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  1. From “Sea of Grass” to “Wire and Rail”: Melville’s Evolving Perspective on the Prairies
  2. Elizabeth Schultz
  3. pp. 31-47
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0002
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  1. The Roots and Routes of “Imperium in Imperio”: St. Clair Drake, The Formative Years
  2. Andrew J. Rosa
  3. pp. 49-75
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0007
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  1. Politics and the 1920s Writings of Dashiell Hammett
  2. J. A. Zumoff
  3. pp. 77-98
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0012
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  1. When Readers Become Fans: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry as a Fan Activity
  2. David Haven Blake
  3. pp. 99-122
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0017
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  1. The Identity Joke: Race, Rap, Performance in CB4
  2. Daniel Traber
  3. pp. 123-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0022
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  1. Oriental Style and Asian Chic: The Politics of Racial Visibility in Film and Fashion
  2. Hee-Jung Serenity Joo
  3. pp. 153-162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0000
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  1. Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression by David Welky (review)
  2. Robert Vanderlan
  3. pp. 165-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0005
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  1. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho (review)
  2. Kathryn Dudley
  3. pp. 166-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0010
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  1. Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon by Michael Ezra (review)
  2. Randy Roberts
  3. pp. 167-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0015
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  1. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller (review)
  2. Clare Corbould
  3. pp. 171-172
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0026
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  1. Ben Shahn’s American Scene: Photographs, 1938 by John Raeburn (review)
  2. Emily Godbey
  3. pp. 175-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0003
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  1. Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities by Andrew Hurley (review)
  2. Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford
  3. pp. 176-178
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0008
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  1. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot.” ed. by Deborah Willis (review)
  2. Tammy L. Brown
  3. pp. 178-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0013
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  1. Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture by Jim Collins (review)
  2. Kathleen Rooney
  3. pp. 179-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0018
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  1. Champagne Charlie & Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century by Gillian M. Rodger (review)
  2. Andrew L. Erdman
  3. pp. 182-183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0029
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  1. Droppers: America’s First Hippie Commune, Drop City by Mark Matthews (review)
  2. Michael Krueger
  3. pp. 183-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0001
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  1. Fight for Your Long Day by Alex Kudera (review)
  2. Joseph A. Domino
  3. pp. 184-185
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0006
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  1. The Improbable First Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine by James Landers (review)
  2. Mark Noonan
  3. pp. 186-187
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0016
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  1. Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Erika Doss (review)
  2. Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford
  3. pp. 187-189
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0021
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  1. Otherness in Hollywood Cinema by Michael Richardson (review)
  2. Emily Godbey
  3. pp. 188-190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0027
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  1. Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller (review)
  2. Bertram Lyons
  3. pp. 190-191
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0033
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  1. Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of Working It Out by Nadine George-Graves (review)
  2. Nicole Hodges Persley
  3. pp. 191-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0004
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  1. Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired A Generation of American Women by Barbara Sicherman (review)
  2. Frank Warren
  3. pp. 194-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0014
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  1. Photography and the USA by Mick Gidley (review)
  2. Jennifer Steensma Hoag
  3. pp. 195-196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0019
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  1. Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States by Lan Dong (review)
  2. Crystal S. Anderson
  3. pp. 196-197
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0025
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  1. Why America Failed by Morris Berman (review)
  2. Joseph A. Domino
  3. p. 198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0031
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 4-5
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2012.0024
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