Journal of Social History articles from March 2001

Journal of Social History archives from March 2001

Erratum.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2001... "The Rise and Decline of a Revolutionary Space: Paris' Place de Greve and the Stonemasons of Creuse, 1750-1900," by Casey Harison, on page 402 of Winter 2000, Vol. 34 No. 2, was inadvertently omitted from the Table of Contents of that issue.

"The cornerstone of a copious work": love and power in eighteenth-century courtship.
March 22, 2001... When Henry Drinker set sail from Philadelphia to attend to business in England in the winter of 1760, he left unresolved negotiations of a most important and delicate kind. Until the moment he was called away by demands of trade, Henry Drinker,...

Shrinking violets and Caspar milquetoasts: shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to The Rules of the nineties.
March 22, 2001... "Shyness... touches all our lives in some way. What we each thought was our own secret hang-up is actually shared by an incredibly large number of people. And we can take great comfort in knowing that we are not alone in our suffering." This...

Revisiting maverick medical sects: the role of identity in comparing homeopaths and chiropractics.
March 22, 2001... The development of American medicine is of particular relevance to social historians as a window into and reflection of 18th and 19th century American social and cultural history; it is also commonly taken as an illustration of the...

"The struggle of mankind against its deadliest foe": themes of counter-subversion in anti-narcotic campaigns, 1920-1940.
March 22, 2001... On the evening of March 1, 1928, Captain Richmond P. Hobson, president of the International Narcotic Education Association and the World Narcotic Defense Association, gave a lengthy address on NBC's radio network, warning listeners that...

Dangerous liaisons: the anti-fraternization movement in the U.S. occupation zones of Germany and Austria, 1945-1948.
March 22, 2001... During World War Two, relations between soldiers and civilian women often reflected inequalities in power and status characteristic of a wider pattern of gender relations. Feminist theorists note that because women have traditionally been...

Faces of violence revisited. A typology of violence in early modern rural Germany.
March 22, 2001... According to Robert Muchembled, in early modern France everyday violence was part of popular culture; it played an essential social role. In all social strata sociability was characterized by physically violent interactions, especially among...

Retorts, runaways and riots: patterns of resistance in Canadian reform schools for girls, 1930-60.
March 22, 2001... Reform schools for girls, since their introduction in the latter part of the nineteenth century, have been experiments in transforming wayward girls, judged incorrigible, truant, and especially, sexually promiscuous, into 'proper' young women....

Worker voices, elite representations: rewriting the labor history of Late Imperial Russia.(Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872; Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections)(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872. By Reginald E. Zelnik (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii plus 308 pp. $45.00). Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities,...

J. Edgar Hoover.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover (N.Y.: The Free Press, 1987). Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991). William Sullivan, The Bureau: My Thirty Years in...

The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices. By Oleg Kharkhordin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xii plus 406pp. $50.00). It is almost a truism among those who trace Russian development to note that...

Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. By Alan Hunt (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x plus 273pp.). One of the major currents in AngloAmerican history in the last half of the twentieth century has been the...

Immigrants in the Land of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Immigrants in the Land of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914. By Samuel L. Baily (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1999 xvii plus 308 pp.). Baily's book is about an Italian family called Sola, and in...

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. By Jeffrey Lesser (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1999. xvi plus 281pp. Cloth/$49.95 paperback/$17.95). There is very little of the...

L'Invention du jeune enfant au XIXe siecle: De la salle d'asile a l'ecole maternelle.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... L'Invention du jeune enfant au XIXe siecle: De la salle d'asile a l'ecole maternelle. By Jean-Noel Luc (Paris: Belin, 1997. 512pp.). A sophisticated study providing insights into the history of childhood, schooling, philanthropy, and...

Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. By Nan Enstad (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xii plus 266 pp. $57.00/cloth $20.00/paperback). During...

A History of European Women's Work 1700 to the Present.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... A History of European Women's Work 1700 to the Present. By Deborah Simonton (London and New York: Routledge Press, 1998. xii plus 337pp. $85.00/cloth $27.99/paperback). Shifting patterns of labor in the formal and informal economy and...

"Wer die Zeit nicht miterlebt hat ..." Frauenerfahrungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg und in den Jahren danach. Bd. 1 Lebensgeschichten. Bd. 2 Kriegsalltag. Bd. 3 Das Verhaltnis zum Nationalsozialismus und zum Krieg.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... "Wer die Zeit nicht miterlebt hat..." Frauenerfahrungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg und in den Jahren danach. Bd. 1 Lebensgeschichten. Bd. 2 Kriegsalltag. Bd. 3 Das Verhaltnis zum Nationalsozialismus und zum Krieg. By Margarete Dorr (Frankfurt:...

Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England. By Lisa Wilson (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1999. xiii plus 255pp.). Lisa Wilson's work offers a unified point of view on masculinity, gender and family in...

A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England. By John Tosh (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. xii plus 252pp. $30). That the surge of feminism in our time has evoked a backlash in defense of...

The Disordered Body: Epidemic Disease and Cultural Transformation.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... The Disordered Body: Epidemic Disease and Cultural Transformation. By Suzanne E. Hatty and James Hatty (New York, Albany: State University Press of New York Press, 1999. v plus 362pp.). Everyone seems to agree that something happened in...

Contagion: Disease, Government, and the "Social Question" in Nineteenth Century France.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Contagion: Disease, Government, and the "Social Question" in Nineteenth Century France. By Andrew R. Aisenberg (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. vii plus 238pp. $45.00). This relatively brief but remarkably dense study...

Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria. By Jonathan Sadowsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi plus 169pp. $45.00/cloth $16.95/paperback). Combining African history with the history of...

Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment. By James Winter (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi plus 342pp.). James Winter is not the first American to have been struck that the landscape of Britain (or...

Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan. By Jennie Purnell (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. x plus 271 pp. $17.95). Among the merits of this book, readers will...

Praxis und Probleme des Lastenausgleichs in Mannheim 1949-1959.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Praxis und Probleme des Lastenausgleichs in Mannheim 1949-1959. By Carl-Jochen Mueller (Mannheim: Suedwestdeutsche Schriften, 1997. xvi plus 392pp. DM 57). One of the most pressing issues after political life was resumed in Germany after...

Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. By Kathyrn Burns (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. xi plus 307pp. Cloth/$49.95 paperback/$17.95). The topic of this book is the role played by three...

To Defend our Water with the Blood of our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... To Defend our Water with the Blood of our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla. By Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xiv plus 199pp.). In this understated and well written book, author...

Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala 1821-1871.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala 1821-1871. By Douglas Sullivan-Gonzalez (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xiii plus 182pp.). Between 1839 and his death in 1865, Rafael...

The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History. By James Schmiechen and Kenneth Carls (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Xii plus 312 pp. $50). The dust jacket blurb on Market Hall describes it as "a tale of...

Society's Child: Identity, Clothing, and Style.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Society's Child: Identity, Clothing, and Style. By Ruth P. Rubinstein (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000. xviii plus 297pp. $65.00). Society's Child takes us back a ways, in historical time and, alas, in methodological time too. In...

Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York 1900-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York 1900-1940 by Lillian Serece Williams (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. xvii plus 273pp. $49.95). In Strangers in...

Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. By Jeffrey Brooks (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. xx plus 319pp. $35.00). Readers of this journal should note that Thank You, Comrade...

Suicide in the Middle Ages. Volume 1. The Violent Against Themselves.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Suicide in the Middle Ages. Volume 1. The Violent Against Themselves. By Alexander Murray (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxii plus 485 pp. $49.95). The topic of suicide in the Middle Ages has never before been properly studied...

Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women and War.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women and War. By Mark Wasserman (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xiii plus 248pp. $39.95/cloth $19.95/paperback). Historians of modern Mexico often take a...

Gender and the Politics of Office Work: The Netherlands, 1760-1940.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Gender and the Politics of Office Work: The Netherlands, 1760-1940. By Francisca de Haan (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. 243pp.). As late as the 1970s, it was common for Dutch women to lose their jobs in the private sector...

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe.(Book review)
March 22, 2001... Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe. By Terence Ranger (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. viii plus 305pp.) Terence Ranger is hearing voices again. The author of (among...