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  • Susan Castillo, King's College London, UK
    Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham, UK

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Editorial

 
 

Editor's Foreword

Susan Castillo

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 1-1
doi:10.1017/S002187580600346X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Research Articles

 
 

Historicizing the Transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker and the Rewriting of British Cultural History, 1970–1997

PAUL GILES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 3-30
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002726 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

A New “Romen” Empire: Toni Morrison's Love and the Classics

TESSA ROYNON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 31-47
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002738 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

From Memory to Memorial: Representative Men in the Sculpture of Daniel Chester French

PHILIP J. KOWALSKI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 49-66
doi:10.1017/S002187580600274X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Representative Man: John Brown and the Politics of Redemption in Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter

ANTHONY HUTCHISON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 67-82
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002751 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Thomas Satterwhite Noble's Mulattos: From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper

JO-ANN MORGAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 83-114
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002763 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

“Where's the Spinning Wheel?” Frank Sinatra and Working-Class Alienation in Young at Heart

KAREN MCNALLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 115-133
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002775 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Thomas Morton: From Merry Old England to New England

WILLIAM HEATH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 135-168
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002787 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

“In Chains 400 Years … And Still in Chains in DC!” The 1966 Free DC Movement and the Challenges of Organizing in the City

CATHERINE MADDISON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 169-192
doi:10.1017/S0021875806002799 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Peter Adams, The Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2005, $39.99). Pp. 192. ISBN 0 275 98538 5.

IAIN BORROWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 193-193
doi:10.1017/S0021875806213458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2004, $15.95). Pp. 471. ISBN 0 393 32601 2.

ALAN LOWE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 194-195
doi:10.1017/S0021875806233450 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig (eds.), A Companion to Post-1945 America (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, £24.99; $39.95). Pp. 561. ISBN 1 4051 4984 1.

CLAIRE STOCKS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 194-194
doi:10.1017/S0021875806223454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Ali Behdad, A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005, £57.00 hardback, £14.95 paperback). Pp. 212. ISBN 0 8223 3606 5, 0 8223 3619 7.

ADRIANA NEAGU

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 195-196
doi:10.1017/S0021875806243457 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

John M. Belohlavek, Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shatetering of the Union (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2005, $65.00). Pp. 456. ISBN 0 87338 841 0.

ALAN LOWE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 196-197
doi:10.1017/S0021875806253453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006, £22.95; $39.95). Pp. xi+240. ISBN 0 8014 4384 9.

ANDREW RADFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 197-198
doi:10.1017/S002187580626345X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Peter Boxall, Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (London: Routledge, 2006, £65.00). Pp. 252. ISBN 0 4153 0981 6.

BENJAMIN BIRD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 198-199
doi:10.1017/S0021875806273456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Timothy Brennan, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, $29.00; £19.00). Pp. 360. ISBN 0 231 13730 3.

ALEX GOODALL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 199-200
doi:10.1017/S0021875806283452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith and Randy William Widdis, Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650–1990 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, and Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005, $34.95). Pp. xii+298. ISBN 1 55238 216 8 (Calgary); 0 8229 4261 5 (Pittsburgh).

MATTHEW SMITH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 200-201
doi:10.1017/S0021875806293459 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Sucheng Chan (ed.), Chinese American Transnationalism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, $69.50 cloth, $23.95 paper). Pp. xvi+277. ISBN 1 59213 434 3, 1 59213 435 1.

DANIEL MCKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 201-202
doi:10.1017/S0021875806303453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Mike Chopra-Grant, Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir (London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2006, £15.99). Pp. x+219. ISBN 1 85043 838 2.

LESLIE HOOPER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 202-203
doi:10.1017/S002187580631345X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Rey Chow, The Age of World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory and Comparative Work (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, £11.99). Pp. 128. ISBN 0 8223 3744 4.

JAMES MILLER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 203-203
doi:10.1017/S0021875806323456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Darryl Dickson-Carr (ed.), The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, $60.00; £90.00). Pp. xiv+280. ISBN 0 231 12472 4.

ANDREW RADFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 204-205
doi:10.1017/S0021875806343459 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Walter A. Davis, Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche since 9–11 (London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto, 2006, £17.99). Pp. 304. ISBN 0 7453 2468 1.

NATHAN ABRAMS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 204-204
doi:10.1017/S0021875806333452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Theodore Dreiser, A Traveller at Forty, ed. Renate Von Bardeleben (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004, $75.00). Pp. 991. ISBN 0 252 02913 5.

CHRISTOPHER GAIR

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 205-206
doi:10.1017/S0021875806353455 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Selection (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, £13.99; $23.00). Pp. 192. ISBN 0 19 530021 1.

DEAN WILLIAMS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 206-207
doi:10.1017/S0021875806363451 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Francis Fukuyama, After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads (London: Profile, 2006, £12.99). Pp. 192. ISBN 1861979223.

NATHAN ABRAMS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 207-208
doi:10.1017/S0021875806373458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Theresa Strouth Gaul (ed.), To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriet Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823–1839 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005, $21.95). Pp. 222. ISBN 0 8078 2941 2, 0 8078 5602 9.

JOY PORTER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 208-209
doi:10.1017/S0021875806383454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Martin Halliwell, The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture (Lanham and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005, £17.99). Pp. 367. ISBN 0 7425 0842 0.

PETER KURYLA

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 209-210
doi:10.1017/S0021875806393450 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Saskia Hamilton (ed.), The Letters of Robert Lowell (London: Faber and Faber, 2005, £30.00 hardback). Pp. xxxi+852. ISBN 0 571 20204 7.

JO GILL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 210-210
doi:10.1017/S0021875806403455 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson (eds.), Popular Culture and Theory: A Basic Introduction (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, $65.00). Pp. 412. ISBN 0 87972 771 X.

SARAH DAUNCEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 211-212
doi:10.1017/S0021875806423458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds (ed.), The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon: Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2005, $45.00; $70.00). Pp. 22+196. ISBN 1 57113 318 6.

JAMES PEACOCK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 211-211
doi:10.1017/S0021875806413451 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Alton Hornsby (ed.), A Companion to African American History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, £95.00). Pp. xii+564. ISBN 0 631 23066 1.

ALAN RICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 212-213
doi:10.1017/S0021875806433454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Roger Horowitz, Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, $19.00). Pp. 192. ISBN 0 8018 8240 0.

NATHAN ABRAMS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 213-214
doi:10.1017/S0021875806443450 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Carol A. Horton, Race and the Making of American Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, £39.95). Pp. ix+300. ISBN 0 1951 4348 5.

JONATHAN BELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 214-215
doi:10.1017/S0021875806453457 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol (eds.), Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, $NN.NN). Pp. 246. ISBN 0 87154 413 X.

KEVIN YUILL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 215-216
doi:10.1017/S0021875806463453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Philip Jenkins, Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, £9.99). Pp. xii+306. ISBN 0 19 518910 8.

KENDRICK OLIVER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 216-217
doi:10.1017/S002187580647345X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Louis Kaplan, American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, $26.00). Pp. 243. ISBN 0 8166 4570 1.

MICK GIDLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 217-218
doi:10.1017/S0021875806483456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005, $14.95). Pp. xv+228. ISBN 0 393 05213 3.

RICHARD H. KING

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 218-218
doi:10.1017/S0021875806493452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Julie Thompson Klein, Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005, $74.50 hardback, $24.95 paperback). Pp. 267. ISBN 0 7914 6577 2, 0 7914 6578 0.

ADRIANA NEAGU

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 219-220
doi:10.1017/S0021875806513453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Elizabeth Klaver, Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (New York: State University of New York Press, 2005, $22.95). Pp. 180. ISBN 0 7914 6426 1.

POLINA MACKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 219-219
doi:10.1017/S0021875806503457 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Andrew Lawson, Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2006, $29.95 hardcover). Pp. 188. ISBN 0 87745 973 8.

ENCARNA TRINIDAD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 220-221
doi:10.1017/S002187580652345X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Thomas L. Long, AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, $24.95). Pp. 237. ISBN 0 7914 6168 8.

SARAH GRAHAM

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 221-222
doi:10.1017/S0021875806533456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Jorge Magasich-Airola and Jean-Marc de Beer, America Magica: When Renaissance Europe Thought It Had Conquered Paradise, trans. Monica Sandor (London: Anthem Press, 2006, £14.99; $23.95). Pp. 202. ISBN 1 84331 186 0.

AMY M. E. MORRIS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 222-223
doi:10.1017/S0021875806543452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

J. M. Mancini, Pre-modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005, £29.95). Pp. 256. ISBN 0 691 11813 2.

JOHN FAGG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 223-224
doi:10.1017/S0021875806553459 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Tony Michels, A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005, $27.95). Pp. 259. ISBN 0 674 01913 X.

ESTHER SOLOMON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 224-225
doi:10.1017/S0021875806563455 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Premilla Nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (New York: Routledge, 2005, £16.99 paperback). Pp. xix+310. ISBN 0 4159 4579 8.

ANDREW FEARNLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 225-226
doi:10.1017/S0021875806573451 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Gary B. Nash, The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006, £12.95). Pp. 233. ISBN 0 674 02193 2.

KIRSTEN PHIMISTER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 226-227
doi:10.1017/S0021875806583458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

S. J. Kleinberg, Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, £22.95). Pp. xiv and 230. ISBN 978 0 252 03020 8.

SONYA MICHEL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 227-228
doi:10.1017/S0021875806593454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2003, £19.95). Pp. 284. ISBN 0 300 10024 8.

AXEL R. SCHÄFER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 228-229
doi:10.1017/S0021875806603459 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Don Parson, Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, $22.95). Pp. 312. ISBN 0 8166 4370 9.

JONATHAN WATSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 229-229
doi:10.1017/S0021875806613455 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Portia Boulware Ransom, Black Love and the Harlem Renaissance: The Novels of Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2005, $109.95; £69.95). Pp. 212. ISBN 0 7734 5956 1.

SINÉAD MOYNIHAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 230-231
doi:10.1017/S0021875806633458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

David Quigley, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004, $14.00). Pp. xv+238. ISBN 0 8090 8514 3.

RICHARD A. HAWKINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 230-230
doi:10.1017/S0021875806623451 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Edmund J. Raus, Jr., Banners South: A Northern Community at War (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2005, $30.00). Pp. 352. ISBN 0 87338 842 9.

ALAN LOWE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 231-232
doi:10.1017/S0021875806643454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Jo Reger (ed.), Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Women's Movement (New York and London: Routledge, 2005, $27.95). Pp. xxx+286. ISBN 0 415 94879 7.

POLINA MACKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 232-233
doi:10.1017/S0021875806653450 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Jonathan Richmond, Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles (Akron: The University of Akron Press, 2005, $39.95). Pp. xix+498. ISBN 1 884836 95 X.

MARK STOREY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 233-234
doi:10.1017/S0021875806663457 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

David Román, Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, £15.95). Pp. 376. ISBN 0 8223 3663 4.

KATHLEEN M. GOUGH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 234-234
doi:10.1017/S0021875806673453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Mark Roman Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005, $42.00). Pp. 320. ISBN 0 2520 2960 7.

EMMA LOUISE KILKELLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 235-236
doi:10.1017/S0021875806693456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

David Schmid, Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, $29.00). Pp. 327. ISBN 0 226 73867 1.

SARAH DAUNCEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 235-235
doi:10.1017/S002187580668345X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Joel H. Silbey, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, $28.00). Pp. 181. ISBN 0 19 513944 5.

ALAN LOWE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 236-237
doi:10.1017/S0021875806703450 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Mark Simpson, Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, $18.95). Pp. 193. ISBN 0 8166 4163 3.

IAIN BORROWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 237-238
doi:10.1017/S0021875806713457 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Mark M. Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, $29.95 cloth). Pp. 208. ISBN 0 8078 3002 X.

JAMES CAMPBELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 238-239
doi:10.1017/S0021875806723453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Timothy B. Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005, £14.00). Pp. 322. ISBN 0 226 76874 0.

FRANK LENNON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 239-240
doi:10.1017/S002187580673345X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Peter N. Stearns (ed.), American Behavioral History: An Introduction (New York: New York University Press, 2005, $21.00). Pp. x+259. ISBN 0 8147 9844 6.

BENJAMIN BIRD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 240-241
doi:10.1017/S0021875806743456 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Peter Boxall, Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (London and New York: Routledge, 2006, £65 hardcover). Pp. 252. ISBN 0 415 30981 6.

ALIKI VARVOGLI

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 241-242
doi:10.1017/S0021875806753452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Howard Temperley and Christopher Bigsby (eds.), A New Introduction to American Studies (Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2006, £19.99 paperback). Pp. xvii+413. ISBN 0 582 89437 9.

T. J. LUSTIG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 242-243
doi:10.1017/S0021875806763459 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Joseph Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut (eds.), The Other New York: The American Revolution beyond New York City, 1763–1787 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, $60.00). Pp. xii+246. ISBN 0 7914 6371 0.

FINN POLLARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 243-244
doi:10.1017/S0021875806773455 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Jennifer Travis, Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (Durham, NC and Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005, $22.50). Pp. 222. ISBN 0 8078 5635 5.

CATHERINE MORLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 244-245
doi:10.1017/S0021875806783451 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Ian Tyrrell, Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890–1970 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, £36.00 cloth, £14.50 paper). Pp. 312. ISBN 0 226 82193 5, 0 226 81294 3.

SIMON HALL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 245-246
doi:10.1017/S0021875806793458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Kevern Verney, The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006, £15.99). Pp. xi+196. ISBN 0 7190 6761 8.

NEIL A. WYNN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 246-247
doi:10.1017/S0021875806803452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Dennis Walker, Islam and the Search for African-American Nationhood: Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2005, $24.95). Pp. 597. ISBN 0 932863 44 2.

JULIE SHERIDAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 247-248
doi:10.1017/S0021875806813459 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Wendy W. Walters, At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005, $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paperback). Pp. 224. ISBN 0 8166 4491 8, 0 8166 4492 6.

SARAH McCLELLAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 248-249
doi:10.1017/S0021875806823455 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Joyce W. Warren, Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005, $44.95 hardcover). Pp. 384. ISBN 0 87745 953 3.

ENCARNA TRINIDAD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 249-250
doi:10.1017/S0021875806833451 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

David Waterman, Hollywood's Road to Riches (London: Harvard University Press, 2005, £18.95). Pp. xvi+393. ISBN 0 674 01945 8.

LESLIE HOOPER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 250-250
doi:10.1017/S0021875806843458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
 

Alexander G. Weheliye, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-modernity (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005, £14.95). Pp. 304. ISBN 0 8223 3590 5.

EMMA LOUISE KILKELLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, April 2007, pp 251-251
doi:10.1017/S0021875806853454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2007
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