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Vol. 93, No. 2

September 2006



Editorial Staff

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Articles

"Where the Common People Could Speculate": The Ticker, Bucket Shops, and the Origins of Popular Participation in Financial Markets, 1880–1920
David Hochfelder 335

Religion as Identity in Postwar America: The Last Serious Attempt to Put a Question on Religion in the United States Census
Kevin M. Schultz 359

Exchange: American Consumerism

All Hail the Republic of Choice: Consumer History as Contemporary Thought
David Steigerwald 385

Will American Consumers Buy a Second American Revolution?
T. H. Breen 404

Escaping Steigerwald's "Plastic Cages": Consumers as Subjects and Objects in Modern Capitalism
Lizabeth Cohen 409

Round Table: Contemporary Anti-Americanism

A Moment in a Scholar's Understanding of America: Attending Rob Kroes's Retirement Talk
David Thelen 414

European Anti-Americanism: What's New?
Rob Kroes 417

Atlantic Community, Atlantic World: Anti-Americanism between Europe and Africa
David Chidester 432

What's New? Don't Forget Capitol Hill
Kate Delaney 437

The Eastern European Scene
László Pordány 441

Global Anti-Americanism and the Lessons of the "French Exception"
Philippe Roger 448

Interchange

Legacies of the Vietnam War
David Anderson, Christian Appy, Mark Philip Bradley, Robert K. Brigham, Ted Engelmann, Patrick Hagopian, Luu Doan Huynh, and Marilyn B. Young 452

Book Reviews

Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Michael F. Holt 491

Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, by Douglas Deal 493

Rountree, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown, by Margaret Holmes Williamson 494

de la Teja and Frank, eds., Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers, by Charles R. Cutter 494

Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600–1871, by Hilary E. Wyss 495

Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America, by Ruth Wallis Herndon 496

Morgan and Rushton, Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: The Formation of the Criminal Atlantic, by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart 497

Foote, Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City, by Thomas J. Davis 498

Berlin and Harris, eds., Slavery in New York, by Julie Winch 499

Duncan, Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685–1821, by Frank Cogliano 500

Mann, George Washington's War on Native America, by David Dixon 501

Young, Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier, by Caroline Cox 502

Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, by Owen S. Ireland 502

Kaye, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, by John P. Kaminski 503

Larkin, Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution, by Matthew Rainbow Hale 504

Stahr, John Jay: Founding Father, by Terence Ball 505

Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy, by Charles F. Hobson 506

Allison, Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779–1820, by Wade G. Dudley 507

Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority, by Anne Lombard 508

Kierner, Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America, by Annette Gordon-Reed 508

Bowling and Kennon, eds., Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C., and the Election of 1800, by James M. Banner Jr. 509

Sioli, Esploranda la nazione. Alle origini del' espansionismo Americano (Exploring the nation. On the origins of American expansionism), by Evan Haefeli 510

Wright, The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance, by Carl Lane 511

Ingersoll, To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals, by David J. Silverman 512

Warren, The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795–1870, by Roger L. Nichols 513

Burin, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society, by Claude A. Clegg III 514

Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life, by Michael Tadman 515

Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, by William K. Scarborough 515

Gemme, Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity, by Adam-Max Tuchinsky 516

Beyan, African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm and the American Civilizing Efforts, by Eric Burin 517

Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links, by Dylan C. Penningroth 518

Walker, No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans, by Paul Lachance 519

Verkruyse, Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell, by Charles Hambrick-Stowe 520

Kurilla, Zaokeanskie partnery: Amerika i Rossiia v 1830–1850-e gody (Transoceanic partners: America and Russia from the 1830s through the 1850s), by J. Dane Hartgrove 521

Eimers, Preußen und die usa 1850 bis 1867: Transatlantische Wechselwirkungen (Prussia and the usa 1850 to 1867: transatlantic interactions), by Thomas Adam 522

Lause, Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community, by Christopher Clark 522

Chapin, Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity, by Bret E. Carroll 523

Schmidt, Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality, by Charles H. Lippy 524

Budney, William Jay: Abolitionist and Anticolonialist, by Richard S. Newman 525

Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform, by Michael D. Pierson 526

Salerno, Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America, by Debra Gold Hansen 527

Jordan-Lake, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe, by Barbara Hochman 528

Portnoy, Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates, by Mary Hershberger 528

Paul, Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856, by Durwood Ball 529

Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875, by Brian DeLay 530

Myers, Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War, by David F. Ericson 531

Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Frederick J. Blue 532

Davis and Robertson, eds., Virginia at War, 1861, by Jeffrey W. McClurken 533

Sanders, While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War, by Michael P. Gray 534

Cimprich, Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory, by Dwight T. Pitcaithley 534

Ward, River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War, by Lonnie E. Maness 535

Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army, by Mary A. DeCredico 536

Walker, Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment, by Peter S. Carmichael 537

Prushankin, A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, by Michael B. Dougan 538

Mobley, "War Governor of the South": North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy, by Russell Duncan 538

Wetherington, Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia, by Kenneth W. Noe 539

Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South, by Joan E. Cashin 540

Delfino and Gillespie, eds., Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, by Bess Beatty 541

Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, by Gilles Vandal 542

Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865–1900, by Wallace D. Best 543

Powers, Mark Twain: A Life, by Robert Middlekauff 544

Richards, Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860–1900, by Theodore Corbett 544

Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, by Phillip Drennon Thomas 545

Isenberg, Mining California: An Ecological History, by James J. Rawls 546

Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier, by James Taylor Carson 547

Heaton, The Shoshone-Bannocks: Culture and Commerce at Fort Hall, 1870–1940; and Beck, The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854, by Andrew Denson 548

Holm, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans & Whites in the Progressive Era, by Daniel Cobb 549

Boisseau, White Queen: May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity, by Bonnie G. Smith 550

Patterson, Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895–1915, by Lois Rudnick 551

Baker, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists, by Rebecca J. Mead 552

Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, by Maureen A. Flanagan 553

McCune, "The Whole Wide World Without Limits": International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893–1930, by Joyce Antler 553

Godshalk, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations, by Gregory Michael Dorr 554

Berger, Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture, by Bridget T. Heneghan 555

Morgan, Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America, by Sandra D. Harmon 556

Garb, City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919, by Amanda Irene Seligman 557

Fogelson, Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930, by Michael H. Ebner 558

Weiner, Lake Effects: A History of Urban Policy Making in Cleveland, 1825–1929, by Robert G. Barrows 559

Wolcott, Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890–1940, by David S. Tanenhaus 560

Johnson, Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City, by Markus Dirk Dubber 560

Wagner, The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution, by Ruth Crocker 561

Righter, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism, by Donald J. Pisani 562

Lewis, Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century, by David T. Courtwright 563

Israel, Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870–1925, by James P. Byrd 564

Franz, Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile, by Ronald R. Kline 565

Brown, The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929, by Harvey Green 565

Doerksen, American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age, by William Howland Kenney 566

Ferguson, The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance, by Anne Elizabeth Carroll 567

Turner, Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance, by Mark I. Helbling 568

Carroll, Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance, by Kenneth W. Warren 569

Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, by Matthew C. Whitaker 570

Bokovoy, The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880–1940, by Richard V. Francaviglia 570

Luconi and Tintori, L'ombra lunga del fascio: Canali di propaganda fascita per gli "italiani d'America" (The long shadow of fascism: Channels of fascist propaganda for "Italian Americans"), by Fraser M. Ottanelli 571

Beekman, William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult, by Eckard V. Toy Jr. 572

Füssl, Deutsch-amerikanischer Kulturaustausch im 20. Jahrhundert: Bildung-Wissenschaft-Politik (German-American cultural exchange in the 20th century: Education-science-politics), by Ronald J. Granieri 573

Rosen, Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery, by Michael A. Bernstein 574

Holl, From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and fdr's Preparedness Program, by Michael Augspurger 575

Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century, by Diana Davids Hinton 576

Patel, Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933–1945, by Olaf Stieglitz 576

Shimada, Senso to Imin no Shakaishi: Hawai Nikkei Americajin no Taiheiyo Senso (A social history of war and immigrants: Japanese immigrants' experiences in Hawaii during World War II), by Daqing Yang 577

Biesen, Blackout: World War II and the Origin of Film Noir, by Eric Schaefer 578

Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945, by Ellis W. Hawley 579

Dallas, 1945: The War that Never Ended, by Justin Hart 580

Fehrenbach, Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, by Heike Bungert 581

Kisatsky, The United States and the European Right, 1945–1955, by James F. Tent 582

Barrett, The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy, by Sean Malloy 582

Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights, by Simon Payaslian 583

Gambone, The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society, by Judy Barrett Litoff 584

Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, by Richard A. Greenwald 585

Aiken, Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1981, by Duane A. Smith 586

Olson, Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities, by Ellen Baker 587

Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons, by Bernard F. Dick 587

Nadel, Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity, by Steven D. Classen 588

Watson and Martin, eds., "There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant, by Catherine Cocks 589

Parson, Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles, by John F. Bauman 590

Belknap, The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953–1969, by Ronald Kahn 591

Halliwell, The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture, by Robert Booth Fowler 592

Tyrrell, Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890–1970, by Ron Robin 593

Seixas, ed., Theorizing Historical Consciousness, by Peter N. Stearns 593

Rosenberg, How Far the Promised Land? World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam, by Charles P. Henry 594

Whitaker, Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West, by Kevin Mulroy 595

Anderson, Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947–1956, by James B. Bennett 596

Goosman, Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues, by Jeffrey Melnick 597

Roberson, Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865–1977, by David L. Chappell 598

Burns, To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955–1968, by James A. Colaiaco 599

Crosby, A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, by Joseph Crespino 600

Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, by Jeff Roche 601

Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, by Luther James Adams 601

Daniel, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South, by Gerald Markowitz 602

Harvey, Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act, by Karl Jacoby 603

Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890–2000, by Gregg A. Mitman 604

Vermaas, Sequoia: The Heralded Tree in American Art and Culture, by Michael P. Cohen 605

O'Neill, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century, by Donald L. Parman 606

Milkis and Mileur, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, by Michael K. Brown 606

Gould, The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate, by Daniel Wirls 608

Kalman, Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations, by Paul Lyons 608

Hansen, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, by Martin J. Collins 609

Shaw, The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War, by Andrew L. Johns 610

Kripal and Shuck, eds., On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture, by Sarah M. Pike 611

Lavi, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthenasia in the United States, by Michael A. Flannery 612

Gillette, Camden after the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City, by Karen Ferguson 613

Matovina, Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present, by Anthony Quiroz 613

Whalen and Vázquez-Hernández, eds., The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives, by John H. Stinson-Fernández 614

Graham, Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis, by Andrew Gyory 615

Solinger, Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America, by Janet Golden 616

O'Neill, Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History, by Charles A. Lofgren 617

Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida, by R. Bruce Stephenson 618

Starnes, Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina, by Thomas Weiss 619

Steigerwald, Culture's Vanities: The Paradox of Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World, by Daniel Horowitz 620

Mills, Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial, by Christopher A. Thomas 620

Web Site Reviews

California Historical Society, by H. Mark Wild 622

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, by Clare Corbould 623

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures, by Bonnie M. Miller 624

The Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery, by Nancy Gabin 624

Virtual Museum & Archive of sec and Securities History, by Michael E. Parrish 625

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor, by Emily S. Rosenberg 626

Editor's Annual Report, 2005–2006
Edward T. Linenthal 628

Letters to the Editor 632

Announcements 634

Recent Scholarship 635


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