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Current Volume-Volume XXXVII

Introduction

The Struggle for Chicano Power in Los Angeles: The Contribution of a Grassroots Activist
Cindy Aragon

Cigarettes and Their Impact in World War II
Amarilla Blondia

Pagans by Comparisons: Medieval Christian and Muslim Constructions of the Pagan "Other"
Philip Busalacchi

A Matter of Personal Conscience: Soviet Women, Religion, and the Sacred Self
Karla Callejas

Blank Check for Reagan: Public Opinion and the 1981 PATCO Strike
Joel Smollett, Sr.

Their Most Dangerous Weapon: Middle-Class America, Alcohol, and German-Americans During the Great War
David A Vasquez.


Special Features

Introduction

Masao Yamashita
David Ko

Kyaw Lin Tun's Mother
Kyaw Lin Tun

Thomas Tran
Ha Van

To Phan
Brian Phan

Su and Mai Thai
Jimmy Thai

Yuchang Huang
Xinzhe Huang

Book Reviews


Mary Beard and John Henderson. Classics: A Very Short Introduction
-James Spicer

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Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
-Amarilla Blondia

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Michael H. Hunt. Crisis in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International Reader
-Michael Serrano

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Eileen Luhr. Witnessing Suburbia
-Diana Clark

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Elinor G.K. Melville. A Plague of Sheep: Environemental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
-Sandra D. Lindsey

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Phillip Otterness. Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York
-Adam Leung

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Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo. The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
-Nicholas C. Beyelia

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Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship
-Guadalupe Hernandez

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Volume XXXVI

Introduction

Slander and the Primacy of Reputation in New Amsterdam
Dustin Black

In Search of the Occupant of Berth No. 2, Car No. 51
Rosa Cesaretti

Odd Man Out: Shifting Notions of Culture, Community and Marginalization in the Power Struggle for Alhambra, 1940s to 1970s
Elwing Suong Gonzalez

"Those Were the Days...That Tried Men's Mettle:" Tourism, Western Masculinity, and the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-1880
Ryan Johnson

The Welfare Rights Movement: Fighting Stereotypes to Gain Equality
Abbie Perry

Courage, Leadership and Appearance: Defining Masculinity in the Presidential Election of 1960
Kristina Werden

Book Reviews


Chinua Achebe. A Man of the People
-Juan Meza

Daniel E. Bender. Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor
-Ryan Johnson

Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
-Rachel Kreisel

Matthew Connelly. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era
-Lucy Tambara

Gilbert G. Gonzalez. Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930
-Jonathan Vera

Nicoletta F. Gullace. "The Blood of Our Sons": Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War
-Linda Zavala

David Pietrusza. 1920 The Year of the Six Presidents
-Howard Gaass




Volume XXXV

Introduction

Barbaric Cities: Examining the Prestige Consumer Society that Created the Oppida
Matthew Coleman

A Question of Cuisine: How Food was Americanized, 1796-1832
Laura Dean

From Rebels to Writers: The Awakening of Women's Political and Social Empowerment in France, 1789-1914
Lucy K. Tambara

The Efficacy of the Red Power Movement
Kelly Rios

Destination Tijuana: Crossing the Border to Research the Maquiladora Industry
Jonathan Saxon

Book Reviews


Elenor Herman. Sex With Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
-Amy Luu

Edward J. Larson. A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
-Howard Gaass

Nancy Shoemaker. A Strange Likeness; Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
-David Payne

Timothy Tackett. When the King Took Flight
-John C. Chen

Susan Whitfield. Life Along the Silk Road
-Erick Lazo




Volume XXXIV

Introduction

Sinicizing Christianity in China
John Chen

Brotherhood of Vice: Sodomy Islam, and the Knights of Templar
Mark Steckler

West German Women and Postwar Culture: A Survey of First Person Perspectives
Laura Kaiser Pare

Friends of Soviet Russia: The Friendly Front Survives the Famine
Efrain M. Diaz

Continental Divide: Money, Power, and Corporate Politics in the Field of African American Studies in America 1957 to 1969
David Jamison

Book Reviews


 Daniela Berghahn. Hollywood Behind the Wall: The History of East German Cinema
-Nick Szamet

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Frank L. Holt. Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great In Afghanistan
-Dana Blenkin

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Leonard Thompson. A History of South Africa
-Kelly Rios

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Yuri Slenkine. The Jewish Century
-Dustin Black

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