Recent Scholarship
Transnational and Comparative
Abdullah, Zain, “Sufis on Parade: The Performance of Black, African, and Muslim Identities,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 77 (June 2009), 199–237.
Abdulrahim, Masoud A., Ali A. J. Al-Kandari, and Mohammed Hasanen, “The Influence of American Television Programs on University Students in Kuwait: A Synthesis,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 57–74.
Antic, Ljubomir, “Konscak i Amerika, susret civilizacija” (Konscak and America, the encounter of civilization), Kolo: Casopis Matice Hrvatske (Zagreb), 17 (no. 2, 2007), 356–61. In Croatian.
Austin, Ian, “The Treasury of the United States of America and the Asian Financial Crisis: A Decade in Review,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 50–73.
Chung, Kyung Hee, “Yoksakyoyukeul Dooleossan Hangukgwa Migukeui Yinyumnonjaeng Bigyo” (The ideological controversy over the teaching of national history in Korea and America), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Dec. 2008), 159–94. In Korean.
De Leon, Cedric, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tugal, “Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey,” Sociological Theory, 27 (Sept. 2009), 193–219.
Dorow, Sara, and Amy Swiffen, “Blood and Desire: The Secret of Heteronormativity in Adoption Narratives of Culture,” American Ethnologist, 36 (Aug. 2009), 563–73.
Dunn, Christopher, “A toma negra e o Big Easy: Raça, cultura e discurso em Salvador e Nova Orleans” (Black Rome and Big Easy: Race, culture, discourse in Salvador and New Orleans), Afro-Ásia, 37 (2008), 119–51. In Portugese.
Fardella, Enrico, “The Sino-American Normalization: A Reassessment,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 545–78.
Glu, Barin Kayao, “Strategic Imperatives, Democratic Rhetoric: The United States and Turkey, 1945–52; Cold War in the Aegean,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Aug. 2009), 321–45.
Hilton, Brian, “‘Maximum Flexibility for Peaceful Change’: Jimmy Carter, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People’s Republic of China,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 595–613.
Hughes, Henry, “Re-orienting Orientalism: American Narratives of the Early China Trade,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 37–61.
Huret, Romain, “All in the Family Again? Political Historians and the Challenge of Social History,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 3, 2009), 239–63.
Kenny, Gale, “Reconstructing a Different South: The American Missionary Association and Jamaica, 1834–65,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (Sept. 2009), 445–66.
Malloy, Jonathan, “Bush/Harper? Canadian and American Evangelical Politics Compared,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 39 (Winter 2009), 352–63.
Mgbako, Ofole, “‘My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land’: Racial Redefinition, African American Culture, and the Creation of the Black World in South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement,” Safundi, 10 (July 2009), 305–34.
Mills, Nicolaus, “9/11 and the Road to Iraq,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 87–109. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Morley, Catherine, “Crossing the Water: Willa Cather and the Transatlantic Imaginary,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 2, 2009), 125–40.
Munteanu, Mircea, “Communication Breakdown? Romania and the Sino-American Rapprochement,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 615–31.
Nichols, Christopher McKnight, “Rethinking Randolph Bourne’s Trans-national America: How World War I Created an Isolationist Antiwar Pluralism,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (April 2009), 217–58.
Norman, Will, “Lolita’s ‘Time Leaks’ and Transatlantic Decadence,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 2, 2009), 185–204.
Pedaliu, Effie G. H., “‘A Sea of Confusion’: The Mediterranean and Détente, 1969–1974,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 735–50.
Pedrozo, Raul, “Close Encounters at Sea,” Naval War College Review, 62 (Summer 2009), 101–11.
Pepeonik, Zlatko, “Odakle su dosli i koliko danas ima starosjedilaca Amerike?” (From where did they come from and how many natives live in America today?), Geografski horizont: Strucno metodicki casopis za geografiju (Zagreb), 51 (no. 1–2, 2005–2006), 61–63. In Croatian.
Purcell, Fernando, “Una mercancía irresistible: El cine norteamericano y su impacto en Chile, 1910–1930” (An irresistable merchandise: North American cinema and its impact in Chile, 1910–1930), Historia Crítica, 38 (2009), 46–69. In Spanish.
Repousis, Angelo, “‘The Devil’s Apostle’: Jonas King’s Trial against the Greek Hierarchy in 1852 and the Pressure to Extend U.S. Protection for American Missionaries Overseas,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Nov. 2009), 807–37.
Samponaro, Philip, “‘Oye mi canto’ (‘Listen to My Song’): The History and Politics of Reggaeton,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Oct. 2009), 489–506.
Sleeper, Jim, “American Brethren: Hebrews and Puritans,” World Affairs, 172 (Fall 2009), 46–60.
Smoler, Fred, “The Surprising Success: The United States and Korea,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 40–51. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Strong-Boag, Veronica, and Rupa Bagga, “Saving, Kidnapping, or Something of Both? Canada and the Vietnam/Cambodia Babylift, Spring 1975,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 39 (Autumn 2009), 271–89.
Sugita, Yoneyuki, “Senryô shoki ni okeru minshuka no sôkoku” (Competing ideas for health insurance plans in the early stages of the U.S. occupation of Japan), Ex Oriente, 15 (2008), 89–118. In Japanese.
Walker, Breck, “‘Friends, but Not Allies’— Cyrus Vance and the Normalization of Relations with China,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 579–94.
Weintraub, Stanley, “No Exit but Victory: Britain and the American Colonies,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 13–23. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Yaworsky, William, “Target Analysis of Shining Path Insurgents in Peru: An Example of U.S. Army Psychological Operations,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 32 (Aug. 2009), 651–66.
Yoshihara, Toshi, and James R. Holmes, “Thinking about the Unthinkable,” Naval War College Review, 62 (Summer 2009), 59–78.
Zoubir, Yahia H., “The United States and Maghreb-Sahel Security,” International Affairs (London), 85 (Sept. 2009), 977–95.
Benavides, Michelle G., “Smokeless Factories: The Decentering of U.S. Legal and Moral Boundaries by Mexico’s Transnational Divorce Industry, 1923–1970” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3339522.
Butler, Shannon Rae, “Into the Storm: American Covert Involvement in the Angolan Civil War, 1974–1975” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3331312.
Essary, Elizabeth Helen, “Latent Destinies: Separatism and the State in Hawai’I, Alaska, and Puerto Rico” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3340970.
Gómez, Eduardo J., “Responding to Contested Epidemics: Democracy, International Pressures, and the Civic Sources of Institutional Change in the United States and Brazil” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335657.
Halvorson, Britt E., “Lutheran in Two Worlds: Remaking Mission from Madagascar to the Midwest United States” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343081.
Katayama, Hanae, “A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Humor in Stand-up Comedy in the United States and Japan” (Pennsylvania State University, 2006). Order No. DA3335596.
Okada, Yasuhiro, “Gendering the ‘Black Pacific’: Race Consciousness, National Identity, and the Masculine/Feminine Empowerment among African Americans in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952” (Michigan State University, 2008).
Raymundo, Jose Emmanuel, “The Political Culture of Leprosy in the U.S. Occupied Philippines, 1902–1941” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342664.
Roberts, Justin, “Sunup to Sundown: Plantation Management Strategies and Slave Work Routines in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia, 1776–1810” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3339963.
Suzuki, Shigeru, “Posthuman Visions in Postwar U.S. and Japanese Speculative Fiction: Re(con)figuring Western (Post)humanism” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3338603.
Fossat, Sissel B., Transnationale Historier (Transnational histories). (Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag, 2009.) In Danish.
Frank, Tibor, ed., Gyarmatokból impérium: Magyar kutatók tanulmányai az amerikai történelemröl (From colonies to empire: Hungarian researchers on American history). (Budapest: Gondolat, 2007. 366 pp. isbn 978-963-9610-63-7.) In Hungarian.
Friedman, Hal M., Arguing over the American Lake: Bureaucracy and Rivalry in the U.S. Pacific, 1945–1947. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xxiv, 328 pp. $67.50, isbn 978-1-60344-125-4.)
Gál, István, Magyarország és az angolszász világ (Hungary and the Anglo-Saxon world). (Budapest: Argumentum-oszk, 2005. 964 pp. isbn 963-446-325-8.) In Hungarian.
Glant, Tibor, Emlékezzünk Magyarországra, 1956: Tanulmányok a magyar forradalom és szabadságharc amerikai emlékezetéröl (Remember Hungary 1956: Essays on the Hungarian revolution and war of independence in American memory). (Budapest: Kiss József Könyvkiadó, 2008. 320 pp. isbn 978-963-87378-7-8.) In Hungarian.
Shisler, Gail B., For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xviii, 323 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-59114-826-5.)
Solaja, Milos, Amerika i Europa i perspektive jugoistocne Europe: Slicnosti i raslike (America and Europe and the prospects of Southeast Europe: Similarities and Differences). (Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 2005.) In Croatian.
Sřrensen, Nils Arne, “Kulturmřder, Selvamerikanisering og Imperialisme: Om U.S. Amerikaniseringen af Europa” (Self-Americanization and Imperialism: On usa’s), in Transnationale Historier (Transnational histories), by Sissel B. Fossat, 181–96. (Odense: Syddansk Universitets Forlag, 2009.) In Danish.
Stankovic, Vladimir, Kardinal Kuharic u iseljenistvu: Sjeverna Amerika? (Cardinal Kuharic with the Croation diaspora: North America). (Zagreb: Krscanska sadasnjost, 2009. 416 pp. isbn 953-11-0138-8.) In Croatian.
Tominac, Marko, Lika, Amerika, Slavonija: Zivjeti u Hrvatskoj, 1989–2009 (Lika, Amerika, Slavonija: To live in Croatia, 1989–2009). (Ilaca: Tiskara Pauk, 2009. 179 pp. isbn 978-953-283-035-4.) In Croatian.
West, Michael O., William G. Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins, eds., From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 318 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3309-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5972-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Bakó, Elemér, Egy élet a magyarságért, 2. köt: Amerikai Egyesült Államok, 1951–2000 (A life in service of the Hungarians, vol. 2: The United States of America, 1951–2000). (Budapest: Médiamix, 2008. 306 pp. isbn 963-86689-3-8.) In Hungarian.
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