The Journal of American History 2012 - 2013: Vol 99 Index & Table of Contents

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The Journal of American History
Published by the Organization of American Historians
Volume 99 June 2012 to March 2013
Editorial Staff
Edward T. Linenthal, Indiana University /E ditor
Stephen D. Andrews, Indiana University /M anaging Editor
Claude Clegg, Indiana Univer/sA sisotciyat e Editor
Nancy J. Creker/ Director of Operations
Kevin Marsh/ Associate Editor
Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes/ A ssociate Editor
David Prior, Eric Petenbrink, Indiana University /A ssistant Editors
Thomas Frick, Deneise Hueston/ Administrative Assistants
Penny Dillon, James Black/ Database and Systems Managers
Nic Champagne / Web Specialist
Sarah Rowley, William Gillis, Rachel E. Coleman, Carl Suddler, Andrew Clark,
Paula Tarankow/ Editorial Assistants
Charles Fish /T echnology Assistant
Nick Murray Vachon/ Editorial Intern
Conrae Johannes/ Data Entry Clerk
Editorial Board
Ray Arsenault, University of South Florida
Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis
Matthew J. Garcia, Arizona State University
Tiya Miles, University of Michigan
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University
Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University
Mark Silk, Trinity College
Bejamin Irvin, University of Arizona
Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University
Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Mae Ngai, Columbia University
Katherine M. Finley, Organization of American Historians (Ex Officio)
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Contents of Volume 99
Articles
Oil in American History: A Special Issue
Consulting Editors: Brian C. Black, Karen R. Merrill, and Tyler Priest
Introduction: A Decidedly Valuable and Dangerous Fuel
Jay Hakes 19
Oil and the American Century
David S. Painter 24
Oil for Living: Petroleum and American Conspicuous Consumption
Brian C. Black 40
Blessed by Oil, Cursed with Crude: God and Black Gold in the American Southwest
Darren Dochuk 51
Culture Clash: Foreign Oil and Indigenous People in Northern Veracruz, Mexico,
1900-1921
Myrna Santiago 62
Fueling the Boom: Gasoline Taxes, Invisibility, and the Growth of the American Highway
Infrastructure, 1919-1956
Christopher W. Wells 72
Oil in the City: The Fall and Rise of Oil Drilling in Los Angeles
Sarah S. Elkind 82
An Incomplete Solution: Oil and Water in Louisiana
Craig E. Colten 91
Bucking the Odds: Organized Labor in Gulf Coast Oil Refining
Tyler Priest and Michael Botson 100
Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective: Beaumont—Port
Arthur, Texas, versus Minatitlan-Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz
Christopher Sellers 111
There Will Be Birds: Images of Oil Disasters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Kathryn Morse 124
Imaging the “Devil's Excrement”: Big Oil in Petroleum Cinema, 1940-2007
Robert Lifset and Brian C. Black 135
Exxon and the Control of Oil
Toseph A. Pratt 145
U.S. Oil Companies, the Nigerian Civil War, and the Origins of Opacity in the Nigerian
Oil Industry
Kairn A. Klieman 155
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Anonymity and Ambivalence: The Canadian and American Oil Industries and the
Emergence of Continental Oil
Paul Chastko 166
Crisis and Continuity in U.S. Oil Politics, 1965-1980
Paul Sabin 177
Building America’s First Offshore Oil Port: Loop
Jason Theriot 187
Texas Metropole: Oil, the American West, and U.S. Power in the Postwar Years
Karen R. Merrill 197
America, Oil, and War in the Middle East
Toby Craig Jones 208
“Fetched Up”: Unlearned Lessons from the Exxon Valdez
Stephen Haycox 219
The Seventeen-Year Overnight Wonder: George Mitchell and Unlocking the Barnett Shale
Diana Davids Hinton 229
The Dilemmas of Oil Empire
Tyler Priest 236
The Risks of Dead Reckoning: A Postscript on Oil, Climate Change, and Political Time
Karen R. Merrill 252
What Twenty-First-Century Historians Have Said about the Causes of Disunion: A Civil
War Sesquicentennial Review of the Recent Literature
Michael E. Woods 415
“Apostles of Fascism,” “Communist Clergy,” and the uaw: Political Ideology and
Working-Class Religion in Detroit, 1919-1945
Matthew Pehl 440
Closing Doors: Hollywood, Affirmative Action, and the Revitalization of Conservative
Racial Politics
Eithne Quinn 466
Jewish Urban Politics in the City and Beyond
Lila Corwin Berman 492
Interchange: The War of 1812
Rachel Hope Cleves, Nicole Eustace, Paul Gilje, Matthew Rainbow Hale,
Cecilia Morgan, Jason M. Opal, Lawrence A. Peskin, and Alan Taylor 520
Presidential Address: Capitalism, Democracy and the Emancipation of Belief
Alice Kessler-Harris 725
Moving Beyond “Rags to Riches”: New York’s Irish Famine Immigrants and Their
Surprising Savings Accounts
Tyler Anbinder 741
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On a Temporary Basis: Immigration, Labor Unions, and the American Entertainment
Industry, 1880s—1930s
Krystyn R. Moon 771
Round Table
The Big Tent of U.S. Women’s and Gender History: A State of the Field
Cornelia H. Dayton and Lisa Levenstein 793
Can We Have a Total American History? A Comment on the Achievements of Women’s
and Gender History
Natsuki Aruga 818
The Impact of Racial and Sexual Politics on Women’s History
Crystal N. Feimster 822
Gender Identity and the Gendered Process
Alice Kessler-Harris 827
Seeing Ourselves and for Ourselves: The Infinite Potential of Women’s and Gender
History
Ana Elizabeth Rosas 830
Gender, Generations, Leadership
Elisabetta Vezzosi 835
Patronage and Protest in Kate Brown’s Washington
Kate Masur 1047
American Enlightenments: Continuity and Renewal
Nathalie Caron and Naomi Wulf 1072
The Moment of Transition: State Officials, the Federal Government, and the Formation of
American Immigration Policy
Hidetaka Hirota 1092
“Their blood shall not be shed in vain”: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search
for God and Country in Post—-World War II Asia
Sarah Miller-Davenport 1109
The Cold War Romance of Religious Authenticity: Will Herberg, William F. Buckley Jr.,
and the Rise of the New Right
K. Healan Gaston 1133
Contents of Volume 99
Book Reviews 280/556/864/1198
Web Site Reviews 385/687/1019/1329
Letters to the Editor 391/698/1335
Announcements 393/702/1025/1338
Recent Scholarship 395/704/1027/1340
Exhibition Reviews 256/839
Interchange 520
Movie Reviews 372/1003
Textbooks and Teaching 1159
Editor's Annual Report, 2011-2012 693
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