"Recent
Books and Articles of Interest"
compiled by Tom Dublin
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Number 61, May 1990
Allen, Paul Gunn, Spider
Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing of
Native American Women (Beacon, 1990).
Arrighi, Giovanni, "Marxist
Century, American Century: The Making and Remaking of the World Labour
Movement," New Left Review, No. 179 (Jan.-Feb. '90), 29-64.
Asian Women United of California,
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American
Women (Beacon, 1990).
Babcock, Robert H., "The Decline
of Artisan Republicanism in Portland, Maine, 1825-1850," New England
Quarterly, (1990), 53:3-34.
Baldwin, Peter, "Social Interpretations
of Nazism: Renewing a Tradition," Journal of Contemporary History,
(1990), 25:5-38.
Barry, Kathleen, Susan B.
Anthony: A Biography (NYU, 1989).
Bennett, Judith M., "Feminism
and History," Gender & History, (1989), 1:251-72.
Bennett, Judith M., et al.,
eds., Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages (Chicago, 1989).
Berger, Iris, "Gender and Working-Class
History: South Africa in Comparative Perspective," Journal of Women's
History, (Fall '89), 1:117-33.
Berk, William, "The Culture
of Protest in Seventeenth-Century French Towns," Social History,
(1990), 15:1-24.
Berube, Allen, Coming out
Under Fire: Gay Men and Women in World War II (Free Press, 1990)
Best, Norman, A Celebration
of Work, ed. with an introduction by William G. Robbins (Nebraska,
1990).
Blatt, Martin Henry, Free
Love and Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood (Illinois, 1989).
Blaut, J.M., "Colonialism and
the Rise of Capitalism," Science & Society, (1989), 53:260-96.
Blight, David W., Frederick
Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989).
Blim, Michael L., "Economic
Development and Decline in the Emerging Global Factory: Some Italian Lessons,"
Politics & Society, (1990), 18:143-63.
Braxton, Joanne M., Black
Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition (Temple,
1990).
Buckley, Mary, Woman and
Ideology in the Soviet Union (Michigan, 1989).
Buhle, Mari Jo, Paul Buhle,
and Dan Georgakas, Encyclopedia of the American Left (Garland,
1990).
Buhle, Paul, "C.L.R. James:
Revolutionary, 1901-89," Radical America, 22:5 (Sept.-Oct. '88),
5-11.
Buhle, Paul, ed., History
and the New Left: Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970 (Temple, 1990).
Bush, Barbara, Slave Women
in Caribbean Society, 1650-1832 (Indiana, 1989).
Butowczyk, John J., "Migration
and Capitalism," International Labor and Working Class History,
No. 36 (Fall '89), 61-75.
Carson, Mina, Settlement
Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930
(Chicago, 1990).
Chandler, Alfred D., Scale
and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Harvard, 1990).
Clark, Christopher, The Roots
of Rural Capitalism: Wester Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Cornell, 1990).
Cohen, David Steven, Jr., America,
The Dream of My Life: Selections from the Federal Writers' Project's New
Jersey Ethnic Survey (Rutgers, 1990).
Cooper, Helen M., et al.,
eds. Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
(North Carolina, 1989).
Cott, Nancy F., "What's in a
name? The Limits of `Social Feminism'; or, Expanding the Vocabulary of
Women's History," Journal of American History, (1989) 76:809-29.
Cox, Donald and John Vincent
Nye, "Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France," Journal
of Economic History, (1989), 49:903-20.
Cross, Gary, A Quest for
Time: The Reduction of Work inBritain and France, 1840-1940 (California,
1989).
Cunningham, Hugh, "The Employment
and Unemployment of Children in England, c. 1680-1851," Past &
Present, No. 126 (Feb. '90), 115-50.
Davis, David Brion, "American
Equality and Foreign Revolutions," Journal of American History,
(1989), 76:729-52.
Dick, Bernard F., Radical
Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten (Kentucky, 1989).
Ditz, Toby L., "Ownership and
Obligation: Inheritance and Patriarchal Households in Connecticut, 1750-1820,"
William & Mary Quarterly, (1990), 46:235-65.
"Documents from the Chinese
Democratic Movement," Radical America, 22:4 (July-Aug. '88), 13-22.
Drescher, Seymour, "People and
Parliament: The Rhetoric of the British Slave Trade," Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, (1990), 20:561-80.
Dublin, Thomas, "Lowell, Massachusetts
and the Reinterpretation of American Industrial Capitalism," The Public
Historian, (Fall '89), 159-64.
Eisenberg, Chritiane, "Old and
New Interpretations of the English and German Labour Movements before
1914," International Review of Social History, (1989), 34:403-32.
Ellis, Richard and Aaron Wildavsky,
"A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming of the
Civil War," Comparative Studies in Society and History, (1990),
Epstein, Dena J. Polacheck,
I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl (Illinois, 1990).
Epstein, James A., "The Constitutional
Idiom: Radical Reasoning, Rhetoric and Action in Early Nineteenth Century
England," Journal of Social History, (1990), 23:553-74.
Esenwein, George R., Anarchist
Ideology and the Working-Class Movement in Spain, 1868-1898 (California,
1989).
Faust, Drew Gilpin, "Altars
of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War," Journal
of American History (1990), 76:1200-28.
Ferland, Jacques, "`In Search
of the Unbound Prometheia': A Comparative View of Women's Activism in
Two Quebec Industries, 1869-1908," Labour/Le Travail, (1989), 24:11-44.
Fienberg, Lorne, "Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman's `Soft Diurnal Commotion': Women's Work and Strategies of Containment,"
New England Quarterly, (1989), 52:483-504.
Fieseler, Beate, "The Making
of Russian Female Social Democrats," International Review of Social
History, (1989), 34:193-226.
Filippelli, Ronald L., American
labor and Postwar Italy, 1943-1953 (Stanford, 1989).
Fine, Lisa M., The Souls
of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930 (Temple,
1990).
Fitzpatrick, Ellen, Endless
Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (Oxford, 1990).
Foner, Eric, and Olivia Mahoney,
A House Divided: American in the Age of Lincoln (Norton, 1990).
Fones-Wolf, Ken, Trade Union
Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915
(Temple, 1990).
Foster, Catherine, Women
for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom (Georgia, 1989).
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, "Between
Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary
Studies of Race and Gender," American Quarterly, (1990), 42:7-34.
Garcia, Mario T., Mexican
Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (Yale, 1990).
Garrison, Dee, Mary Heaton
Vorse: The Life of an American Insurgent (Temple, 1989).
Geggus, David, "Racial Equality,
Slavery, and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly," American
Historical Review, (1989), 94:1290-1308.
Gorin, Steve and Cyndy Moniz,
"Old Left, New Left, and What's Left? An Interview with Micahel Harrington,"
Radical America, 22:6 (Nov.-Dec. '88), 46-64.
Graham, John, ed., "Yours
for the Revolution": The Appeal to Reason, 1895-1922 (Nebraska,
1990).
Green, James R., "Workers, Unions,
and the Politics of Public History," The Public Historian, (Fall
'89), 11-38.
Grier, Allan, "From Folklore
to Revolution: Charivaris and the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837," Social
History, (1990), 15:25-44.
Haber, Stephen H., Industry
and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940 (Stanford,
1989).
Haharidge, Dale and Michael
Williamson, And Their Children after Them (Pantheon, 1990).
Hahn, Steven, "Class and State
in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative Perspective,"
American Historical Review,, (1990), 5:75-98.
Hall, David D., Worlds of
Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Beiefs in Early New England
(Knopf, 1989).
Hall, Robert G., "Tyranny, Work
and Politics: The 1818 Strike Wave in the English Cotton District, International
Review of Social History, (1989), 34:433-70.
Hanagan, Michael P., Nascent
Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France (Blackwell,
1989).
Hansen, Bert, "American Physicians'
Earliest Writings about Homosexuals, 1880-1900," Milbank Quarterly,
(1989), 69:92-108.
Hansen, Karen V. and Ilene J.
Philipson, eds., Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist
Reader (Temple, 1990).
Harley, Sharon, "For the Good
of Family and Race: Gender, Work, and Domestic Roles in the Black Community,
1880-1930," Signs, (1990), 15:336-49.
Hart, Vivien, "Minimum Wage
Policy and Constitutional Inequality: The Paradox of the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938," Journal of Policy History, (1989), 1:319-43.
Higginson, John, A Working
Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise,
and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951 (Wisconsin, 1989).
Hine, Darlene Clark, Black
Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession,
1890-1950 (Indiana, 1989).
Hirsch, Eric L., Urban Revolution:
Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (California,
1989).
"History from South Africa,"
special issue of Radical History Review, #46/47 (Winter '90).
Hobsbawm, E.J., Echoes of
the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution
(Rutgers, 1990).
Hoffmann, Ronald and Peter J.
Albert, eds., Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Virginia,
1990).
Humphries, Jane, "Enclosures,
Common rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late-Eighteenth
and Early-Nineteenth Centuries," Journal of Economic History, (1990),
50:17-42.
Issel, William, "Business Power
and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1900-1940," Journal of Urban
History (1989), 16:52-77.
Isserman, Maurice, "The No-So-Dark
and Bloody Ground: New Works on the 1960s," American Historical Review,
(1989), 94:990-1010.
Issues in Marxian Economic Theory,"
special section in Review of Radical Political Economy, 20:2/3
(Summer-Fall '88), 1-54.
Jennings, Thelma, "`Us Colored
Women Had to Go Through A Plenty': Sexual Exploitation of African-American
Slave Women," Journal of Women's History, (Winter '90), 1:45-74.
Johnson, Kay Ann, "The Revolutionary
Tradition of Pro-Democracy Students," Radical America, 22:4 (July-Aug.
'88), 7-12.
Jones, David J.V., Rebecca's
Children: A Study of Rural Society, Crime, and Protest (Oxford, 1990).
Katz, Michael B., The Undeserving
Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (Pantheon, 1989).
Kerber, Linda, "`I Have Don
. . . Much to Carrey on the Warr': Women and the Shaping of Republican
Ideology after the American Revolution," Journal of Women's History,
(Winter '90), 1:231-43.
Kesselman, Amy, Fleeting
Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during
World War II and Reconversion (SUNY, 1990).
Keyssar, Alexander, "History
and the Politics of Unemployment," Socialist Review, (Oct.-Dec.
'89), 15-34.
King, Miriam and Steven Ruggles,
"American Immigration, Fertility, and Race Suicide at the Turn of the
Century," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, (1990), 20:347-70.
Klehr, Harvey, and William Thompson,
"Self-Determination in the Black Belt: Origins of a Communist Policy,
Labor History, (1989), 30:354-66.
Klein, Rachel N., Unification
of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina
Backcountry, 1760-1808 (North Carolina, 1990).
Kleinberg, S.J., The Shadows
of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 (Pittsburgh,
1990).
Klug, Lilo, ed., Surviving
the Fire: Mother Courage and World War II (Open Hand, 1989).
Koenker, Diane P. and William
G. Rosenberg, Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (Princeton,
1989).
"Labor History and Public History,"
special issue of The Public Historian (Fall '89).
Lavrin, Asuncion, "Women, Labor
and the Left: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1925," Journal of Women's History,
(Fall '89), 1:88-116.
________, Sexuality and Marriage
in Colonial Latin America (Nebraska, 1989).
Lissak, Rivka Shpak, Pluralism
and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919 (Chicago,
1989).
Locke, Mary Lou, "Out of the
Shadows and into the Western Sun: Working Women of the Late Nineteenth-Century
Urban Far West," Journal of Urban History, (1990), 16:175-204.
Long, Priscilla, Where the
Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry (Paragon,
1989).
Lystra, Karen, Searching
the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America,
1830-1900 (Oxford, 1989).
Magliari, Michael, "Populisnm,
Steamboats, and the Octopus: Transportation Rates and Monopoly in California's
Wheat Regions, 1890-1896," Pacific Historical Review, (1989), 58:449-70.
Marks, Frederick W. III, "The
CIA and Castillo Armas in Guatemala, 1954," Diplomatic History,
(1990), 14:67-86.
Maza, Sarah, "Domestic Melodrama
as Political Ideology: The Case of the Comte de Sanois," American Historical
Review, (1989), 94:1249-64.
McCallum, Margaret E., "Separate
Spheres: The Organization of Work in a Confectionery Factory: Ganong Bros.,
St. Stephen, New Brunswick," Labour/Le Travail, (1989), 24:69-90.
McGreevy, John T., "Farmers,
Nationalists, and the Origins of California Populism," Pacific Historical
Review, (1989), 58:471-95.
Meli, Francis, South Africa
Belongs to Us: A History of the ANC (Indiana, 1989).
Merchant, Carolyn, Ecological
Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (North Carolina,
1989).
Miliband, Ralph, "Reflections
on the Crisis of Communist Regimes," New Left Review, No. 177 (Sept.-Oct.
'89), 27-36.
Mulkern, John K., The Know-Nothing
Party in Masachusetts: The Rise and Fall of a People's Party (Northeastern,
1990).
Myers, R. David, ed., Toward
a History of the New Left: Essays from Within the Movement (Carlson,
1989).
Nash, Michael, "Women and the
Pennsylvania Railroad: The World War II Years," Labor History,
(1989), 30:608-21.
Neufeld, Michael J., The
Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution
(Rutgers, 1989).
Nolan, Janet A., Ourselves
Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 (Kentucky, 1990).
Norwood, Stephen, Labor's
Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923
(Illinois, 1990).
Offen, Karen, "Women's Memory,
Women's History, Women's Political Action: The French Revolution in Retrospect,
1789-1889-1989," Journal of Women's History, (Winter '90), 1:211-30.
Palladino, Grace, Another
Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of
Pennsylvania (Illinois, 1990).
Palmer, Bryan, Descent into
Discourse: The Reification of Language and Writing of Social History
(Temple, 1990).
Palmer, Phyllis, Domesticity
and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
(Temple, 1990).
Parsa, Misagh, Social Origins
of the Iranian Revolution (Rutgers, 1989).
Pascoe, Peggy, Relations
of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West,
1874-1939 (Oxford, 1990).
Premo, Terri L., Winter Friends:
Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835 (Illinois, 1990).
Ranciere, Jacques, The Nights
of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (Temple,
1990).
Rhode, Deborah, ed., Theoretical
Perspectives on Sexual Difference (Yale, 1990).
Romano, Dennis, "Gender and
the Urban Geography of Renaissance Venice," Journal of Social History
(1989), 23:339-54.
Rothbart, Ron, "`Homes Are What
Any Strike Is About': Immigrant Labor and the Family Wage," Journal
of Social History, (1989), 23:267-84.
"Round Table: Environmental
History," special section in Journal of American History, (1990),
76:1087-1147.
Rupp, Leila and Verta Taylor,
Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945
to the 1960s (Ohio, 1990).
Ryan, Mary P., Women in Public:
Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Johns Hopkins, 1990).
Salerno, Salvatore, Red November,
Black November: Culture and Community in the Industrial Workers of the
World (SUNY, 1989).
Savage, Lon, Thunder in the
Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 (Pittsburgh, 1990).
Sayer, John, "Art and Politics,
Dissent and Repressions: The Masses Magazine versus the Government,
1917-1918," American Journal of Legal History, (1988), 32:42-78.
Schonberger, Howard B., Aftermath
of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952 (Kent State,
1989).
Schoonover, Thomas, "A U.S.
Dilemma: Economic Opportunity and Anti-Americanism in El Salvador, 1901-1911,"
Pacific Historical Review, (1989), 58:403-28.
Schweninger, Loren, "Property-Owning
Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870," Journal of Women's
History, (Winter '90), 1:13-44.
________, Black Property
Owners in the South, 1790-1915 (Illinois, 1990).
Scott, Anne Firor, "Most Invisible
of All: Black Women's Voluntary Associations," Journal of Southern
History, (1990), 56:3-22.
Seccombe, Wally, "Starting to
Stop: Working-Class Fertility Decline in Britain, Past & Present,
No. 126 (Feb. '90), 151-85.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon, Feminism,
Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 (Princeton,
1989).
Sheel, Kamal, Peasant Society
and Marxist Intellectuals in China: Fang Zhimin and the Origins of a Revolutionary
Movement in the Xinjiang Region (Princeton, 1989).
Shively, Charlie, Drum Beats:
Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers (Day Sunshine Press, 1989).
Silverberg, Miriam, Changing
Song: The Marxists Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton, 1989).
Steinberg, Mark David, "Culture
and Class in a Russian Industry: The Printers of St. Petersburg, 1860-1905,"
Journal of Social History, (1990), 23:513-34.
Stott, Richard B., Workers
in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York
City (Cornell, 1990).
Surh, Gerald D., 1905 in
St. Petersburg: Labor, Society, and Revolution (Stanford, 1989).
Swift, David E., Black Prophets
of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War (LSU Press, 1989).
Thompson, Paul, "Democracy and
Popular Power in Beijing," Radical America, 22:5 (Sept.-Oct. '88),
16-26.
Tilly, Louise A., "Gender, Women's
History, and Social History," and comments by Gay A. Gullickson and Judith
M. Bennett, Social Science History, (1989), 13:439-82.
Tinker, Irene, Persistent
Inequalities: Women and World Development (Oxford, 1989).
Tracy, Patricia J., "Reconsidering
Migration within Colonial New England," Journal of Social History
(1989), 23:93-114.
"Transatlantic Slave Trade,"
special section in Social Science History, (1989), 13:341-438.
Tullos, Allen, Habits of
Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont
(North Carolina, 1990).
Turbin, Carole, "Beyond Dichotomies:
Interdependence in mid-Nineteenth Century Working Class Families in the
United States," Gender & History, (1989), 1:293-308.
Unger, Jonaghan, "State and
Peasant in Post-Revolution China," Journal of Peasant Studies,
(Oct. '89), 17:114-36.
Van Onselen, Charles, "Race
and Class in the South African Countryside: Cultural Osmosis and Social
Relations in the Sharecropping Economy of the South-Western Transvaal,
1900-1950," American Historical Review, (1990), 95:99-123.
Vickers, Daniel, "Competency
and Competition: Economic Culture in Early America," William &
Mary Quarterly, (1990), 47:3-29.
Viotta da Costa, Emilia, "Experience
versus Structures: New Tendencies in the History of Labor and the Working
Class in Latin America--What Do We Gain? What Do We Lose?" International
Labor and Working Class History, No. 36 (Fall '89), 3-24.
Walker, J. Samuel, "The Decision
to Use the Bomb: A Historiographical Update," Diplomatic History,
(1990), 14:97-114.
Walker, Samuel, In Defense
of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU (Oxford, 1990).
Walthall, Anne, "The Family
Ideology of the Rural Entrepreneurs of Nineteenth Century Japan," Journal
of Social History, (1990), 23:463-84.
Way, Peter, "Shovel and Shamrock:
Irish Workers and Labor Violence in the Digging of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal," Labor History, (1989), 30:489-517.
Webb, Anne B., "Minnesota Women
Homesteaders: 1863-1899," Journal of Social History, (1989), 23:115-36.
Weiss, Nancy J., Whitney
M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Princeton, 1989).
Westling, Louise, ed., He
Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice (Georgia, 1989).
Wood, Ellen Meiksins, "Rational
Choice Marxism: Is the Game Worth the Candle?" New Left Review,
No. 177 (Sept.-Oct. '89), 41-88.
Wright, Erik Olin, "What is
Analytical Marxism," Socialist Review, (Oct.-Dec. '89), 35-56.
Yellin, Jean Fagin, Women
and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture (Yale, 1990).
Zandy, Janet, ed., Calling
Home: Working Class Women's Writings (Rutgers, 1990).
Zipster, Arthur and Pearl Zipster,
Fire and Grace: The Life of Rose Pastor Stokes (Georgia, 1990).
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