>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:17:57 -0800
>From: Jeffrey Wasserstrom <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: February 2001 American Historical Review
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>Colleagues,
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>The complete contents of the February 2001 issue of the AHR can now be
>accessed online at http://www.historycooperative.org, bringing to a total
>of nine the issues available through this site, which also includes other
>materials of interest to historians.  The issue opens with Eric Foner's
>Presidential Address on "American Freedom in a Global Age" and concludes
>with our usual assortment of book and film reviews.  In between come three
>articles on varied themes and a tripartite review essay on an influential
>and controversial new work of social theory by James C. Scott.
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>The first article is an unusual foray into comparative urban history by
>Kate Brown that explores similarities between a Soviet gulag city and a
>Montana railroad town.  The second is a piece by Steve Marquardt that
>examines the political economy of banana production and banana blight in
>Central America and the Caribbean and employs methods associated with labor
>history and environmental studies.  The third is an essay by Charles Ambler
>that applies ideas drawn from fields such as audience response analysis to
>look at Northern Rhodesian popular culture of the 1940s-1950s and the
>impact of Hollywood films on the local imagination.
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>These articles are followed by a set of commentaries on Scott's Seeing Like
>a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.
>These pieces are by Jane Caplan (a Europeanist), Morton Keller (an
>Americanist), and Fernando Coronil (a Latin Americanist), respectively.
>The cover of the issue - a collage made up of images associated with state
>power and market forces - is intended as a visual accompaniment to their
>discussions of Scott, although it also relates to some of the themes raised
>in Foner's address.
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>Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Acting Editor, American Historical Review
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