Journal of Social History articles from March 2002

Journal of Social History archives from March 2002

Three eras of young adult home leaving in twentieth-century America (1).(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... This article divides the history of coming of age in the U.S. in the twentieth century into three distinct time periods: one that ran from 1880 until World War II, one that started in the 1940s and continued until the 1960s, and a third that...

The work of the heart: Emotion in the 1805-35 diary of Sarah Connell Ayer.
March 22, 2002... In November, 1805, fourteen-year-old Sarah Connell of Newburyport, Massachusetts penned her first entry in the diary she would keep for the next thirty years.(1) "Formed by the God of Nature with a heart of sensibility," Connell was more...

"Nocturnal habits and dark wisdom": The American response to children in the streets at night, 1880-1930.
March 22, 2002... In his 1915 book, Street-Land, Philip Davis wrote of a well-brought-up young boy named Tommie, the son of a schoolmaster in Boston: "Like his parents, Tommie was taught from infancy to retire soon after sundown. One evening, while in his...

Making the American berdache: Choice or constraint?
March 22, 2002... From the time the Spanish Conquistadores first explored the western hemisphere, the American berdaches have evoked strong reactions in those who have encountered and studied them. If the missionaries detested them, today they have made...

Did manual workers want industrial welfare? Canteens, latrines and masculinity on British building sites 1918-1970.
March 22, 2002... Twentieth century employer welfarism--that "ragbag" of fringe remunerations and non-money wages (1)--has, by and large, been judged pejoratively: damned for being a "sugared pill" sufficiently appealing to steal away workers' class allegiances...

A tale of two courthouses: Civic space, political power, and capitalist development in a new South community, 1843-1940.
March 22, 2002... In 1971, residents of Union County, North Carolina, began a debate that would last well over a decade about the fate of an old courthouse that had served as the local government headquarters since the mid-1880s. The building now stood...

The original bundlers: Boaz and Ruth, and seventeenth-century English courtship practices.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... On 12, December, 1969, Time magazine featured an article on The Society to Bring Back Bundling, which had been formed in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Appearing in the religious column, it recounted tongue in cheek, that Christianity Today saw in...

Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland. By Carolyn A. Conley (New York & Oxford: Lexington Books, 1999. xii plus 249pp. $40.00). The historical study of crime in Ireland has been generally limited to...

Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century. By Jeffrey P. Moran (Cambridge and London: Harvrd University Press, 2000. x plus 281pp. $27.95). In this well-researched, finely nuanced, and insightful book, Jeffrey Moran...

City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... City of Sisterly & Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945- 1972. By Marc Stein (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv plus 457pp. $35.00). In City of Sisterly arid Brotherly Loves, Marc Stein has produced a...

Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China. By Matthew H. Sommer (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi plus 413pp. $55.00). Sex in China has been understood in terms of more or less explicit Western paradigms. Writers have...

A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns. By Andrew C. Holman (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xi plus 243 pp. 2$70.00/cloth $27.95 paper). On 7 April 1936 the communist cultural...

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. By Howell John Harris (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii plus 456pp. $44.95). Howell John Harris is a Reader...

A Covenant of Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... A Covenant of Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. By Craig Steven Wilder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xii plus 325 pp. $35.00). In 1977, Harold Connolly noted in his study of ghetto formation in Brooklyn that the city...

Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement. By Howard Kimeldorf (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. pp. 167). Sociologist Howard Kimeldorf's Battling for American Labor deserves...

Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815. By Philip T. Hoffman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiv + 361 pp. $19.95). The invention of economics, 'queen of the social sciences', is usually credited...

From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. By Nancy Fone (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000. x plus 334 pp.). Anthropologist Nancy Foner has produced this imaginative analysis comparing experiences of the...

America's Public Holidays: 1865-1920. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... America's Public Holidays: 1865-1920. By Ellen M. Litwicki (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2000. ix plus 293 pp. $39.95). Ellen Litwicki's Public Holidays takes its place among several recently published and valuable studies of...

Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940 and Paternalism and Politics: The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. xi plus 223 pp.). Paternalism and Politics: The Revival...

Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico, 1561-1699. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico 1561-1699. By Federico Garza Carvajal (Amsterdam: Amsterdamse Historische Reeks, 2000. xii plus 306 pp.). Federico Garza Carvajal's book asks why discourses about and prosecutions of...

The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France. By Natalie Zemon Davis (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. x plus 185 pp. $50.00/cloth $21.00/paper). This brief but fascinating book has been germinating for nearly two decades. Ever since...

The European Family. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... The European Family. By Jack Goody (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2000. x plus 209 pp. $26.95). Jack Goody's The European Family appears as part of a multi-volume series on the Making of Europe. It represents a restatement, if...

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times. By Raymond Jonas (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000. xxv plus 323 pp. $40.00). The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus atop Montmartre is considered...

The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary. By Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates (New York: Basic Books, 2000. 458 pp. $26.00). In 1895 in rural County Tipperary, Ireland, Bridget Cleary was burned to death by her husband,...

The Politics of Gender after Socialism. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... The Politics of Gender after Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 169pp. $39.50/cloth $15.95/paperback). The Politics of Gender after Socialism is a stunning analysis of how the gender...

Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community. By Vijay Prashad (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx plus 176 pp. Rs.535). Untouchable Freedom purports to be the social history of the Chuhra Sweepers of Delhi from...

Inner Hygiene: Constipation & the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Inner Hygiene: Constipation & the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society. By James C. Whorton (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvii plus 3l5pp.). Though medical and cultural understanding of constipation has been overlooked by most...

From Rugs to Riches: Housework, Consumption and Modernity in Germany. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... From Rugs to Riches: Housework, Consumption and Modernity in Germany. By Jennifer A. Loehlin (Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2000. ix plus 250pp. $68.00). In this is succinct monograph, Jennifer Loehlin assesses the...

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. By Uta G. Poiger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiii, 333 pp.). In this engaging book, Uta Poiger looks at the response of West and East...

Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950. By Julie Berebitsky (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000. viii plus 248 pp. $34.95). The history of adoption has been one of the most neglected...

Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965. By Ruth Feldstein (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix plus 241 pp. $45.00/cloth $18.95/paperback). In recent years, social historians have replaced the...

South Italian Festivals: A Local History of Ritual and Change. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... South Italian Festivals: A Local History of Ritual and Change. By Herman Tak (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000. 272pp. $32.50/paperback). Rituals in a traditional society change glacially, if at all; yet, the advent of modernism...

Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. By Carolyn Dean (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv plus 288pp. $54.95/cloth $18.95/paperback). In 1564, during a politically turbulent stretch in...

Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. By Chad Berry (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xii plus 236 pp. $44.95/cloth $21.95/ paper). In the last few decades scholars have pieced together a dramatically new understanding...

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. By David T. Courtwright (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. viii plus 277pp. $24.95). On page 3 of Forces of Habit, David T. Courtwright announces his...

Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. By A. Lynn Martin (New York: Palgrave, 2001. x plus 200pp.). Perhaps because our own culture is so accustomed to associating alcohol with certain types of...

The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience & Empire of the Sand: The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645--1803. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience. By James Schofield Saeger (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. xviii plus 266 pp. $50.00/cloth). Empire of the Sand: The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora,...