Journal of Social History articles from September 2000

Journal of Social History archives from September 2000

THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX EPISCOPATE, 1721-1917: A PROSOPOGRAPHY.
September 22, 2000... The Russian episcopate's almost exclusive reliance upon a pool of parish clergy sons from the mid-eighteenth century until 1917 knew no parallel in Western or Central Europe, where bishops were from the nobility and increasingly from the middle...

MOTHERS IN THE MOTHERLAND: STALINIST PRONATALISM IN ITS PAN-EUROPEAN CONTEXT.
September 22, 2000... The October Revolution of 1917 brought to power a radical socialist government that denounced the family as a bourgeois institution, undermined the institution of marriage, and promised the liberation of women. Aleksandra Kollontai, the leading...

HISTORICIZING THE GENDER OF EMOTIONS: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS IN DUTCH ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT.
September 22, 2000... From Virgil to Van Amerongen We could easily fill a whole library with books that have taken their inspiration from the emotional nature of women. From Virgil's "Varium et mutabile semper femina" (Woman remains a changeable and capricious...

A GENDERED HISTORY OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION IN THE ANTEBELLUM UNITED STATES.
September 22, 2000... When the American Colonization Society began recruiting Northern free blacks to establish a new colony in West Africa in the 1820s, Joseph Blake, a thirty-three-year-old Philadelphia ship carpenter, joined dozens of urban free blacks who turned...

"WITH THE AID OF GOD AND THE F.S.A.": THE LOUISIANA FARMERS' UNION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN THE NEW DEAL ERA.
September 22, 2000... Introduction In August 1938, a member of the interracial Louisiana Farmers' Union (LFU) wrote in a letter to the union office, "My crop is coming along fine. With the aid of God and the F.S.A. I hope to establish a better home for myself...

INSTITUTIONALIZING INEQUALITIES: BLACK CHILDREN AND CHILD WELFARE IN CLEVELAND, 1859-1998.
September 22, 2000... In May 1997, a public ombudsman reported that children were beaten by staff and other children in the Cuyahoga County Detention Center in Cleveland, an "overcrowded, unsanitary, dehumanizing facility." In September, a team of consultants...

THE RISE OF THE POOR, WEAK, AND WICKED: POOR CARE, PUNISHMENT, RELIGION, AND PATRIARCHY IN LEIPZIG, 1700-1730.
September 22, 2000... Between 1700 and 1704 the city council of Leipzig, in central Germany, presided over the construction of a new, large combination poor house, orphanage, insane asylum, and penitentiary named St. George. The institution housed nearly one hundred...

Durable Inequality.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Durable Inequality. By Charles Tilly (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. xi plus 299pp. $29.95). In the mid-1970s, I attended a rally when a speaker summed up a long harangue by concluding that the most...

On the Case: Explorations in Social History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... On the Case: Explorations in Social History. Edited By Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 369pp.). In addition to an 'Introduction' and 'Afterword', there are fifteen substantive contributions...

Contesting the Master Narrative: Essays in Social History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Contesting the Master Narrative: Essays in Social History. By Edited by Jeffrey Fox and Shelton Stromquist (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998. 266pp.). It is difficult to characterize this volume, which derives from a "Workshop on...

Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages. By Eugen Weber (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. 294 pp.). Weber's Apocalypses is, in his own words, "more about narrative than...

The Mid-Victorian Generation 1856-1886.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Mid-Victorian Generation 1856-1886. By K. Theodore Hoppen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. xix plus 787pp.). This third volume in the New Oxford History of England series is said to approximate in time and substance Sir Robert...

A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead. By Judith Modell (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xxiv plus 341pp.). Everytime I see another project that focuses on Homestead, the Monongahela River town which once was the...

"Asylum for Mankind": America 1607-1800.(Review)
September 22, 2000... "Asylum for Mankind": America 1607-1800. By Marilyn C. Baseler (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. xi plus 353pp.). Most studies of American immigration focus on the period between 1830 and 1920, using that era of massive...

The Medical World of Early Modern France.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Medical World of Early Modern France. By Laurence Brockliss and Cohn Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xviii plus 960pp. $150.00). A book this expensive and this long is not likely to attract many readers, however enticing...

Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. By Stephen M. Frank (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x plus 24Opp. $34.95). Although we know much about motherhood in...

Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830. By Leah Leneman (Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press, 1998. vi plus 354pp.). Despite the methodological richness and variety spawned by social history,...

Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modem Spain.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modem Spain. Edited by Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff (Albany, New York: State University Press of New York, 1998. xiv plus 443pp.). This collection of essays explores the...

Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940. By Mercedes Steedman (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. ix plus 333pp.). In this study of an industry which women...

The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940. By William A. Gleason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xviii plus 446pp. $60.00). The Leisure Ethic mines a century's worth of major American literary works for...

Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver".(Review)
September 22, 2000... Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver." By Cassandra Tate (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. vi plus 204pp. $29.95). In this fascinating, highly readable study, Cassandra Tate investigates what she...

Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. By Eric C. Schneider (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. xx plus 334pp. $29.95). Between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s, youth gangs divided the streets...

The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris. By John E. Zucchi (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. viii plus 2O8pp.). During the nineteenth century, Italian child street musicians and...

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Torn Brass and Marcel van der Linden (New York: Peter Lang AG, 1997. 602pp. $78.95). This volume is a collection of papers delivered at a conference on free and unfree labor organized...

Black Society in Spanish Florida.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Black Society in Spanish Florida. By Jane Landers. Foreword by Peter H. Wood (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv 390pp. $50.00/cloth $19.95/paperback). Between 1565 and 1821 (there was a short period of British rule...

Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80. By Christopher Waldrep (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv plus 267pp.). Over the last decade, scholars have challenged the traditional...

Liberdade por um fio: Historia dos quilombos no Brasil.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Liberdade por um fio: Historia dos quilombos no Brasil. [Freedom Hanging by a Thread: The History of Runaway Slave Communities in Brazil.] Edited by Joao Jose Reis and Flavio dos Santos Comes (Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996. 509 pp.)....

Changing Hisotry: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Changing Hisotry: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century. By Philip A. Howard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1998. xxii plus 227pp. $35.00). This monograph is a welcome addition to...

To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965.(Review)
September 22, 2000... To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965. By Jeffrey L. Gould (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv plus 305 pp. $18.95/paperback $54.95/cloth). A few years ago, a Brazilianist casually mentioned...

American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories.(Review)
September 22, 2000... American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. By Daniel H. Usner, Jr. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xiv plus 189pp.). Daniel Usner follows a first book on the frontier exchange...

Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire. Edited by Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan (Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1998. 275pp. $24.95/paperback $50.00/cloth). ...

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas. By Jeannie M. Whayne (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xvi plus 324pp.). Remarkably, it has been over twenty-five years since the...

Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920. By Linda J. Tomko (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. xvii plus 283pp. $38.95/cloth $18.95/paperback). Linda J. Tomko has set...

The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life in 1860-1914.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life in 1860-1914. By Christopher Breward (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. ix plus 278pp. $79.95/cloth $24.95/paperback). Unfortunately the study of...

The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (New York: Hill & Wang, 1999. ix plus 358pp. $35.00). One hates to see a book begin by egregiously and injuriously...

A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Review)
September 22, 2000... A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. By H.C. Erik Midelfort (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi plus 438pp. $55.00). This is an immensely learned and rich work by a leading historian of early-modern Germany....

Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. By Alison J. Clarke (Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x plus 241pp. $24.95). In 1956 New York's Museum of Modern Art featured Tupperware products in an...

Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930. By Lynne Curry (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x plus 206pp. $18.50/paperback $40.00/cloth). As Progressive reformers sought to improve the...