| Table of Contents | The Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 2.

Vol. 72, No. 2

September 1985

VOLUME 72•NUMBER 2

September 1985

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Front Matter

Nantucket Whalemen in the Deep-Sea Fishery: The Changing Anatomy of an Early American Labor Force
By Daniel Vickers	277
American Indians on the Cotton Frontier: Changing Economic Relations with Citizens and Slaves in the Mississippi Territory
By Daniel H. Usner, Jr.	297
Urban History in a Regional Context: River Towns on the Upper Mississippi, 1840-1860
By Timothy R. Mahoney	318
Forests and Conservation, 1865-1890
By Donald J. Pisani	340
President Truman and the Evolution of the National Security Council
By Anna Kasten Nelson	360

Book Reviews
John Patrick Diggins. The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism
Reviewed by Robert E. Shalhope	379
David E. Shi. The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture
Reviewed by Jess A. Le Vine	380
James W. Ely, Jr.. Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South
Reviewed by Paul Finkelman	381
William C. Ringenberg. The Christian College: A History of Protestant Higher Education in America
Reviewed by Willis Rudy	382
Andrew Gulliford. America's Country Schools
Reviewed by Wayne E. Fuller	383
Lynn Y. Weiner. From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980
Reviewed by Faye E. Dudden	384
Sue Davidson. A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America
Reviewed by Patricia Cooper	384
David A. Hounshell. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States
Reviewed by Bruce Sinclair	385
Wayne G. Broehl, Jr.. John Deere's Company: A History of Deere $\&$ Company and Its Times
Reviewed by Margaret Walsh	386
Craig L. Dozier. Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence
Reviewed by Thomas L. Karnes	387
Kenneth M. Morrison. The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki-Euramerican Relations
Reviewed by Olive P. Dickason	388
Gary A. Puckrein. Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700
Reviewed by Franklin W. Knight	389
Christine Leigh Heyrman. Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750
Reviewed by Gregory H. Nobles	390
Fred Anderson. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
Reviewed by Charles Royster	390
John Frederick Woolverton. Colonial Anglicanism in North America
Reviewed by Gerald J. Goodwin	391
Jack D. Marietta. The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783
Reviewed by Arthur J. Worrall	392
Paul Merrill Spurlin. The French Enlightenment in America: Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers
Reviewed by A. Owen Aldridge	393
Lucy Trumbull Brown. The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790. Vol. II
Reviewed by Carl E. Prince	394
Allan J. Kuethe. The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819
Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.	395
Richard K. Matthews. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View
Reviewed by Forrest McDonald	396
Charles D. Lowery. James Barbour, a Jeffersonian Republican
Reviewed by Emory G. Evans	397
James P. Ronda. Lewis and Clark among the Indians
Reviewed by Bernard W. Sheehan	398
Gary Clayton Anderson. Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862
Reviewed by Reginald Horsman	399
R. David Demunds. The Shawnee Prophet
Reviewed by George A. Schultz	399
B. W. Higman. Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Reviewed by Sidney W. Mintz	401
Jeffrey S. Rossbach. The Black Abolitionist Papers. Vol. I: The British Isles, 1830-1865
Reviewed by Richard Blackett	402
Charles Joyner. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community
Reviewed by William L. Van Deburg	403
John Solomon Otto. Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794-1860: Living Conditions and Status Patterns in the Old South
Reviewed by George W. McDaniel	404
Army Bridges. A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics
Reviewed by Jerome Mushkat	405
R. Kent Newmyer. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic
Reviewed by Kermit L. Hall	406
Walter H. Conser, Jr.. Church and Confession: Conservative Theologians in Germany, England, and America, 1815-1866
Reviewed by Richard Carwardine	407
Richard L. Bushman. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Reviewed by Valeen Avery	408
Ira L. Mandelker. Religion, Society, and Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America
Reviewed by Lawrence Foster	408
Nina Baym. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America
Reviewed by Allan M. Axelrad	409
John McAleer. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter
Reviewed by Lewis Perry	410
Polly Welts Kaufman. Women Teachers on the Frontier
Reviewed by Anne M. Butler	411
Glenda Riley. Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915
Reviewed by Julie Roy Jeffrey	412
Andreas Reichstein. Der texanische Unabhangigkeitskrieg 1835/36: Ursachen und Wirkung
Reviewed by Walter Struve	413
Bobby D. Weaver. Castro's Colony: Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865
Reviewed by Margaret S. Henson	414
Philip Scranton. Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885
Reviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff	415
Lois Barer Arnold. Four Lives in Science: Women's Education in the Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by Sylvia Wallace McGrath	416
Catherine Clinton. The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by Susan H. Armitage	417
Waldo E. Martin, Jr.. The Mind of Frederick Douglass
Reviewed by August Meier	418
W. Buck Yearns. The Confederate Governors
Reviewed by Walter L. Buenger	418
Larry J. Daniel. Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865
Reviewed by Joseph G. Dawson III	419
William R. Brock. Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865-1900
Reviewed by Robert H. Bremner	420
Susan Levine. Labor's True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age
Reviewed by Thomas Dublin	421
Peter Levine. A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of American Sport
Reviewed by Benjamin G. Rader	422
Shirley A. Leckie. Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family
Reviewed by Robert C. Carriker	422
Frederick E. Hoxie. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920
Reviewed by Henry E. Fritz	423
Benjamin McArthur. Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920
Reviewed by Lewis A. Erenberg	424
Lynn Dumenil. Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930
Reviewed by David I. Macleod	425
Thomas P. Hughes. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930
Reviewed by Russell I. Fries	426
H. Leon Prather, Sr.. We Have Taken a City: Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898
Reviewed by Carol E. Hoffecker	427
Donna A. Barnes. Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in Texas
Reviewed by Barton C. Shaw	428
Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
Reviewed by Pete Daniel	429
Peter D. Klingman. Neither Dies nor Surrenders: A History of the Republican Party in Florida, 1867-1970
Reviewed by Roger M. Olien	430
Michael J. McNally. Catholicism in South Florida, 1868-1968
Reviewed by Saul E. Bronder	431
Joel Williamson. The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
Reviewed by Howard N. Rabinowitz	432
Kevin Starr. Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era
Reviewed by Andrew Rolle	433
Carolyn Johnston. Jack London--An American Radical?
Reviewed by Joan D. Hedrick	434
Z. M. Gershov. Woodrow Wilson [in Russian]
Reviewed by John W. Long	435
Kathleen Burk. Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914-1918
Reviewed by Edward B. Parsons	436
Nicholas E. Tawa. Serenading the Reluctant Eagle: American Musical Life, 1925-1945
Reviewed by Alan H. Levy	436
Virginia Spencer Carr. Dos Passos: A Life
Reviewed by David C. Duke	438
Phillipa Strum. Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People
Reviewed by Michal R. Belknap	438
Robert M. Spector. W. Cameron Forbes and the Hoover Commissions to Haiti (1930)
Reviewed by Donald B. Cooper	439
Gerald E. Markowitz. Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
Reviewed by Abraham A. Davidson	440
Bonnie Fox Schwartz. The Civil Works Administration, 1933-1934: The Business of Emergency Employment in the New Deal
Reviewed by Frank Freidel	441
Mark H. Leff. The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation, 1933-1939
Reviewed by Theodore Rosenof	442
Fred W. Voget. The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
Reviewed by L. G. Moses	443
Vine Deloria, Jr.. The Aggressions of Civilization: Federal Indian Policy since the 1880s
Reviewed by Robert H. Keller	444
Jonathan G. Utley. Going to War with Japan, 1937-1941
Reviewed by Justin H. Libby	444
Dominic J. Capeci, Jr.. Race Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy of 1942
Reviewed by Richard M. Dalfiume	445
Warren F. Kimball. Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence
Reviewed by Manfred Jonas	446
D'Ann Campbell. Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era
Reviewed by Lois Scharf	448
Andrea S. Walsh. Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950
Reviewed by Sumiko Higashi	449
Stephen J. Whitfield. A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald
Reviewed by Terry A. Cooney	450
Michael M. Boll. Cold War in the Balkans: American Foreign Policy and the Emergence of Communist Bulgaria, 1943-1947
Reviewed by Lorraine M. Lees	451
Steven L. Rearden. History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Vol. I: The Formative Years, 1947-1950
Reviewed by Michael S. Sherry	452
Lawrence S. Kaplan. The United States and NATO: The Formative Years
Reviewed by Steven L. Rearden	453
William Stueck. The Wedemeyer Mission: American Politics and Foreign Policy during the Cold War
Reviewed by Gary May	454
Leonard A. Kusnitz. Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: America's China Policy, 1949-1979
Reviewed by Melvin Small	455
Bernard A. Weisberger. Cold War, Cold Peace: The United States and Russia since 1945
Reviewed by Ralph B. Levering	455
Bernard A. Weisberger. Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Vol. XIII: Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session, 1961
Reviewed by Thomas Buckley	456
Bruce Palmer, Jr.. The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam
Reviewed by Russell F. Weigley	458
Rodolfo F. Acuna. A Community under Siege: A Chronicle of Chicanos East of the Los Angeles River, 1945-1975
Reviewed by Abraham Hoffman	459
Robert Frederick Burk. The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights
Reviewed by Charles C. Alexander	459
Tony Freyer. The Little Rock Crisis: A Constitutional Interpretation
Reviewed by James C. Duram	460
Carl Solberg. Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky	461
Hugh Davis Graham. The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years
Reviewed by Elisabeth Hansot	462
Charles D. Benson. Living and Working in Space: A History of Skylab
Reviewed by Tom Crouch	463
Dudley W. Buffa. Union Power and American Democracy: The UAW and the Democratic Party, 1972-83
Reviewed by John Barnard	464
John Lukacs. Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by John Braeman	465
Book Notes
	466
News and Comments
	478
Communications
By Richard H. Frost	483
Recent Articles
	484
Recent Dissertations
	510
Back Matter
	510

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