AMS volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Back matter YALE Gold Seeker Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years Jean-Nicolas Perlot Translated by Helen Harding Bretnor Edited and with an introduction by Howard R. Lamar A witty and engrossing account of a young Belgian's experiences in California and Oregon during the Gold Rush years. Perlot's memoir is not only delightful reading but also illuminates important themes in both European and American history. £29.95 In the Company of Educated Women A History of Women and H i g h e r Education in America Barbara Miller Solomon This book, the first synthetic and compre- hensive history of women in American higher education in over fifty years, has been written by the leading authority in the field. £25.00 Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground Maryland during the Nineteenth Century Barbara Jeanne Fields Fields shows how Maryland's centrist moderation turned into centrist immoder- ation under the stress of the Civil War, and, in so doing, offers historical reflections on the underlying character both of slave society and of the society that replaced it. £27.50 Distributive Justice A Social-Psychological Perspective Morton Deutsch In this book a distinguished educator and researcher explores the social and psycho- logical ramifications of different distributive systems for education, the workplace, the current economic situation, and the pre- vention of nuclear holocaust. £27.50 American Sociology Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions Arthur J. Vidich and Stanford M. Lyman A pathbreaking history of the evolution of American sociology. Vidich and Lyman analyse the work of crucial American social and philosophical thinkers t o show how religious elements in the Protestant tradition have influenced and continue to shape sociological perspectives. £30.00 Neighborhood Services Making Big Cities Work John Mudd Coordination of services is an elusive but essential goal for government. Mudd describes how New York City developed a model for district manager cabinets that successfully improved the coordination and responsiveness of municipal services in local neighborhoods. £20.00 Keeping Track How Schools Structure Inequality Jeanme Oakes Foreword by John Goodlad This provocative book shows that tracking — the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability — provides markedly unequal educational experiences. £21.50 Women Teachers on the Frontier Polly Welts Kaufman Kaufman provides an absorbing account of the women teachers who travelled alone t o the West before the Civil War, illustrating her history with letters, a diary, and a reminiscence. Now in paper £9.95 Yale University Press 13 BEDFORD SQUARE • LONDON WC1B 3JF Jnl. of American Studies, 19, 1 (i) Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800020016 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:21, subject to the Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800020016 https://www.cambridge.org/core tbifdti' The complete works of America's greatest authors - novelists, poets, dramatists, philosophers, essayists, historians - are for the first time being collected in a uniform series of handsome hardcover volumes. Each volume comprises several works by a single writer, all in authoritative texts derived when possible from the definitive scholarly edition. 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