Recently added articles from Journal of Social History:
Wilderness wives and dishwashing husbands: comfort and the domestic arts of camping in America, 1880-1910.(SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Kropp, Phoebe ... When Grace Mitchell's husband proposed a camping vacation in the Bitterroot Mountains with another couple during the summer of 1905, she was suspicious. What would they do? How would they live without familiar comforts? As she later recalled, "The first suggestion of living for over three ...
The white elephant in London: an episode of trickery, racism and advertising.(SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Amato, Sarah ... The publicity promoting the exhibition of the white elephant, Toung Taloung, began portentously in the winter of 1883 with an assertion of authenticity. A small notice, appearing in The Times (London), announced the purchase of an elephant by Phineas Taylor Barnum, the famous American ...
"The most popular unpopular man in baseball": baseball fans and Ty Cobb in the early 20th century.(SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Tripp, Steve ... With two weeks remaining in the 1915 season, the second place Detroit Tigers arrived in Boston for a crucial four game series against the first place Red Sox. Though the Red Sox led by only a single game, Boston fans were wild with excitement, hoping that their team would take the series ...
Attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual blood in Elizabethan England.(SECTION II SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Hindson, Bethan ... Menstruation is a topic that has only become of concern to historians relatively recently, the stigma attached to this female flux surviving until well into the mid-twentieth century. Those historians who broke new ground by investigating menstruation and its products traditionally ...
Early modern midwifery: splitting the profession, connecting the history.(SECTION II SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Thomas, Samuel S. ... It has been nearly twenty years since David Harley single-handedly demolished what he termed "The Myth of the Midwife-witch," and demanded a new history of early modern midwifery. (1) Responding to traditional medical historians and more recent 'herstorians,' who associated early modern ...
On the threshold: youth as arbiters of urban space in early modern France.(SECTION III AUTHORITY IN VILLAGE AND URBAN LIFE)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Corley, Christopher R. ... In early May 1700, Jean Villat, a mason in Dijon, France, brought defamation and abuse charges against seventeen-year-old Denis Degissey, son of a deceased tiler, for having publicly declared in a tavern that he had sex with Villat's daughter, Louise, more than one hundred times. In the ...
Authority in a serf village: peasants, managers, and the role of writing in early nineteenth century Russia.(SECTION III AUTHORITY IN VILLAGE AND URBAN LIFE)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Smith, Alison K. ... On March 26, 1820, the Moscow Office that administered Nikolai Borisovich Iusupov's properties sent a letter to the village elder of Chmutovo, a small village in northern Kostroma province. A recruit levy had recently caused significant internal discord within the village, and in its ...
Race, Medicine and the South.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Fett, Sharla M. ... Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-arid Early-Twentieth-Century America. By Todd L. Savitt (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2007). Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Steven M. Stowe (Chapel Hill: University of North ...
Can America Ecucate Itself out of Inequality?(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Katz, Michael B. ... The Race between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). In 2008, the implosion of the American economy exposed inequalities that the housing bubble and easy credit had partially masked. The social scientists ...
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Matt, Susan J. ... The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. By Avner Offer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 454 pp.). In The Challenge of Affluence, Avner Offer explores the "paradox of affluence"--why "the flow of new ...
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Gilfoyle, Timothy J. ... A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 457 pp. $29.95). The United States was the verge of becoming "a nation of counterfeiters!" rued the editor and publisher Hezekiah ...
Inherited Wealth.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Huston, James ... Inherited Wealth. By Jens Beckert. Translated by Thomas Dunlap (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. ix, plus 382 pp.). Jens Beckert has produced a fascinating and admirable work on inheritance laws in France, Germany, and the United States from the mid-eighteenth ...
Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Beaudoin, Steven M. ... Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. By Laura Levine Frader (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. ix plus 347 pp. $24.95). In this carefully nuanced study, Laura Levine Frader traces the gendered nature of the French social model back to ...
Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Matysik, Tracie ... Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945. By Nancy Reagin (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii plus 247 pp. $84.00). For over two decades now historians have been uncovering "the silent victory of the German ...
Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Harsch, Donna ... Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany. By Dagmar Reese. Translated by William Templer (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006. viii plus 287 pp.). Recent studies have questioned the long-dominant interpretation of National Socialism's gender and sexual ideology and ...
Family Life in 20th-Century America.(Family Life Through History)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Mintz, Steven ... Family Life in 20th-century America. By Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong, and Kelly Warzinik (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. vii plus 324 pp. $65.00). Part of Greenwood Press's "Family Life Through History" series of reference books for high school students, this ...
Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Weissbach, Lee Shai ... Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic. By Colin Heywood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi plus 313 pp.). Colin Heywood maintains that most histories of French childhood have been written from the perspective of what adults did to and ...
Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Cunningham, Hugh ... Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children. Edited by Paula S. Fass, Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi plus 346 pp. $24.95). This exciting collection of essays, ...
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; McLaren, Angus ... Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. By Matthew Connelly (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. xiv plus 521 pp. $35.00). The essence of Matthew Connelly's impressive study is captured in a table (page 374) that shows that, in the latter half ...
The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Marler, Scott P. ... The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. By Colin Kidd (Cambridge, U.K., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii plus 309 pp. $30.99). Among the many strengths of Colin Kidd's book on the relationship between Protestantism ...
