"Recent
Books and Articles of Interest"
compiled by Tom Dublin
(reprinted from
recent issues of the Radical Historians Newsletter)
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Number 63-64, May
1991
Adelstein, Richard P., "Islands
of Conscious Power: Louis D. Brandeis and the Modern Corporation," Business
History Review, 63 (1989), 715-56.
Adler, Paul S., "Marx, Machines,
and Skill," Technology and Culture, 31 (1990), 780-812.
Amariglio, Jack and Bruce Norton,
"Marxist Historians and the Question of Class in the French Revolution,"
History and Theory, 30 (1991), 37-55.
Amsden, Alice H., "Third World
Industrialization: 'Global Fordism' of a New Model," New Left Review,
#182 (July-Aug. '90), 5-32.
Ash, Stephen V., "Poor Whites
in the Occupied South, 1861-1865," Journal of Southern History,
57 (1991), 39-62.
Asher, Robert and Charles Stephenson,
eds., Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles,
1835-1960 (SUNY, 1991).
Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti:
The Anarchist Background (Princeton, 1990).
Bannister, Robert C., Jessie
Bernard: The Making of a Feminist (Rutgers, 1991).
Baym, Nina, "Women and the Republic:
Emma Willard's Rhetoric of History," American Quarterly, 43 (1991),
1-23.
Beckles, Hilary McD., "A 'Riotous
and Unruly Lot': Irish Indentured Servants and Freemen in the English
West Indies, 1644-1713," William & Mary Quarterly, 47 (1990), 503-27.
Beinin, Joel, Was the Red
Flag Flying There?: Marxist Politics and the Arab Israeli Conflict in
Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (California, 1990).
Benenson, Harold, "The 'Family
Wage' and Working Women's Consciousness in Britian, 1880-1914," Politics
& Society, 19 (1991), 71-118.
Boorstein, Edward and Regula
Boorstein, Counterrevolution: U.S. Foreign Policy (International,
1990).
Boris, Eileen, and Nelson Lichtenstein,
eds., Major Problems in the History of American Workers (D.C. Heath,
1991).
Bourke, Joanna, "Working Women:
The Domestic Labor Market in Rural Ireland, 1890-1914," Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 21 (1991), 479-500.
Brandt, Loren and Barbara Sands,
"Beyond Malthus and Ricardo: Economic Growth, Land Concentration, and
Income Distribution in Early Twentieth-Century Rural China," Journal
of Economic History, 50 (1990), 807-28.
Brass, Tom, "Class Struggle
and the Deproletarianisation of Agricultural Labor in Haryana (India),"
Journal of Peasant Studies, 18 (1990), 36-67.
Brenner, Robert, "Why is the
United States at War with Iraq?" New Left Review, #185 (Jan.-Feb.
91), 122-37.
Brown, Victoria Bissell, "The
Fear of Feminization: Los Angeles High Schools in the Progressive Era,"
Feminist Studies, 16 (1990), 493-518.
Cannon, Brian Q., "Immigrants
in American Agriculture," Agricultural History, 65 (1991), 17-35.
Carnes, Mark C., and Clyde Griffen,
eds., Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian
America (Chicago, 1990).
Carroll, Berenice A., "The Politics
of 'Originality': Women and the Class System of the Intellect," Journal
of Women's History, 2 (Fall '90), 136-63.
Chan, Sucheng, Asian Americans:
An Interpretive History (Twayne, 1990).
________, ed., Entry Denied:
Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943 (Temple,
1991).
Cheatham, Harold E. and Susan
R. Seem, "Occupational Equity: A Black and White Portrait of Women in
the United States Military," Review of Black Political Economy,
19 (Summer '90), 65-78.
Cobb, James C., "'Somebody Done
Nailed Us on the Cross': Federal Farm and Welfare Policy and the Civil
Rights Movement in the Mississippi Delta," Journal of American History,
77 (1990), 912-36.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue, "Rethinking
Troubled Relations between Women and Unions: Craft Unionism and Female
Activism," Feminist Studies, 16 (1990), 519-48.
Cohen, Miriam and Michael Hanagan,
"The Politics of Gender and the Making of the Welfare State, 1900-1940:
A Comparative Perspective," Journal of Social History, 24 (1991),
469-84.
Coltelli, Laura, Winged Words:
American Indian Writers Speak (Nebraska, 1990).
Cott, Nancy, ed., A Woman
Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters (Yale, 1991).
Cronon, William, Nature's
Metropolis: Chicago and the American West (Norton, 1991).
Dadzie, Stella, "Searching for
the Invisible Woman: Slavery and Resistance in Jamaica," Race & Class,
32 (Oct.-Dec. '90), 21-38.
Daniel, Pete, "Going among Strangers:
Southern Reactions to World War II," Journal of American History,
77 (1990), 886-911.
Darnton, Robert, Berlin Journal,
1989-1990 (Norton, 1991).
Dekker, Rudolf, "Labor Relations
and Working-Class Culture in Early Modern Holland," International Review
of Social History, 35 (1990), 377-420.
Donner, Frank, Protectors
of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America (California,
1990).
DuBois, Ellen Carol, "Making
Women's History: Activist Historians of Women's Rights, 1880-1940," Radical
History Review, #49 (Winter '91), 61-86.
Eisenberg, Christiane, "Artisans'
Socialization at Work: Workshop Life in Early Nineteenth-Century England
and Germany," Journal of Social History, 24 (1991), 507-20.
Engelmann, Larry, ed., Tears
Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam (Oxford,
1990).
Epstein, Barbara, Political
Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s
and 1980s (California, 1990).
"Europe: Variations on a Theme
of Racism," special issue of Race & Class, 32 (Jan.-March '91).
Figes, Orlando, "The Red Army
and Mass Mobilization during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920," Past
& Present, #129 (Nov. '90), 168-211.
Filippelli, Ronald C., Labor
Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1990).
Folbre, Nancy, "The Unproductive
Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought," Signs,
16 (1991), 463-84.
Foner, Eric, "Blacks and the
U.S. Constitution," New Left Review, #183 (Sept.-Oct. '90), 63-74.
________, ed., The New American
History (Temple, 1991).
Formisano, Ronald, Boston
Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
(North Carolina, 1990).
"The French Revolution and Marxism,"
special issue of Science & Society, 59 (Fall '90).
Freund, Bill, "The Rise and
Decline of an Indian Peasantry in Natal," Journal of Peasant Studies,
18 (1991), 263-87.
Frey, Sylvia R., Water from
the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (Princeton, 1990).
Gabin, Nancy F., Feminism
in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975
(Cornell, 1991).
Gluck, Sherna, and Daphne Patai,
eds., Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (Routledge,
1990).
Gordon, Linda, "The Peaceful
Sex? On Feminism and the Peace Movement," NWSA Journal 2 (1990),
624-34.
Gould, Jeffrey L., To Lead
as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua,
1912-1979 (North Carolina, 1990).
Gutierrez, Ramon A., When
Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Power and Sexuality in New Mexico,
1500-1846 (Stanford, 1990).
Hayford, Charles W., To the
People: James Yen and Village China (Columbia, 1990).
Healey, Dorothy and Maurice
Isserman, Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist
Party (Oxford, 1990).
Higgins, Kathleen, "Masters
and Slaves in a Mining Society: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Sabara,
Minas Gerais," Slavery & Abolition, 11 (1990), 58-73.
Hinsch, Bret, Passions of
the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China (California,
1990).
"History, the Nation, and the
Schools," special section in History Workshop, #30 (Autumn '90),
75-128.
Hobsbawm, Eric, Nations and
Nationalism since 1870 (Cambridge, 1990).
Holmes, William, "Populism:
In Search of Context," Journal of Agricultural History, 64 (1990),
26-58.
Hooks, Gregory, Forging the
Military-Industrial Complex: World War II's "Battle of the Potomac"
(Illinois, 1990).
Horton, Paul, "Testing the Limits
of Class Politics in Postbellum Alabama: Agrarian Radicalism in Lawrence
County," Journal of Southern History, 57 (1991), 63-84.
Huggins, Nathan I., "The Deforming
Mirror of Truth: Slavery and the Master Narrative of American History,"
Radical History Review, #49 (Winter '91), 25-48.
Hyman, Michael R., The Anti-Redeemers:
Hill-Country Political Dissenters in the Lower South from Redemption to
Populism (LSU, 1990).
Ingham, John, Masters of
the Mill: The Independent Iron and Steel Mills of Pittsburgh, 1820-1920
(Ohio, 1990).
"The Irish in America," special
issue of Journal of American Ethnic History, 10 (Fall '90-Winter
'91).
Jennings, Jeremy, "Syndicalism
and the French Revolution," Journal of Contemporary History, 26
(1991), 71-96.
Jensen, Joan M., Promise
on the Land: Essays on Rural Women (University of New Mexico, 1990).
Jenson, Jane, "Different but
not Exceptional: The Feminism of Permeable Fordism," New Left Review,
#184 (Nov.-Dec. '90), 58-65.
Kabeer, Naila, "Gender Dimensions
of Rural Poverty: Analysis from Bangladesh," Journal of Peasant Studies,
18 (1991), 241-62.
Kaplan, Marion A., "Jewish Women
in Nazi Germany: Daily Life, Daily Struggles, 1933-1939," Feminist
Studies, 16 (1990), 579-606.
Kingston-Mann, Esther, "In the
Light and Shadow of the West: The Impact of Western Economics in Pre-Emancipation
Russia," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33 (1991),
86-105.
Koditschek, Theodore, Class
Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850 (Cambridge,
1990).
Kolchin, Peter, "Some Thoughts
on Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: Russia and the United States
South," Slavery & Abolition, 11 (1990), 351-67.
Kornblith, Gary, "The Artisanal
Response to Capitalist Transformation," Journal of the Early American
Republic, 10 (1990), 315-22.
Lacouture, Jean, DeGaulle:
The Rebel, 1890-1944 (Norton, 1991).
Lapides, Kenneth, ed., Marx
and Engels on the Trade Unions (International, 1990).
Lasser, Carol, "Gender, Ideology,
and Class in the Early Republic," Journal of the Early American Republic,
10 (1990), 331-38.
Lewis, Earl, In Their Own
Interests: Race, Class and Power in 20th-Century Norfolk, Virginia
(California, 1990).
Lynd, Staughton, "Trade Unionism
in the U.S.A.," and a reply by Kim Moody, New Left Review, #184
(Nov.-Dec. '90), 76-96.
Main, Gloria J., "An Inquiry
into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England," Journal
of Social History, 24 (1991), 579-90.
Mandel, David, "'A Market Without
Thorns': The Ideological Struggle for the Soviet Working Class," Studies
in Political Economy, #33 (Autumn '90), 7-38.
Matthews, Donald and Jane Sherron
DeHart, Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and a Nation
(Oxford, 1990).
McFeely, William, Frederick
Douglass (Norton, 1990).
McGowan, Winston, "African Resistance
to the Atlantic Slave Trade in West Africa," Slavery & Abolition,
11 (1990), 5-29.
Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed.,
Growing up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell,
1872-1874 (Yale, 1990).
Merriman, John M., The Margins
of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-51 (Oxford,1990).
Metcalf, Alida C., "Women and
Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil," Journal of Social
History, 24 (1990), 277-98.
Michel, Sonya, and Seth Koven,
"Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of the Welfare State
in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States," American
Historical Review, 95 (1990), 1076-1108.
"Military Rule and the Struggle
for Democracy in Chile," special issue of Latin American Perspectives,
18 (Winter '91).
Molyneux, Maxine, "The 'Woman
Question' in the Age of Perestroika," New Left Review, #183 (Sept.-Oct.
'90), 23-49.
Monoson, S. Sara, "The Lady
and the Tiger: Women's Electoral Activism in New York City before Suffrage,"
Journal of Women's History, 2 (Fall '90), 100-35.
Monroy, Douglas, Thrown Among
Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (California,
1990).
Moody, J. Carroll and Alice
Kessler-Harris, eds., Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems
of Synthesis (Northern Illinois, 1990).
Murphy, James, The Proletarian
Movement: Leftism and the Debates over Literature and Politics before
and during the Great Depression (Illinois, 1990).
Musser, Charles, The Emergence
of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (Scribner's, 1990)
Nachmani, Amikam, "Civil War
and Foreign Intervention in Greece, 1946-49," Journal of Contemporary
History, 25 (1990), 489-522.
Nadel, Stanley, Little Germany:
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80 (Illinois,
1990).
Nazzari, Muriel, "Parents and
Daughters: Change in the Practice of Dowry in Sao Paulo (1600-1770),"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 70 (1990), 639-66.
Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia, Afro-American
Women of the Old South and the Advancement of the Race (Tennessee,
1990).
"New Perspectives on European
Marriage in the Nineteenth Century," special issue of Journal of Family
History, 16:1 (1991).
Nolan, Mary, "'Housework Made
Easy': The Taylorized Housewife in Weimar Germany's Rationalizaed Economy,"
Feminist Studies, 16 (1990), 519-48.
Offen, Karen, Ruth Roach Pierson,
and Jane Rendall, eds., Writing Women's History (Indiana, 1991).
Osterud, Nancy Grey, "Rural
Women during the Civil War: New York's Nanticoke Valley, 1861-1865," New
York History, (Oct. '90), 357-86.
________, Bonds of Community:
The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York (Cornell, 1991).
Papachristou, Judith, "American
Women and Foreign Policy, 1898-1905: Exploring Gender in Diplomatic History,"
Diplomatic History, 14 (1990), 493-510.
Perry, Elisabeth Israels, "Women's
Political Choices after Suffrage: The Women's City Club of New York, 1915-1990,"
New York History, (Oct. '90), 417-34.
Platt, Anthony M., "Racism and
Academia: Lessons from the Life of E. Franklin Frazier," Monthly Review,
42 (Sept. '90), 29-45.
"Post-Fordism: Flexible Policies
in the Age of Just-in-Time Production," special section of Socialist
Review, #91 (Jan.-March '91), 53-176.
Prakash, Gyan, Bonded Histories:
Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Cambridge, 1990).
Rafael, Vicente L., "Patronage
and Pornography: Ideology and Spectatorship in the Early Marcos Years,"
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32 (1990), 282-304.
________, Contracting Colonialism:
Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish
Rule (Cornell, 1988).
Rakow, Laura R., and Cheris
Kramarae, eds., The Revolution in Words: Righting Women, 1868-1871
(Routledge, 1990).
Reagan, Leslie J., "'About to
Meet Her Maker': Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation
of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940," Journal of American History,
77 (1991), 1240-64.
Robinson, Cedric, "DuBois and
Black Sovereignty: The Case of Liberia," Race & Class, 32 (Oct.-Dec.
'90), 39-50.
Romero, Patricia W., E. Sylvia
Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical (Yale, 1990).
Ross, Dorothy, The Origins
of American Social Science (Cambridge, 1990).
Ross, Steven J., "The Transformation
of Republican Ideology," Journal of the Early American Republic, 10
(1990), 323-30.
Safford, Frank, "Race, Integration,
and Progress: Elite Attitudes and the Indian in Colombia, 1750-1870,"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 71 (1991), 1-34.
Scharff, Virginia, Taking
the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (Free Press, 1991).
Schell, William, Jr., "American
Investment in Tropical Mexico: Rubber Plantations, Fraud, and Dollar Diplomacy,
1897-1913," Business History Review, 64 (1990), 217-54.
Schneer, Jonathan, George
Lansbury (Manchester Univ. Press, 1990).
Schneider, Cathy, "Mobilization
at the Grassroots: Shantytowns and Resistance in Authoritarian Chile,"
Latin American Perspectives, 18 (Winter '91), 92-112.
Schwartz, Bernard, The New
Right and the Constitution (Northeastern, 1990).
Segal, Lynne, "Whose Left? Socialism,
Feminism and the Future," New Left Review, #185 (Jan.-Feb. '91),
81-91.
Sellers, Cleveland with Robert
Terrill, The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant
and the Life and Death of SNCC (Mississippi, 1990).
Shanin, Teodor, "The Question
of Socialism: A Development Failure or an Ethical Defeat?" History
Workshop, #30 (Autumn '90), 68-74.
Shifflett, Crandall A., Coal
Towns: Life, Work and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia,
1880-1960 (Tennessee, 1991).
Shoemaker, Nancy, "The Rise
or Fall of Iroquois Women," Journal of Women's History, 2 (Winter
'91), 39-57.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish and Thomas
Dublin, eds., Women and Power in American History, 2 vols. (Prentice-Hall,
1991).
Sklar, Kathryn Kish, "'Women
Who Speak for an Entire Nation': American and British Women Compared at
the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840," Pacific Historical
Review, 59 (1990), 453-99.
Solterer, Helen, "Figures of
Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs, 16 (1991), 522-49.
Sonenscher, Michael, Work
and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades
(Cambridge, 1990).
Spohn, Willfred, "Religion and
Working-Class Formation in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914," Politics &
Society, 19 (1991), 109-32.
Steinberg, Stephen, "Blacks
and Jews: The Politics of Memory," New Politics, 3 (Winter '91),
pp. 64-70.
Stern, Mark J., "Poverty and
the Life Cycle, 1940-1960," Journal of Social History, 24 (1991),
521-40.
Stovall, Tyler, The Rise
of the Paris Red Belt (California, 1990).
Stricker, Frank, "Repressing
the Working Class: Individualism and the Masses in Frank Capra's Films,"
Labor History, 31 (1990), 454-67.
Suny, Ronald, "The Revenge of
the Past: Socialism and Ethnic Conflict in Transcaucasia," New Left
Review, #184 (Nov.-Dec. '90), 5-36.
Teitelbaum, Kenneth, "'Critical
Lessons' from Our Past: Curricula of Socialist Sunday Schools in the United
States," Curriculum Inquiry, 20 (1990), 407-36.
"That Was Then, This Is Now:
90s Radicals Confront the 60s,", special section of Socialist Review,
20 (Oct.-Dec. '90), 11-114.
Thompson, E.P., "The Ends of
Cold War," and a reply by Fred Halliday, New Left Review, #182
(July-Aug. '90), 139-51.
Urdank, Albion M., "The Family
and Demographic Behavior in Belgium, Germany, and Italy, 1700-1920," Historical
Methods, 24 (Winter '91), 41-47.
Valenze, Deborah, "The Art of
Women and the Business of Men: Women's Work and the Dairy Industry, c.
1740-1840," Past & Present, #133 (Feb. '91), 142-69.
Velie, Alan R., The Lightning
Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction (Nebraska,
1991).
Walker, Melissa, Down from
the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights
Movement, 1966-1989 (Yale, 1991).
Walkowitz, Daniel J., "The Making
of Feminine Professional Identity: Social Workers in the 1920s," American
Historical Review, 95 (1990), 1051-75.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, "Beyond
Annales?" Radical History Review, #49 (Winter '91), 7-16.
Walton, Whitney, "Working Women,
Gender and Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of
Lorraine Embroidery Manufacturing," Journal of Women's History,
2 (Fall '90), 42-64.
Warskett, Rosemary, "Wage Solidarity
and Equal Value: On Gender and Class in the Structuring of Workplace Hierarchies,"
Studies in Political Economy, #32 (Summer '90), 55-84.
Wood, Betty, "'White Society'
and the 'Informal' Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, c. 1763-1830,"
Slavery & Abolition, 11 (1990), 313-31.
Woodman, Harold, King Cotton
and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South,
1800-1925 (South Carolina, 1990).
"The Working Class in World
War II," special section in International Labor and Working Class History,
#38 (Fall '90), 3-62.
Zunz, Olivier, Making America
Corporate, 1870-1920 (Chicago, 1990).
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