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Barksdale, Kevin T., “The Spanish Conspiracy on the Trans-Appalachian Borderlands, 1786–1789,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 96–123.

Bourdieu, Jérôme, Joseph P. Ferrie, and Lionel Kesztenbaum, “Vive la Différence? Intergenerational Mobility in France and the United States during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 39 (Spring 2009), 523–57.

Carbone, Valeria Lourdes, “Cuando la Guerra Fría llegóa América Latina” (When the Cold War arrived in Latin America), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 275–96. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.

De Andrés Martín, Juan Ramón, “La reacción realista ante las conspiraciones insurgentes en la frontera de Texas (1809–1813)” (The royalist reaction to insurgent conspiracies on the Texas border (1809–1813)), Secuencia (Mexico City) (no. 71, 2008), 35–62. In Spanish.

Douet, James, “The Turnkey Factory: Technology Transfer from America to Spain in the Portland Cement Industry,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 33 (no. 1, 2007), 27–37.

Duguid, Paul, “French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 3–37.

Green, Nancy L., “Expatriation, Expatriates, and Expats: The American Transformation of a Concept,” American Historical Review, 114 (April 2009), 307–28.

Grinev, A. V., “Kolonial’nye grazhdane Russkoi Ameriki: Problema formirovaniia postoiannogo russkogo naseleniia v Novom Svete” (Colonial citizens in Russian America: Problems of forming a constant Russian population in the New World), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 179–210. In Russian.

Handler, Jerome S., “The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (March 2009), 1–26.

Hansen, Taylor, and Lawrence Douglas, “Los proyectos de colonización de la región de Colnett, Baja California, con inmigrantes extranjeros durante el Porfiriato” (Colonizing projects with foreign immigrants in the Colnett region, Baja California, during Porfirio Diaz’s period), Secuencia (Mexico City) (no. 69, 2007), 38–60. In Spanish.

Kazakova, O. Yu., “Amerikanskaia tema v russkoi poesii 1850-kh–1860-kh” (American themes in Russian poetry of the 1850s–1860s), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 211–36. In Russian.

Lifshey, Adam, “The Borderlands Poetics of Bruce Springsteen,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (May 2009), 221–41.

Lópes, Maria-Aparecida, “El intercambio en la frontera norte de México: Commercio internacional en el ámbito regional (1850–1884)” (Trade on Mexico’s northern border: International trade in the regional sphere (1850–1884)), Secuencia (Mexico City) (no. 73, 2009), 63–84. In Spanish.

Smithers, Gregory D., “‘Black Gentleman as Good as White’: A Comparative Analysis of African American and Australian Aboriginal Political Protests, 1830–1865,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Summer 2008), 315–36.

Stocka, Anna, “Echa obchodów setnej roczicy podpisania przez usa Deklaracji Niepodleglosci w prasie warszawskiej” (The centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: Echoes in the Warsaw press), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 6, 2008), 95–112. In Polish.

Suárez Argüello, Ana Rosa, “Imaginar a la patria en la distancia: Cuatro viajeros mexicanos en Estados Unidos a fines de la primera república federal” (Imagining the country home from far away: Four Mexican travelers in the United States at the end of the first federal republic), in La construcción del discurso nacional en México: Un anhelo persistente (The construction of a national discourse in Mexico: A persistent yearning), ed. Nicole Giron, 71–107. (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2007. isbn 978-970-684-165-0.) In Spanish.

Takai, Yukari, “‘These Japanese Continuously Violated the Alien-Contract Labour Laws’: The Gendered Paths of Labourers, Farmers, and Housewives from Japan Traversing the Canada-U.S. Border in the Early Twentieth Century,” Social History (Toronto), 40 (Nov. 2007), 297–322.

Wiesen, Jonathan, “Service above Self? Rotary Clubs, National Socialism, and Transnational Memory in the 1960s and 1970s,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 23 (Spring 2009), 1–25.

Wilkins, Fanon Che, “The Making of Black Internationalists: sncc and Africa before the Launching of Black Power, 1960–1965,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Fall 2007), 467–90.

 

Bohme, Susanna Rankin, “dbcp in the United States and Central America: Body, Nation, and Transnationalism in the History of a Toxic Product” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3318291.

Daigle, Craig A., “The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969–1973” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3311383.

Németh-Jesurún, Nancy, “The Third Life: Sixteen Holocaust Survivors in El Paso” (University of Texas, El Paso, 2008). Order No. DA3311416.

Pennington, Christopher John, “The Continentalist Movement in the Politics of Canada and the United States, 1887–1894” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39518.

Starkweather, Sarah, “Defining Extraterritorial Citizenship: The Case of American Citizens Living Abroad” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3318458.

Walsh, Ellen, “‘Advancing the Kingdom’: Missionaries and Americanization in Puerto Rico, 1898–1930s” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3322379.

 

Andress, David, 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008. xii, 439 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-374-10013-1.)

Baxter, John O., Cowboy Park: Steer-Roping Contests on the Border. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xxviii, 236 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-89672-642-0.)

Benjamin, Thomas, The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians, and Their Shared History, 1400–1900. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxx, 721 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-521-85099-5. Paper, $44.99, isbn 978-0-521-61649-2.)

Black, Jeremy, Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century. (New York: Continuum, 2008. viii, 216 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-84725-243-2.)

Corti, Paola, and Matteo Sanfilippo, eds., Storia d’Italia: Annali 24; Migrazioni. (Turin: Einaudi, 2009. 804 pp. €95.00, isbn 978-88-061-8887-0.)

Corzo González, Diana, La política exterior mexicana ante la nueva doctrina Monroe, 1904–1907 (Mexican foreign policy regarding the New Monroe Doctrine, 1904–1907). (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2005. 123 pp. Pesos 132.00, isbn 970-684-122-9.) In Spanish.

Davies, Bruce, The Battle at Ngok Tavak: Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xxii, 242 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-89672-658-1.)

Dillon, Lisa, The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 352 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-773-53323-3.)

Giron, Nicole, ed., La construcción del discurso nacional en México: Un anhelo persistente (The construction of a national discourse in Mexico: A persistent yearning). (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2007. isbn 978-970-684-165-0.) In Spanish.

Hill, Christopher L., National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4298-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4316-5.)

Mathis-Moser, Ursula, and Günter Bischof, eds., Acadiens et Cajuns: Politique et culture de minorités francophones en Amérique du Nord (Acadians and Cajuns: The politics and culture of French minorities in North America). (Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2009. 203 pp. Paper, €19.90, isbn 978-3-902571-93-9.) In English and French.

Neset, Arne, Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas: The Iconology of Waterscapes in Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Culture. (New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 296 pp. $67.95, isbn 1-4331-0297-8.)

Ocampo, Emilio, The Emperor’s Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xxiv, 503 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1646-4.)

Parrish, Thomas, To Keep the British Isles Afloat: fdr’s Men in Churchill’s London, 1941. (New York: Collins, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $26.99, isbn 978-0-06-135793-0.)

Teigrob, Robert, Warming Up to the Cold War: Canada and the United States’ Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 312 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-802-09923-5.)

Walkowitz, David J., and Lisa Maya Knauer, Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. viii, 365 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4217-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4217-5.)

Weber, David J., The Spanish Frontier in North America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xvi, 298 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-300-14068-2.) Brief edition.

Wieciech, Tomasz, Ustroje federalne Stanów Zjednoczonych, Kanady, i Australii (Federal systems of the United States, Canada, and Australia). (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2009. 312 pp. zl. 34.20, isbn 978-8-323-32656-4.) In Polish.

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