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Australasian Journal of American Studies

Years 1980-1991


1980-82 / 1983 / 1984 / 1985 / 1986 / 1987 / 1988 / 1989 / 1990 / 1991


 
 

VOLUME 1, NO. 1. JULY, 1980

Articles

Phillida E. Bunkle, Domestic Piety and the Gothic Revival: The Architecture of The Sentimental Family, 1830-1860.

Shane White, Black Fugitives in Colonial South Carolina.

David Boyd, The Deer Hunter: The Hero and the Tradition.

Book Reviews

By L.E. Fredman John Milton Cooper Jr, Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855-1918.

By Susan Tiffin Ellen Du Bois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent WomenÕs Movement in America. 1848-1869.

By Norman Harper P.G. Edwards (ed.) Australia Through American Eyes 1935-1945: Observations by American Diplomats.

By B.J. Dalton Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: its Significance in American Law and Politics.

By Joseph M. Siracusa Michael Schaller, The U.S. Crusade in China. 1938-1945.

By James Holt Graham J. White, F.D.R. and the Press.


VOLUME 1, NO. 2. JULY , 1981

Articles

Roger Thompson, Slavery, Sectionalism and Secession: Six More Years of the Debate on the Causes of the American Civil War.

D.A. Hammer Time, Space and the Western Town.

L.E. Fredman, Trans-Atlantic Liberalism in the Progressive Era.

Kevin O`Reilly, The Shop-Soiled Galahad: Raymond Chandler`s Knight.

Book Reviews

By L.E. Fredman Glenn C. Altschuler, Andrew White: Educator, Historian. Diplomat.

By Michael Ackland Peter Conrad, Imagining America.

By Dennis Phillips Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy.

By Joseph M. Siracusa Gary May, China Scapegoat: The Diplomatic Ordeal of John Cater Vincent.


VOLUME 1, NO. 3. JULY, 1982

Articles

Brian Edwards, Mixing Media: Film as Metaphor in Pynchon`s `Gravity Rainbow`.

Andrew Spaull, The American High School Goes to War: The U.S. High School Victory Corps 1942-44.

Anthony Ashbolt, From Haight-Ashbury to Soulful Socialism: Culture and Politics in the Movement.

James Holt, Reflections on the `New Labor History`.

Book Reviews

By Marian Simms: M.J. Heale, The Making of American Politics, 1750-1850.

By Ian Tyrell: Daniel Walker Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs.

By James Tulip: Justine Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life.

By Richard Waterhouse: Leopold Launitz-Schurer, Loyal Whigs and Revolutionaries: The Making of the Revolution in New York. 1705-1776.

By E. Daniel Potts John Hammond Moore, Over-Sexed. Over-Paid and Over Here: Americans in Australia 1941-1945.

 
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VOLUME 2, NO. 1. JULY, 1983

Articles

G.M. Tobin, The Varieties of Memory: Perspectives on Oregon`s Past.

Clark Griffith, Pearl`s Green A: The Scarlet Letter and American History

Brian Edwards, Flight of the Painted Bird: Jerzy Kosinski`s Gaudy Plumage.

David Goodman, Fear of Flying? A Review Essay.

Book Reviews

By G.J. Borny: Lee A. Jacobus (ed.) The Longman Anthology of American Drama.

By Patricia Grimshaw: Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-earning Women in the United States and Linda K. Kerber and Jane Dehart Mathews, Womens America: Refocusing the Past.

By J.R. Fisher: Peter R. Shergold Working-Class Life: The "American Standard" in Comparative Perspective 1899-1913.

By Lionel Fredman: Hans Trefousse, Carl Schruz: A Biography

By Glen St. J. Barclay: William C. Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy


VOLUME 2, NO. 2. DECEMBER, 1983

Articles

Jane Novak, Saul Bellow as Professor: The Nobel Prize Speech, The Deans December, and Woody Allen`s Zelig.

John Hart, Taking Politics out of the Presidency Reform in the 1980`s.

Ian J. Bickerton, John F. Kennedy, the Jewish Community and Israel: Some Preliminary Observations.

Greg Dening, Inventing Others: Mead, Freeman and the `Samoans`.

Hector Kinloch, `Let me turn American Studies upside down`.

Book Reviews

By Lionel Fredman, Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President and Fred Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader.

By Sandra Rennie, Edward Countryman, A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York 1760-1790.

By Rhys Isaac, John P. Demos Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.

By Trevor Irwin Ian Hamilton, Robert Lowell. A Biography.

By Barry Dyster: R.J. Johnston, The American Urban System: a Geographical Perspective and Ira Sharkansky, The United States Revisited: A Study of a Still Developing Country.

By Stephen Salsbury: Wyn Wachhorst, Thomas Alva Edison: American Myth.

By Tony Wood: C. Vann Woodward, American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North-South Dialogue and Willie Lee Rose, Slavery and Freedom.

 
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VOLUME 3, NO. 1. JULY, 1984

Articles

Roger Bell, The South and Hawaii: A Neglected Civil Rights Issue.

Graeme Turner, Huck Finn as Gregor Damsa: New Versions of the American Self in Something Happened and The Public Burning.

Margaret R. Parnaby, Transatlantic Letters: Some Reflections on Writing about Other Cultures.

James Tulip, Whitman and Modern Poetry (especially Australian): A Review Essay.

Tony Wood, Historians and Political Culture in the Ante bellum South.

Book Reviews

By D.R. Hainsworth, Carl Bridenbaugh (ed.) The Pynchon Papers. Vol. I. Letters of John Pynchon, 1654-1700.

By Elaine Barry, Stephen Fender, American Literature in Context I. 1620-1830. Brian Harding, American Literature in Context II. 1830-1865. Andrew Hook, American Literature in Context III. 1865-1900. Ann Massa, American Literature in Context IV, 1900-1930.

By Donna Merwick, Stephen Fender, Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail.

By Joseph M. Siracusa, John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Post War American National Security Policy.

By Gregory L. Bowen, Louis R. Harlan, Booker T Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee. 1901 -1915.

By Shane White, Robert Middlekauff The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution. 1763-1789.

By Elaine Thompson, Nelson W. Polsby, Consequences of Party Reform.

By Leopold S. Launtiz, Janice Potter, The Liberty We Seek: Loyalist Schurer Ideology in Colonial New York and Massachusetts.

By R.D. Cuff, John A. Salmond, A Southern Rebel. The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams. 1890-1965.

By Caroline Launitz-Schurer, C. Vann Woodward (ed.) Mary Chestnuts Civil War.


VOLUME 3, NO. 2. DECEMBER, 1984

Articles

David Headon, Reworking Convict Literature Tradition: Brother Jonathon and the Offscourings of England in Penal Australia.

Henry B. Ryan, Different Ends of the Telescope: Great Britain`s Problems with American Opinion During World War II.

Daniel Walden, Richard Wright`s American Dream: A `Native Son` in Chicago.

David Boyd, Paranoid Projections: Self and Society in `The Searchers` and `Psycho`

Diane Kirkby, Some Reflections on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1982.

Book Reviews

By Diane Kirkby, Elizabeth Abel and Emily Abel, Women Gender and Scholarship: The Signs Reader.

By D.R. Hainsworth, Stephen Innes, Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth Century Springfield.

By Joan Kirkby, Suzanne Juhasz (ed.) Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Suzanne Juhasz, The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind.

By R. Jackson Wilson, Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia. 1740-1790.

By Allan Johnston, George W. McDanie!, Hearth and Home: Preserving a People s Culture.

By William J. Breen, Stephen Skowranesk, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities. 1877-1920.

By E. Daniel Potts, J.C.A. Stagg, Mr Madison`s War: Politics. Diplomacy and Warfare in the Early American Republic. 1783-1830.

By Donald A. DeBats, John L. Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy. Henry Demarist Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition.

 
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VOLUME 4, NO. 1. JULY, 1985

Articles

Richard Waterhouse, The Internationalisation of American Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Minstrel Show.

Joan Kirkby, "What Prisoners We Are": Sexuality and System in Hawthorne`s The Blithedale Romance.

Eric Richards and Donna Merwick, "A Provincial Community in Wartime" _ From
the Vantage Point of a Seventeenth Century `Minder`

Pauline Nestor, Women`s Struggle to Name the World: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich.

Book Reviews

By Paul Bourke Bruce Clayton, Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne.

By Brian Edwards Linda Hutcheon, Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox and Patricia Waugh, The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.

By Roger Thompson E. Daniel Potts and Annette Potts, Yanks Down Under 1941-1945: The American Impact on Australia.

 


VOLUME 4, NO. 2. DECEMBER, 1985

Articles

Michael S. Mayer, Washington Bids Farewell to Jim Crow.

Rose Lucas, The Great Sex Spiral: The Poetics of William Carlos Williams.

Suzanne O`Callaghan, Burnet`s Key, New York City: Commerce, Culture and Space.

Brenda Niall, Tom Sawyer on the Wallaby Track: Some American Influences on Australian Children`s Fiction.

Book Reviews

By Roger Bell, Glen St. J. Barclay, Friends in High Places: Australian-American Diplomatic Relations Since 1945.

By Louis Galambos, William J. Breen, Civilian Mobilization. Wartime Federation and the Council of National Defence. 1917-1919.

By Glenn May, Roger Bell, Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics.

By Allen Johnston, William J. Breen and Julie G. Marshall, Resources for North American Studies: An Annotated List of Microfilm Collections in Australian Libraries relating to the United States and Canada.

By Brian Edwards, Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Form

 

 
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VOLUME 5, NO. 1. JULY, 1986

Articles

Charles Joyner, History as Ritual: Rites of Power and Resistance on the Slave Plantation.
John Hart Congress, Comity and the White House Staff.

Mark Williams, `Decision of Darkness`: The Religious and Political Heresies of Captain Ahab and Johann Voss.

Helen Clark, Towards a New Synthesis in New Zealand Affairs and Defence Policies: Opportunities Offered by the 1986 Defence Review.

Gabrielle Baldwin, The Place of Female Writers in American Literature: The Case of Kate Chopin.

Book Reviews

By Peter Bastian, Ruth H. Bloch, Visionary Republic: Millenial Themes in American Thought. 1756-1800.

By Lionel Fredman, Lewis Hanke (ed.) Guide to the Study of the United States History Outside the United States. 1945-1980.

By Dennis Phillips, Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age.

By Greg Bowen, John Niven, Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics.


VOLUME 5, NO. 2. DECEMBER, 1986

Articles

Jay E. Gillette, Mark Twain`s Art vs. Samuel Clemens` Business: Why the `Raftsmen` Episode Disappeared from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Lawrence Foster, The Psychology of Free Love in the Oneida Community.

Ian Tyrrell, Temperance, Feminism and the WCTU: New Interpretations and New Directions.

Alex Calder, `The trouble is, it is difficult to be both a poet and an historian`: Olson, Lowell, Foucault, and problems of series in the late modern long poem.

James Tulip The Australian Reception of Contemporary American Poetry

Review Essay

Donald A. DeBats, The Politics of Participation.

Book Reviews

Stephen Salsbury, Leonard S. Reich, The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at G.E. and Bell. 1876-1926.

By Graham White, Theodore Saloutos, The American Farmer and the New Deal.

By Dennis Phillips, David A. Stockman, The Triumph of Politics: The Crisis in American Government and How it Affects the World.

By Peter Bastian, Esmond Wright, Franklin of Philadelphia.

 

 
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VOLUME 6, NO. 1. JULY, 1987

Articles

Allan Johnston, Being Free: Black Migration and the Civil War.

Maureen Montgomery, Hussies, Poachers and Pork-Packers` Daughters: Anti-American Feeling in Britain at the turn of the Century.

Miriam J. Shillingsburg, American Humour in an Inter-Cultural Context: `Distinctively Her Own`.

Caroline Turner, The Search for an American Identity: Recent Trends in Nineteenth Century American Art History.

Review Essays

Warren A. Ellem, The Politics of Reconstruction.

Anthony Ashbolt, Remembering the Sixties.

Resources


Roger Bell, Documentary Films and American Studies. A Guide to Recent Acquisitions by Australian Libraries.

Book Reviews

General
By Michael S. Mayer. Lewis Hanke (ed.), Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the United States. 1945-1980.

By Diane Sydenham, `Historical Writing on American Science` OSIR1S.

History and Politics
By Neville Meaney. Norman Harper, A Great and Powerful Friend: A Study in Australia-American Relations between 1900 and 1975.

By Peter J. Coleman, James Holt. Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand: The First Forty Years.

By Peter Bastian, Michael Kammen, A Machine That Would Go of Itself. The Constitution in American Culture.

By John Hart, Barbara Kellerman, The Political Presidency.

By William J. Breen, Ewa Morawska. For bread with butter: The life~worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnston. Pennsylvania 1890-1940.

Literature
By Catherine Runcie, Elizabeth McKinsey, Niagara Falls: Icon of the Sublime.

By Helen Shoobridge, Barton Levi St. Armand, Emily Dickinson and her Culture: The Souls Society.

By James Tulip Jack Salzman (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature. James D.Hart (ed.), The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature.


VOLUME 6, NO. 2. DECEMBER, 1987

Articles

Dennis Phillips, Ambivalent Allies: Myths and Reality in The Australian-American Relationship.

Catherine A. Runcie, Edgar Allan Poe: Psychic Pattern in the Later Poems.

Alfred W. McCoy, Philippine-American Relations: A Problem of Perception.

Review Essays


James Gilbert, The Missing Middle Class: Some Problems in Writing Cultural History.

Colin Brown, Fundamentalism: Survival and Revival: A Review of the Literature.

Book Reviews

_General
By Donna Merwick, Representations.

_History and Politics
By David Rollison. Jean-Cristophe Agnew, Worlds Apart: The market and the theatre in Anglo-American thought. 1550-1750.

By Paul Crook, Hugh Brogan, The Pelican History of the United States of America.

By Lionel Fredman, George M. Brooke Jnr. (ed.) John M. Brookes Pacific Cruise and Japanese Adventure. 1858-1860.

By Roberto Rabel, John Lamberton Harper, America and the Reconstruction of Italy. 1945-1948.

By David McLean, Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr., American Ambassador: Joseph C. Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition.

By Ian Tyrrell, Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present.

By Graham White, Chester M. Morgan, Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal.

By Dennis Phillips, Ellen W. Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities.

_Literature

By Manfred McKenzie, Sacvan Bercovitch, Reconstructing American Literary History

By Elaine Barry, Lawrence Buell, New England Literary Culture.

By Mark Williams, John P. McWilliams Jr., Hawthorne. Melville. And The American Character: A Looking-Glass Business.

 
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VOLUME 7, NO. 1 JULY, 1988

Articles

Ian J. Bickerton, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel: A New Look

Jan Pilditch, Franklin`s `Sale of the Hessians`: American or European Satire?

R.A. Herr, Security and Ronald Reagan`s South Pacific: Experience and Legacy

Patricia Grimshaw, Gender, Race and American Frontiers: The Hawaiian Case

Review Essay


Donna Merwick, Violence as a Trait in Colonial North American Culture

Book Reviews


_General
By Lew Hird, Ralp E. Ehrenberg, Cartography and Remote Sensing Imagery

_History and Politics
By Anthony Disne,y Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man. The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology

By Rhys Isaac, Edward Countryman, The American Revolution

By Peter Bastian, Jerrilyn Marston, King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776

By L.E. Fredman, Peter Coleman, Progressivism and the World of Reform: New Zealand and the Origins of the American Welfare State

By John Salmond, Graham White and John Maze, Harold L. Ickes of the New Deal. His Private Life and Public Career

By Allan Johnston, Bruce Clayton and John A. Salmond (eds.). The South is Another Land: Essays on the Twentieth Century South

By Graham White, William Chafe. The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II

By Dennis Phillips, Joseph Camilleri, ANZUS: Australia`s Predicament in the Nuclear Age

By Richard Lucy, P. Hayes. L Zarsky and W. Bellow, American Lake

ÑLiterature
By Elaine Barry, Russell Reising, The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature

By Joan Kirby, Jerome Loving, Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story

By Brenda Niall, Richard Gray, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region



VOLUME 7, NO. 2, DECEMBER, 1988

Articles

Roberto Rabel, New Zealand and the United States in the Early Cold War Era, 1945-49

Elaine Barry, History, Fiction, and Myth: The Sub-Texts of Fenimore Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales

Conversations

David Goodman and Shane White, `The future is secure: it`s only the past that`s and uncertain`: An Interview with Lawrence W. Levine

Review Essays

Greg Bowen, Antebellum Parties and Party Systems

J.R. Goodall, Herbert Blau and The Eye of Prey

Book Reviews

ÑGeneral
By Paul Crook, Robert C. Bannister, Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940

By Christopher Corns, Frank Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

ÑHistory and Politics
By Richard Waterhouse, Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies. 1718-1775

By Ian Tyrrell, William McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic

By David Goodman, Hal S. Barron, Those Who Stayed Behind - Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England

By Roger Bell, Ronald Takaki, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920

By Peter J. Coleman, John A. Thompson, Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First World War.

By Patricia Grimshaw, John A. Salmond, Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason

By Dennis Phillips, Roberto G. Rabel, Between East and West: Trieste, the United States and the Cold War, 1941-1954

By David McLean, Henry Butterfield Ryan, The Vision of Anglo-America: The US-UK Affiance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943-1946

By Greg Tobin, Samuel P. Hayes, Beauty, Health and Permanence; Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985

By Peter Bastian, Gary Wills, Reagan`s America: Innocents at Home

 
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VOLUME 8, NO. 1. JULY, 1989

Articles

Peter Bastian, `To secure the approbation of the worthy`: The Political Journey of John Dickinson

Joan Kirkby, Melville`s `Tale of Love`: A Lacanian Reading of Pierre

Peter M. Sales, `A Little German Colony Here or There!` The U.S.-Australian Clash at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

Michael Spindler, The Prism of Estrangement: Placing the Fiction of Paul Bowles

Special Forum

Reflections On The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of ANZASA

Introduction
Neville Meaney
Paul Bourke
William J. Breen
James Tulip
John Salmond
Lionel Fredman
Elaine Barry


Review Essay

Shane White, Dancing in the Dark or Was Eighteenth-Century Virginia Reel?

Book Reviews


ÑGeneral
By Malcolm Prentis, John C. Dann (ed.), The Nagle Journal: a diary of the life of Jacob Nagle, sailor, from 1775 to 1841

By Roger Thompson, James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

By Leo Launitz-Schurer, Harvey Levenstein, Revolution at the Table: The transformation of the American Diet

By Lionel Fredman, J. Barton Starr, The United States Constitution: Its Birth. Growth and Influence in Asia

Resources

William J. Breen, Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Publications, 1964-1989


VOLUME 8, NO. 2, DECEMBER, 1989

Jennifer Clark, The Adaptation of Familial Ideology to the Post- Revolutionary Anglo-American Relationship

Trevor Code, Discourses and Contexts of Power: A New England Village Preacher as Case Study

Paul Crook, `ManÑThe Fighting Animal`: Belligerent Images of Humankind in the Anglo-American World, 1914-1918

Conversations

L.E. Fredman, An Australian Reflection on the Elections of 1988

Review Essays

Dennis Phillips. Paul Kennedy and `Relative Decline`: A Review Essay

Brian Edwards, The Tidewater Tales: A Review

Norman Harper Essay

Jenny Bray, `An Epoch of Commonplace Carnage`: The Atomic Bombs and the End of World War II

Book Reviews

By Warren Ellam, Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America`s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

By Ian Tyrrell, Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

By Roger Bell, Eleanor Nordyke, The Peopling of Hawaii

By Dennis Phillips, John Ravenhill, (ed.), No Longer an American Lake? Alliance Problems in the South Pacific

By James R Levy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, The Political Economy of Central America since 1920

 
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VOLUME 9, NO. 1, JULY, 1990

Articles

Gregory L. Bowen, Voters and Non-Voters: Electoral participation in Southampton County, 1851-1860

Ruth Blair, Queer Things Going On At the Antipodes -Art and Argument in Melville`s Typee

Keith Wilson, Black Bands and Black Culture: A Study of Black Military Bands in the Union Army During the Civil War

Keith Beattie, The Healed Wound: Metaphor and the Impact of the Vietnam War

Conversations

Peter Bastian, History and the High School: New South Wales as a Case Study

Dennis Phillips, A Response

Ian Tyrrell, A Response

Review Essays

Mark T. Berger, The Limits of Power and the `Lessons of History`: North American Neo-Liberalism and the U.S. Crisis of Empire in Central America

Joan Kirkby, `The Noble Savage as Continent`: A Review of Jean Baudrillard`s America

Norman Harper Essay

William L. Genders, Woodrow Wilson and the `Preparedness Tour` of the Midwest, January-February, 1916

Book Reviews

_General
By John Salmond, Jock Phillips, New Worlds? The Comparative History of New Zealand and the United States

_History and Politics
By Richard Waterhouse, Sharon V. Salinger, `To Serve Well and Faithfully`: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800

By Peter Bastian, Richard Waterhouse, A New World Gentry: The Making of a Merchant Class in South Carolina, 1670-1770

By Greg Tobin, Dwight L. Smith (ed.), Survival on a Westward Trek, 1858-59: the John Jones Overlanders

By Malcolm Campbell, Brian C. Mitchell, The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-1861

By Ian Tyrrell, H. Roger Grant, Spirit Fruit: A Gentle Utopia

By David McLean, Waldo Heinrichs, Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II

By Dennis Phillips, Richard O. Curry, Freedom at Risk: Secrecy, Censorship and Repression in the 1980s

_Literature
By Elaine Barry, William C. Spengemann, A Mirror for Americanists: Reflections on the Idea of American Literature

By Joan Kirkby, Rob Kores and Maarten Van Rossem, Anti-Americanism in Europe


VOLUME 9, NO. 2, DECEMBER, 1990

COMPARATIVE US-AUSTRALIA THEMES:
AN INTRODUCTION


Articles

Ian Tyrrell, Comparing Comparative Histories: Australian and American Modes of Comparative Analysis

Richard Waterhouse, The Beginning of Hegemony or a Confluence of Interests?: The Australian-American Relationship 1788-1908

Patricia Grimshaw, Writing About White Women in New Societies: Americans in Hawaii, Anglo-Australians in Colonial Victoria

David McLean, American and Australian Cold Wars in Asia

Lindsay Parry, Paul R. Hanna and the Expanding Communities of Social Reality: An Alternative Perspective

R. A. Herr, United States Interests in the South Pacific in the 1990s

Conversations

Joan Kirkby, What Ever Happened to Charles Harpur? Twenty Five Years in Australia from a U.S. Perspective

Dennis Phillips, On the Virtues of `Anti-Americanism`

 
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VOLUME 10, NO. 1, JULY, 1991

Symposium on Post-Modernism

Donna Merwick, David Goodman, Jane Goodall, and Greg Manning

Articles

Michael Spindler, Michael Herr`s Dispatches and the Cataclysmic View of War

Brian Edwards, Wolfe`s Bonfire and Barth`s Tidewater: An Essay in Cultural Politics

Rose Lucas, The Parturition of Memory: Toni Morrison`s Beloved

Roger Openshaw, `The Glare of Broadway`: Some New Zealand Reactions to the Perceived Americanization of Youth


Conversations

Keith Beattie, "`The Nineties are the Sixties.` Not so." An Interview with Todd Gitlin

Review Essay

Malcolm Campbell, Cultural Debility or Equal Opportunity? The Irish in North America

Book Reviews

By Michael Kammen, Richard Waterhouse, From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville: The Australian Popular Stage, 1788-1914

By Trevor Burnard, Rachel N.Klein, Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Back country, 1760-1808

By Steven C. Bullock, Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860

By Patricia Grimshaw, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

By Maureen Montgomery, Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii

By Renate Howe, Schmidt, `The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago `: A Political Biography of William E. Dever

By Peter Bastian, Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent

By Leo Launitz-Schurer, The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin

By Diane Collins, Geoff Lealand, A Foreign Egg in Our Nest? American Popular Culture in New Zealand


VOLUME 10, NO. 2, DECEMBER, 1991

Articles

Michael Fellman, Inside Wars: The Cultural Crisis of Warfare and the Values of Ordinary People

Chris Dixon, An Ambivalent Black Nationalism: Haiti, Africa, and Antebellum African- American Emigrationism

Charles Joyner, From Civil War to Civil Rights

Conversations

Shane White and Ian Hoskins, Writing the People`s History: An Interview with
Leon Litwack

Review Essays

Graham White, `Niggers Don`t Be Here When the Sun Goes Down`: Extreme Violence Against Blacks Outside the South

Ian Hoskins, Colonising the Margin: The Historiography of African-American Music and Dance

Book Reviews


By Elaine Barry, Joan Kirkby, Emily Dickinson

By Graham Hodges, John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861

By Ian Tyrrell, Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender. and Science in New England

By Trevor Burnard, Gary B.Nash and Jean R. Soderlund, Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath

By Jennifer Clarke, Michael Durey, `With the Hammer of Truth`: James Thomson Callender and America`s National Heroes

By Winthrop D. Jordan, Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders and Slaves in the Old South

By Robert L. Hall, Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

By Penny Russell, Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease, Ladies. Women and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston

By David Goodman, Mary Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880

By Ian Mylchreest, Elizabeth Collins Cromley, Alone Together: a History of New York Apartments

By J.Y. Wong, L. Eve Amentrout Ma, Revolutionaries, Monarchists and Chinatowns: Chinese Politics in the Americas and the 1911 Revolution

By Tom Dunning, Bruce Kuklick, To Every Thing A Season; Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia

By Ian Gordon, Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

By Carole Elizabeth, Jackie Byars, All That Hollywood Allows: Reading Gender
Adams in 1950s Melodrama

By Anthony Ashbolt, W.J. Rorabaugh, Berkeley at War: the 1960s & Berkeley in the Sixties. Directed and produced by Mark Kitchell

 

 
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