Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Atkins, Annette, “Style Comes to Staples,” Minnesota History, 60 (Fall 2007), 268–81. Heavily illustrated.
Carroll, Elizabeth, “The Answer to the Atom Bomb: Rhetoric, Identification, and the Grateful Dead,” Americana, 6 (Spring 2007), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Hisada, Yukako, “Between the Factory and School,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 17 (2006), 113–28.
Matsubara, Hiroyuki, “The 1920s Anti-prostitution Movement and the Transformation of American Political Culture,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 17 (2006), 53–70.
Ryan, James G., “Leadership in the Left Lane: Directions and Styles in the Communist Party of the United States, 1932–1957,” in Who’s the Boss? Leadership and Democratic Culture in America, ed. Hans Krabbendam and Wil Verhoeven, 75–86. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2007. 220 pp. Paper, €37.50, isbn 978-90-8659-073-5.)
Shields, David S., “The Search for the Cure: The Quest for the Superlative American Ham,” Common-Place, 8 (Oct. 2007), http://www.common-place.org.
Stauffer, Suzanne M., “In Their Own Image: The Public Library Collection as a Reflection of Its Donors,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 42 (no. 4, 2007), 387–408.
Anderson, Jennifer L., “Nature’s Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1720–1830” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3247347.
Hansen, Devon, “Shades of Change: Suntanning and the Twentieth-Century American Dream” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3240626.
Park, Sangyoub, “From Bowling Alone to Coffeeing Together: A Reinvestigation of the Alleged Decline of Social Capital in the United States” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3245428.
Rychkova, O. V., “Amerikanskoe obshchestvennoe mnenie o Sovetskom Soiuze, 1944–1945 gg” (American public opinion on the Soviet Union, 1944–1945) (Iaroslavl State Pedagogical University, Russia, 2006). In Russian.
Schweitzer, Marlis Erica, “Becoming Fashionable: Actresses, Fashion, and the Development of American Consumer Culture, 1893–1919” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2005). Order No. DANR22061.
Torii, Yusuke, “Swing Ideology and Its Cold War Discontents in U.S.-Japan Relations, 1944–1968” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3248465.
Forbes, Bruce David, Christmas: A Candid History. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 179 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-520-25104-5.)
Freedman, Paul, ed., Food: The History of Taste. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 368 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-520-25476-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Shirai, Yoko, Betonamu sensou no Amerika (The Vietnam War’s America). (Tokyo: Tosui shobo, 2006. 258 pp. ¥2500, isbn 4887083521.) In Japanese.
Stearns, Peter N., Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective. (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. xii, 201 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-1-59451-454-8. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-59451-455-5.)
Tsunematsu, Hiroshi, Vikutorian amerika no shakai to seiji (Toward a modern society). (Kyoto: Showado, 294 pp. ¥4000, isbn 481220545X.) In Japanese.
Uesugi, Shinobu, and Takayuki Tatsumi, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo: Amerika no bunmei to jigazo (Transboundary American Studies, vol. 1: American civilization and self-portrait). (Kyoto: Minerva, 2006. 360 pp. ¥3500, isbn 462304677X.) In Japanese.
Porter, Jeff, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xvi, 132 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58729-616-1.)
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