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
- Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal
- 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
- Introduction
April 2009 - Volume 114, Issue 2
- Table of Contents
- In this Issue
- Fontispiece
- Articles
- 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
- The Task of the Historian
- Article
- 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
- 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
- Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis
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October 2008 - Volume 113, Issue 4
- In this Issue
- Fontispiece
- Articles
- 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
- 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. MathisenAHR 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 SalerAHR 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 DuBoisAHR 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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