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Volume 40 - Issue 2 - August 2006

Journal of American Studies Volume 40 - Issue 2 -

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Susan Castillo, Performing America: Colonial Encounters in New World Writing 1500–1786 (London and New York: Routledge, 2005, £55.00/$100.00 cloth, £18.99/$33 paper). Pp. 260. ISBN 0 415 31606 5, 0 415 31607 1.
AMY M. E. MORRIS
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27 July 2006, pp. 422-423
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Joe Domanick, Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004, £10.95). Pp. xiii+266. ISBN 0 520 24668 3.
JOHN MATLIN
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27 July 2006, pp. 423-424
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Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey (eds.), Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, $42.50). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 87154 288 9.
MICHAEL J. MONTOYA
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27 July 2006, pp. 424-425
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Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004, £15.95 paper). Pp. 200. ISBN 0 822 33369 4.
ANTONIS BALASOPOULOS
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27 July 2006, pp. 425-426
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Hazel Arnett Ervin, The Handbook of African American Literature (Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2004, $45.00). Pp. 236+xviii. ISBN 0 8130 2750 0.
LOUIS J. KERN
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27 July 2006, pp. 426-427
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John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, $30.00). Pp. 558. ISBN 0 19 515924 1.
ERAN SHALEV
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27 July 2006, pp. 427-428
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Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble (eds.), The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper). Pp. xvi+439. ISBN 0 8195 6681 0, 0 8195 6682 9.
ALAN RICE
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27 July 2006, pp. 428-429
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Thomas Fleming, Mysteries of My Father (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2005. $24.95). Pp. ix+341. ISBN 0 471 65515 5.
JOHN MATLIN
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27 July 2006, pp. 429-430
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Murray Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, £20.00). Pp. 303. ISBN 0 521 83656 5.
NATHAN ABRAMS
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27 July 2006, pp. 430-431
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John Gatta, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and the Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present. (Oxford University Press, 2004, £35.00 hard, £12.99 paper). Pp. 291. ISBN 0 19 516505 5, 0 19 516506 1.
JOY PORTER
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27 July 2006, pp. 431-432
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Philip Goff and Paul Harvey (eds.), Themes in Religion and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £42.50 cloth). Pp. 389. ISBN 0 8078 2890 4.
TOM ROGERS
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27 July 2006, p. 432
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David Gould and James B. Kennedy, Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The “War Memories” of John Henry Otta (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2004, $39.00). Pp. 400. ISBN 0 87338 799 6.
JOE KENNEDY
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27 July 2006, pp. 433-434
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James Goodman, Blackout (New York: North Point Press, 2003, $13.00). Pp. 254. ISBN 0 86547 715 9.
MILLER JAMES
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27 July 2006, p. 433
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Elizabeth Hewitt, Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00/$70.00). Pp. x+230. ISBN 0 521 842550 7.
ELIZABETH DELANEY
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27 July 2006, pp. 434-435
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John Houchin, Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, £45.00). Pp. 332. ISBN 0 521 81819 2.
DANIEL P. KOTZIN
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27 July 2006, pp. 435-436
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Connie Anne Kirk, Mark Twain: A Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, $29.95). Pp. 140+xxi. ISBN 0 313 33025 5.
IAIN BORROWMAN
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27 July 2006, pp. 436-437
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Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Pp. 655. ISBN 0 19 512903 2.
JOHN A. KIRK
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27 July 2006, pp. 437-438
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Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003, £17.99). Pp 307. ISBN 07486 1227 0.
SUSAN CASTILLO
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27 July 2006, pp. 438-439
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Elizabeth D. Leonard, Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge and Reunion after the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2004, $14.95). Pp. 303. ISBN 0 393 32677 2.
ALAN LOWE
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27 July 2006, p. 439
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Patricia Barker Lerch. Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004, $29.95). Pp. xiv+168. ISBN 0 8173 5124 8.
DAVID STIRRUP
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27 July 2006, p. 440
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Susan Castillo, Performing America: Colonial Encounters in New World Writing 1500–1786 (London and New York: Routledge, 2005, £55.00/$100.00 cloth, £18.99/$33 paper). Pp. 260. ISBN 0 415 31606 5, 0 415 31607 1.

Joe Domanick, Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004, £10.95). Pp. xiii+266. ISBN 0 520 24668 3.

Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey (eds.), Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, $42.50). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 87154 288 9.

Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004, £15.95 paper). Pp. 200. ISBN 0 822 33369 4.

Hazel Arnett Ervin, The Handbook of African American Literature (Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2004, $45.00). Pp. 236+xviii. ISBN 0 8130 2750 0.

John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, $30.00). Pp. 558. ISBN 0 19 515924 1.

Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble (eds.), The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper). Pp. xvi+439. ISBN 0 8195 6681 0, 0 8195 6682 9.

Thomas Fleming, Mysteries of My Father (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2005. $24.95). Pp. ix+341. ISBN 0 471 65515 5.

Murray Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, £20.00). Pp. 303. ISBN 0 521 83656 5.

John Gatta, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and the Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present. (Oxford University Press, 2004, £35.00 hard, £12.99 paper). Pp. 291. ISBN 0 19 516505 5, 0 19 516506 1.

Philip Goff and Paul Harvey (eds.), Themes in Religion and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £42.50 cloth). Pp. 389. ISBN 0 8078 2890 4.

David Gould and James B. Kennedy, Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The “War Memories” of John Henry Otta (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2004, $39.00). Pp. 400. ISBN 0 87338 799 6.

James Goodman, Blackout (New York: North Point Press, 2003, $13.00). Pp. 254. ISBN 0 86547 715 9.

Elizabeth Hewitt, Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00/$70.00). Pp. x+230. ISBN 0 521 842550 7.

John Houchin, Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, £45.00). Pp. 332. ISBN 0 521 81819 2.

Connie Anne Kirk, Mark Twain: A Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, $29.95). Pp. 140+xxi. ISBN 0 313 33025 5.

Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). Pp. 655. ISBN 0 19 512903 2.

Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003, £17.99). Pp 307. ISBN 07486 1227 0.

Elizabeth D. Leonard, Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge and Reunion after the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2004, $14.95). Pp. 303. ISBN 0 393 32677 2.

Patricia Barker Lerch. Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004, $29.95). Pp. xiv+168. ISBN 0 8173 5124 8.

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