Recent Scholarship
Transnational and Comparative
Bhalla, Vibha, “Detroit and Windsor as Transnational Spaces: A Case Study of Asian Indian Migrants,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 99–116.
Dawn, Leslie, “Cross-Border Trading: Mungo Martin Carves for the World of Tomorrow,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 159, Autumn 2008), 7–44.
Dyer, Gary, “The Transatlantic Pocahontas,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 30 (Dec. 2008), 301–22.
Frank, Alison, “The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of the Multinational Corporation,” American Historical Review, 114 (Feb. 2009), 16–41.
Frohnen, Bruce P., “Individual and Group Rights: Self-Government and Claims of Right in Historical Practice,” in Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso, 106–31. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.)
Fujimoto, Shigeo, “Trans-Pacific Boy Scout Movement in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the Boy Scout Movement in Osaka, Japan,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 29–43.
Hohenhaus, Ron, “The ‘Petrified Man’ Returns: An Early Mark Twain Hoax Makes an Unexpected Appearance in Australasia,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 83–103.
Longo, Julie, “Consuming Freedom: The International Freedom Festival as Transnational Tourism Strategy on the Windsor-Detroit Border, 1959–1976,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 119–37.
Michalek, Krysztof, “Levittown a Mies: Czy doswiadczenia z wczesnego okresu amerykanskiej suburbanizacji moga miec zastosowanie w Polsce?” (Levittown and Mies: Might an experience from an early period of American suburbanization be applied to Polish realities?), in Oblicze polityczne regionów Polski: Elity I spoleczenstwo, ed. Malgorzata Dejnowicz, 15–29. (Bialystok: Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoly Finansów I Zarzadzania, 2008. isbn 978-8-360-43237-2.) In Polish.
Mitrano, G. F., “Sontag and the Europeans,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 908–20.
Waite, Noel, “‘The Best Holidays on the Globe’: Charles Francis, American Typhothetae, and the Federation of New Zealand Master Printers,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 102 (June 2008), 175–95.
Ziólek, Magdalena, “Americanization as Globalization of Culture? Theories and Their Relevance for Polish Cultural Identity Today,” Polish Anglosaxon Studies (Poznan), 12–13 (2007), 105–28.
Comstock, Sandra Curtis, “Imperial Denim: The Place of Blue Jeans in the Consolidation and Transformation of American Power in the 20th Century” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3311588.
Gibbs, Jenna Marie, “Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Rights, and Revolution in Transatlantic Theatricality (1760s–1830s)” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3318238.
Harris, JuNelle, “A Law Apart? The Politics of Pioneering Legislative Family Law Reforms in England and the United States” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312388.
Hong, Christine Jean, “Legal Fictions: Human Rights Cultural Production and the Pax Americana in the Pacific Rim” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306167.
Mendelsohn, Adam D., “Tongue Ties: Religion, Culture, and Commerce in the Making of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora, 1840–1870” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3304023.
Shabazz Sanders, G. Rashad, “‘They Imprison the Whole Population’: U.S. and South African Prison Literature and the Emergence of Symbiotic Carcerality, 1900–Present” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317409.
Walsh-Russo, Cecelia Catherine, “‘The World Is My Country and My Countrmen Are All Mankind’: Transnational Diffusion of Anglo-American Abolitionism, 1824–1839” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317629.
Archer, Jermaine O., Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 128 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-99027-1.)
Colic-Peisker, Val, Migration, Class, and Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia and America. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 252 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03360-5.)
Howland, Douglas, and Luise White, eds., The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35231-6. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-22016-5.)
Howlett, Charles F., and Robbie Lieberman, A History of the American Peace Movement from Colonial Times to the Present. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. xxxvi, 584 pp. $149.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5092-9.)
Kapiszewski, Andrzej, ed., Swiat arabski w procesie przemian: Zmiany spoleczne i kultruowe oraz reformy polityczne (The Arab world in the process of change: Social change). (Kraków: Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2008. 383 pp. zl. 38.00, isbn 8-3718-8081-0.) In Polish.
Khalidi, Rashid, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. (Boston: Beacon, 2009. xvi, 308 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-8070-0310-7.)
Neville, Leigh, Special Operations Forces in Iraq. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2008. 64 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-357-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Schueller, Malini Johar, Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-colonial Citizenship. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. viii, 247 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7681-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7682-6.)
del Castillo, Bernal Díaz, and Davíd Carrasco, eds., The History of the Conquest of New Spain. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxx, 473 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4287-4.)
Qaimmaqami, Linda W., and Adam M. Howard, eds., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, vol. 24: Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969–1972; Jordan, September 1970. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2008. xxxii, 966 pp. isbn 978-0-16-079992-1.)
Shaler, William, Communication on the Language, Manners, and Customs of the Berbers or Brebers of Africa, trans. Ali Tablit. (Algiers: Thala Editions, 2009. 64 pp. A.D.300.00, isbn 978-9-947-83444-2.) In Arabic.
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