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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

AMS volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp f1-f7
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006550 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

AMS volume 43 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp b1-b5
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006562 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Research Articles

 
 

José Martí's “Evening of Emerson” and the United Statesian Literary Tradition

LAURA LOMAS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 1-17
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006021 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Anatomy of a Scare: Yellow Peril Politics in America, 1980–1993

M. J. HEALE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 19-47
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006033 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Nabokov's Dystopia: Bend Sinister, America and Mass Culture

WILL NORMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 49-69
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006549 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Language and Signs: An Interview with Ojibwe Novelist David Treuer

PADRAIG KIRWAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 71-88
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006069 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Reading the Historical Novel: Reworking the Past and the Relation of Blackfeet History in James Welch's Fools Crow

SARAH MARTIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 89-100
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006070 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

McGuffey's Oxford (Ohio) Shakespeare

PHILIP H. CHRISTENSEN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 101-115
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006082 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

“Meet the Real Lena Horne”: Representations of Lena Horne in Ebony Magazine, 1945–1949

MEGAN E. WILLIAMS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 117-130
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006094 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Review Essay

 
 

David Foster Wallace

JAMES ANNESLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 131-134
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006100 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Reviews

 
 

Gavin Jones, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945 (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, £19.95). Pp. 16+228. isbn 978 0 691 12753 8.

DONATELLA IZZO

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 135-136
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006112 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Richard H. King and Dan Stone (eds.), Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, £40.37 cloth, £18.95 paper). Pp. 261. isbn 978 1 84545 361 9, 978 1 84545 589 7.

HOWARD BRICK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 136-137
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006124 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams (London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £12.99). Pp. 116. isbn 978 1 84354 811 9.

MARIA RYAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 137-139
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006136 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, $55.00). Pp. xxii+546. isbn 0 300 11431 1.

TREVOR BURNARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 139-140
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006148 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Joshua David Bellin, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, $55.00). Pp. 264. isbn 978 0 8122 4034 4.

HEATHER S. NATHANS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 140-141
doi:10.1017/S002187580900615X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Sally G. McMillen, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, $28.00). Pp. 310. isbn 0 19 518265 0.

LOUIS J. KERN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 141-142
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006161 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, £18.50/$26.95). Pp. xiv+538. isbn 0 8078 2985 4.

ADAM BURNS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 142-143
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006173 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Jenel Virden, America and the Wars of the Twentieth Century (Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, £21.99). Pp. x+203. isbn 978 0 333 72661 7.

ANDREW PRIEST

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 143-144
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006185 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Steven Casey, Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950–1953 (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2008, £29.99). Pp. xi+476. isbn 0 19 530692 7.

MATTHEW JONES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 144-145
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006197 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

David Milne, America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008, $26.00). Pp. xi+258. isbn 978 0 374 10386 6.

MICHAEL E. LATHAM

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 145-146
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006203 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Richard Crockatt, After 9/11: Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power (London: Routledge, 2007, £18.99). Pp. x+261. isbn 978 0 415 39285 3.

IAN JACKSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 146-147
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006215 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Chad Alan Goldberg, Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, £11.50/$22.00). Pp. 366. isbn 978 0 226 30077 1.

STEPHEN R. ROBINSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 147-148
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006227 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Philip Davies and Iwan Morgan (eds.), America's Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2007, £15.00 paper, £30.00 cloth). Pp. 382. isbn 978 1 900039 79 6, 978 1 900039 85 7.

M. J. HEALE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 148-149
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006239 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Richard Gray and Owen Robinson (eds.), A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, £29.99). Pp. xvii+646. isbn 1 4051 6369 0.

MARTYN BONE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 150-151
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006240 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Rebecca Tillett, Contemporary Native American Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, £16.99). Pp. 177. isbn 978 0 74862 149 1.

FAITH PULLIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 151-152
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006252 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

David Arnold, Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007, £55.00). Pp. 200. isbn 978 1 84631 115 4.

NICK SELBY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 153-153
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006264 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, $55.00). Pp. 174. isbn 978 0 19 533273 5.

RUTH MAXEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 154-155
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006276 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Brendan Martin, Paul Auster's Postmodernity (London: Routledge, 2008, $95.00/£60.00). Pp. 248. isbn 978 0 415962032.

Mark Brown, Paul Auster (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, £14.99/$24.45). Pp. 203. isbn 978 0 7190 7396 0.

NIGEL RODENHURST

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 155-156
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006288 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

Judie Newman, Fictions of America: Narratives of Global Empire (New York: Routledge, 2007, £57.00 hardback, £18.00 cloth). Pp. 195. isbn 978 0415333832.

MALINI SCHUELLER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 156-158
doi:10.1017/S002187580900629X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

François Debrix, Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics (London: Routledge, 2008, $41.95/£21.99). Pp. 160. isbn 0 415 77291 5.

PHILIP SEIB

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, pp 158-159
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006306 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
 

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Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen (eds.), Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2007, £50.00 cloth, £18.00 paper). Pp. 480. isbn 9 780 85989 811 9, 978 0 85989 812 6.

Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.), Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008, £35.00 cloth, £14.95 paper) Pp. 290. isbn 978 0 52024 973 8.

PAUL GRAINGE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E1
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006331 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Samuel Thomas, Pynchon and the Political (New York: Routledge, 2007, £50.00/$95.00). Pp. x+203. isbn 978 0 41595 646 3.

JERRY A. VARSAVA

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E2
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006343 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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David Foster Wallace, with a Foreword by Jacob Weisberg, McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope (New York: Back Bay Books, 2008, $9.99). Pp. 144. isbn 0 31604 053 3.

DAVID HERING

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E3
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006355 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Martin Halliwell, American Culture in the 1950s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, £16.99). Pp. xxi+313. isbn 978 0 7486 1885 9.

Graham Thompson, American Culture in the 1980s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, £17.99). Pp. xix+236. isbn 978 0 7486 1910 8.

CHRISTOPHER GAIR

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E4
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006367 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano (eds.), The Atlantic Enlightenment (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. £50.00). Pp. 178. isbn 978 0 75466 040 8.

EDWARD G. GRAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E5
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006379 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2007, $$29.95). Pp. 352. isbn 978 0 3930 6248 9.

DANIEL ROBERT KOCH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E6
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006380 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Richard Middleton, Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course and Consequence (New York and London: Routledge, 2007, £12.99). Pp. xi+272. isbn 978 0 415 97913 9.

TREVOR BURNARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E7
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006392 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Benjamin L. Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, £19.99). Pp. 334. isbn 978 0 19 530402 2.

JON LATIMER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E8
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006409 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Crista DeLuzio, Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, £36.50). Pp. 330. isbn 0 8018 8699 6.

STEPHEN ROBERTSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E9
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006410 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Amy Goodpaster Strebe, Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Pilots of World War II (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007, $39.95). Pp. xvii+109. isbn 978 0 275 99434 1.

RICHARD R. MULLER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E10
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006422 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Kevin T. Yuill, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equity in an Era of Limits (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, £19.99). Pp. viii+265. isbn 978 0 7425 4998 2.

IWAN MORGAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E11
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006434 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Philip Kolin (ed.), Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook (New York: Routledge, 2007, £60.00). Pp. 206. isbn 978 0 415 97826 2.

CLARE RUSSELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E12
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006446 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Brannon Costello, Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945–1971 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2007, $35.00). Pp. 216. isbn 0 8071 3270 5.

HELEN OAKLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E13
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006458 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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J. William Harris (ed.), The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2008, $34.95). Pp. 319. isbn 978 0 415 95729 8.

J. William Harris (ed.), The New South: New Histories (New York: Routledge, 2008, $34.95). Pp. 347. isbn 978 0 415 95731 1.

ROBERT ELDER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E14
doi:10.1017/S002187580900646X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Michael Foley, American Credo: The Place of Ideas in US Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, £58.00). Pp. 482. isbn 978 0 19 923267 3.

JON ROPER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E15
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006471 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Carroll Pursell, Technology in Postwar America: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, $35.00/£22.50). Pp. 280. isbn 978 0 231 12304 4.

KEVIN BORG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E16
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006483 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (New York: Scribner, 2008, $37.50). Pp. xiii+881. isbn 978 0 7432 4302 5.

JOHN MATLIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E17
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006495 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Jerry M. Laurienti, The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America (Westport, CT and London: Praeger Security International, 2007, $44.95). Pp. 185. isbn 978 0 275 99938 4.

TIMOTHY J. LYNCH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E18
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006501 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007, £9.99). Pp. 115. isbn 978 07456 3986 4.

SEAN SCANLAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E19
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006513 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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Gary R. Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, £22.50). Pp. 512. isbn 978 0 23112 164 4.

FAYE WOODS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 43, Issue 01, April 2009, E20
doi:10.1017/S0021875809006525 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2009
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