Australasian Journal of American Studies

Year 2005

• Vol.24, No.1, July 2005

• Vol.24, No.2, December 2005

July 2005

Guest Editorial
RICHARD WATERHOUSE
Editing AJAS: the first three years [1-4]
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Articles

TIMOTHY VERHOEVEN
Neither Male nor Female: Androgyny, Nativism and
International Anti-Catholicism [5-19]
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JAN PILDITCH
‘Fashionable Female Studies’: The Popular Dissemination of
Science in Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1830-60 [20-37]
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DAVID PALMER
‘What Might Have Been’ – Bill Clinton and American
Political Power [38-58]
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Symposium: Rhys Isaacs' Virginia

MICHAEL A MCDONNELL
Introduction [59-62]
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TREVOR BURNARD
The Price of Success: Tolerating a Failed Planter Patriarch [63-68]
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MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL
The King is Dead! Long Live the King? [69-74]
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DONNA MERWICK
The Planter, the Revolution, and the Historian [75-77]
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SHANE WHITE
Landon Carter and his Slaves [78-81]
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Review Essay

PETER BASTIAN
‘Let’s Do Lunch’: Benjamin Franklin and the American Character [82-88]
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Teaching American Studies

STEPHEN ROBERTSON AND PAUL TAILLON
Introduction [109-111]
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STEPHEN ROBERTSON
Teaching Students to Read Online Sources [111-123]
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Norman Harper Essay

EMILY POLLNITZ
Acquiescence or Resistance: Reconsidering Interracial Relationships
Between Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1861 [124-138]
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Book Reviews

KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood
and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race
in Virginia, 1900-1960 [89-91]

JENNIFER FROST
Stephen Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles
in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration [92-94]

PATRICIA GRIMSHAW
Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote was Won: Woman Suffrage in
the Western United States, 1868-1914 [95-96]

DAVID GOODMAN
Lawrence W. Levine and Cornelia R. Levine, The People
and the President – America’s Conversation with FDR [97-99]

BRENDON O’CONNOR
Andrew Ross and Kristen Ross, Anti-Americanism [100-102]

BRIAN EDWARDS
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America [103-104]

DAVID PALMER
Mike Marqusee, Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art [105-108]

December 2005

Articles

DAVID RYLANCE
Breech Birth: The Receptions to D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation [1-20]
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KEITH BEATTIE
It’s Not Only Rock and Roll: ‘Rockumentary’, Direct Cinema, and
Performative Display [21-41]
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SARA BUTTSWORTH
Who’s Afraid of Jessica Lynch? Or, One Girl in all the World? Gendered Heroism and the Iraq War [42-62]
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STAN JONES
L.A. Transfer: From Der Himmel Uber Berlin to the City of Angel [63-81]
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GARETH SCHOTT & BEVIN YEATMAN
Subverting Game-Play: ‘JFK Reloaded’ as Performative Space [82-94]
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Review Essays

DEBORAH MONTGOMERIE
Good Histories of the ‘Good’ War [95-98]
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Book Reviews

JAN PILDITCH
Hartmut Lutz and Coomi S. Vevaina (eds), Connections: Non-Native
Responses to Native Canadian Literature [99-101]

CHRIS VAN ROMPAEY
Douglas Brinkley (ed.), Windblown World: The Journals of Jack
Kerouac, 1947–1954 [101-105]

BRIAN EDWARDS
John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night [105-108]

RICHARD WATERHOUSE
Robert M. Lewis, From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical
Spectacle in America, 1830-1910 [108-109]

TIM MINCHIN
Robert J. Norrell, The House I Live In: Race in the American Century [109-112]

SUSAN LEVER
Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson (eds.), Television After TV: Essays on a
Medium in Transition [112-114]

PETER BASTIAN
Tom Frame, The Life and Death of Harold Holt [114-116]

ANTHONY ASHBOLT
Jonathon M. Schoenwald, A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern
American Conservatism [116-117]

TEACHING AMERICAN STUDIES
Forum on Teaching the United States in the World after 9/11

STEPHEN ROBERTSON
Introduction [118]
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GLENN MOORE
USA and the World: Teaching American Foreign Policy at Melbourne
University [119-127]
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CLARE CORBOULD
US Imperialism in the Twentieth Century? [128-142]
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