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Salem Revisited
Roger Thompson
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16 January 2009, pp. 317-336
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Raphael N. Hamilton, Marquette's Explorations: The Narratives Re-examined (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970, $10.00). Pp. xv, 275.
P. A. M. Taylor
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16 January 2009, pp. 208-209
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The Western and the Contemporary
Stephen Fender
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16 January 2009, pp. 97-108
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It is a commonplace that American western fiction is ‘mythic’ and archetypal. It is also increasingly taken for granted that westerns reflect contemporary political and social issues and that one can learn much about American attitudes from a study of westerns as historical documents. Are these ideas reconcilable? One answer would be that though the book or film may communicate certain contemporary messages to its local audience, it also conveys ‘universal truths’ to a wider public. To see how wrong this happy compromise is, one has only to consider the following typical cases, taken from various stages in the history of American western fiction. Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking stories seem to be set in an impossible never-never land, yet the author occasionally provides ’scholarly‘ footnotes relating the stories’ locales to real places in America. The dime novel Seth Jones, by Edward Ellis (1860), contains elaborate anthropological notes on Indians, but on the page following one of them the hero says, ‘“Howsumever, that don't make no difference, whether it's the Mohawks, Oneidas, or any of them blasted Five Nation niggers, they are all a set of skunks …”’ Emerson Hough pauses in the middle of North of 36 (1923) to provide a bibliography of sources for the facts about cowboy life on which he draws. The film producers D. W. Griffith and James Cruze (The Covered Wagon, 1923, is based on a romance by Hough) spent enormous amounts of money and energy to get costumes, settings and technical details historically accurate, when their plots moved to the old romance rhythms of love affairs and escapes from fates worse than death.

American Juvenile Delinquency
D. J. S. Morris
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16 January 2009, pp. 337-340
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J. E. Pomfret, with Floyd M. Shumway, Founding the American Colonies, 1583–1660 (New York, Evanston and London: Harper and Row (New American Nation Series), 1970, $7.95). Pp. xiv, 380.
David B. Quinn
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16 January 2009, pp. 341-342
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Theses on American Topics in Progress and Completed at British Universities
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16 January 2009, pp. 109-128
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Anglo-American Political Relations, 1675–1775. Edited by Alison Gilbert Olson and Richard Maxwell Brown. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970, $10). Pp. x, 283.
Philip S. Haffenden
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16 January 2009, pp. 209-211
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Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: a Biography (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1970, £6.50). Pp. x, 1072.
J. R. Pole
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16 January 2009, pp. 211-212
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Linda K. Kerber, Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1970, $7·50, 72s.). Pp. xii, 233.
J. R. Pole
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16 January 2009, pp. 342-343
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AMS volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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16 January 2009, pp. f1-f2
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R. S. Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1970, £3.45). Pp. xiii, 320. - G. E. BrooksJr, Yankee Traders, Old Coasters and African Middlemen. A History of American Legitimate Trade with West Africa in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Boston University African Research Studies, No. 11, Boston University Press, 1970, $12.50). Pp. xiv, 370.
C. Duncan Rice
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16 January 2009, pp. 213-214
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Gerald W. Mullin, Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth Century Virginia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972, $7·95). Pp. xvii, 219.
John White
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16 January 2009, pp. 343-344
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AMS volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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16 January 2009, pp. b1-b6
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Stanley W. Campbell, The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1971, £3.75). Pp. viii, 236.
Howard Temperley
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16 January 2009, p. 214
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A. E. Campbell (ed.), Expansion and Imperialism (New York, Evanston and London: Harper and Row, 1970, £1·40). Pp. vii, 186. - E.Berkeley Tomkins, Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate, 1890–1920 (University of Pennsylvania Press and O.U.P., 1971, £6.00). Pp. 344. - Willard B. GatewoodJr, ‘Smoked Yankees’ and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898–1902 (Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press, 1971, $9.50). Pp. x, 328.
Geoffrey Seed
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16 January 2009, pp. 344-346
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Bernard Schwartz (ed.), The Fourteenth Amendment: Centennial Volume (New York and London: New York University Press and University of London Press, 1970, $7.95). Pp. 233.
L. Johnston
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16 January 2009, p. 215
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Ross Gregory, The Origins of American Intervention in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1971, $6.95). Pp. xi, 162.
J.A. Thompson
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16 January 2009, p. 346
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Jack D. Foner, The United States Soldier between Two Wars: Army Life and Reforms, 1865–1898 (New York: Humanities Press, 1970, $7.50). Pp. iv, 229.
E. Ranson
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16 January 2009, p. 216
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Kenneth Bradshaw and David Pring, Parliament and Congress. (London: Constable Publishers, 1972, £4·50). Pp. 426.
H. G. Nicholas
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16 January 2009, p. 347
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David Healy: U.S. Expansionism; The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970, $10.95). Pp. ix, 315.
Geoffrey Seed
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16 January 2009, pp. 216-217
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