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Acosta, Jesús Ángel Enríquez, “Migration and Urbanization in Nortwest Mexico’s Border Cities,” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Winter 2009), 445–55.

Chung, Kyung-Hee, “Yeoksa gyoyukeul duleossan hankuk gwa Mikukeui inyum nonjang bigyo” (The ideological controversy over the teaching of national history in Korea and the United States), Mikuthak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies, 40 (no. 3, 2008), 159–94. In Korean.

Gallegos, Brisa Violeta Carrasco, “Tijuana: Border, Migration, and Gated Communities,” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Winter 2009), 457–75.

Hardwick, Susan W., “Fuzzy Transnationals? American Settlement, Identity, and Belonging in Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 40 (Spring 2010), 86–103.

Jones, Ryan, “Lisiansky’s Mountain: Changing Views of Nature in the Russian America,” Alaska History, 25 (Spring 2010), 1–21.

Løtveit, Morten, “Pancho Villa and the Junta Constitucionalista: The Role of an Urban Middle-Class Group in the Formation of the Villista Movement in 1913,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Spring 2010), 131–53.

Marak, Andrae M., “Frontier Masculinity, Femininity, and the Ideological Cleansing of Borderlands Teachers, 1924–1935,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Spring 2010), 155–78.

Morgan, Brandon, “From Brutal Ally to Humble Believer: Mormon Colonists’ Image of Pancho Villa,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Spring 2010), 109–29.

Newton, Lucy, “The Birth of Joint-Stock Banking: England and New England Compared,” Business History Review, 84 (Spring 2010), 27–52.

Osborne, Thomas J., “Pacific Eldorado: Rethinking Greater Califoria’s Past,” California History, 87 (no. 1, 2009), 26–45.

Sangster, Joan, “Radical Ruptures: Feminism, Labor, and the Left in the Long Sixties in Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 40 (Spring 2010), 1–21.

Shpotov, B. M., “1930-e gody: ‘Velikaia depressiia’ v SShA i ekonomicheskie trudnosti v sssr” (The 1930s: The American Great Depression and economic difficulties in the ussr), in Mirovoi ekonomicheskii krizis kontsa 1920-kh–nachala 1930-kh gg.: Istoriia i sovremennost’. Materialy kruglogo stola 20 aprelia 2009 g. (The world economic crisis of the late 1920s to the early 1930s: History and modernity; The materials of the round table held on April 20, 2009), 65–73. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 142 pp. isbn 978-5-94067-278-4.) In Russian.

Yang, Kuisong, and Yafeng Xia, “Vacillating between Revolution and Détente: Mao’s Changing Psyche and Policy toward the United States, 1969–1976,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 395–423.

Yi, Hyunhwee, “Miguk daeoe jeongchaekeui gwanseup gwa 21 saeki mijung gwangaeeui jeonmang” (The prejudice of U.S. foreign policy and the prospect for Sino-American relations in the 21st century), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 29 (May 2009), 157–98. In Korean.

 

Adika, Prince Kwame, “Re-membered Kinship: African and African Diasporan Narratives of Return and Their Relevance in a Transnational World” (Illinois State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363850.

Christensen, Catherine, “Mujeres Publicas: Euro-American Prostitutes and Reformers at the California-Mexico Border, 1900–1929” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3363316.

Dudlo, Edward J., “Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598–1912” (Southern Methodist University, 2009). Order No. DA3356157.

Jang, Gyoung Sun, “The Sexual Politics of the Interwar Era Global Governance: Historicizing the Women’s Transnational Movements with(in) the League of Nations, 1919–1940” (Clark University, 2009). Order No. DA3357524.

de Jong, Jung-Whan, “Gender and Sexuality in Dutch, British, and U.S. Political Debates on Multiculturalism, Islam, and Muslims between 1999 and 2006” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3368683.

Lefebvre, Andrew Robert, “Forgotten by History: The Panama Canal in World War Two” (University of Calgary, Canada, 2009). Order No. DANR49613.

Slate, Nico, “Reflections of Freedom: Race, Caste, and the Shared Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India, 1914–1965” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365439.

 

Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov). (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Brandt, Anthony, The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. (New York: Knopf, 2010. xvi, 441 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-0-307-26392-6.)

Hillmer, Paul, A People’s History of the Hmong. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010. viii, 327 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87351-726-3.)

Kagan, Kimberly, ed., The Imperial Moment. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii, 250 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03587-4.)

Kurlansky, Mark, The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís. (New York: Riverhead, 2010. 272 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59448-750-7.)

Law, Randall D., Terrorism: A History. (Cambridge: Polity, 2009. xvi, 363 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-7456-4037-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7456-4038-9.)

Peterson, Derek, ed., Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. x, 235 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1901-4. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1902-1.)

Willmott, H. P., The Last Century of Sea Power, vol. 2: From Washington to Tokyo, 1922–1945. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. xxii, 679 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35359-7.)

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

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