Other Books Received
The following books were recently received in the AHR office.
Books listed here do not include works scheduled for review.
METHODS/THEORY
BLACKBURN, SIMON. Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of SelfLove. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2014. Pp.
xi, 209. $24.95.
BRYSON, ANNA, and SEÁN MCCONVILLE. Assisted by MAIREAD
MCCLEAN. The Routledge Guide to Interviewing: Oral History, Social Enquiry and Investigation. New York: Routledge. 2014. Pp. 159. Cloth $110.00, paper $29.95.
DURKHEIM, EMILE. The Division of Labor in Society. Edited with
a new introduction by STEVEN LUKES. Translation by W. D.
HALLS. Paperback ed. New York: Free Press. 2014. Pp. liii,
362. $18.95.
DURKHEIM, EMILE. The Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method. Edited with a new
introduction by STEVEN LUKES. Translation by W. D.
HALLS. Paperback ed. New York: Free Press. 2014. Pp. xlii,
229. $18.95.
HULLIUNG, MARK. Sartre and Clio: Encounters with History. Paperback ed. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers. 2014. Pp.
ix, 159. $28.95.
KAPELL, MATTHEW WILHELM, and ANDREW B. R. ELLIOTT, editors. Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation
of History. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2013. Pp. xi,
388. Cloth $130.00, paper $39.95.
LEWIS, HERBERT S. In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation
of the Critique of Anthropology. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers. 2014. Pp. xvii, 244. $44.95.
SAHLINS, MARSHALL. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding
History as Culture and Vice Versa. Paperback ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 334. $20.00.
SPENCER, MARK G., editor. David Hume: Historical Thinker,
Historical Writer. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 282. $69.95.
COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL
ALDRICH, ROBERT, and KRISTEN MCKENZIE, editors. The Routledge History of Western Empires. (The Routledge Histories.) New York: Routledge. 2014. Pp. xvii, 522. $205.00.
AUERBACH, JONATHAN, and RUSS CASTRONOVO, editors. The
Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies. (Oxford Handbooks.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xii,
468. $150.00.
BETHENCOURT, FRANCISCO. Racisms: From the Crusades to the
Twentieth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 444. Cloth $39.50, e-book $39.50.
BUCHWALD, JED Z., and ROBERT FOX, editors. The Oxford
Handbook of the History of Physics. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 945. $175.95.
CHARVÁT, PETR. The Birth of the State: Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. Translated by DANIEL MORGAN.
Prague: Charles University Karolinum Press. 2013. Pp. 356.
$25.00.
ECKEL, JAN, and SAMUEL MOYN, editors. The Breakthrough:
Human Rights in the 1970s. (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press. 2014. Pp. vi, 337. $79.95.
FISHER, MICHAEL H. Migration: A World History. (The New Oxford World History.) New York: Oxford University Press.
2014. Pp. xiii, 149. $19.95.
FONER, NANCY, et al., editors. New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape. New York: New
York University Press. 2014. Pp. viii, 328. Cloth $79.00, paper $27.00.
FRANCES, RAELENE, and DEB N. BANDYOPADHYAY, editors. Remapping the Future: History, Culture and Environment in
Australia and India. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2013. Pp. x, 182. $67.99.
GENSHEIMER, THOMAS, and CELESTE LOVETTE GUICHARD, editors. World Heritage and National Registers: Stewardship in
Perspective. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
2014. Pp. xxv, 224. $49.95.
GRAN, PETER. The Rise of the Rich: A New View of Modern
World History. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.
2009. Pp. xxx, 269. $24.95.
GREENE, SUSAN W. Wearable Prints, 1760–1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University
Press. 2014. Pp. xv, 568. $100.00.
GROSSMAN, RICHARD S. Wrong: Nine Economic Policy Disasters
and What We Can Learn from Them. New York: Oxford
University Press. 2013. Pp. xxi, 266. $27.95.
HARMAN, OREN, and MICHAEL R. DIETRICH, editors. Outsider
Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 374. $35.00.
HORNING, AUDREY. Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in
the British Atlantic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 2013. Pp. xiii, 385. $49.95.
HUMPHRIES, JOHN. Search for the Nile’s Source: The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2013. Pp. xiii,
178. $30.00.
JAY, MARTIN, and SUMATHI RAMASWAMY, editors. Empires of
Vision: A Reader. (Objects/Histories: Critical Perspectives
on Art, Material Culture, and Representation.) Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press. 2014. Pp. xvi, 669. Cloth
$119.95, paper $32.95.
JÜTTE, ROBERT, editor. Medical Pluralism: Past, Present, Future.
(Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, number 46.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2013. Pp. 205. €39.00.
KOBLITZ, ANN HIBNER. Sex and Herbs and Birth Control:
Women and Fertility Regulation through the Ages. Seattle:
Kovalevskaia Fund. 2014. Pp. viii, 345. $19.95.
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LAUDANI, RAFFAELE. Disobedience in Western Political Thought:
A Genealogy. Foreword by ADAM SITZE. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. xxvi, 156. $29.99.
LEHNING, JAMES R. European Colonialism since 1700. (New Approaches to European History.) New York: Cambridge
University Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 310. $27.99.
LEICK, GWENDOLYN. Tombs of Great Leaders: A Contemporary
Guide. London: Reaktion Books. 2013. Pp. 320. $40.00.
LESLIE, SCOTT. 100 under 100: The Race to Save the World’s
Rarest Living Things. Foreword by STUART PIMM. New
York: HarperCollins. 2012. Pp. xiv, 300. $19.99.
LEVY, EVONNE, and KENNETH MILLS, editors. Lexikon of the
Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation. (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture.) Austin: University of
Texas Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 352. $75.00.
MAGUIRE, PETER, and MIKE RITTER. Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade. New
York: Columbia University Press. 2014. Pp. xxxiii, 236.
Cloth $27.95, e-book $26.99.
MALAY, JOHN, editor. Partly to Mostly Funny: The Ultimate
Weather Joke Book. With jokes from NORM DVOSKIN. Boston: The American Meteorological Society. 2014. Pp. xii,
217. $35.00.
MENDES, ANA CRISTINA, and CRISTINA BAPTISTA, editors. Reviewing Imperial Conflicts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing. 2014. Pp. xiii, 227. £44.99.
PARKER, BARRY. The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms.
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2014. Pp. 320. Cloth $25.95,
e-book $12.99.
PERKINS, IVAN. Vanishing Coup: The Pattern of World History
since 1310. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2013.
Pp. xxx, 343. Cloth $75.00, e-book $74.99.
POULSEN, NIELS BO, KJELD HALD GALSTER, and SØREN NØRBY,
editors. Coalition Warfare: An Anthology of Scholarly Presentations at the Conference on Coalition Warfare at the
Royal Danish Defence College, 2011. Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing. 2013. Pp. xiv, 185. $67.99.
PRIESTLAND, DAVID. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of
Power. New York: Penguin. 2012. Pp. 343. Cloth $27.95,
paper $17.00, e-book $11.99.
RIX, MARTYN. The Golden Age of Botanical Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. Pp. 256. $35.00.
ROBB, JOHN, and OLIVER J. T. HARRIS, editors. The Body in
History: Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future. New
York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. xxiv, 266.
$115.00.
STRACHAN, HEW. The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy
in Historical Perspective. Paperback ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 322. $29.99.
WIGAN, MICHAEL. The Salmon: The Extraordinary Story of the
King of Fish. London: William Collins. 2013. Pp. 360.
$26.99.
ZAGANO, PHYLLIS. Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest: A Crosscultural Anthology. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press. 2013. Pp.
xiv, 432. $27.95.
ASIA
FULLER, MICHAEL A. Drifting among Rivers and Lakes: Southern
Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History.
(Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph, number 86.)
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 526.
$59.95.
GAMBURD, MICHELE RUTH. The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 216. Cloth $80.00, paper $28.00, e-book $23.99.
HASE, PATRICK H.. Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
China: The Traditional Land Law of Hong Kong’s New Territories, 1750–1950. (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong
Studies.) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2013.
Pp. xi, 513. $60.00.
HÖLLMANN, THOMAS O. The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural
History of Chinese Cuisine. Translated by KAREN MARGOLIS.
(Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary
History.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2014. Pp.
ix, 198. Cloth $35.00, e-book $34.99.
HUDSON, MARK J., ANN-ELISE LEWALLEN, and MARK K. WATSON, editors. Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and
Public Perspectives. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
2014. Pp. xi, 257. $52.00.
KRUPNIK, IGOR, and MICHAEL CHLENOV. Yupik Transitions:
Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900–1960. Fairbanks:
University of Alaska Press. 2013. Pp. xxxii, 391. $60.00.
MITTER, PARTHA. Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art. New ed. New York: Oxford
University Press. 2013. Pp. xlvi, 390. $55.00.
PUGA, ROGÉRIO MIGUEL. The British Presence in Macau, 1635–
1793. Translated by MONICA ANDRADE. (Royal Asiatic Society Books.) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2013. Pp. xiv, 208. $50.00.
REEVES, MADELEINE, JOHAN RASANAYAGAM, and JUDITH
BEYER, editors. Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia:
Performing Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2014. Pp. x, 320. Cloth $85.00, paper $35.00, e-book $29.99.
STEUBER, JASON, and GUOLONG LAI, editors. Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges. (David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2014. Pp. 327. $60.00.
TARULEVICZ, NICOLE. Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural
History of Food in Singapore. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 204. $50.00.
TAYLOR, K. W. A History of the Vietnamese. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. xv, 696. $44.99.
THAPAR, ROMILA. Readings in Early Indian History. New York:
Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. x, 492. $75.00.
XUN ZHOU. Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Great Famine, 1958–
1962: An Oral History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University
Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 315. $35.00.
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
ACKERMAN, BRUCE. We the People. Volume 3: The Civil Rights
Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press. 2014. Pp. xi, 419. $35.00.
ALLEN, DANIELLE. Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. New York:
Liveright Publishing. 2014. Pp. 304. $27.95.
AN-NAIM, ABDULLAHI AHMED. What Is an American Muslim?
Embracing Faith and Citizenship. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. Pp. 217. $27.95.
ANTHONY, CARL SFERRAZZA. Ida McKinley: The Turn-of-theCentury First Lady through War, Assassination, and Secret
Disability. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, in cooperation with the National First Ladies’ Library. 2013. Pp.
xvi, 376. $45.00.
APPIAH, KWAME ANTHONY. Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois
and the Emergence of Identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press. 2014. Pp. 227. $18.95.
ARSENAULT, RAYMOND, and ORVILLE VERNON BURTON, editors. Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney.
Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books. 2013. Pp. xxxvi, 467.
$35.00.
ATKINSON, RICK, et al. On War: The Best Military Histories. Chicago: Pritzker Military Museum and Library. 2013. Pp. x,
253. $27.00.
BENNETT, DAVID H. Bill Clinton: Building a Bridge to the New
APRIL 2014
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Millennium. (Routledge Historical Americans.) New York:
Routledge. 2014. Pp. x, 280. Cloth $135.00, paper $29.95.
BERNSTEIN, MARK. John J. Gilligan: The Politics of Principle.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2013. Pp. viii, 495.
$45.00.
BOSTIC, JOY R. African American Female Mysticism: NineteenthCentury Religious Activism. (Black Religion/Womanist
Thought/Social Justice.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2013. Pp. xxiv, 179. $90.00.
BUONOMO, LEONARDO. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in
American Writing, 1830–1860: Reading the Stranger. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2014. Pp.
xiii, 201. $70.00.
BURSTEIN, MIRIAM ELIZABETH. Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820–1900. Notre
Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2014. Pp. x,
300. Paper $39.00, e-book $27.30.
CAHILL, RICHARD T., JR. Hauptmann’s Ladder: A Step-by-Step
Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping. (True Crime History
Series.) Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2014. Pp.
xiii, 402. $35.00.
CARLSON, AMANDA B., and ROBIN POYNER, editors. Africa in
Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State. Foreword by MICHAEL GANNON. (A Florida
Quincentennial Book.) Gainesville: University Press of
Florida. 2014. Pp. xviii, 462. $79.95.
CASTLE, IAN. Fort William Henry, 1755–57: A Battle, Two Sieges
and Bloody Massacre. Illustrated by GRAHAM TURNER.
(Campaign, number 260.) Oxford: Osprey. 2013. Pp. 96.
$21.95.
CAVE, ALFRED A. Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians
in Colonial Virginia. Paperback ed. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press. 2013. Pp. xv, 200. $24.95.
CHANDLER, ROBERT J. San Francisco Lithographer: African
American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown. Foreword by RON TYLER. Afterword by SHIRLEY ANN WILSON MOORE. (The
Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography
of the American West, number 14.) Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press. 2014. Pp. xvii, 246. $36.95.
CLAPP, JAMES A. The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts
on Cities and Urban Life. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, N.J.:
Transaction Publishers. 2014. Pp. xxxiii, 424. $89.95.
COFFEY, PATRICK. American Arsenal: A Century of Waging War.
New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. Pp. 328. $29.95.
COFFMAN, EDWARD M. The Embattled Past: Reflections on Military History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
2014. Pp. 201. $40.00.
COGLIANO, FRANCIS D. Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s
Foreign Policy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
2014. Pp. xiii, 291. $32.50.
COMBS, BARBARA HARRIS. From Selma to Montgomery: The
Long March to Freedom. (Critical Moments in American
History.) New York: Routledge. 2014. Pp. xii, 222. Cloth
$130.00, paper $29.95.
CONRAD, MARGARET, et al. Canadians and Their Pasts: The
Pasts Collective. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press.
2013. Pp. xii, 235. $32.95.
CONROY, JAMES B. Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865.
Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press. 2014. Pp. xxiv, 390. $27.95.
COSTIGLIOLA, FRANK, and MICHAEL J. HOGAN, editors. America
in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 376. $32.99.
CRAIN, ESTHER. With THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
New York City in the Gilded Age. New York: Black Dog and
Leventhal Publishers, Inc. 2014. Pp. 160. $29.95.
DAY, ANGELA. Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster. Pullman: Washington State University Press.
2014. Pp. xii, 265. $19.95.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
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DELLAPE, KEVIN J. America’s First Chaplain: The Life and Times
of the Reverend Jacob Duché. (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Cosponsored by the
Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century
Studies.) Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press. 2013.
Pp. xxii, 209. Cloth $75.00, e-book $74.99.
DERICKSON, ALAN. Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans
and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press. 2014. Pp. xiii, 224. $49.95.
DORN, T. FELDER. Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal
Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2013. Pp. xvi,
470. $49.95.
DOWELL, KRISTIN L. Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the
Canadian West Coast. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press. 2013. Pp. xxviii, 267. $50.00.
DRAKE, RICHARD. The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert
La Follette and U.S. Expansion. (Studies in American
Thought and Culture.) Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 533. $34.95.
DUNCAN, JASON K. John F. Kennedy: The Spirit of Cold War
Liberalism. (Routledge Historical Americans.) New York:
Routledge. 2014. Pp. x, 243. Cloth $130.00, paper $29.95.
DVORAK, JOHN. Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History
and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault. New York:
Pegasus Books. 2014. Pp. xviii, 254. $27.95.
DYJA, THOMAS. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream. Paperback ed. New York: Penguin. 2014. Pp.
xxxiv, 508. $18.00.
EAMON, TOM. The Making of a Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press. 2014. Pp. xiii, 402.
$39.95.
EISENSCHMIDT, ALEXANDER, and JONATHAN MEKINDA, editors.
Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation. Zurich: Park Books. 2013. Pp. 184. $39.00.
ENTZ, GARY R. Llewellyn Castle: A Worker’s Cooperative on the
Great Plains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2013.
Pp. xvi, 279. $50.00.
FAGIN, STEPHEN. Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Foreword
by CONOVER HUNT. Preface by EDWARD T. LINENTHAL.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2013. Pp. xxix, 238.
$29.95.
FELDMAN, RICHARD D., writer and editor. Family Practice Stories: Memories, Reflections, and Stories of Hoosier Family
Doctors of the Mid-Twentieth Century. Indianapolis: Indiana
Historical Society Press. 2013. Pp. xviii, 358. $24.95.
FERGUSON, ROBERT G. NASA’s First A: Aeronautics from 1958
to 2008. (The NASA History Series.) Washington, D.C.:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2013. Pp.
viii, 293.
FOSTER, THOMAS A. Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. (Sexuality Studies.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2014. Pp. x, 220. $28.50.
FREEBERG, ERNEST. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the
Invention of Modern America. (The Penguin History of
American Life.) Paperback ed. New York: Penguin. 2014.
Pp. 354. $17.00.
FRIEDMAN, JOAN S. “Guidance, Not Governance”: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa. (Monographs of the
Hebrew Union College, number 37.) Cincinnati: Hebrew
Union College Press. 2013. Pp. xxvii, 324. $34.95.
GANSON, BARBARA. Texas Takes Wing: A Century of Flight in the
Lone Star State. (Bridwell Texas History Series.) Austin:
University of Texas Press. 2014. Pp. xvi, 294. $29.95.
GARDELLA, PETER. American Civil Religion: What Americans
Hold Sacred. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. Pp.
xi, 368. $24.95.
GARDNER, IAN. Deliver Us from Darkness: The Untold Story of
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Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment during Market Garden. Foreword by MARIO DICARLO. Paperback ed.
Oxford: Osprey. 2013. Pp. 279. $16.95.
GAVIN, FRANCIS J., and MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE, editors. Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global
Challenges of the 1960s. (Reinterpreting History.) New
York: Oxford University Press. 2014. Pp. x, 301. $24.95.
GILLESPIE, MICHELE, and SALLY G. MCMILLEN, editors. North
Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times—Volume 1.
(Southern Women: Their Lives and Times.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2014. Pp. vii, 421. Cloth $79.95,
paper $26.95.
GLAZIER, JACK. Been Coming through Some Hard Times: Race,
History, and Memory in Western Kentucky. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2012. Pp. xviii, 278. $48.00.
GOUDSOUZIAN, ARAM. Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights,
Black Power, and the Meredith March against Fear. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. Pp. 351. $30.00.
GRECO, ANTHONY F. Chomsky’s Challenge to American Power:
A Guide for the Critical Reader. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 260. $29.95.
GROW, NATHANIEL, editor. Baseball on Trial: The Origin of
Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2014. Pp. 282. Cloth $95.00, paper
$35.00.
GUARDIA, MIKE. US Army and Marine Corps MRAPs: Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles. Illustrated by HENRY
MORSHEAD. (New Vanguard, number 206.) Oxford: Osprey. 2013. Pp. 48. $17.95.
GUELZO, ALLEN C. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. Paperback
ed. New York: Vintage Civil War Library. 2014. Pp. xix,
632. $16.95.
GUNDLACH, BRADLEY J. Process and Providence: The Evolution
Question at Princeton, 1845–1929. Grand Rapids, Mich.:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2013. Pp. xiv, 374. $39.00.
GUTFELD, ARNON. Treasure State Justice: Judge George M.
Bourquin, Defender of the Rule of Law. Foreword by GORDON MORRIS BAKKEN. (American Liberty and Justice.) Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. 2013. Pp. xix, 188.
$29.95.
HOLOWCHAK, M. ANDREW, editor. Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson’s Writings. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2014. Pp. vii, 192.
Cloth $80.00, e-book $79.99.
HONEY, MICHAEL K. Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African
American Song Tradition. (Palgrave Studies in Oral History.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. Pp. xix, 210.
$28.00.
HOWISON, JEFFREY D. The 1980 Presidential Election: Ronald
Reagan and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement. (Critical Moments in American History.) New York:
Routledge. 2014. Pp. xxi, 221. Cloth $130.00, paper $29.95.
JACOBS, DIANE. Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters. New York: Ballantine Books. 2014. Pp. xii, 499. $28.00.
JANIK, ERIKA. Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins
of Modern Medicine. Boston: Beacon Press. 2014. Pp. 337.
$28.95.
JIMERSON, RANDALL C. Shattered Glass in Birmingham: My
Family’s Fight for Civil Rights, 1961–1964. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press. 2014. Pp. xv, 297. Cloth
$39.95, e-book $39.95.
JOHNSON, NICHOLAS. Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition
of Arms. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2014. Pp. 379. Paper
$19.95, e-book $11.99.
KAHAN, PAUL. The Homestead Strike: Labor, Violence, and
American Industry. (Critical Moments in American History.) New York: Routledge. 2014. Pp. 164. Cloth $135.00,
paper $29.95.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
KAPSCH, ROBERT J. Over the Alleghenies: Early Canals and
Roads of Pennsylvania. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 2013. Pp. 449. $39.99.
KARLAN, PAMELA S. A Constitution for All Times. (Boston Review Books.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2013. Pp. xv,
183. $14.95.
KELLY, DANIEL. Living on Fire: The Life of L. Brent Bozell Jr.
Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books. 2014. Pp. xv, 253. $27.95.
KIBRIA, NAZLI, CARA BOWMAN, and MEGAN O’LEARY. Race and
Immigration. (Immigration and Society Series.) Cambridge: Polity Press. 2014. Pp. ix, 194. Cloth $64.95, paper
$22.95, e-book $18.99.
KOESTER, NANCY. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life. (Library of Religious Biography.) Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm.
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