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Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006
Section I: Sexuality and Gender
Judicial Authority and Popular Justice: Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 293–315, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0012
Yorkshire Lasses and Their Lads: Sexuality, Sexual Customs, and Gender Antagonisms in Anglo-American Working-Class Culture
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 317–336, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0004
Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 337–359, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0007
Section II: Issues of Consumerism
The Consequences of Uniformity: The Struggle for the Boy Scout Uniform in Colonial Kenya
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 361–383, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0025
“The Sublime of the Bazaar”: A Moment in the Making of a Consumer Culture in Mid-Nineteenth Century England
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 385–405, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0016
Section III: Regional Issues
“Heading for Louisville:” Rethinking Rural to Urban Migration in the South, 1930–1950
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 407–430, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0000
Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 431–452, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0009
Poor Relief and the Dangerous and Criminal Insane in Scotland, c. 1740–1840
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 453–476, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0017
Review Essay
Fear and Contemporary History: A Review Essay
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 477–484, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0033
Reviews
Section 1: American Identities
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. By Scott A. Sandage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. x plus 362 pp. $35.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 485–487, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0038
A Nation of Realtors®: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. By Jeffrey M. Hornstein (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 264 pp. Cloth $79.95, Paperback $22.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 487–489, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0003
Section 2: Gender Issues
Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1945. By Kelly Schrum (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii plus 209 pp. $29.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 489–491, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0027
American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports. By Miriam G. Reumann (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 305pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 491–493, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0030
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture. By Karen Harvey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 272 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 493–494, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0031
The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made. By Mary Patrice Erdmans (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 290 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 495–497, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0018
From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. By Barbara B. Diefendorf (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix plus 341 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 497–500, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0001
Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present. By Ellen Reese (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. xvi plus 355 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 500–501, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0019
Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880–1940. By Lee M.A. Simpson (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix plus 209 pp. $49.50)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 502–504, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0005
Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914–1945. By Kristen Stromberg Childers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 261 pp. $39.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 504–506, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0037
Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. By Alexandra Shepard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii plus 292 pp. $99.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 506–508, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0036
Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680–1720. By Jennine Hurl-Eamon (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2005. xii plus 213 pp. $44.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 508–510, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0039
Section 3: Childhood and Family
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiii plus 322 pp. $37.50)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 510–513, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0023
Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood. By Jyotsna Kapur (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ix plus 196 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 513–514, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0021
Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Indrani Chatterjee, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 302 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 514–515, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0015
A History of Household Government in America. By Carole Shammas (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, xiii plus 232 pp. $55.00)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 516–518, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0014
Rethinking Home. A Case for Writing Local History. By Joseph A. Amato (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002. xvi plus 245 pp. $48.00 cloth, $18.95.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 518–520, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0032
Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest. By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. vii plus 300 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 520–522, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0022
Section 4: Immigration
Migration and Immigration: A Global View. By Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. xxxii plus 255 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 522–523, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0020
The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960. By Lara Putnam (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii plus 303.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 523–524, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0011
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675–1815. By Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling and David N. Doyle (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxvii, plus 788 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 525–526, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0024
Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German American Identity. By Russel A. Kazal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. vii plus 383, with maps, tables, and index.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 526–529, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0002
Section 5: Class and Race
Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv plus 337 pp. $34.95 hb)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 529–530, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0006
Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919. By Karin L. Zipf (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xi plus 207 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 531–532, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0029
Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movement in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986. By J. Todd Moye (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi plus 281 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 533–534, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0034
Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954. By Alex Lubin (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 224 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 534–536, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0028
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii plus 418 pp. $27.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 536–538, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0013
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii plus 320 pp. $29.95)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 538–540, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0008
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. By Paul Ortiz (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxviii plus 382 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 541–542, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0035
The Criminals of Lima and their World: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935. By Carlos Aguirre (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. xi plus 310 pp.)
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 542–543, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0026
Article Abstracts
Article Abstracts
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Pages 545–548, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/40.2.545
Erratum
Erratum
Journal of Social History, Volume 40, Issue 2, Winter 2006, Page iv, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/40.2.iv
