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Volume 28 - Issue 1 - April 1994

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T. V Reed, Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992, $32 cloth, $16 paper). Pp. 218. ISBN 0 520 07521 8.
John Mowat
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16 January 2009, pp. 117-118
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Richard W. Thomas, Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945 (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, £35.50). Pp. 365. ISBN 0 253 35990 2.
Peter Mccaffery
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16 January 2009, pp. 118-119
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Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889–1930 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992, $39.95). Pp. 347. ISBN 0 252 01790 0.
S. G. F. Spackman
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16 January 2009, pp. 119-120
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Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups 1690–1790 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: Harvard University Press, 1992, £31.95). Pp. 261. ISBN 0 674 54318 1.
Peter Marshall
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16 January 2009, pp. 120-121
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James L. Machor (ed.), Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response (London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, £32.00 cloth, £12.00 paper). Pp. 285. ISBN 0 8018 4436 3, 0 8018 4437 1.
Kate Fullbrook
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16 January 2009, pp. 121-122
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Kathleen Diffley, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876 (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Pres, 1992, $30.00). Pp. 236. ISBN 0 8203 1445 5.
S-M Grant
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16 January 2009, pp. 122-123
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Susan Wolstenholme, Gothic (Re) Visions: Writing Women as Readers, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper). Pp. 201. ISBN 0 7914 1219 9/1220 2.
Elaine Jordan
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16 January 2009, pp. 123-125
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Henry Jenkins, What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992, $37.50). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 231 07854 4.
Jeffrey Richards
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16 January 2009, pp. 125-126
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Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993, $39.95 cloth, $14.95 paper). Pp. 365. ISBN 0 8078 2057 1 (cloth).
John Dumbrell
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16 January 2009, pp. 126-127
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Richard H. Kohn (ed.), The United States Military under the Constitution of the United States, 1789–1989 (New York and London: New York University Press, 1991, $40). Pp. 424. ISBN 0 8147 4615 2.
Brian Holden Reid
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16 January 2009, pp. 127-128
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Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992, $25.00, cloth, $12.00, paperback). Pp. 257. ISBN 1 55597 176 8; 1 55597 177 6 paper.
R. W. (Herbie) Butterfield
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16 January 2009, pp. 128-129
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Laura Coltelli, Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990, $9.95). Pp. 211. ISBN 0 8032 6351 1.
Joy Porter
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16 January 2009, pp. 129-130
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Peter Quartermain, Disjunctive Poetics: from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, £35). Pp. 238. ISBN 0 521 41268 4.
Clive Meachen
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16 January 2009, pp. 130-131
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Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, £27.50). Pp. 269. ISBN 0 19 506507 7.
Michael Foley
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16 January 2009, pp. 131-132
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Richard Middleton, Colonial America: A History, 1607–1760 (Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1992, £15.95 paper). Pp. 443. ISBN 1 55786 259 1.
James Horn
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16 January 2009, pp. 132-133
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Joel Myerson (ed.), Studies in the American Renaissance (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1992, $40.00 cloth). Pp. 360. ISBN 0 8139 1389 6.
Edward A. Abramson
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16 January 2009, pp. 133-134
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, edited by Judie Newman (Krumlin, Halifax, England: Ryburn BAAS American Library, 1992, £12.50). ISBN 1 85331 038 7.
Owen Dudley Edwards
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16 January 2009, pp. 134-135
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Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, $40). Pp. 504. ISBN 0 394 55010 2.
Steven J. Sarson
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16 January 2009, pp. 135-136
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Margaret Hindle Hazen and Robert M. Hazen, Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture 1775–1925 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992, £20). Pp. 281. ISBN 0 691 04809 6.
Alan J. Bilton
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16 January 2009, pp. 136-137
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Wilbur Zelinsky, The Cultural Geography of the United States: A Revised Edition (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992, £9·95). Pp. 226. ISBN 0 13 194424 X.
Will Hamley
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16 January 2009, pp. 137-138
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T. V Reed, Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992, $32 cloth, $16 paper). Pp. 218. ISBN 0 520 07521 8.

Richard W. Thomas, Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945 (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, £35.50). Pp. 365. ISBN 0 253 35990 2.

Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889–1930 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992, $39.95). Pp. 347. ISBN 0 252 01790 0.

Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups 1690–1790 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: Harvard University Press, 1992, £31.95). Pp. 261. ISBN 0 674 54318 1.

James L. Machor (ed.), Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response (London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, £32.00 cloth, £12.00 paper). Pp. 285. ISBN 0 8018 4436 3, 0 8018 4437 1.

Kathleen Diffley, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876 (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Pres, 1992, $30.00). Pp. 236. ISBN 0 8203 1445 5.

Susan Wolstenholme, Gothic (Re) Visions: Writing Women as Readers, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper). Pp. 201. ISBN 0 7914 1219 9/1220 2.

Henry Jenkins, What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992, $37.50). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 231 07854 4.

Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993, $39.95 cloth, $14.95 paper). Pp. 365. ISBN 0 8078 2057 1 (cloth).

Richard H. Kohn (ed.), The United States Military under the Constitution of the United States, 1789–1989 (New York and London: New York University Press, 1991, $40). Pp. 424. ISBN 0 8147 4615 2.

Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992, $25.00, cloth, $12.00, paperback). Pp. 257. ISBN 1 55597 176 8; 1 55597 177 6 paper.

Laura Coltelli, Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990, $9.95). Pp. 211. ISBN 0 8032 6351 1.

Peter Quartermain, Disjunctive Poetics: from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, £35). Pp. 238. ISBN 0 521 41268 4.

Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, £27.50). Pp. 269. ISBN 0 19 506507 7.

Richard Middleton, Colonial America: A History, 1607–1760 (Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1992, £15.95 paper). Pp. 443. ISBN 1 55786 259 1.

Joel Myerson (ed.), Studies in the American Renaissance (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1992, $40.00 cloth). Pp. 360. ISBN 0 8139 1389 6.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, edited by Judie Newman (Krumlin, Halifax, England: Ryburn BAAS American Library, 1992, £12.50). ISBN 1 85331 038 7.

Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, $40). Pp. 504. ISBN 0 394 55010 2.

Margaret Hindle Hazen and Robert M. Hazen, Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture 1775–1925 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992, £20). Pp. 281. ISBN 0 691 04809 6.

Wilbur Zelinsky, The Cultural Geography of the United States: A Revised Edition (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992, £9·95). Pp. 226. ISBN 0 13 194424 X.

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