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Volume 33 - Issue 3 - December 1999

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Nona Balakian, The World of William Saroyan (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998 £38.00). Pp. 294. ISBN 0 8387 5368 X.
R. W. (HERBIE) BUTTERFIELD
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Oscar Reiss, Blacks in Colonial America (London: McFarland and Company, 1998, £40.50). Pp. 293. ISBN 0 7864 0339 X.
TIMOTHY J. LOCKLEY
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John Street, Politics and Popular Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997, £13.99). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 56639 603 4.
FARAH MENDLESOHN
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Alfred Arteaga, Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £32.50 cloth, £11.95 paper). Pp. 185. ISBN 0 521 57370 X, 0 521 57492 7.
CANDIDA HEPWORTH
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Clark Griffith, Achilles and the Tortoise: Mark Twain's Fictions (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998, $34.95). Pp. 284. ISBN 0 8173 0903 9.
PETER MESSENT
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Peter J. Parish (ed.), Reader's Guide to American History (London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, £95). Pp. 880. ISBN 1 884964 22 2.
KENNETH MORGAN
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Penny M. Von Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anti-colonialism 1937–1957 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997, $39.95 cloth, $16.95, paper). Pp. 259. ISBN 0 8014 8292 5.
LAURA DULL
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James Sidbury, Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730–1810 (Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £16.95). Pp. 292. ISBN 0521 59860 5.
STEPHEN C. KENNY
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Peter A. French, Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, £17.95). Pp. 162. ISBN 0 8476 8671 X.
PAUL GRAINGE
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Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, £29.95). Pp. 345. ISBN 0 6910 1570 8.
MIKE FRENCH
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Christopher Gair, Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997, $89.95). Pp. 242. ISBN 0 7734 8719 0.
CRAIG MONK
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Warren R. Hofstra (ed.), George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1998, $34.95). Pp. 265. ISBN 0 945612 50 8.
KENNETH MORGAN
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Douglas Ambrose, Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997, £42.75). Pp. 226. ISBN 0 8071 2080 4.
JOHN ASHWORTH
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Joseph Tilden Rhea, Race, Pride and American Identity (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, £16.50). Pp. 163. ISBN 0 674 56684 5.
WILLIAM T. MARTIN RICHES
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Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses: Native American Scenes of Absence and Presence (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, £32.95). Pp. 238. ISBN 0 8032 4664 1.
DAVID GREENHAM
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Peter Karsten, Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth Century America (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, $55.00). Pp. 490. ISBN 0 8078 2340 6.
GEORGE CONYNE
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Samuel Chase Coale, Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance (Tucaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998, $34.95). Pp. 197. ISBN 0 8173 0896 2.
ALISON EASTON
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Susan L. Field, The Romance of Desire: Emerson's Commitment to Incompletion (Cranbury, NJ and London: Associated University Presses, 1997, £27.50). Pp. 189. ISBN 0 8386 3738 8.
DEBORAH L. MADSEN
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Paul Salstrom, Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking A Region's Economic History 1730–1940 (Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1994, £11.98). Pp. 204. ISBN 0 8131 1660 3.
STEPHEN F. MILLS
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Paul K. Conkin, American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997, $55 cloth, $18.95 paper). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8078 2342 2 (cloth), 0 8078 4649 X (paper).
PETER W. WILLIAMS
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Nona Balakian, The World of William Saroyan (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998 £38.00). Pp. 294. ISBN 0 8387 5368 X.

Oscar Reiss, Blacks in Colonial America (London: McFarland and Company, 1998, £40.50). Pp. 293. ISBN 0 7864 0339 X.

John Street, Politics and Popular Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997, £13.99). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 56639 603 4.

Alfred Arteaga, Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £32.50 cloth, £11.95 paper). Pp. 185. ISBN 0 521 57370 X, 0 521 57492 7.

Clark Griffith, Achilles and the Tortoise: Mark Twain's Fictions (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998, $34.95). Pp. 284. ISBN 0 8173 0903 9.

Peter J. Parish (ed.), Reader's Guide to American History (London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, £95). Pp. 880. ISBN 1 884964 22 2.

Penny M. Von Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anti-colonialism 1937–1957 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997, $39.95 cloth, $16.95, paper). Pp. 259. ISBN 0 8014 8292 5.

James Sidbury, Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730–1810 (Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997, £16.95). Pp. 292. ISBN 0521 59860 5.

Peter A. French, Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, £17.95). Pp. 162. ISBN 0 8476 8671 X.

Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, £29.95). Pp. 345. ISBN 0 6910 1570 8.

Christopher Gair, Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997, $89.95). Pp. 242. ISBN 0 7734 8719 0.

Warren R. Hofstra (ed.), George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1998, $34.95). Pp. 265. ISBN 0 945612 50 8.

Douglas Ambrose, Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997, £42.75). Pp. 226. ISBN 0 8071 2080 4.

Joseph Tilden Rhea, Race, Pride and American Identity (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, £16.50). Pp. 163. ISBN 0 674 56684 5.

Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses: Native American Scenes of Absence and Presence (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, £32.95). Pp. 238. ISBN 0 8032 4664 1.

Peter Karsten, Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth Century America (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, $55.00). Pp. 490. ISBN 0 8078 2340 6.

Samuel Chase Coale, Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance (Tucaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998, $34.95). Pp. 197. ISBN 0 8173 0896 2.

Susan L. Field, The Romance of Desire: Emerson's Commitment to Incompletion (Cranbury, NJ and London: Associated University Presses, 1997, £27.50). Pp. 189. ISBN 0 8386 3738 8.

Paul Salstrom, Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking A Region's Economic History 1730–1940 (Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1994, £11.98). Pp. 204. ISBN 0 8131 1660 3.

Paul K. Conkin, American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997, $55 cloth, $18.95 paper). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8078 2342 2 (cloth), 0 8078 4649 X (paper).

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