Journal of Social History back issues from September 2002:
Newsboy funerals: tales of sorrow and solidarity in urban America.
Sep 22, 2002; ... In a small write-up about the death of a newsboy, the Boston Globe observed in 1890 that there was "nothing more pathetic in all the 'short and simple annals of the poor' than some of the scenes connected with the burial of one of their number." The reporter noted that "the surviving ...
The childhood we have lost: when siblings were caregivers, 1900-1970.
Sep 22, 2002; ... In an effort to highlight the shortcomings of the posrmodern family, usually dated from the 1970s, social commentators tend to mythologize the arrangements which preceded them in the modern home. In contrast to the postmodern parent, described as "work-oriented" and "disengaged," leaving ...
Walking on the periphery: gender and the discourse of modernization.(the rights of women in early 20th century Spain)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Introduction The Spanish feminist and Socialist legislator Margarita Nelken minced no words when she called walking the greatest symbol of what separated the contemporary, twentieth-century woman from her mother and her grandmother. Ambulation represented to Nelken an even ...
Citizens and housewives: the problem of female citizenship in Spain's transition to democracy.
Sep 22, 2002; ... The relationship between women and citizenship has been contentious in the western European liberal and democratic tradition. From the debates over women's participation in the sections during the French Revolution through more than a century of exclusion from the suffrage to more recent ...
Partner choice and homogamy in the nineteenth century: was there a sexual revolution in Europe?
Sep 22, 2002; ... Introduction Courtship and marriage have been prominent on the research agendas of demographers, ethnographers, historians and sociologists alike, and, recently, on those of economists too. Mate selection is important for the well-being of the couples concerned, as well as of ...
Rough manhood: the aggressive and confrontational shop culture of U.S. auto workers during World War II.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Ever since the publication of David Montgomery's classic essay on "Workers' Control," the notions of "manly bearing" and "manliness" have captured the attention of American labor historians. In this seminal essay, Montgomery described how skilled production workers asserted a "'manly' ...
Monkey business in Union Square: a cultural analysis of the Klein's-Ohrbach's strikes of 1934-5.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Introduction: Strike As Drama Labor historians in recent years have treated strikes as relatively marginal events, prefering instead to focus the cultural worlds and day-to-day lives of working-class people. In comparison to the rich meanings and analysis these "new labor ...
Review essay: food and history.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Historians of food usually find it necessary to explain the significance of their subject. Lest the uninitiated think that food is simply planted, harvested, processed, transported, sold, and consumed, readers are alerted to the many and complex roles that food plays in human society. For ...
It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years. By Stephen Moore and Julian Simon (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2000. xviii plus 294 pp. $29.95/cloth $14.95/paper). Mark Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the remark, "There are three kinds of ...
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. By David Blanke (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2000. 282 pp.). In Sowing the American Dream, David Blanke argues that rural Midwesterners developed a distinctive consumer ethos during the ...
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. By J. R. McNeill (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. xxvi plus 421 pp. $15.95/paper). The central proposition in John McNeill's Something New Under the Sun is that human activity during the ...
Murder in New York City. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Murder in New York City. By Eric H. Monkkonen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xi plus 238 pp. $29.95). Eric Monkkonen's study of murder in New York City over two centuries significantly expands and historicizes what we know about murder in American society ....
Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community. By Yong Chen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi plus 392 pp. $45.00). While other scholars have studied the Chinese community in San Francisco, especially during the period from the initial arrival of ...
Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England. By Mary H. Blewett (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x plus 521 pp.). This most recent book by Mary H. Blewett, a leading student of workers' encounters with industrialism in ...
From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia. By Stefano Luconi (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. x plus 264 pp.). In this ambitious study, Stefano Luconi argues that Italian immigrants' evolving ethnicity was a product of dialectical ...
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. By Martin V. Melosi (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii plus 578pp. $59.95). In The Sanitary City, Martin Melosi charts the development of sanitary systems in ...
Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth Century London. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth Century London. By Lynda Nead (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. ix plus 251 pp.). It is Paris that has captured the title of the capital of the nineteenth century, the city of light, the ultimate ...
Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. By Silvia Marina Arrom (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xii plus 398 pp. $59.95/cloth $19.95/paper). Two landmark policy statements on poverty frame Silvia Arrom's study of the Mexico City Poor House. The first, a ...
Massacre at the Champ de Mars: Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Massacre at the Champ de Mars: Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution. By David Andress (Suffolk, England: The Royal Historical Society, 2000. x plus 239pp. $60.00). On 17 July 1791, a Parisian crowd clashed with the city's National Guard at the Champ de ...
The Gender of History: Men, Women, and the Historical Practice & The Rise of the Professional Woman in France: Gender and Public Administration Since 1830. (Reviews) .
Sep 22, 2002; ... The Gender of History: Men, Women, and the Historical Practice. By Bonnie G. Smith (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii plus 306pp. $17.95/paperback). The Rise of the Professional Woman in France: Gender and Public Administration Since 1830. By Linda L ....
Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. By Nancy Cott (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.297pp.$27.95). Public Vows, by Nancy Cott, challenges academic and lay audiences alike to reconsider marriage, not merely as a private domestic act, but as ...
Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin 1850-1940. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin 1850-1940. By Emily K. Abel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix plus 326 pp. $49.95). Although social historians have documented and analyzed a wide range of American women's past experiences and activities, they ...
Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. By Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 3.58pp. $49.50). An American (or any non-Italian) scholar who spends some time in the home of an Italian mamma as she tends ...
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. By Stanley Chojnacki (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x plus 370 pp. $39.95/cloth $15.95/paper). These twelve essays written over the last quarter of the twentieth century are the fruit of ...
Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750: Life and Work in the London Household & Domestique et servante. Des vies sous condition: Essai sur le travail domestique en Belgique au 19e siecle. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750: Life and Work in the London Household. By Tim Meldrum (Harlow and London: Longman, 2000. ix plus 220pp. $39.00/paperback). Domestique et servante. Des vies sous condition: Essai sur le travail domestique en Belgique au 19e siecle. By ...
Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision. By Natalie Zemon Davis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xi plus 64pp. $22.95). Anyone expecting an addition to the genre of "ravenous historian preys on feckless filmmaker" is in for quite a surprise. In her new book ...
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas. By Sally E. Hadden (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001). Slave Patrols is a valuable resource for scholars seeking to learn more about some neglected aspects of southern (and American) history. Drawing ...
Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. By Anne E. Gorsuch (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. x plus 274 pp. $35.00). Youth was important to the early Bolsheviks and remains important for understanding Soviet life in 1920s ....
Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges." & Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Instrumentalists and Conductors. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: "Encroaching on All Man's Privileges." By Paula Gillett (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. ix plus 310 pp. $49.95). Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Instrumentalists and Conductors. By Beth Abelson Macleod ...
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867. By Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii plus 303 pp. $69.96/cloth $24.95/paper). Historians looking for a new political interpretation of ...
The Professions in Early Modem England, 1450-1800: Servants of the Commonweal. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... The Professions in Early Modem England, 1450-1800: Servants of the Commonweal. By Rosemary O'Day (Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd., 2000. xi plus 334 pp.). Sociologists and even historians of the professions have treated their history backwards. They argue from their ...
Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday. By Karal Ann Marling (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. xiii plus 442 pp. $27.00/cloth $16.95/paper). American Christmas is inseparable from the images and things that define the holiday. Commonly shared ...
Holy Day, Holiday The American Sunday. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Holy Day, Holiday The American Sunday. By Alexis McCrossen (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix plus 209 pp. $39.95). Time has always been at the center of social and cultural conflict. No more was this so than in the struggle for the use and meaning of Sunday ....
The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century. By John K. Walton (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. vii plus 216 pp. $69.95/cloth $29.95/paper). Resorts in the twentieth century were big business, and resort life, both for residents and ...
Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la suisse au XIX siecle. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la suisse au XIX siecle. By Laurent Tissot (Laussane: Editions Payot, 2000. 5 plus 302pp.). Tourism surely began in the imagination. Few would deny the critical role of the British in creating the modern romance of pleasure ...
Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modem American Social Policy. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modem American Social Policy. By Edwin Amenta (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiii plus 343 pp. $19.95). Three decades ago, when I plunged into graduate studies, one of the more tantalizing promises made by ...
Social Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Social Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg (Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, 2000. 360pp. $25/paper). Modern social history is looking back to thirty years of rising activity. It changed dramatically ...
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. By Lisa Silverman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv plus 264 pp.). In the early twenty-first century, pain speaks only negatives: senseless, undesirable, terrible. In early modern Europe, however, ...
In Defence of History. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... In Defence of History. By Richard J. Evans. New edition with an "Afterword." (London: Granta Books, no date of publication. vii plus 37lpp. [pounds sterling]8.99). ISBN 1-86207-395-3. In Defence of History was first published in September 1997 and, like Bernard Crick's In ...
Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development. Edited by Cecile Jackson (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Company, Ltd, 2001. 240 pp. $57.50/cloth). The essays compiled by Cecile Jackson in Men at Work: Labour, Masculinities, Development emerge from an academic ...
Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England 1790-1930. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England 1790-1930. By John T. Cumbler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 268pp. $45.00). John Cumbler's book is an admirable addition to the shelf of environmental histories of New England, building on and ...
The New Disability History: American Perspectives. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... The New Disability History: American Perspectives. Edited by Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky (New York: New York University Press, 2001. vi plus 416 pages. $65.00/cloth $23.95/paper). Although I am not sure I know what constituted the old disability history, the editors of ...
One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2002; ... One Nation Underground: The Fallout S he her in American Culture. By Kenneth D. Rose (New York: New York University Press, 2001. x plus 300 pp.). One Nation Underground joins a substantial shelf of books dealing with the American homefront in the early Cold War. Kenneth Rose ...