Contents

Title Page and Notice

Journal Staff

Contributors

Rethinking History and the Nation-State:
Mexico and the United States as a Case Study

A Special Issue

Rethinking History and the Nation-State: Mexico and the United States
David Thelen	439
Chronology: Some Events in the History of Mexico and the Border	453

Transnational Challenges to Nation-Centered Stories

Democracy in Mexico—the Complex Roles of the United States: A Conversation with Sergio Aguayo	456
Mexico, the Latin North American Nation: A Conversation with Carlos Rico Ferrat	467

Migrants and the Nation-State

Migration, Emergent Ethnicity, and the "Third Space": The Shifting Politics of Nationalism in Greater Mexico
David G. Gutiérrez	481
The New Era of Mexican Migration to the United States
Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey, and Emilio A. Parrado	518
A Nation beyond Its Borders: The Program for Mexican Communities Abroad
Rodulfo Figueroa-Aramoni	537
Fostering Identities: Mexico's Relations with Its Diaspora
Carlos González Gutiérrez	545

Historical Perspectives on the Mexican Moment

Janus and the Northern Colossus: Perceptions of the United States in the Building of the Mexican Nation
Francisco Valdés-Ugalde	568
A Conversation with Lorenzo Meyer about Mexico's Political Transition: From Authoritarianism to What?	601
Mexico's Cultural Landscapes: A Conversation with Carlos Monsiváis	613

Rethinking Nation-Centered Issues

The Internationalization of Police: The DEA in Mexico
María Celia Toro	623
Reading Mexico, Understanding the United States: American Transnational Intellectuals in the 1920s and 1990s
Jesus Velasco	641
National Identity on a Shifting Border: Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, 1821-1848
Andrés Reséndez	668
Mexico, the Puzzle: A Conversation about Civil Society and the Nation with Ilan Semo	689

Oral History

Introduction
Michael Gordon and Lu Ann Jones	698
Beginnings and Endings: Life Stories and the Periodization of the Civil Rights Movement
Kathryn L. Nasstrom	700
From Anecdote to Analysis: Oral Interviews and New Scholarship in Educational History
Jack Dougherty	712
"I Just Felt Called. . .": Oral History and the Meaning of Faith in American Religious History
Tracy E. K'Meyer	724

Book Reviews

Hodes, White Women, Black Men, by Nina Silber	734
Litwack, Trouble in Mind, by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson	735
Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings, by Jonathan M. Hansen	737
Katz, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, by Colin M. MacLachlan	739
Poster, Cultural History and Postmodernity; and Jenkins, ed., The Postmodern History Reader, by Prasenjit Duara	740
Egnal, Divergent Paths, by Peter C. Mancall	742
Edgar, South Carolina, by Charles H. Lesser	743
Fiske, Sleeper-Smith, and Wicken, eds., New Faces of the Fur Trade, by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy	744
Moore, The Cheyenne, by Peter J. Powell	745
Bucko, The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge, by Howard L. Harrod	745
Morris, American Catholic, by Paula Marie Kane	746
Flynt, Alabama Baptists, by Randy J. Sparks	747
Turner, Islam in the African-American Experience; and Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America, by Yvette Alex-Assensoh and A. B. Assensoh	748
Hine and Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope, by Christie Farnham	749
Jacoby, Laboring for Freedom, by Bruce Laurie	750
Lankevich, American Metropolis; and Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, by Edward K. Spann	751
Henige, Numbers from Nowhere, by Henry F. Dobyns	752
Ekberg, French Roots in the Illinois Country, by Elise Marienstras	753
Kamensky, Governing the Tongue, by David D. Hall	754
Peterson, The Price of Redemption, by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe	755
Syrett, The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolutionary War, by Richard Buel Jr.	756
Rozbicki, The Complete Colonial Gentleman, by Rhys Isaac	756
Bell, Patriot-Improvers, vol. 1: 1743-1768, by Clark A. Elliott	757
Monaghan, The Murrays of Murray Hill, by Joseph S. Tiedemann	758
Bradley, Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution, by Joanne Pope Melish	759
Hoffman and Albert, eds., The Bill of Rights, by Scott D. Gerber	760
Hanson, Necessary Virtue, by Thomas E. Buckley	761
Baseler, "Asylum for Mankind"; and Noonan, The Lustre of Our Country, by Richard D. Shiels	762
Frey and Wood, Come Shouting to Zion, by James Campbell	763
Pitch, The Burning of Washington, by R. Arthur Bowler	764
Parsons, John Quincy Adams, by Leonard L. Richards	765
Brown, Dorothea Dix, by Gerald N. Grob	766
Richards, Women, Gays, and the Constitution, by Sandra F. VanBurkleo	766
Gordon, Bazaars and Fair Ladies, by Kathleen Waters Sander	767
Vella, Intimate Enemies, by Joan R. Gundersen	768
Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett, by Martha Hodes	769
Karskens, The Rocks, by Patricia Cline Cohen	770
Greenberg, Cause for Alarm, by Richard Stott	771
Goodman, Shifting the Blame, by Tony A. Freyer	771
Adeleke, UnAfrican Americans, by Claude A. Clegg	772
Hook, The Alabama-Coushatta Indians, by Bobby H. Johnson	773
Comer, Ritual Ground, by Madeline Duntley	774
Miller, Juan Alvarado, by Douglas Monroy	775
Woolsey, Migrants West; and Howard, Sierra Crossing, by Patricia Etter	776
McGinty, Strong Wine, by Ralph Mann	777
Johnson, Winfield Scott, by James M. McCaffrey	778
Suárez Argüello and Terrazas Basante, eds., Politica y Negocios (Politics and business), by David M. Pletcher	779
Hughes and Ware, Theodore O'Hara, by Johanna Nicol Shields	780
Brandon, Free in the World, by Thomas J. Davis	780
Marten, The Children's Civil War, by Robert Coles	781
Pfanz, Richard S. Ewell; Jaquette, ed., Letters of a Civil War Nurse; and Berlin, Reidy, and Rowland, eds., Freedom's Soldiers, by J. Matthew Gallman	782
Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet; and Kennedy and Kennedy, Was Jefferson Davis Right?, by Brian Dirck	784
Hagerty, Collis' Zouaves; and Perry, Conceived in Liberty, by Michael B. Ballard	786
Gallagher, Lee and His Generals in War and Memory, by Gaines M. Foster	787
Hubbard, The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy, by Marvin L. Brown Jr.	788
Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents, by Allen W. Trelease	789
McAfee, Religion, Race, and Reconstruction, by Daniel W. Stowell	789
Vinyard, For Faith and Fortune, by Timothy Walch	790
Rottenberg, ed., Middletown Jews, by Sydney Stahl Weinberg	791
Ling, Surviving on the Gold Mountain, by Jonathan M. Chu	792
Moya, Cousins and Strangers, by Dirk Hoerder	793
Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism, by John D. Buenker	793
Hamer, History in Urban Places; and Holleran, Boston's "Changeful Times," by Steven Conn	794
Domosh, Invented Cities; and Lehan, The City in Literature, by Carl Smith	796
Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City, by John Howard	797
Duis, Challenging Chicago, by Lisa M. Fine	798
Powers, Faces along the Bar, by Roy Rosenzweig	799
Lockard, Coal; and Derickson, Black Lung, by James Whiteside	800
Shapiro, A New South Rebellion, by Robert H. Zieger	801
Jameson, All That Glitters, by Dana Frank	802
Messer-Kruse, The Yankee International, by John H. M. Laslett	803
Schneirov, Labor and Urban Politics, by James Green	804
Lloyd, Left Out, by R. Alan Lawson	804
Fraser, African American Midwifery in the South, by Susan L. Smith	805
Anderson and Penningroth, Complete in All Its Parts, by Diane Hamilton	806
Clapp, Mothers of All Children, by Robyn Muncy	807
Herrmann, Helen Keller, by Alice Wexler	808
Clemens, The People's Lobby, by Samuel L. Webb	809
Jackson, Destined for Equality, by Dennis A. Deslippe	809
Martinez and Ames, eds., The Material Culture of Gender, the Gender of Material Culture; and Formanek-Brunell, ed., The Story of Rose O'Neill, by Shelley Armitage	810
Brandt, Männerblicke (Men's views), by M. David Samson	812
Gustav-Wrathall, Take the Young Stranger by the Hand, by Michael S. Sherry	813
Ullman, Sex Seen, by Peter N. Stearns	813
Jenkins, Moral Panic, by Joanne Meyerowitz	814
Caplan, Mind Games, by Eli Zaretsky	815
Miller, The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, vol. 1: 1900-1960, by Carol Kolmerten	816
Levenstein, Seductive Journey, by Jacques Portes	817
Cooper, Air-Conditioning America, by David E. Nye	818
Israel, Edison, by Wyn Wachhorst	818
Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul, by Philip Scranton	819
Zakaria, From Wealth to Power, by John A. Thompson	820
Koistinen, Planning War, Pursuing Peace, by Joel R. Davidson	821
Castle, Diplomatic Realism, by William O. Walker III	822
Miller, The Automobile Gold Rushes and Depression Era Mining, by Clark C. Spence	823
Reynolds, Visions and Vanities, by Alexander R. Stoesen	823
La Vere, Life among the Texas Indians, by Paul H. Carlson	824
Kihira, Nyu Diiru seiji chitsujo no keisei katei no kenkyu (A study of the emergence of the New Deal political order), by Sayuri Shimizu	825
Coulter, The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s, by Thomas N. Guinsburg	826
Stephan, Im Visier des FBI (In the sight of the FBI), by Bradley F. Smith	827
Krammer, Undue Process, by Ron Robin	827
Gilmore, You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets, by Astrid M. Eckert	828
Hanlon, Remaking Micronesia, by Robert J. McMahon	829
Kleinschmidt, "Do not fraternize" ("Do not fraternize"), by Brewster Chamberlin	830
McBride, Hopkins, and Blackshire-Belay, eds., Crosscurrents, by Lloyd Kramer	831
Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall, by Emily S. Rosenberg	832
Giorcelli and Kroes, eds., Living with America, 1946-1996, by Richard Pells	832
Landay, Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women, by Kathleen De Grave	833
Killick, The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945-1960, by William I. Hitchcock	834
Hanhimäki, Scandinavia and the United States, by Helge Ø. Pharo	835
Brown, The Israeli-American Connection; and Levey, Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960, by Douglas Little	836
Chace, Acheson, by Arnold A. Offner	838
Pruden, Conditional Partners, by Andreas Wenger	838
Craig, Destroying the Village, by H. W. Brands	839
Montgomery and Johnson, One Step from the White House, by Roger W. Lotchin	840
Volkan, Itzkowitz, and Dod, Richard Nixon, by Dean J. Kotlowski	841
Triay, Fleeing Castro, by Robert E. Quirk	842
Biermann, John F. Kennedy und der Kalte Krieg (John F. Kennedy and the Cold War), by Thomas R. Maddux	843
Bird, The Color of Truth, by Lloyd Gardner	843
Brodersen, Das wechselseitige Bild der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA und der UdSSR in den Zeitungen "Pravda," "Izvestija," "Washington Post" und "New York Times" der Jahre 1985 und 1989 (The mutual representation of the foreign and security policies of the USA and the USSR in Pravda, Izvestiia, the Washington Post, and the New York Times between 1985 and 1989), by Klaus Larres	844
Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, by Ronald Kahn	845
Martin, ed., Brown v. Board of Education, by Robert A. Pratt	846
Jacobs, Getting around Brown, by V. P. Franklin	847
Wirt, "We Ain't What We Was," by Edward P. Morgan	848
Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty?, by Peter B. Levy	848
Lewis and D'Orso, Walking with the Wind; and Fleming, Soon We Will Not Cry, by Kathryn L. Nasstrom	849
Gale, Understanding Urban Unrest, by Rhonda Y. Williams	851
Daynes, Making Villains, Making Heroes, by Greta de Jong	852
Hersch, Democratic Artworks, by Jon Wiener	852
Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity, by Todd Gitlin	853
Juchler, Die Studentenbewegungen in den Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der sechziger Jahre (The student movements in the United States and West Germany during the 1960s), by Günter Bischof	854
Austin and Willard, eds., Generations of Youth, by Miriam Formanek-Brunell	855
Hazlett, My Generation, by Luisa Passerini	856
Brick, Age of Contradiction, by Alexander Bloom	857
Bilharz, The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam, by Robert L. Bee	858
Wellock, Critical Masses, by Henry F. Bedford	858
Lear, Rachel Carson, by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins	859
Young and Gould, Texas, Her Texas, by Dorothy D. DeMoss	860
Chávez, Eastside Landmark, by Rodolfo F. Acuña	861
Jones-Correa, Between Two Nations, by María Cristina García	862
Cruz, Identity and Power; Torres and Velazquez, eds., The Puerto Rican Movement; and Guerra, Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico, by Antonio T. Díaz-Royo	863
Jacoby, Modern Manors, by Gerald Zahavi	865
Stein, Running Steel, Running America, by Ruth Needleman	865
Burns, Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification, by Michael Conant	866
French, U.S. Economic History since 1945, by Albert Churella	867
Dublin, When the Mines Closed; and Milkman, Farewell to the Factory, by Michael O. Smith	868
Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14, by Christoph Scherrer	869
Gamson, Freaks Talk Back, by Charles Shively	870
Arac, Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target, by John S. Whitley	871
Handler and Gable, The New History in an Old Museum, by Lonnie Bunch	872
Rosenzweig and Thelen, The Presence of the Past, by Richard White	872

Editor's Annual Report, 1998-1999	874
Letters to the Editor	878
Announcements	880
Recent Scholarship	881

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