Recently added articles from Journal of Social History:
Melancholy and modernity: emotions and social life in Russia between the revolutions.(SADNESS AND SOCIETY)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Steinberg, Mark D. ... "The 'modern,' the time of hell." -- Walter Benjamin In the years of uncertainty and drift following the 1905 revolution in Russia, before the country entered the maelstrom of total war and revolution, public life was thick with talk of emotions. In particular, the question of ...
"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure": Northern civilian perspectives on death and eternity during the Civil War.(SADNESS AND SOCIETY)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Scott, Sean A. ... Although the death angel severely afflicted the Alfords of Daviess County in southwestern Indiana during the Civil War, it could not have chosen a family as well-grounded in their religious beliefs or as confident in their future reunion beyond the grave. In the mid-1840s, Franklin Alford ...
Subjected to the current: batteries, bodies, and the early history of electrification in the United States.(CONSUMERISM AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Herzig, Rebecca ... Introduction We know nothing of "Miss X" save what her physician, W.A. Hardaway, recorded in 1877. Twenty-two years old when she came under Dr. Hardaway's care, Miss X was "thoroughly feminine" in character and physique, nicely plump, and robustly healthy. She was also the ...
East & West: textiles and fashion in early modern Europe.(CONSUMERISM AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Lemire, Beverly ... Fashion underpinned the 4ommercial growth and cultural transformation of western society. (1) From at least the sixteenth century, fashion's demotic stimuliunleashed desires across European social ranks. Never just a folly, fashion was integral to the expression of consumer preference, the ...
Common skies divided horizons: aviation, class and modernity in early twentieth century Egypt.(CONSUMERISM AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Di-Capua, Yoav ... Introduction: One day in 1929, at the age of thirty, a bored employee at Bank Misr named Muhammad Sidqi decided to replace his wooden office chair with a posh leather seat in an airplane cockpit. Resigning his position, he enrolled in a German aviation school. A few months ...
Be a patriot, buy a home: re-imagining Home owners and Home ownership in early 20th century atlanta.(CONSUMERISM AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS)(Atlanta, Georgia)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Lands, LeeAnn ... In a 1945 review of John Dean's Homeownership: Is It Sound?, real estate analyst Helen Monchow observed that Dean had set himself an unpopular task in examining "an institution so long established, so deep seated, and so widely accepted as a principle or ideal of the so-called American way ...
The Columbia coalition: African Americans, new Leftists, and counterculture at the Columbia University protest of 1968.(RACE IN AMERICAN LIFE)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Slonecker, Blake ... Tom Hayden was not a student at Columbia University. Still, at two o'clock on the morning of April 26, 1968, he found himself "joining a silhouetted wave of students surging across Columbia's grounds and entering, with a key volunteered by a graduate student, the darkened shell of ...
The Legend of Jack Trice and the campaign for Jack Trice stadium, 1973-1984.(RACE IN AMERICAN LIFE)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Schultz, Jaime ... Prologue: The Presence of the Past in the Present There was very little fanfare or media attention paid to a ceremony on the afternoon of August 30, 1997, despite the fact that the event was seventy-four years in the making. Hours before Iowa State University's first football ...
"A madman's deed--a maniac's hand": gender and justice in three Maryland lynchings.(RACE IN AMERICAN LIFE)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Arnold-Lourie, Christine ... In August 1893, Joseph Cocking, a farmer in Charles County, Maryland, completed the sale of his agricultural implements and moved his family from their land near Port Tobacco, the county seat, to their new home in Hill Top, a village some five miles away, to take up a career in general ...
The American family and the fear of national decline, 1968-1980.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Mintz, Steven ... No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980. By Natasha Zaretsky (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xi plus 320 pp. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper). Richard Rovere, the New Yorker's Washington correspondent, called the ...
Mysteries of sex: tracing women & men through American history.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Ginzberg, Lori D. ... Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women & Men through American History. By Mary P. Ryan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 448 pp., 19 llus. $37.50). When I started graduate school in the late 1970s, my single shelf of women's history books included Mary P. Ryan's ...
The secret history of domesticity: public, private, and the division of knowledge.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Cody, Lisa Forman ... The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge. By Michael McKeon (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 873 pp.) Since the 1980s, historians and literary scholars have been inspired by Jurgen Habermas's The Structural ...
Male-male intimacy in early America: beyond romantic friendships.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Foster, Thomas A. ... Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships. By William Benemann (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2006. xx plus 322 pp.). Male-Male Intimacy in Early America is the first book to undertake the overdue task of synthesizing the last 30 years of scholarship on ...
Brides, Inc.: American weddings and the business of tradition.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Montemurro, Beth ... Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. By Vicki Howard (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 306 pp. $34.95). Tradition is a powerful idea, particularly when it comes to weddings in America. Many brides are enticed by the notion that they ...
Sex among the rabble: an intimate history of gender and power in the age of revolution, Philadelphia 1730-1830.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Waller, Altina ... Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia 1730-1830. By Clare A. Lyons (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 432 pp.). This is a book with great strengths, especially in the areas of good writing, depth ...
Children of a New World: Society, Culture and Globalization.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Cross, Gary ... Children of a New World: Society, Culture and Globalization. By Paula S. Fass (New York: New York University Press, 2006. ix plus 268 pp.). In her collection of essays written over the span of over twenty five years, Paula Fass explores and illustrates changes in thinking about ...
Children of the Father King: youth, authority, and legal minority in colonial lima.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Andrien, Kenneth J. ... Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima. By Bianca Premo (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii plus 350 pp. $24.95). This path-breaking study provides a social history of childhood in colonial Lima from ...
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race and Hygiene in the Philippines.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Watts, Sheldon ... Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2006. ix plus 355 pp. $84.95 hardback/$23.95 paper-back). The principal theme of the book, reiterated in eight chapters, is that ...
Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas.(Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Kulwicki, James ... Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. By Eric T. Jennings (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xii plus 272 pp. Cloth $74.95, Paper $21.95). The partaking of mineral waters at places such as Saratoga Springs, Marienbad and Bath at the ...
The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Lord, Alexandra M. ... A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. By Robert Darby (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi plus 319 pp.). Four years ago, the US Agency for International Development released a report indicating that ...