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Colonial Bureaucracies, American Identity, and the Roots of Isolationism: Transnational Histories and the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Cathleen Cahill. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xv + 368 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8079-3472-5. - Susan Harris. God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 257 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-974010-9. - Christopher McKnight Nichols. Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 464 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04984-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2013

Robert D. Miller*
Affiliation:
San Diego Mesa College

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2013

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