Volume Ten, Number One
Fall/Winter 2004


Cover ~ Cut-up of Passchendaele, now a field of mud, November 1917. William Rider-Rider (1889-1979), Library and Archives Canada, PA-040139.
Design adapted from: Hayden White, Metahistory, (Baltimore, 1973)


Forum ~ Writing History

Editorial Introduction: The Burden of Writing
    Ian Hesketh

Cutting Through History: Hayden White, William S. Burroughs, and Surrealistic Battle Narratives
    David Leeson

Reading, Writing, Getting It Right: A Response to David Leeson's "Cutting Through History"
    Nancy Partner

Fictional Plots and Historical Explanation: A Response to David Leeson's "Cutting Through History"
    Robert M. Stein

Who Shall Decide, When Doctors Disagree? David Leeson Responds in Turn
    David Leeson


Articles

"Police Free Gay Slaves": Consent, Sexuality, and the Law
    Bernardo Attias

Radical Publishing to "Reach the Million Masses": Alexander L. Trachtenberg and International Publishers, 1906-1966
    David Lincove

Ernest Mandel in Resistance: Revolutionary Socialists in Belgium, 1940-1945
    Jan-Willem Stutje




Review Essay

Lives by the Left: Biography and Materialist History
    T. Stephen Henderson




Reviews

  • James Laxer, Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism BRYAN D. PALMER
  • Irwin Silber, Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, The Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports JULIAN AMMIRANTE
  • Ronald Aronson, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It WILLIAM D. IRVINE
  • Herman Lebovics, Bringing the Empire Back Home. France in the Global Age LAURENT KESTEL
  • Kristen Stromberg Childers, Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945 CHERYL KOOS
  • Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, eds., Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World CAMILLE SOUCIE
  • Craig Heron, Booze: A Distilled History CATHERINE CARSTAIRS
  • Marlene Shore, ed., The Contested Past: Reading Canada's History ALAN GORDON
  • David Brandenberger, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956 TRACY MCDONALD
  • Peter Ives, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School JANALEE CHERNESKI
  • Carl Freedman, The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture JARRETT RUDY
  • Antoinette Burton, ed., Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Modernities ADELE PERRY
  • Temma Kaplan, Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy TAMARA MYERS
  • John D. French, Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture DAVID SHEININ
  • James H. Meriwether, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 PHILIP S. ZACHERNUK
  • David Cunningham, There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence STEVE HEWITT
  • Paul Rutherford, Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War Against Iraq ANDREW BURKE
  • Chad Montrie, To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia NATHAN SMITH
  • Peter Hegedus, Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story DARIN KINSEY


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