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Carolyn de la Pena and Siva Vaidhyanathan (eds.), Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, £13.50). Pp. viii+437. isbn978 0 8018 8651 5.
DAVID SEED
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25 September 2008, E9
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John Raeburn, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, £21.99). Pp. xxii+372. isbn0 252 07322 3.
MICK GIDLEY
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20 March 2008, pp. 158-159
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“A Chaos of Sin and Folly”: Art, Culture, and Carnival in Antebellum America
DAVID WALL
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16 December 2008, pp. 515-535
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This essay looks at a variety of antebellum cultural productions and, utilizing Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the grotesque body, identifies the ubiquitous use of the tropes of carnival as a principal discourse in the construction of bourgeois subjectivity and the staging of its “low Others.” The essay examines the visual arts, popular literature, minstrelsy, and the freak show, demonstrating that as the grotesque body of the social and racial low Other is rejected and excluded socially, it returns constantly and repeatedly in narrative form. Appearing as it does across the broad spread of antebellum cultural domains, the grotesque body emerges as an object not only of disgust but also of deep and profound desire.

Joan Shelley Rubin, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America (Cambridge,: Harvard University Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 470. isbn978 0 674 02436 6.
MIKE CHASAR
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20 March 2008, pp. 159-160
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Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff, A People at War: Civilian and Soldiers in America's Civil Wars (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, £14.99). Pp. nnn+NNN. isbn978 0 19 51 4654 7.
BOB BUSHAWAY
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25 September 2008, E27
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Obscenity, Free Speech, and “Sporting News” in 1870s America
AMANDA FRISKEN
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16 December 2008, pp. 537-577
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The interventions of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock into 1870s popular illustrations created some surprising – and largely unintended – consequences. Not only did the man who defined modern American censorship goad into existence the radical free speech movement, but his manipulations of 1870s visual culture also heightened racial stereotyping in public print. His behind-the-scenes negotiations led illustrated newspaper editors to erase white sexuality, which they replaced with stories of interracial rape of white women by black men. In fostering both the rise of the free press movement and the selective racialization of visual culture, Comstock left an indelible mark on modern representation.

Zeese Papanikolas, American Silence (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 222. isbn0 8032 3756 1.
HAGAR WESLATI
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25 September 2008, E30
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Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler and Cecile Accilien (eds.), Just below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Charlettesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007, $22.50). Pp. 285. isbn978 0 8139 2600 1.
LOREN SCHWENINGER
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16 December 2008, pp. 579-580
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Michael Schaller, Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan–Bush Era, 1980–1992 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, £10.99). Pp. 200. isbn0 19 517257 4.
M. J. HEALE
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20 March 2008, pp. 160-161
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Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007, $55.00/£29.50 cloth, $22.95/£12.50 paper). Pp. xii+328. isbn978 0 8014 4544 6/978 0 8014 4561 3.
LINDA TOOCARAM
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25 September 2008, E14
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Jonathan Auerbach, Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. xii+200. isbn978 0 520 25293 6.
CARA RODWAY
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16 December 2008, pp. 580-581
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Robert D. Schulzinger (ed.), A Companion to American Foreign Relations (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, $39.95). Pp. xiii+562. isbn1 4501 4986 8.
LOUIS J. KERN
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20 March 2008, pp. 161-162
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Jon C. Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-urban America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, $27.50/£17.50). Pp. 352. isbn0 231 13373 1.
GANNA STEMBKOVSKA
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20 March 2008, p. 163
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Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007, $60.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Pp. 368. isbn0 252 07412 2/0 25203 157 1.
TRICA DANIELLE KEATON
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25 September 2008, E19
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Andrew J. Bacevich (ed.), The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, £50.49). Pp. xiv+586. isbn978 0231505864.
MARILYN B. YOUNG
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16 December 2008, pp. 581-582
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Karen Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.95). Pp. 288. isbn0 674 01940 7.
KATHRYN CASTLE
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20 March 2008, pp. 162-163
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Mary E. Tierce, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007, £14.99). Pp. viii+179. isbn0 252 07391 6.
MARGARET WALSH
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25 September 2008, E40
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Jennifer J. Baker, Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, £33.50). Pp. 218. isbn0 8018 7972 8.
PETER KNIGHT
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16 December 2008, pp. 583-584
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Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman (eds.), The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, £22.99/$34.95). Pp. 284. isbn978 0 7391 1477 3.
THOMAS TURNER
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16 December 2008, pp. 584-585
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Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler (eds.), The Scrapbook in American Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, $25.95/£16.95). Pp. 332. isbn1 59213 478 5.
GANNA STEMBOVSKA
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20 March 2008, p. 164
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John Raeburn, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, £21.99). Pp. xxii+372. isbn0 252 07322 3.

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Obscenity, Free Speech, and “Sporting News” in 1870s America

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Zeese Papanikolas, American Silence (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 222. isbn0 8032 3756 1.

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Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler and Cecile Accilien (eds.), Just below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Charlettesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007, $22.50). Pp. 285. isbn978 0 8139 2600 1.

Michael Schaller, Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan–Bush Era, 1980–1992 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, £10.99). Pp. 200. isbn0 19 517257 4.

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Jorge J. E. Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007, $55.00/£29.50 cloth, $22.95/£12.50 paper). Pp. xii+328. isbn978 0 8014 4544 6/978 0 8014 4561 3.

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Jonathan Auerbach, Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. xii+200. isbn978 0 520 25293 6.

Robert D. Schulzinger (ed.), A Companion to American Foreign Relations (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, $39.95). Pp. xiii+562. isbn1 4501 4986 8.

Jon C. Teaford, The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-urban America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, $27.50/£17.50). Pp. 352. isbn0 231 13373 1.

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Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007, $60.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Pp. 368. isbn0 252 07412 2/0 25203 157 1.

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Andrew J. Bacevich (ed.), The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, £50.49). Pp. xiv+586. isbn978 0231505864.

Karen Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.95). Pp. 288. isbn0 674 01940 7.

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Mary E. Tierce, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007, £14.99). Pp. viii+179. isbn0 252 07391 6.

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Jennifer J. Baker, Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, £33.50). Pp. 218. isbn0 8018 7972 8.

Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman (eds.), The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, £22.99/$34.95). Pp. 284. isbn978 0 7391 1477 3.

Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler (eds.), The Scrapbook in American Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, $25.95/£16.95). Pp. 332. isbn1 59213 478 5.

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