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VOLUME 72•NUMBER 3

December 1985


Table of Contents

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Front Matter
 
Nativism and the Creation of a Republican Majority in the North before the Civil War
By William E. Gienapp 529
Material Culture and the North American House: The Era of the Common Man, 1870-1920
By John C. Weaver 560
Who Stayed in School? Social Structure and Academic Achievement in the Determination of Enrollment Patterns, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880-1925
By Joel Perlmann 588
Cass Gilbert, Architect: Conservative at Bay
By Geoffrey Blodgett 615
United States Opposition to Use of Force in the Taiwan Strait, 1954-1962
By Leonard H. D. Gordon 637
 

Book Reviews
Francis Paul Prucha. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
Reviewed by Ronald N. Satz 661
James Turner. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
Reviewed by Conrad Wright 662
Jan Shipps. Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Reviewed by Mario S. De Pillis 663
Kurt R. Spillmann. Amerikas Ideologie des Friedens: Ursprunge, Formwandlungen und geschichtliche Auswirkungen des amerikanischen Glaubens an den Mythos von einer friedlichen Weltordnung
Reviewed by Udo Sautter 664
Arthur J. Vidich and Stanford M. Lyman. American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions
Reviewed by Thomas L. Haskell 665
Nicole Hahn Rafter. Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935
Reviewed by Ellen Dwyer 666
Barbara Miller Solomon. In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America
Reviewed by June Sochen 667
Murray Friedman. Jewish Life in Philadelphia, 1830-1940
Reviewed by Jenna Weissman Joselit 668
Judith E. Endelman. The Jewish Community of Indianapolis, 1849 to the Present
Reviewed by William Toll 669
Daniel Luria. Shaky Palaces: Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston's Suburbanization
Reviewed by Michael H. Ebner 670
William C. Gates, Jr.. The City of Hills and Kilns: Life and Work in East Liverpool, Ohio
Reviewed by Francis G. Couvares 671
Patricia E. Sudnik. Du Pont and the International Chemical Industry
Reviewed by Stephen Salsbury 672
Jamesd Oliver Robertson. America's Business
Reviewed by John N. Ingham 673
Gerald Friesen. The Canadian Prairies: A History
Reviewed by David Breen 674
Michael C. Meyer. Water in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal History, 1550-1850
Reviewed by Iris H. W. Engstrand 674
Lyle N. McAlister. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700
Reviewed by Dauril Alden 675
David Beers Quinn. Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606
Reviewed by John Parker 676
David S. Lovejoy. Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution
Reviewed by Jon Butler 677
Richard L. Bushman. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts
Reviewed by Jack P. Greene 678
A. Owen Aldridge. Thomas Paine's American Ideology
Reviewed by Joyce O. Appleby 679
Ray Brighton. The Checkered Career of Tobias Lear
Reviewed by Robert Ernst 680
John S. Pancake. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782
Reviewed by E. Wayne Carp 681
James A. Rogers. Richard Furman: Life and Legacy
Reviewed by David T. Morgan 682
Sharon MacPherson. The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Vol. II: 1804-1813
Reviewed by Elbert B. Smith 683
M. J. Heale. The Presidential Quest: Candidates and Images in American Political Culture, 1787-1852
Reviewed by Roger A. Fischer 684
Michael J. O'Brien. Grassland, Forest, and Historical Settlement: An Analysis of Dynamics in Northeast Missouri
Reviewed by William E. Foley 685
Mary Lee Spence. The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont. Vol. III: Travels from 1848 to 1854
Reviewed by John E. Sunder 685
Clifford L. Stott. Search for Sanctuary: Brigham Young and the White Mountain Expedition
Reviewed by James B. Allen 686
Jane H. Pease. The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843
Reviewed by Michael P. Johnson 687
Douglas Charles Stange. British Unitarians against American Slavery, 1833-65
Reviewed by Christine Bolt 688
David Bensman. The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by Irwin Yellowitz 689
John S. Garner. The Model Company Town: Urban Design through Private Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century New England
Reviewed by Anthony F. C. Wallace 690
Thomas F. Gossett. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
Reviewed by Nina Baym 691
Frank L. Klement. Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War
Reviewed by Thomas Reed Turner 692
Horace W. Raper. William W. Holden: North Carolina's Political Enigma
Reviewed by Michael Perman 693
Ted Tunnell. Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877
Reviewed by Charles Vincent 694
Royce Shingleton. Richard Peters: Champion of the New South
Reviewed by James M. Russell 694
Richard Slotkin. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
Reviewed by Richard Drinnon 695
Charles J. Rooney, Jr.. Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917
Reviewed by Michael Fellman 697
Gary Scott Smith. The Seeds of Secularization: Calvinism, Culture, and Pluralism in America, 1870-1915
Reviewed by Jacob H. Dorn 697
Gerald Sorin. The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 1880-1920
Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield 698
H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession and the Ottawa Indian University Fraud
Reviewed by Robert A. Trennert 699
Paul Andrew Hutton. Phil Sheridan and His Army
Reviewed by Lonnie J. White 700
Anne M. Butler. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90
Reviewed by Mary Lee Spence 701
Kristine Fredriksson. American Rodeo: From Buffalo Bill to Big Business
Reviewed by William W. Savage, Jr. 701
Raymond W. Smock. The Booker T. Washington Papers. Vol. XIII: 1914-15
Reviewed by Allan H. Spear 702
Don H. Doyle. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930
Reviewed by Harold L. Platt 705
Philip R. VanderMeer. The Hoosier Politician: Officeholding and Political Culture in Indiana, 1896-1920
Reviewed by Ballard C. Campbell 706
David W. Detjen. The Germans in Missouri, 1900-1918: Prohibition, Neutrality, and Assimilation
Reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 707
Steven L. Piott. The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business in the Midwest
Reviewed by Arthur Power Dudden 708
Viviana A. Zelizer. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
Reviewed by David Nasaw 709
David Nasaw. Children of the City: At Work and At Play
Reviewed by LeRoy Ashby 709
Robert W. Cherny. A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
Reviewed by John R. Morris 710
Key Ray Chong. Americans and Chinese Reform and Revolution, 1898-1922: The Role of Private Citizens in Diplomacy
Reviewed by Adrian A. Bennett 711
Sandra C. Taylor. Advocate of Understanding: Sidney Gulick and the Search for Peace with Japan
Reviewed by Charles E. Neu 712
Lloyd C. Gardner. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923
Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger 713
Peter H. Buckingham. International Normalcy: The Open Door Peace with the Former Central Powers, 1921-29
Reviewed by Keith L. Nelson 714
David W. Levy. Herbert Croly of The New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive
Reviewed by Robert M. Crunden 715
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930's
Reviewed by Hugh Hawkins 716
John A. Jakle. The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America
Reviewed by Warren Belasco 717
Richard Klayman. The First Jew: Prejudice and Politics in an American Community, 1900-1932
Reviewed by Egal Feldman 718
Stanley Lebergott. The Americans: An Economic Record
Reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee 719
V. P. Franklin. Black Self-Determination: A Cultural History of the Faith of the Fathers
Reviewed by Louis R. Harlan 719
Linda O. McMurry. Recorder of the Black Experience: A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work
Reviewed by Donald Spivey 720
Henry H. Adams. Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy
Reviewed by Robert W. Love, Jr. 721
Martin L. Fausold. The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover
Reviewed by Albert U. Romasco 722
Nancy L. Roberts. Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Reviewed by Douglas P. Seaton 723
John Maze. Harold Ickes of the New Deal: His Private Life and Public Career
Reviewed by Linda J. Lear 724
Theodore Rosenof. Patterns of Political Economy in America: The Failure to Develop a Democratic Left Synthesis, 1933-1950
Reviewed by Bonnie Fox Schwartz 725
Frank Costigliola. Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933
Reviewed by Emily S. Rosenberg 726
Lee Kennett. For the Duration ...: The United States Goes to War, Pearl Harbor-1942
Reviewed by Richard N. Chapman 727
Mauricio Mazon. The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation
Reviewed by Mario T. Garcia 727
Ronald H. Spector. Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan
Reviewed by Clark G. Reynolds 728
Stephen J. Randall. United States Foreign Oil Policy, 1919-1948: For Profits and Security
Reviewed by Stephen G. Rabe 729
Diana Davids Olien. Wildcaters: Texas Independent Oilmen
Reviewed by Bobby Weaver 730
Robert Moats Miller. Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet
Reviewed by Ferenc M. Szasz 731
Gerald N. Grob. Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940
Reviewed by Peter Tyor 732
Roy V. Scott. Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by H. Roger Grant 733
Andrew J. Dunar. The Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality
Reviewed by William E. Pemberton 733
Eugene Brown. J. William Fulbright: Advice and Dissent
Reviewed by Milton S. Katz 734
Frederick H. Schapsmeier. Dirksen of Illinois: Senatorial Statesman
Reviewed by Gary W. Reichard 735
Steven F. Lawson. In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982
Reviewed by Clayborne Carson 736
Byron E. Shafer. Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics
Reviewed by Herbert S. Parmet 737
George D. Moffett III. The Limits of Victory: The Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties
Reviewed by Sheldon B. Liss 738
Kerry Segrave. The Servant Problem: Domestic Workers in North America
Reviewed by Susan Strasser 738
Eugenia Kaledin. Mothers and More: American Women in the 1950s
Reviewed by Sheila M. Rothman 739
William Issel. Social Change in the United States, 1945-1983
Reviewed by David Chalmers 740
Gregg Herken. Counsels of War
Reviewed by George T. Mazuzan 740
George Q. Flynn. Lewis B. Hershey, Mr. Selective Service
Reviewed by John O'Sullivan 741
Richard Pfau. No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss
Reviewed by Philip L. Cantelon 742
Kathleen J. Turner. Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press
Reviewed by Larry Berman 743
R. B. Smith. An International History of the Vietnam War. Vol I: Revolution versus Comtainment, 1955-61
Reviewed by Richard H. Immerman 744
Tom Wagy. Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida: Spokesman of the New South
Reviewed by David R. Colburn 745
Roger Bell. Last among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics
Reviewed by Justus F. Paul 745
James L. Baughman. Television's Guardians: The FCC and the Politics of Programming, 1958-1967
Reviewed by Arthur F. McClure II 746
Book Notes
  748
News and Comments
  760
Communications
  760
Recent Articles
  768
Recent Dissertations
  797
Back Matter
  797

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