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Akman, Ayhan, “Esitlik çaginda demokrasilerin özgürlük sorunsali: Bireycilik, din ve siyaset üzerine Tocquevilleci bir tartisma” (Problematizing freedoms within democracies in the age of equality: A Tocquevillian discussion on individualism, religion, and politics), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 155–65. In Turkish.

Burns, Dave, “The Soul of Socialism: Christianity, Civilization, and Citizenship in the Thought of Eugene Debs,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 83–116.

Codignola, Luca, “Giorgio Spini Americanista” (Giorgio Spini, Americanist), Rivista Storica Italiana (Naples), 119 (2007), 204–44. In Italian.

Ivie, Stanley D., “The Legacy of William James,” Journal of Thought, 41 (Winter 2006), 117–36.

 

Cucu, Sorin Radu, “The Underside of Politics: Postmodernism, Political Mythology, and the Cold War” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3261987.

Eckel, Leslie Elizabeth, “Transatlantic Professionalism: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267240.

Farooq, Nihad M., “Sensing Subjects: Ethnographic Modernity from Charles Darwin to Richard Wright” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3264037.

Holbo, Christine Louise, “The Home-Making of Americans: The Invention of Everyday Life in American Literary Realism and Social Science, 1866–1911” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3267528.

Kafka, Linus Benjamin, “Cosmopolitan Connections: Henry Adams, His Circle, and the Global Gilded Age” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3272318.

Moreno, Michael Paul, “Paving through Paradise: Heterotopic Realms in Suburban American Literature” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3270447.

Muhovich, Edward A., “The New Technological Man: Constructing Technology, Masculinity, and Realism in the Works of Mark Twain” (University of Denver, 2007). Order No. DA3267989.

Perry, Katherine Denise, “Gender on Paper: Gender Performances in American Women’s Poetry, 1650–Present” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3265516.

Phillips, Christopher Nicholas, “The Uses of the Epic Impulse in American Culture, 1770–1876” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3267600.

Rohde, Joy Elizabeth, “‘The social scientists’ war’: Expertise in a Cold War Nation” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3271806.

Severson, Christine Kaye, “Living Liminality: A Study of Anne Whitney’s Sculpture, Poetry, and Letters” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3272103.

Shin, Moon-ju, “Emily Dickinson’s Ecocentric Pastoralism” (Marquette University, 2007). Order No. DA3263817.

Stratman, Jacob Hadley, “The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature” (Marquette University, 2006). Order No. DA3263798.

Weikle-Mills, Courtney Anne, “The Child Reader and American Literature, 1700–1852” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3268910.

 

Huxtable, Ada Louise, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life. (New York: Penguin, 2004. xx, 251 pp. Cloth, $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-03342-3. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311429-1.)

Kim, Hyung-Gon, Wonchikeui heem (Power of principle). (Seoul: Sallim, 2007. 199 pp. Paper, Won 11,000, isbn 978-89-522-0708-1.) In Korean.

Mullen, Patrick B., The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03265-3. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07486-8.)

Price, David H., Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxii, 370 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4219-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4237-3.)

Wood, Gordon S., The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. (New York: Penguin, 2008. 323 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59420-154-7.)

 

Davis, James C., So Far, So Good: A Historian’s Memoirs. (Philadelphia: P. M. Gordon, 2008. x, 148 pp. Paper, $10.00, isbn 978-0-9788636-2-3.)

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