Recent Scholarship
Intellectual
Adams, Bluford, “World Conquerors or a Dying People? Racial Theory, Regional Anxiety, and the Brahmin Anglo-Saxonists,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (April 2009), 189–216.
Davis, Robert Scott, “New Ideas from New Sources: Modern Research in Reconstruction, 1865–1876,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Fall 2009), 291–306.
Gibian, Peter, “Doctor Holmes: The Life in Conversation,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 71–92. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Hall, Simon, “Scholarly Battles over the Vietnam War,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 52 (Sept. 2009), 813–29.
Haller, John S., Jr., “Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1842 Lectures ‘Homoeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions’: A Retrospective Look,” in Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, ed. Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, 23–38. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.)
Katô, Kôichi, “Aru hon no unmei” (The changing American views of the Chinese revolution of 1949: The ‘China lobby’ and American scholarship), Chikaki ni arite (Tokyo), 53 (2008), 47–63. In Japanese.
Kim, Jin Hee, “1930–40 Neyondae Miguk Jisikineu Daejungmunwha Insik” (The New York intellectuals and mass culture in the 1930s–40s), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Dec. 2008), 5–38. In Korean.
Kirshner, Jonathan, “Keynes, Legacies, and Inquiry,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 38 (Sept. 2009), 527–41.
Kramer, Carl E., “Louisville: An Intellectual Journey with Richard C. Wade,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 232–45.
Kurosaki, Akira, “Kakuheiki tono kyôzon o mosakusuru kagakusha” (The Pugwash conferences and American scientists’ quest for disarmament and stable mutual deterrence, 1955–1963), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 77–97. In Japanese.
La Vere, David, “The 1937 Chowan River ‘Dare Stone’: A Re-evaluation,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (July 2009), 250–81.
Lloyd, Brian, “Liberty Philosophy: Nationalism and the Making of American Pragmatism,” Science & Society, 73 (Oct. 2009), 498–531.
Macfie, Alexander Lyon, “A Possible (Common-Sense) Defence of (My) History: A Response to Keith Jenkins,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Sept. 2009), 345–55.
Maekawa, Reiko, “Bômei chishikijin no mita Amerika minshushugi” (American democracy from the perspective of an intellectual in exile: Hannah Arendt in the 1950s), in Amerika minshushugi no kako to genzai (The past and present of American democracy), by Eisaku Kihira, 195–226. (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2008. 334 pp. ¥4,725, isbn 978-4-62305-140-3.) In Japanese.
Malanson, Jeffrey, “‘Entangling Alliances with None’: John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and the Impact of Conflicting Interpretations,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 26–36.
Mandler, Peter, “One World, Many Cultures: Margaret Mead and the Limits to Cold War Anthropology,” History Workshop Journal (Oxford), 68 (Autumn 2009), 149–72.
Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Amerika ni okeru denshinshi no shakaishi” (A social history of the Morse-telegrapher in the United States: On the formation of the information-communication technology work), Joho-Tsushin Gakkai-shi (Tokyo), 85 (Jan. 2008), 59–68. In Italian.
McCoy, Michael B., “Barbarian Philosophe: Market, Modernity, and the Enlightment on James Smith’s Frontier,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Summer 2009), 217–49.
Muira, Nagamitsu, “Jon Rokku no shizenhô no fuhensei to haijokitei” (The universality of John Locke’s law of nature and its provisions of exclusion with regard to the relation between English colonists and Native Americans), Kokusai Kankeigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo), 34 (2008), 1–12. In Japanese.
Nakajima, Hiroo, “Châruzu Biâdo to nichibeikankei” (Charles A. Beard and Japanese American relations: Internationalism and isolationism), Ex Oriente, 15 (2008), 119–37. In Japanese.
Nichols, Christopher McKnight, “Rethinking Randolph Bourne’s Trans-national America: How World War I Created an Isolationist Antiwar Pluralism,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (April 2009), 217–58.
Nubiola, Jaime, “Reasonableness Really Is,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 45 (Spring 2009), 125–34.
Parent, Joseph M., “Europe’s Structural Idol: An American Federalist Republic?,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Fall 2009), 513–36.
Purnell, Brian, and Oneka LaBennett, “The Bronx African American History Project (baahp) and Approaches to Scholarship about/for Black Communities,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 7–23.
Richmond, Jesse, “Design and Dissent: Religion, Authority, and the Scientific Spirit of Robert Boom,” Isis, 100 (Sept. 2009), 485–504.
Robinson, Michael F., “Why We Need a New History of Exploration: Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Explorer in American Culture,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Smith, John David, “‘I Would Like to Study Some Problems of Heredity’: Felix von Lushan’s Trip to America, 1914–1915,” in Felix von Luschan (1854–1924): Leben und Wirken eines Universalgelehrten (Felix von Luschan (1854–1924): Life and work of a polymath), ed. Peter Ruggendorfer and Hubert D. Szemethy, 141–63. (Wien: Böhlau, 2009. 339 pp. Paper, €39.00, isbn 978-3-205-78146-2.)
Stradling, David S., “Cincinnati a Queen City? Only on the Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 219–31.
Widdicombe, Toby, “Utopia, Historiography, and the Paradox of the Ever-Present,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Sept. 2009), 287–316.
Alexander, Christopher W., “The Logic of Earth: Nineteenth-Century Precursors to the Poetics of Robert Duncan” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2009). Order No. DA3342138.
Ashurst-McGee, Mark Roscoe, “Zion Rising: Joseph Smith’s Early Social nad Political Thought” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338414.
Batt, Ronald Elmer, “Emergence of Endometriosis in North America: A Study in the History of Ideas” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2009). Order No. DA3342084.
Bellin, Roger, “Argument: The American Transcendentalists and Disputatious Reason” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3341284.
Burns, Sean, “Vernacular Strut: The Intellectual and Activist Legacy of Archie Green” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3338581.
Dilts, Andrew T., “Excess Punishment: State, Citizens, and Felon Disenfranchisement” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338337.
Downey, Brant, “W. I. Thomas and the Sociology of Sex Differences” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3341641.
Drucker, Donna J., “Creating the Kinsey Reports: Intellectual and Methodological Influences on Alfred Kinsey’s Sex Research, 1919–1953” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3337276.
Glick, Megan H., “Infrahumanisms: Race, Nation, and the Moral Economy of Embodiment in 20th Century U.S. Culture” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342594.
Kaufman, Scott Eric, “Maximal Diversity: Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory in American Fiction, 1895–1910” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3338383.
Mahady, Christine, “Corporeality in Turn-of-the-Century American Fiction” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335786.
Zalman, Sandra R., “A Vernacular Vanguard: Surrealism and the Making of American Art History” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341823.
Bass, Amy, Those about Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxiv, 198 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8166-4495-7.)
Borzyma, Andrzej, and Jeremi Sadowski, eds., Radio Wolna Europa w polityce polskiej i zachodniej (Radio Free Europe in Polish politics and the West). (Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Wolnego Slowa, 2009. 221 pp. isbn 978-83-924585-3-1.) In Polish.
Elias, John L., and Lucinda A. Nolan, eds., Educators in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. (Fairfield: Sacred Heart, 2009. x, 336 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-1-888112-18-4.)
Fatovic, Clement, Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x, 352 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9362-9.)
Fossat, Sissel B., Transnationale Historier (Transnational histories). (Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag, 2009.) In Danish.
Frank, Tibor, ed., Gyarmatokból impérium: Magyar kutatók tanulmányai az amerikai történelemröl (From colonies to empire: Hungarian researchers on American history). (Budapest: Gondolat, 2007. 366 pp. isbn 978-963-9610-63-7.) In Hungarian.
Gál, István, Magyarország és az angolszász világ (Hungary and the Anglo-Saxon world). (Budapest: Argumentum-oszk, 2005. 964 pp. isbn 963-446-325-8.) In Hungarian.
Hamington, Maurice, The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 226 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03476-3.)
King, Desmond, et al., eds., Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historial Analysis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii, 337 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9324-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9325-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Podolsky, Scott H., and Charles S. Bryan, eds., Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters. (Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications/usa, 2009. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-88135-379-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88135-381-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Sørensen, Nils Arne, “Kulturmøder, Selvamerikanisering og Imperialisme: Om U.S. Amerikaniseringen af Europa” (Self-Americanization and Imperialism: On usa’s), in Transnationale Historier (Transnational histories), by Sissel B. Fossat, 181–96. (Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag, 2009.) In Danish.
Tatsumi, Takayuki, ed., Hanchisei no teikoku (Anti-intellectualism in American literary history). (Tokyo: Nan’un-dô, 2008. 312 pp. ¥3,333, isbn 978-4-523-29306-4.) In Japanese.
Royce, Josiah, Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems, ed. Scott L. Pratt and Shannon Sullivan. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. x, 281 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3132-4. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-8232-3133-1.) Originally published in 1908.
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