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Journal of American History
Volume 86
Issue 2
Table of Contents
Volume 86
Issue 2
September 1999
Rethinking History and the Nation-State: Mexico and the United States as a Case Study
A Special Issue
David Thelen
Rethinking History and the Nation-State: Mexico and the United States
The Journal of American History
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10.2307/2567038
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Some Events in the History of Mexico and the Border
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10.2307/2567039
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Tansnational Challenges to Nation-Centered Stories
Democracy in Mexico—the Complex Roles of the United States: A Conversation with Sergio Aguayo
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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456
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466
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10.2307/2567040
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Mexico, the Latin North American Nation: A Conversation with Carlos Rico Ferrat
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1999
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86
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467
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480
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10.2307/2567041
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Migrants and the Nation-State
David G. Gutiérrez
Migration, Emergent Ethnicity, and the “Third Space”: The Shifting Politics of Nationalism in Greater Mexico
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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481
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517
doi:
10.2307/2567042
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Jorge Durand
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Douglas S. Massey
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Emilio A. Parrado
The New Era of Mexican Migration to the United States
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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518
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536
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10.2307/2567043
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Rodulfo Figueroa-Aramoni
A Nation beyond Its Borders: The Program for Mexican Communities Abroad
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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537
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544
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10.2307/2567044
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Carlos González Gutiérrez
Fostering Identities: Mexico's Relations with Its Diaspora
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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545
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567
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10.2307/2567045
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Historical Perspectives on the Mexican Moment
Francisco Valdés-Ugalde
Janus and the Northern Colossus: Perceptions of the United States in the Building of the Mexican Nation
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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568
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600
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10.2307/2567046
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A Conversation with Lorenzo Meyer about Mexico's Political Transition: From Authoritarianism to What?
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1999
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601
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10.2307/2567047
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Mexico's Cultural Landscapes: A Conversation with Carlos Monsiváis
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1999
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86
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613
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622
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10.2307/2567048
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Rethinking Nation-Centered Issues
María Celia Toro
The Internationalization of Police: The DEA in Mexico
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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623
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640
doi:
10.2307/2567049
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Jesus Velasco
Reading Mexico, Understanding the United States: American Transnational Intellectuals in the 1920s and 1990s
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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641
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667
doi:
10.2307/2567050
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Andrés Reséndez
National Identity on a Shifting Border: Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, 1821–1848
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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668
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688
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10.2307/2567051
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Mexico, the Puzzle: A Conversation about Civil Society and the Nation with Ilan Semo
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1999
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86
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689
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697
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10.2307/2567052
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Oral History
Michael Gordon
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Lu Ann Jones
Introduction
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1999
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86
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698
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699
doi:
10.1093/jahist/86.2.698
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Kathryn L. Nasstrom
Beginnings and Endings: Life Stories and the Periodization of the Civil Rights Movement
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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700
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711
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10.2307/2567054
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Jack Dougherty
From Anecdote to Analysis: Oral Interviews and New Scholarship in Educational History
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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712
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723
doi:
10.2307/2567055
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Tracy E. K'Meyer
“I Just Felt Called...”: Oral History and the Meaning of Faith in American Religious History
The Journal of American History
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1999
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86
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724
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733
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10.2307/2567056
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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
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1999
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86
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2
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734
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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
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1999
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86
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735
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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
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1999
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86
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737
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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
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1999
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86
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739
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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
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1999
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86
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740
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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
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1999
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86
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2
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742
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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
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1999
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86
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2
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743
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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
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1999
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86
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744
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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745
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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
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1999
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86
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746
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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
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1999
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86
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747
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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
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1999
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86
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748
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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
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1999
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86
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749
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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
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86
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750
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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
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86
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751
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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
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1999
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86
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2
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752
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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
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1999
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86
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753
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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
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86
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754
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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756
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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
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86
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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
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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86
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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
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86
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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
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86
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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
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86
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762
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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
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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
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86
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764
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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
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86
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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
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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
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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
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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
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86
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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
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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770
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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
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86
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771
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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
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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
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86
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773
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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
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86
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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
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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86
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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
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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
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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
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86
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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
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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1999
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86
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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86
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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
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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
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86
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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
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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
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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
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86
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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86
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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
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86
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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
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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
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86
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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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.)
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Editors Annual Report, 1998–1999
Editors Annual Report, 1998–1999
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Letters to the Editor
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