Journal of Social History articles from June 1998

Journal of Social History archives from June 1998

Consuming brotherhood: men's culture, style and recreation as consumer culture, 1880-1930.
June 22, 1998... In her exploration of the historical relationship between American men and cosmetics, Kathy Peiss outlines how the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century discourse of heterosexual masculinity denied and covered up men's cosmetics use by...

Dope fiends and degenerates: the gendering of addiction in the early twentieth century.
June 22, 1998... As historian David Courtwright describes in Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America Before 1940, the typical addict of the late nineteenth century was an older middle-class woman who first started taking drugs for medical reasons, while the...

Revolution of the Jewish street: Smolensk, 1917.
June 22, 1998... For Jews in small Russian cities like Smolensk, the Romanov monarchy's collapse opened unprecedented opportunities for social and political organization.(1) Yet we know virtually nothing about Jewish local politics during 1917.(2) Serious...

Staffing newspapers and training journalists in early Soviet Russia.
June 22, 1998... It is generally believed that the Soviet press was an integral part of the Bolshevik Party's propaganda machine and that Soviet journalists were propagandists for the Bolshevik Party/state. This view first arose in the 1930s but was not...

Tenancy as a family strategy in mid-nineteenth century Ontario.
June 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The scholarly discussion of tenancy focuses, for the most part, on issues of tenure systems and their political context, agricultural efficiency, economic development, and class relations. While such issues are of utmost...

Guardianship over women in medieval Flanders: a reappraisal.
June 22, 1998... Recent debates in premodern women's history have focused on women's social and legal position. The greatest contention appears to center on the particular systems or conditions that most consistently determined women's social status and the scope...

Indenture, deportation, survival: recent books on Australian South Sea Islanders.
June 22, 1998... There are possibly up to 15,000 South Sea Islanders in Australia, one-third of whom live in the North Queensland region. They are the descendants of the Pacific Islanders, overwhelmingly from the Melanesian islands to the north and northeast, who...

White Australia Defied: Pacific Islander Settlement in North Queensland.
June 22, 1998... By Patricia Mercer. Studies in North Queensland History No. 21 (Townsville: Department of History and Politics, James Cook University, 1995. xvi plus 371pp. Aust $30). There are possibly up to 15,000 South Sea Islanders in Australia, one-third...

Quite a Colony: South Sea Islanders in Central Queensland, 1867-1993.
June 22, 1998... By Carol Gistitin (Brisbane: AEBIS Publishing, 1995. vii plus 123pp. Aust $15.95). There are possibly up to 15,000 South Sea Islanders in Australia, one-third of whom live in the North Queensland region. They are the descendants of the Pacific...

Fragments of a Lost Heritage.
June 22, 1998... By Noel Fatnowna, edited by Roger M. Keesing (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1989. xiv plus 185pp.). There are possibly up to 15,000 South Sea Islanders in Australia, one-third of whom live in the North Queensland region. They are the...

No Regrets.
June 22, 1998... By Mabel Edmund (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1992. 101pp. Aust $14.95). There are possibly up to 15,000 South Sea Islanders in Australia, one-third of whom live in the North Queensland region. They are the descendants of the...

Hello Johnny! Stories of My Aboriginal and South Sea Islander Family.
June 22, 1998... By Mabel Edmund (Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 1996. 62pp. Aust $14.95). There are possibly up to 15,000 South Sea Islanders in Australia, one-third of whom live in the North Queensland region. They are the descendants of...

Chrysalides: Femmes dans la vie privee (XIX-XX siecles), 2 vols.
June 22, 1998... By Anne-Marie Sohn (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996.1,095pp.). In this published version of her these d'Etat, written under the supervision of Maurice Agulhon, the historian Anne-Marie Sohn undertakes a difficult task. Her subject is...

Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany: 1700-1815.
June 22, 1998... By Isabel V. Hull (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. xiii plus 467pp. $39.95). Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany offers a bold reevaluation of how modern state and society evolved in Germany. For Isabel Hull...

Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London.
June 22, 1998... By Laura Gowing (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 301pp. $62.00). In early modern England, women, not men, represented danger to marriage, domestic tranquility and the ideal household. Since a woman's honor and reputation were tied to...

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health.
June 22, 1998... By Judith Walzer Leavitt (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. xviii plus 331pp. $25.00). In Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health, a very readable, informative and well-written monograph, Judith Leavitt analyzes the meanings of Mary Mallon's...

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle.
June 22, 1998... By Janet Golden (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii plus 215pp. $54.95). This fascinating and well-researched book traces the history of wet nursing in America from the colonial era to the twentieth century. Although wet nursing...

Facing Death: Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet.
June 22, 1998... By Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, Lee Palmer Wandel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xxii plus 212pp. $27.50). The strength of any collection of papers tends also to be its weakness: the amount of territory it covers. The...

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts (New York: New York University Press, 1997. xv plus 273pp. $35.00). "De gustibus, non disputandum," and pleasure seems as fickle and individualized as taste. Certainly pleasure has no simple...

Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson (New York: New York University Press, 1996. xviii plus 400pp. $65.00/cloth $24.95/paperback). Rosemarie Garland Thomson's Freakery offers a varied and sophisticated collection of articles on a subject that...

Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario.
June 22, 1998... By Lynne Marks (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xi plus 330pp. $55.00/cloth $19.95/paperback). Texas and Ontario are worlds apart, even leaving aside the century of difference in the topics of these two books. If this weren't apples...

No Dancin' in Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change.
June 22, 1998... By Ricardo C. Ainslie (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1996. xxiv plus 342pp.). Texas and Ontario are worlds apart, even leaving aside the century of difference in the topics of these two books. If this weren't apples and oranges enough, Lynne...

From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870.
June 22, 1998... By David R. Green (Hants, England: Scolar Press, 1995. vxii plus 298pp.). The social effects of early industrialization have been one of the great issues that divided contemporaries as well as modern scholars. However sound the evidence of...

The Factory Question and Industrial England: 1830-1860.
June 22, 1998... By Robert Gray (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv plus 253pp. $59.95). Robert Gray's The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860 provides a much needed examination of the debates surrounding factory legislation in...

Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain.
June 22, 1998... By Catherine McNicol Stock (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. xi plus 219pp.). Incongruous elements of what is known of the story of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and a desire to...

"What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920.
June 22, 1998... By Mart A. Stewart (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix plus 370pp.). In a welcome addition to the growing field of environmental history, Mart A. Stewart examines the interaction between people and their environment along...

Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.
June 22, 1998... By Ronald H. Bayor (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi plus 334pp. $29.95). Ronald H. Bayor's Race & the Shaping of Twentieth Century Atlanta is a marvelous study of the role of race in the development of...

Schooling in the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920.
June 22, 1998... By James L. Leloudis (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvii plus 338pp. $39.95). In this important new study, James L. Leloudis sets the oft-studied subject of New South education reform within the context...

Modern Japan: A Social History since 1868.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1998... By J. E. Thomas (London and New York: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 1996. xii plus 340pp.). In his introduction, Professor Thomas informs us that "this is a book for people who know little or nothing about the history of Japan." (p. xi) I am...

"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime.
June 22, 1998... By Sue Peabody (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x plus 210pp.). Using a core of archival documents, judicial records and printed sources, "There Are No Slaves" delineates the struggle over the legal and cultural status of slavery and...

God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica.
June 22, 1998... By Shirley C. Gordon (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xiii plus 159pp. $39.95). Shirley C. Gordon is the co-author of a widely used text, The Making of the West Indies (1960), and co-editor of a compilation of...

Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930.
June 22, 1998... By Irma Watkins-Owens (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. x plus 238pp. $39.95/cloth $17.50/paperback). "I know that you are far from home," J. F. Dowridge of St. Michael's Parish, Barbados wrote to his daughter...

Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria: 1848-1918.
June 22, 1998... By Gary B. Cohen (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1996. xxi plus 386pp. $36.95/cloth). This book will serve as an important effort to correct the image of almost total failure that has applied to the Austrian half of the Dual...

The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile: Mobility and Migration in Everyday Rural Life.
June 22, 1998... By David E. Vassberg (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii plus 253pp. $59.95). In this often impressive work, Professor Vassberg aims to disprove a "tenacious myth of the modern world" - namely, the myth that "pre-industrial...

Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930.
June 22, 1998... By Barry Reay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxv plus 288pp.). Dawes spent more on his motor car in 1908 (a Siddeley) than any one of them [the local labourers] was likely to earn in twenty or twenty-five years . . . his...

Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1998... By Erik Olin Wright (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxxv plus 576pp. $64.95/hardcover $27.95/paperback). Erik Olin Wright's Class Counts is a superb, useful, searching book. Most readers of this Journal, I believe, would do well to...

Republic of the Dispossessed: The Exceptional Old-European Consensus in America.
June 22, 1998... By Rowland Berthoff (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1997. ix plus 249pp. $39.95). How do you summarize forty years of wide-ranging scholarship in two pithy phrases of title and subtitle? You don't. This book consists of...

Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Sciences and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Maurine W. Greenwald and Margo Anderson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. xi plus 292pp.). In 1907 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together seventy social reformers and researchers alarmed by the societal effects of...

Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure.
June 22, 1998... By Sherman Dorn (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. x plus 167pp.). Sherman Dorn's Creating the Dropout successfully undermines a number of myths about the "dropout problem" in America. He begins with a demographic analysis of...

Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question.
June 22, 1998... By Elna C. Green (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xx plus 287pp. $45.00/cloth $16.95/paperback). If you have ever wondered about the origins of the Phyllis Schafleys of the world, women who have made a mark in public life...

Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man.
June 22, 1998... By Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxiv plus 393pp. $50.00/cloth $14.95/paperback). Strictly speaking, Unheroic Conduct is less a book than a series of provocative essays taking off from a broad...

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe.
June 22, 1998... By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xv plus 352pp.). During the 1490's, northern Italy was struck with a series of terrifying events which the Florentine historian...