Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, by Aviad E. Raz (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1999)

A Social History of American Technology, by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (Oxford University Press, 1997)

Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892, by Howard Markel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930, by Jon Thares Davidann (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1998)

Globalization of Japan: Japanese "Sakoku" Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan, by Mayumi Itoh (St. Martin's Press: New York, 1998)

Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and The American Experience, by Nancy Brown Diggs (State University of New York Press: 1998)

The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation, edited by Mark Sandler (Seattle, Wa. and London: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998)