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Volume 40 - Issue 1 - April 2006

Journal of American Studies Volume 40 - Issue 1 -

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Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2004, £35.95, cloth). Pp. vi+249. ISBN 0 674 01158 9.
J. R. KILLICK
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19 April 2006, pp. 169-170
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Camelia Elias, The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004, £43,30). Pp. 400. ISBN 3 03910 470 5.
POLINA MACKAY
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19 April 2006, pp. 170-171
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Glenn Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 328. ISBN 0 8203 2615 1.
BRUCE E. BAKER
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19 April 2006, pp. 171-172
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Leigh Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879 (Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003, $32.50). Pp. xiv+216. ISBN 0 8262 1470 3.
S.-M. GRANT
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19 April 2006, pp. 172-173
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Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, It Happened in the Catskills (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, $26.95). Pp. 245. ISBN 0 299 20604 1.
JOE KENNEDY
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19 April 2006, pp. 173-174
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Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith and Linda Trinh Vö (eds.), Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration (Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 2004, £65.00 cloth/£16.99 paper). Pp. xxxiii+272. ISBN 0 415 948142, 0 415 94815 0.
LEWES
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19 April 2006, pp. 174-175
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Steve Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £20.00). Pp. 339. ISBN 0 521 83834 7.
DAVID MILNE
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19 April 2006, pp. 175-176
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David Ingram, Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004, £14.99). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 85989 609 9.
TERRY GIFFORD
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19 April 2006, pp. 176-177
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Kathryn Jay, More than Just a Game: Sports in American Life since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, £19.50, $27.95). Pp. vii+287. ISBN 0 231 12534 8.
S. W. POPE
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19 April 2006, pp. 177-178
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Dominic D.P. Johnson, Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions (Harvard University Press, 2004, £17.00, $26.95). Pp. 288. ISBN 0 674 01576 2.
BINOY KAMPMARK
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19 April 2006, pp. 178-179
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Michael Kammen, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (Chapell Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8078 2836 X.
GEORGE CONYNE
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19 April 2006, p. 179
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Linda K. Karell, Writing Together/Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, £37.95). Pp. 219. ISBN 0 803 22749 3.
BARBARA WILL
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19 April 2006, p. 180
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Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf and Mary C. Waters (eds.), Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, £$39.95 cloth). Pp. 419. ISBN 0 87154 436 9.
HOLLY FARRINGTON
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19 April 2006, p. 181
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Desmond King, The Liberty of Strangers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, £18.50 hardback). Pp. viii+229. ISBN 0 19 514638 7.
DANIEL MCKAY
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19 April 2006, pp. 181-182
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Philip C. Kolin (ed.), The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004, $89.95). Pp. 384. ISBN 0 313 32101 9.
GARRY MACIVER
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19 April 2006, pp. 182-183
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Bruce B. Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears (Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2002, £11.00 paper). Pp. xvi+197. ISBN 0 231 11520 2.
DANIEL MCKAY
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19 April 2006, pp. 183-184
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Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005, £18.95 hardback). Pp. xiv+303. ISBN 0 262 12273 1.
MARTYN BONE
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19 April 2006, pp. 184-185
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Gordon B. McKinney, Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £31.95 cloth). Pp. 492. ISBN 0 8078 2865 3.
MARTIN CRAWFORD
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19 April 2006, pp. 185-186
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John F. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004, £19.95). Pp. 324. ISBN 0 674 01493 6.
FRANK LENNON
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19 April 2006, pp. 186-187
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Deborah Dash Moore, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2004, $25.95 hardcover). Pp. 352. ISBN 0 674 01509 6.
T. C. WALES
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19 April 2006, pp. 187-188
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Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2004, £35.95, cloth). Pp. vi+249. ISBN 0 674 01158 9.

Camelia Elias, The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004, £43,30). Pp. 400. ISBN 3 03910 470 5.

Glenn Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 328. ISBN 0 8203 2615 1.

Leigh Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879 (Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003, $32.50). Pp. xiv+216. ISBN 0 8262 1470 3.

Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, It Happened in the Catskills (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, $26.95). Pp. 245. ISBN 0 299 20604 1.

Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith and Linda Trinh Vö (eds.), Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration (Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 2004, £65.00 cloth/£16.99 paper). Pp. xxxiii+272. ISBN 0 415 948142, 0 415 94815 0.

Steve Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £20.00). Pp. 339. ISBN 0 521 83834 7.

David Ingram, Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004, £14.99). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 85989 609 9.

Kathryn Jay, More than Just a Game: Sports in American Life since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, £19.50, $27.95). Pp. vii+287. ISBN 0 231 12534 8.

Dominic D.P. Johnson, Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions (Harvard University Press, 2004, £17.00, $26.95). Pp. 288. ISBN 0 674 01576 2.

Michael Kammen, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (Chapell Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8078 2836 X.

Linda K. Karell, Writing Together/Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, £37.95). Pp. 219. ISBN 0 803 22749 3.

Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf and Mary C. Waters (eds.), Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, £$39.95 cloth). Pp. 419. ISBN 0 87154 436 9.

Desmond King, The Liberty of Strangers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, £18.50 hardback). Pp. viii+229. ISBN 0 19 514638 7.

Philip C. Kolin (ed.), The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004, $89.95). Pp. 384. ISBN 0 313 32101 9.

Bruce B. Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears (Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2002, £11.00 paper). Pp. xvi+197. ISBN 0 231 11520 2.

Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005, £18.95 hardback). Pp. xiv+303. ISBN 0 262 12273 1.

Gordon B. McKinney, Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £31.95 cloth). Pp. 492. ISBN 0 8078 2865 3.

John F. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004, £19.95). Pp. 324. ISBN 0 674 01493 6.

Deborah Dash Moore, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2004, $25.95 hardcover). Pp. 352. ISBN 0 674 01509 6.

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