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Volume 49 - August 2015

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Peter Gardella, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, $24.95). Pp. xi + 368. isbn978 0 1953 0017 8.
ERIC BAIN-SELBO
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Gordon E. Thompson (ed.), Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, £60.00). Pp. 205. isbn978 1 4094 2836 7.
MARIO DUNKEL
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Nicolas G. Rosenthal, Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, $39.95). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8078 3555 5.
PETER IVERSON
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Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke (eds.), Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border (Topeka: University of Kansas Press, 2013, $37.50 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 360. isbn978 0 7006 1928 3, 978 0 7006 1929 0.
JEFFREY L. PATRICK
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Justin St. Clair, Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening (New York: Routledge, 2013, $140.00). Pp. 186. isbn978 0 4156 6139 3.
SEAN KECK
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Alan Derickson, Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, $49.95). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 8122 4553 0.
EILEEN BORIS
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Michele Aaron, Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, £70.00/$120.00). Pp. 272. isbn978 0 7486 2443 0.
ERIN PENNER
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David LaRocca, Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (London: Bloomsbury, 2013, £17.99). Pp. 395. isbn978 1 4411 6140 6.
T. S. McMILLIN
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21 January 2015, E15
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John D. Bessler, The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014, $75.00). Pp. 694. isbn978 1 6116 3604 8.
BHARAT MALKANI
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Jason Ross Arnold, Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promises and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014, $39.95). Pp. xiv + 542. isbn978 0 7006 1992 4.
RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES
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Martin A. Berger, Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, $49.95). Pp. 162. isbn978 0 5202 8019 9.
BRENNA WYNN GREER
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Shawn Michelle Smith, At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013, $28.95). Pp. 312. isbn978 0 8223 5486 4.
MARCY J. DINIUS
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21 January 2015, E16
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Siân Silyn Roberts, Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, £39.00/$59.95). Pp. 264. isbn978 0 8122 4613 1.
HANNAH LAUREN MURRAY
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David Montejano, Sancho's Journal: Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, $24.95). Pp. 207. isbn978 0 2927 4384 7.
DIONNE ESPINOZA
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Jason Ruiz, Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, $55.00). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 2927 5380 8.
GILBERT G. GONZALEZ
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Sari Edelstein, Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014, $29.50). Pp. xi + 226. isbn978 0 8139 3590 4.
SUSAN S. WILLIAMS
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Tessa Roynon, Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, £48.00). Pp. 220. isbn978 0 1996 9868 4.
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18 May 2015, E38
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Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military–Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014, $30.00). Pp. 229. isbn978 0 6747 2526 3.
ROSS A. KENNEDY
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Peter Gardella, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, $24.95). Pp. xi + 368. isbn978 0 1953 0017 8.

Gordon E. Thompson (ed.), Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, £60.00). Pp. 205. isbn978 1 4094 2836 7.

Nicolas G. Rosenthal, Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012, $39.95). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 8078 3555 5.

Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke (eds.), Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border (Topeka: University of Kansas Press, 2013, $37.50 cloth, $19.95 paper). Pp. 360. isbn978 0 7006 1928 3, 978 0 7006 1929 0.

Justin St. Clair, Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening (New York: Routledge, 2013, $140.00). Pp. 186. isbn978 0 4156 6139 3.

Alan Derickson, Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, $49.95). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 8122 4553 0.

Michele Aaron, Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, £70.00/$120.00). Pp. 272. isbn978 0 7486 2443 0.

David LaRocca, Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (London: Bloomsbury, 2013, £17.99). Pp. 395. isbn978 1 4411 6140 6.

John D. Bessler, The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014, $75.00). Pp. 694. isbn978 1 6116 3604 8.

Jason Ross Arnold, Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promises and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014, $39.95). Pp. xiv + 542. isbn978 0 7006 1992 4.

Martin A. Berger, Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, $49.95). Pp. 162. isbn978 0 5202 8019 9.

Shawn Michelle Smith, At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013, $28.95). Pp. 312. isbn978 0 8223 5486 4.

Siân Silyn Roberts, Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, £39.00/$59.95). Pp. 264. isbn978 0 8122 4613 1.

David Montejano, Sancho's Journal: Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, $24.95). Pp. 207. isbn978 0 2927 4384 7.

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Jason Ruiz, Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, $55.00). Pp. 224. isbn978 0 2927 5380 8.

Sari Edelstein, Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014, $29.50). Pp. xi + 226. isbn978 0 8139 3590 4.

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AMS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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Tessa Roynon, Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, £48.00). Pp. 220. isbn978 0 1996 9868 4.

Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military–Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014, $30.00). Pp. 229. isbn978 0 6747 2526 3.

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