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Volume 40 - April 2006

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Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2004, £35.95, cloth). Pp. vi+249. ISBN 0 674 01158 9.

Susan Castillo, Performing America: Colonial Encounters in New World Writing 1500–1786 (London and New York: Routledge, 2005, £55.00/$100.00 cloth, £18.99/$33 paper). Pp. 260. ISBN 0 415 31606 5, 0 415 31607 1.

Clark Davis, Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, £32.00). Pp. 188. ISBN 0 8018 8098 X.

Walter A. Davis, Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche since 9–11 (London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto, 2006, £17.99). Pp. xxx+304. ISBN 0 7453 2468 1.

Camelia Elias, The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004, £43,30). Pp. 400. ISBN 3 03910 470 5.

Joe Domanick, Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004, £10.95). Pp. xiii+266. ISBN 0 520 24668 3.

Glenn Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 328. ISBN 0 8203 2615 1.

Rachel Devlin, Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005, no price on publication). Pp. 272. ISBN 0807829463.

Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey (eds.), Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, $42.50). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 87154 288 9.

Leigh Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879 (Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003, $32.50). Pp. xiv+216. ISBN 0 8262 1470 3.

Steven Deyle, Carry Me back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, £18.50). Pp. 398. ISBN 0 19 5160401.

Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004, £15.95 paper). Pp. 200. ISBN 0 822 33369 4.

John Ehrman, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, £18.95). Pp. 296. ISBN 0 300 10662 9.

Hazel Arnett Ervin, The Handbook of African American Literature (Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2004, $45.00). Pp. 236+xviii. ISBN 0 8130 2750 0.

Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, It Happened in the Catskills (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, $26.95). Pp. 245. ISBN 0 299 20604 1.

Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith and Linda Trinh Vö (eds.), Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration (Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 2004, £65.00 cloth/£16.99 paper). Pp. xxxiii+272. ISBN 0 415 948142, 0 415 94815 0.

John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, $30.00). Pp. 558. ISBN 0 19 515924 1.

Glenn Feldman (ed.), Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004, £46.95 hardcover, £21.95 paper). Pp. 393. ISBN 0 8173 1431 8, 0 8173 5134 5.

Michael W. Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, $34.50; £22.50). Pp. xiii+294. ISBN 0 231 11512 1.

Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble (eds.), The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper). Pp. xvi+439. ISBN 0 8195 6681 0, 0 8195 6682 9.

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