Journal of Social History articles from September 2001

Journal of Social History archives from September 2001

THE VICE TRUST: A REINTERPRETATION OF THE WHITE SLAVERY SCARE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1907-1917.
September 22, 2001... In the narratives of the white slavery scare, which peaked in the United States between 1910 and 1913, urban reformers intertwined the story of the sexually coerced maiden with a heated condemnation of the business of vice. Although the white...

COLONIAL BARACUNATANAS AND THEIR NASTY MEN: SPOUSAL HOMICIDES AND THE LAW IN LATE COLONIAL NEW GRANADA.
September 22, 2001... "...anoche te vi, habia otro que te chequeaba, montaste su moto, te brindo chicle, tambien galleta, prendio su motoneta y te marchaste con el mono del jean, el overall y la chaqueta... Por eso tu eres garuya, retrechera, abeja, bergaja,...

REDEFINING PUBLIC EDUCATION: CONTESTATION, THE PRESS, AND EDUCATION IN REGENCY SPAIN, 1885-1902.
September 22, 2001... Introduction Social scientists and historians alike have long stressed the centrality of print culture in the formation of national identities. [1] They have rightly emphasized that literate citizens are at the vanguard of nationalist...

HELL IN SMALL PLACES: AGRARIAN ELITES AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE IN THE WESTERN TRANSVAAL, 1900-1907.
September 22, 2001... A Gathering Tumult All of history does not appear in action, or in public records. Much of it, and that often the most revealing and significant is not what appears in... , speeches, reports, and blue books. It is ideas, personal pleas,...

A PEASANT REBELLION IN STALIN'S RUSSIA: THE PITELINSKII UPRISING, RIAZAN 1930.
September 22, 2001... Let's go home. It smells like murder here. (Poidem domoi, zdes' pakhnet ubiistvom.)-- wife of the sel'sovet chairman in Zabelino, 16 March 1930 On the night of 27 January 1930, Avanesov, a member of a collectivization brigade, raped a...

"PART OF THE LOAF:" ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF CHICAGO'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN WORKING CLASS DURING THE 1920'S.
September 22, 2001... In January 1928, Sheridan A. Bruseaux of the Keystone National Detective Agency, a black Chicago company, sought information about the economic conditions of blacks in the United States from the U.S. Department of Labor. Bruseaux's agency had...

PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH: A CASE STUDY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, 1907-1920.
September 22, 2001... During the first decades of the twentieth century, various Southern cities began to employ new public health techniques in the administration of their public health departments. These techniques not only included introducing new scientific...

FORMATION OF GENDER IDENTITIES IN REPUBLICAN TURKEY AND WOMEN'S NARRATIVES AS TRANSMITTERS OF 'HERSTORY' OF MODERNIZATION.
September 22, 2001... Writing history in Turkey has always been problematical because of the role assigned to officiat history writing in the construction of the nation-state after Turkey emerged as a young Republic out of a nationalist struggle in 1923. Women's...

Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. By Steven M. Gelber (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xi plus 374 pp.). Anyone, like the reviewer, who grew up in the postwar era, will delight in this reprise of one's...

Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860. By C. Dallett Hemphill (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. x plus 3l0pp.). Recently on a crowded commuter bus from downtown Seattle to an outlying town, a...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Wanderlust: A History of Walking. By Rebecca Solnit. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, viii, 326pp.). This work is not quite a history of walking nor is it a study of Wanderlust. Rather, title notwithstanding, it is essentially a...

Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951 By Owen Davies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. xiii + 337 pp. Hardback ISBN: 0719056551 $79.95; [pound]50.80 Paperback ISBN: 071905656X$27.95; [pound]15.99). Owen Davies...

Origins and Rise of the British Distillery.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Origins and Rise of the British Distillery. By William T. Harper (New York & United Kingdom: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999. vii plus 30lpp.). The dramatic rise in the British consumption of spirits through the early eighteenth century still...

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. By Hans Turley (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. 199 pp.). First things first. The lurid title is misleading. Although the book contains a fair...

The Civilisation of the Crowd: Popular Culture in England 1750-1900.(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Civilisation of the Crowd: Popular Culture in England 1750-1900. By J.M. Colby and A.W. Purdue (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999. 224pp. $23.95). From its very beginning popular culture seems to have been a set of activities pursued by...

Uprooting Otherness: the Literacy Campaign in NEW-era Russia.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Uprooting Otherness: the Literacy Campaign in NEW-era Russia. By Charles E. Clark (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associate University Presses, 2000. 235 pp.). Modem revolutionaries have often associated their...

Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland: From the Golden Age to Romanticism.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland: From the Golden Age to Romanticism. By Rudolf Dekker (Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000. ix plus 174 pp. $59.95). Did our early modern ancestors have a different emotional...

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution. By Margaret Chowning (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv plus 477 pp. $60.00). Most of us regard it as a sociological truism that the...

Hitler's Austria; Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era 1938-1945.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Hitler's Austria; Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era 1938-1945. By Evan Burr Bukey (Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi plus 320 pp. $39.95). When the German army entered Austria in March 1938, the German...

Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals. By Elizabeth H. Pleck (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix plus 328pp. $55.00/cloth $22.95/paperback). It is now three decades, beginning with...

Italiane al lavoro 1914-1920.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Italiane al lavoro 1914-1920. By Barbara Curli (Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 1998. 338 pp.). This book is a needed contribution to the study of the impact of the Great War and of war demobilization on female employment in Italy. It is based...

France and Women 1789-1914.(Review)
September 22, 2001... France and Women 1789-1914: Gender, Society and Politics. By James F. McMillan (London and New York: Routledge, 2000. xiv plus 286 pp.). In the roughly twenty years since James McMillan first published his pathbreaking study Housewife or...

AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45.(Review)
September 22, 2001... AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45. By Kimberley L. Phillips (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xv plus 334pp. $59.95/cloth $21.95/paperback). Racial...

Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866- 1884.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866- 1884. By Gilles Vandal (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2000. x plus 3l9pp.). Gilles Vandal offers a comprehensive and informative analysis of southern...

Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction By J. Morgan Kousser (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii and 590 pp.). In this book Kousser has accomplished two important...

The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest.(Review)
September 22, 2001... The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest. By Carroll L. Riley (Satt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999. xvi plus 336pp. $34.95). In this book Riley offers a synthesis of the history of the interactions...

Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation. By Judith Pallot (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii plus 255pp.). Judith Pallot's important book will become the standard work on...

One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937.(Review)
September 22, 2001... One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. By Linda S. Bell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi plus 290 pp. $49.50). The debate on issues related to development in late...

Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434. By Samuel K. Cohn Jr. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii plus 308 pp. $49.95). In this dense book, Samuel Cohn offers a bold new interpretation of the...

Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939. By Laird Boswell (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii plus 266pp.). After the split in the Socialist Party following the Tours Congress of 1920 the new Parti Communiste Francais...

Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People. By Thomas A. Abercrombie (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xxviii plus 603 pp. $60.00 cloth $27.00 paperback). Thomas Abercrombie's three-part...

Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modem Italy.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modem Italy. By Tommaso Astarita (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xxiv plus 305pp. $45.00 hardcover). More than ten months after receiving initial reports of...

British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment, and Change.(Review)
September 22, 2001... British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment, and Change. By Richard Price (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii plus 349 pp.). In the discipline of social history, periodization is an interpretive act. Richard...

Medicine and Society in Early Modem Europe.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Medicine and Society in Early Modem Europe. By Mary Lindemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 249 pp. $18.95/paper). Lindemann provides the student and scholar with a "revisionist" overview of the history of early modern...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
September 22, 2001... Dear Editors, In the Winter 2000 issue of the Journal of Social History (JSH) I had the privilege of joining a rather lengthy list of scholars who have been "savaged" in reviews or comments by Robert Jackson. Since his all too frequent...