721-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 847 doi:10.2307/2567178
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• • Edward P. Morgan

  “We Aint What We Was”: Civil Rights in the New South. By Frederick M. Wirt. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xx, 286 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-1901-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8223-1893-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 848 doi:10.2307/2567179
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• • Peter B. Levy

  Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. By Robert Cook. (New York: Longman, 1998. xii, 324 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-582-21531-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-582-21532-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 848-849 doi:10.2307/2567180
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• • Kathryn L. Nasstrom

  Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. By John Lewis and Michael D'Orso. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 496 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-81065-4.) and Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. By Cynthia Griggs Fleming. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. xiv, 224 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8476-8971-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 849-851 doi:10.2307/2567181
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• • Rhonda Y. Williams

  Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King. By Dennis E. Gale. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996. xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $51.00, ISBN 0-7619-0094-2. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-7619-0095-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 851-852 doi:10.2307/2567182
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• • Greta de Jong

  Making Villains, Making Heroes: Joseph R. McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Politics of American Memory. By Gary Daynes. (New York: Garland, 1997. x, 273 pp. $63.00, ISBN 0-8153-2992-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 852 doi:10.2307/2567183
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• • Jon Wiener

  Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan. By Charles Hersch. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xii, 232 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-3801-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-3802-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 852-853 doi:10.2307/2567184
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• • Todd Gitlin

  The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. By Doug Rossinow. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. x, 500 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-231-11056-1.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 853-854 doi:10.2307/2567185
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• • Günter Bischof

  Die Studentenbewegungen in den Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der sechziger Jahre: Eine Untersuchung hinsichtlich ihrer Beeinflussung durch Befreiungsbewegungen und -theorien aus der Dritten Welt. (The student movements in the United States and West Germany during the 1960s: An examination of their influence through independence movements and theories in the Third World). By Ingo Juchler

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 854-855 doi:10.2307/2567186
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• • Miriam Formanek-Brunell

  Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America. Ed. by Joe Austin and Michael Nevi Willard. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. xiv, 474 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-0646-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8147-0646-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 855-856 doi:10.2307/2567187
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• • Luisa Passerini

  My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics. By John Downton Hazlett. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xii, 263 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-299-15780-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-15784-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 856-857 doi:10.2307/2567188
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• • Alexander Bloom

  Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s. By Howard Brick. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xx, 242 pp. $33.00, ISBN 0-8057-9080-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 857-858 doi:10.2307/2567189
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• • Robert L. Bee

  The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation through Two Generations. By Joy A. Bilharz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xxviii, 194 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-1282-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 858 doi:10.2307/2567190
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• • Henry F. Bedford

  Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978. By Thomas Raymond Wellock. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xii, 333 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-299-15850-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-15854-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 858-859 doi:10.2307/2567191
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• • Elizabeth Siegel Watkins

  Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. By Linda Lear. (New York: Holt, 1997. xviii, 634 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8050-3427-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8050-3428-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 859-860 doi:10.2307/2567192
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• • Dorothy D. DeMoss

  Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff. By Nancy Beck Young and Lewis L. Gould. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87611-159-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 860-861 doi:10.2307/2567193
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• • Rodolfo F. Acuña

  Eastside Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968–1993. By John R. Chavez. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8047-3333-3.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 861-862 doi:10.2307/2567194
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• • María Cristina Garcia

  Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City. By Michael Jones-Correa. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xvi, 246 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3292-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8364-6.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 862 doi:10.2307/2567195
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• • Antonio T. Díaz-Royo

  Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity. By José E. Cruz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora. Ed. by Andrés Torres and José E. Velázquez. Philadelphia: Temple University Press and Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico: The Struggle for Self, Community, and Nation. By Lillian Guerra. Gainesville: University Press of Florida

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 863-864 doi:10.2307/2567196
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• • Gerald Zahavi

  Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. By Sanford M. Jacoby. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xii, 345 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01570-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 865 doi:10.2307/2567197
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• • Ruth Needleman

  Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. By Judith Stein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 409 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2414-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4727-5.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 865-866 doi:10.2307/2567198
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• • Michael Conant

  Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification. By James B. Burns. (Westport: Quorum, 1998. x, 220 pp. $59.95, ISBN 1-56720-166-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 866-867 doi:10.2307/2567199
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• • Albert Churella

  U.S. Economic History since 1945. By Michael French. (New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 0-7190-4185-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7190-4951-2.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 867-868 doi:10.2307/2567200
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• • Michael O. Smith

  When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times. By Thomas Dublin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv, 257 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8014-3462-9 and Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century. By Ruth Milkman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiv, 234 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-20677-0

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 868-869 doi:10.2307/2567201
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• • Christoph Scherrer

  The Betrayal of Local 14. By Julius Getman. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xvi, 259 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3476-9.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 869-870 doi:10.2307/2567202
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• • Charles Shively

  Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity. By Joshua Gamson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 228 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-226-28064-0.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 870-871 doi:10.2307/2567203
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• • John S. Whitley

  Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time. By Jonathan Arac. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-29915530-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-299-15534-X.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 871-872 doi:10.2307/2567204
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• • Lonnie Bunch

  The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. By Richard Handler and Eric Gable. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xii, 260 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-1978-0. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8223-1974-8.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 872 doi:10.2307/2567205
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• • Richard White

  The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. By Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xvii, 291 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0231-11148-7.)

  The Journal of American History (1999) 86(2): 872-873 doi:10.2307/2567206
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