Recent Scholarship
Intellectual
Barrow, Clyde W., “Plain Marxists, Sophisticated Marxists, and C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite,” Science & Society, 71 (Oct. 2007), 400–430.
Batalov, E. Ia., “Ideia demokratii v Amerike XX veka” (The idea of democracy in twentieth-century America), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Kul’tura (Moscow), 4 (2007), 3–26. In Russian.
Gouge, Catherine, “The American Frontier: History, Rhetoric, Concept,” Americana, 6 (Spring 2007), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Moen, Ole O., “usa: En nasjon av selskapssyke individualister?” (The usa: A nation of gregarious individualists?), in Tenk nettverk (Think network), ed. Kerstin Marthinsen, 44–64. (Oslo: Vidarforlaget, 2006. 223 pp. $298.00, isbn 978-82-7990-057-3.) In Norwegian.
Moen, Ole O., “1968—skjebneåret i etterkrigs-usa” (1968—the fateful year in postwar U.S. history), Arr: Idéhistorisk Tidsskrift (Oslo) (no. 2, 2006), 119–31. In Norwegian.
Överland, Orm, “The Reception of Ibsen in the United States: A Mirror of Cultural and Political Concerns,” Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philologia (Cluj-Napoca), 51 (no. 3, 2006), 93–103.
Parsons, Jotham, “Defining the History of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 68 (Oct. 2007), 683–99.
Silverman, Sydel, “American Anthropology in the Middle Decades: A View from Hollywood,” American Anthropologist, 109 (Sept. 2007), 519–28.
Bundrick, Christopher, “Region, Narration, and National Authority: Genre and Resistance in Turn-of-the-Century Southern Regionalism” (University of Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3245994.
Hardman, Thomas Brian, “Contested Terrain: Nature Writing and the Shaping of American Culture” (University of Arkansas, 2006). Order No. DA3247132.
Moroz, E. V., “Fenomen totalitarizma v amerikanskoi istoriografii (1930-e–1980-e gody)” (The phenomenon of totalitarianism in American historiography, 1930s–1980s) (Kemerovo State University, Russia, 2006). In Russian.
Sanders, Michael T., “Theodore Dreiser’s Encounters with American Romanticism” (Kent State University, 2006). Order No. DA3243926.
Schrag, Mitzi, “Rei(g)ning Mediums: Spiritualism and Social Controls in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (University of Washington, 2006). Order No. DA3241951.
Scott, Jennifer A., “You Can Go Home Again: Re-Constructing Nostalgia in the American Imagination” (Ohio University, 2006). Order No. DA3250715.
Veltman, Laura J., “Uncle Tom’s Nation: Race, Religion, and the American Paradise” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3245598.
Cohen, Daniel J., Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii, 242 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8553-2.)
Danisch, Robert, Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 190 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-690-3.)
Goldwag, Arthur, ’Isms & ’Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies, & Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World. (New York: Vintage, 2007. xxii, 388 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-307-27907-1.)
Moroz, E. V., Fenomen totalitarizma v amerikanskoi istoriografii (1930-e–1950-e gody) (The phenomenon of totalitarianism in American historiography [1930s–1950s]). (Moscow: Izdatel’skoe ob’edinenie Rossiiskie universitety Kuzbassvuzizdat: ASTSH, 2006. 224 pp. $25.00, isbn 5-202-00909-7.) In Russian.
Nagai, Tsutomu, Amerika chishikijin ron (American intellectuals and American critical theory). (Tokyo: Sofusha, 2006. 368 pp. ¥3200, isbn 4883520994.) In Japanese.
Robinson, Forrest G., The Author-Cat: Clemen’s Life in Fiction. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. xviii, 242 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8232-2787-7.)
Stanlis, Peter J., Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher. (Wilmington, Del.: ISI, 2007. xxvi, 452 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-933859-20-0.)
Farrell, James T., No Star Is Lost. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. lx, 482 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03174-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07422-6.) Originally published in 1938.
Fenton, William N., Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers, ed. Jack Campisi and William A. Starna. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 204 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-2021-8.)
McAdams, A. James, ed., The Crisis of Modern Times: Perspectives from The Review of Politics, 1939–1962. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. xiv, 444 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-268-03505-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-268-03506-8.)
Vare, Robert, ed., with Daniel B. Smith, The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly, 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History. (New York: Doubleday, 2007. xxviii, 647 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-385-52108-6.)
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