Journal of Social History articles from June 1997

Journal of Social History archives from June 1997

Latest news from the ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre (QUALIDATA). (European Science Research Council)
June 22, 1997... The QUALIDATA Resource Centre at Essex has now been in existence for two and a half years. Its aims are: locating, assessing and documenting qualitative data and arranging for their deposit in suitable public archive repositories; disseminating...

Time: Histories and Ethnologies.
June 22, 1997... For years, social historians have been advising their colleagues to learn from ethnologists, to abandon a naive chronologicism and materialism and to embrace the social constructions of rituals and language. Some anthropologists have equally been...

Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World: 1492-1640.
June 22, 1997... Europeans took possession of new lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through variegated rites. The English acquired possession to the New World by physical objects, that is, by building houses and fences. The theatrical French,...

Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building. An Anthropological History.
June 22, 1997... It was during the last decade of the nineteenth century - just as historian Frederick Jackson Turner was declaring the close of the frontier - that agricultural pioneers first broke the tough prairie sod of the Canadian-American border region of...

Dramatic Representations of British Soldiers and Sailors on the London Stage: 1660-1800.
June 22, 1997... Recently, Linda Colley, Charles Tilly, Marc Baer and others have discussed links between conflict, display and British identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but none has studied the connection between theater and the...

The Theaters of War: Performance, Politics, and Society, 1793-1815.
June 22, 1997... Recently, Linda Colley, Charles Tilly, Marc Baer and others have discussed links between conflict, display and British identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but none has studied the connection between theater and the...

America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army.
June 22, 1997... Perhaps no episode in American history has been subjected to myth and iconography as often as the American revolution. In America Goes to War Charles Neimeyer succeeds in "deconstruct[ing] the myths of Lexington and Concord." These myths long...

The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux.
June 22, 1997... Most previous historical comparisons of the United States and South Africa have focused on policies directed at conquered Africans and ex-slaves of African descent, especially legally-enforced racial segregation. A major exception is the...

The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America.
June 22, 1997... This collection of essays, which originated as papers at a symposium of the American Anthropological Association, is the fourth volume in the University of Michigan Press Linking Levels of Analysis series. The series is based on the premise that...

Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920.
June 22, 1997... In Delinquent Daughters, Mary Odem analyzes the campaigns to raise the age-of-consent and to create maternalist institutions for delinquent girls. Her evidence for the impact of these reforms comes from two samples of California court records:...

Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country.
June 22, 1997... In this ambitious study of the political culture of the antebellum South Carolina Low Country, Stephanie McCurry argues that yeoman farmers found common cause with their planter neighbors in the shared experience of mastery. If wealthy planter...

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context.
June 22, 1997... The major theme of this absorbing book is concerned with the intersections of the categories of "race," social class, gender and sexuality within the imperial relation. But it has important points to make about much else as well, moving from...

The New Role of Women: Family Formation in Modern Societies.
June 22, 1997... Social historians will generally find this contribution to comparative sociology and demography too demanding of quantitative acumen and too limited in analytic scope. Those who dare it and persist, however, will find in it both ideas and...

Malevolent Nature: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England.
June 22, 1997... Deborah Willis' Malevolent Nurture presents a broadly informed analysis of the Early Modern witch hunts in England that centers on an application of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's theories about pre-Oedipal conflicts between mothers and children....

Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America.
June 22, 1997... Colleen McDannell, author of the widely praised The Christian Home in Victorian America and co-author of the very popular Heaven: A History, has produced a largely successful introduction to American Christian material culture. In her exciting...

Manhood in America: A Cultural History.
June 22, 1997... Rightfully contending that we have thousands of books about men in history but very few about men as men, Michael Kimmel draws on a host of secondary and primary sources to offer a thoughtful, provocative, interpretive history of American manhood...

Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization.
June 22, 1997... From a field of approximately four-hundred autobiographies of lower-class authors, whose publication spanned from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Mary Jo Maynes chose ninety to analyze with the broad aim of rescuing workers'...

The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class.
June 22, 1997... In Anna Clark's hands E. P. Thompson's romantic and triumphalist story of the making of the English working class becomes a tragic tale of a plebeian culture riven with sexual crisis in which "misogyny and patriarchy ultimately muted the...

Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany.
June 22, 1997... The essays in this work differ in their scope and the extent to which they accept or reject the generational theme but both "generations" and "youth" supply a thematic unity that is often missing in such collections. Roseman's lengthy, useful...

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.
June 22, 1997... In 1837 Hong Xiuquan, unsuccessful aspirant to the lowest examination rank and from a Hakka ethnic background, had a vision that lasted several days and nights. In it he obtained a mission from God to destroy all demons from the surface of the...

Meletij Smotryc'kyj.
June 22, 1997... In 1627 Meletij Smotryc'kyj wrote a letter from Ukraine, in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, addressed to Pope Urban VIII in Rome in the flattering language of an accomplished ecclesiastical courtier. "That light of the sun, which...

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City.
June 22, 1997... David Courtwright defines the relationship between physical aggression and single manhood with what he calls a "statistical syllogism": "Young men are prone to violence and disorder; America attracted unusually large numbers of young men;...

The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural and Conflict in Sixteent-Century Peru.
June 22, 1997... This book is an important contribution to the growing ethnohistorical literature on the Andes in the early colonial period. The author analyzes in a sophisticated manner Spanish colonial documents to understand the motivations and behavior of the...