Contents

Essay Articles

John Lawson, the Outbreak of the Tuscarora Wars and “Middle Ground” Theory
Rebecca M. Seaman

Chinese Indentured Labor to Peru in the Nineteenth Century
Dorothea Martin

“The Worst Tortures of the Middle Ages”: Allied Protest against British and American Bombing of Germany during World War II
James S. Humphreys

History, Politics and the State: The South Asian Experience
Deepa Nair

Book Reviews

Lauren L. Basson
White Enough to Be American?: Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
TONYA D. BLAIR

Ronald P. Formisano
For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s
JEFF BROADWATER

Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
KENNETH C. CARSTENS

Gregg Brazinsky
Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy
ANNIKA A. CULVER

John Majewski
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation
JOSH FENNELL

Earl J. Hess
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
JAY GILLISPIE

Noeleen McIlvenna
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713
LLOYD JOHNSON

Joan Waugh and Gary W. Gallagher, eds.
Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
CATHERINE LEWIS

John W. Wertheimer
Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases
J. MICHAEL McELREATH

Daniel E. Sutherland
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
ALEX CHRISTOPHER MEEKINS

Albion W. Tourgée, ed. Carolyn L. Karcher
Bricks Without Straw
STEPHANIE SCHROEDER

Mark L. Bradley
Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina
ROBERT WELDON WHALEN

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