Book Reviews

• • Seymour Drescher

  Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and ed. by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xcii, 722 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-80532-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 612-614 doi:10.2307/2675111
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• • Roger Lane

  Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. By Michael A. Bellesiles. (New York: Knopf, 2000. 603 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-375-40210-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 614-615 doi:10.2307/2675112
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• • Maria Bucur

  Historical Perspectives on Memory. Ed. by Anne Ollila. (Helsinki: Studia Historica, 1999. 222 pp. ISBN 951-710-116-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 615-616 doi:10.2307/2675113
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• • Wilson J. Moses

  The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925. By Mia Bay. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii, 288 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-510045-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-513279-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 617 doi:10.2307/2675114
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• • Brian Holden Reid

  The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Ed. by John Whiteclay Chambers II, Fred Anderson, Lynn Eden, Joseph T. Glat-thaar, Ronald H. Spector, and G. Kurt Piehler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxxiv, 916 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-19-507198-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 617-618 doi:10.2307/2675115
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• • Dedra S. McDonald

  Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest. By Jose Rabasa. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xiv, 359 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8223-2535-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8223-2567-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 618-619 doi:10.2307/2675116
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• • Dean Louder

  La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—a Cultural History. By Peter N. Moogk. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. xx, 340 pp. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-87013-528-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 619-620 doi:10.2307/2675117
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• • Thomas W. Jodziewicz

  The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change. By Sydney V. James. Ed. by Sheila L. Skemp and Bruce C. Daniels. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000. xiv, 336 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-58465-017-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 620-621 doi:10.2307/2675118
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• • Michael Harkin

  Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island. By Daniel W. Clayton. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. xxii, 330 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-7748-0741-5. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7748-0742-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 621-622 doi:10.2307/2675119
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• • Elizabeth Reis

  Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England. By Erik R. Seeman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 263 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-8018-6208-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 622-623 doi:10.2307/2675120
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• • Joan R. Gundersen

  Women and Religion in Early America, 1600–1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions. By Marilyn J. Westerkamp. (New York: Rout-ledge, 1999. x, 219 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-09814-9. Paper, $22.99, ISBN 0-415-19448-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 623 doi:10.2307/2675121
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• • Daniel K. Richter

  Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. By James H. Merrell. (New York: Norton, 1999. 463 pp. $14.95, ISBN 0-393-31976-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 624 doi:10.2307/2675122
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• • Peter S. Onuf

  The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times. By Charles Royster. (New York: Knopf, 1999. xii, 622 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-43345-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 624-625 doi:10.2307/2675123
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• • James H. O'Donnell III

  William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 319 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-325-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 625-626 doi:10.2307/2675124
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• • John Mack Faragher

  Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement. By David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. xviii, 366 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8139-1773-5. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-8139-1774-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 626-627 doi:10.2307/2675125
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• • Clyde R. Ferguson

  John Laurens and the American Revolution. By Gregory D. Massey. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xxii, 327 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-57003-330-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 627-628 doi:10.2307/2675126
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• • Richard Buel, Jr.

  Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic. By John Resch. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xvi, 319 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-55849-232-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 628 doi:10.2307/2675127
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• • Norman K. Risjord

  Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution. By John Ferling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxx, 392 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-513409-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 628-629 doi:10.2307/2675128
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• • Emory G. Evans

  Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood. By Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. xiv, 250 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8139-1930-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 629-630 doi:10.2307/2675129
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• • Jeffrey L. Pasley

  Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America. By Thomas Fleming, Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government. By Karl-Friedrich Walling and Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen. Ed. by James Gilreath

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 630-633 doi:10.2307/2675130
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• • Stephen J. Stein

  Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xvi, 318 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-674-00303-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 633 doi:10.2307/2675131
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• • Stephen Warren

  Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. By John Sugden. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xviii, 350 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-4288-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 634 doi:10.2307/2675132
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• • Alfred A. Cave

  Native Americans and the Early Republic. Ed. by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1873-1. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8139-1913-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 634-635 doi:10.2307/2675133
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• • Jacquelyn Kilpatrick

  The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. By Renee L. Bergland. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-87451-943-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87451-944-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 635-636 doi:10.2307/2675134
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• • Willard Hughes Rollings

  The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540–1845. By F. Todd Smith. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. xiv, 206 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-952-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 636-637 doi:10.2307/2675135
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• • Peter Iverson

  Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries. By Frances Levine. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xxii, 212 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2044-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 637 doi:10.2307/2675136
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• • Philip E Gura

  Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America. By Sandra M. Gustafson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxviii, 287 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2575-1. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4888-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 638 doi:10.2307/2675137
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• • Sandra Gustafson

  Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America. By James Perrin Warren. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. x, 202 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-271-01900-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 638-639 doi:10.2307/2675138
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• • Nina Baym

  Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Lori Merish. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. x, 389 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-8223-2480-6. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-2516-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 639-640 doi:10.2307/2675139
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• • John Ibson

  The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck. By John W. M. Hallock. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-229-16800-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-16804-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 640-641 doi:10.2307/2675140
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• • Margaret Humphreys

  Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815–1895. By Lester D. Stephens. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xx, 338 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2518-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 641-642 doi:10.2307/2675141
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• • Lorri Glover

  Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Ed. by Edward A. Pearson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xx, 387 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2446-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 642-643 doi:10.2307/2675142
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• • Alfred Hunt

  African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century. By Chris Dixon. (Westport: Greenwood, 2000. xii, 249 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-313-31063-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 643 doi:10.2307/2675143
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• • Dylan Penningroth

  Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 283 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-674-82148-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 644 doi:10.2307/2675144
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• • Philip J. Ethington

  Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. By Glenn C. Alt-schuler and Stuart M. Blumin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xii, 316 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-00130-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 644-645 doi:10.2307/2675145
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• • Howard P. Chudacoff

  Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845–1855. By J. Matthew Gallman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv, 306 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2534-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4845-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 645-646 doi:10.2307/2675146
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• • B. Zorina Khan

  Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England. Ed. by Peter Temin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. viii, 328 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-00099-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 646-647 doi:10.2307/2675147
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• • Mary A. DeCredico

  A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. By John Majewski. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xx, 214 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-59023-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 647-648 doi:10.2307/2675148
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• • Phillip Shaw Paludan

  The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: The Complete Documentary Edition (DVD). Ed. by Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis, 2000. (Windows) 3 dvds, $2,000. (University of Illinois Press, 1325 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820. ISBN 0-252-02566-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 648-649 doi:10.2307/2675149
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• • Michael Vorenberg

  Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography. By George Anastaplo. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. x, 371 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8476-9431-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 649-650 doi:10.2307/2675150
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• • Robert Cook

  Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. xii, 516 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 650-651 doi:10.2307/2675151
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• • Gary W. Gallagher

  A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865. By Russell E Weigley. (Bloom-ington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xxx, 612 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33738-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 651-652 doi:10.2307/2675152
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• • Richard B. McCaslin

  The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. By John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 368 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2544-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 652-653 doi:10.2307/2675153
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• • Eugene H. Berwanger

  Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. By Christopher Phillips. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. xviii, 342 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1272-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 653 doi:10.2307/2675154
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• • James M. Woods

  A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. By Stephen J. Ochs. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xxiv, 304 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2531-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 653-654 doi:10.2307/2675155
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• • Jane Dailey

  Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. By Laura F. Edwards. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xii, 271 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-02568-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 654-655 doi:10.2307/2675156
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• • Christopher Waldrep

  Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866–1884. By Gilles Vandal. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. x, 319 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8142-0838-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8142-5041-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 655-656 doi:10.2307/2675157
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• • Robert Wooster

  Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853–1895. By William A. Dobak. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xvi, 241 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3071-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 656 doi:10.2307/2675158
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• • Walter Nugent

  Nothing like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869. By Stephen E. Ambrose. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 431 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-684-84609-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 657 doi:10.2307/2675159
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• • Oliviero Bergamini

  The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession. By Matthew Moten. College Station: Texas A&M University Press and Educating the U.S. Army: Arthur L. Wagner and Reform, 1875–1905. By T. R. Brereton. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 657-659 doi:10.2307/2675160
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• • Peter W. Bardaglio

  Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial. By Louise Barnett. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000. xii, 287 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-8090-7397-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 659-660 doi:10.2307/2675161
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• • Mark Spence

  The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 206 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-521-77172-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 660-661 doi:10.2307/2675162
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• • Richard O. Clemmer

  The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. By Virginia McConnell Simmons. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 2000. xxii, 323 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87081-571-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 661 doi:10.2307/2675163
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• • Ian Tyrrell

  The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography. By Steven J. Holmes. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xvi, 309 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-299-16150-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-299-16154-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 661-662 doi:10.2307/2675164
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• • Lawrence Buell

  George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. By David Lowenthal. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. xxvi, 605 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-295-97942-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 662-663 doi:10.2307/2675165
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• • Colin A. M. Duncan

  Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. By Thomas R. Dunlap. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-65173-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-521-65700-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 663-664 doi:10.2307/2675166
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• • Gerald Sorin

  Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. By Karla Goldman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 275 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00221-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 664-665 doi:10.2307/2675167
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• • W. T. Lhamon, Jr.

  America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. By Philip F. Gura and James E Bollman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 303 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2484-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 665-666 doi:10.2307/2675168
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• • Celia M. Azevedo

  Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. By Andrew Ward. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. xviii, 493 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-374-18771-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 666 doi:10.2307/2675169
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• • Mitch Kachun

  Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884–1916. By Lawrence S. Little. (Knox-ville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. xviii, 246 pp. $32.00, ISBN 1-57233-085-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 667 doi:10.2307/2675170
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• • Vernon J. Williams, Jr.

  Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. By John David Smith. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxviii, 386 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2130-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 667-668 doi:10.2307/2675171
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• • Andre Millard

  Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. By Lisa Gitelman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3270-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8047-3872-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 668-669 doi:10.2307/2675172
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• • Alison M. Parker

  Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890–1920. By Linda J. Tomko. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx, 283 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33571-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-253-21327-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 669-670 doi:10.2307/2675173
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• • Joshua Brown

  American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. By Shawn Michelle Smith. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv, 299 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-691-00477-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-691-00478-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 670-671 doi:10.2307/2675174
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• • Shelley Armitage

  Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia. By Nancy Martha West. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. xx, 242 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1958-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8139-1959-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 671 doi:10.2307/2675175
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• • J.-André Senécal

  The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary. By H. V. Nelles. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. x, 397 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8020-4271-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 672 doi:10.2307/2675176
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• • George E. Webb

  Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. By David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xvi, 209 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1508-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 672-673 doi:10.2307/2675177
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• • Ross Miller

  The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x, 301 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6311-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 673-674 doi:10.2307/2675178
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• • Timothy Weber

  In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible. By Peter J. Thuesen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii, 238 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-512736-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 674-675 doi:10.2307/2675179
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• • Margaret Lynn Brown

  Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s–1930s. By Lynn Morrow and Linda Myers-Phinney. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999. xiv, 279 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 1-55728-574-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 675-676 doi:10.2307/2675180
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• • Marguerite S. Shaffer

  The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains. By Margaret Lynn Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida and The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park. By Daniel S. Pierce. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 676-677 doi:10.2307/2675181
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• • Paul Sutter

  Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870–1903. By Chris J. Magoc. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xviii, 266 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8263-2119-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8263-2120-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 677-678 doi:10.2307/2675182
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• • Donald L. Fixico

  American Indians & National Parks. By Robert H. Keller and Michael E Turek. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xxii, 319 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1372-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8165-2014-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 678-679 doi:10.2307/2675183
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• • Ken Coates

  Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Sergei Kan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxii, 665 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-295-97806-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 679-680 doi:10.2307/2675184
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• • Sidney L. Harring

  Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context, 1880s–1930s. By John Shurts. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xvi, 333 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3210-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 680-681 doi:10.2307/2675185
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• • Herbert E Margulies

  Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. By Nancy C. Unger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv, 393 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2545-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 681 doi:10.2307/2675186
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• • Joseph A. Pratt

  Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico. By Martin R. Ansell. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. x, 302 pp. $62.50, ISBN 0-8142-0749-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 681-682 doi:10.2307/2675187
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• • Elliott West

  The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. By Linda Gordon. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xvi, 416 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-36041-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 682-683 doi:10.2307/2675188
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• • V. P. Franklin

  Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902–1930. By Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss Jr. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiii, 245 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1226-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 683-684 doi:10.2307/2675189
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• • Alessandro Brogi

  Il mito americano nell'Italia della Grande Guerra (The American myth in World War I Italy). By Daniela Rossini. (Rome: Laterza, 2000. xii, 285 pp. Paper, Lit 50,000, ISBN 88-420-6014-3.) In Italian

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 684-685 doi:10.2307/2675190
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• • Frederick R. Dickinson

  Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun—gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy—The diplomacy in concert with the military actions). By Yoichi Hirama. (Tokyo: Keio Gijuku Daigaku, 1998. vi, 330 pp. ¥4,000, ISBN 4-7664-0687-7.) In Japanese

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 685-686 doi:10.2307/2675191
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• • Richard Melzer

  Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines. By Mark Cronlund Anderson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xi, 301 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3172-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 686-687 doi:10.2307/2675192
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• • Charles C. Alexander

  Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949. By Glenn Feldman. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xiv, 457 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8173-0983-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8173-0984-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 687-688 doi:10.2307/2675193
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• • Cynthia Russett

  When All the Gods Trembled: Darwin, Scopes, and American Intellectuals. By Paul K. Conkin. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. xii, 185 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-9063-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 688 doi:10.2307/2675194
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• • Paul Gutjahr

  Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. By Alexis McCrossen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv, 209 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-9014-3417-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 688-689 doi:10.2307/2675195
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• • Ellen M. Litwicki

  Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals. By Elizabeth H. Pleck. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. x, 328 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-674-00230-X. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-674-00279-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 689-690 doi:10.2307/2675196
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• • Rebecca Sharpless

  Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina. By Eldred E. Prince Jr. with Robert R. Simpson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxiv, 272 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-2176-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 690-691 doi:10.2307/2675197
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• • Sanford M. Jacoby

  Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940. By Howell John Harris. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii, 456 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-521-58435-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 691-692 doi:10.2307/2675198
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• • Lawrence B. Glickman

  Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. By Regina Lee Blaszczyk. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvi, 380 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6193-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 692-693 doi:10.2307/2675199
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• • Elizabeth Francis

  Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. By Simone Weil Davis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xii, 248 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-2411-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-2446-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 693 doi:10.2307/2675200
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• • Kenneth J. Bindas

  Brave New Words: Strategies of Language and Communication in the United States of the 1930s. Ed. by Biancamaria Bosco Tedeschini Lalli and Maurizio Vaudagna. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999. viii, 269 pp. Paper, $59.50, ISBN 90-5383-592-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 693-694 doi:10.2307/2675201
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• • Leigh Ann Wheeler

  Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909–1945. By Andrea Friedman. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xii, 290 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-231-11066-9. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11067-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 694-695 doi:10.2307/2675202
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• • Carole Srole

  Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892—1941. By Clark Davis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xx, 298 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6274-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 695-696 doi:10.2307/2675203
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• • Melissa Walker

  Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. By Ronald R. Kline. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 372 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6248-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 696-697 doi:10.2307/2675204
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• • Valerie Grim

  All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919–1941. By Melissa Walker. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xviii, 341 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6318-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 697-698 doi:10.2307/2675205
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• • Jeanette Keith

  Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. By Chad Berry. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xvi, 236 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02429-X. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-252-06841-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 698 doi:10.2307/2675206
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• • Landon Storrs

  Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South 1830–1930. Ed. by Elna C. Green. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xxvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $36.00, ISBN 0-8203-2091-9. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-8203-2114-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 699 doi:10.2307/2675207
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• • Neil A. Wynn

  From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order. By Marc Allen Eisner. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press and Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning 1890–1943. By Patrick D. Reagan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 699-701 doi:10.2307/2675208
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• • Gary Cross

  Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929–1981. By Amy Sue Bix. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 376 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6244-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 701-702 doi:10.2307/2675209
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• • Charles R. Epp

  Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution. By Shawn Francis Peters. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. x, 342 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1008-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 702-703 doi:10.2307/2675210
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• • James H. Cassedy

  Walter B. Cannon: Science and Society. By Elin L. Wolfe, A. Clifford Barger, and Saul Benison. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 644 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-674-00251-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 703-704 doi:10.2307/2675211
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• • Alexander Urbiel

  The Failed Promise of the American High School 1890–1995. By David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1999. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-8077-3843-3. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8077-3842-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 704 doi:10.2307/2675212
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• • Sol Cohen

  An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research. By Ellen Condliffe Lage-mann. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xviii, 302 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-226-46772-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 705 doi:10.2307/2675213
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• • John R. Thelin

  The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan. By John Aubrey Douglass. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi, 460 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-3189-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 705-706 doi:10.2307/2675214
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• • Fraser Ottanelli

  La “Diplomaziaparallela”: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani (“Parallel diplomacy”: The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: Franco-Angeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 706-707 doi:10.2307/2675215
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• • Richard S. Kirkendall

  The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By George Mcjimsey. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xvi, 355 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1012-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 707-708 doi:10.2307/2675216
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• • Matthew Jones

  A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. By Williamson Murray and Allan R. Milieu. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xvi, 656 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00163-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 708-709 doi:10.2307/2675217
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• • Bruce Nelson

  Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II. By Daniel Kryder. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi, 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-59338-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 709-710 doi:10.2307/2675218
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• • Judy Barrett Litoff

  Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific. By Theresa Kaminski. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. x, 284 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1003-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 710-711 doi:10.2307/2675219
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• • Ron Robin

  Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWS in Florida. By Robert D. Billinger Jr. Gainesville: University Press of Florida and America's Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II—Memory and History. By Stephen Fox. New York: Lang

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 711-712 doi:10.2307/2675220
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• • June Sochen

  Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s. By Sherrie Tucker. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. x, 413 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8223-2485-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 712-713 doi:10.2307/2675221
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• • Silvia Nuñez-Garcia

  Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera. By Patrick Marnham. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xiii, 350 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-43042-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 713-714 doi:10.2307/2675222
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• • Bruce Kuklick

  A World of Hope, a World of Fear: Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism. By Mark L. Kleinman. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xviii, 370 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8142-0844-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 714 doi:10.2307/2675223
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• • Robert Booth Fowler

  Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. By Eugene McCarraher. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv, 241 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8014-3473-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 714-715 doi:10.2307/2675224
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• • Alexander Bloom

  Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in War-time Manhattan, 1940–1944. By Jeffrey Mehlman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x, 209 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-6286-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 715-716 doi:10.2307/2675225
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• • Olaf Hansen

  Lo Storica nel suo labirinto: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. tra ricerca storica, impegno civile, e politica (The historian in his labyrinth: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. between historical research, civil appointment, and politics). By Marco Mariano. (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1999. 270 pp. Paper, Lit 36,000, ISBN 88-464-1592-2.) In Italian

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 716-717 doi:10.2307/2675226
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• • Walter D. Kamphoefner

  Amerikanistik in der DDR: Geschichte—Analysen—Zeitzeugenberichte and American Studies oder Amerikanistik?: Die deutsche Amerikawissenschaft und die Hoffnung auf Erneuerung der Hochschulen und der politischen Kultur nach 1945

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 717-718 doi:10.2307/2675227
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• • Manuel Martinez

  Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies. Ed. by Rob Kroes. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 1999. viii, 407 pp. £46.50, ISBN 90-5383-662-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 719 doi:10.2307/2675228
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• • Tyler Priest

  America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japans Postwar Economic Revival 1950–1960. By Aaron Forsberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xx, 332 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2528-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 720 doi:10.2307/2675229
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• • Magnus Persson

  The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The US, Britain, and Nasser's Egypt, 1953–57. By Ray Takeyh. (New York: St. Martins, 2000. xx, 216 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-312-23085-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 720-721 doi:10.2307/2675230
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• • Steven I. Levine

  Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South Asia in the 1950s. By S. Mahmud Ali. (New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xl, 286 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-312-22693-4.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 721-722 doi:10.2307/2675231
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• • Eric Paul Roorda

  Democracy at the Point of Bayonets. By Mark Peceny. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01882-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01883-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 722-723 doi:10.2307/2675232
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• • D'Ann Campbell

  Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties. By Laura McEnaney. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. x, 213 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-00138-3.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 723-724 doi:10.2307/2675233
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• • Geoffrey S. Smith

  The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America. By Richard M. Fried. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi, 220 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-507020-8. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-513417-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 724-725 doi:10.2307/2675234
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• • Philip Brick

  The Cold War American West, 1945–1989. Ed. by Kevin J. Fernlund. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press and The Atomic West. Ed. by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay. Seattle: University of Washington Press

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 725-726 doi:10.2307/2675235
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• • Renee Romano

  International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941–1960. By Azza Salama Layton. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-521-66002-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-66976-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 726-727 doi:10.2307/2675236
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• • John E Bauman

  As Long as They Dont Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods. By Stephen Grant Meyer. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. x, 344 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8476-9700-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 727-728 doi:10.2307/2675237
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• • Raymond A. Mohl

  Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas. By William H. Wilson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii, 266 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5766-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 728-729 doi:10.2307/2675238
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• • Timothy N. Thurber

  “Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights”: Michigan, 1948–1968. By Sidney Fine. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 441 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8143-2875-X.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 729-730 doi:10.2307/2675239
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• • Mark G. Malvasi

  The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. By Allan Carlson. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2000. vii, 224 pp. $32.95, ISBN 1-56000-421-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 730 doi:10.2307/2675240
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• • Miriam Cohen

  The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940–1995. By Carole Bell Ford. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7914-4363-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7914-4364-7.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 730-731 doi:10.2307/2675241
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• • Frederic Cople Jaher

  And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia. By Etan Diamond. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xx, 215 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2576-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4889-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 731-732 doi:10.2307/2675242
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• • Lewis A. Erenberg

  Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'ri Andy and Edward R. Mur-row to Wolffian Jack and Howard Stern. By Susan J. Douglas. (New York: Times, 1999. xvi, 415 pp. $16.00, ISBN 0-8129-3300-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 732-733 doi:10.2307/2675243
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• • Erika Doss

  Liberace: An American Boy. By Darden Asbury Pyron. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xviii, 494 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-68667-1.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 733-734 doi:10.2307/2675244
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• • Ronald L. Numbers

  Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. By Kenneth M. Ludmerer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvi, 514 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-511837-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 734-735 doi:10.2307/2675245
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• • Thomas R. Cole

  In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America. By Peter G. Filene. (Chicago: Dee, 1998. xx, 282 pp. $27.50, ISBN 1-56663-188-2.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 735-736 doi:10.2307/2675246
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• • Stan Luger

  Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945—1970. By Scott Hamilton Dewey. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. x, 321 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-914-0.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 736 doi:10.2307/2675247
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• • Ken Cruikshank

  Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s–1990s. By William McGucken. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2000. xvi, 318 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-884836-57-7. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-884836-58-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 737 doi:10.2307/2675248
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• • Jeffrey K. Stine

  Flowing through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River. By Lynn Willoughby. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xiv, 234 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-0934-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 737-738 doi:10.2307/2675249
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• • Kurk Dorsey

  Citizen Action for Global Change: The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea. By Ralph B. Levering and Miriam L. Levering. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xx, 189 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8156-2794-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8156-2795-5.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 738-739 doi:10.2307/2675250
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• • Howard Ball

  The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969–1986. By Earl M. Maltz. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xviii, 307 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-335-8.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 739-740 doi:10.2307/2675251
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• • Markus Dirk Dubber

  Aktivismus und Zurückhaltung im United States Supreme Court (Activism and restraint in the United States Supreme Court). By Martin Stoevesandt. (Berlin: Duncker & Hum-blot, 1999. 532 pp. Paper, DM 178, ISBN 3-428-09488-3.) In German

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 740-741 doi:10.2307/2675252
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• • Jack M. Schultz

  Where the Two Roads Meet. By Christopher Vecsey. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999. xvi, 420 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-268-01957-6.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 741 doi:10.2307/2675253
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• • Helen M. Bannan

  The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism. By Patsy West. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. xviii, 150 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1633-9.)

  The Journal of American History (2001) 88(2): 741-742 doi:10.2307/2675254
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• • Alexandra Harmon

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