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Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Super Market. Christin J. Mamiya Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns From Banners to Broadcasts. Keith Melder Domestic Novelists of the Old South: Defenders of Southern Culture. Elizabeth Moss Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62. Donna DeSalvo, Paul Schimmel, et al The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History. Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, editors Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations. Archie Green Reading Rodney King: Reading Urban Uprising. Robert Gooding-Williams, editor Metapop: Self-Referentiality in American Popular Culture. Michael Dunne. Studies in Popular Culture; M. Thomas Inge, editor Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right. Michael D' Antonio Kentucky Bluegrass Country. R. Gerald Alvey Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present. Ally Acker The Cultural Geography of the United States. A Revised Edition. Wilbur Zelinsky Roadfood: The All-new, Updated and Expanded Edition of the Classic Guide to America's Best Diners, Small-town Cafes, BBQ Joints and Other Very Special Eateries Serving Great, Inexpensive Regional Food. Jane and Michael Stern Images of American Life: A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Radio and Television. Joel Spring Russian Eyes on American Literature. Sergei Chakovsky and M. Thomas Inge, editors American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services. Jessica Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth, editors Immigrants and the American City. Thomas Muller Studies in the Western. 1.1, 1992-93 British English For American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life und Literature. David Grote Kenneth Wylie and Dennis Hickey. An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. John E. Kleber, Editor in Chief The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant. Edited with an Introduction and notes by Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944. James M. O'Toole The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, (1872-1958). Jack Beatty Discourse and Culture: The Creation of America. Alun Munslow Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People. Glen E. Lich, editor Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida. Robert E. Snyder and Jack B. Moore The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism. A. Gregory Schneider The Tragedy of Abundance: Myth Restoration in American Culture. Jerome O. Steffen Hard At Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Kathryn Grover, editor Baseball Between the Wars: Memories of the Game by the Men Who Played It. Eugene Murdock     

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High Visibility: How Executives, Politicians, Entertainers, Athletes, and Other Professionals Create, Market, and Achieve Successful Images . Irving Rein, Philip Kottler, and Martin Stoller The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears . Donald R. Katz Tippecanoe and Trinkets Too: The Material Culture of American Presidential Campaigns, 1828-1984 . Roger A. Fischer     

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The Bronx: Lost, Found, and Remembered 1935-1975. Stephen Samtur and Martin Jackson. The Antidepressant Era. David Healy. The Cinematic City. David Clarke, ed. Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Ketnam War. W. D. Ehrhart. Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research. Duane Anderson, ed. Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944. Adrienne Fried Block. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. Michael Kammen.     

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During the 40-odd years that the Alsatian-born, French-trained artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg lived in Britain, he became a triple celebrity. A decade after his migration to Britain in 1771 his achievements as a picturesque landscape artist were celebrated in election to the Royal Academy. During the same period he also worked for David Garrick at Drury Lane theatre as the highest-paid scenographer in Britain. Critics hailed him as a genius for revolutionizing Britain's dull staging traditions along the spectacular and naturalistic lines of France's Giovanni Servandoni. Finally, as the creator in 1781–82 of a pioneering commercial moving picture show, the Eidophusikon, he was acclaimed by leading arbiters of artistic taste such as Reynolds and Gainsborough. Well-heeled West End crowds flocked to performances, and the Eidophusikon was widely imitated in Europe, the United States, and the British colonies.

Yet de Loutherbourg's professional and social standing remained surprisingly fragile. At periodic intervals he was accused publicly of charlatanry, or its British equivalent, quackery. This damaging smear surfaced on each of the three occasions that de Loutherbourg shifted career direction. And though he managed to redeem himself on each occasion, it was only by making serious artistic and professional compromises. In this sense, the spectre of quackery haunted and shaped Philippe de Loutherbourg's British career, making him a fascinating test-case of quackery's shifting valencies at the dawn of the modern industrial age.     

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Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine. A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction. Victoria Aarons. Beyond the Mafia: Italian Americans and the Development of Las Vegas. Alan Balboni. Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture. S. Elizabeth Bird, ed. Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. Fergus Bordewich. Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society. Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds. The Comedy of Democracy. James E. Combs and Dan Nimmo. alt. Culture: An A-to-Z Guide to the '90s—Underground “on-line, and over-the-counter.” Steven Daley and Nathaniel Wice. What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives. David Peterson Del Mar. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Paul N. Edwards. Virtual Archaeology: Re-creating Ancient Worlds. Maurizio Forte and Alberto Siliotti, eds. Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. Richard V. Francaviglia. A Visit with Harlan Hubbard. Wade Hall. The Archaeology of the Donner Party. Donald L. Hardesty, with contributions by Michael Brodhead, Donald K. Grayson, Susan Lindstrom, and George L. Miller. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown, eds. Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Outsiders in 19th-Century Press History: Multicultural Perspectives. Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed, eds. Women of the Far Right. The Mothers' Movement and World War II. Glen Jeansonne. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. Michael. Kammen. Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Caren Kaplan. White Widow. Jim Lehrer. Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens. Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines. Robert Lesser. Big Trouble. J. Anthony Lukas. Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution. Holly A. Mayer. Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman. David Morgan, ed. Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness. Brendan O'Flaherty. Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Kathleen Pyne. From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775–1850. Jacqueline S. Reiner. American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s.Jennifer Scanlon and Shaaron Cosner. Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism: From Criticism to Cultural Studies. James Seaton. Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity 1800–1865. Helen Small. Art Carney: A Biography. Michael Seth Starr. John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity. Gamy Wills. Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. James E. Wise, Jr., and Anne Collier Rehill. The Anatomy of Prejudices. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl     

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The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Other Eccentric Readings. Michael Atkinson Tom Clancy: A Critical Companion. Helen S. Garson Tony Hillerman: A Critical Companion. John M. Reilly Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Simon Frith Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth. Joseph G. Rosa Buffalo Bill and His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography. Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May American Images of China, 1931–1949. T. Christopher Jespersen Cyberville Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town. Stacy Horn Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America. Andrea Stulman Dennett The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies. Martin F. Norden Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts. Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb. Dennis D. Wainstock Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters between New England Soldiers and the Home Front. Ed. Nina Silber and Mary Beth Stevens The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. Paul Hendrickson Once Upon a Distant War: Young War Correspondents in the Early Vietnam Battles. William Prochnau Showing Off: The Geltung Hypothesis. Philip L. Wagner The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape. Terry G. Jordan, Jon T. Kilpinen, and Charles F. Gritzner Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. Ed. James Barbour and Tom Quirk Anne Rice: A Critical Companion. Jennifer Smith Postcards in the Library: Invaluable Visual Resources. Norman D. Stevens Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna. Pamela Robertson Enterprising Women. Camille Bacon-Smith Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852. David Schuyler The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes a Public History. Delores Hayden Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back. Jane Holtz Kay     

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Laura Hapke. Girls Who Went Wrong Ray B. Browne, Editor. Contemporary Heroes and Heroines Ray Browne. Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967–1988 William R. Nolan, Editor. Max Brand: Western Giant Norman J.G. Pounds. Hearth and Home: A History of Material Culture Richard Maltby. Passing Parade: A History of Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century William J. Gilmore. Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780–1835 Gerald Graff. Professing Literature: An Institutional History Russell Jacoby. The Last Intellectuals: An American Culture in the Age of Academe Jan Cohn. Creating America: George Horace Lorimer and The Saturday Evening Post Francis J. Puig and Michael Conforti, Editors. The American Craftsman and the European Tradition 1620–1820 Robert L. Reid, Editor. Picturing Minnesota 1936–1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Kathryn Grover, Editor. Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport, and the Body, 1830–2940 Randy Roberts and James Olson. Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945 Susan Strasser. Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, Editors. The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy-Opening the American Mind Grace Sevy. The American Experience in Vietnam     

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Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order; 1730–1840. Steven C. Bullock The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America. Richard C. Cortner Americans: A Collision of Histories. Edward Countryman The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China, 1895–1951. Lawrence D. Kessler Gender, Culture, and Christianity: American Protestant Mission Schools in China, 1880–1930. Gael Graham O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian. John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastian Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. Mary Beth Norton From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism and Popular Cinema. Michael Paris Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices. Alvina E. Quintana Planning the Twentieth-Century American City. Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver, eds God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Jonathan D. Spence Religion and Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations. Daniel A. Stout and Judith M. Buddenbaum, eds Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies. Margaret R. Miles Turning Points in Social Security: From “Cruel Hoax” to “Sacred Entitlement.” Sheryl Tynes The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Michael F. Brown The Warrior Generals: Combat Leaders in the Civil War. Thomas B. Buell We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War. Lewis Carlson Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life. Candace Clark The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict. Robert Ellwood We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eye Witness Accounts. Timothy S. Good Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s. Robert H. Haddow Forgotten Tragedy: The Sinking of HMT Rohna. Carlton Jackson Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Ronald C. Tobey Health Against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust. George Anders Love, Lucy. Lucille Ball The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U. S. Cinema. Daniel Bernardi, ed Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970. Bonnie J. Dow Lost Talent: Women in the Sciences. Sandra L. Hanson Tausend Welten: Die Aufloesung der Gesellschaft imdigitalen Zeitalter (A Thousand Worlds: The Dissolution of Society in the Digital Age). Uwe Jean Heuser The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. Michael Kammen Piety and Poverty: Working-Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York 1870–1914. Hugh McLeod G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Barbara Brooks Tomblin I Was Wrong. Jim Bakker (with Ken Abraham) Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Stephen E. Ambrose     

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R. J. Hoage. Perceptions of Animals in American Culture Ada Morehead Holland. Brush Country Woman Judy Nolte Lensink. “A Secret to Be Buried”: The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858–1888 Paula Petrik. No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865–1900 Jack Santino. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters Robert Dallek. The American Style of Foreign Policy Donald Chu. The Character of American Higher Education Zntercollegiate Sport John O West. Cowboy Folk Humor: Life and Laughter in the American West Steven Starker. Oracle at the Supermarket: The American Preoccupation with Self-Help Books Hillel Schwartz. Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat George Lipsitz. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture Michael Hough. Out of Place: Restoring Zdentity to the Regional Landscape     

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CALIGARI'S CHILDREN, THE FILM AS TALE OF TERROR . By S.S. Prawer THE MAGIC WORLD OF ORSON WELLES . By James Nuremore RICHARD BRAUTIGAN . By Edward Halsey Foster MR. MATHEWS AT HOME . By Richard L. Klepac HERESIES OF MODERN ART . Xauier Rubert de Ventos THE SCIENCE FICTION OF MARK CLIFTON . Edited by Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg HERE LIES AMERICA: A COLLECTION OF NOTABLE GRAVES . By Nancy Ellis and Parker Hayden PERMANENT ADDRESSES: A GUIDE TO THE RESTING PLACES OF FAMOUS AMERIANS . By Jean Arbeiter and Linda D. Cirino FINAL PLACEMENT A GUIDE TO THE DEATHS, FUNERALS AND BURIALS OF NOTABLE AMERICANS . By Robert B. Dickerson, Jr. FOR THE SAKE OF SIMPLE FOLK, Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation . By R.W. Scribner     

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THE AMERICAN SMALL TOWN: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PLACE IMAGES . John A. Jakle FESTIVALS SOURCEBOOK A REFERENCE GUIDE TO FAIRS, FESTIVALS, AND CELEBRATIONS . Second Edition. Paul Wasserman and Edmond L. Applebaurn, editors DRINKING IN AMERICA: A HISTORY . By Mark Edward Lender and Jarnes Kirby Martin BUILDING CHARACTER IN THE AMERICAN BOY: THE BOY SCOUTS, YMCA, AND THEIR FORERUNNERS, 1870-1920 . By David I. Macleod A PRISON OF EXPECTATIONS: THE FAMILY IN VICTORIAN CULTURE . By Steven Mintz VICTORIAN POPULAR FICTION: 1860-1880 . By R.C. Terry ALL THAT IS NATIVE & FINE: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN AN AMERICAN REGION . By David E. Whisnant IMMIGRANTS IN THE VALLEY: IRISH, GERMANS AND AMERICANS IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI COUNTRY, 1830-1860 . By Mark Wyman WOOD, BRICK, AND STONE: THE NORTH AMERICAN SETTLEMENT LANDSCAPE: VOLUME I-HOUSES . Allen G. Noble     

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Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture. Eds. George Eisen and David K. Wiggins. Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences 1790–1870. Faye E. Dudden. Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance. Carol A.B. Giesen. Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World. Timothy D. Appalachia Inside Out: Volume I Conflict and Change. Eds. Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning and Jim Wayne Miller. Appalachia Inside Out: Volume 2 Culture and Custom. Eds. Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning and Jim Wayne Miller. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture. 2nd. Edition. Ed. W.K. McNeil. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness. Suellen Hoy. Cowboys and Kansas: Stories from the Tallgrass Prairie. Jim Hoy. Sol White's History of Colored Baseball, With Other Documents on the Early Black Game 1886–1936. Compiled by Jerry Malloy. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Karal Ann Marling. Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West 1900–1917. Joanne E. Passett. Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. Leslie Prosterman. Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. Ruth P. Rubinstein. The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV and American Culture. Leslie Savan. Living Witchcraf: A Contemporary American Coven. Allen Scarboro, Nancy Campbell and Shirley Stave. The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893–1914. Matthew Schneirov. Latitudes and Attitudes: An Atlas of American Tastes, Trends, Politics, and Passions. Michael J. Weiss. Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball'S First Black Major Leaguer. David W. Zang. Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Susan E. Cayleff. A Kind of Grace: A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women. Ed. Ron Rapoport. Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies. J.W. Williamson. Our Changing White House. Ed. Wendell Garrett. Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America. Michael Brian Schiffer. Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908. Compiled by and Ed. Dean A. Sullivan. Rock Music in American Popular Culture: Rock ‘n’ Roll Resources. B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney.     

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THE EMPIRE'S OLD CLOTHES: WHAT THE LONE RANGER, BABAR AND OTHER INNOCENT HEROES DO TO THE MINDS , by Ariel Dorfman THOMAS ALVA EDISON: AN AMERICAN MYTH , by Wyn Wachhorst IMAGES OF THE PREACHER IN AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE , by Walter C. Daniel DAYS TO BE HAPPY, YEARS TO BE SAD: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF VINCENT YOUMANS , by Gerald Bordman KNUTE ROCKNE: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY , by Michael R. Steele     

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THE AMERICAN MONOMYTH . Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.263 pp. $8.95. THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION . Charles R. Hearn. INVENTORS OF THE PROMISED LAND . Lawrence J. Friedman. THE MARCH OF TIME, 1935-1951 . Raymond Fielding. BUTCH CASSIDY, MY BROTHER . Lula Parker Betenson, as told to Dora Flack. JOURNEY TO THE GREEN AND GOLDEN LANDS : THE EPIC OF SUR-VIVAL ON THE WAGON TRAIL. Raymond N. Doetsch. PROPAGANDA. THE ART OF PERSUASION: WORLD WAR II . Anthony Rhodes and Victor Margolin (editor). THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY . Paul Fussell. THE MARBLE MAN: ROBERT E. LEE AND HIS IMAGE IN AMERI-CAN SOCIETY . Thomas L. Connelly. AFFAIRS OF STATE: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America . Morton Keller. THE CITY IN SOUTHERN HISTORY, The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South . Ed. by Blaine Brownell and David Goldfield. THE POLITICAL PULPIT . Roderick P. Hurt. CIRCUS & CULTURE: A SEMIOTIC APPROACH . Paul Bouissac. CLOWNS . John H. Towsen. HUMOR IN AMERICA . Ed. by Enid Veron. CIVILIZING THE MACHINE: TECHNOLOGY AND REPUBLICAN VALUES IN AMERICA : 1776-1900. John F. Kasson. THE LANGUAGE OF THE RAILROADER . Ramon F. Adams. CLASSIC AMERICAN GRAFFITI: LEXICAL EVIDENCE FROM FOLK EPIGRAPHY IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA . Allen Walker Read.     

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Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810. Shane White Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition. Sharon Bryan, editor Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership. Dorothy Sue Cobble, editor No More Masks: An Anthology of 20th-Century Women Poets, Newly Revised and Expanded. Florence Howe, editor Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America. Daniel M. Friedenberg The Irish Diaspora: A Primer. Donald Harman The Promise of the New South. Edward L. Ayers When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Paul Boyer Demon Rum or Easy Money: Government Control of Liquor in British Columbia from Prohibition to Privatization. Robert A. Campbell God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America. Walter H. Conser, Jr. The American Stage: Social and Economic Issues from the Colonial Period to the Present. Ron Engle and Tice L. Miller, editors Sir Oliver Mowat. A. Margaret Evans The Arts and the American Home 1890-1930. Jessica H. Foy and Karal Ann Marling, editors Men Without Women: Female Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980's. Donald J. Greiner Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women's History. Franca Iacovetta and Mariana Valverde, editors Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States. Luther Luedtke, editor Birthbark Belles. Larry B. Massie, editor Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Anne Dillard and Gary Snyder. James I. McClintock The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home. Reid Mitchell The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825–1875. Angela Miller Pretty Bubbles in the Air: America in 1919. William D Miller Risky Business: The Political Economy of Hollywood. David F. Prindle “Just Call Me Mitch”: The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn. John T. Saywell Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe. J.D. Stahl Novel Frames: Literatures as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture. Joseph S. Urgo Figures in a Western Landscape: Men and Women of the Northern Rockies. Elizabeth Stevenson American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style. Peter N. Stearns     

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The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665–1740. Charles E. Clark The Oxford Companion to World War II. General Ed. I.C.B. Dear, Consulting Ed. M.R.D. Foot George Washington, Frontiersman. Zane Grey. Ed. Carlton Jackson The Tony Hillerman Companion. A Comprehensive Guide to His Life and Work. Ed. Martin Greenberg American Diner. Richard J.S. Gutman Roadside New Jersey. Peter Genovese The South. B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood The Critical Response to Herman Melville's “Moby-Dick.”. Ed. Kevin J. Hayes Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance. Randall Knoper The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry from Whitman to Walcott. Ed. Richard Marius Parables of Possibility: The American Need for Beginnings. Terence Martin Way Out West. Jane & Michael Stern Swing Changes: Big Band Jazz in New Deal America. David W. Stowe Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays and Folklore 1917–1953. Edited by James von Geldern and Richard Stites Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief. Edited by Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts Hard Maple, Hard Work. John Gagnon The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States. Jim Cullin Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America. Paul R. Gorman Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality. Jeff Ferrell Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Michael Rogin All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840–1890. Maureen Ogle Children and the Movies: Movie Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy. Jowett S. Garth, Ian C. Jarvis, and Kathryn H. Fuller The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s. Ellen Gruber Garvey If You've Seen One You've Seen the Mall. Rob Kroes Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839–1994. Edited by Susan Koppelman New Feminist Art Criticism. Edited by Katy Deepwell Melodrama and the Myth of America. Jeffrey D. Mason Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. Clay McShane Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century. David Montgomery Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi. Charles C. Bolton The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut. Ed. Leonard Mustazza Material Culture and People's Art Among the Norwegians in America. Ed. Marion Nelson Extremism in America. Ed. Lyman Sargent Mark Twain in the Company of Women. Laura E. Skandera-Trombley 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture. Timothy B. Spears The Sixties and the End of Modern America. David Steigerwald