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M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. H. Bruce Franklin The Alabama Angels. Mary Barwick The Alabama Angels in Anywhere, L.A. (Lower Alabama). Mary Barwick The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. James C. Cobb Pioneering on the Yukon 1892–1917. Anna DeGraf. Roger S. Brown, ed Sea Changes: British Emigration & American Literature. Stephen Fender Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940. John M. Findlay The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s. Robert L. Gale Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. John A. Jakle and David A. Wilson Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Steven D. Lavine Sports Collectors Digest Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards. Third Edition. Edited by Jeff Kurowski In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778–1860. Lillian B. Miller Mark Twain: Protagonist for the Popular Culture. Marlene Boyd Vallin Civilization Past and Present: Golden Anniversary Edition. T. Walter Wallbank, Alasair M. Taylor, Nels M. Bailkey, George F. Jewsbury, Clyde J. Lewis, Neil J. Hackett World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Peter N. Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart B. Schwarta Civilizations of the West: The Human Adventure. Richard L. Greaves, Robert Zaller, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society. Gary B. Nash, John R. Howe, Allen F. Davis, Julie Roy Jeffrey, Peter J. Frederick, Allan M. Winkler A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. Ronald J. Zboray Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition and Revolution. Charles Swann Common Whites: Class and Ctrliure in Antebellum North Carolina. Bill Cecil‐Fronsman Crime and Punishment in Canada: A History. D. Owen Carrigan Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History. John C. Burnham Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America. Steven Seidman When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Paul Boyer Culture, Language, Text: Culture Studies within the Study of English as a Foreign Language. Fredrik Chr. Brogger Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Robert Muccigrosso The Image of Older Adults in the Media: An Annotated Bibliography. Frank Nuessel American Fiction in the Cold War. Thomas Hill Schaub Place, Modernity and the Comurner's World. Robert David Sack