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Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation, Oxford University Press, 2005

Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park, edited by Naomi Mandel, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011

Gair, Christopher. The American Counterculture. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Carter, Dale (ed). Marks of Distinction: American Exceptionalism Revisited.

Native Strangers: Beachcombers, Renegades & Castaways in the South Seas, by Susanne Williams

Andrew S. Trees, The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character, Princeton University Press (2004)

Evan Cornog, The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828 (1998)

 

2010

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, by Barry Mazor. New York & London: Oxford University Press, 2009

Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination by: Tom Quirk.Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, , 2001

On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City. by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissma. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown by James C. Mohr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America by E. Fraterrigo, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2009

Reporting from Washington: The history of the Washington press corps, By Donald A. Ritchie Oxford University Press, 2005

Owning Up – Privacy, Property & Belonging in U.S. Women’s Life Writing, 2009, by Katherine Adams

Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West by Patricia Nelson Limerick. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2000.

Gertrude Stein, by Lucy Daniel. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.

The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice M. Murphy. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

The Economics of Art and Culture – 2nd Edition by James Heilbrun and Charles M. Gray. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001

The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, by Mark Atwood Lawrence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 224 pages. £12.99.

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920. Edited and Introduced by Jackson R. Bryer. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2009.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Volume 5): Retirement Series, edited by J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton & Oxford University Press, 2008

The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance. by Ezra Tawil. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights. By David Brown and Clive Webb. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2007.

The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His ‘Strong, Manly Voice’ edited by Paula Garrett and Hollis Robbins. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Hollis Robbins, New York: Norton, 2007.

A Survey of Multicultural San Francisco Bay Literature, 1955-1979 by Brian Flota. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009

After Redemption: Jim Crow and the transformation of African American religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 by John M. Giggie Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

America between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008

David Eldridge, American Culture in the 1930s, Twentieth-Century American Culture series Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Evangelicals and Israel: The Study of American Christian Zionism: by Stephen Spector Oxford University Press (2009)

A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (2010), edited by David Seed, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

The Cambridge History of American Theatre Vol 1 & III, edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby.

G. Edward White. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Islam & the problem of black suffering, by Sherman A. Jackson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009

The Revenge of Hatpin Mary: Women, Professional Wrestling and Fan Culture in the 1950s by Chad Dell. New York: Peter Lang, 2006

Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson, by Pamela Schirmeister. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1999

2009

Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer, by Frank H. Goodyear III, London and New York.Merrell, 2008 Exhibition:National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, April-September 2008.

America between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: the Misunderstood Years between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror, by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

The American Counterculture. by Christopher Gair Edinburgh University Press 2007

Boys and their Toys? Masculinity, Technology and Class in America by Roger Horowitz. New York: Routledge, 2001

The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth, editied by Timothy Parrish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Jack Kerouac. On the Road: The Original Scroll. London: Penguin Classics, 2007. 408 pp. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks. London: Penguin Classics, 2008. William S. Burroughs. Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William Burroughs. Ed. Oliver Harris. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008.

Desperate Passage; The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick, Oxford University Press, 2008

Asian American Politics, by Andrew L. Aoki and Okiyoshi Takeda. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008

American Literary Realism: Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige 1880-1995, by Phillip Barrish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

American Travellers in Liverpool, Edited by David Seed, Liverpool University Press, 2008

Dustbowl: the Southern Plains in the 1930s, 25th Anniversary Edition, by Donald Worster. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers by Mark D Regnerus. Oxford University Press 2007.

Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature by Dennis A. Foster. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century edited by Martin Halliwell and Catherine Morley. Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism and Testimony, by John Allen Routledge, 2004

Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life by Philip Davis, Oxford University Press, 2007

Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on our Chaotic Constitution, by Michael Meyerson. Norton, 2002

How Race Survived U.S. History: from Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, by David R. Roediger. London: Verso, 2008

The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture edited by Dipannita Basu and Sidney Lemelle. London: Pluto Press, 2006

Shooters: Myths and Realities of America’s Gun Cultures, by Abigail A. Kohn New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004

The Debate on the American Revolution by Gwenda Morgan, Manchester U.P. 2007

William Faulkner Lives and Legacies, by Carolyn Porter. Oxford University Press. 2007

2008

Conspiracy In The Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of The Chicago Eight by Jon Weiner, Afterword by Tom Hayden, Illustrations by Jules Feiffer, New York. The New Press, 2006

James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007

Chandra Prasad (Editor), Mixed: an Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience, New York and London, Norton & Company, 2006

Joan Burbick: Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy. New York and London: The New Press, 2006

Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. Verso Books, 2007

Waldrep, Christopher, and Bellesiles, Michael (eds.), Documenting American Violence: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

Nicholas Coles and Janet Zandy, eds. American Working-class Literature: an Anthology, Oxford University Press, 2007

Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for Peace: the Legacy of the Vietnam War Oxford University Press 2006

Eric Shiraev and Vladislav Zubok, Anti-Americanism in Russia: from Stalin to Putin (New York: Palgrave. 2000)

NASA: the Complete Illustrated History, by Michael H. Gorn, with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin, London & New York: Merrell, 2008

Godfrey Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004

American Ruins, Photographs by Arthur Drooker. Forward by Douglas Brinkley, Essay by Christopher Woodward, London & New York: Merrell, 2007

Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop – A History by Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005

Umar F. Abd-Allah. A Muslim in Victorian America: the life of Alexander Russell Webb Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor, eds. Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Thomas J. Brown, ed. Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

Patricia E. Chu: Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism. Cambridge University Press, 2006

 

2007

Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

David Greven, Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller, Simon & Schuster

Oliver, Kendrick. The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006.

Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American society(Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2004)

Oxford Book Of American Poetry, Chosen and Edited by David Lehman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. By Michelle Goldberg, Norton, 2006

David L. Holmes, The Faiths Of The Founding Fathers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006

Haynes Johnson. Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years. W.W. Norton & Co: New York, New ed, 2003

Joel Silbey. Storm Over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005

Tanner, Tony. The American Mystery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000

Sang Hyun Lee (ed. ) The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency. Edited by Larry J. Sabato. Longman, 2007

Michael Gilmore, Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture Oxford University Press, 2003

Harlem Renaissance: a Gale Critical Companion. Thomson Gale, 2003.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Michael P. Kramer and Hana Wirth-Nesher, eds. Cambridge UP, 2003.

Richard Labunski, James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

Kaufman, Will, The Civil War in American Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006)

Franklin, John Hope and Schweninger, Loren, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda by Martin Manning with Herbert Romerstein. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2004

Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. New York and London, W.W. Norton, 2005

Niall Palmer, The Twenties in America: Politics and History, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Historical Eras. The Scarecrow Press Inc, Lanham, Md.

Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (The Oxford History of the United States) David M. Kennedy.  Oxford University Press, 2001.

Decision at Sea by Craig L. Symonds, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Andrew S. Coopersmith, Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War. The New Press, 2004

Kevern Verney, The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006)

Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond, eds., Contemporary American Cinema. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006

Deyle, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005

Edwin S. Gaustad, Benjamin Franklin Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006

The Beat Generation: A Critical Companion, (Three volumes) Project Editor Lynn M. Zott, published by Thompson Gale, 2003.

Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, John P. Resch, Macmillan 2005

David Kennedy, Over Here: the First World War and American society (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2004)

American Architectural History: a contemporary reader (2004), Keith L. Eggener, Routledge and Taylor Francis, London and New York.

Douglas Field, ed., American Cold War Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

David Dante Troutt (ed.), After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina (New York, and London: The New Press, 2006)

African American Architects: a biographical dictionary 1865-1945, edited by Dreck Spurlock Wilson, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2004

 

2006

Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols and David M. Reimers Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans. 4th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Ashbee, Edward. Get Set for American Studies. Edinburgh University Press 2004

American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History (Stirling, VI, and London: Pluto Press, 2004)

Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, edited by Michael J. Davey (New York: Routledge, 2004)

The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge Companions to Literature), edited by Leonard Cassuto, and Clare Virginia Eby. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Eds. Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

The Intellectuals and the Flag. Todd Gitlin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Andrew D. Grossman: Neither Dead Nor Red: Civilian Defence and American Political Development during the Early Cold War.

No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writing and Writers, Edited by Dale Walker, 2nd Edition Stanford University Press

The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work, by Andrew Hoberek

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism edited by Walter Kalaidjian

Lincoln’s Sanctuary – Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home, by Matthew Pinsker

Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on The Las Vegas Strip and Beyond, by David G Schwartz

Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction, edited by Clive Webb

Mr Jefferson’s Lost Cause, Land, Farmers, Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase by Roger G. Kennedy

Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, ed. Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sharron de Hart. 6th ed.

New York Sights, Visualizing Old and New New York, by Douglas Tallack

The American Intellectual Tradition Editors: David A Hollinger & Charles Capper

The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation. By Graham Thompson. London: Pluto Press, 2004.

2005

Rosenthal, Debra J. (Editor). A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Routledge Literary Sourcebooks). New York: Routledge, April 1, 2003

Ferling, John. Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History). New York: Oxford University Press, August 28, 2004.

Schulzinger, Robert D.. U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900. New York: Oxford University Press, December 1, 2001

All the Way with JFK: Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War by Peter Busch, Oxford UP 2003.

Matterson, Stephen. American Literature: The Essential Glossary. : Arnold, March 1, 2003.

Pursell, Carroll W. American Technology (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, December 1, 2000

Hanhimaki, Jussi M. The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, August 1, 2004.

Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, February 1, 2002.

Lipartito, Kenneth. Ed. Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, June 1, 2004.

Natives and Strangers, A Multicultural History Of Americans. Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols and David M. Reimers. Oxford University Press, 2003

Newman, Mark. The Civil Rights Movement (British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Paperbacks). : Edinburgh University Press, July 1, 2004.

Cogliano, Francis D.. Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History. London ; New York: Routledge, December 1, 1999

Robin, Corey, Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy  
Robert Singh (Editor)

Clinton, Catherine. Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South. Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press, June 1, 2000

Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the US-Israel Alliance by Warren Bass. Oxford UP, 2003.

Hayes, Kevin J. (Editor). The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, April 25, 2002

Weinstein, Cindy (Editor). The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, July 15, 2004

Martin, Reinhold The Organisational Complex: Architecture, Media and Corporate Space. The MIT Press, 2003

Freehling, William W. The South Vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. : Oxford University Press, February 1, 2001

Sawhney, Deepak Narang Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and the City. Edited by. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002

Landscape with Figures: a history of art dealing in the United States. By Malcolm Goldstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000

The Blue, the Gray, and the Red: Indian Campaigns of the Civil War. by Thom Hatch.

While America watches by  Jeffrey Shandler. Oxford UP, 1999

American places: encounters with history: a celebration of Sheldon Meyer by  William E. Leuctenburg, ed   . Oxford UP, 2001

The Lincoln Memorial and American life by Christopher A. Thomas . Princeton University Press, 2002

Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: a casebook by  Hertha D. Sweet Wong. Oxford UP, 2000

A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America. ed by Mason J. Lowance, Jr Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 

Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art, by Mike Marqusee New Press, 2003

The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American women's writing by  Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould, eds

American Sexual Histories, edited by Elizabeth Reis

Reminiscences of a soldier's wife by  Ellen McGowan Biddle

To keep the waters troubled: the life of Ida B. Wells by  Linda O. McMurray

Literary culture and U.S. imperialism from the Revolution to World War II by  John Carlos Rowe

A mother's job: the history of day care: 1890-1960 by Elizabeth Rose

The missing middle: working families and the future of American social policy 

The Custer companion: George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indians Wars by Thom Hatch

The literary West: an anthology of western American literature by Thomas J. Lyon

Understanding American Government and Politics by Duncan Watts

America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-2000; 9th ed by Walter LaFeber

The First West: Writing from the American Frontier, 1776-1860. Edited by Edward Watts and David Rachels

The poetics of the limit: ethics and politics in modern and contemporary American poetry by Tim Woods. Palgrave, 2002

 

2004 Finn Burnett, Frontiersman. By Robert Beebe David. 

Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives, by Monica Brown.

 Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy, by George P. Fletcher..

Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950 by Mark Tebeau

American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr, by Philip John Davies and Paul Wells, eds

Animation and America by Paul Wells.

The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792. By Ted Franklin Belue

Jefferson Davis’s Generals. edited by Gabor S. Borritt 

The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon. edited by Gabor S. Borritt 

2003

 Race, Citizenship and Law in American Literature. By Gregg D. Crane

 Americans: Paintings and Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery Washington D.C

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. By Deborah Willis

 Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915

 The Pearl of the Antilles by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera

 Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation, by Peter Gibian

  The End of Cinema as we Know it: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis

What’s A Commie Ever Done To Black People? by Curtis J.Morrow. McFarland

Britain and America Since Independence by Howard Temperley

Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars and the Cult of Celebrity, by aSamantha BarbasNew York and London: Palgrave, 2001. 

Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879, by Thomas Goodrich, Stackpole Books, 2002

Queer Burroughs by Jamie Russell. Palgrave, 2001

2002

American Film and Society Since 1945, by Leonard Quart and Albert Auster (Praeger, 2002)

Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 by Sherry L Smith. Oxford UP, 2000

Mark Twain and the novel: the double cross of authority by Lawrence Howe . Cambridge UP, 1998. 

Mastering Modern United States History by John Traynor. Palgrave, 2001

Keeping the republic: power and citizenship in American politics by Christine Barbour and Gerald C. Wright. Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Major Problems in African-American History. Volume II: from freedom to "Freedom Now" 1865-1990's: documents and essays by Thomas C. Holt and Elsa Barcley Brown (eds). Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

The sixties in America: history, politics, and protest, by M.J. Heale. Edinburgh University Press, 2001

Long time gone: sixties America then and now by Alexander Bloom (ed). Oxford UP, 2001

Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing: a critical introduction by Gina Wisker. Macmillan, 2000

 Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Election? : Debating American Electoral Politics by Stephen J. Wayne. Houghton Mifflin, 2000

  The Cold War: the essential readings by  Klaus Larres and Ann Lane

  Getting a job in America: working in the USA - a step-by-step guide. 6th edition by Roger Jones. How to Books, 2001

  Death of an Overseer:  Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, by Michael Wayne. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 

  Southern families at war: loyalty and conflict in the Civil War by  Catherine Clinton (ed) . Oxford UP, 2000

 Breaking the deadlock: the 2000 election, the Constitution and the courts by Richard M Posner. University of South Carolina Press, 2001

  Canaan land: a religious history of African Americans by Albert J. Raboteau. Oxford University Press, 1999

The Pearl of the Antilles by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera.  Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue 2001

The ecological Indian: myth and history by Shepard Krech III. WW Norton & Co Ltd, 1999

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. WW Norton & Co Ltd 1996

The leisure ethic: work and play in American literature 1840-1949 by William A. Gleason . Stanford University Press, 1999

Writing America Black: Black Rhetoric in the Public Sphere by C.K. Doreski . Cambridge UP, 1998

Too heavy a load: Black women in defense of themselves: 1894-1994 by Deborah Grey White . WW Norton & Co Ltd, 1999

Blackness and value: seeing double by Lindon Barrett. Cambridge UP, 1999

James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America, New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001

White women's rights: the racial origins of feminism in the United States, by Louise Michele Newman. Oxford UP, 1999

It didn't happen here: why socialism failed in the United States by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks

Becoming Southern: the evolution of a way of life, Warren County and Vicksburg, 1770-1860 by Christopher Morris. Oxford UP, 1995

2001

America divided: the civil war of the 1960's by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin. Oxford UP, 1999

Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason by Joanna Price. University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840-1860 by Joseph P. Ferrie. Oxford UP, 1999

The Routledge Atlas of African American History by Jonathan Earle. Routledge, 2000

Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" edited by Lester D. Friedman. Cambridge UP, 2000

Religion and the American Civil War by Randall M. Miller et al. Oxford UP, 1998

Henry James's New York edition: the construction of authorship by David McWhirter. Cambridge UP, 1999

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Joel Porte and Saundra Morris. Cambridge UP, 1999

Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, incorporated, by Mick Gidley. Cambridge UP, 2000

The Civil Rights Movement by Jack E. Davis. Blackwell Publishers, 2000

Endangered dreams: the Great Depression in California by Kevin Starr. Oxford UP, 1996

The works: the industrial architecture of the United States by Betsy Hunter Bradley . Oxford UP, 1999.

American politics in Hollywood film by Ian Scott. Edinburgh University Press, 2000

The new deal: American's resonse to the Great Depression by Ronald Edsforth. Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Freakshow: First Person Media and Factual Television. by John Dovey. London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2000.

Star Authors by Joe Moran. Pluto Press. 2000.

 

2000

Detective Duos. The Best Adventures of Twenty-Five Crime-Solving Twosomes, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Oxford University Press, 1997.

American Design in the Twentieth Century by Gregory Votolato. Manchester University Press, 1998.

The Tao of Muhammad Ali by Davis Miller. Warner Books, 1996.

Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol. Nell Irvin Painter New York: W.W.Norton 1996

Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: radicalisation in twentieth century America by Kenneth Mostern. Cambridge UP, 1999.

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois. Bedford Books, 1997

US politics today by Edward Ashbee & Nigel Ashford. Manchester University Press, 1999.

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America by Richard M. Fried. Oxford UP, 1998.

United States Foreign Policy towards Cambodia, 1977-92: a question of realities by Christopher Brady.

Getting into America: the immigration guide to finding a new life in the USA by Henry G Liebman . How to Books, 1999.

The Clinton Presidency : The First Term, 1992-96 (Southampton Studies in International Policy) edited by Paul S. Herrnson and Dilys M. Hill. St. Martin's Press, 1999

The Roosevelt Years: New Perspectives on American History, 1933-1945. Edited by Robert A. Garson and Stuart S. Kidd. Edinburgh University Press 1999.

Asian/American: historical crossings of a racial frontier by David Palumbo-Liu . Stanford University Press, 1999.

Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, by Mike Marqusee Verso Books July, 2000

The New Deal. by Fiona Venn. BAAS Paperbacks Series, Edinburgh University Press. 1998.

1999

Living and Working in America: How to gain entry and how to settle when you are there, (Fifth Edition)  How To Books 1998 by Steve Mills

The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory and Fiction, edited by, Edward L. Ayers and Bradley C. Mittendorf (Oxford University Press, 1997

Weary Feet. Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement, by Townsend Davis. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998, 432pp. ISBN 0-393-04592-7). rrp £19.95

Making Crime Pay: law and order in contemporary American Politics, by Katherine Beckett. New York: Oxford U.P., 1997

American bandstand: Dick Clark and the making of a rock 'n' roll empire by John A. Jackson. Oxford UP, 1998.

Gothic Horror: a reader's guide from Poe to King and beyond by Clive Bloom. Macmillan, 1998

New essays on Hemingway's short fiction edited by Paul Smith. Cambridge UP, 1998

Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, incorporated, by Mick Gidley.

From out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America by Vicki L. Ruiz

Flawed giant: Lyndon Jonson and his times by Robert Dallek.

Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century by Ritchie Ovendale.

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

Vietnam and the transformation of American life by Robert Buzzanco

The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance by William T. Martin Riches

The guardian of every other right: a constitutional history of property rights: 2nd edition by James W. Ely Jr.

1998

Conversations with the Blues 2nd ed by Paul Oliver. Cambridge UP 1997

Mutiny on the Amistad the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law and diplomacy Howard Jones Oxford UP 1987

Chicano Poetics by Alfred Arteaga. Cambridge UP 1997

The Oxford W.E.B. Dubois reader edited by Eric J. Sundquist. Oxford UP 1996

Fictions of Labour William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution by Richard Godden. Cambridge UP 1998

Benjamin Franklin - politician by Francis Jennings. WW Norton & Co Ltd 1997

Hard Boiled an anthology of American crime stories by Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian Oxford UP 1997

The Hidden hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth. Oxford UP 1997

A history of the United States by Philip Jenkins. Macmillan 1997

Mastering Modern World History 3rd ed by Norman Lowe. Macmillan 1997

Narratives and Spaces - Technology and the Construction of American Culture by David Nye. University of Exeter Press 1997

American Street gang - its nature, prevalence and control by Malcolm W. Klein by Malcolm W. Klein. Oxford UP 1997

The Oxford History of the American West. Edited by Clyde A. MiIner II, Carol A. O’Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss. Oxford University Press. 1994

1997

Political Issues in America Today: The 1990s Revisited - Philip John Davies and Frederic A. Waldstein.

Representing and imagining America. Ed. by Philip John Davies.


Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams & James Madison. I. Bernard Cohen.

The hard hand of war: Union military policy toward Southern civilians, 1861-1865 by Mark Grimsley.

A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice Eds. Jessica Munns & Gita Rajan.

Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas: State and Regime in U. S. Policy toward Nicaragua, 1969-1981. Morris H. Morley.

Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era. by Robert Buzzanco.

American foreign policy: Carter to Clinton. by John Dumbrell.

The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North by Jack London.

Dreams and Nightmares; Nineteenth Century American Writing Barbara Marshall of the City of Liverpool Community College reviews six volumes in the Oxford University Press's World's Classics series.

Modern American Landscapes. Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles (eds.).

George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency by David Mervin.

Guns or Butter: the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson by Irving Bernstein.

American Foreign Policy. Pattern and Process. by Charles W. Kegley & Eugene R. Wittkopf. 5th Edition

 

 





 

 

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