Journal of Social History articles from June 2000

Journal of Social History archives from June 2000

CONVERGENCE BY CONVICTION: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN THE EMERGENCE OF THE 'ANGLO-AMERICAN MODEL'.
June 22, 2000... The end of the Cold War marked the closure of a distinct era in geopolitics and international relations. It changed not only the relations between states and rival blocs of states, but the very boundaries and definitions of states and thus the...

RIGHTS OF MEN, RITES OF PASSAGE: HUNTING AND MASCULINITY AT REO MOTORS OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, 1945-1975 [1].
June 22, 2000... Towards the end of Ben Hamper's Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line, there is an important episode which provides a clue into the sources of gender identity among male autoworkers. Hamper had started to receive attention for his columns in...

PORTIA ANTE PORTAS: WOMEN AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN EUROPE, ca. 1870-1925.
June 22, 2000... In 1895, at a time when agitation for opening the Austrian medical profession to women had reached an unprecedented level, a physician named Wilhelm Svetlin responded to the rising demands with what bordered on disbelief. "The most remarkable...

FILTH IN THE WRONG PEOPLE'S HANDS: POSTCARDS AND THE EXPANSION OF PORNOGRAPHY IN BRITAIN AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1880-1914.
June 22, 2000... Official Warning The Postmaster-general finds that during the past year there has been a large increase in the number of post-cards, principally of foreign manufacture, sent by the post bearing pictorial designs of an objectionable and in...

GOSSIP, SCANDAL AND POPULAR CULTURE IN GOLDEN AGE BRAZIL.
June 22, 2000... I. Introduction God forgive me If it is a sin or a crime But that is how I am fado "Que Deus Me Perdoe" [1] In the classic fado, "Que Deus Me Perdoe," the Portuguese singer Amalia Rodrigues laments the distinction between...

DEATH AND THE TRANSFER OF WEALTH: BEQUEST PATTERNS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
June 22, 2000... Central European laws of succession have their origins in ancient German times when decedents had only bodily heirs--their own children--and nullum testamentum. [1] By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, wills had long been a...

"THE BEST OR NONE!" SPINSTERHOOD IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND.
June 22, 2000... Reflecting on her single life, Catharine Sedgwick wrote in her diary: "I certainly think a happy marriage the happiest condition of human life... [I]t is the high opinion of its capabilities which has perhaps kept me from adventuring in it."...

SEEING LIKE A STATE.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. By James C. Scott (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. xiv plus 445pp.). It does not require a very thorough examination of the history of...

China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience.(Review)
June 22, 2000... China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. By R. Bin Wong (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. x plus 327pp.) At his Ph.D. oral examination, R. Bin Wong was asked by David Landes what...

Village Bells: Sound & Meaning in the 19th-Century French Countryside.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Village Bells: Sound & Meaning in the 19th-Century French Countryside. By Alain Corbin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xx plus 4l6pp. $35.00). Before the puffing of trains, the drone of airplanes, and the buzzing of radios and...

The Sunday Game: At the Dawn of Professional Football.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Sunday Game: At the Dawn of Professional Football. By Keith McClellan (Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1998. xi plus 503pp. $19.95/paperback). Based on extensive research utilizing a variety of sources, this detailed study reveals the...

Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: B[ddot{u}]rgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche [ddot{O}]ffentlichkeit, 1848-19 14.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: B[ddot{u}]rgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche [ddot{O}]ffentlichkeit, 1848-19 14. By Andreas W. Dawn (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998. xii plus 6l7pp.). ...

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz. By Eric Hobsbawm (New York: The New Press, 1998. viii plus 360pp. $27.50). The cover notes to this new volume of essays quote The Times as suggesting that Eric Hobsbawm is "the best known...

The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. By Michael Schudson (New York: The Free Press, 1998. 390pp.). On the groaning shelf of works that decry the decline of civil society in America, Michael Schudson's new book is welcome...

We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans.(Review)
June 22, 2000... We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans. By Donna R. Gabaccia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 278pp. $24.95). The centrality of food in any society is hard to deny. Availability of food resources, types of...

Paris Fin De Si[grave{e}]cle. Culture et politique.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Paris Fin De Si[grave{e}]cile. Culture et politique. By Christophe Charle (Paris: [acute{E}]editions du Seuil, 1998. . 320pp. 150 FE). Magazine Litt[acute{e}]raire recently devoted an issue to Pierre Bourdieu, "l'intellectuel dominant."'...

The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. By J.N. Hays (New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xi plus 36lpp.). This work is an ambitious synthesis of literature--especially...

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life. By Nancy Tomes (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. xv plus 35lpp.). In The Gospel of Germs Nancy Tomes has produced a discerning study of how average...

A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine. By Heather Munro Prescott (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xi plus 238pp. $35.00). In A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine, Heather Munro Prescott...

Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century. By Richard J. Evans (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. x plus 278pp.). Hard on the heels of his splendid Rituals of Retribution (1986) comes...

With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America. By Scott Christianson (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. xix plus 394pp.). Imprisonment, Scott Christianson argues, has been a defining feature of American life since...

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss (New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company, 1998. xii plus 334pp.). Several years ago, I attended a discussion on physical appearance at a local high school....

Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. By Pamela Scully (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. xiii plus 210pp. $60.00/cloth $23.95/paperback). Examining the transition...

Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD. By Janis Appier (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. x plus 227pp. $59.95/cloth $19.95/paperback). Policewomen are a much neglected group in the history of law...

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. By Amanda Vickery (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. ix plus 436pp. $40). This work concentrates on a group that Vickery considers to have been relatively...

Take the Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Take the Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA. By John Donald Gustav-Wrathall (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv plus 267pp.). In Take the Stranger by the Hand John Donald Gustav-Wrathall re-interprets the...

Through the Keyhole: Dutch Child-Rearing Practices in the 17th and 18th Century: Three Urban [acute{E}]lite Families.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Through the Keyhole: Dutch Child-Rearing Practices in the 17th and 18th Century: Three Urban [acute{E}]lite Families. By Benjamin Roberts (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 1998. f45 223pp.). In writing this book, Roberts aims to shed light...

Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940. By George K. Behlmer (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. x plus 455 pp. $55.00). George Behlmer has provided us with an exceptionally well researched...

The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining In Japan.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining In Japan. By Nimura Kazuo (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1998. xviii plus 275pp. $17.95/paperback $54.95/cloth). The name Ashio is usually associated with Japan's first...

Flammable Material: German Chemical Workers in War, Revolution, and Inflation 1914-1924.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Flammable Material: German Chemical Workers in War, Revolution, and Inflation 1914-1924. By Craig D. Patton (Berlin: Haude & Spener 1998. viii plus 368pp.). Patton's study of chemical workers in the decade 1914-1924 is a clarifying...

Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700. By Wayne Te Brake (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiii plus 221pp.). This book promises a great deal. The author's avowed purpose is "to describe and...

The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. By James S. Amelang (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 495pp. $60.00). The tale of Icarus's efforts to rise above his proper station--a story mentioned in the...

Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. By Richard Schneirov (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. viii plus 390pp.). Richard Schneirov has written an ambitious and important...

A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948. By Bryant Simon (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv plus 345pp.). Perceptive in analysis and engaging in style, Bryant Simon's...

The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, c. 1500-c. 1800.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, c. 1500-c. 1800. By Louis Chatellier (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii plus 246 pp.). The first point to make about...

Peasant Dreams & Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Peasant Dreams & Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905. By Jeffrey Burds (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xiv plus 314pp. $50.00/cloth $22.95! paperback). In the decades...

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. By Ronald L. Lewis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xv plus 348pp.). In Transforming the Appalachian...

Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810. By James Sidbury (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x plus 292pp.). This unpretentious book makes a whole series of wonderful...

Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. By Theda Perdue (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi plus 252pp.). In the records of white traders, colonists and Indian agents who observed Native peoples in the...

Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southwestern Indians.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southwestern Indians. By Jerald T. Milanich (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. xiv plus 2l0pp. $26.95). For decades scholars have published many historical,...

Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos A ires, 1850-1930. By Jos[acute{e}] C. Moya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii plus 567pp.). In the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first third of the...

A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, l840s-1960s.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, l840s-1960s. Edited by Franca Iacovetta with Paula Draper and Robert Ventresca (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xiv plus 513pp. $60.00/cloth...