Journal of Social History articles from March 2005

Journal of Social History archives from March 2005

'Make lisle the style': the politics of fashion in the Japanese silk boycott, 1937-1940.
March 22, 2005... On a Friday afternoon in late January, 1938, a standing-room crowd of 600, including many of the leading society women of the District of Columbia, attended an unusual fashion show at the Wardman Park Theater. The hour-long pageant entitled,...

"Acting out the Oedipal wish": father-daughter incest and the sexuality of adolescent girls in the United States, 1941-1965.
March 22, 2005... The historical consensus on father-daughter incest during the postwar years in the United States is that it was fully and effectively denied--by social workers, courts of law, criminologists, psychoanalysts, social scientists, and ultimately...

'A good beating never hurt anyone': the punishment and abuse of children in twentieth century Ireland.
March 22, 2005... Introduction In recent years serious allegations have been made against the male and female religious orders that ran children's homes, including industrial schools, in twentieth-century Ireland. (1) These allegations range from sexual...

"They're never here more than a year": return migration in the southern exodus, 1940-1970.
March 22, 2005... Over the course of the twentieth century more than ten million people left the southern United States for the North and West. After five decades of consistent large-scale outmigration, the tide slowly began to shift back to the South in the...

Illegitimacy, inter-generational conflict and legal practice in eighteenth-century northern Burgundy.
March 22, 2005... Early Modern France was a society obsessed with the harmful effects of "disorder." The perception that women were subject to their passions more than men meant that the period saw the law used increasingly as a means of controlling women. Legal...

Extravagant pretensions: aristocratic family conflicts, emotion, and the 'public sphere' in early eighteenth-century Rome.
March 22, 2005... During a frustrating custody battle for his niece, a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (Francesco Barberini Junior [1662-1738]) successfully plotted her kidnapping, nearly lost custody of her because of his dramatic tirades before the pope,...

Black Archipelago: politics and civic life in the Jim Crow city.
March 22, 2005... Their inhabitants are subject peoples... --Kenneth Clark, on the "Dark Ghettos" of American cities (1) In this paper, I examine the Strange Career of Jim Crow in the context of industrial St. Louis, where a nearly uniform system of...

Incarnations and practices of feminine rectitude: nineteenth-century gymnastics for U.S. women.
March 22, 2005... Often referred to as calisthenics in order to denote their feminization, gymnastic systems deemed appropriate for U.S. women between 1830-1870 were enmeshed within a matrix of nineteenth-century discourses and institutional investments....

The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture.
March 22, 2005... The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture. By Gary S. Cross (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 1 plus 259 pp. $30.00). Few subjects agitate parents more intensely than the commercialization of...

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. By Peter Stearns (New York: New York University Press, 2003. xi plus 251 pp.). At its peak, in the 1980s, the milk carton campaign was putting pictures of missing children on...

Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s. Ed. Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann (Cambridge: The German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi plus...

Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950. By Marc Tebeau (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi plus 425 pp.). In his revision of a 1997 Carnegie Mellon dissertation, Mark Tebeau intertwines the histories of fighting and...

The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia. By Patricia Herlihy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). pp. vi + 244. The "green snake," cultural code for alcohol, has slithered its way throughout Russian history,...

Taverns and Drinking in Early America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Taverns and Drinking in Early America. By Sharon S. Salinger (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi plus 309 pp.). In Taverns and Drinking in Early America, Sharon V. Salinger offers a useful overview of the...

Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy. By Nick Thomas (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. xvi plus 277 pp. $79.95 [cloth], $26.95 [paper]). A scholarly research literature is only slowly developing...

Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922. By Donald J. Raleigh (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. xviii plus 438 pp. $24.95). Donald Raleigh, Professor of History at...

Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia. By Simon P. Newman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xii plus 211pp. $47.50 cloth, $18.95 paper). Since the 1960s, early American historians have striven to...

Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century. By Gerard Moran (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 252 pp. $55.00). During the nineteenth century, most Irish emigrants were aided to leave their...

Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940. By Timothy B. Smith (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. viii plus 241 pp.). Timothy Smith's main thesis is simple and significant: "By 1940, France was well on its way towards...

Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925. By Mark D. Steinberg (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii plus 335 pp.). What motivated ordinary workers to join the revolutionary movement...

Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History. By Owen Davies (London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2003. xv plus 246 pp.). Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History is a good, solid book that delivers less than it appears to...

The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa. By Clifton Crais (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi plus 297pp. $60.00). The Politics of Evil is an invitation to take seriously African...

Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico. By Laura A. Lewis (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003 xiv plus 262 pp. $79.95 cloth/$22.95 paper). This thought-provoking book reveals the links between discourses of caste...

Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Boy Murderer.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Boy Murderer. By Joan Jacobs Brumberg (New York: Viking, 2003. xiv plus 273 pp. $24.95). On April 22, 1892, the new state of Wyoming hanged seventeen-year-old Charley Miller for the murders...

"Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind": A Study of Women, Crime, and Prisons, 1835-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... "Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind": A Study of Women, Crime, and Prisons, 1835-2000. By L. Mara Dodge (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. 266 pp. plus appendix). Influenced by the work of philosophers such as Michel...

Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Child Murder & British Culture, 1720-1900. By Josephine McDonagh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii plus 278 pp. $65.00). Josephine McDonagh's richly textured study evokes the changing cultural preoccupations surrounding...

The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850. By Allyson N. May (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii plus 361 pp.). Inspired by debates over the role played by the criminal law in early modern and modern English social...

Murder, Honor and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Murder, Honor and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By Richard F. Hamm (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xi + 263pp.). How did the South and the nation differ? Did the southern system...

Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528-1735.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528-1735. By Renato Barahona (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xxi plus 274 pp. $60.00). This is a study of roughly 350 cases involving sexual misconduct from the...

Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women, Sicily, 1880-1920.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women, Sicily, 1880-1920. By Linda Reeder (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xii plus 322 pp. $65.00 cloth, $27.50 paper). White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color,...

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. By Erika Lee (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 331 pp. $55.00 Cloth $19.95 Paper). Historians have long been fascinated by the Chinese...

Destins immigres: Cher 1920-1980: Trajectoires d'immigres d'Europe.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Destins immigres: Cher 1920-1980: Trajectoires d'immigres d'Europe. By Philippe Rygiel (Besancon: Presses universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2001. 447 pp.). Today, as France finds itself confronting a generation of newly-established migrants...

Ordinary Prussians. Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ordinary Prussians. Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840. By William W. Hagen (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi plus 679 pp.). Stavenow, in east-Elbian Brandenburg, offers an excellent example of the classic...

Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929. By James W. Heinzen. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. x plus 297 pp. $44.95). James Heinzen has written an informative work...

The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895. By Jane Turner Censer (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xiii plus 316 pp.). Jane Turner Censer's new book takes an approach to the study of the postwar South...

Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776. By Trevor Burnard (New York: Routledge, 2002. ix plus 278 pp. $23.95). This lucid, superbly argued study of "the lives of moderately well off gentleman at the edges of the Atlantic plantation...

The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. By Louis M. Kyriakoudes (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 226 pp.). The Social Origins of the Urban South...

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii plus 211 pp.). In a departure from traditional accounts of eighteenth-century relations between...

Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes. By Sergio Serulnikov (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. viii plus 287 pp. $23.95). The great Andean rebellions of the 1780s mobilized...

The Curse of Ham. Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Curse of Ham. Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. By David M. Goldenberg (Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv +448 pp. $30.00). The core of and impetus for Goldenberg's deeply and massively...

Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany By Andrew Lees (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. xi plus 432 pp. $70.00). In Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany, Andrew Lees examines the confluence of...

"'Make Lisle the Style': The Politics of Fashion in the Japanese Silk Boycott, 1937-1940".(ABSTRACTS)
March 22, 2005... Lawrence B. Glickman, "'Make Lisle the Style': The Politics of Fashion in the Japanese Silk Boycott, 1937-1940" This article examines debates about the merits of a boycott of Japanese products, especially silk, in the late 1930s as a lens...

"'Acting Out the Oedipal Wish': Father-Daughter Incest and the Sexuality of Adolescent Girls in the United State, 1941-1965".(ABSTRACTS)
March 22, 2005... Rachel Devlin, "'Acting Out the Oedipal Wish': Father-Daughter Incest and the Sexuality of Adolescent Girls in the United State, 1941-1965" The impact of Freudian psychoanalysis on the interpretation of father-daughter incest in courts of...

"'A Good Beating Never Hust Anyone': The Punishment and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Moira J. Maguire, Seamus O Cinneide, "'A Good Beating Never Hust Anyone': The Punishment and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland" In recent years allegations have been made against the male and female religious orders that ran...

"'They're never here more than a year': Return Migration in the Southern Exodus, 1940-1970".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... J. Trent Alexander, "'They're never here more than a year': Return Migration in the Southern Exodus, 1940-1970" This article considers the incidence and meaning of return migration that took place during the twentieth-century "Great...

"Illegitimacy, Inter-generational Conflict and Legal Practice in Eighteenth-century Northern Burgundy".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Jeremy Hayhoe, "Illegitimacy, Inter-generational Conflict and Legal Practice in Eighteenth-century Northern Burgundy" The early modern era in European history has come to be seen as a period marked by more or less successful attempts by...

"Extravagant Pretensions: Aristocratic Family Conflicts, Emotion, and the 'Public Sphere' in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Caroline Castiglione, "Extravagant Pretensions: Aristocratic Family Conflicts, Emotion, and the 'Public Sphere' in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome" During a frustrating custody battle for his niece, a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church...

"Black Archipelago: Politics and Civic Life in the Jim Crow City".(ABSTRACTS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Joseph Heathcott, "Black Archipelago: Politics and Civic Life in the Jim Crow City" The relationship between segregation, black political experience, and civic culture in urban America is neither simple nor straightforward. This paper...

"Incarnations and Practices of Feminine Rectitude: Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Ann Chisholm, "Incarnations and Practices of Feminine Rectitude: Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women" Between 1830-1870, a number of influential texts promoting gymnastics deemed appropriate for U.S. women claimed that those...