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Vol. 92, No. 1

June 2005



Editorial Staff

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Articles

From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands
Juliana Barr 19

The Edwardsean Tradition and the Antislavery Debate, 1740–1865
Kenneth P. Minkema and Harry S. Stout 47

The New African American Inequality
Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern, and Jamie J. Fader 75

Taiwan Expendable? Nixon and Kissinger Go to China
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker 109

Special Essay

Heterosexual White Male: Some Recent Inversions in American Cultural History
Daniel Wickberg 136

Exhibition Reviews

"Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America," by Max Page 158

"The Price of Freedom: Americans at War," by Carole Emberton 163

"Franklin Pierce: Defining Democracy in America," by W. Jeffrey Bolster 166

Frazier Historical Arms Museum, by Tim Grove 167

"Lindbergh," by Ross Knox Bassett 169

"America on the Move," by Kevin L. Borg 171

"Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945–1970," by Michael T. Bertrand 175


Book Reviews

O'Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860, by Lacy K. Ford 178

Kammen, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture, by David Bjelajac 181

Verheul, ed., Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Apocalypse: Utopia and Dystopia in American Culture, by Charles J. Rooney Jr. 182

Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, by Paul Otto 183

Gragg, Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627–1660, by John K. Thornton 184

Donahue, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson 184

Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century, by John G. Kolp 185

Hofstra, The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley, by Marion Nelson Winship 186

Pritchard, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730, by John T. McGrath 187

Shoemaker, A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America, by Eric Hinderaker 188

Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America, by Michael P. Clark 189

Sandos, Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions, by Robert H. Jackson 190

Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys, by Thomas E. Buckley 191

Goldman, God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew & the American Imagination, by Frederic Cople Jaher 192

Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem, by Beverly Smaby 193

Morrison and Schultz, eds., Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, by James Michael Lindgren 194

Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz 195

Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey, by Douglas Hamilton 196

Gwyn, An Admiral for America: Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703–1752, by Carl E. Swanson 196

Nester, The Frontier War for American Independence, by Gregory T. Knouff 197

Harvey and O'Brien, eds., George Washington's South, by Dorothy Twohig 198

Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, by Nian-Sheng Huang 199

Wirls and Wirls, The Invention of the United States Senate, by David J. Siemers 200

Foster, Moral Visions and Material Ambitions: Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776–1836, by Andrew Shankman 200

Ben-Atar, Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power, by Lawrence A. Peskin 201

Ward, Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic, by Wendy Jean Katz 202

Kafer, Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic, by Mark L. Kamrath 203

Gaff, Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest, by Larry L. Nelson 204

Jones, William Clark and the Shaping of the West; and Foley, Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark, by Thomas P. Slaughter 205

Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783–1842, by Louis De Vorsey Jr. 206

Wood, Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government, by Lynn Hudson Parsons 207

Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830, by Serena Zabin 208

Ward, Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau, by Alecia P. Long 209

Witt, The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law, by Barbara Y. Welke 209

Libby, Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720–1835, by Daniel H. Usner Jr. 210

Maynard, Architecture in the United States, 1800–1850, by E. G. Daves Rossell 211

Ostrowski, Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861, by William L. Joyce 212

Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, by Leigh E. Schmidt 213

Ernest, Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861, by Stephen Gilroy Hall 214

Adeleke, Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany, by Tony Martin 215

Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, by John W. Quist 216

White, The Beecher Sisters, by A. Cheree Carlson 217

Lyman, The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, by Barton H. Barbour 218

Daniel, Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861–1865, by Alan C. Aimone 218

Lowe, Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi, by Robert Wooster 219

Öfele, German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863–1867, by James S. Pula 220

Taylor, "The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail": The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., a Union Quartermaster, by Harold S. Wilson 221

Marten, Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front, by Thomas H. O'Connor 222

Epstein, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington, by Jay Grossman 223

Storey, Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Robert C. Kenzer 223

Kaufman, The Pig War: The United States, Britain, and the Balance of Power in the Pacific Northwest, 1846–72, by Donald A. Rakestraw 224

Crowley and White, Drunkard's Refuge: The Lessons of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, by Sarah C. Sitton 225

Tracy and Acker, eds., Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800–2000, by Joseph F. Spillane 226

Summers, Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics, by Richard Franklin Bensel 227

Mosher, Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855–1916, by Paul H. Tedesco 228

Phillips, "Bringing Them under Subjection": California's Tejón Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852–1864, by Valerie Sherer Mathes 229

Stockel, On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches, by Catherine A. Corman 230

Morgenthaler, The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios, by Stanley C. Green 231

Padget, Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1935, by Thomas E. Sheridan 232

Turgeon, Patrimoines Métissés: Contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux (Crossed heritages: Colonial and postcolonial contexts), by Patricia Kay Galloway 233

Moehring, Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890, by Linda Nash 233

Browne, Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West, by Richard W. Etulain 234

Riley, Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840–1940, by Barbara Handy-Marchello 235

Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years, by Forrest G. Robinson 236

González, Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880–1930, by Mauricio Tenorio 237

Dorsey, To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875–1906, by Christopher Silver 238

Campbell, Music & the Making of a New South, by Michael T. Bertrand 239

Sallee, The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South, by Hugh D. Hindman 240

Tanenhaus, Juvenile Justice in the Making, by L. Mara Dodge 240

Bailey, Guardians of the Moral Order: The Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860–1910, by Lewis A. Grossman 241

Sklansky, The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920, by James T. Kloppenberg 242

Evans, The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch, by Jacob H. Dorn 243

Erdman, Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895–1915, by Kathryn J. Oberdeck 244

Grieveson, Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America, by Nancy J. Rosenbloom 245

Wheeler, Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935, by Francis G. Couvares 246

Agnew, From Charity to Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession, by Sarah Henry Lederman 247

Delmendo, The Star-Entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines, by Rodney J. Ross 248

Navarro, Creating Tropical Yankees: Social Science Textbooks and U.S. Ideological Control in Puerto Rico, 1898–1908, by César J. Ayala 249

Boelhower and Scacchi, eds., Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class, and Citizenship in New York, 1890–1929, by Ronald H. Bayor 250

Conolly-Smith, Translating America: An Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1895–1918, by Dorothee Schneider 251

Kazal, Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity, by Frederick C. Luebke 251

Bachin, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919, by Daniel Bluestone 252

Vatanen, Sääty-yhteiskunnan kirjastosta kansalaisyhteiskunnan kirjastoksi: Yleisten kirjastojemme murroskausi 1890-luvulta 1920-luvulle (From a library of a class society to a library of a citizenry: Finnish public libraries become American, 1890–1920), by Thomas A. DuBois 253

Cohen, The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940, by John B. Jentz 254

D'Agostino, Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism, by Roy Palmer Domenico 255

Harrison, Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State, by David R. Berman 256

Chace, 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs—The Election That Changed the Country, by Ballard Campbell 257

Thompson, Woodrow Wilson, by Lloyd E. Ambrosius 257

Sedlmaier, Deutschlandbilder und Deutschlandpolitik: Studien zur Wilson-Administration (1913–1921) (Images of Germany and German politics: Studies of the Wilson administration [1913–1921]), by Manfred Jonas 258

Saiu, Stati Uniti e Italia nella Grande Guerra, 1914–1918 (The United States and Italy in the Great War, 1914–1918), by Thomas Row 259

Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941, by Oliviero Bergamini 260

Peterson, "Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1930 and After, by Keith Pomakoy 261

Cassella-Blackburn, The Donkey, the Carrot, and the Club: William C. Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1948, by Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani 261

Thorne, The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune, by Leonard A. Carlson 262

Rees, Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry during the Nonunion Era, by Jack Metzgar 263

Larson, Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, by George E. Webb 264

Rosen, Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, by Wendy Kline 265

Meyer, Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940, by Robyn L. Rosen 266

Most, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Jeffrey Shandler 267

Manning, Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion, by Julia L. Foulkes 267

McAuley, The Mind of Oliver C. Cox, by Vernon J. Williams Jr. 268

Summers, Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900–1930, by Davarian L. Baldwin 269

Lanctot, Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution, by Robert F. Burk 270

Bullock, Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military during World War II, by David L. Porter 271

Yellin, Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II, by Judy Barrett Litoff 272

Sato, Gunju sangyo to josei rodo: Dai niji sekai taisen ka no Nichi-Bei hikaku (Military industry and women's work: A comparison of Japan and the United States during World War II), by Kauko Laitinen 273

de Nevers, The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, by Richard Melzer 274

Moore and Robinson, Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur, by Justin H. Libby 275

Eden, Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, by Guy Oakes 275

Endy, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France, by Harvey Levenstein 276

Stueck, ed., The Korean War in World History, by James I. Matray 277

Craig, Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case, by John Ehrman 278

Lichtman and Cohen, Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era, by Athan Theoharis 279

Friedman, Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America, by Janice Williams Rutherford 280

Newman, Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947, by Christopher H. Sterling 281

Cook, The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer, by Rob Schorman 281

Cross, The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture; and Schrum, Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1945, by Susan J. Matt 282

Otnes and Pleck, Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding, by Margaret Marsh 284

Bloom, Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia, by Richard Longstreth 285

Knerr, Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951, by Barbara M. Kelly 285

Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979, by Jean-Christophe Agnew 286

Raskin, American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, by Manuel Luis Martinez 287

Zelizer, On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000, by Richard L. Schott 288

Berkowitz, Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security, by Mark H. Leff 289

Halpern, Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century, by Kenneth D. Durr 290

Shockley, "We, Too, Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–54, by Lawrence B. de Graaf 291

Murray, Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930–1975, by Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. 292

Salmond, Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle, by Brian Kelly 293

Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948–1968, by William J. Billingsley 293

Newman, Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi, by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff 294

Fleming, In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South, by Adam Fairclough 295

Classen, Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969, by Sharon Monteith 296

Dougherty, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee, by Wayne J. Urban 297

Shabazz, Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas, by Raymond Wolters 298

Stossel, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, by James N. Giglio 299

Jay, More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life since 1945, by Richard C. Crepeau 300

Gonzalez, The Bronx, by Carol P. Kaplan 301

Lieberman, Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest, by Robert Cohen 302

Cunningham, There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and fbi Counterintelligence, by Richard Gid Powers 303

Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies, by Jeremi Suri 304

Collier-Thomas and Franklin, eds., Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement, by Peniel E. Joseph 304

Hamilton, A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School, by Amy Thompson McCandless 305

Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave, by Louise Michele Newman 306

Bergman, The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, by Gary L. Atkins 307

Ibson, Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography, by Peter Boag 308

McCloud, Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955–1993, by John Schmalzbauer 309

Cowie and Heathcott, eds., Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization, by Michael Frisch 310

Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century, by Kevin J. Smant 311

Walker, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, by Jack M. Holl 312

Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past, by Douglas Monroy 313

Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland, by Robyn Ceanne Spencer 314

Segal, A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States, by George Anthony Peffer 314

Chan, Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States, by Kenton Clymer 315

Clymer, The United States and Cambodia, 1870–1969: From Curiosity to Confrontation; and Clymer, The United States and Cambodia, 1969–2000: A Troubled Relationship, by Matthew Jones 316

Miller, Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process, by George Pierre Castile 318

Vagnoux, Les États-Unis et le Mexique: Histoire d'une relation tumultueuse (The United States and Mexico: History of a tumultuous relationship), by Max Paul Friedman 318

Denning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds, by Rob Kroes 319

Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World, vol. 1: The Bowl with One Spoon, by Franke Wilmer 320

Bak and Hölbling, eds., "Nature's Nation" Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis, by John Herron 321


Web Site Reviews

Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History, by Andrew Hurley 323

California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849–1900, by Richard Stillson 324

Disability History Museum, by Laura Umansky 325

Oral History Online, by Pamela M. Henson 326

Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project; A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution; and Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas, by Allan W. Austin 326

Letters to the Editor 329

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