Journal of Social History articles from June 2005

Journal of Social History archives from June 2005

Preface: globalization and childhood.
June 22, 2005... This issue gathers several papers plus additional research notes and comments on the subject of globalization and childhood. The assumption is that if globalization, one of the most widely-discussed characterizations of contemporary history, is...

On seeking global history's inner child.
June 22, 2005... Globalization and childhood are both treacherously familiar terms. Fashionable categories used in serious and provocative scholarship, their wide currency owes too much to their indeterminacy. Almost any screed about social change, whether...

The house, the street, global society: Latin American families and childhood in the twenty-first century.
June 22, 2005... Since the colonial period (1492 to approximately 1826), children have constituted a large proportion of the population of Latin America, with approximately thirty to fifty percent under age twenty in the eighteenth century. Public health...

Japan, the U.S. and the globalization of children's consumer culture.(toys)
June 22, 2005... Mattel Toys recently discovered that it no longer had to produce Barbie dolls with Asian features and clothes. With the opening of Eastern Europe in the 1990s to aggressive marketing and the growing identity of the commercially-savvy young in...

The jaombilo of Tamatave (Madagascar), 1992-2004: reflections on youth and globalization.
June 22, 2005... Both anthropologists and historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the concept of adolescence, but they have done so in markedly different ways. Drawing in large measure on assumptions about adolescence taken from developmental...

Consuming globalization: youth and gender in Kerala, India.
June 22, 2005... Introduction In much popular discourse, a short-hand way to mark the advent and impact of globalization is to point to the evidence of "global" youth consuming practices and symbols in often remote corners of the world: during the 1990s,...

Children in global migrations.
June 22, 2005... The growing reality of movement across borders has become a twenty-first century theme and increasingly a focus for the anxieties and uncertainties about change in our time. When it is paired with children, its potential as a modern form of...

The U.S. and the international children's rights crusade: leader or laggard?
June 22, 2005... Children's rights have recently taken a major role in the unfolding drama of international human rights. The horrors of World War II impelled the drafting of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948....

Japanese childhood, modern childhood: the nation-state, the school, and 19th-century globalization.
June 22, 2005... Japan's initial encounter with globalization was also its encounter with modernity. (1) In the mid- to late-19th century, Western imperialism in Asia plunged Japan into a new system of international relations, generating an unprecedented volume...

The schoolyard gate: schooling and childhood in global perspective.
June 22, 2005... Deux et deux quatre quatre et quatre huit huit et huit font seize Repetez! dit le maitre. Deux et deux quatre quatre et quatre huit huit et huit font seize. Mais voila l'oiseau-lyre qui passe dans le ciel l'enfant le voit...

Teaching rights and responsibilities: paradoxes of globalization and children's citizenship in Lebanon.
June 22, 2005... Learning Citizenship in a Globalizing World What families teach their children as their rights and responsibilities as citizens in state societies needs to be studied in the context of the contradictory and complementary modes in which...

The uneven globality of children.
June 22, 2005... Overnight, more than a million additional children showed up for school last year when Kenya's newly elected government abolished fees that had been prohibitively high for many parents, about $16 a year. The New York Times, October...

Conclusion: change, globalization and childhood.
June 22, 2005... Amid all the complications of dealing with globalization and childhood, including its great unevenness, a crucial issue involves its relationship to larger, or at least earlier, processes of change. No conclusion can hope to embrace the various...

'These brothers of ours': Poblete's obreros and the road to Baguio 1903-1905.
June 22, 2005... On July 21, 1903, some two hundred laborers recruited to construct the Benguet Road linking the Americans' erstwhile summer capital of the Philippines at Baguio with the railhead to Manila refused to report for work and peremptorily marched out...

Manhood and the neutered body in early modern Spain.
June 22, 2005... Not everything is a man that pisses on a wall, after all, dogs piss too. (No es todo hombre el que mea a la pared, porque el perro mea tambien.) --Traditional Spanish saying (1) The above refrain suggests that manhood was...

Review essay: reform and social change.(Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850, The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Industrialisation, vol. 1, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century; The Story vol. 1 and The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800. By Joanne Bailey (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii plus 248pp., $65.95). Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. By Arthur Burns...

The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. By Daniel Thomas Cook (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x plus 211 pp.). Daniel Cook's thought-provoking examination of the...

The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South. By Shelley Sallee (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2004. xi plus 207 pp.). Like other recent studies of whiteness in American history, Shelley Sallee's The Whiteness of...

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. By Daniel E. Bender (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 288pp.). There were an estimated 250,000 garment workers in the U.S. in 2000 whose employers...

Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force. By Amy L. Fairchild (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii plus 385 pp.). Amy L. Fairchild's Science at the Borders...

How Early America Sounded.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... How Early America Sounded. By Richard Cullen Rath (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi plus 227 pp. $32.50). As a campaign piece, this work may be excused some of its errors of omission, for what Rath is most intent upon...

American Towns: An Interpretive History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... American Towns: An Interpretive History. By David J. Russo (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. xiii plus 350 pp. $28.95/cloth). In American Towns: An Interpretive History, David J. Russo looks at the history of town life in America, from before...

Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. By Wendell Pritchett (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii + 317 pp.). Beginning with the Jewish community, Wendell Pritchett documents both continuity...

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. x plus 310 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Moving beyond the...

The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920. By Alecia P. Long (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xv plus 282 pp.). Alecia Long set out to understand the history and culture of...

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. By Mae M. Ngai (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. xx plus 377 pp.). The illegal alien has acquired decisive importance not only in the economies of...

Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. By Paul A. Gilje (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xiv plus 344 pp.). Paul A. Gilje argues that American sailors between 1750 and 1850 were...

The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory. By Scot French (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. ix plus 379 pp. $26.00). In January 1860, less than a month after John Brown hanged for attempting to incite a servile insurrection...

After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. By Susan Eleanor Hirsch (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x plus 292 pp. $44.95). As Susan Hirsch points out at the beginning of her impressive study, workers at...

Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West. By David Peterson Del Mar (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. x plus 300 pp.). Social and cultural historians often lament that overworked "popular" topics seem...

The Making of Modern Woman: Europe, 1789-1918.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918. By Lynn Abrams (London: Longman, 2002. x plus 382 pp.). Lynn Abrams's The Making of Modern Woman is a comprehensive survey synthesizing the major findings of thirty plus years of research into...

The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975. By Hera Cook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii plus 412pp.). This is an admirable book, and at times, a gutsy one as well. It is refreshing to find a...

Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930. By Martin Summers (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi plus 380 pp. $55.00 cloth / $21.95 paper). The black...

The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance. By Steve Martinot (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. xiii plus 240 pp.). "This book examines what it means that racism and white supremacy exist, and persist, and it...

Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution. By James Holstun (London: Verso, 2000; paperback 2002. xix plus 460 pp. $21). Polemical books are nothing new to the historiography of the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth...

Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany. By Norbert Schindler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv plus 311 pp. $80.00). This collection of essays is the English translation of a volume that appeared in 1992...

Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era.(Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era. By Louise McReynolds (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. x plus 309 pp.). Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia. By Eugene Anthony Swift (Berkeley, CA:...

Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Scotland and the Music Hall, 1850-1914. By Paul Maloney (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. xiv plus 240pp.). During the 1850s a number of enterprising publicans in London and elsewhere built annexes, known colloquially as...

Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, With the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, With the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book. By Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi...

A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth Century South in Comparative Perspective.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth Century South in Comparative Perspective. By Peter Kolchin (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. 124 pp.). The most valuable insight of this slim new volume comes in its closing...

Germany and Its Gypsies: A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Germany and Its Gypsies: A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal. By Gilad Margalit (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. xviii plus 285 pp.). The Israeli historian Gilad Margalit's study breaks new ground. In recent years, several books and...

The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. By Kevin Terraciano (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv plus 514 pp.). Scholars of pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America have long...

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800-1928.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition. By James H. Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii plus 239 pp.). The profusion of recent historical work in the field of "drug history" may be roughly sorted by the authors'...

The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council. By Andrew Greeley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 222pp. $24.95). Most students of American Catholicism identify the Second Vatican Council...

God, Country and Self-Interest: A Social History of the World War II Rank and File.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... God, Country and Self-Interest: A Social History of the World War II Rank and File. By Toby Terrar (Silver Spring, Maryland: CWP, 2004. xxxvii plus 382 pp.). Ed and Hazel Terrar live a few miles from the National World War II Memorial in...

Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. By Edward E. Telles (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. ix + 324 pp. $35.00). This is a blockbuster of a book. To a topic--Brazilian race relations--historically...

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. By Theda Skocpol (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 384pp. $29.95). In Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life,...

"On seeking global history's inner child".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Raymond Grew, "On Seeking Global History's Inner Child" Starting with distinctions between global history and globalization and between the history of childhood and the history of children, this essay suggests some approaches to the global...

"The house, the street, global society: Latin American families and childhood in the twenty-first century".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Elizabeth A. Kuznesof, "The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century" Globalization has produced a common vision of the experience of childhood, a kind of global "morality."...

"Japan, the U.S. and the globalization of children's consumer culture".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Gary Cross, Gregory Smits, "Japan, the U.S. and the Globalization of Children's Consumer Culture" This essay explores the linkage between modern children's consumer culture and the globalization of the design and manufacture of playthings....

"The jaombilo of Tamatave (Madagascar), 1992-2004: reflections on youth and globalization".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Jennifer Cole, "The Jaombilo of Tamatave (Madagascar), 1992-2004: Reflections on Youth and Globalization" In Madagascar, the cultural and economic changes that have accompanied economic liberalization have also seen the emergence of the...

"Consuming globalization: youth and gender in Kerala, India".(ABSTRACTS)
June 22, 2005... Ritty Lukose, "Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India" This article examines how new, globally-inflected patterns of consumption among young people in the state of Kerala, India are configured in relation to a...

"Children in global migrations".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Paula S. Fass, "Children in Global Migrations" Despite popular images of the adverse disruptions caused by migration in today's global world, the migration of children in the contemporary world often repeats patterns from the past. We are...

"The U.S. and the international children's rights crusade: leader of laggard?".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Mary Ann Mason, "The U.S. and the International Children's Rights Crusade: Leader of Laggard?" This article examines the global impact of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and questions why the US has not been a signatory....

"Japanese childhood, modern childhood: the nation-state, the school, and 19th-century globalization".(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Brian Platt, "Japanese Childhood, Modern Childhood: The Nation-State, the School, and 19th-Century Globalization" This article explores the creation of a concept of childhood in Japan during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite the...

"The schoolyard gate: schooling and childhood in global perspective".(ABSTRACTS)
June 22, 2005... Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, "The Schoolyard Gate: Schooling and Childhood in Global Perspective" This essay asks first whether schooling is truly a global phenomenon and then, if so, how global schooling affects children's experiences and...

"Teaching rights and responsibilities: paradoxes of globalization and children's citizenship in Lebanon".(portrayals of social aspects of Lebanon)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Suad Joseph, "Teaching Rights and Responsibilities: Paradoxes of Globalization and Children's Citizenship in Lebanon" Efforts to promote a more individualistic model of childhood, pressed on Lebanon from a variety of outside sources...

"The uneven globality of children".(effect of population growth )(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Wolf Schafer, "The Uneven Globality of Children" The article shows that geography is still destiny for millions of children. Based on global UN data about various demographic factors and the urban explosion after 1950, the geography of...

"'These brothers of ours': Poblete's obreros and the road to Baguio 1903-1905".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Greg Bankoff, "'These Brothers of Ours': Poblete's Obreros and the Road to Baguio 1903-1905" On July 21, 1903, some two hundred labourers recently recruited to construct the Benguet Road linking the Americans' erstwhile summer capital of...

"Manhood and the neutered body in early modern Spain".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Edward Behrend-Martinez, "Manhood and the Neutered Body in Early Modern Spain" This paper examines the links between the construction of masculinity and the male body in eighteenth century Spain. It scrutinizes unpublished cases of...

"Review essay: reform and social change".(portrayals of soical history)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... Albert J. Schmidt, "Review Essay: Reform and Social Change" The books reviewed variously convey notions of reform and momentous social change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Law and lawyers, gender/family, and demographic...

Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000.
June 22, 2005... Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000. By Harald Fuess (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv plus 226 pp. $45.00). What kind of impact did urbanization, industrialization, anomie, and the modern state have on...