Journal of Social History articles from June 2007

Journal of Social History archives from June 2007

Worlds turned upside down: bourgeois experience in the 19th-century revolutions.
June 22, 2007... On March 13, 1848, Jean-Baptiste Monfalcon, the fifty-six-year-old municipal librarian of Lyon, sat down to draft a letter to the newly appointed "Citizen Mayor" who had taken control of the local government in France's second largest city as a...

Producing sense, comsuming sense, making sense: perils and prospects for sensory history.(SECTION I HISTORY OF THE SENSES)
June 22, 2007... Can You Hear, See, Smell, Taste, Touch Me, Now? It is a good moment to be a sensory historian. Sensory history--also referred to as the history of the senses, sensate history, and sensuous history--is booming among historians. George H....

Streets, sounds and identity in interwar Harlem.(SECTION I HISTORY OF THE SENSES)
June 22, 2007... The twenty-eighth annual black Elks' convention culminated in a parade that marched up Fifth Avenue from Sixty-first Street to 110th Street, where it crossed west and headed up Lenox. It was 1927. Braving a downpour, the marchers "trudg[ed]...

Museum manners: the sensory life of the early museum.(SECTION I HISTORY OF THE SENSES)
June 22, 2007... In The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass in the British Museum H.M. Bateman depicts the story of a boy who is arrested for breathing on one of the display cases in the British Museum. (1) While purely fictional, this picture book highlights the...

Sexuality and contraception in Modern England: doing the history of reproductive sexuality.(SECTION II GENDER AND SEXUALITY)
June 22, 2007... Historians of sexuality have almost completely ignored reproduction as a factor relevant to, and potentially influencing, sexual mores or sexual change. Yet, before the mid-twentieth century, the absence of effective contraception made...

Constrained communities: black Cleveland's experience with World War II public housing.(SECTION III REGIONAL TOPICS)
June 22, 2007... Amid the World War II urban housing crisis that was particularly severe for African Americans, dozens of black Clevelanders wrote letters to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, explaining their predicaments in finding...

"Deserted his Majesty's service": military runaways, the British-American press, and the problem of desertion during the Seven Years' War.(SECTION III REGIONAL TOPICS)
June 22, 2007... On March 31, 1757, an advertisement appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal announcing the disappearance of Robert Aensworth. At aged twenty-seven, Aensworth was an immigrant from Ireland who worked for some time as an indentured servant in...

Perfecting institutionalization: the foundation of the International Social History Association.
June 22, 2007... In any discipline the existence of learned societies, the publishing of specialized journals and the organization of thematic conferences are among the major indicators of institutionalization and emancipation with other academic fields. As for...

The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(FORUM)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. By Suzanne Desan (Berkeley: CA: University of California Press, 2004). FAMILY TIES IN REVOLUTIONARY PRESPECTIVE Suzanne Desan's The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France opens many new...

Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Identities, Boundaries, & Social Ties. By Charles Tilly (Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, 2005. viii plus 269 pp.). In the United States, liberal opponents of racism have often focused on attitudes. Through education, dialogue, and...

Civilization and Its Contents.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Civilization and Its Contents. By Bruce Mazlish (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv plus 188 pp. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper). Professional historians know well that historical scholarship is full of problematic terms....

American Mythos: Why our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... American Mythos: Why our Best Efforts to be a Better Nation Fall Short. By Robert Wuthnow (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, viii, plus 265 pp. and bibliography and index. $29.95). The book jacket of American Mythos praises this...

Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History Beyond the Cultural Turn.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn. Edited by Don Kalb and Herman Tak (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. viii plus 185 pp. $45.00 [paper, 2006. $22.50]). This collection of essays, which was in the works...

Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate. By Jack Goody (Cambridge, U.K. and Malden MA: Polity Press, 2004. vii, plus 200 pp. $21.95). Capitalism and Modernity is a loosely unified set of essays rather than one tightly focused...

The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. By Dror Wahrman (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. xviii plus 414 pp.). The eighteenth century, student historians were once warned, was an...

Childhood in World History.(The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s)(Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Childhood in World History. By Peter N. Stearns (New York: Routledge, 2006. ix plus 146 pp.). The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s. By Kriste Lindenmeyer. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005, xi plus 304 pp.). ...

Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. By David B. Wolcott (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press2005. x plus 264 pp. $44.95 cloth, $9.95 CD). David B. Wolcott has enlarged the substantial but mostly...

Children of the Laboring Poor: Expectation and Experience among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg.(Abandoned Children of the Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Children of the Laboring Poor: Expectation and Experience among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg. By Thomas Max Safley (Leiden: Brill, 2005. 493 pp.). Abandoned Children of the Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna. By...

Children's Health in Historical Perspective.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Children's Health in Historical Perspective. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds. (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. xi plus 554 pp. $39.95). This book brings together a sampling of recent scholarship on...

Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600. By Evelyn Welch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ix plus 403pp. $45.00). In Shopping in the Renaissance, Evelyn Welch examines some very practical issues about...

Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. By Suzanne K. Kaufman (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. viii plus 255 pp. $34.95). Travel to a cathedral, a pilgrimage site, or the tomb of some ancient worthy and...

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Luxury & Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Maxine Berg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii plus 373 pp. $45/cloth). In the seminal work The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England...

Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England. By Linda Levy Peck (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi plus 431 pp. [pounds sterling]25). The general consensus among social historians has been that the...

The Circus and Victorian Society.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Circus and Victorian Society. By Brenda Assael (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005, xiii plus 237pp.). The history of circus has been written largely in celebratory mode and by enthusiasts. Brenda Assael...

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery. By Rebecca J. Scott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xi plus 365 pp. $29.95). For scholars of Latin America, the expectations surrounding Rebecca Scott's...

The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. By James N. Gregory (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv plus 446 pp.). Before reading this book, I thought...

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America. By Francesca Morgan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xi plus 320pp.). Since the emergence of women's history as a subfield, historians have been exploring female...

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform. By Bruce Laurie (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiv plus 340 pp.). This study of antislavery politics in antebellum Massachusetts weaves an interesting, intricate narrative of...

Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857. By Elizabeth Foyster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii plus 282 pp. $70.00 Hardback; $27.99 Paperback). Marital Violence is an interesting treatment of an important...

The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. By Helen Harden Chenut (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. 448 pp. $60.00). Helen Chenut's elegantly written and meticulously researched...

The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic. By Timothy Kenslea (Hanover: University Press of New England/Northeastern University Press, 2006. xi plus 269 pp.). Among its many treasures, the...

Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience. By Mary Chamberlain (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006. xv plus 245 pp.). Like the families whose stories are presented here, this well-written book...

White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-Vice Activism, 1887-1917.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-Vice Activism, 1887-1917. By Brian Donovan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006). Everyone knows humans create structures of inequality, but how this occurs is not so clear. This book...

A History of Old Age.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... A History of Old Age. Edited by Pat Thane (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005; London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. 320 pp. $49.95). "Sumptuous" is the first word to describe A History of Old Age. Exquisite reproductions depict elders...

In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration By Nancy Foner (New York University Press, 2005. viiii plus 327 pp.). Foner anchors her study of recent immigration patterns in New York City, but places her analysis in a larger...

Die leidige Seuche: Pest-Falle in der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Die leidige Seuche: Pest-Falle in der Fruhen Neuzeit. Edited by Otto Ulbricht (Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Bohlau Verlag, 2004. 344 pp.). This is an outstanding collection of essays on a surprisingly neglected topic: plague in early modern...

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By Craig E. Colten (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xiii plus 264 pp. $39.95). Before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in the summer of 2005, most of...

The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850. By Cecilia Mendez (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi plus 343 pp. $23.95). The issue of state building and the role of the peasantry has...