Journal of Social History articles from September 2004

Journal of Social History archives from September 2004

Procreative compounds: popular eugenics, artificial insemination and the rise of the American sperm banking industry.(Industry Overview)
September 22, 2004... A contemporary visitor to one of the largest sperm banks in the United States would find a dazzling array of seminal products available for purchase. The storage room of New England Cryogenics--in "home run" distance from Boston's Fenway...

Learning to shop in Zion: the consumer revolution in Great Basin Mormon culture, 1847-1910.
September 22, 2004... Scholars of American culture have invoked consumption to account for a diverse range of phenomena. Consumer culture, we are told, exploits women (or perhaps empowers them), unravels communities (or perhaps defines them), erodes the state (or...

Illegitimacy, postwar psychology, and the reperiodization of the sexual revolution.
September 22, 2004... In the minds of most social historians, the sexual revolution was primarily the product of the 1960s. While acknowledging the earlier rise of Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner and an increasingly defiant youth culture, most scholars portray these...

"To wed or not to wed?": the struggle to define Afro-Jamaican relationships, 1834-1838.
September 22, 2004... The 1753 Marriage Act can be considered as a first step in the struggle of the rising middle classes in Britain to impose their norm of marriage on the rest of society. (1) It specified that marriage could only take place with banns or a...

"A nation born to slavery": missionaries and racial discourse in seventeenth-century French Antilles.
September 22, 2004... It is a truism that the modern or scientific racism that emerged in the late eighteenth century and flourished in throughout Europe, the United States, and much of Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was new and different...

Fordism, mass tourism and the third reich: the "Strength through Joy" seaside resort as an index fossil.
September 22, 2004... 0. Introduction Four days after Hitler was made Reichskanzler, he outlined his agenda in front of military commanders: the first objective was to gain total power by abolishing democracy and "eradicating Marxism root and branch." (1) In...

Subcultures, pop music and politics: skinheads and "Nazi rock" in England and Germany.
September 22, 2004... Right-wing extremist rock music--so-called "Nazi rock"--is one of the most problematic of popular musical genres. Emerging from the skinhead youth subculture in Britain at the end of the 1970s, and spreading to the continent and across the...

A united people? Leaders and followers in a chartist locality, 1838-1848.
September 22, 2004... "The Charter must and will be the law of the land, if a united people desire it." (Address of the Chartists of Ashton-under-Lyne, to their Brethren in Scotland, Northern Star, 27 July 1839) In the first half of the nineteenth...

Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(Review Essay)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Post-Modernist Theory of Wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. By Thomas Laqueur (New York: Zone Books, 2003. 501pp.). In Solitary Sex Thomas Laqueur aims to provide a comprehensive explanation for the anxiety over...

The Practice of Conceptual History. Timing History: Spacing Concepts.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Practice of Conceptual History. Timing History: Spacing Concepts. By Reinhart Koselleck (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xiv + 363 pp.). Reinhart Koselleck, as Hayden White points out in the foreword to this volume, is "one...

The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations. By Benno Teschke (London, New York: Verso, 2003. x plus 308 pp. $35.00). Benno Teschke has written a groundbreaking book, a veritable tour de force,...

Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. By Dirk Hoerder (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xxii plus 779 pp. $100). Encyclopedic seems to be the word for Hoerder's Cultures in Contact--two of the three...

The Challenge of Modernity: German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Challenge of Modernity: German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960. By Adelheid von Saldern (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. xxii plus 383 pp. $64.50). Adelheid von Saldern belongs to a small group of German female...

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. By Kolleen Guy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi plus 245 pp. $39.95). Although most of us are willing to drink "champagne" whether it was...

Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800-1815.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800-1815. Edited by Michael Rowe (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii-254 pp. [pounds sterling]50.00). This collection of...

Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History. By Marcel van der Linden and Lex Heerma van Voss (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. vi plus 256 pp. Cloth $69.95, Paper $25.00). ...

HISCO. Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... HISCO. Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. By Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2002. 441 pp.). The book proposes a solution for an important technical...

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. By Max Elbaum (New York: Verso Press, 2002. 320 pp.). In Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, Max Elbaum presents a valuable but flawed study...

Talk of Love: How Culture Matters.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. By Ann Swidler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x plus 300 pp. $30.00). What is romantic love? How do people know when they have found it? What cultural tools do they have at hand to shape...

Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930. By Margaret Lowe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 240 pp.). The comparative history of institutions often yields rich results, as Margaret Lowe demonstrates in her...

Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion. By Stephanie A. Shields (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii plus 214 pp.). This fresh analysis by Stephanie Shields is important for anyone interested in...

Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914. By Patricia M. Mazon (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003. x plus 297 pp.). Patricia Mazon has written a lively and...

Reforming Men & Women: Gender in the Antebellum City.(Reviews)(Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Reforming Men & Women: Gender in the Antebellum City. By Bruce Dorsey (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 299, notes, index). Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States....

Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973. By Heidi Tinsman (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xxi plus 366 pp.). This fabulous book offers nuanced, thorough, and...

The Rule of Freedom: The City and Modern Liberalism.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Rule of Freedom: The City and Modern Liberalism. By Patrick Joyce (Verso: London, 2003. xii plus 264 pp.). Patrick Joyce demonstrates the rich rewards that can flow from making use of Foucault's governmentality approach, and for those...

Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States. By Randy D. McBee (New York: New York University Press, 2000. vii plus 293 pp. $40.00). Randy McBee's book, Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure...

Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society. Edited by Tobias Hecht (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 277 pp. $21.95). In recent decades, scholars have pointed to the importance of incorporating age as a...

Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth-Century Experience. By Marilyn Irvin Holt (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. iv plus 224 pp. $26.00 cloth). Scholars for some time now have recognized that children actively participate in the world...

Drugs, Labor, and Colonial Expansion.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Drugs, Labor, and Colonial Expansion. Edited by William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. viii plus 253pp. $50.00/cloth). In this volume, Jankowiak and Bradburd bring together a collection of nine...

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout. By Timothy Minchin (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. ix plus 233 pp.). A large billboard metaphorically looms over Timothy Minchin's wonderful...

A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910. By Leslie A. Schuster (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. x plus 233 pp. $64.95). Leslie Schuster's study of the...

"An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left. By Jennifer Frost (New York: New York University Press, 2001. xii plus 257 pp. $40.00). "She looked at me and said, "You can't help me." I said, "Well, we ...

Population and Society in an East Devon Parish. Reproducing Colyton, 1540-1840.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Population and Society in an East Devon Parish. Reproducing Colyton, 1540-1840. By Pamela Sharpe (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. xv, 408 pp.). Colyton proved to be a most interesting choice when E.A. Wrigley analysed its parish...

Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820.(Reviews)(Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820. By Peter King (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 H.c., 2003 Pb. xiii plus 383 pages. $95 H.c. and $35 Pb). Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980. By F. M. L....

Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London. By Simon Joyce (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003, ix plus 267 pp.). Although the title might seem to suggest otherwise, Joyce's book is not...

Writing Peasants: Studies on Peasant Literacy in Early Modern Northern Europe.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Writing Peasants: Studies on Peasant Literacy in Early Modern Northern Europe. Edited by Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt and Bjorn Poulsen (Kerteminde: Landbohistorisk Selskab, 2002. 284 pp.). The two editors of this wide-ranging collection...

Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600. By Helmut Puff (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix plus 311 pp.). Helmut Puff's ambitious and innovative study is anything but a straightforward history of sodomy. Using...

The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. By Gerald N. Grob (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. x plus 349 pp. $35.00). This is a fine example of Consensus History in the style of that written in the 1950s. The author...

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. x plus 255 pp. $39.95). Did France have a bourgeoisie? That is the central question of Sarah...

The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945.(Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945. By Peter M. Beattie (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. x + 390pp., $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paperback). One morning, hiking in the Itatiaia National Park, located...

Procreative compounds: popular eugenics, artificial insemination and the rise of the American sperm banking industry.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Cynthia R. Daniels, Janet Golden, "Procreative Compounds: Popular Eugenics, Artificial Insemination and the Rise of the American Sperm Banking Industry" This article traces the origins of arrangements for artificial insemination...

Learning to shop in Zion: the consumer revolution in great basin Mormon culture: 1847-1910.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Greg ("Fritz") Umbach, "Learning to Shop in Zion: The Consumer Revolution in Great Basin Mormon Culture: 1847-1910" Mormondom 1847-1910 provides a test case for examining consumerism. Zion's rapid changes produced a...

Illegitimacy, postwar psychology, and the reperiodization of the sexual revolution.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Alan Petigny, "Illegitimacy, Postwar Psychology, and the Reperiodization of the Sexual Revolution" Drawing on vital statistics and census data, the author argues that the Sexual Revolution was unfolding in the United States during...

'To wed or not to wed?': the struggle to define Afro-Jamaican relationships, 1834-1838.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Henrice Altink, "'To Wed or not to Wed?': The Struggle to Define Afro-Jamaican Relationships, 1834-1838" This article examines the extent to which Afro-Jamaicans could live up to the metropolitan, middle-class ideal of marriage...

'A nation born to slavery': missionaries and racial discourse in seventeenth-century French Antilles.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Sue Peabody, "'A Nation Born to Slavery': Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles" Catholic missionaries accompanied the first French colonial ventures into the Antilles in the seventeenth century...

Fordism, mass tourism and the Third Reich: the 'Strength through Joy' seaside resort as an index fossil.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Hasso Spode, "Fordism, Mass Tourism and the Third Reich: The 'Strength through Joy' Seaside Resort as an Index Fossil" Nazi Germany played a pioneering role in promoting "holidays for all." In- and outside Germany the travel...

Subcultures, pop music and politics: skinheads and 'Nazi rock' in England and Germany.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Timothy S. Brown, "Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and 'Nazi Rock' in England and Germany" This article takes a comparative and transnational approach to a key phenomenon of the late-20th century: the dovetailing...

A united people?: leaders and followers in a Chartist locality, 1838-1848.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Robert G. Hall, "A United People?: Leaders and Followers in a Chartist Locality, 1838-1848" Most studies of Chartist democracy have overlooked the problem of leaders and followers in the localities; typically, historians have...

Review essay: a post-modernist theory of wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(Abstracts)(Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Abstract: Robert Darby, "Review Essay: A Post-Modernist Theory of Wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. By Thomas Laqueur (New York: Zone Books, 2003. 501pp.)." In Solitary Sex Thomas Laqueur aims to provide a...