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Australasian Journal of American Studies

Year 2003

 
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July 2003

Articles

ANTHONY ASHBOLT Love and Hate in European Eyes: Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman on America [1-14] <Download pdf>

PETA SMITH The Limitations of Leadership: Presidents, Policy Making and
Policy Husbandry [15-33] <Download pdf>

GREG PRITCHARD Moby-Dick and the Philosopher of Pessimism [34-48]
<Download pdf>

BERNARD BAILYN LECTURE

Introduction by William J. Breen [49-50] <Download pdf>

JOHN SALMOND
Southern Struggles: Aspects of the Fight for Economic and Social
Justice in the Twentieth Century American South [51-65] <Download pdf>

ANZASA SYMPOSIUM: THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN STUDIES
PETER BASTIAN Introduction: ‘American Studies in Australia and New Zealand’
Revisited [66-69] <Download pdf>

KEITH BEATTIE It’s Academic: American Studies in a Time of Crisis [70-73]
<Download pdf>

DAVID GOODMAN American Studies There and Here [74-80] <Download pdf>

MAUREEN MONTGOMERY American Studies in the Post-Historical University [81-96]
<Download pdf>

IAN TYRRELL The Future of American Studies in Australia: Problems and
Possibilities [97-102] <Download pdf>


Review Essay

WARREN ELLEM Robert E Lee: Revisiting the Man, The General and his Army [103-113]
<Download pdf>

 

 

Book Reviews

BRIAN EDWARDS
John Barth, Coming Soon!!! 114

IAN BRAILSFORD
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Mea
l 117

DOLORES E. JANIEWSKI
Arturo J. Aldama, Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation 120

BRIAN EDWARDS
Jonathan Franzen, How To Be Alone 122

DON DEBATS
Yasuhiro Katagiri, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and State’s Rights 126

IAN BRAILSFORD
James B. Twitchell, Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury 129

ROSE LUCAS
Hazel Smith, Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara: Difference/ Homosexuality/ Topography 132

TREVOR BURNARD
Alex Bontemps, The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the
Colonial South
135

MEILING SOUTHWELL-LEE
Henry Yu, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America 136

 
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December 2003

Articles

BRIAN EDWARDS
Refiguring the West(ern): Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and Old Markers in American Cultural History [1-9] <Download pdf>

IAN BRAILSFORD
‘Us Image But NZ Venture’: Americana and Fast-Food Advertising in New Zealand, 1971-1990 [10-24] <Download pdf>

JOHN HIGLEY
Force to the Fore: The Bush Elite and America’s Post-9/11
Democracy [25-40] <Download pdf>

ANDREW McFADZEAN
The Bigger Picture: Biography and/or History? Robert Bowie [41-63] <Download pdf>

Resources

KEITH BEATTIE and IAN GORDON
Anti-Americanism: Recent Sources [64-71] <Download pdf>

Review Essays

GREG DENING
The Edginess of Freedom: Reflections on Shane White’s Black History
at a Distance [72 -78] <Download pdf>

RUTH BLAIR
Logging Melville [79-91] <Download pdf>

DON DEBATS
Reflecting on Newly Available Insights into Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Times and Methods: Remembering Institutions as well as Individuals [92-101] <Download pdf>

 

 

Book Reviews

GRAHAM HOLTON
Morris Morley and Chris McGillion, Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001 102

BRIAN EDWARDS
Sarah Gleeson-White, Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers 105

KAREN RHODES
Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation 108

PETER BASTIAN
Alan Dershowitz, America Declares Independence 111

CHARLES FAIRCHILD
Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc (eds.), Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture 112

ADRIAN CAESAR
James Tatum, The Mourner’s Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam. 115

BRIDGET GRIFFEN-FOLEY
David C. Barker, Rushed to Judgment: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior. 117

NICK SHARMAN
Michael Eric Dyson, I may not get there with you: The true Martin Luther King, Jr. 119

DAVID PALMER
Michelle Brattain, The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South 122

WARREN ELLEM
Keith P. Wilson, “Campfires of Freedom”: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War 125

JENNIFER CLARK
David Farber and Beth Bailey, The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
James C. Hall, Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties 128

ANTHONY ASHBOLT
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Susan Friend Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics 131

DAVID McCLEAN
Gary R. Hess, Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf 134

SUSAN PAVLOSKA
Mari Yoshihara, Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism 136

 

 
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