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Volume 41 - Issue 2 - August 2007

Journal of American Studies Volume 41 - Issue 2 -

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Book Review

Kim Geron, Latino Political Power (Boulder and London: Lynn Reiner, 2005, £17.95). Pp. 260. isbn1 58826 321 5.
ALEX GOODALL
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05 July 2007, pp. 481-482
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Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio (eds.), Beyond the Black Atlantic: Relocating Modernization and Technology (Abingdon: Routledge and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006, £19.99). Pp. 210. isbn0 415 39798 7.
SARAH DAUNCEY
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05 July 2007, pp. 482-483
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Jean M. Humez, Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, $45.00 hardback). Pp. xii+471. isbn0 299 19120 6, 0 299 19124 9.
GEORGE REHIN
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05 July 2007, pp. 483-484
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Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon (Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 2005, $34.95). Pp. 178. isbn0 8262 1590 4.
A. ROBERT LEE
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05 July 2007, p. 484
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Richard E. Jensen (ed.), Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, £35.95). Pp. 976. isbn0 8032 39491. - Richard E. Jensen (ed.), Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, £35.95). Pp. 868. isbn0 8032 3967X.
CHRISTOPHER J. MCKINLAY
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05 July 2007, p. 485
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Will Kaufman, The Civil War in American Culture (BAAS Paperbacks) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, £14.00). Pp. xiv+193. isbn0 7486 1935 6.
SUSAN-MARY GRANT
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05 July 2007, pp. 485-486
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Jeffrey J. Kripal and Glenn W. Shuck (eds.), On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005, $21.95). Pp. xii+323. isbn0 253 21759 8.
EMMA LOUISE KILKELLY
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05 July 2007, pp. 486-487
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Keith D. Leonard, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. $55.00). Pp. ix+256. isbn0 8139 2505 3.
ANDREW RADFORD
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05 July 2007, pp. 487-488
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Paul Lyons, American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (New York and London: Routledge, 2006, £60.00). Pp. 271. isbn0 415 35194 4.
JEFFREY GEIGER
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05 July 2007, pp. 488-489
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Fintan O'Toole, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005, $26.00). Pp. 402. isbn0 374 281289 9.
JOY PORTER
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05 July 2007, pp. 489-490
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Rafael Pérez-Torres, Mestizaje: The Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, £14.00 paperback). Pp. 284. isbn13 978 0 8166 4595 4.
IMELDA MARTIN-JUNQUERA
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05 July 2007, pp. 490-491
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David Reynolds, From War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, £30.00). Pp. ix+363. isbn0 19 928411 3.
MARTIN H. FOLLY
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05 July 2007, pp. 491-492
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Michael F. Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, £25.00 hardcover). Pp. 200. isbn0 226 721184 1.
TERRY GIFFORD
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05 July 2007, pp. 492-493
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Emily S. Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, $18.95 paperback). Pp. x+236. isbn0 8223 3637 5.
DANIEL MCKAY
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05 July 2007, p. 494
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Kermit RooseveltIII, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (London: Yale University Press, 2006, £16.00). Pp. 261. isbn13 978 0 300 11468 0.
JOHN MATLIN
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05 July 2007, pp. 493-494
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Martin Schiesland and Mark M. Dodge (eds.), City of Promise (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006, $18.95 paperback). Pp. 228. isbn1 930053 42 8.
DANIEL MCKAY
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05 July 2007, p. 495
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Joan L. Severa, My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840–1860 (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2006, $65.00 cloth). Pp. 303. isbn0 87338 837 2.
ENCARNA TRINIDAD
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05 July 2007, pp. 495-496
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Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.95/$39.95). Pp. x+220. isbn0 674 01934 2.
GEORGE REHIN
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05 July 2007, pp. 496-497
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Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Speaking the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, £15.50). Pp. xii+195. isbn0 8223 3396 1.
ALAN RICE
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05 July 2007, pp. 497-498
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James Smalls, The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, $35.00 hardcover). Pp. 198. isbn1 59213 305 3.
JOHN HOWARD
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05 July 2007, pp. 498-499
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Kim Geron, Latino Political Power (Boulder and London: Lynn Reiner, 2005, £17.95). Pp. 260. isbn1 58826 321 5.

Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio (eds.), Beyond the Black Atlantic: Relocating Modernization and Technology (Abingdon: Routledge and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006, £19.99). Pp. 210. isbn0 415 39798 7.

Jean M. Humez, Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, $45.00 hardback). Pp. xii+471. isbn0 299 19120 6, 0 299 19124 9.

Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon (Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 2005, $34.95). Pp. 178. isbn0 8262 1590 4.

Will Kaufman, The Civil War in American Culture (BAAS Paperbacks) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, £14.00). Pp. xiv+193. isbn0 7486 1935 6.

Jeffrey J. Kripal and Glenn W. Shuck (eds.), On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005, $21.95). Pp. xii+323. isbn0 253 21759 8.

Keith D. Leonard, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. $55.00). Pp. ix+256. isbn0 8139 2505 3.

Paul Lyons, American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (New York and London: Routledge, 2006, £60.00). Pp. 271. isbn0 415 35194 4.

Fintan O'Toole, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005, $26.00). Pp. 402. isbn0 374 281289 9.

Rafael Pérez-Torres, Mestizaje: The Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, £14.00 paperback). Pp. 284. isbn13 978 0 8166 4595 4.

David Reynolds, From War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, £30.00). Pp. ix+363. isbn0 19 928411 3.

Michael F. Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, £25.00 hardcover). Pp. 200. isbn0 226 721184 1.

Emily S. Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, $18.95 paperback). Pp. x+236. isbn0 8223 3637 5.

Kermit RooseveltIII, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (London: Yale University Press, 2006, £16.00). Pp. 261. isbn13 978 0 300 11468 0.

Martin Schiesland and Mark M. Dodge (eds.), City of Promise (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006, $18.95 paperback). Pp. 228. isbn1 930053 42 8.

Joan L. Severa, My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840–1860 (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2006, $65.00 cloth). Pp. 303. isbn0 87338 837 2.

Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.95/$39.95). Pp. x+220. isbn0 674 01934 2.

Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Speaking the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, £15.50). Pp. xii+195. isbn0 8223 3396 1.

James Smalls, The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, $35.00 hardcover). Pp. 198. isbn1 59213 305 3.

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