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Volume 42 - December 2008

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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.

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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.

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