THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 100, NO. 2, APRIL 1995
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ARTICLES
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
By Karen Halttunen, 303
Rape, Race, and Colonial Culture: The Sexual Politics of Identity in
the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, South Africa
By Pamela Scully, 335
Violence, Emancipation, and Democracy: The Countryside and the French
Revolution
By John Markoff, 360
Etiquette, Lynching, and Racial Boundaries in Southern History: A
Mississippi Example
By J. William Harris, 387
The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of
England
by John A. Phillips and Charles Wetherell, 411
Review Article
Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept
in American Ethnic History
by Russell A. Kazal, 437
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FEATURED REVIEWS
Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action
and Politics
By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, 472
Pierre Pean, Une jeunesse francaise: Francois Mitterand, 1934-1947;
Eric Conan and Henry Rousso, Vichy: Un passe qui ne passe pas
By John F. Sweets, 474
Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a
Nation
By Prasenjit Duara, 477