Book Reviews

• • Catherine L. Albanese

  Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. By Ann Taves. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv, 449 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-02876-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0691-01024-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1442-1443 doi:10.2307/2674736
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• • Ward M. McAfee

  Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. By Richard Wightman Fox. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 419 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-226-25938-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1443-1445 doi:10.2307/2674737
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• • James Grossman

  Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. By Grace Elizabeth Hale. (New York: Pantheon, 1998. xii, 427 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44263-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1445-1447 doi:10.2307/2674738
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• • Juan M. del Aguila

  On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. By Louis A. Perez Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 579 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2487-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1447-1449 doi:10.2307/2674739
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• • Casey N. Blake

  American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Knopf, 1999. xxviii, 320 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-42740-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1449-1451 doi:10.2307/2674740
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• • Richard White

  Into the West: The Story of Its People. By Walter Nugent. (New York: Knopf, 1999. xxiv, 493 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-45479-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1451-1452 doi:10.2307/2674741
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• • John M. Findlay

  The American West: The Reader. Ed. by Walter Nugent and Martin Ridge. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xviii, 335 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33530-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-253-21290-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1452-1453 doi:10.2307/2674742
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• • Robert R. Dykstra

  Power and Place in the North American West. Ed. by Richard White and John M. Findlay. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xx, 312 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-295-977744. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-295-97773-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1453-1454 doi:10.2307/2674743
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• • Linda Shopes

  The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. By Alessandro Portelli. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xx, 354 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-299-15370-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-15374-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1454-1455 doi:10.2307/2674744
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• • Philip Benedict

  Pelleteries, manchons, et chapeaux de castor: Les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris, 1500–1632 (Pelts, muffs, and beaver hats: North American furs in Paris, 1500–1632). By Bernard Allaire. (Sillery: Septentrion, 1999. 304 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 2-89448-138-1.) In French

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1455-1456 doi:10.2307/2674745
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• • Ida Altman

  Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. By Alison Games. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv, 322 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-57381-1.)

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• • Carla Gardina Pestana

  People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630–1860. By David Jaffee. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xiv, 306 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3610-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1457 doi:10.2307/2674747
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• • Irmina Wawrzyczek

  Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671: Allegories of Desire. By Thomas Scanlan. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 242 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-64305-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1457-1458 doi:10.2307/2674748
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• • Darren M. Staloff

  By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620–1660. By Phillip H. Round. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999. xviii, 317 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 087451-928-4. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-87451929-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1458-1459 doi:10.2307/2674749
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• • William O'Reilly

  Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire, 1492–1637. By Gesa Mackenthun. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xii, 370 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8061-2953-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1459-1460 doi:10.2307/2674750
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• • Mark Miller

  Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture. By Robert Blair St. George. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 466 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8078-2382-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4688-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1460-1461 doi:10.2307/2674751
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• • Wayne Bodle

  The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin. By Ann Uhry Abrams. (Boulder: Westview, 1999. xxii, 378 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-8133-3497-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1461-1462 doi:10.2307/2674752
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• • Christopher Vecsey

  Huron-Wendat: The Heritage of the Circle. By Georges E. Sioui. Trans. by Jane Brierley. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. xxii, 258 pp. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-87013526-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1462-1463 doi:10.2307/2674753
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• • Patricia E. Rubertone

  King Philips War: Civil War in New England, 1675–1676. By James D. Drake. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. x, 257 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-55849-223-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849-224-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1463-1464 doi:10.2307/2674754
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• • James D. Drake

  Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv, 297 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3178-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8282-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1464-1465 doi:10.2307/2674755
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• • Peter Charles Hoffer

  Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York. By Donna Merwick. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xviii, 281 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3608-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1465-1466 doi:10.2307/2674756
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• • Stuart M. Blumin

  Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620–1860. By C. Dallett Hemphill. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 310 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512557-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1466 doi:10.2307/2674757
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• • Charles Monaghan

  The Hatch and Brood of Time: Five Phelps Families in the Atlantic World, 1720–1880. By Peter Haring Judd. (Boston: Newbury Street, 1999. xxxvi, 464 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-88082-092-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1466-1467 doi:10.2307/2674758
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• • Francis Jennings

  Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754. By Timothy J. Shannon. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xviii, 268 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-80143657-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1467-1468 doi:10.2307/2674759
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• • Richard Middleton

  Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766. By Fred Anderson. (New York: Knopf, 2000. lv, 862 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-37540642-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1468-1469 doi:10.2307/2674760
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• • Nancy Shoemaker

  Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois. By Max M. Mintz. New York: New York University Press and Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State. By Laurence M. Hauptman. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1469-1470 doi:10.2307/2674761
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• • Kathryn Holland Braund

  A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816. By Claudio Saunt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 298 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-521-66043-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-66943-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1470-1471 doi:10.2307/2674762
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• • Steven M. Nolt

  Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727–1801. By Elisabeth W. Sommer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xviii, 234 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2139-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1471 doi:10.2307/2674763
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• • Susan Juster

  The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760–1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. By Dee E. Andrews. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi, 367 pp. $59.50, ISBN 0-691-00958-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1471-1472 doi:10.2307/2674764
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• • Julie Winch

  Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey, 1613–1863. By Graham Russell Hodges. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 413 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2492-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4778-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1472-1473 doi:10.2307/2674765
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• • Colin Kidd

  The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. By Eliga H. Gould. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxvi, 262 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2529-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4846-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1473-1474 doi:10.2307/2674766
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• • C. Bradley Thompson

  Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light. By Susan Dunn. (New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. xii, 258 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-57119900-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1474-1475 doi:10.2307/2674767
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• • Edward F. Haas

  Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803. By Gilbert C. Din. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xiv, 356 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-89096-904-3.)

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• • Sharon Block

  Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Ed. by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xii, 280 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8139-1918-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8139-1919-3.)

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• • Richard B. Drake

  The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. By Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 434 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-65229-4. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-65546-3.)

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• • Shearer Davis Bowman

  Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast. By James E. Bagwell. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000. xx, 193 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-86554-651-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1477-1478 doi:10.2307/2674771
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• • Harlow Sheidley

  The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, 1800–1830. By Matthew H. Crocker. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xvi, 222 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-55849-222-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1478-1479 doi:10.2307/2674772
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• • Gregory S. Alexander

  Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750–1860. By Stuart Banner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xiv, 206 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-80613182-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1479-1480 doi:10.2307/2674773
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• • John Dinan

  America's Jeffersonian Experiment: Remaking State Constitutions, 1820–1850. By Laura J. Scalia. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. xxiv, 218 pp. $36.00, ISBN 087580-244-3.)

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• • Tamara G. Miller

  Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. By Timothy R. Mahoney. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 334 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-521-64092-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1480-1481 doi:10.2307/2674775
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• • Ron Formisano

  The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics. By Kimberly K. Smith. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. viii, 318 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-70060957-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1481-1482 doi:10.2307/2674776
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• • Gerald D. Nash

  Wirtschafisnationalismus: USA und Deutschland im Vergleich (1815–1914) (Economic nationalism: USA and Germany in comparison, 1815–1914). By Andreas Etges. (New York: Campus Verlag, 1999. 480 pp. Paper, DM 118, ISBN 3-593-36347-X.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1482-1483 doi:10.2307/2674777
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• • John Majewski

  A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. By Howard Bodenhorn. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 260 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-52166285-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-521-66999-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1483-1484 doi:10.2307/2674778
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• • Bruce Laurie

  Land Reform and the Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800–1862. By Jamie L. Bronstein. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xii, 372 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-3451-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1484-1485 doi:10.2307/2674779
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• • Gerald W. McFarland

  A Child of Toil: The Life of Charles Snow, 1831–1889. By Vernon F. Snow. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xvi, 315 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8156-8126-7.)

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• • Mark M. Smith

  Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860. By Michele Gillespie. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxiv, 236 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-82031968-6.)

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• • Bridget Brereton

  Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Ed. by Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxvi, 491 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33542-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1486-1487 doi:10.2307/2674782
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• • Michael Mullin

  From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood. (Portland: Cass, 1999. vi, 178 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-7146-4964-3. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-7146-8025-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1487-1488 doi:10.2307/2674783
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• • David W. Blight

  Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass & Transatlantic Reform. Ed. by Alan J. Rice and Martin Crawford. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2102-8. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-82032129-X.)

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• • Tilden G. Edelstein

  Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Ferninist. By Stacey M. Robertson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xvii, 232 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3634-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1489-1490 doi:10.2307/2674785
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• • Sylvia D. Hoffert

  Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830–1860. By Bonnie S. Anderson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv, 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-512623-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1490-1491 doi:10.2307/2674786
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• • Alan Taylor

  The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America. By Ann Fabian. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiv, 255 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-21862-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1491-1492 doi:10.2307/2674787
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• • Faye Dudden

  Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860. By Rosemarie K. Bank. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 292 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-56387-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1492-1493 doi:10.2307/2674788
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• • William Wei

  New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culturey 1776–1882. By John Kuo Wei Tchen. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxiv, 385 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6006-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1493-1494 doi:10.2307/2674789
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• • R. Laurence Moore

  Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America. By James W. Fraser. (New York: St. Martins, 1999. x, 278 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-312-21636-X.)

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• • Amanda Porterfield

  Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions. By Paul William Harris. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 204 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19513172-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1494-1495 doi:10.2307/2674791
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• • Paul Jerome Croce

  The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century. By Craig James Hazen. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02512-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06828-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1495-1496 doi:10.2307/2674792
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• • Roger L. Nichols

  Borderlander: The Life of James Kirker, 1793–1852. By Ralph Adam Smith. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. x, 326 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-8061-3041-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1496-1497 doi:10.2307/2674793
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• • Garna L. Christian

  The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West. By Michael L. Tate. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xx, 454 pp. $34.95, ISBN O-8061-3173-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1497-1498 doi:10.2307/2674794
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• • Archie P. McDonald

  The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845–1900. By Thomas T. Smith. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xii, 307 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-89096-882-9.)

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• • Stephen Aron

  Lincoln of Kentucky. By Lowell H. Harrison. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 305 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-8131-2156-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1498-1499 doi:10.2307/2674796
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• • Matthew Pinsker

  Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. By Howard Jones. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiv, 236 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-2582-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1499-1500 doi:10.2307/2674797
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• • David J. Bodenhamer

  Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. By Mark E. Neely Jr. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. viii, 212 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-1894-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1500-1501 doi:10.2307/2674798
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• • Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

  Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas. By David Pickering and Judy Falls. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. xxvi, 223 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-89096923-X.)

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• • James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.

  Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All. By Stephen D. Engle. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xx, 476 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2512-3.)

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• • Lawrence Lee Hewitt

  No Band of Brothers: Problems in the Rebel High Command. By Steven E. Woodworth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press and Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. By Joseph L. Harsh. Kent: Kent State University Press

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1502-1504 doi:10.2307/2674801
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• • Heather Cox Richardson

  From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune. By Philip M. Katz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 274 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-32348-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1504-1505 doi:10.2307/2674802
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• • Marvin Fletcher

  Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867–1898: Black and White Together. By Charles L. Kenner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. x, 384 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8061-3158-6.)

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• • Marli F. Weiner

  Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. By Noralee Frankel. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xviii, 270 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33495-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1505-1506 doi:10.2307/2674804
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• • Jack Temple Kirby

  The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War. By Charles S. Aiken. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xviii, 452 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5679-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1506-1507 doi:10.2307/2674805
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• • Karen Ferguson

  Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nations Capital 1880–1920. By Jacqueline M. Moore. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. x, 257 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1903-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1507-1508 doi:10.2307/2674806
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• • Matthew Frye Jacobson

  Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy. By Alessandra Lorini. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xxii, 305 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8139-1870-7. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 08139-1871-5.)

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• • Rebecca Edwards

  Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii, 377 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2524-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-80784849-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1509-1510 doi:10.2307/2674808
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• • Roger Biles

  Bossism and Reform in a Southern City: Lexington, Kentucky, 1880–1940. By James Duane Bolin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xviii, 202 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-81312150-7.)

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• • William J. Cooper, Jr.

  Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. By Stephen Kantrowitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. x, 422 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-80782530-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4839-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1510-1511 doi:10.2307/2674810
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• • Ronald Weber

  James Whitcomb Riley: A Life. By Elizabeth J. Van Allen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xiv, 352 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-25333591-4.)

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• • Anne C. Rose

  The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. By James Turner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xviii, 507 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6147-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1512-1513 doi:10.2307/2674812
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• • David J. Pivar

  Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. By Alan Hunt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-521-64071-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-521-64689-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1513-1514 doi:10.2307/2674813
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• • Thomas J. Noel

  For Wood River or Bust: Idaho's Silver Boom of the 1880s. By Clark C. Spence. (Moscow and Boise: University of Idaho Press and the Idaho Historical Society, 1999. xii, 260 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89301-215-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1514-1515 doi:10.2307/2674814
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• • Carl A. Brasseaux

  No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud. By William Arceneaux. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xiv, 349 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2447-8.)

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• • Paul H. Tedesco

  Making Iron on the Bald Eagle: Roland Curtin's Ironworks and Workers' Community. By Gerald G. Eggert. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xvi, 189 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-271-01946-8.)

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• • William R. Childs

  Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866–1900. By Earle B. Young. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xii, 158 pp. $29.95, ISBN 089096-883-7.)

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• • Tony A. Freyer

  Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South. By William G. Thomas. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xxii, 318 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8071-2367-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-80712504-0.)

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• • Martin V. Melosi

  Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. By David Stradling. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 270 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6083-0.)

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• • Rebecca Kugel

  American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920. By Brian C. Hosmer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xvi, 309 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0983-0.)

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• • Bruce A. Rubenstein

  The Rapid City Indian School, 1898–1933. By Scott Riney. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. x, 278 pp. $29.95, ISBN 08061-3162-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1519-1520 doi:10.2307/2674821
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• • Jules R. Benjamin

  Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898. By Ada Ferrer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 273 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2500-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4783-6.)

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• • Frederick S. Calhoun

  Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898–1922). By Francis Anthony Boyle. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. x, 220 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2327-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2364-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1521-1522 doi:10.2307/2674823
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• • Edward Rice-Maximin

  Las relaciones internacionales en el Pacifico (Siglos XVIII–XX): Colonizatión, descolonización, y encuentro cultural (International relations in the Pacific, eighteenth through twentieth centuries: Colonization, decolonization, and cultural encounters). Ed. by Maria Dolores Elizalde

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1522-1523 doi:10.2307/2674824
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• • John D. Buenker

  Progressivism and the New Democracy. Ed. by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. viii, 302 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 155849-192-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-55849193-7.)

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• • Ronald G. Coleman

  Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality in the Early 20^th Century, Only to Find Racism in Their New Home. By R. Bruce Shepard. (Toronto: Umbrella, 1997. x, 149 pp. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-895642-19-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1524-1525 doi:10.2307/2674826
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• • Maureen A. Flanagan

  Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880–1911. By Gayle Gullett. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiv, 272 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02503-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06818-1.)

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• • Abraham Holtzman

  Reconciliation and Revival: James R. Mann and the House Republicans in the Wilson Era. By Herbert F. Margulies. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xviii, 242 pp. $57.95, ISBN 0-31329817-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1526 doi:10.2307/2674828
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• • Colette A. Hyman

  Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. By Nan Enstad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 266 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-23111102-9. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11103-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1526-1527 doi:10.2307/2674829
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• • Michelle Brattain

  Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. By Melinda Chateauvert. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 267 pp. Cloth, $46.95, ISBN 0-252-023404. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06636-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1527-1528 doi:10.2307/2674830
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• • Vivien Miller

  Insane Sisters; on The Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. By Gregg Andrews. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiv, 262 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1240-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1528-1529 doi:10.2307/2674831
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• • Anne Firor Scott

  The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. By Bonnie G. Smith. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 306 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-34181-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1529-1530 doi:10.2307/2674832
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• • Patrick J. Ryan

  Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddardand the Origins of American Intelligence Testing. By Leila Zenderland. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 466 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0521-44373-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1530-1531 doi:10.2307/2674833
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• • Jacalyn Duffin

  The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life. By Nancy Tomes. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-35707-8.)

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• • Amy Bentley

  The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879–1914. By Lorine Swainston Goodwin. Jefferson: McFarland, 1999. viii, 352 pp. $45.00 and The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy. By Clayton A. Coppin and Jack High. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. x, 219 pp. $49.50

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1532-1533 doi:10.2307/2674835
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• • Philip Jenkins

  Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920. By Joseph F. Spillane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 214 pp. $39.95 and Cocaine: Global Histories. Ed. by Paul Gootenberg. New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $90.00

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• • Gerald N. Grob

  Medicine in Maryland: The Practice and the Profession, 1799–1999. By Jane Eliot Sewell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xx, 238 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6127-6.)

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• • Georgina Feldberg

  Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880–1930. By Evelynn Maxine Hammonds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x, 299 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5978-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1535-1536 doi:10.2307/2674838
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• • James J. Farrell

  Facing the “King of Terrors”: Death and Society in an American Community, 1750–1990. By Robert V. Wells. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 301 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-521-63319-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1536-1537 doi:10.2307/2674839
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• • John C. Schneider

  The American City: A Social and Cultural History. By Daniel J. Monti Jr. (Malden: Blackwell, 1999. viii, 391 pp. Cloth, $62.95, ISBN 155786-917-0. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 1-55786918-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1537-1538 doi:10.2307/2674840
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• • Greg Hise

  The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. By Martin V. Melosi. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv, 578 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8018-6152-7.)

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• • Joel Schwartz

  The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900–1940. By Max Page. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xvi, 303 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-64468-5.)

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• • Gerald A. Danzer

  City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago. By Robert G. Spinney. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xiv, 300 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87580-254-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-87580-583-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1539-1540 doi:10.2307/2674843
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• • Richard Longstreth

  Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles. By William Alexander McClung. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xx, 277 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21827-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1540-1541 doi:10.2307/2674844
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• • Jonathan M. Hansen

  Community Denied: The Wrong Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism. By James Hoopes. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 192 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3500-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1541-1542 doi:10.2307/2674845
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• • Jon Wiener

  The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War. By Brett Gary. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 323 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11364-1. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-231-11365-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1542-1543 doi:10.2307/2674846
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• • Chip Rhodes

  Body & Soul: The Making of American Modernism. By Robert M. Crunden. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. xviii, 475 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-465-01484-4.)

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• • Tamara Plakins Thornton

  Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America. By Megan L. Benton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 323 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-08213-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1543-1544 doi:10.2307/2674848
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• • James R. Shortridge

  The WPA Guides: Mapping America. By Christine Bold. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999. xvi, 246 pp. Cloth, $48.00, ISBN 1-57806-194-6. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 157806-195-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1544-1545 doi:10.2307/2674849
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• • Jean Folkerts

  Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890–1945. By William Howland Kenney. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xx, 258 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-510046-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1545-1546 doi:10.2307/2674850
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• • F. Jack Hurley

  Photography and Politics in America: From the New Deal into the Cold War. By Lili Corbus Bezner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 307 pp. $39.95, ISBN 08018-6187-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1546-1547 doi:10.2307/2674851
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• • Elspeth Brown

  Seeing America: Women Photographers between the Wars. By Melissa A. McEuen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xii, 360 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2132-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1547 doi:10.2307/2674852
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• • Donna M. Cassidy

  The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915–1935. By Wanda M. Corn. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xxiv, 447 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0520-21049-2.)

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• • Catherine Nickerson

  Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil. By Jonathan Munby. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 263 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-55031-1. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0226-55033-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1548-1549 doi:10.2307/2674854
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• • Regina Kunzel

  “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!” A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959. By Eric Schaefer. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xii, 474 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-8223-2353-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-2374-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1549-1550 doi:10.2307/2674855
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• • Jean Heffer

  The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America. By T. H. Watkins. (New York: Holt, 1999. xvi, 587 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8050-1675-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1550-1551 doi:10.2307/2674856
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• • Barbara Dianne Savage

  WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926–78. By Nathan Godfried. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xx, 390 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02287-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0252-06592-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1551-1552 doi:10.2307/2674857
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• • Robert Justin Goldstein

  Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. By Janet Irons. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-252-02527-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06840-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1552-1553 doi:10.2307/2674858
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• • Francis Shor

  From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class. By Robert Bussel. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xxii, 257 pp. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-271-01897-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-01898-4.)

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• • Paul K. Longmore

  Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850–1950. By Robert M. Buchanan. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1999. xviii, 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56368-084-X.)

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• • Howard L. Reiter

  Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy. By Sidney M. Milkis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8018-6194-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8108-6195-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1554-1555 doi:10.2307/2674861
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• • Melvin Small

  Presidential Greatness. By Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. viii, 278 pp. $34.95 and Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations. By Alexander DeConde. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. viii, 391 pp. $40.00

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1555-1557 doi:10.2307/2674862
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• • Paul E. Mertz

  King Cotton's Advocate: Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal. By Lawrence J. Nelson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xviii, 330 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-025-2.)

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• • Daniel Scott Smith

  The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880–1990. By Dora L. Costa. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 234 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-226-11608-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1557-1558 doi:10.2307/2674864
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• • Susan Herbst

  The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930–1945. By Daniel J. Robinson. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx, 252 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8020-4274-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-80208109-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1558-1559 doi:10.2307/2674865
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• • Lyle W. Dorsett

  The Kansas City Investigation: Pendergast's Downfall, 1938–1939. By Rudolph H. Hartmann, ed. by Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xii, 191 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1231-X.) and Truman and Pendergast. By Robert H. Ferrell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiv, 162 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1225-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1559-1560 doi:10.2307/2674866
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• • Gregory Kennedy

  Twisting the Lions Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars. By John E. Moser. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. x, 263 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-5615-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1560-1561 doi:10.2307/2674867
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• • Margaret Rossiter

  Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. By Ruth H. Howes and Caroline Herzenberg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. viii, 264 pp. $34.50, ISBN 1-56639 719-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1561-1562 doi:10.2307/2674868
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• • Hal M. Friedman

  Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941–1945. By Frances B. Cogan. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xiv, 357 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2117-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1562-1563 doi:10.2307/2674869
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• • Dominick A. Pisano

  Air Power in the Age of Total War. By John Buckley. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. x, 260 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-25333557-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-253-21324-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1563-1564 doi:10.2307/2674870
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• • Thomas A. Julian

  Blankets of Fire: U.S. Bombers over Japan during World War II. By Kenneth P. Werrell. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. xiv, 350 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-56098665-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-56098-871-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1564-1565 doi:10.2307/2674871
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• • Wayne Thompson

  American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950–1953. By Conrad C. Crane. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. x, 252 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0991-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1565 doi:10.2307/2674872
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• • Peter L. Hahn

  Dream and Reality: The United States in Search of a Role in the Twentieth-Century World. By Göran Rystad. (Lund: Lund University Press, 1999. 246 pp. ISBN 91-7966-579-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1565-1566 doi:10.2307/2674873
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• • Bruce Kuniholm

  Isle of Discord: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Making of the Cyprus Problem. By Ioannis D. Stefanidis. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. xvi, 315 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-81478118-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1566-1567 doi:10.2307/2674874
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• • Philippa Strum

  The Warren Court and American Politics. By Lucas A. Powe Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xviii, 566 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00095-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1567-1568 doi:10.2307/2674875
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• • Theodore Rosenof

  Between Friends: Perspectives on John Kenneth Galbraith. Ed. by Helen Sasson and Andrea Williams. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. xvi, 176 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-395-97130-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1568-1569 doi:10.2307/2674876
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• • M. J. Heale

  Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. By Arthur Herman. (New York: Free Press, 2000. viii, 404 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-83625-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1569-1570 doi:10.2307/2674877
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• • Stephen J. Whitfield

  Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television. By Brenda Murphy. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 310 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-52164088-1.)

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• • Fred Hobson

  The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s. By McKay Jenkins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2491-7. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4771-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1570-1571 doi:10.2307/2674879
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• • Steven A. Reich

  In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900–1957. By Merline Pitre. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xiv, 181 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096869-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1571-1572 doi:10.2307/2674880
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• • Merline Pitre

  The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library. By Louise S. Robbins. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xvi, 237 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3163-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1572-1573 doi:10.2307/2674881
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• • David E. Wilkins

  The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. By Thomas W. Cowger. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 217 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1502-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1573 doi:10.2307/2674882
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• • John Rockwell Snowden

  Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945–1995. By Mark R. Scherer. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xx, 166 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8032-4251-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1573-1574 doi:10.2307/2674883
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• • Michael Welsh

  The Seminole Baptist Churches of Oklahoma: Maintaining a Traditional Community. By Jack M. Schultz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xii, 260 pp. $27.95, ISBN 08061-3117-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1574-1575 doi:10.2307/2674884
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• • Michael J. Chiarappa

  Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River. By Roberta Ulrich. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999. viii, 248 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87071-469-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1575-1576 doi:10.2307/2674885
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• • Andrew Hurley

  Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 394 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-80186109-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1576-1577 doi:10.2307/2674886
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• • Sylvie Murray

  Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. By Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. xxii, 298 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-465-07045-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1577 doi:10.2307/2674887
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• • Eric Porter

  Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. By Graham Lock. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, 314 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2404-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2440-7.)

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• • David Sanjek

  Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. By Steve Waksman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 373 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-67400065-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1578-1579 doi:10.2307/2674889
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• • Kenneth O'Reilly

  Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. By Jon Wiener. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-21646-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0520-22246-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1579-1580 doi:10.2307/2674890
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• • Dominick Cavallo

  The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond. By Timothy Miller. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxviii, 329 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8156-2811-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 08156-0601-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1580-1581 doi:10.2307/2674891
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• • Gregg L. Michel

  Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. By William J. Billingsley. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xviii, 308 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2109-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1581-1582 doi:10.2307/2674892
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• • Jill K. Gill

  Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 308 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-300-07811-0.)

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• • Clarence E. Walker

  A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. By David K. Shipler. (New York: Knopf, 1997. xii, 607 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-39458975-0.) and America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 704 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-684-80933-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1582-1584 doi:10.2307/2674894
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• • Jared Gardner

  On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley. By Gregory Stephens. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 329 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-64352-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-521-64393-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1584-1585 doi:10.2307/2674895
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• • Grace Hale

  The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in Americas “Racial” Crisis. By Orlando Patterson. (Washington: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1997. xiv, 233 pp. Cloth, $24.50, ISBN 1887178-61-9. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 1-88717897-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1585-1586 doi:10.2307/2674896
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• • Gregory S. Rodríguez

  Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger. By Samuel O. Regalado. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii, 224 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02372-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06712-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1586-1587 doi:10.2307/2674897
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• • Paul Harvey

  A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century. By David Stricklin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. xviii, 229 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-8131-2093-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1587 doi:10.2307/2674898
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• • Jay P. Dolan

  Washington and Rome: Catholicism in American Culture. By Michael Zöller. Trans. by Steven Rendall and Albert Wimmer. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999. xii, 278 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-26801952-5. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-268-01953-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1587-1588 doi:10.2307/2674899
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• • Kathy J. Pulley

  The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education. By D. G. Hart. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiv, 321 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-80186210-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1588-1589 doi:10.2307/2674900
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• • Theodore M. Brown

  Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929–1969. By James H. Capshew. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-56267-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-521-56585-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1589-1590 doi:10.2307/2674901
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• • David Thelen

  A Place to Remember: Using History to Build Community. By Robert R. Archibald. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira, 1999. 224 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-7619-8942-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7619-8943-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1590-1591 doi:10.2307/2674902
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• • Susan E. Lederer

  Blood Saga: Hemophilia, AIDS, and the Survival of a Community. By Susan Resnik. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 292 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21195-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1591 doi:10.2307/2674903
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• • W. Barksdale Maynard

  American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin: A Three-Hundred-Year History. By Richard Gerstell. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. x, 217 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01805-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-271-01806-2.)

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• • Dianne Newell

  Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. By Joseph E. Taylor III. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xviii, 421 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0295-97840-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1592-1593 doi:10.2307/2674905
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• • Christine Meisner Rosen

  Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution. By John D. Wirth. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xx, 264 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0984-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1593-1594 doi:10.2307/2674906
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• • Annick Cizel

  Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy. By Robert A. Strong. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2445-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 08071-2529-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1594-1595 doi:10.2307/2674907
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• • Glen Jeansonne

  The Presidency of George Bush. By John Robert Greene. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xiv, 245 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-70060993-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1595-1596 doi:10.2307/2674908
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• • Karal Ann Marling

  Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag. By Carolyn Marvin and David W. Ingle. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xvi, 398 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 0-521-62345-6. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-521-62609-9.)

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• • Alonzo L. Hamby

  Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton. By Kenneth S. Baer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xiv, 361 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1009-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 87(4): 1596-1597 doi:10.2307/2674910
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