Australasian Journal of American Studies

Year 2004

• Vol.23, No.1, July 2004

• Vol.23, No.2, December 2004

July 2004

VALE [1-2]<Download pdf>

REFLECTIONS: ANZASA Forty Years On [3-4]

Articles
DAVID GOODMAN
‘There is no-one to whom I can talk’ - Norman Harper and
American History in Australia [5-20]
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HEATHER NEILSON
In Epic Times: Gore Vidal’s Creation Reconsidered [21-33]
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ANZASA SYMPOSIUM: SECURITY ISSUES
IAN TYRRELL
Introduction: Friends and Enemies in the New World Order:
Perspectives on the American Alliance and Anti-Americanism [34-38]
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DAVID MOSLER
Some Speculations on the Future of Australian-American Relations:
Will Australia become the 51st State? [39-51]
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DENNIS PHILLIPS
The American Alliance: Myth and Reality [52-62]
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MARTIN GRIFFITHS
Beyond the Bush Doctrine: American Hegemony
and the World Order [63-76]
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BRENDON O’CONNOR
A Brief History of Anti-Americanism: From Cultural Criticism
to Terrorism [77-92]
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Review Essays

SARAH GRAHAM
The New American Overstretch? Propaganda, Perceptions, and the
Foundations of American Power [93-100]
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BRIAN EDWARDS
Theory at the Crossroads [101-108]
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Book Reviews

FRANCES CLARKE
Nancy Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914
Jeffrey Sklansky, The Soul’s Economy: Market Society and
Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 [109-111]

IAN BRAILSFORD
Tona J. Hagen, Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, & Popular
Culture in America [112-115]

GREG HALL
Karen Ferguson, Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta [116-118]

MICHELLE BRATTAIN
John A Salmond, The General Textile Strike of 1934: From
Maine to Alabama [119-120]

KIRSTEN MCKENZIE
Charles L. Ponce de Leon, Self-Exposure: Human-Interest
Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890–1940 [121-122]

J AN PILDITCH
Thadious M. Davis, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender
and Faulkner's Go Down Moses [123-125]

PETER BASTIAN
Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 [126-128]

Resources

IAN BRAILSFORD
‘In New Zealand there are 52 states in the United States’:
An audit of undergraduate students’ past experiences and prior
knowledge in American Studies and History [129-138]
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Norman Harper Essay

ALTIN GAVRANOVIC
‘Can’t get my mind settle’: Black Migrants and the Decision
to leave the South during the First World War [139-148]
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December 2004

Articles

BRIDGET FOLEY-GRIFFEN
‘The Kangaroo is Coming into its Own’: R. G. Casey, Earl Newsom
and Public Relations in the 1940s [1-20]
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BRIAN EDWARDS
Surveying ‘America’: in the Mnemonick Deep of Thomas
Pynchon's Mason & Dixon [2-30]
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MICHAEL L. ONDAATJE
Counterfeit Heroes or Colour-Blind Visionaries?
The Black Conservative Challenge to Affirmative Action
in Modern America [31-50]
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SYMPOSIUM: TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY

PETER BASTIAN
Introduction [51-54]
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DAVID GOODMAN
Location, Location - American History in Australia [55-64]
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IAN TYRRELL
American History in Australia: Local Problems and Global Prospects [65-71]
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DOUGLAS CRAIG
Full Lecture Theatres in a Twilight Zone?
Teaching United States History from Australia: Institutional
and Cultural Impediments and Opportunities [72-81]
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Review Essays

BRAHAM DABSCHECK
Shadows in the Spotlight: Two Jewish American Baseball Players [82-90]
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KEITH BEATTIE
Radical Pedagogy: Lessons from the Sixties [91-101]
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ROBERT REYNOLDS
Post-Gay in the USA [102-115]
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Book Reviews

DOUGLAS CRAIG
Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak and Julian E. Zelizer, The Democratic
Experience: New Directions in American Political History. [116-118]

BRAHAM DABSCHECK
Stephen Jay Gould, Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville:
A Lifelong Passion for Baseball. [118-121]

JENNIFER FROST
Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism,
and American Culture. [122-124]

IAN BRAILSFORD
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass
Consumption in Postwar America. [124-127]

ELIZABETH DELANEY
Stephanie Nolen, Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First
Women in the Space Race [127-130]

DAVID T. ROWLANDS
Morris Morley and Chris McGillion, Unfinished Business:
America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001 [130-132]