Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv+248. $30.00.John BoliJohn BoliEmory University Search for more articles by this author Emory UniversityPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 103, Number 3November 1997 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/231270 Views: 8Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Svetlana Kharchenkova Bringing Art Market Organizations to China: Cross-Border Isomorphism, Institutional Work and its Unintended Consequences, The China Quarterly 240 (Apr 2019): 1087–1107.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741019000389Salvatore Babones, John H. S. Aberg , International Theory 11, no.0303 ( 2019): 293.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752971919000125Beth A. Simmons, Paulette Lloyd, Brandon M. Stewart The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking, International Organization 72, no.22 (Apr 2018): 249–281.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818318000036Liam Swiss, Kathleen M. Fallon Women's Transnational Activism, Norm Cascades, and Quota Adoption in The Developing World, Politics & Gender 7 (Jul 2016): 1–30.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X16000477Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, Alice Kang, Miki Caul Kittilson Just the Facts? Media Coverage of Female and Male High Court Appointees in Five Democracies, Politics & Gender 12, no.0202 (May 2016): 254–274.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X16000234Besnik Pula Institutionalizing a Weak State: Law and Jurisdictional Conflict between Bureaucratic and Communal Institutions in the Albanian Highlands, Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, no.33 (Jun 2015): 637–664.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417515000237Greggor Mattson Nation-State Science: Lappology and Sweden's Ethnoracial Purity, Comparative Studies in Society and History 56, no.22 (Apr 2014): 320–350.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417514000061Hun Joon Kim, J.C. Sharman Accounts and Accountability: Corruption, Human Rights, and Individual Accountability Norms, International Organization 68, no.22 (Apr 2014): 417–448.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818313000428Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Brad L. LeVeck, David G. Victor, James H. Fowler Decision Maker Preferences for International Legal Cooperation, International Organization 68, no.44 (Jun 2014): 845–876.https://doi.org/10.1017/S002081831400023XHeike Brabandt, Steffen Mau Regulating Territorial Access in a Globalized World. Visa-Waiver Policies in the USA and Austria, Journal of Borderlands Studies 28, no.33 (Dec 2013): 321–336.https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2013.862757Dongwook Kim International Nongovernmental Organizations and the Global Diffusion of National Human Rights Institutions, International Organization 67, no.33 (Jul 2013): 505–539.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818313000131JONATHAN EASTWOOD Reflections on the implications of evolutionary psychology for the theory of institutions, Journal of Institutional Economics 8, no.0404 (Jun 2012): 537–550.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137412000094