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Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998
Articles
The Strange History of the Decade: Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Perils of Periodization
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 263–285, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.263
Commissioner Foucault, Inspector Noël, and the “Pederasts” of Paris, 1780–3
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 287–307, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.287
Administrative Infrastructure and Social Enquiry: Finding the Facts about Agriculture in Quebec, 1853–4
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 309–327, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.309
From Ethnicity to Race and Gender: Transformations of Black Lay Sodalities in Salvador, Brazil
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 329–348, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.329
Youth Gangs, Masculinity and Violence in Late Victorian Manchester and Salford
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 349–369, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.349
Sharing Scarcity: Bread Rationing and the First World War in Berlin, 1914–1923
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 371–393, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.371
Review Essays
Gender, Media and Consumerism in Germany, 1920s–1950s
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 395–402, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.395
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. By Francesca Bray (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvi plus 419pp. $50.00/cloth; $19.95/paperback)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 403–410, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.403
Reviews
Das unendliche Meer der Lüfte: Luftverschmutzung, Industrialisierung und Risikodebatten im 19. Jahrhundert. By Franz-Josef Brüggemeier (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 1996. 344pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 411–413, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.411
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. xvii plus 251pp. $21.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.413
Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany. By Mary Lindemann (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiii plus 506pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 415–416, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.415
Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British Workingmen During the Mortality Decline. By James C. Riley (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xvii plus 349pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 416–419, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.416
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. By Edward Shorter (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. xii plus 436pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 420–423, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.420
Accidents in History: Injuries, Fatalities and Social Relations. Edited by Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin (Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi B. V., 1997. x plus 273pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 423–425, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.423
Lebenserwartungen in Deutschland, Norwegen und Schweden im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. By Arthur Imhof (Berlin, Germany: Akademie Verlag, 1994. 724pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 425–427, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.425
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867–1973. By Leslie J. Reagan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiii plus 387pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 427–429, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.427
Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America. By Nicola Beisel (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. x plus 275pp. $35.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 429–431, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.429
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Edited by Brooke Larson and Olivia Harris with Enrique Tandeter (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995. viii plus 428pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 431–433, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.431
The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England, 1680–1780. By Margaret R. Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xiv plus 343pp. $48.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 433–435, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.433
Society and the Professions in Italy, 1860–1914. Edited by Maria Malatesta (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. viii plus 340pp. $59.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 436–437, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.436
The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775. By Steven Laurence Kaplan (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. xviii plus 761pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 437–439, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.437
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300–1600. By Judith M. Bennett (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv plus 260pp. $49.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 439–441, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.439
The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. By Bertram Wyatt-Brown (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xv plus 454pp. $17.95/paperback)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 441–442, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.441
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home. By Peter Mandler (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997. viii plus 523pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 442–444, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.442
Obedient Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture, 1630–1860. By Glenn Wallach (Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. ix plus 265pp. $29.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 444–446, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.444
Veiled Threats: The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy. By Michael P. Carroll (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiii plus 275pp. $39.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 446–448, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.446
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. By Jay Winter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x plus 310pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 448–450, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.448
La societat rural a Catalunya en temps feudals: Vallès Oriental, segles XIII–XVI. By Mercè Aventin i Puig (Barcelona, Spain: Columna Assaig, 1996. 657pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 451–452, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.451
Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America. By Gerald Sorin (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xv plus 294pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 453–454, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.453
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840. By Steven C. Bullock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., 1996. xviii plus 421pp. $49.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 455–457, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.455
Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii plus 376pp. $27.50)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 458–459, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.458
His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions & Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725–1745. By David Martin Luebke (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiii plus 270pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 459–461, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.459
Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign Revisited. By Leo d'Anjou (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996. xii plus 292pp. $47.95/cloth $23.95/paperback)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 461–463, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.461
The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert L. Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman and The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude 1783–1933. By Howard Johnson
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 463–466, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.463
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. By Peter Garnsey (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv plus 269pp. $59.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 466–468, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.466
The Prospect Before Her. A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500–1800. By Olwen Hufton (London: Harper Collins, 1995. ix plus 613pp. index, hardback/$ 35.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 469–470, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.469
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911–1929. By Joanne L. Goodwin (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii plus 284pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 470–472, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.470
Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. By Neil Sutherland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xviii plus 327pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 472–474, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.472
Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500–1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ix plus 369pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 474–478, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.474
Goldstrand und Teutonengrill: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Tourismus in Deutschland 1945 bis 1989. Edited by Hasso Spode (Berlin: Werner Moser, Verlag fuer universitaere Kommunikation, 1996, 207pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 478–480, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.478
Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North. By John T. McGreevy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. vi plus 362pp. $27.50)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 480–882, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.480
The Memory of the Modern. By Matt K Matsuda (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. vi plus 255 pp. $49.95/cloth $18.95/paperback)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 482–484, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.482
Education and Cultural Transmission: Historical Studies of Continuity and Change in Families, Schooling and Youth Cultures. Edited by Johan Sturm, Jeroen Dekker, Richard Aldrich, Frank Simon (Ghent, Belgium: Paedogogica Historica, International Journal of the History of Education, 1996. 360pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 484–485, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.484
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876–1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. x plus 406pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 486–487, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.486
The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict. By Dagmar Kift (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x plus 244pp. $54.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 488–490, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.488
The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization. By George W. Dowdall (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. xiv plus 262pp. $21.95/paperback)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 490–491, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.490
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvii plus 375pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 491–493, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.491
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England. By Mary J. Dobson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 647pp. $64.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 493–494, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.493
History of Pedlars in Europe. By Laurence Fontaine (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University, 1996, 280pp. $17.95/paperback $49.95/cloth)
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 494–496, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.494
Article Abstracts
Article Abstracts
Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 497–499, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.2.497
