The Americas

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Books reviewed: A Continent Defined: North American Exploration 2. Edited by John Logan Allen Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis A History of the United States. By Philip Jenkins The Degradation of American History. By David Harlan An Emotional History of the United States. Edited by Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York. By Cathy Matson Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro‐Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868. By Caryn Cossé Bell A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples, 1724–1774. By Michael N. McConnell A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present. Edited by Jerry K. Sweeney A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics. By Mark E. Kann Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies. By Joyce Appleby Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City in the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810–1899. By Samuel C. Hyde, Jr Party Ideologies in America, 1828–1996. By John Gerring Daniel Webster: The Man and his Times. By Robert V. Remini The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade. By Thomas N. Layton Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. By Gary Collison Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. By Douglas Ambrose Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from the Civil War. By Emmy E. Werner The Confederate War. By Gary W. Gallagher Lee: The Soldier. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns. By Steven E. Woodworth Shook over Hell: Post‐traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. By Eric T. Dean Jr ‘Right or Wrong, God Judge Me’: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado. By Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865–1920. By Jerry Cooper Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell. By Joan Waugh Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood. By Robert Hamburger The Important Things of Life: Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880–1929. By Dee Garceau The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884–1928. By Priscilla Murolo Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell. By Dan Aadland Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician: An Assessment. By David H. Burton The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. By Edward M. Coffman Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I. By Leslie Midkiff DeBauche The USA and the World, 1917–45. By Peter Brett Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920–1939. By Warren F. Kuehl and Lynne K. Dunn Lindbergh. By A. Scott Berg Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision‐making. By Barbara Rearden Farnham Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. By Gregory J. W. Urwin Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA. Edited by Rhodri Jeffreys‐Jones and Christopher Andrew Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino‐American Conflict, 1947–1958. By Thomas J. Christensen Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in US–Korea Relations. By Katherine H. S. Moon Kennedy. By Hugh Brogan The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK. By John Hellmann Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited. Edited by Mark J. White Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle. By Walt Crowley The Scar that Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie Burning the Flag: The Great 1989–90 American Flag Desecration Controversy. By Robert Justin Goldstein ‘Your Fyre Shall Burn No More’: Iroquois Policy toward New France and its Native Allies to 1701. By José António Brandão Life and Religion in Louisbourg, 1713–1758. By A. J. B. Johnston Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War. By Shane B. Schreiber La France et le Canada: d'une après‐guerre à l'autre (1918–1944). By Philippe Prévost The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492–1810. By John R. Fisher ‘Tiger in the Stars’: The Anatomy of Indian Achievement in British Guiana 1919–1929. By Clem Seecharan