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EDITORS TIMOTHY MINCHIN, School of History and European Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne JAN PILDITCH, Department of English, University of Waikato, Hamilton EDITORIAL BOARD CLARE CORBOULD, Review Editor, (History), Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney BRIAN EDWARDS, Review Editor, (Literature and related disciplines), School of Literary and Communications Studies, Deakin University, Geelong Campus STEPHEN ROBERTSON Review Editor, (History and related disciplines), Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney IAN GORDON, Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore GEOFF LEALAND Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton HEATHER NEILSON, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra PAUL TAILLON, Department of History, Auckland University, Auckland
Editorial correspondence should be addressed to: Timothy Minchin, School of History and European Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3086 or email: t.minchin@latrobe.edu.au or Jan Pilditch, Department of English, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand or email: <engl0252@waikato.ac.nz> Manuscripts should normally be submitted electronically or on disk. The disk must be 2DD or 2HD, in IBM format, Microsoft Word 5, or above. Font should be Times New Roman 11 for the text and Times New Roman 9 for the endnotes. Submissions are requested to follow the conventions of the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers published by the Australian Government Publishing Service (4th edition or above). All articles are refereed and should not normally exceed 6,000 words in length. Footnotes and references should be grouped at the end of the article. Contributors are requested to include institutional affiliation with accompanying biographical details. The Editorial Board is responsible for the selection and acceptance of all contributions, but the opinions expressed and the accuracy of statements made therein remain the responsibility of individual authors. Papers are considered with the understanding that they have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere. All contributions will be treated with care, but the Editorial Board cannot be responsible for losses from any cause. Contributors are urged to retain copies of all works submitted. Articles appearing in this journal are index in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life.  All material published in AJAS becomes the property of the Editors on behalf of the Australian and American Studies Association. AJAS is sent free to all members of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. Individual issues, including back copies, may be purchased from the Treasurer. Prices on application.

Australasian Journal of American Studies

Published by the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association AJAS (ISSN 0705-7113) is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association.  It is published twice a year, in July and December. AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION The purpose of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA) is to encourage study and research in all aspects of U.S. culture and society.  In addition to publishing this Journal, the Association holds scholarly biennial conferences, supports postgraduate seminars, publishes occasional papers, supports research travel to the United States for postgraduate research candidates and encourages scholarly exchanges between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION President DAVID GOODMAN University of Melbourne Vice President (Australia) CHRISTINE FERRARI Charles Sturt University Vice President (New Zealand) JENNIFER FROST University of Auckland Treasurer BARBARA KEYS University of Melbourne Secretary TOM DUNNING University of Tasmania, Launceston Enquiries concerning the Association may be directed to: Dr Barbara Keys, Department of History, University of Melbourne,

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July 2005, Vol. 24, No. 1

Editing AJAS: the first three years

By Richard Waterhouse

‘Let’s Do Lunch’: Benjamin Franklin and the American Character

By Peter Bastian

Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World; Lisa Lindquist Dorr, White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960

By Katherine Ellinghaus

Stephen Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

By Jennifer Frost

Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914

By Patricia Grimshaw

Lawrence W. Levine and Cornelia R. Levine, The People and the President – America’s Conversation with FDR

By David Goodman

Andrew Ross and Kristen Ross, Anti-Americanism

By Brendon O’connor

Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

By Brian Edwards

Mike Marqusee, Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art

By David Palmer

Introduction

By Stephen Robertson and Paul Taillon

Teaching Students to Read Online Sources

By Stephen Robertson

Neither Male nor Female: Androgyny, Nativism and International Anti-Catholicism

By Timothy Verhoeven

Acquiescence or Resistance: Reconsidering Interracial Relationships Between Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1861

By Emily Pollnitz

‘Fashionable Female Studies’: The Popular Dissemination of Science in Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1830-60

By Jan Pilditch

‘What Might Have Been’ – Bill Clinton and American Political Power

By David Palmer

Introduction

By Michael A Mcdonnell

The Price of Success: Tolerating a Failed Planter Patriarch

By Trevor Burnard

The King is Dead! Long Live the King?

By Michael A. Mcdonnell

The Planter, the Revolution, and the Historian

By Donna Merwick

Landon Carter and his Slaves

By Shane White

Other Issues

December 2005, Vol. 24, No. 2