Journal of Social History articles from December 2002

Journal of Social History archives from December 2002

Errata.(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2002... Ineke Maas should have been listed in the Table of Contents as co-author of "Partner Choice and Homogamy in the Ninteenth Century: Was There a Sexual Revolution in Europe?" on p. 101 of the Fall 2002 issue. W. Andrew Achenbaum should have been...

The whipping of Richard Moore: reading emotion in reconstruction America.
December 22, 2002... On 18 August 1868 Richard Moore, a former slave and Union veteran, journeyed from rural Lincoln County in Middle Tennessee to testify in Nashville before a Republican-controlled committee of the Tennessee State Assembly investigating incidents...

Children's envy and the emergence of the modern consumer ethic, 1890-1930.
December 22, 2002... In his 1892 book, The Moral Instruction of Childhood, educator and ethicist Felix Adler recounted a familiar story. "Abel... led... the most delightfully easy life.... He was a little selfish too.... [I]n a perfectly innocent way, which yet...

Shaping peasant political discourse during the new economic policy: the newspaper krest'ianskaia gazeta and the case of "vladimir ia".
December 22, 2002... "V nachale bylo Slovo" (In the beginning was the word)--few religious expressions would have such an impact on revolutionary movements as this. Russian political culture was wrapped around the ideas of orthodoxy, and central to this was extreme...

"What we want is good, sober men:" masculinity, respectability, and temperance in the railroad brotherhoods, C. 1870-1910.
December 22, 2002... On the morning of 13 December 1907, locomotive engineer J. A. Yarbrough reported for duty switching freight cars in the Atlanta yards of the Central of Georgia Railroad. However, the yardmaster discovered that Yarbrough had spent some time in a...

The paradoxical rationalization of modern adoption.(social and economic aspects of adoption)
December 22, 2002... "It's cheaper and easier to buy a baby for $100.00 than to have one of your own." (1) This was the brash slogan of one Chicago baby broker, whose adoption business was revealed during a 1917 investigation of commercial child-caring arrangements...

Foreign adoptions and the evolution of Irish adoption policy, 1945-52.
December 22, 2002... Introduction In recent years it has become increasingly common for childless couples from the U.S. and Western Europe to look overseas--to Eastern Europe and Asia--to adopt the "unwanted" children that are no longer so readily available...

"No Irish need apply": a myth of victimization.
December 22, 2002... Introduction The Irish American community harbors a deeply held belief that it was the victim of systematic job discrimination in America, and that the discrimination was done publicly in highly humiliating fashion through signs that...

To tara via holyhead: the emergence of Irish catholic ethinicity in nineteenth-century Christchurch, New Zealand.
December 22, 2002... I On a spring day in September, 1886, Patrick Henley, president of the New Headford branch of the Australasian Hibernian Society, offered a purse of sovereigns to a man of 'sterling and undying' patriotism whom he described as 'our dear...

Watching the detectives: reading dime novels and hard-boiled detective stories in context. (Review Essay).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction. Edited by Maxim Jakubowski (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, Inc., 1996. 586 pages. $9.95/paperback). Hard-boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. By Erin A. Smith (Philadelphia: Temple...

Empire of Ecstasy. Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. (Reviews).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Empire of Ecstasy. Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. By Karl Toepfer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvii plus 422pp. $50.00). The decades from 1890 to the 1930s were the period of "high modernity,"...

Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai. A Social History, 1849-1949. (Reviews).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai. A Social History, 1849-1949. By Christian Henriot, translated from French by Noel Castelino (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii plus 467 pp. $85.00/cloth). As far as subject matter...

All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry. (Reviews).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry. By Lorri Clover (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. vi plus 206pp.). Lorri Clover looks at kinship ties and sibling...

Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government. (Reviews).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government. By Catherine Allgor (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000. 299 pp.). Catherine Allgor has written a book about the "ladies" (and one...

Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914. (Reviews).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914. By Madeleine Hurd (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000. viii plus 316pp. $54.50). In 1967, when the first issue of the Journal of Social History...

Europe in 1848, Revolution and Reform.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Europe in 1848, Revolution and Reform. Edited by Dieter Dowe, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Dieter Langewiesche, and Jonathan Sperber (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001. xi+937pp. $79.95/cloth). Scholars and students alike will be grateful...

Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. By Julius R. Ruff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 269 pp.). The appearance of a general textbook on the history of European violence is, in itself, a significant event. Historical...

Les therapeutiques: savoirs et usages. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Les therapeutiques: savoirs et usages. Sous la direction d'Olivier Faure (Lyon: Fondation Marcel Merieux, 1999. 486 pp.). This book publishes the twenty-eight papers given at a scientific meeting held in Lyons, in 1997 at the Marcel Merieux...

Medicine That Walks: Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Medicine That Walks: Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940. By Maureen K. Lux (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii plus 300 pp. $50.00/cloth $22.95/paper). Medicine That Walks gives an in-depth look at...

The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. By Michael B. Katz (New York: Metropolitan Press, 2001. x plus 452 pp. $35). In 1996, President Clinton made good on his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it,"...

Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey. By John Walton (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xix plus 342pp. $40.00). Until recently, few historians paid much attention to their histories as stories. This oversight has...

Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821. By Jeremy Baskes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 306pp.). Although many scholars of...

Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. By Peter C. Baldwin (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x plus 360pp.). Students of the urban past have increasingly focused on the uses of urban public...

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. By Luise White (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. xvi plus 352pp.). How do we write a cultural and social history of the imagination of those who...

Die demographische Zeirenwende: Der Bevolkerungsruckgang in Deutschland und Europa. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Die demographische Zeirenwende: Der Bevolkerungsruckgang in Deutschland und Europa. By Herwig Birg (Munich: Beck, 2001. 226 pages. DM 24.90/paper). As a contribution to public policy, this work will interest historians less for its...

Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. By Pat Thane (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi plus 536pp. $42.00). Pat Thane is not the first historian to challenge the narrative of decline in the history of old...

Fugitive Days; A Memoir. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Fugitive Days; A Memoir. By Bill Ayers (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. 304pp.). At its last national convention in June 1969, the largest white radical student organization in US history, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), elected Bill...

Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia. By Jane Dailey (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 278pp. $39.95/cloth $17.95/paper). Since the publication of C. Vann Woodward's powerful work...

The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. By Maria Elena Diaz (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii + 440 pp.). El Cobre, in Eastern Cuba, is now known primarily as...

War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. By Joshua S. Goldstein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Xii plus 480pp. $39.95). Professor Goldstein has written an impressive and ambitious book, complete with...

Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the Twentieth Century. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the Twentieth Century. By Christine E. Bose (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. xi plus 257pp. $69.50/cloth $22.95/paper). In 1900 American women could not vote, serve on juries,...

Gendered Compromises: Political Culture and the State in Chile, 1920-1950.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Gendered Compromises: Political Culture and the State in Chile, 1920-1950. By Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 346 pp. $59.95/cloth $19.95/paper). Gendered Compromises is a brilliant...

Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. By Martyn Lyons (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001. xi plus 208pp.). Three paradoxes run through the historiography on reading. Whereas historians...

Classroom and Empire: The Politics of Schooling Russia's Eastern Nationalities, 1860-1917.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Classroom and Empire: The Politics of Schooling Russia's Eastern Nationalities, 1860-1917. By Wayne Dowler (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xiv, 296pp. $65.00). Russia's rulers and educated public in the late 19th century...

Dona Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Dona Maria's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity. By Daniel James (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xv plus 317 pp. $54.95/cloth $18.95/paper). The dona in the title is Maria Roldan, a labor and Peronist party activist...

Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete. By Sara Tilghman Nalle (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. x plus 228pp.). Sara Nalle's most recent work, entitled Mad for God: Bartolome...

Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy. By Desmond King (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 400pp.). Over a decade ago, a talented group of historians began looking intently at the...

Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900- 1929.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900- 1929. By Laura L. Phillips (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. viii plus 212 pp.). Laura Phillips identifies her major themes and conclusions...

Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades. Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades. Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. By Karen Petrone (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. x plus 266 Pp. $39.95). Karen's Petrone's book is a fine addition to the growing number of volumes on...

Medicine and the German Jews: A History. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Medicine and the German Jews: A History. By John M. Efron (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii plus 343 pp.). Medicine and the German Jews is a work on two levels. On the whole, the book is not for the expert in Jewish...

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. By Darrin M. McMahon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii plus 262 pp.). Although the Marxist and revisionist historians have agreed on...