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Recent Scholarship

Transnational and Comparative

Allen, Ann Taylor, “The Kindergarten in Germany and the United States, 1840–1914: A Comparative Perspective,” History of Education (London), 35 (March 2006), 173–88.

Asada, Sadao, “Between the Old Diplomacy and the New, 1918–1922: The Washington System and the Origins of Japanese-American Rapprochement,” Diplomatic History, 30 (April 2006), 211–30.

Barton, H. Arnold, “Swedish America and the Genteel Tradition,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 57 (Jan. 2006), 14–32.

Boyer, Paul S., “Internationalizing American History: Some Post–9/11 Perspectives,” in Atlantic Passages: Constitution—Immigration—Internationalization, ed. Andreas Etges and Ursula Lehmkuhl, 140–45. (Münster: lit, 2006. 184 pp. 󌍍.90, isbn 3-8258-9344-8.)

Cha, Sangchul, “1950 Nyeondae Syungman Rhee gwa Hanmi Dongmaeng” (Syngman Rhee and the Korean-American alliance in the 1950s), in A Reappraisal of the 1950s in Korea, ed. Chung In Moon and Se Joong Kim, 343–69. (Seoul: Sun In, 2004. ₩ 30,000, isbn 89-89205-79-4.) In Korean.

Cross, Gary, “Crowds and Leisure: Thinking Comparatively across the 20th Century,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 631–50.

Desan, Christine, “Money Talks: Listening to the History of Value,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Fear, Jeffrey, and Christopher Kobrak, “Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 1–48.

Helleiner, Eric, “North American Monetary Union? A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prelude,” Common-Place, 6 (April 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Kim, Deok-ho, “Haebang Ihoo Hangku eseoeu Sobi wa Migukwha Munjae” (Consumption and the question of Americanization in Korea since 1945), Migukhak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies (Seoul), 37 (Fall 2005), 156–90. In Korean.

Kim, Nam Gyun, “Miguk Daetongnyung Seongeo Jaedo gwa Seongeo Munwha: 1948 Nyun gwa 2004 Nyun Daetongnyung Seongeo Bigyo” (The U.S. presidential election system and culture: A comparison of the 1948 and 2004 election), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 22 (Nov. 2005), 193–222. In Korean.

Kim, Youn-Jin, “Hanguk Eunron eul Tonghae Bon Miguk gwa Migukhwa: Imigi wa Damnon” (America and Americanization: Images and discourses in Korean journalism), Migukhak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies (Seoul), 37 (Winter 2005), 7–38. In Korean.

Manning, Patrick, “Interactions and Connections: Locating and Managing Historical Complexity,” History Teacher, 39 (Feb. 2006), 175–95.

McDonnell, Michael A., “Paths Not Yet Taken, Voices Not Yet Heard: Rethinking Atlantic History,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 45–61. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)

McElhinney, James L., “Lost in Our Own Backyard: How American Landscape Painting Lost Its Way,” American Arts Quarterly, 22 (Fall 2005), 13–18. Heavily illustrated.

McNeil, Daniel, “Afro(Americo)centricity in Black (American) Nova Scotia,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 35 (no. 1, 2005), 57–85.

Moon, Ji-Young, “Prangce Gisikin gwa Banmijueui Damnon, 1919–1939” (The French intellectuals and the discourse of anti-Americanism, 1919–1939), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 22 (Nov. 2005), 61–89. In Korean.

Offenburger, Andrew, ed., “Safundi and White Supremacy: An Introduction to Issue 21,” Safundi (no. 21, Jan. 2006) http://www.safundi.com. Special issue.

Orum, Anthony M., “Circles of Influence and Chains of Command: The Social Processes whereby Ethnic Communities Influence Host Societies,” Social Forces, 84 (Dec. 2005), 921–39.

Putnam, Lara, “To Study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 615–30.

Spierenburg, Pieter, “Democracy Came Too Early: A Tentative Explanation for the Problem of American Homicide,” American Historical Review, 111 (Feb. 2006), 104–14.

Sterling, Evans, “Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880–1950,” Agricultural History, 80 (Winter 2006), 35–63.

Thelen, David P., “What I Learned from Willi Paul Adams and Internationalization of the Journal of American History,” in Atlantic Passages: Constitution—Immigration—Internationalization, ed. Andreas Etges and Ursula Lehmkuhl, 133–139. (Münster: lit, 2006. 184 pp. 󌍍.90, isbn 3-8258-9344-8.)

 

Denis, Milagros, “One Drop of Blood: Racial Formation and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898–1960” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184859.

Guanhui, He, “Meiri duiwai yiuanzhuzhi bijiao” (A comparison of foreign aid between the United States and Japan) (Fudan University, China, 2003). In Chinese.

Hodge, Deckard Francis, “Expatriate Modernisms: Border Crossing in the 1920s” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3179379.

Hong, Zhang, “19shiji Yingmei guomin jiaoyu sixiang yanjiu bijiao yanjiu” (A comparison of U.K. and U.S. national education in the nineteenth century) (Beijing Normal University, China, 2004). In Chinese.

Keeling, Andrew Allan, “The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the usa, 1900–1914” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3187066.

Michaelidis, Gregory, “Salvation Abroad: Macedonian Migration to North America and the Making of Modern Macedonia, 1870–1970” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178605.

Runyon, Shane Alan, “Border and Rumors: The Georgia Frontier in the Atlantic World” (University of Florida, 2005). Order No. DA3178032.

Strobel, Christoph, “Contested Grounds: The Transformation of the American Upper Ohio Valley and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770–1850” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005). Order No. DA3179929.

 

Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Curthoys, Ann, and Marilyn Lake, eds., Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Hall, Marcus, Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xviii, 310 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8139-2341-7.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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