| Contents | Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8.3

Vol. 8, No. 3

July 2009


Staff

Contributors

Editor's Note	299

Essays

American Studies, Cultural History, and the Critique of Culture	301
Richard S. Lowry

They Vote Only for the Spoils: Massachusetts Reformers, Suffrage Restriction, and the 1884 Civil Service Law	341
Edward H. Miller

Food Prices, Politics, and Policy in the Progressive Era	365
David I. Macleod

Nation Building and Rebuilding: The American Red Cross in Italy During the Great War	407
Julia F. Irwin

Book Reviews

Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberly Jensen / Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870–1929 by Allison L. Sneider
Reviewed by Susan Goodier	441

Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900 by Jack Beatty
Reviewed by Glen Gendzel	446

Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830–1920 by Maureen Fitzgerald
Reviewed by Linda Przybyszewski	450

With Her Own Eyes: The Story of Julia Smith, Her Life, and Her Bible by Emily Sampson
Reviewed by Lewis Perry	452

Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
Reviewed by Christopher Waldrep	455

[On the back cover: Colonel Robert Perkins, American Red Cross commissioner to Italy, at a Red Cross day school in that country toward the end of World War I. Courtesy Charles M. Bakewell Papers, Yale University.]

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