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VOLUME 72•NUMBER 1

June 1985


Table of Contents

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Front Matter
 
That Cobb Interview
By Arthur S. Link 7
Serial Marriage and the Origins of the Black Stepfamily: The Rowanty Evidence
By Robert R. Dykstra 18
The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of the Age in American Protestantism, 1880-1910
By Grant Wacker 45
State Courts and Protective Legislation during the Progressive Era: A Reevaluation
By Melvin I. Urofsky 63
"Hobbesian Populism": Interpretive Paradigms and Moral Vision in American Historiography
By Fred Matthews 92
 

Book Reviews
David Brion Davis. Slavery and Human Progress
Reviewed by Ronald Takaki 116
Ellen K. Rothman. Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America
Reviewed by Lois W. Banner 117
John N. Ingham. Bibliographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders
Reviewed by Naomi R. Lamoreaux 118
Hugh Rockoff. Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States
Reviewed by Stuart D. Brandes 119
Thomas K. MaCraw. Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn
Reviewed by Gerald D. Nash 120
Norman W. Spellmann. The Methodist Excitement in Texas: A History
Reviewed by Kenneth K. Bailey 121
Diane L. Barthel. Amana: From Pietist Sect to American Community
Reviewed by Dorothy Schwieder 121
S. P. Pozharskaya. Spain and the USA: Foreign Policy and Society, 1936-1976 [in Russian]
Reviewed by John W. Long 122
Robert Fisher. Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America
Reviewed by Patricia Mooney-Melvin 123
Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity
Reviewed by Dino Cinel 124
Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz 125
Olive Patricia Dickason. The Myth of the Savage: And the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas
Reviewed by Neal Salisbury 126
Stephen Saunders Webb. 1676: The End of American Independence
Reviewed by Douglas Edward Leach 127
Anita H. Rutman. A Place in Time: Explicatus
Reviewed by John J. McCusker 128
Gregory H. Nobles. Divisions throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740-1775
Reviewed by Stephen Innes 129
Joyce Appleby. Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s
Reviewed by Janet A. Riesman 130
Richard J. Moss. Noah Webster
Reviewed by Patricia Cline Cohen 131
John R. Alden. George Washington: A Biography
Reviewed by James Kirby Martin 132
Garry Wills. Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment
Reviewed by Trevor Colbourn 133
Silvio A. Bedini. Thomas Jefferson and His Copying Machines
Reviewed by Stephen H. Cutcliffe 134
John C. Greene. American Science in the Age of Jefferson
Reviewed by Nathan Reingold 135
Charles B. Sanford. The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson
Reviewed by John F. Berens 136
William Henry Williams. The Garden of American Methodism: The Delmarva Peninsula, 1769-1820
Reviewed by Richard K. MacMaster 137
William M. Fowler, Jr.. Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783-1815
Reviewed by John K. Mahon 138
Robert H. Wiebe. The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the Constitution to the Eve of Disunion
Reviewed by Daniel Walker Howe 139
Lee Virginia Chambes-Schiller. Liberty, a Better Husband: Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780-1840
Reviewed by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 140
C. David Rice. The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis
Reviewed by Howard R. Lamar 141
John B. Boles. Black Southerners, 1619-1869
Reviewed by John David Smith 141
F. N. Boney. Southerners All
Reviewed by Jon L. Wakelyn 142
Hal S. Barron. Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England
Reviewed by Richard D. Brown 143
Daniel Feller. The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics
Reviewed by Robert P. Swierenga 144
Myra C. Glenn. Campaigns against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America
Reviewed by W. David Lewis 145
Donald B. Cole. Martin Van Buren and the American Political System
Reviewed by John Niven 146
Harvey L. Carter. Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes
Reviewed by Lawrence R. Murphy 147
Maurice G. Baxter. One and Inseparable: Daniel Webster and the Union
Reviewed by Major L. Wilson 148
Charles Todorich. The Spirited Years: A History of the Antebellum Naval Academy
Reviewed by John P. Lovell 148
Thomas H. O'Connor. Fitzpatrick's Boston, 1846-1866: John Bernard Fitzpatrick, Third Bishop of Boston
Reviewed by Jo Ann Manfra 149
Dale Baum. The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848-1876
Reviewed by Marc W. Kruman 150
Nancy A. Hewitt. Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872
Reviewed by Karen Blair 151
James Lee McDonough. Chattanooga--A Death Grip on the Confederacy
Reviewed by Larry J. Daniel 152
Robert Max Jackson. The Formation of Craft Labor Markets
Reviewed by Walter Licht 153
John B. Jentz. Germans in America: Aspects of German-American Relations in the Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by Steven J. Ross 154
Elisabeth Griffith. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Reviewed by Anne Firor Scott 155
Emily Apt Geer. First Lady: The Life of Lucy Webb Hayes
Reviewed by Elizabeth Hampsten 156
Frederick C. Drake. The Empire of the Seas: A Biography of Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt
Reviewed by Robert Seager II 157
L. G. Moses. The Indian Man: A Biography of James Mooney
Reviewed by C. M. Hinsley 158
Howard M. Feinstein. Becoming William James
Reviewed by Steven Weiland 159
Michael P. Cohen. The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness
Reviewed by Robert W. Righter 160
Roger D. McGrath. Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier
Reviewed by Ron Limbaugh 160
Stan Hoig. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
Reviewed by Brad Agnew 161
Victor Westphall. Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region
Reviewed by William B. Taylor 162
Paul Avrich. The Haymarket Tragedy
Reviewed by J. H. M. Laslett 163
William R. Majors. Editorial Wild Oats: Edward Ward Carmack and Tennessee Politics
Reviewed by Thomas H. Baker 164
Barton C. Shaw. The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party
Reviewed by Charles L. Flynn, Jr. 165
Paul M. Gaston. Women of Fair Hope
Reviewed by Jeanette C. Lauer 165
Jon C. Teaford. The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900
Reviewed by Clay McShane 166
Francis G. Couvares. The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City, 1877-1919
Reviewed by Michael P. Weber 167
Micheal Pearlman. To Make Democracy Safe for America: Patricians and Preparedness in the Progressive Era
Reviewed by Jack C. Lane 168
Alfred E. Cornebise. War as Advertised: The Four Minute Men and America's Crusade, 1917-1918
Reviewed by George T. Blakey 169
Lester D. Langley. The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900-1934
Reviewed by Jules R. Benjamin 170
Alice Wexler. Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life
Reviewed by Leslie Fishbein 171
Bruce Clayton. Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne
Reviewed by James Gilbert 172
Robert Hyfler. Prophets of the Left: American Socialist Thought in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Sally M. Miller 173
D. Steven Blum. Walter Lippmann: Cosmopolitanism in the Century of Total War
Reviewed by Daniel Levine 174
Cynthia Grant Tucker. A Woman's Ministry: Mary Collson's Search for Reform as a Unitarian Minister, a Hull House Social Worker, and a Christian Science Practitioner
Reviewed by Judith Ann Trolander 175
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.. Province of Reason
Reviewed by Paul Boyer 175
James C. Cobb.. Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984
Reviewed by David L. Carlton 176
Richard Franklin Bensel. Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Reviewed by Richard Jensen 177
D. Cameron Watt. Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place, 1900-1975: A Study of the Anglo-American Relationship and World Politics in the Context of Brtish and American Foreign-Policy Making in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Robert M. Hathaway 178
Roger E. Bilstein. Flight in America, 1900-1983: From the Wrights to the Astronauts
Reviewed by William F. Trimble 179
Deborah Forczek. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Vol. I: 1826-August 1919. Vol. II: 27-August 1920
Reviewed by William H. Harris 180
Dorothy M. Brown. Mabel Walker Willebrandt: A Study of Power, Loyalty, and Law
Reviewed by Mary Frederickson 182
J. William T. Youngs. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life
Reviewed by Elisabeth Israels Perry 183
William W. Bremer. Depression Winters: New York Social Workers and the New Deal
Reviewed by Barbara Blumberg 183
William W. Bremer. A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s Nick Roddick
Reviewed by Thomas Cripps 184
Sidney Fine. Frank Murphy: The Washington Years
Reviewed by Peter Irons 185
David S. Wyman. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945
Reviewed by Leonard Dinnerstein 186
Lewis A. Coser. Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences
Reviewed by John Patrick Diggins 187
Donald R. McCoy. The Presidency of Harry S. Truman
Reviewed by Monte M. Poen 188
Thomas M. Leonard. The United States and Central America, 1944-1949: Perceptions of Political Dynamics
Reviewed by Thomas L. Karnes 189
James A. Hutson. One for All: NATO Strategy and Logistics through the Formative Period, 1949-1969
Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan 190
Alexander P. Lamis. The Two-Party South
Reviewed by Monroe Billington 191
Bradley R. Rice. Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth since World War II
Reviewed by Edward F. Haas 191
Richard H. K. Vietor. Energy Policy in America since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations
Reviewed by Donald A. Ritchie 192
Harold Lee. Roswell Garst: A Biography
Reviewed by Frederick H. Schapsmeier 193
Herbert S. Parmet. JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
Reviewed by Anne Karalekas 194
Thomas R. West. The Torch Is Passed: The Kennedy Brothers and American Liberalism
Reviewed by Alan Lawson 195
Rhoda Lois Blumberg. Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle
Reviewed by Neil R. McMillen 196
Raymond Wolters. The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation
Reviewed by Hugh Davis Graham 197
Robert S. Litwak. Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Reviewed by Dan Caldwell 198
Gerald Sullivan. Who Spoke Up? American Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975
Reviewed by Charles DeBenedetti 198
Gary D. Wekkin. Democrat versus Democrat: The National Party's Campaign to Close the Wisconsin Primary
Reviewed by Michael O'Brien 199
Dennis C. Le Master. Decade of Change: The Remaking of Forest Service Statutory Authority during the 1970s
Reviewed by William D. Rowley 200
Sheila M. Rothman. The Willowbrook Wars
Reviewed by Edward Berkowitz 201
Book Notes
  203
News and Comments
  217
Communications
  217
Recent Articles
  224
Recent Dissertations
  260
Back Matter
  260

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