Journal of Social History articles from March 2009

Journal of Social History archives from March 2009

Leading the World: the role of Britain and the First World War in promoting the "Modern Cremation" Movement.(SECTION I SOCIAL CHANGE IN EMOTION AND RITUAL)(Report)
March 22, 2009... At the 1971 conference of the International Cremation Federation (ICF), one British delegate consulted another regarding the advisability of the first speaking during a session. The second delegate, probably Kenneth G.C. Prevette, the general...

Divine madness: the dilemma of religious scruples in twentieth-century America and Britain.(SECTION I SOCIAL CHANGE IN EMOTION AND RITUAL)(Report)
March 22, 2009... Prior to the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s, scrupulosity was regarded as the excessive fear of sinning. Calling an individual "scrupulous" drew attention to a serious state of existence that included fanatical performance of religious...

The Independent Republic of football: the politics of neighborhood clubs in Santiago, Chile, 1948-1960.(SECTION II LESISURE AND POPULAR FASHION)(Report)
March 22, 2009... Introduction Across Latin America, and indeed the world, football has shaped national, ethnic, and gender identities. Idealized types including the youthful Argentine pibe and clubs such as the Afro-Peruvian community's Alianza Lima...

Fashioning heritage: regional costume and tourism in Brittany, 1890-1937.(SECTION II LESISURE AND POPULAR FASHION)(Report)
March 22, 2009... In her 1906 travel narrative Picturesque Brittany, the Englishwoman Nancy Bell gives voice to an enduring inclination among outsiders to the region to read desire and their own social and cultural preoccupations onto Breton regional costume....

The blue jean generation: youth, gender, and sexuality in Buenos Aires, 1958-1975.(SECTION II LESISURE AND POPULAR FASHION)(Report)
March 22, 2009... In 1975, tango poet Hector Negro wrote about "an invasion that began sometime in the 1950s and put an end to an entire lifestyle: at that point, Buenos Aires was dressed in a winter-like fashion, a grey city." In 1975, meanwhile, Buenos Aires...

Leary kin: Australian larrikins and the blackface minstrel dandy.(SECTION II LESISURE AND POPULAR FASHION)(Report)
March 22, 2009... On 11 November 1880, the Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly, was executed in Old Melbourne Gaol. Over the preceding week, an outpouring of resentment, curiosity and impending grief had made itself felt in the streets around the prison. Thousands...

Social life and civic education in the Rio de Janeiro city jail.(SECTION III COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS)(Report)
March 22, 2009... In the six weeks from mid-July to early September 1912, about a third of the 389 men whom guards escorted through the front doors of the Rio de Janeiro city jail had been arrested for vagrancy, or in Portuguese vadiagem, an infraction whose...

Instruments of concord: making peace and settling disputes through a notary in the city and contado of late medieval Bologna.(SECTION III COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS)(Report)
March 22, 2009... On January 1, 1339 Taddeo Pepoli, Bologna's first signorial lord, stood with three law professors, Paolo Liazari, Maccagnano degli Azzoguidi, and Pietro Bompietri, and about seventy leading citizens from the dominant Scacchese faction to...

Escaping the Laboratory: the rodent experiments of John B. Calhoun & their cultural influence.(SECTION IV SCIENCE IN SOCIAL HISTORY)(Report)
March 22, 2009... Introduction In 1947, John B. Calhoun's neighbor agreed to let him build a rat enclosure on disused woodland behind his house in Towson, Maryland. Calhoun would later reflect that his neighbor probably expected a few hutches, perhaps a...

European Sexualities, 1400-1800.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... European Sexualities, 1400-1800. By Katherine Crawford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix plus 246 pp.). This book is part of the Cambridge New Approaches to European History series, which aims to survey the scholarship on...

The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses. By Frances Lee Bernstein (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. 264pp.). Frances Lee Bernstein's main argument in The Dictatorship of Sex is that the Soviet...

Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1805-1932.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1805-1932. By Kate Transchel (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 224 pp. $35.00). What social ritual rivals drinking in Russian life?...

Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. By Michael A. Lerner (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 351 pp. $28.95). In this enjoyable and learned volume, Michael A. Lerner cites the temperance movement as one of the most...

Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain. By James Gregory. (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007, xii plus 313 pp., L57.50). James Gregory has written a thoroughly professional, wide-ranging...

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. By Allan M. Brandt. (New York: Basic Books. vii plus 600. $36.00). According to Allan M. Brandt in Cigarette Century, "Big Tobacco" has...

Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894. By Eugene Y. Park (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xiv plus 273 pp. $39.95). Jutting out of the northeastern corner of the Eurasian...

Vivre la ville: Les classes populaires a Paris (l'ere moite du XIXe siecle).(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Vivre la ville: Les classes populaires a Paris (l'ere moite du XIXe siecle). By Barrie M. Ratcliffe and Christine Piette (Paris: La Boutique de l'histoire, 2007. 584p. 34 euros). In Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the...