Journal of Social History articles from September 2005

Journal of Social History archives from September 2005

From good cheer to "Drive-By Smiling": a social history of cheerfulness.
September 22, 2005... Emotion Culture and Emotion Experience The culture of emotions, also known as "emotionology," (1) consists of the collective emotional standards of a society. These include norms of feeling and emotion expression, desirable ideals and an...

Visible bodies: power, subordination and identity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
September 22, 2005... In the eighteenth century the developing print culture made bodies--particularly the bodies of the poor, the troublesome and the criminal, more noticeable than ever before. While bodies in the early modern period were subject to inspection...

Women and the paradox of economic inequality in the twentieth-century.
September 22, 2005... Throughout American history, male/female has defined an enduring binary embodied in access to jobs, income, and wealth. Women's economic history shows how for centuries sex has inscribed a durable inequality into the structure of American labor...

Bread and arsenic: citizenship from the bottom up in Georgian London.
September 22, 2005... Jonas Hanway died on September 5, 1786. For his services to Britain, he was laid to rest under an elaborate memorial in Westminster Abbey, the first to honor a man for his philanthropy. (1) Hanway was best known for his Marine Society, which...

Nurse Gordon on trial: those early days of the birth control clinic movement reconsidered.(Linda Gordon)
September 22, 2005... It is a story many of us know well. As historian Linda Gordon explained nearly thirty years ago, in the early days of the teens Margaret Sanger was a radical. She talked about sex. She talked about revolution. She criticized doctors. She even...

A 'Hard-Boiled Order': the reeducation of disabled WWI veterans in New York City.(World War I)
September 22, 2005... Upon discharge, most veterans of the American Expeditionary Force received $60, a new suit of clothes, a train ticket home, and the opportunity to purchase a modest life insurance policy. Unless they had been wounded, women serving as nurses...

"Long live Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Dynamite:" (1) the German bourgeoisie and the constructing of popular liberal and national-socialist subcultures in marginal Germany.
September 22, 2005... Interest in European Liberalism as a cultural phenomenon and its relation to the European Bourgeoisie has certainly increased in the last decade. One of the new arguments is that, like Socialism and Catholicism in continental Europe, Liberalism...

Frightened George: how the pediatric-educational complex ruined the Curious George series.(Curious George series of books)
September 22, 2005... To contemporary tastes, the plot of the original Curious George story is astonishing. In the book by H.A. Rey (and Margret, his wife and uncredited collaborator), George, a small monkey and a childlike figure, is lured from his perch high up in...

Suburbia reconsidered: race, politics, and property in the twentieth century.(My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965)(American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland)(L.A. City Limits: African Americans in Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present)(Places of their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland...

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953. By Julie Hessler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii plus 366 pp.). In this excellent social and political history of the origins...

The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. By Stephane Gerson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii plus 324 pp.). Gustave Flaubert held in horror the suffocating conventionalism of...

Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Secrets of the Soul. A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis. By Eli Zaretsky (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. xv plus 429 pp. $30.00). Eli Zaretsky has set himself a very ambitious goal: to bring together developments in...

Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. By Alexander S. Dawson (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xxvi plus 222 pp. $45.00). In 2001, the Mexican government approved a constitutional amendment that purported to give indigenous...

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill (North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x plus 363 pp.). In his Deacons for Defense, Lance Hill directs long overdue attention to the...

El rostro de la comunidad: la identidad del campesino en la Castilla del Antiguo Regimen.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... El rostro de la comunidad: la identidad del campesino en la Castilla del Antiguo Regimen. By Jesus Izquierdo Martin (Madrid: Consejo Economico y Social--Comunidad de Madrid, 2001. 795 pp.). Izquierdo Martin investigates a range of political...

The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926. By John Henry Hepp, IV (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix plus 278 pp.). The Middle-Class City offers a 'case study' in middle-class...

Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000. By H. W. Dick (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies Research in International Studies Southeast Asia Series No. 106, Ohio University Press, 2002. xxix plus...

Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England. By Martin Wiener (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi plus 296 pp. $70.00). Given that "one of the most fundamental obstacles to social order and...

'Do Penance or Perish': A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... 'Do Penance or Perish': A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland. By Frances Finnegan (Piltown, Co. Kilkenny: Congrave Press, 2001. xii plus 256 pp.). The title of this book raises the hopes of Irish social historians, because it addresses...

Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Wandering Paysanos: State and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era. By Ricardo D. Salvatore (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 544 pp. $59.95). This detailed and provocative analysis of the Rosas Era questions...

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv + 325 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $32.50/Paper $20.00). Citizen Hobo makes a significant...

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the Early Republic, 1760-1860. By Michael Zakin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x plus 296 pp.). For much of the twentieth century, the Brooks Brothers men's clothing company...

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. By Michael Hau (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x plus 286 pp. 48 illustrations). If Friedrich Nietzsche had maintained a healthier lifestyle, eating more...

Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico. By Federico Garza Carvajal (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xx plus 310 pp. $27.50). This book represents a significant reworking of a University of...

The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. By Suzanne Desan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xiv plus 456 pp. $50.00). A book review can scarcely begin to explain the significance of Suzanne Desan's The...

"Faire les noces": Le mariage de la noblesse francaise (1375-1475).(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... "Faire les noces": Le mariage de la noblesse francaise (1375-1475). By Genevieve Ribordy (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004). This is a excellent study that does even more than what it claims to do: investigate the...

The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. By Thomas E. Buckley (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 346 pp. $19.95 paper; $59.95 cloth). Something like fifty percent of American marriages end in...

Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis. By David R. Shumway (New York: New York University Press, 2003. xi plus 269 pp.). David Shumway, who is a professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon...

Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America. By John Demos (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi plus 98 pp. $19.95). Every once in a while it is refreshing to put aside detailed academic monographs in favor of shorter...

The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity. By Linda A. Curcio-Nagy (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xiv + 363 pp.). Reflecting growing scholarly interest in the civic and religious...

French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability From the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. By Steven Kale (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x plus 308 pp.). This study of the history of the French (Parisian) salon...

Global Games.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Global Games. By Martin Van Bottenburg, translated from the Dutch by Beverley Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. viii, 282 pp.). Historicising sports that are played at an international level requires layer upon layer of...

"From good cheer to 'Drive-By Smiling': a social history of cheerfulness".(working paper)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Christina Kotchemidova, "From Good Cheer to 'Drive-By Smiling': A Social History of Cheerfulness" This paper attempts to outline the social history of cheerfulness using the constructivist perspective on emotions. The role of cheerfulness...

"Visible bodies: power, subordination and identity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world".(working paper)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton, "Visible Bodies: Power, Subordination and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" In eighteenth-century Britain and North America, newspaper advertisements were the primary means of publishing...

"Women and the paradox of economic inequality in the twentieth-century".(working paper)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern, Jamie J. Fader, "Women and the Paradox of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth-Century" This article uses the history of women in twentieth-century United States to explore the paradox of inequality in...

"Bread and arsenic: citizenship from the bottom up in Georgian London".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Isaac Land, "Bread and Arsenic: Citizenship from the Bottom Up in Georgian London" This article assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Linda Colley's thesis about the formation of British identity, using the public response to black war...

"Nurse Gordon on trial: those early days of the birth control clinic movement reconsidered".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Rose Holz, "Nurse Gordon on Trial: Those Early Days of the Birth Control Clinic Movement Reconsidered" This essay concerns a woman by the name of Adele Gordon. Adele Gordon was a nurse who, during the 1930s, operated a...

"'Of women, by women, and for women': the day nursery movement in the Progressive-era United States".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Anne Durst, "'Of Women, By Women, and For Women': The Day Nursery Movement in the Progressive-era United States" Wage-earning mothers of the Progressive-era United States shared a very pressing concern: securing care for their young...

"A 'Hard-Boiled Order': the reeducation of disabled WWI veterans in New York City".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Scott Gelber, "A 'Hard-Boiled Order': The Reeducation of Disabled WWI Veterans in New York City" As a group, the disabled veterans of the First World War made unique demands upon the United States government. Veterans and policymakers...

"'Long live liberty, equality, fraternity and dynamite:' the German bourgeoisie and the constructing of popular liberal and national-socialist subculture in marginal Germany".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Oded Heilbronner, "'Long Live Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Dynamite:' The German Bourgeoisie and the Constructing of Popular Liberal and National-Socialist Subculture in Marginal Germany" It is well known that in most regions which...

"Frightened George: how the pediatric-educational complex ruined the curious George series".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Daniel Greenstone, "Frightened George: How the Pediatric-Educational Complex Ruined the Curious George Series" This article examines the evolution of American child-rearing practices through the lens of the famous Curious George children's...

"Review essay: suburbia reconsidered: race, politics, and property in the twentieth century American Metropolis".(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Margaret Pugh O'Mara, "Review Essay: Suburbia Reconsidered: Race, Politics, and Property in the Twentieth Century American Metropolis" Despite the increased demographic diversity of U.S. suburbs and the long history of working-class and...