Journal of Social History articles from December 1999

Journal of Social History archives from December 1999

Power At Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Power At Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike. By Colin J. Davis (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xii plus 2A4pp. $49.95/cloth $19.95/paperback). The 1922 railroad shopmen's strike is the last of the...

"AN ARGUMENT THAT GOES BACK TO THE WOMB": THE DEMEDICALIZATION OF FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME, 1973-1992.
December 22, 1999... On May 31, 1977 Americans met Melissa--the first child with FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) to appear on network television news, in this case, the NBC Evening News with David Brinkley. Named in 1973, FAS is a pattern of birth defects that occurs...

"DAMN YOU, YOU INFORMING BITCH." VOX POPULI AND THE UNMAKING OF THE GIN ACT OF 1736.
December 22, 1999... On August 16, 1738, Sarah Miller, wife of Michael Miller, stood outside the residence of Anne and George Adams and started screaming. She was, it was later claimed, there "to deter the said Anne Adams and others from... giving Evidence against...

POLITICS AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF HONOR: DUELING IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY MEXICO.
December 22, 1999... In the last decades of the nineteenth century, dueling acquired new meanings for Mexican elites. Military men, politicians and journalists fought and died in duels. The code of honor became a guide for the behavior and speech of public men...

'FIGHTING THE CORSETLESS EVIL': SHAPING CORSETS AND CULTURE, 1900-1930.
December 22, 1999... During the nineteenth century virtually all free-born women in the United States wore corsets. Yet from mid-century onward the purpose and meaning of the corset generated heated debate among physicians, ministers, couturiers, feminist dress...

MANSIONS, MEN, WOMEN, AND THE CREATION OF MULTIPLE PUBLICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
December 22, 1999... Introduction Beginning in the first quarter of the eighteenth century many colonial elites built homes modeled on England's lower gentry. These dwellings were different in both size and function from earlier houses. Not only were they...

HOW TO BEHAVE SENSITIVELY: PRESCRIPTIONS FOR INTERRACIAL CONDUCT FROM THE 1960s TO THE 1990s.
December 22, 1999... The 1990s have brought renewed interest from Americans in two seemingly unrelated issues, race and etiquette. The more one ponders the outpouring of writing on these two themes, however, the clearer it becomes that the twin interests are...

BLACK HOUSING, WHITE FINANCE: AFRICAN AMERICAN HOUSING AND HOME OWNERSHIP IN EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, BEFORE 1940.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 1999... "They said that Evanston, the beginning of it, was for rich people and help and not for colored people to come Out and live... Evanston is really a high place to live, but we get here and we stay." [1] (Caldonia Martin, Evanston, Illinois,...

One World Emerging? Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies.(Review)
December 22, 1999... One World Emerging?: Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies. By Alex Inkeles (Boulder: Westview Press, A Division of Harper Collins Inc., 1998. xix plus 423pp. $39). Alex Inkeles is the doyen of modernization theory and has...

The Age of the Child: Children in America 1890--1920.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Age of the Child: Children in America 1890--1920. By David I. Macleod (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xiii plus 219pp. $29.95). The Age of the Child is a landmark in the historical study of American childhood. David Macleod is too...

Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. By Roger Chartier, Alain Boureau and Cecile Dauphin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 162pp.). Until Next Year: Letter Writing and the...

An Emotional History of the United States.(Review)
December 22, 1999... An Emotional History of the United States. Edited by Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis (New York: New York University Press, 1998. ix plus 476 pp. $60.00/cloth $22.50/paperback). Emotions have come increasingly under the research spotlight in...

The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left In America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left In America. By Douglas C. Rossinow (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 498pp. $32.50). Throughout the long, dark years of the Cold War, before anyone ever...

Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution 1765-1900.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution 1765-1900. By James L. Huston (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xxiv plus 483pp. $65.00). Nineteenth-century Americans loved to boast that in no...

A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society.(Review)
December 22, 1999... A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. By Lawrence B. Glickman (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvi plus 220pp.). Consumerism has become a hot topic both for labor and cultural historians. In...

From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick: The Changing Institution of Paris Hospitals under the Old Regime and Revolution.(Review)
December 22, 1999... From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick: The Changing Institution of Paris Hospitals under the Old Regime and Revolution. By John Frangos (Madison & London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. 247pp. $39.50). The title of this...

Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. By Shane White and Graham White (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. xv plus 301 pp.). Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its...

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. By W.T. Lhamon, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. x plus 269pp.). W.T. Lhamon, Jr.'s Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop is...

Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865- 1915. By Robert C. Kenzer (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xvi plus l78pp.). Robert Kenzer's goal in Enterprising Southerners is to correct some...

Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769--1803. By Kimberly S. Hanger (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997. xiii plus 248pp. $49.95/cloth $16.95/paperback). In this welcome volume,...

Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration. By Richard N. Juliani (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xxi plus 398pp. $50.00/cloth $19.95/paperback). In this useful study, Richard...

New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America. By Colin G. Calloway (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxi plus 229pp.). Nearly half a century ago, Bernard De Voto made a passionate plea to change...

The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. By Paul Vanderwood (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xi plus 4O9pp. $65.00/cloth $24.95/paperback). It is always...

Gender and Imperialism.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Gender and Imperialism. Edited by Clare Midgley (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. xii plus 228pp.). Since the 1980s, a number of studies have begun to explore the complex and changing relations between gender and...

Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America. By Pieter Spierenburg (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. vii plus 279pp.). In this useful volume, nine historians bring together the history of gender...

Frauen arbeiten: Weibliche Erwerbstatigkeit in Ost- und Westdeutschland nach 1945.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Frauen arbeiten: Weibliche Erwerbstatigkeit in Ost- und Westdeutschland nach 1945. By Gunilla-Friederike Budde (Hg.) (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997. 301pp.). Frauen arbeiten is a model of comparative history. The editor's...

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. By Susan Mann (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Xii.plus 326pp. $17.95/paperback $49.50/hardcover). With the publication of four major works in English, culminating in...

"Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... "Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America. By Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky (New York: New York University Press, 1998. ix plus 411pp. $60.00/cloth $19.95/paperback). Although Americans glorify the idea of...

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. By Melinda Chateauvert (Urbana and Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1998. xiv plus 267pp. $46.95/cloth $19.95/paperback). Melinda Chateauvert's excellent book on the...

Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. By E. Wayne Carp (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii plus 3O4pp. $27.95). In his 1998 book, Family Matters, Wayne Carp modestly claims he is not writing a...

Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861--1930.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861--1930. By Anthony L. Cardoza (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv plus 248pp. $59.95). Aristocracy sits awkwardly in most accounts of modern Italian history....

The Twighlight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflict, 1560-1800.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Twighlight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflict, 1560-1800. By Gregory Hanlon (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc., 1998. xii plus 37lpp.). On the wall of the garden of the Officers' Club in Verona,...

Symbols, Vol. 3. Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Symbols, Vol. 3. Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past. Edited by Pierre Nora and Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii plus 751pp.). The history of what makes...

Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York. By Maureen E. Montgomery (New York: Routledge, 1998. ix plus 206pp. $18.99/paperback). With the publication of Displaying Women, Maureen E. Montgomery, Professor of...