Journal of Social History articles from December 2001

Journal of Social History archives from December 2001

The Essence of Commodification: Caffeine dependencies in the early modern world.
December 22, 2001... In 1671 Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, a Lyon pharmacist, published a volume entitled De l'usage du cafe, du the, et du chocolate. This book brought together information circulating in Europe on three caffeine drinks that had all achieved...

Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French empires, 1800-1962.
December 22, 2001... A recent intersection of two historiographical strains points to a promising new direction for social and cultural history. Given the pervasive influence of Michel Foucault and Edward Said on much historical research since the 1970s, it is no...

Social Integration in 20th century Europe: Evidences from Hungarian family development.
December 22, 2001... In the historical research of the past few decades, it was the German social historian, Hartmut Kaelble, who stood most profoundly for the view that the societal developments of Western European countries (including Scandinavia and, in several...

"The Cop will get you": The police and discretionary juvenile justice, 1890-1940.
December 22, 2001... Since the latter half of the nineteenth century, the police have been the foremost public authorities who regulate juvenile crime and delinquency. More often than not, police tactics have been portrayed as crudely punitive, rather than...

Friends and foes of Slavery: Foreigners and northerners in the old south.
December 22, 2001... In recent years scholarly scrutiny of the Old South has revealed a society more complex, and in particular, more ethnoculturally diverse, than previous generations of historians of the region had been inclined to believe. Remarkably large...

Both praying and playing: "Muscular Christianity" and the YMCA in north-east county Durham.
December 22, 2001... The concept of "muscular Christianity" has become something of a touchstone for historians of sport in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Its importance within the public school system and its role in the wider dissemination of sports have become...

Battle time: Gender, modernity, and confederate hospitals.
December 22, 2001... While Confederate men took to the battlefields to ensure their independence, southern women challenged societal norms and took to the hospitals to care for the wounded. Archetypal southern womanhood mandated modesty, domesticity, purity,...

Review Essay: The Lure of the sensational murder.
December 22, 2001... The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Patricia Cline Cohen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. vii plus 432 pp. Hardcover--$27.5O, paperbound--$14.00). Murder Most Foul: The Killer...

Dust: A History of the small and the invisible. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible. By Joseph A. Arnato (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xii plus 25opp. $22.50). In this work Joseph A. Amato undertakes the Herculean task of tracing from the Middle Ages to the...

Meetings, Manners and Civilization: The development of modern meeting behaviour. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Meetings, Manners and Civilization: The Development of Modern Meeting Behaviour. By Wilbert Van Vree (London & New York: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd, 1999. xiii plus 370pp.). Awarded with the Norbert Elias Amalfi Prize 2001....

Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century timekeeping in America. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America. By Ian R. Bartky (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi plus 3 l0pp. $45.00). Three themes frame this interesting, slightly uneven book: first, the movement towards...

Irish Pilgrimage: Holy wells and popular Catholic devotion. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. By Michael P. Carroll (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. pp. ix plus 226. $38.00). Since the appearance in 1972 of Emmet Larkin's seminal article "The...

Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish famine migration, 1845-1855. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855. By J. Matthew Gallman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii plus 306pp. $55.00/cloth $19.95/paperback). Cities in the...

Inheriting the Revolution: The first generation of Americans. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. By Joyce Appleby (Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, 2000. viii plus 322 pp.). The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America. By Ann Fabian...

One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian mythology and Chinese realities. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities. By James Z. Lee and Wang Feng (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. xii plus 248 pp.). In One Quarter of Humanity James Lee and Wang Feng present an...

Educating the Faithful: Religion, schooling, and society in nineteenth-century France. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France. By Sarah A. Curtis (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xii plus 255 pp.). In recent decades social historians have enriched the study of...

Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. By Carolyn Dean (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv plus 288 pp.). From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru...

The Enlightenment: A Comparative social history 1721-1794. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History 1721-1794. By Thomas Munck (London: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii plus 249 pp. $65.00/cloth $25.95/paperback). When Roger Chartier provocatively declared that the French revolutionaries...

The Road to Poverty: The Making of wealth and hardship in Appalachia. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. By Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv plus 434pp. $59.95/cloth $24.95/paperback). Road to Poverty is an extremely...

Beyond Carnival: Male homosexuality in twentieth-century Brazil. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. By James N. Green (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii plus 408pp.). James Green's Beyond Carnival explores the creativity and resilience of the gay...

Men like that: A Southern Queer history. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. By John Howard (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 395pp. $18.00/paper $27.50/cloth). In Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, John Howard goes well beyond providing a fascinating case...

Reproducing Gender: Politics, publics and everyday life after socialism. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism. Edited by Susan Gal and Gail Kligman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. x plus 443 pp.). In the decade since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe,...

Not all Wives: Women of colonial Philadelphia. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. By Karin Wuif (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. xvii plus 2l7pp.). Karin Wulf's recent study Not All Wives announces a bold new interest in marital status as a category of...

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. By Virginia Bernhard (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999 xvii plus 3l6pp. $37.50). The first English colonists in the Americas crossed the Atlantic glorying in English...

The Complexion of Race: Categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture. By Roxann Wheeler (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. pp. 371). This work is a sensitive analysis of the development of British...

The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social history of mining in Japan. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining In Japan. By Nimura Kazuo (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1998. xiii plus 275 pp. $17.95/paperback $54.95/cloth). The name Ashio is usually associated with Japan's first...

Popular culture and performance in the Victorian city. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City. By Peter Bailey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x plus 258 pp. $59.95). The publishers offer us nine vintage Bailey essays, all published previously (one in this journal)...

Flat racing and British society 1790-1914: A Social and economic history. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Flat Racing and British Society 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History. By Mike Huggins (London & Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 2000. xv plus 270 pp. $57.50/cloth, $26.50/paperback). In recent years Mike Huggins has become a prolific...

The Hell-Fire Clubs: A history of Anti-Morality. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... The Hell Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. By Geoffrey Ashe (Stroud, Gloucs: Sutton Publishing, 2000). No lengthy review would be appropriate for this book first published over twenty five years ago (under the title Do What you Will:...

Creating the modern man: American magazines and consumer culture 1900-1950. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Creating the Modem Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture 1900-1950. By Tom Pendergast (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2000. x plus 289pp. $34.95). Although men's history has grown over the past 15 years, much of...

Permanent Waves: The making of the American beauty shop. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop. By Julie A. Willett (New York and London: New York University Press, 2000. xii plus 249 pp. $55.00). Both a female institution and a commercial business, the beauty shop in the...

Parents and School: The 150 Year Struggle for Control in American Education. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... One-hundred and thirty years ago, another New Haven educator, on the eve of the passage of Connecticut's compulsory school attendance law, cast the imminent decision to force children into the schools as an unhappy if inescapable paradox: On...

A History of the English Parish: The culture of religion from Saint Augustine to Queen Victoria. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Saint Augustine to Queen Victoria. By Norman J.G. Pounds (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xxvi plus 593pp. $95.00). Although the English parish as a...

The logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850. By Marco H.D. van Leeuwen (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv plus 242pp. $69.95). Webster defines charity as "an act of good will or affection," "kindness or leniency in judging others," or...

Status and respectability in the Cape colony 1750-1870: A Tragedy of manners. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners. By Robert Ross (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxii plus 203pp.). Robert Ross has long offered his readers a reliable blend of eloquence and...

Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and gender order in the long nineteenth century. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Gendered Nations: NationaLisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall (Oxford and New York: Oxford International Publishers Ltd, 2000. xviii plus 347pp. $19.50/paperback...

A Colonial Lexicon of birth ritual, medicalization, and mobility in the Congo. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. By Nancy Rose Hunt (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. xix plus 475pp. $20.95). The social history of Africa, like many other "third world" areas,...

Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884--1920. By Joseph P. Spillane (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x plus 214 pp. $39.95). This book is exactly what the title indicates: a history of...

Brush with Death: A Social history of lead poisoning. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning. By Christian Warren (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv plus 362pp. $45.00). Warren's study of lead poisoning serves as a window through which a major...

Moral Panic: Changing concepts of the child molester in modern America. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America. By Philip Jenkins (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. xii plus 302pp.). Moral Panic examines the shifting political, legal, social scientific, and mass...

Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The problem of law enforcement in northeast England. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in Northeast England. By Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton (London: University College London Press, 1998. xiii plus 287pp. [pounds sterling]55 hb.). The social history of...

Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and immigrant workers in the north American west, 1880-1930. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. By Gunther Peck (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii plus 293 pp. $54.95/cloth. $19.95/paperback). In this rigorous...

Tenant Right and Agrarian Society in Ulster, 1600-1870 (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Tenant Right & Agrarian Society in Ulster, 1600-1870. By Martin W. Dowling (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1999. viii plus 3BSpp. $59.50). Tenant right, or "the Ulster custom," was the nineteenth century practice by which the new tenant of...