Recent Scholarship
Social and Cultural
Block, Adrienne Fried, “Matinee Mania, or the Regendering of Nineteenth-Century Audiences in New York City,” Nineteenth-Century Music, 31 (Spring 2008), 193–216.
Bubíková, Šárka, “Unity, Plurality, and Culture: Some Thoughts on Multiculturalism,” in Peaceful Multiculturalism or Culture Wars?, ed. Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck, 7–13. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2007. 157 pp. isbn 978-80-7395-017-0.)
Daniels, Caroline, “‘The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting’: Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917–1919,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 286–307.
Dredge, Bart, “Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920–1945,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 308–26.
Gibby, Robert E., and Michael J. Zickar, “A History of the Early Days of Personality Testing in American Industry: An Obsession with Adjustment,” History of Psychology, 11 (Aug. 2008), 164–84.
Green, Rayna, “Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig: Native Food in the Native South,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Winter 2008), 114–26.
Hart, Naomi, “Exercising ‘Those Faculties Most Which They Desire in Their Offspring’: Enlisting Parents in the Crusade against Vice,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 37–55.
Howard, Vicki, “‘The Biggest Small-Town Store in America’: Independent Retailers and the Rise of Consumer Culture,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Sept. 2008), 457–86.
Lauer, Josh, “Money as Mass Communication: U.S. Paper Currency and the Iconography of Nationalism,” Communication Review (Yverdon), 11 (April 2008), 109–32.
Marrs, Aaron W., “Railroads and Time Consciousness in the Antebellum South,” Enterprise & Society, 9 (Sept. 2008), 433–56.
Paziak, Ewa, “Stereotyp amerykanskiego zebraka” (A stereotype of the American beggar), Czlowiek I Spoleczenstwo (Warszawa), 27 (2007), 123–34. In Polish.
Strazdes, Diana, “Style, Symbols, and Persuasion: Leland Stanford’s Sacramento Ball of 1872,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 15 (Spring–Summer 2008), 65–95.
Tinkler, Penny, and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, “Feminine Modernity in Interwar Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 113–43.
Jones, Dalton Anthony, “Black Market: Louis Armstrong and the Primitive Accumulation of Desire” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293332.
McKenzie, Shelly, “Mass Movements: A Cultural History of Physical Fitness and Exercise, 1953–1989” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295059.
Moeckli, Jane Kathleen, “‘Pamper Yourself to Protect the Earth’: Nature in Contemporary American Beauty Culture” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301731.
Smith, Thomas Langston Reeves, “Entertainers Who Lead: A Phenomenological Study of Leadership and Celebrity Politics” (Gonzaga University, 2007). Order No. DA3301271.
Bubíková, Šárka, and Olga Roebuck, eds., Peaceful Multiculturalism or Culture Wars? (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2007. 157 pp. isbn 978-80-7395-017-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online,” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Bubíková, Šárka, Olga Zderadicková, and Michael M. Kaylor, eds., New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena. (Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2004. 72 pp. isbn 80-7194-710-5.)
Campbell, Ballard C., American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation. (New York: Checkmark, 2008. xviii, 461 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8160-7735-9.)
Eldridge, David, American Culture in the 1930s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxviii, 259 pp. Cloth, £55.00, isbn 978-0-7486-2258-0. Paper, £17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-2259-7.)
Kobayashi, Kiyokazu, Amerikan nashonarizumu no keifu (American nationalism). (Kyoto: Showado, 2007. 394 pp. ¥5250, isbn 4-8122-0747-9.) In Japanese.
Kubo, Fumiaki, and Aruga Natsuki, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo, vol. 4: Kojin to kokka no aida (Transboundary American studies, vol. 4: Between the state and the individual). (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2007. 332 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-6230-4947-9.) In Japanese.
Marling, Karal Ann, Ice: Great Moments in the History of Hard, Cold Water. (St. Paul: Borealis, 2008. 216 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87351-628-0.)
Matsumoto, Yuko, Tsukurareru amerika-kokumin to “tasha” (Constructing the American nation: Boundaries of citizenship in the age of Americanization). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. 352 pp. ¥5880, isbn 4-1302-6132-0.) In Japanese.
Meter, Jan R. Van, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x, 334 pp. $22.50, isbn 978-0-226-84968-3.)
Monteith, Sharon, American Culture in the 1960s. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. xxx, 242 pp. Cloth, £55.00, isbn 978-0-7486-1946-7. Paper, £17.99, isbn 978-0-7486-1947-4.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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