Journal of Social History articles from December 2004

Journal of Social History archives from December 2004

Cooperative motherhood and democratic civic culture in postwar suburbia, 1940-1965.
December 22, 2004... On the evening of November 20, 1939, 18 mothers convened in Kensington, Maryland to finalize plans for a play group designed to enrich the lives of their preschoolers. The mothers had hired a teacher, rented a space, and agreed to study...

The Casa de Huerfanos and child circulation in late-nineteenth-century Chile.
December 22, 2004... Introduction In the past two decades, a number of outstanding monographs have explored the phenomenon of child abandonment and the significance of foundling homes in the European past. (1) More recently, historians of Latin America have...

Addressing la ville des dieux: entry ceremonies and urban audiences in seventeenth-century Dijon.
December 22, 2004... On 31 January 1629, Louis XIII made his royal entry into Dijon, the capital of Burgundy, a highly-sensitive province on France's eastern frontier. Although the city had only been given three weeks, rather than the months that were usually...

Planned serendipity: American travelers and the transatlantic voyage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
December 22, 2004... In a 1903 biography of William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), an expatriate sculptor from Boston who lived most of his life in Italy, the author Henry James (1843-1916) commented on what he believed nineteenth-century American travelers abroad had...

Legislating women's sexuality: Cherokee marriage laws in the nineteenth century.
December 22, 2004... Introduction The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous social and political upheaval in the Cherokee Nation. Most readers are likely to be familiar with the tragedy of the "Trail of Tears" when federal troops forced the Cherokee...

"Moving on," men and the changing character of interwar working-class neighborhoods: from the files of the Manchester and Liverpool City Police.
December 22, 2004... The history of English working-class culture has relied on oral interviews, court records, newspapers and middle-class charity records since ordinary working-class people rarely left behind written accounts of their lives. Elizabeth Roberts,...

"Where everyone goes to meet everyone else": the translocal creation of a Slovak immigrant community.
December 22, 2004... The whole area east of the Bowery and south of Houston Street is their particular province. They have started colonies all up the East Side from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem.... The New Yorker constantly rubs elbows with Israel....

"Let us live for those who love us": faith, family, and the contours of manhood among the knights of Columbus in late nineteenth-century Connecticut.
December 22, 2004... Like many men of the late nineteenth century, James T. Mullen was a veteran of fraternity. In the Civil War, he fought alongside his Connecticut brethren in the 9th Connecticut Volunteer Regiment. After the war, Mullen joined other Catholic...

Paradise lost nor regained: social composition of theatre audiences in the long nineteenth century.
December 22, 2004... This essay criticises on empirical grounds the assumptions about the social composition of theatre audiences from the late eighteenth century to the Great War as they were made in theatre historiography from the late nineteenth century till...

Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800. By Woodruff Smith (New York; London: Routledge, 2002. x plus 339 pp. $85 cloth, $24.95 paper). In the twenty-five years since consumption emerged as a salient topic for historians,...

Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America. Jessamyn Neuhaus (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 336pp. $42.95/cloth). Jssamyn Neuhaus's Manly Men and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and...

Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia. By Joy Damousi (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. vii plus 240 pp.). What if we could use numbers to measure emotional devastation the same way we use...

The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War Soldiers.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt Among British and American Great War Soldiers. By Richard Schweitzer (Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 2003. xxxiii plus 311 pp.). This book places the role of religion within the dichotomy in...

The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium. By Kathryn M. Ringrose (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv plus 295 pp. $40.00). In recent years there has been a notable increase...

The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. By Stephen Mosley (Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2001. x plus 271 pp.). The Chimney of the World is Stephen Mosley's innovative contribution...

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000. By Stephen Lovell (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xv plus 260 pp. Maps. Illustrations $29.95). In the late summer of 1989, I was invited for the weekend to a friend's family's dacha...

Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War. By Michael Seidman (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xi plus 304 pp.). In Republic of Egos, Michael Seidman offers a new take on the Spanish Civil War. Seidman...

Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London. By Sean Shesgreen (Manchester University Press, 2002. 228pp., 157 b & w illus. 10 colour illus. $30.00). Pictures of street sellers, with their shouts or trade recorded in...

Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa and the African Diaspora.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa and the African Diaspora. Edited by Verene A. Shepherd (New York: Palgrave, 2001. viii plus 538 pp. $24.95). Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom is both a professional...

American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 282 pp. $39.95). After investigating the massacre of hundreds of African Americans in Elaine,...

Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888. By Mieko Nishida (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003, xiii plus 255 pp.). The back cover of Professor Nishida's monograph describes...

The Guarani under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Guarani under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata. By Barbara Ganson (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii plus 290 pp. $65.00). Inspired by Counter Reformation zeal, the establishment of the Guarani Missions in the early...

Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled. By Jan Branson and Don Miller (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2002. ix plus 300pp.). In Damned for Their Difference, Jan Branson and Don...

Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America. By Gary Laderman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xlii plus 245pp. $35.00). In 1996, Gary Laderman published The Sacred Remains: American...

The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. By Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (London: Arnold Publishers, 2002. xii plus 318 pp.). The Black Death of 1347-52 has long been recognized as one of the watersheds in...

The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. By Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown (Cambridge: Belknap, 2003. 388 pp., index, 16 pictures). The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler provides a vibrant...

The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians. By F. David Roberts (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2002. xii plus 569 pp. $65.00). Although early Victorian Britain is usually regarded as the heyday of laissez-faire economics, it was...

The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan. By Barbara Sato (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xiv plus 241 pp.). This carefully researched monograph should become a heavily marked volume in the...

Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America. By Martha Saxton (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. x plus 375 pp. $30.00). In this ambitious study, Martha Saxton investigates the nature of the moral values that were culturally prescribed...

A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861. By Michelle Lamarche Marrese (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv plus 276 pp. $42.50). Michelle Marrese has written the definitive study of...

National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956. By David Brandenberger (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. xv plus 378 pp.). At a reception for Red Army commanders...

Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. By Blair A. Ruble (Cambridge and New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii plus 464 pp.). A specialist...

Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City. By Patience A. Schell (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. 290 pp. cloth $50.00). Between 1926 and 1929, civil war raged in a large part of western Mexico. The Cristiada or...

Cooperative Motherhood and Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Robyn Muncy, "Cooperative Motherhood and Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965" This essay explores the meaning of local associations in America's postwar suburbs. It asks especially whether local associations...

The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Nara Milanich, "The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile" This essay examines the Casa de Huerfanos, the largest and most important orphanage in Santiago, Chile in the late nineteenth century,...

Addressing La Ville des Dieux: Entry Ceremonies and Urban Audiences in Seventeenth-Century Dijon.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Michael P. Breen, "Addressing La Ville des Dieux: Entry Ceremonies and Urban Audiences in Seventeenth-Century Dijon" This article re-examines the early modern entree, a ceremony staged by towns to welcome monarchs and princes. In...

Planned Serendipity: American Travelers and the Transatlantic Voyage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Mark Rennella, Whitney Walton, "Planned Serendipity: American Travelers and the Transatlantic Voyage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" From 1870 through 1940 numbers of American travelers to Europe increased as the...

Legislating Women's Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Fay Yarbrough, "Legislating Women's Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century". During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and sex. This essay first...

'Moving On' Men and the Changing Character of Interwar Working-Class Neighborhoods: From the Files of the Manchester and Liverpool City Police.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Joanne Klein, "'Moving On' Men and the Changing Character of Interwar Working-Class Neighborhoods: From the Files of the Manchester and Liverpool City Police". Investigations of complaints regarding police families made to the...

'Where Everyone Goes to Meet Everyone Else': The Translocal Creation of a Slovak Immigrant Community.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Robert Zecker, "'Where Everyone Goes to Meet Everyone Else': The Translocal Creation of a Slovak Immigrant Community" Around 1910, immigrants were often characterized as living in homogeneous ghettoes. For Slovaks in Philadelphia...

'Let Us Live for Those Who Love Us': Faith, Family, and the Contours of Manhood Among the Knights of Columbus in Late Nineteenth-Century Connecticut.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Amy Koehlinger, "'Let Us Live for Those Who Love Us': Faith, Family, and the Contours of Manhood Among the Knights of Columbus in Late Nineteenth-Century Connecticut". In Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America, Mark Carnes...

Paradise Lost nor Regained: Social Composition of Theatre Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2004... Abstract: Henk Gras, Harry Van Vliet, "Paradise Lost nor Regained: Social Composition of Theatre Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century" The received knowledge about theatre audiences from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth...