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Bridgen, Lorene, “On Their Own Terms: Temperance in Southern Ontario’s Black Community (1830–1860),” Ontario History (Willowdale), 101 (Spring 2009), 64–82.

Brouns, Thomas, “Exploiting Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan,” Military Review, 89 (July–Aug. 2009), 10–20.

Carey, Elaine, “‘Selling Is More of a Habit Than Using’: Narcotraficante Lola la Chata and Her Threat to Civilization, 1930–1960,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 62–89.

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.

Grigg, John A., “‘How This Shall Be Brought About’: The Development of the sspck’s American Policy,” Itinerario (Leiden), 32 (no. 3, 2008), 43–60.

Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri, “Architects of a Masquerade Peace: The United States and the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 20 (2009), 67–88.

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.

Kaye, Anthony E., “The Second Slavery: Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century South and the Atlantic World,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (August 2009), 627–50.

Kolchin, Peter, “The South and the World,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 565–80.

Kupper, Patrick, “Science and the National Parks: A Transatlantic Perspective on the Interwar Years,” Environmental History, 14 (Jan. 2009), 58–81.

Logan, Trevon D., “The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (June 2009), 388–408.

Martinez-Catsam, Ana, “Frontier of Dissent: El Regidor, the Regime of Porfirio Díaz, and the Transborder Community,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (April 2009), 389–408.

O’Sullivan, Christopher, and Manaf Damluji, “The Origins of American Power in Iraq, 1941–1945,” Peace & Change, 34 (July 2009), 238–59.

Okada, Yasuhei, “Tasha toshiteno Firipinjin no keiseil Firipin Shokuminchi kyoiku o meguro ekkyotekina kyoiku shakaishi no kokoromi” (The formation of the Filipino as the other: An attempt at crossing a border in the social history of education), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 707, 2009), 63–78. In Japanese.

Ono, Hiromi, “Husbands’ and Wives’ Education and Divorce in the United States and Japan, 1946–2000,” Journal of Family History, 34 (July 2009), 292–322.

Parascandola, John, “From Mercury to Miracle Drugs: Syphilis Therapy over the Centuries,” Pharmacy in History, 51 (no. 1, 2009), 14–23.

Poyo, Gerald E., “Baseball in Key West and Havana, 1885–1910: The Career of Francisco A. Poyo,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Spring 2009), 540–64.

Sakade, Takeshi, “Kakufukakusan rejimu to gunji sangyo kiban: 1966 nen nato kiki o meguru Bei-Ei-Doku Kaku gunjihi kosho (1966 Nen 3 Gatsu–1967 Nen 4 Gatsu)” (npt regime and defense industrial base: U.S., U.K., and West Germany nuclear and military expenditure negotiations (March 1966–April 1967) surrounding the nato crisis of 1966), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 99–118. In Japanese.

Sakai, Keiko, “Chuto niokeru Hanbei Ishiki no Rekishikiteki Tenkai” (The historical development of anti-Americanism in the Middle East), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 28–35. In Japanese.

Seltzer, Catherine, “Exploding the Canon/Cannon: Elizabeth Spencer’s The Light in the Piazza,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 100–127.

Shimizu, Hiroshi, and Takashi Hirao, “Inter-organizational Collaborative Research Networks in Semiconductor Lasers, 1975–1994,” Social Science Journal, 46 (June 2009), 233–51.

Smith, Michael M., “General Rafael Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Border Crisis of 1877,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Jan. 2009), 235–60.

Yoshii, Midori, “Reducing the American Burden? U.S. Mediation between South Korea and Japan, 1961–1965,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 20 (2009), 47–66.

Zimmer, Kenyon, “Premature Anti-Communists? American Anarchism, the Russian Revolution, and Left-Wing Libertarian Anti-Communism, 1917–1939,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Summer 2009), 45–71.

 

Baer, Robert V., “Power and Freedom: Political Thought and Constitutional Politics in the United States and Argentina” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320764.

Fulwider, Chad, “The Kaiser’s Most Loyal Subjects? The German View of America and German-Americans during World War I” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3332322.

Garcia, Ivonne Marie, “Anticipating 1898: Writings of U.S. Empire on Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, and Hawai‘i” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3324111.

Hsu, Hua, “Pacific Crossings: China, the United States, and the Transpacific Imagination” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3334741.

Moniz, Amanda Bowie, “‘Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760–1815” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3328913.

Robinson, Sara Libby, “Blood Will Tell: Blood and Vampires as Metaphors in the Political and Popular Cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1870–1914” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3316480.

 

Bradley, Mark Philip, Vietnam at War. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi, 233 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-19-280349-8.)

Chávez, John R., Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400–2000. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 292 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-51667-9. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-0-521-73633-6.)

Collet, Christian, and Pei-te Lien, eds., The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xvi, 235 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-1-59213-860-9. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-59213-861-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Curry, Dawne, Y., Eric D. Duke, and Marshanda A. Smith, eds., Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xx, 306 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03459-6. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07652-7.)

Darian-Smith, Kate, Patricia Grimshaw, and Stuart Macintyre, eds., Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures. (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2007. 302 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-522-85392-6.)

Madden, Thomas F., Empires of Trust: How Rome Built—and America Is Building—a New World. (New York: Plume, 2008. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $25.95, isbn 978-0-525-95074-5. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-452-29545-2.)

Mancall, Peter C., Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson; A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic. (New York: Basic, 2009. 303 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-465-00511-6.)

Manheim, Frank T., The Conflict over Environmental Regulation in the United States: Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons with the eu and Other Regions. (Brooklyn: Springer, 2009. xviii, 317 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-387-75876-3.)

Manning, Patrick, The African Diaspora: A History through Culture. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxiv, 394 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-231-14470-4.)

Maybury-Lewis, David, Theodore Macdonald, and Biorn Maybury-Lewis, eds., Manifest Destinies and Indigenous Peoples. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. viii, 258 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03313-9.)

Mirowski, Philip, and Dieter Plehwe, eds., The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. viii, 469 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-674-03318-4.)

Noll, Mark A., The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith. (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2009. 212 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8308-2847-0.)

Pennybacker, Susan D., From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xviii, 382 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-691-08828-0. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-691-14186-2.)

Ruggendorfer, Peter, and Hubert D. Szemethy, eds., Felix von Luschan (1854–1924): Leben und Wirken eines Universalgelehrten (Felix von Luschan (1854–1924): Life and work of a polymath). (Wien: Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009. 339 pp. Paper, €39.00, isbn 978-3-205-78146-2.) In German.

Sonoda, Setsuko, Nanboku Amerika Kamin to kindai Chugoku: 19 seiki toransu-nashonaru maigureshon (Chinese in South and North Americas and modern China: Nineteenth-century transnational migration). (Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2009. 350 pp. ¥7,400, isbn 978-4-13026-136-4.) In Japanese.

Sweig, Julia E., Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxiv, 279 pp. Cloth, $74.00, isbn 978-0-19-538379-9. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-538380-5.)

Takamitsu, Yoshie, Amerika to senkan-ki no Higashi Ajia: Ajia-Taiheiyo kokusai chitsujo keisei to “gurobarizeshon” (The United States and East Asia in the interwar era: The formation of international order in the Asia-Pacific region and “globalization”). (Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2008. 206 pp. ¥3,570, isbn 978-4-78722-026-4.) In Japanese.

Tully, Anthony P., Battle of Surigao Strait. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xx, 329 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-253-35242-2.)

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