Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens, with foreword by Adam Goodheart. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. vii+193 pp.; 90 color illustrations, figures, exhibition checklist, index. $35.00.
Book ReviewsHallie E. Bond, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, and Leslie Paris. “A Paradise for Boys and Girls”: Children's Camps in the Adirondacks. Syracuse: Adirondack Museum/Syracuse University Press, 2006. xii+146 pp.; illustrations, bibliography, index. $39.95.Abigail A. Van Slyck. A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxxvii+ 296 pp.; illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95.
Book ReviewsJohn Styles and Amanda Vickery, eds. Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, 2006; distributed by Yale University Press. 368 pp.; 58 color + 26 black‐and‐white illustrations, index. $65.00.
Japanese Voices Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.