Journal of Social History articles from March 2003

Journal of Social History archives from March 2003

"On the border of snakeland": evolutionary psychology and plebeian violence in industrial Chicago, 1875-1920.
March 22, 2003... Late in the evening of July 6,1891 Pete Monrad murdered Frank Gilroy and badly wounded Edward Stuart during a brawl in a Chicago saloon. The fight possessed many of the characteristic features of lethal violence in the late nineteenth-century...

"My Pappa is out, and my Mamma is asleep." minors, their routine activities, and interpersonal violence in an early modern town, 1653-1781.
March 22, 2003... On August 26, 1765, two girls, one 12 years of age, the other nine, looked out a window and saw a handsome young marine lieutenant by the name of William August Jenkins. Their names were Betsy and Ann Robertson, and with them were three maids:...

Trumpeting down the walls of Jericho: The politics of art, music and emotion in German-American relations, 1870-1920.
March 22, 2003... A few years ago, I toured the United States to interview American GIs who had entered Germany in 1944/45 and liberated Nazi concentration camps. What did these soldiers think, I wanted to know, when they entered German cities and towns and...

Marriage, money, and sex: Dr. Hamilton finds a wife.
March 22, 2003... "Poor Hamilton," moaned the life-long bachelor Stephen Bordley to his friend, Witham Marshe, "is gone!--nor dead, but married." Bordley lamented that the thirty-five year old Sandy Hamilton, "was the day before yesterday obliged to Surrender...

Managing mercy: African Americans, parole and paternalism in the Georgia prison system 1919-1945.
March 22, 2003... In 1941 Eugene P, a young African American, was paroled having served two and a half years of his three to ten year sentence for larceny. Despite four previous convictions for property offences and the fact that he had been shot while...

The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: A review of the historiography. (Review Essay).
March 22, 2003... Although it is becoming rare as a routine procedure on newborn males, circumcision in both a medical and cultural/religious context has been the focus of increasing attention from medical historians. With the publication of David Gollaher's...

Past the pax. (Review Essay).(Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World; Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire )(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (London: Verso, 2001), x and 464 Pp. David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), xxiv...

Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. By Peter Burke (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. 224pp. $35.00). Peter Burke has mobilized his decades of work in social and cultural history in order to write this...

Metamorphosis and Identity. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Metamorphosis and Identity. By Caroline Walker Bynum (New York: Zone Books, 2001. x plus 270pp. $28.00). Postmodernism focuses on shifting and fluctuating boundaries and categories, on deconstruction of texts and constructs, and on varying...

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. By Barbara M. Benedict (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ix plus 321pp. $45). The history of curiosity is a subject that has recently become ripe for inquiry. It is a...

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1999. xv plus 377pp. $29.95/cloth $18.95/paper). In the best tradition of cultural history, Lendol...

Cafe, sociedad y relaciones de poder en America Latina. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cafe, sociedad y relaciones de poder en America Latina. Edited by Mario Samper K., William Roseberry, and Lowell Gudmundson (Heredia, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Nacional, 2001. 510 pp.). This volume marks the very welcome appearance...

Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England. By Wendy Joy Darby (Oxford: Berg, 2000. xx plus 330 pp. $65.00/cloth $19.50/paper). This publication might be termed two books in one. The first book is signaled by the...

Land, Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Land, Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada. By John Clarke (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. x plus 752pp. $75.00). "Upper Canada, from the time of its formation until the mid 19th century was a...

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Cambridge Urban. History of Britain. By Peter Clark, General Editor. Volume I (600-1540), ed. by D.M. Palliser; Volume II (1540-1840), ed. by Peter Clark; Volume III (1840-1950), ed. by Martin Daunton (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge...

Saltillo, 1770-1810: Town and Region in the Mexican North. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Saltillo, 1770-1810: Town and Region in the Mexican North. By Leslie Offutt (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. 290 pp., 2 maps, tables, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 0-8165-2164-6, $50.00 [cloth]). The headline on the press release...

Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares. By Marcelline J. Hutton (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. xii plus 468 pp. $80.00/cloth; $32.95/paper). There is a reason why "Russian"...

Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. By Susan Wells (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Madison Press, 2002. xii plus 312pp.). The literature on women in American medicine and science has...

Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740 and Family & Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, Patronage. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740. By Richard Grassby (New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix plus 506pp. $64.95). Family & Friends in...

Medieval Children. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xii plus 387 pp.). Nicholas Orme on (English) children, published by Yale University Press, is pretty likely to be a winning combination. Orme has...

Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. By John F. Kasson (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. viii plus 256 pp.). The historian John Kasson has over the past thirty years produced...

The American Body in Context: An Anthology. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The American Body in Context: An Anthology. Edited by Jessica R. Johnston (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2001 xix plus 335 pp. $60/cloth $ 19.95/paper). The American Body is the third volume in the American Visions Series from...

The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, arid Culture in the Modern South. By Michelle Brattain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. x plus 293pp. $35.00). Michelle Brattain's new book The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers,...

The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina. By David S. Cecelski (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx plus 304 pp. 39.95 hb, 17.95pb). Historians have understood the shaping impact of the...

Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa. By Diana Wylie (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. xiv plus 319 pp. $55.00/cloth $18.50/paper). Measured in terms of the...

Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. By Eric Arnesen (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 332 PP. $42.00/cloth $18.95/paper). Eric Arnesen has staked our an important and subtle position...

Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation. By J. William Harris (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii plus 454pp. $45.00). In 1985, J. William Harris published Plain Folk and Gentry in a...

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 317 pp. $26.00). Readers familiar with Daniel Richter's previous work will likely be surprised, as I was,...

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988. By Seth Garfield. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. 328pp. $59.95/cloth $19.95/paper). In the early 1970s,...

Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue. By Stewart R. King (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xxvi plus 323 pp. $45.00). France acquired title to the western third of the island of...

Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class. Edited by Shani D'Cruze (Harlow: Longman-Pearson Education, 2000. 233 pp.). Although the essays in Everyday Violence cover a wide range of subjects, they are coherently held...

Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935. By Jock McCulloch (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix plus 272pp. $35.00). The larger theme of this book is paranoia and paradox. More...

The Making of Fascism: Class, State, and Counter-Revolution, Italy 1919-1922. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Making of Fascism: Class, State, and Counter-Revolution, Italy 1919-1922. By Dahlia S. Elazar (New York: Praeger, 2001. xii plus 172 pp. $56.00). This is a difficult book to review for an historian because the author, who is a...

Vertriebene in Deutschland. Interdisziplinare Ergebnisse und Forschungsperspektiven. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Vertriebene in Deutschland. Interdisziplinare Ergebnisse und Forschungsperspektiven. Edited by Dierk Hoffman et al. (Munchen: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000. 475 pp. 79,80 Euro). After World War II, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Eastern...