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Volume 15 - Issue 3 - December 1981

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Jacques S. Gansler, The Defense Industry (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1980, $19.95). Pp. xi, 346.
Paul Kennedy
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16 January 2009, pp. 433-434
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William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1980, £11.00, $23.00). Pp. 389.
Michael Dunne
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16 January 2009, pp. 434-435
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Bell I. Wiley (ed.), Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833–1869 (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1980, $21.50). Pp. viii, 349.
Hugh Brogan
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16 January 2009, pp. 435-436
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Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756–1805 (London: Faber, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980, £8.95). Pp. xiii, 443.
Colin Bonwick
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16 January 2009, pp. 436-437
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David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society, (New York: Oxford Univ. Press1980, £10.95), PP. vii, 404.
Neil A. Wynn
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16 January 2009, pp. 437-438
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William M. Chace, Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980, $12.95). Pp. xii, 207.
Eric Homberger
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16 January 2009, pp. 438-439
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Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, £9.50). Pp. vii, 277.
Tony Badger
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16 January 2009, pp. 439-440
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Raven I. McDavidJr, Varieties of American English (California: Stanford Univ. Press, 1980, $15.95). Pp. x, 383. - George R. Stewart, American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, £7.50). Pp. xiii, 264.
Brian Crossley
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16 January 2009, pp. 441-442
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Ellen G. Friedman, Joyce Carol Oates (New York: Ungar, 1980, $13.50). Pp. x, 238. - Kathryn Grant R.S.M., The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1978, $9.75). Pp. xiv, 167.
Gordon O. Taylor
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16 January 2009, pp. 442-444
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Robert B. Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1980, £7.50). Pp. xv, 203. - A. Robert Lee (ed.), Black Fiction: New Studies in the Afro-American Novel Since 1945 (London: Vision Press, 1980, £12.95). Pp. 254.
David B. L. Royle
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16 January 2009, pp. 444-445
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Elaine T. May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, £9.00). Pp. viii, 200.
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
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16 January 2009, pp. 445-446
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Lyle Koehler, A Search for Power: The “Weaker Sex” in Seventeenth-Century New England (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981, £15.00). Pp. viii, 561.
Roger Thompson
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16 January 2009, pp. 446-448
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Stephan Thernstrom (ed.), Harvard Encyclopaedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980, £30.00). Pp. xxv, 1076.
P. A. M. Taylor
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16 January 2009, pp. 448-450
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Peter Conrad, Imagining America (London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, £7.50). Pp. 319.
Howell Daniels
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16 January 2009, pp. 450-452
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Ronald Story, The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard & the Boston Upper Class, 1800–1870 (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1980, $20). Pp. xv, 256.
William Dusinberre
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16 January 2009, pp. 452-454
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Anthony J. Badger, Properity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980, $20). Pp. 295.
D. K. Adams
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16 January 2009, pp. 454-456
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Michael B. Stoff, Oil, War and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941–1947 (New Haven, and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1980, £9.45). Pp. xii, 240.
D. C. Watt
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16 January 2009, pp. 456-457
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Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo and the Republican Resolution (Charlottesville, Virginia: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1979, $17.50). Pp. xii, 250.
Philip S. Haffenden
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16 January 2009, pp. 457-459
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Millicent Bell, Marquand: An American Life (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1979). Pp. xv, 537.
Ann Massa
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16 January 2009, pp. 459-460
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Gary B. Nash, The Urban Crucible (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979, £11.10). Pp. xix, 548.
Peter Marshall
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16 January 2009, p. 460
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Jacques S. Gansler, The Defense Industry (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1980, $19.95). Pp. xi, 346.

William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1980, £11.00, $23.00). Pp. 389.

Bell I. Wiley (ed.), Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833–1869 (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1980, $21.50). Pp. viii, 349.

Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756–1805 (London: Faber, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980, £8.95). Pp. xiii, 443.

David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society, (New York: Oxford Univ. Press1980, £10.95), PP. vii, 404.

William M. Chace, Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980, $12.95). Pp. xii, 207.

Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, £9.50). Pp. vii, 277.

Raven I. McDavidJr, Varieties of American English (California: Stanford Univ. Press, 1980, $15.95). Pp. x, 383. - George R. Stewart, American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, £7.50). Pp. xiii, 264.

Ellen G. Friedman, Joyce Carol Oates (New York: Ungar, 1980, $13.50). Pp. x, 238. - Kathryn Grant R.S.M., The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1978, $9.75). Pp. xiv, 167.

Robert B. Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1980, £7.50). Pp. xv, 203. - A. Robert Lee (ed.), Black Fiction: New Studies in the Afro-American Novel Since 1945 (London: Vision Press, 1980, £12.95). Pp. 254.

Elaine T. May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, £9.00). Pp. viii, 200.

Lyle Koehler, A Search for Power: The “Weaker Sex” in Seventeenth-Century New England (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981, £15.00). Pp. viii, 561.

Stephan Thernstrom (ed.), Harvard Encyclopaedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980, £30.00). Pp. xxv, 1076.

Peter Conrad, Imagining America (London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, £7.50). Pp. 319.

Ronald Story, The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard & the Boston Upper Class, 1800–1870 (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1980, $20). Pp. xv, 256.

Anthony J. Badger, Properity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980, $20). Pp. 295.

Michael B. Stoff, Oil, War and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941–1947 (New Haven, and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1980, £9.45). Pp. xii, 240.

Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo and the Republican Resolution (Charlottesville, Virginia: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1979, $17.50). Pp. xii, 250.

Millicent Bell, Marquand: An American Life (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1979). Pp. xv, 537.

Gary B. Nash, The Urban Crucible (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979, £11.10). Pp. xix, 548.

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