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Special Issue on Oil Cultures

Volume 46 - Special Issue 2 - May 2012

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Susan J. Pearson, The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Children and Animals in Gilded Age America (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, $45.00). Pp. 260. isbn978 0 226 65201 6.
MONICA FLEGEL
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30 May 2012, pp. 502-503
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Anna Despotopoulou and Kimberly C. Reed (eds.), Henry James and the Supernatural (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £55.00/$85.00). Pp. 196. isbn978 0 230 11526 2.
PAUL HORN
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30 May 2012, pp. 503-504
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James Smethurst, The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, £53.68). Pp. xii+252. isbn978 0 8078 7185 0.
MARK WHALAN
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30 May 2012, pp. 505-506
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Rachel Schreiber, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine: The Modern Figures of the Masses (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011, £60.00). Pp. 194. isbn978 1 4094 0945 8.
SUE CURRELL
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30 May 2012, pp. 506-507
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Karen L. Cox, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, $34.95). Pp. xii+210. isbn978 0 8078 3471 8.
BRIAN WARD
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30 May 2012, pp. 508-509
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Alex Vernon, Hemingway's Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011, £25.95). Pp. xiii+323. isbn974 1 58729 981 0.
FABIENNE COLLIGNON
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30 May 2012, pp. 509-510
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Stephen H. Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, £22.99). Pp. 350. isbn978 0 5217 6243 4.
MICHAELA HOENICKE MOORE
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30 May 2012, pp. 511-512
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Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, £24.95). Pp. xiv+579. isbn978 0 6911 4135 0.
ANDREW M. FEARNLEY
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30 May 2012, pp. 513-515
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Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, £27.95). Pp. 480. isbn978 0 6740 3319 1.
ZARA DINNEN
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30 May 2012, pp. 515-517
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Colin Dueck, Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, $26.95/£18.95). Pp. 400. isbn978 0 691 14182 4.
SARAH MERGEL
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30 May 2012, pp. 517-518
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James Ledbetter, Unwarranted Influence – Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military–Industrial Complex (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, $26.00). Pp. ix + 268. isbn9780 300 15305 7.
HELEN BURY
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30 May 2012, pp. 519-520
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Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010, £24.65). Pp. 335. isbn978 0 674 05078 5.
BRAD SIMPSON
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30 May 2012, pp. 520-522
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Mary Brown Bullock, The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China (Washington, DC and Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Stanford University Press, 2011, $39.95). Pp. xviii+242. isbn978 0 8047 7688 2.
DANIEL WORDEN
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30 May 2012, pp. 522-524
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Sharon Monteith, American Culture in the 1960s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, repr. 2009, 2010, 2011, £70.00 hardback, £19.99 paperback). Pp. xxix + 242. isbn978 0 7486 1946 7, 976 0 7486 1947 4.
RICHARD GRAY
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30 May 2012, pp. 524-526
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Stanley Corkin, Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, £60.00/$99.00). Pp. viii+225. isbn978 0 19 538280 8.
RICHARD MARTIN
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30 May 2012, pp. 526-527
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Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, $35.00/£25.00). Pp. 520. isbn978 0 3930 6682 1.
ROBBIE MAXWELL
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30 May 2012, pp. 527-528
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David Gooblar, The Major Phases of Philip Roth (London and New York: Continuum, 2011, £17.99). Pp. 179. isbn978 1 4411 6970 9.
ALAN GIBBS
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30 May 2012, pp. 528-530
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Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson (eds.), The City, Revisited (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, $25.00 paperback, $75.00 hardback). Pp. 392. isbn978 0 8166 6576 1, 978 0 8166 6575 4.
FRAN TONKISS
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30 May 2012, pp. 530-531
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Leon Fink (ed.), Workers across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, £27.50/$39.95). Pp. 488. isbn978 01997 7855 3.
NICK WITHAM
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Paul Jay, Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010, $65.00). Pp. 248. isbn978 0 8014 4900 0.
WINFRIED FLUCK
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30 May 2012, pp. 532-534
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Susan J. Pearson, The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Children and Animals in Gilded Age America (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, $45.00). Pp. 260. isbn978 0 226 65201 6.

Anna Despotopoulou and Kimberly C. Reed (eds.), Henry James and the Supernatural (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £55.00/$85.00). Pp. 196. isbn978 0 230 11526 2.

James Smethurst, The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, £53.68). Pp. xii+252. isbn978 0 8078 7185 0.

Rachel Schreiber, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine: The Modern Figures of the Masses (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011, £60.00). Pp. 194. isbn978 1 4094 0945 8.

Karen L. Cox, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, $34.95). Pp. xii+210. isbn978 0 8078 3471 8.

Alex Vernon, Hemingway's Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011, £25.95). Pp. xiii+323. isbn974 1 58729 981 0.

Stephen H. Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, £22.99). Pp. 350. isbn978 0 5217 6243 4.

Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, £24.95). Pp. xiv+579. isbn978 0 6911 4135 0.

Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, £27.95). Pp. 480. isbn978 0 6740 3319 1.

Colin Dueck, Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, $26.95/£18.95). Pp. 400. isbn978 0 691 14182 4.

James Ledbetter, Unwarranted Influence – Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military–Industrial Complex (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, $26.00). Pp. ix + 268. isbn9780 300 15305 7.

Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010, £24.65). Pp. 335. isbn978 0 674 05078 5.

Mary Brown Bullock, The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China (Washington, DC and Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Stanford University Press, 2011, $39.95). Pp. xviii+242. isbn978 0 8047 7688 2.

Sharon Monteith, American Culture in the 1960s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, repr. 2009, 2010, 2011, £70.00 hardback, £19.99 paperback). Pp. xxix + 242. isbn978 0 7486 1946 7, 976 0 7486 1947 4.

Stanley Corkin, Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, £60.00/$99.00). Pp. viii+225. isbn978 0 19 538280 8.

Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, $35.00/£25.00). Pp. 520. isbn978 0 3930 6682 1.

David Gooblar, The Major Phases of Philip Roth (London and New York: Continuum, 2011, £17.99). Pp. 179. isbn978 1 4411 6970 9.

Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson (eds.), The City, Revisited (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, $25.00 paperback, $75.00 hardback). Pp. 392. isbn978 0 8166 6576 1, 978 0 8166 6575 4.

Leon Fink (ed.), Workers across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, £27.50/$39.95). Pp. 488. isbn978 01997 7855 3.

Paul Jay, Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010, $65.00). Pp. 248. isbn978 0 8014 4900 0.

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