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9661 ‘L-fr fiJVflhJVP 6urjaa pnuuv lJOjT UOpDpOSSV 1D31-LOcl sij-j uv31J3wV f ISawaCity r, 1’ 1 The Gilded Age Invincib’e Essays on the Origins of Modem America Urban Portraits of I Latin America Edited by Charles ‘A Calhoun East Carolina Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Unis ersity Yale University mU Mark D Szuchman, Florida This important nev, work International Unis erl0j present fourteen original esss that will enable re iders The vIes en essays in this to appreciate the arious volume reprcsent some of the societal, cultural, and political moo enduring reFections on fc,rces at work in a cnjcia1 the Latin American city. These period of Ut. histon’. Froni writings by political activists. industrialization and journalists. and intellectuals technology to the roles ot ofrer the readei critical women, African-Americans, analyses spanning hundreds and rmmigrants, the topics of years, from the era of the Brazilian Mosaic exanuned here form a i.onquistadores to todays comprehensise history of the urban hunk, JAGL.rs Boors us Portraits of a Diverse People Gilded Age arid demonstrate Lsiis Ass’Ri ‘0. 9 296 pp. and Culture its relevance to today’s $40 00 cloth, $11.)5 paper. America, 348 $45.00 Edited by G Haney Summ, pp cloth $17 95 paper Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of The U.S-Mexico State (ret.) Lives at Risk Borderlands A broad ranging and Hostages and Victims in entertaining collection of Historical and Contemporary essays on Brazilian history and American Foreign Policy Perspectives society... Important reading Russell D. Buhite, University Edited by Oscar!. Martinez. for those interested in South of Tennessee University of Arizona. America’s largest economy. Tucson —MAXINE L. MARGOLIS, A tonely work that is a must University of Florida, In this read for Americans in general Since the early nineteenth new volume, Professor and policymakers in century residents along the G Harvey Summ provides a particular—I IOWARD U.S -Mexico border have broad selection of excerpts JONES, Unisersity of Alabama experienced both protracted and essays that delineate Lives at Risk is the first book conflict and beneficial Brazilian culture as exempli that provides the historical interdependence. Now fied by its people. Arranged context needed to understand OscarJ. Martinez. author of in four broad chronological terrorism and America s numerous works on the groupings. the forty-four responses to terrorist acts. borderlands and their people. selections present the Historian Russell D. Buhite has brought together scholarly observations of poets, here examines key instances essays and primary documents novelists, historians, of hostage-taking throughout to demystif the past, present, naturalists, sociologists, and US, histort’ and shows how and fiatur of this important other period and contempo previous experiences an help region. JAne rs Boors Os Lois rary authorities. Lens us deal with terrorist threats Airiuc, so 11. 276 pp. ksrricss Sidiioddiits, 272 pp. today. 304 pp. $45.00 cloth, $40.00 cloth, $149S paper. $50.00 cloth $16.95 paper $17.95 paper. SR Books (an imprint of Scholarly Resources) 104 Greenhili Ave • Wilmington DE 19805 • BOOTH 91 Toll free 800-772 8937 • 302 654-7713 SR FAX 302 6543871 • Internet scholres@ssnet corn BOOKS AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Program of the One Hundred Tenth Aimual Meeting January 4-7, 1996 Atlanta Editor: Sharon K. Tune Please bring your program Extra copies $5.00 Photo courtesy of Martha Stewart JOHN H. COATSWORTH Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs Harvard University President of the American Historical Association AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 400 A Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 202/544-2422 1995 OFFICERS President: JOHN H. COATSWORTH, Harvard University President-elect: CAROLINE W. BYNUM, Columbia University Executive Director: SANDRIA B. FREITAG Deputy Executive Director: JAMES B. GARDNER (on sabbatical 1995-96) Editor: MICHAEL GROSSBERG, Indiana University Controller: RANDY B. NORELL COUNCIL JOHN H. COATSWORTH THOMAS C. HOLT, past president CAROLINE W. BYNUM SANDRIA B. FREITAG, ex officio DREW GILPIN FAUST, WILLIAM G. ROSENBERG, vice president vice president Professional Division (1996) Research Division (1997) University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan PETER N. STEARNS, vice president Teaching Division (1998) Carnegie Mellon University MARY ELIZABETH PERRY (1996) DONALD A. 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