Journal of Social History articles from March 1993

Journal of Social History archives from March 1993

Suicide, gender, and the fear of modernity in nineteenth-century medical and social thought.
March 22, 1993... In the early nineteenth century numerous European and North American commentators warned that the growth of cities would be accompanied by an assortment of social ills, all of which could be traced to the destruction of traditional social...

Urban and national identity: Bremen, 1860-1920.
March 22, 1993... Introduction Peasants in many areas of France had no geographic concept of their country, maintained dialects which separated them from neighboring citizens and lacked a consciousness of being French well past the mid-nineteenth century....

Unitarian philanthropy and cultural hegemony in comparative perspective: Manchester and Boston, 1827-1848.
March 22, 1993... In the summer of 1816, Reverend Joseph Tuckerman, pastor to a small Unitarian congregation in Chelsea, Massachusetts, journeyed to England and formed a set of lasting impressions about urban life and economic change. London's beggars and...

Household economies and communal conflicts on a Russian serf estate, 1800-1817.
March 22, 1993... Introduction In serf Russia, as in other rural societies, the household and and the village community were the twin pillars of peasant life. (1) Both the household and the commune in serf Russia have been the focus of considerable...

"A class of people neither freemen nor slaves": from Spanish to American race relations in Florida, 1821-1861.
March 22, 1993... With a history of multi-national colonial experiences, Florida presents unique opportunities for students of comparative slavery and race relations. Under Spanish rule from 1565 until 1763, Florida became British for two decades, an interlude...

Who joined the confederate army? soldiers, civilians, and communities in Mississippi.
March 22, 1993... There is no shortage of testimony explaining southerners' decision to join the Confederate army. Civil War soldiers were as voluble about their reasons for enlisting as they were about their wartime experiences, and historians have found central...

Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England.
March 22, 1993... Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. By Theodore Steinberg (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xii plus 284 pp.). Histories of American industrialization have multiplied in recent years. The...

Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches.
March 22, 1993... Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (ed.) (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 330 pp.). This book is not for students but for specialists--the growing number of anthropologists and historians who...

Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor.
March 22, 1993... Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor. Edited by Ava Baron (New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. viii plus 385 pp. $42.50/cloth $13.95/paper). Let me begin by saying that Ava Baron has written to date one of the best...

When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South.
March 22, 1993... When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xiii plus 215 pp. $29.95). Janet Duitsman Cornelius's...

Burgertum in Deutschland.
March 22, 1993... Burgertum in Deutschland. By Lothar Gall (Berlin, Germany: Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag, 1989. 635 pp.). Lothar Gall is one of German liberalism's primary historians. From his first book on Benjamin Constant and liberalism in the Vormarz (1963),...

Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850.
March 22, 1993... Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1950-1850. By Theodore Koditschek (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xi plus 611 pp. $69.50). In 1864, John Ruskin delivered to a Bradford audience one of his famous...

Technical Workers in an Advanced Society: The Work, Careers and Politics of French Engineers.
March 22, 1993... Technical Workers in an Advanced Society: The work, careers and politics of French engineers. By Stephen Crawford (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii plus 284 pp.). France has followed a different route from other European...

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy.
March 22, 1993... The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. By David Cannadine (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press 1990. xiv plus 813 pp. $35.00). David Cannadine has written a very long book in order to illustrate an apparently simple and...

Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality, Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century London.
March 22, 1993... Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality, Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century London. By Francoise Barrett-Ducrocq, translated by John Howe (London and New York: Verso, 1991. 225 pp.). When opening this book, one finds a jacket blurb...

Ladies, Women, & Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston & Boston.
March 22, 1993... Ladies, Women, & Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston & Boston. By Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xiii plus 218 pp.). In 1985, Jane H. Pease and...

Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900.
March 22, 1993... Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900. By Muriel Nazzari (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991. xx plus 245 pp. $35.00). In colonial Brazil, according to Portuguese law,...

Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence.
March 22, 1993... Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence. By Constance A. Nathanson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1991. xxi plus 286 pp.). Dangerous Passage is an astute sociological analysis of the...

Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History.
March 22, 1993... Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History. By Keith R. Bradley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. viii plus 216 pp. $32.50/cloth $11.95/paperback). Taking their cue from students of the family in more recent times,...

Women's History and Ancient History.
March 22, 1993... Women's History and Ancient History. Edited by Sarah B. Pomeroy (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xvi plus 317 pp. $39.95/cloth $13.95/paper). Of the twelve papers collected in this volume, seven were...

History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France.
March 22, 1993... History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France. By Yves-Marie Berce (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. x plus 359 pp. $57.50/cloth $18.95/paper). This is an abridged and translated edition of Berce's 2...

Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective.
March 22, 1993... Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective. By Victor V. Magagna (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. xii plus 277 pp. $42.50). This ambitious book seeks to reinterpret the basis of political action in...

Revenuers & Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900.
March 22, 1993... Revenuers & Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900. By Wilbur R. Miller (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii plus 251 pp.). As author Wilbur Miller admits in his...

Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840-1890.
March 22, 1993... Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840-1890. By Hilda Sabato (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. xiv plus 316 pp.). Certain myths persist in Latin America; one of these is that the...

The Japanese American Experience.
March 22, 1993... The Japanese American Experience. By David J. O'Brien and Stephen S. Fugita (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1991. 178 pp.). In the United States, during the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese...

Asylum: The Complex and Controversial Story of Mental Institutions in the U.S.A.
March 22, 1993... Asylum: The Complex and Controversial Story of Mental Institutions in the U.S.A. Co-produced by Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale (Washington, D.C.: Stone Lantern Films, 1989). In a graphic and absorbing way, Asylum brings to the viewer the...

The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in Early Modern Europe.
March 22, 1993... The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in Early Modern Europe. By Pieter Spierenburg (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press 1991. x plus 339 pp. $45.00). In recent years Pieter Spierenburg has made a...

New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century.
March 22, 1993... New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x plus 232 pp.). The little book is a quiet reflection...

The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652-1836.
March 22, 1993... The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New Yprk, 1652-1836. By David G. Hackett (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xv plus 240 pp. $29.95). Readers of Paul Johnson's work on Rochester, Mary Ryan's on Oneida...

Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland.
March 22, 1993... Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland. By A. Th. Van Deursen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii plus 408 pp.). This excellent study, written by an eminent historian of...

Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England.
March 22, 1993... Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England. By Patrick Curry (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. 238 pp.). Of the many secrets leaked from the Reagan White House, probably none brought forth more scorn from...

The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925.
March 22, 1993... The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925. By Mariana Valverde (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991. 205 pp.). Underlying this work is Valverde's acceptance that "the role of discourses,...

The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
March 22, 1993... The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany. By Barbara Duden (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. viii plus 239 pp. $24.95). Fortunately for historians with little command of German,...

The Proletarianizing of the Fonctionnaires: Civil Service Workers and the Labor Movement Under the Third Republic.
March 22, 1993... The Proletarianizing of the Fonctionnaries: Civil Service Workers and the Labor Movement Under the Third Republic. By Judith Wishnia (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. x plus 394 pp. $47.50). Since the time of...

Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760-1860.
March 22, 1993... Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760-1860. By Lamar Riley Murphy (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1991. xxi plus 312 pp.). In Enter the Physician, Lamar Riley Murphy attempts to change our...