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Volume 34 - Issue 2 - August 2000

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Robert G. O'Meally (ed.), The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998, £40.00 cloth, £15.95 paper). Pp. 665. ISBN 0 231 10448 0, 0 231 10449 9.
ALAN RICE
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Lois Parkinson Zamora, The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, $59.95). Pp. 257. ISBN 0 521 58253 0.
PETER RAWLINGS
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John H. M. Laslett (ed.), The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? (University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996, £58.50). Pp. 576. ISBN 0 271 01537 3.
RICK HALPERN
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Charles B. Wordell, Japan's Image in America: Popular Writing about Japan, 1800–1941 (Kyoto: Yamaguchi Publishing House, 1998, 2500 Yen). Pp. 276. ISBN 4 8411 0733 9.
JOE ALLARD
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Karl Kroeber (ed.), Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 2nd edn, $16.95). Pp. 159. ISBN 0 8032 2733 7.
SUSAN CASTILLO
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David Thelen, Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative During the Iran–Contra Debate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, $55.00 cloth, $14.94 paper). Pp. 247. ISBN 0 226 79470 9, 0 226 79471 7.
TREVOR MCCRISKEN
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Keith Newton and Joseph B. McCullough (eds.), Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, £52). Pp. 455. ISBN 0 8032 2160 6.
KATE FULLBROOK
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Philip Lambert (ed.), Ives Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £40.00). Pp. 300. ISBN 0521 58277 6. Nicholas Tawa, Arthur Foote: A Musician in the Frame of Time and Place (Lanham, Md. and London: The Scarecrow Press, $58.50). Pp. 489. ISBN 0 8108 3295 X.
HARRY WHITE
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J. V. Fifer, The Master Builders: Structures of Empire in the New World, Spanish Initiatives and United States Invention (Durham: Durham Academic Press, 1996, £14.95). Pp. 320. ISBN 1 900838 01 X.
JOHN P. MCCARTHY
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Scott Bravmann, Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £37.50 cloth, £13.95 paper). Pp. 174. ISBN 0 521 59101 5, 0 521 59907 5.
ANTHONY HUTCHISON
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John Carlos Rowe, The Other Henry James (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998, $34.00 cloth, $11.95 paper). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8223 2128 9, 0 8223 2147 5.
MADELEINE MINSON
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Neil Campbell and Alasdair Kean, American Culture Studies: An Introduction to American Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1997, £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper). Pp. 312. ISBN 0 415 12797 1, 0 415 12798 X.
T. J. LUSTIG
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Michael J. Rozbicki, The Complete Colonial Gentleman, Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (London: University Press of Virginia, 1998, $35). Pp. 221. ISBN 0 8139 1750 6.
JEFFREY BROWN
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Annette J. Saddik, The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (New Jersey: Associated University Press, £27). Pp. 173. ISBN 0 8386 3772 8.
KATE RHODES
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Gayle Wurst and Christine Raguet-Bouvart (eds.), Sounding the Depths: Water as Metaphor in North American Literature (Université de Liège: Liège, 1998). ISBN 2 87233 021 6.
ANDREW VARNEY
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Edward Watts, Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998, $37.50). Pp. 225. ISBN 0 8139 1761 1.
JUDIE NEWMAN
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Walter LaFeber, The Clash: US–Japanese Relations throughout History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, $29.95). Pp. 508. ISBN 0 393 03950 1.
SAKI DOCKRILL
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Donald W. White, The American Century: The Rise & Decline of the United States as a World Power (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, $35 cloth, £25 paper). Pp. 551. ISBN 0 300 05721 0.
ROBERT MCGEEHAN
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Ron Robin, The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, £24.95). Pp. 217. ISBN 0 691 03700 0.
JENEL VIRDEN
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Wilson J. Moses (ed.), Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, $50.00 cloth, $16.95 paper). Pp. 234. ISBN 0271 01711 2.
CELESTE-MARIE BERNIER
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Robert G. O'Meally (ed.), The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998, £40.00 cloth, £15.95 paper). Pp. 665. ISBN 0 231 10448 0, 0 231 10449 9.

Lois Parkinson Zamora, The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, $59.95). Pp. 257. ISBN 0 521 58253 0.

John H. M. Laslett (ed.), The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity? (University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996, £58.50). Pp. 576. ISBN 0 271 01537 3.

Charles B. Wordell, Japan's Image in America: Popular Writing about Japan, 1800–1941 (Kyoto: Yamaguchi Publishing House, 1998, 2500 Yen). Pp. 276. ISBN 4 8411 0733 9.

Karl Kroeber (ed.), Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 2nd edn, $16.95). Pp. 159. ISBN 0 8032 2733 7.

David Thelen, Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative During the Iran–Contra Debate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, $55.00 cloth, $14.94 paper). Pp. 247. ISBN 0 226 79470 9, 0 226 79471 7.

Keith Newton and Joseph B. McCullough (eds.), Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, £52). Pp. 455. ISBN 0 8032 2160 6.

Philip Lambert (ed.), Ives Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £40.00). Pp. 300. ISBN 0521 58277 6. Nicholas Tawa, Arthur Foote: A Musician in the Frame of Time and Place (Lanham, Md. and London: The Scarecrow Press, $58.50). Pp. 489. ISBN 0 8108 3295 X.

J. V. Fifer, The Master Builders: Structures of Empire in the New World, Spanish Initiatives and United States Invention (Durham: Durham Academic Press, 1996, £14.95). Pp. 320. ISBN 1 900838 01 X.

Scott Bravmann, Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £37.50 cloth, £13.95 paper). Pp. 174. ISBN 0 521 59101 5, 0 521 59907 5.

John Carlos Rowe, The Other Henry James (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998, $34.00 cloth, $11.95 paper). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8223 2128 9, 0 8223 2147 5.

Neil Campbell and Alasdair Kean, American Culture Studies: An Introduction to American Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1997, £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper). Pp. 312. ISBN 0 415 12797 1, 0 415 12798 X.

Michael J. Rozbicki, The Complete Colonial Gentleman, Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (London: University Press of Virginia, 1998, $35). Pp. 221. ISBN 0 8139 1750 6.

Annette J. Saddik, The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (New Jersey: Associated University Press, £27). Pp. 173. ISBN 0 8386 3772 8.

Gayle Wurst and Christine Raguet-Bouvart (eds.), Sounding the Depths: Water as Metaphor in North American Literature (Université de Liège: Liège, 1998). ISBN 2 87233 021 6.

Edward Watts, Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998, $37.50). Pp. 225. ISBN 0 8139 1761 1.

Walter LaFeber, The Clash: US–Japanese Relations throughout History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, $29.95). Pp. 508. ISBN 0 393 03950 1.

Donald W. White, The American Century: The Rise & Decline of the United States as a World Power (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, $35 cloth, £25 paper). Pp. 551. ISBN 0 300 05721 0.

Ron Robin, The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, £24.95). Pp. 217. ISBN 0 691 03700 0.

Wilson J. Moses (ed.), Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, $50.00 cloth, $16.95 paper). Pp. 234. ISBN 0271 01711 2.

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