Journal of Social History articles

Recent articles from Journal of Social History

"Crete the opening wedge": nationalism and international affairs in Postbellum America.(SECTION I EXTENDING SOCIAL HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HUMOR)
June 22, 2009... "Thou sobbing captive in a sea of smiles, Whose fairy sails on sunny errands flee, Shall the blue waves that bless thy sister isles Bind on thy brow the curse of slavery?" --Unattributed (1) "Oh! what were the projects you made, Mrs. Howe, When you went where the Cretans were...

"The terrible laughter of the Afrikaner"--towards a social history of humor.(Report)
June 22, 2009... A young Boer guerrilla fighter, Deneys Reitz, described the defeated Boer commandos drifting into the camps in May 1902, as a rabble of "starving, ragged men, clad in skins or sacking, their bodies covered with sores, from lack of salt and food... their appearance was a great shock to us,...

Monsters in the village? Incest in nineteenth century France.(WINNER OF THE 2008 GRADUATE STUDENT COMPETITION)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Introduction Lost deep in the consciousness of mankind, incest continues to suggest hotror. Beyond just the crime, the taboo has created the monster. (1) But in France, since the end of the nineteenth century, the social imaginary of incest is undoubtedly telated to poverty and the rural...

Country living, country dying: rural suicides in New Zealand, 1900-1950.(Report)
June 22, 2009... In the major settlement colonies of the British Empire and successor states, notably the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, protean myths thrived about the independence of rural life and the contentment of small farmers relative to urban wage earners. A mix of anti-urbanism...

Journalists and Police Detectives in Victorian and Edwardian England: an Uneasy Reciprocal Relationship.(SECTION III REQIONAL TOPICS)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Detectives are sometimes likened to historians and vice versa. (1) On closer examination, the resemblance between detectives and journalists is no less noticeable. The latter likeness, specifically between police detectives and journalists who wrote for newspapers on crime and policing, was...