Konstantin Dierks
Department of History
Indiana University, Bloomington
REVIEW ESSAYS AND BOOK REVIEWS (in reverse chronological
order)
[last updated June 12, 2008]
17.
David M. Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern
Communications in Nineteen-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2006), in Journal of the Early Republic 27:3 (Fall 2007): 536-539.
16.
Eve Tavor Bannet, Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and
Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680‑1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005), in Reviews in English Studies 57:232 (Nov. 2006): 826-827.
15.
Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution
and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation (New York: Oxford University Press,
2004), and David Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery,
and the American Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004), in Journal
of Social History 39:4 (Summ. 2006): 1240-1244.
14.
“American Men’s History and the ‘Big Picture.’” Review
essay of Thomas Augst, The Clerk’s Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in
Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003);
Elaine Frantz Parsons, Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in
the Nineteenth-Century United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2003); Martin Summers, Manliness and its Discontents: The Black Middle
Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Mark Tebeau, Eating Smoke: Fire in
Urban America, 1800-1950 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003),
in Gender and History 18:1 (Apr. 2006): 160-163.
13.
William Merrill Decker, Epistolary Practices: Letter
Writing in America before Telecommunications (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1998), in The Book: Newsletter of the Program in the
History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society
68 (Mar. 2006): 6‑7.
12.
Peter Charles Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), in Itinerario 29:1
(2005): 171-173.
11.
Anne S. Lombard, Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in
Colonial New England (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), in
William and Mary Quarterly 61:1 (Jan. 2004): 132-135.
10.
Michael Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism
and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636‑1641 (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2002), in Seventeenth-Century News 61:3-4 (Fall‑Win. 2003):
264-267.
9.
Mechal Sobel, Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in
the Revolutionary Era (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), in
Journal of American History 89:2 (Sep. 2002): 614-615.
8.
“Men’s History, Gender History, or Cultural History?”
Review essay of Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, and Dee Garceau, eds., Across
the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West (London:
Routledge, 2001), Martin A. Berger, Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the
Construction of Gilded Age Manhood (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2000), and Shawn Johansen, Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in
Industrializing America (London: Routledge, 2001), in Gender and History
14:1 (Apr. 2002): 147-151.
7.
Sandra M. Gustafson, Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and
Performance in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000), in Journal of the Early Republic 21:1 (Spr. 2001): 134‑136.
6.
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First
Generation of Americans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), and Ann
Fabian, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century
America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), in Journal of
Social History 35:2 (Win. 2001): 454-459.
5.
Roger Chartier, Alain Boureau and Cecile Dauphin,
Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth
Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), and Jane E. Harrison,
Until Next Year: Letter Writing and the Mails in the Canadas, 1640-1830
(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), in Journal of Social
History 33:2 (Win. 1999): 466-468.
4.
Andrew Burstein, Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of
America’s Romantic Self-Image (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999), for H-SHEAR,
H-NET REVIEWS (Nov. 1999).
3.
Dana D. Nelson, National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship
and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (Durham: Duke University Press,
1998), and Bruce Burgett, Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in
the Early Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), in
Journal of the Early Republic 19:2 (Sum. 1999): 299-302.
2.
Tamara Plakins Thornton, Handwriting in America: A
Cultural History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), in History of
Reading News 21:2 (Spr. 1998): 3-4.
1.
Kevin J. Hayes, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996), in William and Mary
Quarterly 54:4 (Oct. 1997): 870-872.