Journal of Social History articles from June 2006

Journal of Social History archives from June 2006

"Save Our Kids, Keep AIDS Out:" anti-AIDS activism and the legacy of community control in Queens, New York.
June 22, 2006... On September 9, 1985, the first day of classes in the New York City public school system, James Albano, age 8, found himself inside a coffin instead of a classroom. As James lay in the coffin, his mother wheeled him around a picket line set up...

Am I that body? Seccion femenina de la FET and the struggle for the institution of physical education and competitive sports for women in Franco's Spain.
June 22, 2006... "One must fight against preexisting mentalities based on backward and all too theoretical ideas and mistaken concepts. We must also fight against the attitude of women, who found themselves isolated and inactive... and that of the...

Leprosy, domesticity, and patient protest: the social context of a patients' rights movement in mid-century America.
June 22, 2006... Historians typically regard the patient's rights movement as a product of a host of social and political changes in the 1960s, including the civil rights and other movements centered on individual rights. But in fact, the social context and...

Shaking up Japan: Edo society and the 1855 catfish picture prints.
June 22, 2006... At about 10 pm on the second day of the tenth month of 1855 (November 11 in the solar calendar), an earthquake with a magnitude estimated between 6.9 and 7.1 shook Edo, now known as Tokyo. The earthquake's shallow focus and its epicenter near...

Protecting Confederate soldiers and mothers: pensions, gender, and the welfare state in the U.S. South, a case study from Florida.
June 22, 2006... In addition to the more visible political changes it produced, the Civil War prompted revisions in U.S. social policy that scholars have only recently begun to investigate. The exigencies of war produced our first military conscriptions; they...

Ritual, community and war: local flag presentation ceremonies and disunity in the early Confederacy.
June 22, 2006... In the early hours of Monday, April 22, 1861, "the greatest activity" could be seen in the streets of Charleston, South Carolina. Soldiers of the First Regiment of the South Carolina Volunteers had risen early in the hotels where they had been...

Symbolic conflicts, deadly consequences: fights between Italians and blacks in western Sao Paulo, 1888-1914.
June 22, 2006... In early October, 1891, Jose Rodrigues de Sampaio, coffee planter in the municipio (district) of Sao Carlos, in western Sao Paulo, gave a dinner for his workers to celebrate the harvest. After dinner, the workers, most of whom were Italian...

Illegitimacy and family formation in colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850.
June 22, 2006... For 143 years after European settlement in 1652 the Cape of Good Hope was governed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a chartered company of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. (2) Founded as a refreshment station for Company fleets,...

Review essay: social history and the arts.(Berlin: The Symphony Continues: Orchestrating Architectural, Social, and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital)(For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars)(Ghana's Concert Party Theatre)(Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Berlin: The Symphony Continues: Orchestrating Architectural, Social, and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital. Edited by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson, Kristie A. Foell (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. x plus 328 pp.)....

Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Edited by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xix plus 444 pp.). An appraisal of the accomplishments of "comparative historical...

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661. By Carla Gardina Pestana (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 356 pp.). In a review four years ago, Carla Gardina Pestana recalled a time when the scholarship of the "British...

The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past. By Mary S. Hartman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi plus 297 pp. $70 hardback, $25 paperback). Mary S. Hartman has been challenging traditional...

Europe at Home: Family and Material Culture, 1500-1800.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Europe at Home: Family and Material Culture, 1500-1800. By Raffaella Sarti. Translated by Allan Cameron. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, hardback 2002, paperback 2004. xi plus 324 pp. hardback, $35; paperback, $18). The...

Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950. By Pamela Cox (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. x plus 228 pp.). This book explores the development of the juvenile justice system 1900-1950 in England and Wales....

The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. By Kathleen Wilson (London and New York: Routledge, 2003, xvi plus 282 pp. $80/$24.95). This book is about many things, some obvious, others less so. First and...

Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Private Life under Socialism, Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999. By Yunxiang Yan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvi plus 289 pp. $19.95). In the long and cold winter nights of Xiajia Village in...

Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. By Janet M. Theiss (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xv + 281 pp. $49.95). Janet Theiss' monograph contributes to a growing literature on sexual...

Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. By Lisa Jacobson (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.xii plus 299 pp. $35.00). Lisa Jacobson's book, Raising Consumers: Children and the...

Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies. By Mimi Sheller (Routledge 2003. ix plus 252 pp.). 'The horror! The horror!' might be an alternative sub-title to this book. Sheller's account of white European consumption of the...

Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930. By Thomas C. Mackey (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. x plus 297 pp. $63.95 cloth, $9.95 CD-ROM). Thomas C....

Murder in Shakespeare's England.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Murder in Shakespeare's England. By Vanessa McMahon (London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2004) x plus 285pp. $29.95). "For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak/ With most miraculous organ" (Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2). Although...

Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. By Stephen P. Rice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii plus 230 pp. $49.95). The miasma in the current thinking about the language and meaning of class...

Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950. By Michael Snodgrass (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii plus 321 pages). In this excellent monograph, Michael Snodgrass...

France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980. By Timothy B. Smith (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi plus 296 pp. $23.99). What happens when a historian steeped in the institutional and legislative...

Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America. By Alan Derickson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii plus 240 pages. $30.00). Why is there no national health insurance in the United States? The...

Venereal Disease Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Venereal Disease Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800. By Kevin P. Siena (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. Pp. 367). This is a very significant contribution to our understanding of the...

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. By Andrew Scull (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xiii, 360 pp.). If medicine is, in Lewis Thomas's phrase, "the youngest science," it is also the cruelest. And cruelty,...

From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South. By Hannah Joyner (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2004. xii + 210 pp. $49.95). Over the past generation, a major task of social history has been to tell the stories of...

Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past. By William Deverell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xix + 330 $29.95 cloth). In Whitewashed Adobe, William Deverell details the ways in which...

Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. By Maureen Healy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv plus 333 p. $75.00). Scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Great...

Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. By Carole Collier Frick (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv plus 347 pp. $47.00). This book presents a detailed discussion of style, the clothing...

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919. By Robin F. Bachin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 448 pp.). In Building the South Side, Robin Bachin examines several aspects of urban development...

Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Anthony Harkins (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x plus 324 pp.). The hillbilly is a figure of both great longevity and widespread recognition in American culture, as Anthony...

German Industry and Global Enterprise, BASF: The History of a Company.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... German Industry and Global Enterprise. BASF: The History of a Company. By Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, and Raymond G. Stokes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix plus 677 pp. $75.00). BASF...

Catholics and Contraception: An American History.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Catholics and Contraception: An American History. By Leslie Woodcock Tentler (Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xii plus 335 pp. $29.95). The Catholic church stood at a critical juncture in the summer of 1968. It had recently...

Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation.(Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. By Rhys Isaac (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxiv + 423 pp.). Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. By David...

Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865. By Armstead L. Robinson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. vii plus 352 pp. $34.95). Toward the end of November 1863, four...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland. By John Mack Faragher (New York: Norton, 2005. xx plus 592 pp. $28.95). This is a well-written and thoughtful work....

Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media. By Joel Spring (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. ix plus 254 pp.). Over the last two decades historians have paid a great...