Journal of Social History articles from June 2001

Journal of Social History archives from June 2001

GENDER AND WORKING CLASS IDENTITY IN BRITAIN DURING THE 1950s.
June 22, 2001... In Britain during the 1950s, working class living standards were undeniably improved by full employment and comprehensive welfare provision. But this progress and prosperity may have worn away the singularity and coherence of working class...

RASCALS ON THE ANTEBELLUM MISSISSIPPI: AFRICAN AMERICAN STEAMBOAT WORKERS AND THE ST. LOUIS HANGING OF 1841.
June 22, 2001... I have bid farewell to life and all its hopes and joys. I go to meet my doom... Charles Brown, St. Louis 1841 [1] The execution riveted St. Louis. Over twenty thousand people, about three quartets of the city's population, traveled to...

FAMILY PATTERNS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY THROUGH HIGHER EDUCATION IN ENGLAND IN THE 1930S.
June 22, 2001... Introduction The number of students in English universities rose significantly between 1900 and 1935. Oxford and Cambridge doubled their intake during these years, whilst the number of full-time students in the other nine universities with...

COMMUNIST CUSTODIAL CONTESTS: ADOPTION RULINGS IN THE USSR AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
June 22, 2001... The Bolshevik regime outlawed adoption in 1918, but adoption re-entered the legal code in 1926. [1] The basic adoption laws of the Soviet Union remained unchanged until 1968--and even then kept much of their original essence--but the nature of...

"FOR MOTHERS ONLY": MOTHERS' CONVALESCENT HOMES AND MODERNIZING MATERNAL IDEOLOGY IN 1950S WEST GERMANY.
June 22, 2001... In the mid 1950s, a little boy wrote to the headquarters of the Muttergenesungswerk, the "convalescent home for mothers," located in Stein bei Nurnburg, West Germany. His ill mother had recently completed a four-week cure, and he wrote his...

PEASANT PIONEERING: RUSSIAN PEASANT SETTLERS DESCRIBE COLONIZATION AND THE EASTERN FRONTIER, 1880s-1910s.
June 22, 2001... Russian peasant agriculture in the late nineteenth century had a variety of problems, and for many Russian peasants one way around them was to find a way off the farm. [1] In most cases, getting off the farm--when it occurred--took the form of...

PUNISHMENT, CRIME, AND THE BODIES OF SLAVES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA.
June 22, 2001... Students of criminal justice, crime, and punishment have long insisted that to understand the role and operation of law in any society, it is necessary to go beyond the examination of statutes. [1] The texts of statutory laws reflect pressures...

YELLOW FEVER IMMUNITIES IN WEST AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF SLAVERY AND BEYOND: A REAPPRAISAL.
June 22, 2001... Lawrence Stone, one of the most respected members of the history profession, conducted a vigorous campaign against "extreme" post modernism, particularly as exemplified by the later works of Simon Schama of Harvard. [1] In the same spirit I...

RESPONSE TO SHELDON WATTS, "YELLOW FEVER IMMUNITIES IN WEST AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF SLAVERY AND BEYOND: A REAPPRAISAL".(in this journal page 955)
June 22, 2001... In a review of Sheldon Watts Epidemics and History (which he cites in note 6) I complained, among other things, about words and phrases that were employed such as "guerilla terrorists" to describe Spanish conquistadors, as well as other...

RESPONSE TO KENNETH KIPLE.(response to article by Kenneth Kiple in this issue, p. 969)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In his recent book, In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), Melbourne Tapper convincingly demonstrates the difficulty which Caucasian medical men, historians and anthropologists have had in...

Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity. By Daniel J. Walkowitz (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxi plus 4l3pp. $59.50/cloth. $22.50/paperback). What does it mean to be...

Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1900.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1900. By Robert V. Wells (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv plus 301 pp. $44.95). Robert Wells has truly earned his reputation as one of the...

Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America By Peter N. Steams (New York: New York University, 1999. xiii plus 434 pp. $28.95). With Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America,...

The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture. By Brendan Dooley (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. viii plus 213 pp. $39.95). Although its title rightly suggests a broad and vast...

Food: A Culinary History.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Food: A Culinary History. Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin & Massimo Montanari (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xviii plus 592 pp. $39.95). This translation of an important 1996 French publication edited by two specialists on food...

Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850. Edited by Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. xi plus 260pp. Cl. $79.95, Pb. $29.95). Drawing attention to the "meaning of...

Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820-1989.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany, 1820-1989. By Steve Hochstadt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. xviii plus 331 pp.). Hochstadt has written what will long remain the definitive work on German urban migration and...

Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. By David E. Nye (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv plus 224 pp. $45.00/cloth $17.50/paperback). David Nye is a prolific historian of technology and...

Railways and the Victorian Imagination.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Railways and the Victorian Imagination. By Michael Freeman (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1999. vii plus 264pp.). For all the bullet trains of Japan and France's TGVs, the railway of today has become a sign of nostalgia, more a...

The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display & The Great Exhibition & The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display. by Jeffrey Auerbach (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. viii plus 288pp. $40/cloth). The Great Exhibition. By John R. Davis (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1999. xviii...

Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbieres 1780-1830.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbieres 1780-1830. By Peter McPhee (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vii plus 272 pp. $75.00). "Too much local history," wrote the...

The Russian Peasantry, 1600-1930: The World the Peasants Made.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Russian Peasantry, 1600-1930: The World the Peasants Made. By David Moon (London & New York: Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., 1999. xii plus 396pp.). This book originated in a lecture course Professor Moon gave at the University of Texas...

Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley of Peru.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley of Peru. By Vincent C. Peloso (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. xxi plus 251pp. $15.95/paperback). The subject of this monograph is the...

Slavery in Early Mediaeval England.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Slavery in Early Mediaeval England. By David A. E. Pelteret. Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, VII (Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 1995. xvi plus 375 pp. $75.00). Certain things will be expected of a book that is in the main a study of...

Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940. By Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 244 pp. $38.50). Gender-related considerations, according to Catherine Gilbert...

Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War. By Susan R. Grayzel (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xix plus 334pp.). In this...

Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression. By Denyse Baillargeon. Translated by Yvonne Klein (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. xii plus 232 pp. $29.95/paperback). "That's...

Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches. By Marion Gibson (London and New York: Routledge, 1999. vii plus 242pp.). Even while the recently revived field of witchcraft studies lay dormant over most of Europe, there was a steady...

The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany. By Ulinka Rublack (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix plus 292pp. $70.00). Recently a colleague asked me over lunch that age-old question whether women really have a history, for isn't...

Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868. By Felix V. Matos Rodriguez (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xi plus 180pp.). Carefully researched, informative, and pleasant to read, this book deals with women's...

Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxv plus 491 pp. $29.95). The African diaspora is fast becoming...

Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier. By David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. vi plus 504 pp.). Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier is a book that historians...

New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882.(Review)
June 22, 2001... New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. By John Kuo Wei Tchen (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxiv plus 385pp.). In this thought-provoking book, John Kuo Wei Tchen...

Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890-1943.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890-1943. By Jared N. Day (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ix plus 262pp.). "Very little is known about exactly how tenement landlords operated, who they...

Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra. By Guy P.C. Thomson with David LaFrance (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc, 1999. xviii Plus 420 PP. $65.00). ...

Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico. Bu Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1999. xiii plus 280pp.). At a time when new trendy approaches to history such as the so-called subaltern studies...

Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. By Ellen S. More (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi plus 340pp. $49.95). Readable and intelligent, Ellen More's Restoring the Balance...