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Past Issues of the American Historical Review

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• June 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 3
• April 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 2
• February 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 1
• December 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 5
• October 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 4
• June 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 3
• April 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 2
• February 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 1
• December 2007 - Volume 112, Issue 5
• October 2007 - Volume 112, Number 4
• June 2007 - Volume 112, Number 3
• April 2007 - Volume 112, Number 2
• February 2007 - Volume 112, Number 1
• December 2006 - Volume 111, Number 5
• October 2006 - Volume 111, Number 4
• June 2006 - Volume 111, Number 3
• April 2006 - Volume 111, Number 2
• February 2006 - Volume 111, Number 1

 

June 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 3

• Table of Contents
• In this Issue
• Fontispiece
• Article
  • Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal
    By Sunil S. Amrith
• AHR Roundtable: Historians and Biography
  • Introduction
    By David Nasaw
  • Biography as History
    By Lois W. Banner
  • “Life Histories” and the History of Modern South Asia
    By Judith M. Brown
  • A Place in Biography for Oneself
    By Kate Brown
  • Writing Biography at the Edge of History
    By Robin Fleming
  • Galaxy of Black Stars: The Power of Soviet Biography
    By Jochen Hellbeck
  • Why Biography?
    By Alice Kessler-Harris
  • Scene-Setting: Writing Biography in Chinese History
    By Susan Mann
  • Separations of Soul: Solitude, Biography, History
    By Barbara Taylor
  • Rewriting the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Economists
    By Liana Vardi

 

 

April 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 2

• Table of Contents
• In this Issue
• Fontispiece
• Articles
  • Mistaken Identities? Olaudah Equiano, Domingos Álvares, and the Methodological Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora
    By James H. Sweet
  • Expatriation, Expatriates, and Expats: The American Transformation of a Concept
    By Nancy L. Green
• AHR Forum: The International 1968, Part II
  • Introduction
  • Sons, Daughters, and Patriarchy: Gender and the 1968 Generation
    By Sara M. Evans
  • Solidarity under Siege: The Latin American Left, 1968
    By Jeffrey L. Gould
  • Youth Movements: Travel, Protest, and Europe in 1968
    By Richard Ivan Jobs
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February 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 1

• Table of Contents
• In this Issue
• Fontispiece
• Presidential Address
  • The Task of the Historian
    By Gabrielle M. Spiegel
• Article
  • The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of the Multinational Corporation
    By Alison Frank
• AHR Forum: The International 1968, Part I
  • Introduction
  • The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960–1975
    By Jeremi Suri
  • “1968” East and West: Divided Germany as a Case Study in Transnational History
    By Timothy S. Brown
  • Japan 1968: The Performance of Violence and the Theater of Protest
    By William Marotti
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December 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 5

• In this Issue
• Fontispiece
• Articles
  • From the Vienna to the Paris System: International Politics and the Entangled Histories of Human Rights, Forced Deportations, and Civilizing Missions
    By Eric D. Weitz
• Forum
  • Introduction - AHR Forum
  • A History of “Gender”
    By Joanne Meyerowitz
  • A Paradigm of Our Own: Joan Scott in Latin American History
    By Heidi Tinsman
  • An Archipelago of Stories: Gender History in Eastern Europe
    By Maria Bucur
  • The Three Ages of Joan Scott
    By Dyan Elliott
  • Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis
    By Gail HershatterWang Zheng
  • Unanswered Questions
    By Joan W. Scott
• AHR Conversation
  • Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis
    By Richard C. Hoffmann, Nancy Langston, James C. McCann, Peter C. Perdue, Lise Sedrez
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October 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 4

• In this Issue
• Fontispiece
• Articles
  • Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of “Intensity”
    By Richard J. Ross
  • “As a Nation, the English Are Our Friends”: The Emergence of African American Politics in the British Atlantic World, 1772–1861
    By Van Gosse
• Forum
  • Introduction - AHR Forum: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Revisited
  • Crisis, Chronology, and the Shape of European Social History
    By Jonathan Dewald
  • Crisis and Catastrophe: The Global Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Reconsidered
    By Geoffrey Parker
  • Locating Linkages or Painting Bull's-Eyes around Bullet Holes? An East Asian Perspective on the Seventeenth-Century Crisis
    By Michael Marmé
  • Crisis: A Useful Category of Post–Social Scientific Historical Analysis?
    By J. B. Shank

 

June 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 3

• In this Issue
• Fontispiece
• The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History
  By François Furstenberg
• Trouble with Numbers: Statistics, Politics, and History in the Construction of Weimar's Trade Balance, 1918-1924
  By Adam Tooze
• The Soviets at Nuremberg: International Law, Propaganda, and the Making of the Postwar Order
  By Francine Hirsch
• Globalizing Hanjian: The Suzhou Trials and the Post-World War II Discourse on Collaboration
  By Margherita Zanasi
• The Myth of the “Weak” American State
  By William J. Novak

 

April 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 2

• In this Issue
• Frontispiece
• An Age of Imperial Revolutions
  By Jeremy Adelman
• Reforestation, Landscape Conservation, and the Anxieties of Empire in French Colonial Algeria
  By Caroline Ford
• What's Left? Popular Political Participation in Postwar Europe
  By Belinda Davis

 

February 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 1

• In this Issue
• Frontispiece
• Presidential Address: Developing Inequality
  By Barbara Weinsteinrdson
• Putting the Ocean in Atlantic History: Maritime Communities and Marine Ecology in the Northwest Atlantic, 1500–1800
  By W. Jeffrey Bolster
• Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York
  By Carl H. Nightingale
• “A Penny for the Little Chinese”: The French Holy Childhood Association in China, 1843–1951
  By Henrietta Harrison

 

December 2007 - Volume 112, Issue 5

• In this Issue
• Frontispiece
• Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History: Reassessing the African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas
  By David Eltis, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson
• Holding the World in Balance: The Connected Histories of the Iberian Overseas Empires, 1500–1640
  By Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Race, Racism, and Antiracism: UNESCO and the Politics of Presenting Science to the Postwar Public
  By Michelle Brattain

 

October 2007 - Volume 112, Number 4

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• “Do Prophets Come with a Sword?” Conquest, Empire, and Historical Narrative in the Early Islamic World
  By Thomas Sizgorich
• Public Discourse, Corporate Citizenship, and State Formation in Early Modern England
  By Phil Withington
• The Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic Comparison
  By Dylan C. Penningroth

Review Essays

• Military Histories Old and New: A Reintroduction
  By Robert M. Citino
• Back to the League of Nations
  By Susan Pedersen

 

June 2007 - Volume 112, Number 3

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• What Is the History of Sensibilities? On Cultural Histories, Old and New
  By Daniel Wickberg
• Clockwatchers and Stargazers: Time Discipline in Early Modern Berlin
  By Michael J. Sauter

AHR Forum: Entangled Empires in the Atlantic World

• Introduction
• Politics of Colonial Sensation: The Trial of Thomas Picton and the Cause of Louisa Calderon
  By James Epstein
• The Western Question: The Geopolitics of Latin American Independence
  By Rafe Blaufarb
• Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery
  By Eliga H. Gould
• Entangled Histories: Borderland Historiographies in New Clothes?
  By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

 

April 2007 - Volume 112, Number 2

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
  By Nick Cullather
• Status without Rights: African Americans and the Tangled History of Law and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South
  By Laura F. Edwards
• “The Filthy American Twang”: Elocution, the Advent of American “Talkies,” and Australian Cultural Identity
  By Joy Damousi

Review Essays

• Western Masculinities in War and Peace
  By Robert A. Nye
• Whither Family History? A Road Map from Latin America
  By NARA Milanich

 

February 2007 - Volume 112, Number 1

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• Presidential Address: The Stateless as the Citizen's Other: A View from the United States
  By Linda K. Kerber
• Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War
  By Brian Delay
• Overcoming the “Contagion of Mimicry”: The Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Modernist History of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats
  By Louise Blakeney Williams
• Reopening the “Opening of Japan”: A Russian-Japanese Revolutionary Encounter and the Vision of Anarchist Progress
  By Sho Konishi
• Rethinking the Socialist Construction and International Career of the Concept “Bourgeois Feminism”
  By Marilyn J. Boxer

 

December 2006 - Volume 111, Number 5

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia: Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt against Empire in 1919
  By Erez Manela
• Smoking and “Early Modern” Sociability: The Great Tobacco Debate in the Ottoman Middle East (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
  By James Grehan
• “Each nation only cares for its own”: Empire, Nation, and Child Welfare Activism in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1918
  By Tara Zahra
• Conjuring the Modern in Africa: Durability and Rupture in Histories of Public Healing between the Great Lakes of East Africa
  By David L. Schoenbrun

AHR Conversation

• AHR Conversation: On Transnational History
  By C. A. Bayly , Sven Beckert , Matthew Connelly , Isabel Hofmeyr , Wendy Kozol , and Patricia Seed

 

October 2006 - Volume 111, Number 4

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon
  By David Cressy
• Morality Plays: Marriage, Church Courts, and Colonial Agency in Central Tanganyika, ca. 1876–1928
  By Derek R. Peterson
• Peregrini, Barbari, and Cives Romani: Concepts of Citizenship and the Legal Identity of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire
  By Ralph W. Mathisen

AHR Forum : Historical Perspectives on Anti-Americanism

• Introduction
• Your Americanism and Mine: Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the Americas
  By Greg Grandin
• Always Blame the Americans: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century
  By Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
• America in Asian Eyes
  By Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
• Anti-Americanism: It's the Policies
  By Juan Cole

 

June 2006 - Volume 111, Number 3

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In this Issue
• Big Hair: A Wig History of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France
  By Michael Kwass
• Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics
  By Marcy Norton
• Modernity and Enchantment: A Historiographic Review
  By Michael Saler

AHR Forum: Oceans of History

• Introduction
  By Kären Wigen
• The Mediterranean and “the New Thalassology”
  By Peregrine Horden Nicholas Purcell
• Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities
  By Alison Games
• The Pacific
  By Matt K. Matsuda

 

April 2006 - Volume 111, Number 2

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In this Issue
• Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875–1905
  By Jonathan Ira Levy
• Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832
  By Marixa Lasso
• The Disruptive Comforts of Drag: (Trans)Gender Performances among Prisoners of War in Russia, 1914–1920
  Alon Rachamimov
• The Disenchantment of Magic: Spells, Charms, and Superstition in Early European Witchcraft Literature
  By Michael D. Bailey
• Talking Toads and Chinless Ghosts: The Politics of “Superstitious” Rumors in the People's Republic of China, 1961–1965
  By S. A. Smith

 

February 2006 - Volume 111, Number 1

Articles

• Complete Table of Contents
• In This Issue
• Presidential Address: The Problem of Sovereignty in European History
  James J. Sheehan
• The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia
  By Priya Satia
• Local Religion and the Imperial Imaginary: The Development of Japanese Ethnography in Occupied Manchuria
  By Thomas David DuBois

AHR Forum: The Problem of American Homicide

• Introduction
• Homicide: Explaining America's Exceptionalism
  By Eric Monkkonen
• Getting Away with Murder
  By Elizabeth Dales
• Democracy Came Too Early: A Tentative Explanation for the Problem of American Homicide
  By Pieter Spierenburg

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