Journal of Social History articles from December 2000

Journal of Social History archives from December 2000

THE NEW POOR LAW AND THE BREADWINNER WAGE: CONTRASTING ASSUMPTIONS.
December 22, 2000... Feminist historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century poor law enshrined the breadwinner wage and female dependency. The notion originated in Sidney and Beatrice Webbs' 1910 history of the poor law. [1] Building on their work in her...

RISKY BUSINESS: THE UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES OF MANHOOD IN THE MIDWESTERN SALOON.
December 22, 2000... Two images of nineteenth-century saloongoers coexist uneasily within our historical imaginations. One is of a strong, swaggering, whiskey-tossing gunslinger; the other, of a red-nosed, unshaven, flabby fellow in a misshapen hat slumped against...

VIOLENCE, GENDER, AND INTEMPERANCE IN EARLY NATIONAL CONNECTICUT.
December 22, 2000... On June 20, 1816, Peter Lung began the journey from his Middletown, Connecticut, jail cell to the gallows that had been erected for his execution. A "multitude, amounting as was supposed to eleven or twelve thousand" turned out to witness Lung...

LOCAL JUSTICE AND RURAL SOCIETY IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
December 22, 2000... I. Introduction When Boucher d'Argis wrote of "these vampires who suck in the last drop of blood of the cadavers to which they attach themselves," [1] he was not addressing the readers of a gothic thriller. Rather, his audience was the...

REPUBLICANISM, SOCIALISM, AND DEMOCRACY IN BRITAIN: THE ORIGINS OF THE RADICAL LEFT.
December 22, 2000... The more powerful the state, and thus the more political a country is, the less it is inclined to look in the state itself, that is in the present organisation of society whose active, self-conscious, and official expression is the state, for...

THE MEANING OF FEAR. EMOTIONAL STANDARDS FOR CHILDREN IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1850-1950: WAS THERE A WESTERN TRANSFORMATION?
December 22, 2000... Introduction In 1991, the leading historian of emotions, Peter N. Stearns, published an essay together with Timothy Haggerty in the American Historical Review, entitled "The Role of Fear: Transitions in American Emotional Standards for...

TRANSCENDING REVOLUTIONS: THE TSARS, THE SOVIETS AND DEAF CULTURE.
December 22, 2000... Revisionist scholarship has redirected our interpretations of race, class, and gender but has yet to fully address a fundamental component in our historical identity: physical ability and its underlying concept of normality. Scholars in Deaf...

THE RISE AND DECLINE OF A REVOLUTIONARY SPACE: PARIS' PLACE DE GREVE AND THE STONEMASONS OF CREUSE, 1750-1900.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... Physical spaces and social groups can have intertwined and sometimes meaningful histories. One thinks, for instance, of the relationship of Stonehenge and the Druids or the Mur des Federees and the Communards of 1871. [1] Though less well...

London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History.(Review)
December 22, 2000... London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History, 1775-1825. By David Barnett (London & New York, 1998. xi plus 276 pp. $59.50). A History of London. By Stephen Inwood (New York, 1998, xxii plus 1111 pp. $38.00). ...

Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doleances of 1789.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doleances of 1789. By Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xxxi plus 684pp. $75.00). Historians have long consulted the cahiers de doleances...

Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines. By Timothy Lenoir (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. ix plus 353 pp. $55.00). With some notable exceptions, such as the work of Robert K. Merton...

How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians. By Rudolph M. Bell (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii plus 375pp. $25.00).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Imagine a book where the author summarizes with long paraphrases and chatty informality the way renaissance men and women read "advice manuals." Imagine that he discovers that the renaissance was really a much nicer time than polemical...

True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930.(Review)
December 22, 2000... True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. By Ian Tyrrell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi plus 3l3pp.). Ian Tyrrell's, True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian...

Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground. Edited by Grey Gundaker and Tynes Cowan (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998. viii plus 344pp.). Grey Gundaker, an anthropologist at the...

The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The World of Tupac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru. By Ward Stavig (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xxxiv plus 348pp. $60.00/cloth $25.00/paperback). In recent years studies of Andean rural...

Images of the Medieval Peasant.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Images of the Medieval Peasant. By Paul Freedman (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. p. xvi plus 459 pp. $65.00/cloth $22.95/paperback). Paul Freedman's Images of the Medieval Peasant is an intellectual history of...

Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914. By Alan R.H. Baker (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii plus 373 pp. $74.95). When Emile Zola visited the village of...

Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. By Sonya Michel (New Haven: Connecticut, 1999. xii plus 4l0pp. $35.00). With the Department of Labor reporting that as of 1997-98 61.4 percent of families...

A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care 1890-1960.(Review)
December 22, 2000... A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care 1890-1960. By Elizabeth Rose (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi plus 275pp.). Americans' ambivalence toward day care forms the starting point of this important study. Tracing the history of...

What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review)
December 22, 2000... What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany. By Elizabeth D. Heineman (Berkekey: University of California Press, 1999. xviii plus 374pp. $45.00). What Difference Does a Husband Make? rivets the...

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls. By Karen Dubinsky (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xiii plus 290 pp.). The Second Greatest Disappointment examines the evolution of...

What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present.(Review)
December 22, 2000... What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present. By Donald Caton, M.D. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xvi plus 288 pp. $30). In recent years, social historians...

Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England. By Tim Stretton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv plus 271pp. $59.95). That women have often been victimized by the law, particularly with respect to property rights, has been a...

Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work. By Karen W. Tice (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. x plus 260 pp. $49.95/cloth $26.95 paperback). Karen W. Tice...

Girls in Trouble: Sexuality and Social Control in Rural Scotland, 1660-1780.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Girls in Trouble: Sexuality and Social Control in Rural Scotland, 1660-1780. By Leah Leneman & Rosalind Mitchison (Edinburgh: Scottish Press, 1998. viii plus l33pp.). Fortunately for historians, if not for the Scots themselves, the Church...

Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modem Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modem Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849. By Ann Goldberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x plus 236pp. $35.00). In the rapidly growing field of psychiatric history, the...

Montpellier Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom 1739-1912.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Montpellier Jamaica. A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom 1739-1912. By B. W. Higman (Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago: The University Press of the West Indies, 1998. xv plus 384pp. $35.00). When we open any book published by...

Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840. By Charles F. Walker (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiii plus 352 pp. $49.95/cloth 17.95/paperback). In recent years Duke University Press has...

L'identite politique de Lyon: entre violences collectives et memoire des elites 1786-1905.(Review)
December 22, 2000... L'identite politique de Lyon: entre violences collectives et memoire des elites 1786-1905. By Bruno Benoit (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. 239 pp.). The subject of historical memory in France has been so extensively treated in Pierre Nora's...

Urbane and Rustic England: Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces 1660-1780.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Urbane and Rustic England. Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces 1660-1780. By Cart B. Estabrook (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv 317pp.). Bristol was a key nexus in the expansion of English hegemony which turned...

Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. By Evelynn Maxine Hammonds (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ix plus 299 PP. $39.95). After some forty years of...

An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and Homosexuality in Modern Society.(Review)
December 22, 2000... An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and Homosexuality in Modern Society. By Jennifer Terry (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv plus 537pp.). Jennifer Terry's 'An American Obsession is a work of breathtaking...

Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory 1850-1950.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory 1850-1950. By Robert M. Buchanan (Washington, DC: Gallaudet University, 1999. xvii plus 214 pp. $39.95). Illusions of Equality belongs to a growing body of literature that...

Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. By Ann Taves (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. xii plus 449 pp. $65.00/cloth $22.95/paperback). H. L. Mencken, in his...

Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Sex and the Gender Revolution. Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London. By Randolph Trumbach (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv plus 509pp.). Randolph Trumbach's study of an...

Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture. By Eric Zolov (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1999. xiii plus 349pp. $45.00/cloth, $18.95/paperback). Eric Zolov's path-breaking book on rock music, its audiences,...

Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History. By Angus McLaren (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1999. viii plus 296pp. $59.95). In Twentieth Century Sexuality: A History, Angus McLaren succeeds in accomplishing in a little over two hundred...

Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital 1880-1920.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital 1880-1920. By Jacqueline M. Moore (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. viii plus 257pp. $37.50). From shortly after the Civil War...