| Abstract: | Michael F. Holt The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp.xviii + 1248. $48/£32.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 1950 5544 6. Susan Scheckel, The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth‐Century American Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). Pp.x + 197. $52.50/£33.00 (hardback); $17.95/£11.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 6910 5963 2; 0 6910 5964 0. Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). Pp.xvii + 319. $45/£35.95 (hardback); $16.95/£13.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8078 2442 9; 0 8078 4746 1. Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott: the Quest for Military Glory (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). Pp.xii + 316. $35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7006 0914 8. David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 181. $31 (hardback); $15 (paperback). ISBN 0 2267 7668 9; ISBN 0 2267 7669 7. Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 382. $39.95. ISBN 0 5022 1765 9. |
