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Australasian Journal of American Studies

Years 1992-1997


1992/ 1993 / 1994 / 1995 / 1996 / 1997


 
 

VOLUME I2, NO. 1, JULY, 1992

Articles (including Conversations)
Trevor Burnard, Ethnicity in Colonial American Historiography: A New Organising Principle

Anthony Ashbolt, Prodigal Sons and Political America: American Radicalism, Jewish Identity, Israel

Peter Bastian, The Australian Centre for American Studies: An Interview with E. Lynn Mathews

Review Essays
Edward Countryman, Of Midwives, Surveyors, Great Proprietors and White Indians

Shane White, Digging Up the African-American Past: Historical Archaeology, Photography and Slavery

Book Reviews
Ian Tyrrell, Shafer, Is America Different? A New Look at American Exceptionalism

Rhys Isaac, Carr, Menard and Walsh, Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland

Gwynedd Hunter-Payne Gilmore, Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835

Trevor Burnard Chestnut and Wilson, The Meaning of South Carolina History: Essays in Honour of George C. Rogers

Chris Dixon Bleser, In Joy and in Sorrow: Women, Family and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900

Robin L. Einhorn Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

David Goodman Gilbert, Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of l893

Michael Fellman Linenthal, Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields

Dolores Janiewski Clayton, W. J. Cash: A Life

Maureen Montgomery Walker, Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement,1966-1989

Anthony J. Barker Formisano, Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s

Damien McCoy Weibel-Orlando, Indian Country, L.A.: Maintaining Ethnic Community in a Complex Society


VOLUME 12, NO 2, DECEMBER, 1992

Articles (including Conversations)
John Perkins. Up the Trail from Dixie: Animosity toward Sheep in the Culture of the U.S. West

Ray Nichols. Of Arms and the Man: The Iran-Contra Affair as 'Representative Anecdote '

Michael Spindler Thorstein Veblen and Modern American Fiction

Maureen Montgomery The State of American Studies: An Interview with Leo Marx

Book Reviews
Ian Tyrrell Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Memory in American Culture

Jennifer Clark Ziff, Writing in the New Nation: Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States

Elaine Barry Railton, Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance

Warren Ellem Freehling, The Road to Disunion. Volume I: Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854

Stephen Garton Kirkby, Alice Henry:: The Power of Pen and Voice : The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer

Ian Mychlreest Coben, Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America

Graham White Greenberg, 'Or Does It Explode?': Black Harlem in the Great Depression

Yvonne Reineke Melosh, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater

Lionel Fredman Broadwater, Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade

David McLean Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-1961

Douglas Craig Chalmers, And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s

Ian J. Bickerton Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War

 
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VOLUME 13, NO.1 JULY, 1993

Introduction Ian Tyrrell

Articles (including Conversations)
Jim Levy and Peter Ross, A Common History? Two Latin Americanists View the Writing of US History in Hemispheric Perspective

John McQuilton, Comparative Frontiers: Australia and the United States

Ivan Coates Enforcing the Cold War Consensus: McCarthyism, Liberalism and The Manchurian Candidate

David Goodman, Comparative Urban and Suburban History: An Interview with Kenneth Jackson

Review Essays
Ian Gordon, The Drug of a Nation?: Television and Mass Culture

Jane Goodall Spaces of Possibility: Criticism and the Category Crisis

Book Reviews
Elaine Barry Bercovitch, The Office of the Scarlet Letter

Christine Ferrari Morrison, Jazz

Alan Gallay Usner, Indians. Settlers. and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783

Robert Blair St.George Garrison, Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860

Graham Hodges Malone. Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

Sharon Ann Holt Bynum. Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South

Richard Waterhouse Allen. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture; and Miller, The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore

Jill Dupont Lane. William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

Sandra Smith Holt. The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938

Carole Elizabeth Adams Scott, Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History

Peter J. Coleman Link. The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930

Penny Russell Norwood. Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923

Alessandra Lorini Blee. Women of the K/an: Racism and Gender in the 1920s

John Salmond Natanson. The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography


VOLUME 13, NO.2, DECEMBER, 1993

Articles
Graham White, Inventing the Past? The Remarkable Story of An African King in Charleston

Hazel Smith Performance, Improvisation and Technology: American Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetry

Sara L. Knox The Genealogy of Treason: Ethel Rosenberg and the Masculinist Discourse of Cold War

Review Essay
Ian Hoskins The Meaning of Spaces with Spaces for Meaning

Book Reviews
Brian Edwards Oriard, Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture

Doreen D'Cruz Morey, Religion and Sexuality in American Literature

Christine Ferrari Andrews (ed.), Six Women's Slave Narratives; and Stevenson (ed.), The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke

Manfred Mackenzie Swann, Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition and Revolution

Penelope Pether Bradbury, The Modern American Novel; and Wagner-Martin, The Modern American Novel 1914-1945: A Critical History

Heather Scutter Rieke, The Senses of Nonsense

Kenneth Payne Zogbaum, B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico; and Guthke, B. Traven: The Life Behind the Legends

Joan Kirkby Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Greg Manning Greenblatt, Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World

Trevor Burnard Merwick, Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences

Peter Bastian Lacey and Haakonssen (eds), A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law -1791 and 1991

Malcolm Campbell McCaffrey, Textures of Irish America

Peter Coleman Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel; and Demarest (ed.), 'The River Ran Red': Homestead, 1892

Barbara Caine Tyrrell, Woman's World/ Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930

William J. Breen Craig, After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934

Mary Spongberg Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

Andrew McFadzean Brinkley, Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71

Sara L. Knox Carmichael, Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War


Obituary
Paul Bourke, Hector Kinloch: In Memoriam

 
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VOLUME 14, NO.1, JULY, 1994

Article
Joe Atkinson The 'Americanisation' of One Network News

Norman Harper Essay
Hsu-Ming Teo 'Space ...The Final Frontier': American Nationalism and Mid-Twentieth Century Visions of the Future

Conversations
Shane White, 'Down By the Riverside': An Interview with Charles Joyner

Ian Tyrrell, Environmental History: The Contribution of Donald Worster

Review Essay
Lisa Daniel, Respecting Television: Two Studies of the World's Most Prominent Medium

Book Reviews
Ian Tyrrell Greene, The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800

Trevor Burnard Zuckerman, Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain

John C. Inscoe Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802

Shane White Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

Peter J. Coleman Miller, Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West

Dolores Janiewski Silber, The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900

Nicholas Gebhardt Peretti, The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

Rikki Kersten Hirano, Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945-1952

Sara Knox Thomas, Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe and Melville

Susan K Martin Gorsky , Feminity to Feminism: Women and Literature in the Nineteenth Century; Harris, 19th-Century American Women's Novels Interpretive Strategies; and Showalter, Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing

Christine Ferrari Mobley, Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative

Karen Rhodes Lutz, American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History

Penny Pether Grisham, A Time to Kill; Grisham, The Firm; Grisham, ` The Pelican Brief and Grisham, The Client

Harry Garlick Weinstein, Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns

Anthony Ashbolt Wilcox, V.F. Calverton: Radical in the American Grain

Paul Winward Hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

Anthony Ashbolt Bell and Bell, Implicated: The United States in Australia

Dennis Woodward Bell and Bell, Implicated: The United States in Australia


VOLUME 14, NO.2, DECEMBER, 1994

Articles (Including Conversations)
Christine Ferrari, Telling the Tale: Merging Orality and Print in the Fiction of Morrison and Silko

Manfred Mackenzie, American and/ or Post-Colonial Studies and The Scarlet Letter

Anthony Ashbolt. Postmodernity, Political Correctness and the Collapse of Ideology

Review Essays
Ian Mylchreest, The Making of Traditional Values

Dennis Phillips, A Nixon Retrospective

Hazel Smith, Formal Experimentation in Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Theory , Context and Process

Book Reviews
Marcus Rediker Mullin, Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831

Lucy Frost Namias, White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier

David Waldstreicher Young (ed.), Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism

Heather Scutter Paterson, Lyddie

Ruth Blair Melville, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land; and Melville, Correspondence

William J. Breen Ross, A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937

Gary Kinnane Hollinger and Capper (eds), The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook

Bruce Scates Cain, The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia

Graham White Lienesch, Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right

Anthony Ashbolt Pomper, Passions and Interests: Political Party Concepts of American Democracy

Ian Gordon Epstein (ed.), The Best American Essays: 1993

 
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VOLUME 15, NO.1, JULY, 1995

Articles (including Conversations)
David Goldstein-Shirley, Story and History: Rural Asian California around 1940

Gary Cross, Comparative Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Hartz Thesis in the Settler Societies of Nineteenth-Century United States and Australia

Keith Wilson ‘A Neglected Landscape': United States History in Australian High Schools

Ian Tyrrell and Shane White ‘Specialisation and History's Audiences: A Conversation with David Thelen

Book Reviews
David Goodman Levine, The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History

Donna Merwick Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonisation

Trevor Burnard Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

Barbara Melosh Smith, Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America

Richard Waterhouse Burk, Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920 and Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934

Kenneth Payne Bloom, Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman

John Salmond Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Penny Pether D' Acci, Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey

Greg Manning Riley, Divorce: An American Tradition

Ian Mylchreest McClay, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America

Mark T. Berger Morley, Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas: State and Regime in U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua 1969-1981

Resources
Dan Huon and Tom Dunning, Comparative History: Its Many Voices: Australia and the United States, 1788-1995


VOLUME 15, NO.2, DECEMBER, 1995

Articles (including Conversations)
Shane White, Slavery in New York State in the Early Republic

T. P. Dunning, The Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38: An Episode in Northern Borderland History

Ian Gordon, Mass Market Modernism: Comic Strips and the Culture of Consumption

Katherine Biber, The Emperor's New Clones: Indiana Jones and Masculinity in Reagan's America

Lyndon Fraser, Structure and Agency: Comparative Perspectives on the Catholic Irish Experience in New Zealand and the US

Keith Beattie Within and Without the Belly of the Behemoth: A Conversation with Andrew Ross

David Goodman and
Shane White, 'Who Built America?' The Interview

Book Reviews
David Goodman Rosenzweig, Brier, Brown, Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914

Alexander Porteous Kelley (ed.), The Portable Margaret Fuller; and Peck (ed.), A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851

James Gilbert Goodman, Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s

John David Smith Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870

Shane White Spencer, Blues and Evil

Dolores E. Janiewski Lipsitz, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s

Naomi Cameron King, Feminist Travels: Conversations in the U.S. Women's Movement

Dennis Phillips McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Elaine Barry Oates (ed.), The Oxford Book of American Short Stories; Wolff (ed.), The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories; and McInerney (ed.), Cowboys, Indians and Commuters: The Penguin Book of New American Voices

 
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VOLUME 16, NO.1, JULY, 1996

Introduction The 1995 Fulbright Conference: America's World; The World's America

Keynote Addresses
John Lewis Gaddis, On Moral Equivalency and Cold War History

C. Vann Woodward, The Aging of Democracies

Conversations
Alan Riach, An Interview with Robert Creeley

Articles
Scott Eastham, Global Village, or Global Pillage? The Ambivalent Centennial of Lewis Mumford and Buckminster Fuller

Steven J. Jackson and
David L. Andrews, Excavating the (Trans) National Basketball Association: Locating the Global/Local Nexus of America's World and the World's America

Victoria Carchidi, Schindler's List: At Home with the Holocaust, or Hollywood Atrocities

Jan Pilditch, 'Blue, Black and Bloodied': Narrative Voice and the Tattooed Body in Melville's Typee

Alexandra Marave,l Democracy and Free Trade in the Americas

Henry Albinsk,i American Priorities and Policies in Asia-Pacific

Stan A. Taylor, Foreign Policy Implications of Recent American Immigration and Assimilation Trends

Ian McGibbon, American Influences on New Zealand's Security Policy since the Second World War


VOLUME 16, NO. 2, DECEMBER, 1996

Articles (including Conversations)
Timothy W. Luke, Picturing Politics at the Exhibition: Art, History and National Identity in the American Culture Wars of the 1990s

Malcolm Campbell, Irish Nationalism and Immigrant Assimilation: Comparing the United States and Australia

Heather Neilson, Harold Bloom Approaches the Millennium

Anthony Ashbolt, Symbolic Politics and Cultural History

Review essay
Mark T. Berger, Power and Progress in the Americas: The Discovery of Latin American 'Underdevelopment' and the Cultural Antecedents of Modernization Theory

Book Reviews
Christine Ferrari Wagner-Martin and Davidson (eds), The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States and Davidson and Wagner-Martin (eds), The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States

Kym McCauley Leverich, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams

Harry Garlick Gray, The Life of William Faulkner

Andrew Markus Brawley, The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919-78

Julia Horne Brown, Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century

Trevor Burnard Dayton, Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

Roslyn Jolly Bradbury , Dangerous Pilgrimages: Trans-Atlantic Mythologies and the Novel l

Malcolm Campbell Gabaccia, From the Other Side: Gender and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990

Philippa Christmass Smiley (ed.), Best American Short Stories 1995

Brian Edwards Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Dolores Janiewski Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South and Salmond, Gastonia: 1929 The Story of the Loray Mill Strike

 
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VOLUME 16, NO 1, JULY, 1997 (The 1997 issues have been misnumbered having the same volume and issue numbers as the 1996 issues)

Articles
lAIN HAY Medical Liability and the Influence of Remote Reinsurers over U.S. Tort Law Reform

PETER BASTIAN Celebrating the Empire in the Changing Political World of Boston, 1759-1774

Norman Harper Essay
MICHAEL HENDERSON Professionals or Pariahs? Noam Chomsky, William Appleman Williams and the American Historical Profession

Review Essays
IAN TYRRELL Imagining America and its Landscapes: New Views from European American Studies

IAN GORDON All That Jazz: New York, Modernism, and Advertising

Book Reviews
STEPHEN GARTON Michael Meranze, Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

SEAN BRAWLEY Anthony J. Barker and Lisa Jackson, Fleeting Attraction: A Social History of American Servicemen in Western Australia during the Second World War

KATHY HERMES Peter Mancall, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America

MARK T. BERGER Roger Bell, Tim McDonald and Alan Tidwell (eds), Negotiating the Pacific Century: The 'New' Asia, the United States and Australia

CHRISTOPHER OLSEN Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats, Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America

SUSAN PAVLOSKA Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff (eds), The Seductions of Biography

IAN TYRRELL David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

]OHN SALMOND Ronald H. Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth Century Atlanta

ANDREW HONEY Ronald Segal, The Black Diaspora

FRANK BROEZE Robert Buzzanco, Masters of the War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era

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VOLUME 17, NO 2, DECEMBER, 1997 (The 1997 issues have been misnumbered having the same volume and issue numbers as the 1996 issues)

Articles
TIMOTHY W. LUKE Museum Pieces: Politics and Knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History

RICHARD PASCAL Naturalizing 'Ishi': Narrative Appropriations of America's 'Last Wild Indian'

MAREE-ANNE REID 'Kiss the Boys Goodbye': Clare Boothe Luce's Appointment as United States Ambassador to Italy

Review Essay
ROY SHUKER 'Rock On': Recent Popular Music Studies

Book Reviews
PETER STEELE Paul Mariani, Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell

DAVID GOODMAN Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era

MARK T. BERGER Lawrence E. Harrison, The Pan-American Dream: Do Latin America's Cultural Values Discourage True Partnership with the United States and Canada?

PHILIP DWYER Lloyd Kramer, Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Political Identities in an Age of Revolution

NANCY CUSHING W. David Kingery (ed.), Learning from Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture Studies

KAREN RHODES Karen Kilcup, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology

IAN TYRRELL Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris (eds), American Exceptionalism? US Working-class Formation in an International Context

ANGELINE O'NEILL Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo, et. al. (eds), Reinventing the Enemy: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America

PETER J. COLEMAN William J. Breen, Labour Market Policies and the Great War: The Department of Labour, the States and the First US Employment Service, 1907-1933

DAVID HEADON Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West, The Future of the Race

HEATHER NEILSON Susan Koppelmann, Women in the Trees: US Women's Short Stories about Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994

 
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