Australasian Journal of American Studies

Year 2009

• Vol.28, No.1, July 2009

• Vol.28, No.2, December 2009

July 2009

Articles

GREGORY D. SMITHERS
Barack Obama and Race in the United States: A History of the Future [1-16]

MARK SUTTON
Roadmaps for the Soul: History and Cartography in Bob Dylan’s
Early Songs [17-33]

PATRICK LYNN RIVERS
Race, Sex, and Violence and the Problem of Agency in North Carolina,
1889-1903 [34-49]

IAN AUSTIN
The Treasury of the United States of America and the Asian Financial
Crisis: A Decade in Review [50-73]

BROOKE LAMPERD
ADHD: ‘Truth Discourse with a Vengeance’ [74-92]
*Winner of the 2009 Norman Harper Prize

JOSHUA BALFOUR
Confronting Entrenched Weapons Programs: A Short Story of
Success from the George W. Bush Administration [93-108]

Teaching American Studies
Surveying the US Survey

PAUL TAILLON AND STEPHEN ROBERTSON
Introduction [109-110]

TOM BUCHANAN
Teaching the American History Survey in Omaha and Adelaide: From Activist History to Foreign Curiosity [111-123]

PAUL TAILLON
‘Coverage’ and ‘Uncoverage’: Teaching the U.S. History Survey in New Zealand in Twelve Weeks [124-134]

Book Reviews

BRAHAM DABSCHECK
Thomas G Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest
Labor War 135

DANIEL FAZIO
Lukasz Wordliczek, U.S. Foreign Policy: Procedure and Substance 137

JOHN SALMOND
Joshua M. Dunn, Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins 140

DENNIS PHILLIPS
Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party In The United States? 142

PAUL TAILLON
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making, Stephen
Skowronek and Matthew Glassman, Editors 144

JOHN WHALEN-BRIDGE
Anthony Hutchison, Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality
in American Political Fiction. 146

MARIOS ELLES
Kristin Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production
of American Domesticity 1865-1920 149

JENNIFER FROST
Thomas Doherty, Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and The
Production Code Administration 151

CHRIS DIXON
Peter La Chapelle, Proud to be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country
Music, and Migration to Southern California 154

CHRIS VAN ROMPAEY
Richard Michelson, Battles and Lullabies
David Wojahn, Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems,
1984-2004 156

CAROLINE HAMILTON
Jani Scandura, Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American
Depression 160

IN MEMORIAM 163

December 2009

Articles

Teaching American Studies

Review Essays

Book Reviews