Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Edmonds, Michael, “On the Trail of Paul Bunyon,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Summer 2008), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Howard, Judith A., “Home at the Mouth of the Mississippi,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 69–88.
Lockwood, J. Samaine, “Shopping for the Nation: Women’s China Collecting in Late-Nineteenth-Century New England,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 63–90.
Manuel, Jeffrey T., “The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music’s ‘Social Origins,’” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Oct. 2008), 417–31.
Martinez, J. Michael, “The Georgia Confederate Flag Dispute,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2008), 200–228.
Mink, Nicolaas, “Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 470–97.
Murphree, Vanessa, “Mission Accomplished: Margaret Sanger and the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, 1929–1937,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 7–32.
Spencer, Brett, “Preparing for an Air Attack: Libraries and American Air Raid Defense during World War II,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 2, 2008), 125–47.
Stanonis, Anthony J., “Through a Purple (Green and Gold) Haze: New Orleans Mardi Gras in the American Imagination,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 109–31.
Swartz, David, “Social Closure in American Elite Higher Education,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 37 (August 2008), 409–19.
Aieta, Nicholas J., “Frontier Settlement and Community Development in Richardson, Burt, and Platte Counties, Nebraska, 1854–1870” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2007). Order No. DA3284006.
Arceneaux, Ronald J. (Noah), “Department Stores and the Origins of American Broadcasting, 1910–1931” (University of Georgia, 2007). Order No. DA3287679.
Brekke, Linzy A., “Fashioning America: Clothing, Consumerism, and the Politics of Appearance in the Early Republic” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285447.
Burges, Joel, “The Uses of Obsolescence: Historical Change and the Politics of the Outmoded in American Postmodernity” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3281800.
Buss, James J., “The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the Middle Ground for American Pioneers” (Purdue University, 2007). Order No. DA3286093.
Freund, Daniel, “The Battle for a Brighter America: A Social History of Natural Light, 1850–1935” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285077.
Jacobs, Thomas, “Consuming Anxieties: Rituals of Acquisition, Collection, and Display in Mid-Twentieth Century American Culture” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286484.
Keyes, Carl Robert, “Early American Advertising: Marketing and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288481.
McDowell, Kathleen, “The Cultural Origins of Youth Services Librarianship, 1876–1900” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290317.
Osborne, Vanessa Griffith, “Consuming Objects, Consuming Individuals: U.S. Literature, Mass Media, and the Construction of the Modern Celebrity” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3282809.
Tilley, Carol L., “Of Nightingales and Supermen: How Youth Services Librarians Responded to Comics between the Years 1938 and 1955” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3277995.
Tobias, Steven Michael, “Engaging in Maghreb: Productions of the Secular/Sacred within the Context of the U.S.-Barbary Conflicts” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA0819819.
Weisman, Raymond J., “Night in America: Staying Awake, Sleeping, and Dreaming from Colonial to Modern Times” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3290533.
Yates, Timothy Archibald, “Unmade in America: The Cultural Construction of the Alcohol Abuser in the Industrializing United States” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3283059.
DeLue, Rachael Ziady, George Innes and the Science of Landscape. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xvi, 317 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-14230-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Fisher, Carol, and John Fisher, Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry: Missouri’s Cookbook Heritage. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 235 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1791-2.)
Hill, Daniel Delis, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004. xii, 226 pp. Paper, $36.95, isbn 978-0-89672-616-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Holloway, David, Cultures of the War on Terror: Empire, Ideology, and the Remaking of 9/11. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7735-3483-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-7735-3484-1.)
Horsman, Reginald, Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. x, 356 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1789-9.)
Kooijman, Jaap Willem, Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. 179 pp. €30.00, isbn 978-90-535-6492-9.)
Raphael, Ray, and Freeman House, Humbolt History, vol. 1: Two Peoples, One Place. (Eureka: Humbolt County Historical Society, 2007. x, 353 pp. $29.95, isbn 9781883254018.) Heavily illustrated.
Reyes, Lawney L., B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxii, 155 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-295-98853-5.)
de Vries, Jan, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 327 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-89502-6. Paper, $22.99, isbn 978-0-521-71925-4.)
Caron, James E., Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 448 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1802-5.)
Kline, Tiny, Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline, ed. Janet M. Davis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 359 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03312-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07510-0.)
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