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Volume 15 - December 1981

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Carl Siracusa, A Mechanical People: Perceptions of the Industrial Order in Massachusetts, 1815–1880 (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1979, $20.00). Pp. xi, 313.

Michael C. C. Adams, Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861–1865 (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979, £8.75). Pp. xiv, 256.

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.

R. Reid Badger, The Great American Fair: The World's Columbian Exposition and American Culture (Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1979, $22.95 cloth, $10.95 paper). Pp. xvi + 177; illus.

Wayne Franklin, Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America (Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1979, $19.50/£9.00). Pp. 252 + 30 plates.

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.

Edwin S. Gaustad, George Berkeley in America (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1979, $9.45). Pp. xi, 225.

James A. Nathan and James K. Oliver, The Future of United States Naval Power (Bloomington & London: Indiana Univ. Press, 1979, $15.00). Pp. vii, 248.

Frederick W. MarksIII, Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt (Lincoln, Neb., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979, £9). Pp. xvi, 247.

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

G. Thomas Couser, American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979, $15.00). Pp. vi, 222. - Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979, £12.25). Pp. xiii, 292.

David Ketterer, The Rationale of Deception in Poe (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1979, £10.95). Pp. 285.

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.

Harvard Sitkoff, A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue, Vol. 1: The Depression Decade (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, £7.95). Pp. xi, 397.

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

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