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Rethinking the Transition to Capitalism in the Early American Northeast
Naomi R. Lamoreaux 437
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian's Rural Enlightenment
John Fea 462
Red Scare Politics and the Suppression of Popular Front Feminism: The Loyalty Investigation of Mary Dublin Keyserling
Landon R. Y. Storrs 491
"Give Earth a Chance": The Environmental Movement and the Sixties
Adam Rome 525


Special Essay

What Is the History of the History of Books?
Joan Shelley Rubin 555


Interchange

The Practice of History
Participants: Drew Faust, Hendrik Hartog, David A. Hollinger, Akira Iriye, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Nell Irvin Painter, David Roediger, Mary Ryan, Alan Taylor
576


Book Reviews

Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History, by Linda Nash 612

Morrison, The Solidarity of Kin: Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter, by William Newbigging 613

Pratt, Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy, by Paul Jerome Croce 613

Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America, by Daniel R. Mandell 614

Tannenbaum, The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England, by Theresa Kaminski 615

Sturtz, Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia, by Catherine Kerrison 616

Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, by Gayle R. Davis 617

Byrd, The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible, by Paul C. Gutjahr 618

Pauw, "The Supreme Harmony of All": The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards, by W. Clark Gilpin 619

Lustig, The Imperial Executive in America: Sir Edmund Andros, 1637–1714, by Evan Haefeli 619

Pencak, Dennis, and Newman, eds., Riot and Revelry in Early America, by Terry Bouton 620

Dunn, Opening New Markets: The British Army and the Old Northwest, by Larry L. Nelson 621

Raven, London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748–1811, by Francis J. Bremer 622

Gabriel, Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero, by Reginald C. Stuart 623

Golden and Golden, Thomas Jefferson and the Rhetoric of Virtue, by Jean M. Yarbrough 624

Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, by Thomas J. Humphrey 625

Okun, Crime and the Nation: Prison Reform and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 1786–1800, by John K. Alexander 625

Wells, The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic, by Catherine Kaplan 626

Starr, ed., Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America: Essays in Honor of J. R. Pole, by Robert E. Shalhope 627

VanBurkleo, Hall, and Kaczorowski, eds., Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History, by Stuart Banner 628

Heideking and Henretta, eds., Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850, by David F. Ericson 629

Cayton, Ohio: The History of a People, by John L. Brooke 630

Gough, Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath, by Kevin J. Crisman 631

Carretta and Gould, eds., Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic, by Simon P. Newman 632

Wallace, Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995, by Clarence E. Walker 632

Proctor, Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South, by Jennifer R. Green 633

Bushman, In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker, by Peter A. Coclanis 634

Finley and DeBlack, eds., The Southern Elite and Social Change: Essays in Honor of Willard B. Gatewood Jr., by Jeffrey J. Crow 635

Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America, by Brian Donahue 636

Reid, Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions, by Barton H. Barbour 637

Montoya, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900, by James F. Brooks 638

Pérez, Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba, by Lillian Guerra 639

Kagan, ed., Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States, by Jane M. Rausch 640

Streeby, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture, by Amy S. Greenberg 641

Castronovo and Nelson, eds., Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics, by Pippa Holloway 641

Thurman, "O Sisters Ain't You Happy?": Gender, Family, and Community among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781–1918, by Priscilla J. Brewer 643

Coburn and Smith, Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836–1920, by Tracy Fessenden 643

Schmidt, Umble, and Reschly, eds., Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, by Steven M. Nolt 644

Field, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual, by Albert J. von Frank 645

Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography, vol. 2: 1851–1891, by David S. Reynolds 646

Miller, Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography, by Kenneth J. Winkle 647

Hattaway and Beringer, Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein 648

Aamodt, Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War, by Curtis D. Johnson 649

Feis, Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox, by Kevin Conley Ruffner 650

Hughes and Whitney, Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior, by Steven E. Woodworth 650

Rafuse, A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas, by Earl J. Hess 651

Hess, Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, by J. Tracy Power 652

Lankford, Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital, by William C. Davis 653

Wilson, Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War, by Bess Beatty 653

Jewett, Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building, by Norman D. Brown 654

Katznelson and Shefter, eds., Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development, by Bruce Cumings 655

Kaplan, Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865–1920, by Brooks D. Simpson 656

Johnson, Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910, by Carol Lasser 657

Giberti, Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia, by Steven Conn 658

Leiker, Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande, by Marvin Fletcher 659

Spack, America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900, by Wilbert H. Ahern 659

Hoig, Perilous Pursuit: The U.S. Cavalry and the Northern Cheyennes, by John H. Monnett 660

Usselman, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920, by William R. Childs 661

Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization, by Steve Babson 662

Wiecek, The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886–1937, by William P. LaPiana 663

Winter, Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920, by Bruce Dorsey 664

Register, The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements, by Lewis A. Erenberg 665

Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth, by Thomas Winter 666

Stentiford, The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century, by James T. Currie 666

Singer, Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909, by Diana Davids Olien 667

Norwood, Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America, by Ileen A. DeVault 668

Cyphers, The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, 1900–1915, by Edward A. Stettner 669

Faue, Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism, by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 670

Francis, The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America, by Jeffrey P. Moran 670

Rosenthal, Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities, by Jacqueline K. Dirks 671

Schier and Russett, eds., Catholic Women's Colleges in America, by Carol K. Coburn 672

Nielsen, Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare, by Landon Storrs 673

Butler, Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921–1929, by Judith A. Baer 674

Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982, by Judith A. Allen 675

Blaetz, Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture, by Shelley Armitage 676

Stern and Markel, eds., Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880–2000, by Susan L. Smith 677

Lee, The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley, by Angus McLaren 678

Ott, Serlin, and Mihm, eds., Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics, by Joel D. Howell 679

Acker, Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control, by Jim Baumohl 680

Minton, Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America, by K. A. Cuordileone 681

Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, by Lisa Duggan 682

Koehn, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, by Tracey Deutsch 683

Slaton, Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900–1930, by Dennis P. Doordan 683

Hall, Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905–1930, by David T. Brundage 684

Topp, Those without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists, by Francis Shor 685

Tichenor, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America, by Michael Jones-Correa 686

Jones, ed., Crossing Boundaries: The Exclusion and Inclusion of Minorities in Germany and the United States, by Joseph W. Bendersky 687

de Jong, A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900–1970, by John C. Rodrigue 688

Brophy, Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation, by Dominic J. Capeci Jr. 689

Schneider, "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age, by Ralph E. Luker 690

Klein, Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929, by Pamela Walker Laird 691

Gorman, Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry, by Brian C. Black 692

Pratt, Becker, and McClenahan, Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council, by David S. Painter 693

Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965, by Lisa McGirr 694

Keane, Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles: The Biography of a Community Developer and Philanthropist, by Catherine Mulholland 695

Bryson, Socializing the Young: The Role of Foundations, 1923–1941, by Kathleen W. Jones 695

Fowler, Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho Politics, by Paul C. Rosier 696

Choate, Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program, by John E. Miller 697

Lasser, Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal, by Jeanne Nienaber Clarke 698

Milkis and Mileur, eds., The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism, by Theodore Rosenof 699

Brands, The Strange Death of American Liberalism, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman 700

Finan, Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior, by Allan J. Lichtman 701

Irish, Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political Biography, by Jack Irby Hayes 702

St. Clair and Gugin, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography, by William D. Pederson 702

Leidholdt, Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffé, by David B. Sachsman 703

Fitzpatrick, Gerald W. Johnson: From Southern Liberal to National Conscience, by George B. Tindall 704

Inglis, People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics, by William S. Solomon 705

Griffith, Serving History in a Changing World: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Century, by Linda Shopes 706

Kantor, Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art, by Evelyn C. Hankins 707

Keller and Keller, Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University, by Roger L. Geiger 708

Wald, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, by Chip Rhodes 708

Sherman, A Communist Front at Mid-Century: The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1933–1959, by John Earl Haynes 709

Kennedy, Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933–1939: Imperial Crossroads, by Frederick F. Travis 710

D'Este, Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, by Philip Nash 711

Hellegers, We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution, vol. 1: Washington, vol. 2: Tokyo, by Timothy P. Maga 712

Kurashige, Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990, by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain 713

Simpson, An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945–1960, by Scott Kurashige 714

Miyazato, Nichibei Kankei to Okinawa, 1945–1972 (Japan-U.S. relations and Okinawa, 1945–1972), by Robert D. Eldridge 715

Schumacher, Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: Die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung, und die ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945–1955 (The Cold War and propaganda: The USA, the struggle over world opinion, and the idealistic Western orientation of West Germany, 1945–1955), by Günter J. Bischof 716

Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy, by Allen Hunter 716

Parry-Giles, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945–1955, by Brett Gary 717

Theoharis, Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years, by Michal R. Belknap 718

Pratt, Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film, by Allison Graham 719

Shapiro, Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film, by Andrew D. Grossman 720

Dommen, The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, by Edward Rice-Maximin 721

Forslund, Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations, by Qiang Zhai 722

Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era, by Annick Cizel 723

Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy, by David M. Barrett 724

Power, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, by Rafael Medoff 725

Kirk, Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970, by Alex Lubin 726

Curtis, Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation, and Difference in African-American Islamic Thought, by J. M. Floyd-Thomas 726

McKoy, When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures, by Dwight N. Hopkins 727

Ware and Back, Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture, by Matthew Pratt Guterl 728

Hinshaw, Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh; and Linkon and Russo, Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown, by James P. Quigel 729

Schuyler, A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980, by David R. Contosta 731

Krabbendam, Roholl, and de Vries, eds., The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration, by Ross Miller 732

Amato, Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History, by Louise Appleton 733

Schwieder, Growing Up with the Town: Family & Community on the Great Plains, by Linda Pickle 733

Schulte, Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West; and Sturgeon, The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall, by J. Brooks Flippen 734

Mitchell, Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960–1971, by Ken Coates 736

Shoemaker, ed., Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies, by Michael D. Green 737

Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by H. W. Brands 738

Rimmerman, From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States, by Dean J. Kotlowski 738

Gavin, Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, by David Ake 739

Golin, The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line, by James W. Fraser 740

Anderson and Fienberg, Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America, by Phillip VanderMeer 741

Kang, Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women, by Sally A. Hastings 742

Aldama and Quiñonez, eds., Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, by Richard A. Garcia 743

Galambos and Abrahamson, Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World, by David Hochfelder 744

Talbott and Chanda, eds., The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11, by Brigitte L. Nacos 745


Web Site Reviews

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, by Mary Beth Norton 747

Images of Native Americans, by Elizabeth Hutchinson 748

Across the Generations: Exploring U.S. History through Family Papers, by Amy Murrell 749

Thomas A. Edison Papers, by David A. Kirsch 749

The History of Jim Crow; and Remembering Jim Crow, by Joseph Crespino 750

Philip Morris USA, Inc. Advertising Archive by Pamela Walker Laird 752

Editor's Annual Report, 2002–2003 753
Letters to the Editor 757
Announcements 759
Recent Scholarship 761
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