"Recent
Books and Articles of Interest"
compiled by Tom Dublin
(reprinted from
recent issues of the Radical Historians Newsletter)
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Number 66, May 1992
Allen, Douglas and Ngo Vinh
Long, eds., Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States, and the
War (Westview, 1991).
Andrews, Gregg, Shoulder
to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and
the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1924 (California, 1991).
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, In
My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford, 1992).
Arnesen, Eric, "The African-American
Working Class in the Jim Crow Era,'' International Labor and Working
Class History, No. 41 (Spring '92), 58-75.
"Assault on Equality: Race,
Rights and the New Orthodoxy,'' special section of The Nation (Dec.
9, 1991).
Babson, Steve, Building the
Union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the
UAW (Rutgers, 1991).
Bailyn, Bernard and Philip D.
Morgan, eds., Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First
British Empire (North Carolina, 1991).
"Becoming Martin Luther King,
Jr.--Plagiarism and Originality: A Round Table,'' special section of Journal
of American History, 78 (1991), 11-123.
Bederman, Gail, "'Civilization,'
the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Antilynching
Campaign (1892-94),'' Radical History Review, No. 52 (Winter '92),
5-32.
Berg, Maxine and Pat Hudson,
"Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution,'' Economic History Review,
45 (1992), 24-50.
Berry, Mary Frances, "Judging
Morality: Sexual Behavior and Legal Consequences in the Late Nineteenth-Century
South,'' Journal of American History, 78 (1991), 835-56.
Biles, Roger, A New Deal
for the American People (Northern Illinois, 1991).
Braund, Kathryn E. Holland,
"The Creek Indians, Blacks, and Slavery,'' Journal of Southern History,
57 (1991), 601-36.
Brewer, Priscilla J., "'Tho'
of the Weaker Sex': A Reassessment of Gender Equality among the Shakers,''
Signs, 17 (1992), 609-35.
Bunker, Gary L., "Antebellum
Caricature and Woman's Sphere,'' Journal of Women's History, 3
(Winter '92), 6-43.
Burton, Antoinette, "The Feminist
Quest for Identity: British Imperial Suffragism and 'Global Sisterhood,'
1900-1915,'' Journal of Women's History, 3 (Fall '91), 46-81.
Bynum, Victoria E., Unruly
Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
(North Carolina, 1992).
Casaleno, Larry, "Decoding the
Human Genome Project: An Interview with Evelyn Fox Keller,'' Socialist
Review, 21:2 (Apr.-June '91), 111-28.
Chaplin, Joyce E., "Tidal Rice
Cultivation and the Problem of Slavery in South Carolina and Georgia,
1760-1815,'' William & Mary Quarterly, 49 (1992), 29-61.
Charles, Persis, "The Name of
the Father: Women, Paternity, and British Rule in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica,''
International Labor and Working Class History, No. 41 (Spring '92),
4-22.
Chun, Gloria, "The High Note
of the Barbarian Reed Pipe: Maxine Hong Kingston,'' Journal of Ethnic
Studies, 19 (Fall '91), 85-94.
Cohen, Miriam J., and Michael
Hanagan, "Work, School, and Reform: A Comparison of Birmingham, England,
and Pittsburgh, USA: 1900-1950,'' International Labor and Working Class
History, No. 40 (Fall '91), 67-80.
Cohen, Patricia Cline, "Unregulated
Youth: Masculinity and Murder in the 1830s City,'' Radical History
Review, No. 52 (Winter '92), 33-53.
Cohen-Lack, Nancy, "A Struggle
for Sovereignty: National Consolidation, Emancipation, and Free Labor
in Texas, 1865,'' Journal of Southern History, 58 (1992), 57-98.
Countryman, Edward, "The Uses
of Capital in Revolutionary America: The Case of the New York Loyalist
Merchants,'' William & Mary Quarterly, 49 (1992), 3-28.
Cronin, James E., and Peter
Weiler, "Working-Class Interests and the Politics of Social Democratic
Reform in Britain, 1900-1940,'' International Labor and Working Class
History, No. 40 (Fall '91), 47-66.
Cronon, William, "A Place for
Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative,'' Journal of American History,
78 (1992), 1347-76.
Davis, R. Hunt, Jr., ed., Apartheid
Unravels (Univ. Presses of Florida, 1991).
de Grazia, Victoria, How
Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (California, 1991).
Drescher, Seymour, "British
Way, French Way: Opinion Building and Revolution in the Second French
Slave Emancipation,'' American Historical Review, 96 (1991), 709-34.
Dublin, Thomas, "Rural Putting-Out
Work in Early Nineteenth-Century New England: Women and the Transition
to Capitalism in the Countryside,'' New England Quarterly, 64 (1991),
531-73.
"Ecological Crisis of Latin
America,'' special issue of Latin American Perspectives, 19 (Winter
'92).
"End of the Cold War: A Symposium,''
Diplomatic History, 16 (1992), 45-114.
Eves, Jamie H., "'Shrunk to
a Comparative Rivulet': Deforestation, Stream Flow, and Rural Milling
in 19th-Century Maine,'' Technology and Culture, 33 (1992), 38-65.
Fink, Leon, "A Memoir of Selig
Perlman and his Life at the University of Wisconsin,'' Labor History,
32 (1991), 503-25.
Fogleman, Aaron, "Migrations
to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 1700-1775: New Estimates,''
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 22 (1992), 691-709.
Fox, John W., "Irish Immigrants,
Pauperism, and Insanity in 1854 Massachusetts,'' Social Science History,
15 (1991), 315-36.
"Gender and the Right,'' special
issue of Gender & History, 3:3 (Autumn, 1991).
Glickstein, Jonathan A., Concepts
of Free Labor in Antebellum America (Yale, 1992).
Godfried, Nathan, Bridging
the Gap between Rich and Poor: American Economic Development Policy toward
the Arab East, 1942-1949 (Greenwood, 1991).
Goldstein, Alice, Sidney Goldstein,
and Gu Shengzu, "Rural Industrialization and Migration in the People's
Republic of China,'' Social Science History, 15 (1991), 289-314.
Goodman, Dena, "Public Sphere
and Private Life: Toward a Synthesis of Current Historiographical Approaches
to the Old Regime,'' History and Theory, 31 (1992), 1-20.
Goodwyn, Lawrence, Breaking
the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland (Oxford, 1991).
Gordon, Ann D., Using the
Nation's Documentary Heritage: The Report of the Historical Documents
Study (NHPRC and ACLS, 1992).
Greenbaum, Susan D., "A Comparison
of African American and Euro-American Mutual Aid Societies in 19th Century
America,'' Journal of Ethnic Studies, 19 (Fall '91), 95-120.
Greer, Edward, "The Hidden History
of the Iraq War,'' Monthly Review, 43 (May '91), 1-14.
Grier, Beverly, "Pawns, Porters,
and Petty Traders: Women and the Transition to Cash Crop Agriculture in
Colonial Ghana,'' Signs, 17 (1992), 304-28.
Gross, Stephen, "Domestic Labor
as a Life-Course Event: The Effects of Ethnicity in Turn-of-the-Century
America,'' Social Science History, 15 (1991), 397-416.
Gullickson, Gay, "La Pétroleuse:
Representing Revolutions,'' Feminist Studies, 17 (1991), 241-66.
Gunn, Philip, "Frank Lloyd Wright
and the Passage to Fordism,'' Capital & Class, No. 44 (Summer '91),
73-92.
Harles, John C., "Politics in
an American Lifeboat: The Case of Laotian Immigrants,'' Journal of
American Studies, 25 (1991), 419-42.
Harris, Trudier, comp., The
Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Oxford, 1991).
Harrison, Malcolm, "Welfare
Rights Struggles, Consumption, and the Politics of Rights,'' Capital
& Class, No. 42 (Winter '90), 107-30.
Hart, Gillian, "Engendering
Everyday Resistance: Gender, Patronage and Production Politics in Rural
Malaysia,'' Journal of Peasant Studies, 19 (1992), 93-121.
Hays, Samuel P., "The New Environmental
West,'' Journal of Policy History, 3 (1991), 223-48.
Henretta, James A., The Origins
of American Capitalism (Northeastern, 1992).
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks,
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,'' Signs,
17 (1992), 251-74.
Holt, Thomas C., The Problem
of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
(Johns Hopkins, 1991).
Howell, Chris, "The Dilemmas
of Post-Fordism: Socialists, Flexibility, and Labor Market Regulation
in France,'' Politics & Society, 20 (1992), 71-100.
Huberman, Michael, "Industrial
Relations and the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from M'Connel and Kennedy,
1810-1840,'' Business History Review, 65 (1991), 345-78.
Hunter, Jane H., "Inscribing
the Self in the Heart of the Family: Diaries and Girlhood in Late-Victorian
America,'' American Quarterly, 44 (1992), 51-81.
Jacoby, Daniel, "The Transformation
of Industrial Apprenticeship in the United States,'' Journal of Economic
History, 51 (1991), 887-910.
Jensen, Joan M., Army Surveillance
in America, 1775-1980 (Yale, 1991).
Johnson, Penelope D., Equal
in The Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France (Chicago,
1991).
Jonas, Raymond A., "Peasants,
Population, and Industry in France,'' Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, 22 (1991), 177-200.
Jones, Jacqueline, The Dispossessed:
America's Underclass from the Civil War to the Present (Basic Books,
1992).
Jones, P.M., "The 'Agrarian
Law': Schemes for Land Redistribution during the French Revolution,''
Past & Present, No. 133 (Nov. '91), 96-133.
Kalb, Dan, "Moral Production,
Class Capacities and Communal Commotion: An Illustration from Central
Brabant Shoemaking (c. 1900-20),'' Social History, 16 (1991), 279-98.
Kastoryano, Riva, "Integration
and Collective Identities of Immigrants in France and Germany,'' Journal
of Ethnic Studies, 19 (Fall '91), 51-64.
Kaye, Harvey, The Powers
of the Past: Reflections on the Crisis and the Promise of History
(Minnesota, 1991).
Kazin, Michael and Steven J.
Ross, "America's Labor Day: The Dilemma of a Workers' Celebration,'' Journal
of American History, 78 (1992), 1294-1323.
Kern, Horst, and Charles F.
Sabel, "Trade Unions and Decentralized Production: A Sketch of Strategic
Problems in the West German Labor Movement,'' Politics & Society,
19 (1991), 373-402.
Kerrigan, Colin, "Irish Temperance
and U.S. Anti-Slavery: Father Mathew and the Abolitionists,'' History
Workshop, #31 (Spring '91), 105-19.
Kotkin, Stephen, Steeltown,
USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era (California, 1991).
Lemke, Jürgen, Gay Voices
from East Germany (Indiana, 1990).
Levine, Bruce, Half Slave
and Half Free (Hill & Wang, 1991).
________, The Spirit of 1848:
German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
(Illinois, 1992).
Lewis, Jane, Women and Action
in Victorian and Edwardian England (Stanford, 1991).
Lindemann, Albert S., The
Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs--Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank--1894-1915
(Cambridge, 1991).
Lintelman, Joy K., "'Our Serving
Sisters': Swedish-American Domestics Servants and Their Ethnic Community,''
Social Science History, 15 (1991), 381-96.
MacLean, Nancy, "The Leo Frank
Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary
Populism,'' Journal of American History, 78 (1991), 917-48.
Malone, Ann Patton, Sweet
Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
(North Carolina, 1992).
Mangini, Shirley, "Memories
of Resistance: Female Activists from the Spanish Civil War,'' Signs,
17 (1991), 171-86.
Marcus, Eric, Making History:
An Oral History of the Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, 1945-1990
(HarperCollins, 1992).
McCurry, Stephanie, "The Two
Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South
Carolina,'' Journal of American History, 78 (1992), 1245-64.
McDermott, John, "Free Enterprise
and Socialized Labor,'' Science & Society, 55 (1991-92), 388-416.
McInerney, Daniel J., "'A Faith
for Freedom': The Political Gospel of Abolition,'' Journal of the Early
American Republic, 11 (1991), 371-94.
McMath, Robert, The Dream
of Commonwealth: American Populism (Hill & Wang, 1992).
McMillen, Sally G., Southern
Women: Black and White in the Old South (Harlan Davidson, 1992).
Melosh, Barbara, Engendering
Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater
(Smithsonian, 1991).
Melzer, Sara E. and Leslie W.
Rabine, eds., Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution
(Oxford, 1991).
Miliband, Ralph, Divided
Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism (Oxford, 1991).
Miller, Francesca, Latin
American Women and the Search for Social Justice (New England, 1991).
Munck, Ronnie, "The Making of
the Troubles in Northern Ireland,'' Journal of Contemporary History,
27 (1992), 211-30.
Nelson, Bruce C., "Revival and
Upheaval: Religion, Irreligion, and Chicago's Working Class in 1886,''
Journal of Social History, 25 (1991), 233-54.
Norwood, Stephen H., "From 'White
Slave' to Labor Activist: The Agony and Triumph of a Boston Brahmin Woman
in the 1910s,'' New England Quarterly, 65 (1992), 61-92.
Orloff, Ann, "Gender in Early
U.S. Social Policy,'' Journal of Policy History, 3 (1991), 249-81.
Pendle, Karin, ed., Women
and Music: A History (Indiana, 1991).
Phillips, John A. and Charles
Wetherell, "The Great Reform Bill of 1832 and the Rise of Partisanship,''
Journal of Modern History, 63 (1991), 621-46.
"Popular Organizing and the
State,'' special issue of Latin American Perspectives, 19 (Spring
'92).
Pruett, Katherine M. and John
D. Fair, "Promoting a New South: Immigration, Racism, and 'Alabama on
Wheels,''' Agricultural History, 66 (1991), 19-42.
Puskas, Julianna, ed., Overseas
Migration from East-Central and Southeastern Europe, 1880-1940 (Budapest:
Akademiai Kiado, 1990).
Richter, Irving, Labor's
Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participant's View (Cambridge, 1992).
Roper, Lyndal, "Witchcraft and
Fantasy in Early Modern Germany,'' History Workshop, No. 32 (Autumn
'91), 19-43.
Rose, Sonya O., Limited Livelihoods:
Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England (California, 1991).
Ross, George, "Turning Technocratic:
Euro-Socialists and 1992,'' Socialist Review, 21:3 (Apr.-June '91),
133-58.
Ross, Steven J., "Living for
the Weekend: The Shorter Hours Movement in International Perspective,''
Labour/Le Travail, 27 (Spring '91).
Sale, Kirkpatrick, The Conquest
of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (Penguin,
1991).
Sarvasy, Wendy, "Beyond the
Difference versus Equality Policy Debate: Postsuffrage Feminism, Citizenship,
and the Quest for a Feminist Welfare State,'' Signs, 17 (1992),
329-62.
Saul, John, "South Africa: Between
'Barbarism' and 'Structural Reform,''' New Left Review, #188 (July-Aug.
'91), 3-44.
Saville, Julie, "Grassroots
Reconstruction: Agricultural Labour and Collective Action in South Carolina,
1860-1868,'' Slavery & Abolition, 12 (Dec. '91), 173-82.
Schoonover, Thomas, The United
States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and
Imperial Rivalry in the World System (Duke, 1991).
Schwartz, Stuart B., Slaves,
Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (Illinois, 1992).
Schweninger, Loren, "The Underside
of Slavery: The Internal Economy, Self-Hire, and Quasi-Freedom in Virginia,''
Slavery & Abolition, 12 (Sept. '91), 1-22.
Scranton, Philip, "Diversity
in Diversity: Flexible Production and American Industrialization,'' Business
History Review, 65 (1991), 27-90.
Senior, Olive, Working Miracles:
Women of the English-Speaking Caribbean (Indiana, 1991).
Service, John, ed., Golden
Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service (California, 1990).
Shaw, Stephanie, "Black Club
Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women,''
Journal of Women's History, 3 (Fall '91), 10-25.
Singer, Alan, "Communists and
Coal Miners: Rank-and-File Organizing in the United Mine Workers of America
during the 1920s,'' Science & Society, 55 (1991), 132-57.
"Slaves' Economy: Independent
Production by Slaves in the Americas,'' special issue of Slavery &
Abolition, 12:1 (May '91).
Smith, Judith, "Celebrating
Immigration History at Ellis Island,'' American Quarterly, 44 (1992),
82-100.
Socolow, Susan Migden, "Spanish
Captives in Indian Societies: Cultural Contact along the Argentine Frontier,''
Hispanic American Historical Review, 72 (1992), 73-100.
Solinger, Dorothy, From Lathes
to Looms: China's Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1979-1982
(Stanford, , 1991).
Stamp, Patricia, "Burying Otieno:
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Kenya,'' Signs, 16 (1991),
818-45.
Stanley, Amy Dru, "Beggars Can't
Be Choosers: Compulsion and Contract in Postbellum America,'' Journal
of American History, 78 (1992), 1265-93.
Stepan, Nancy Leys, "The
Hour of Eugenics'': Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (Cornell,
1991).
Strikwerda, Carl, "Interest-Group
Politics and the International Economy: Mass Politics and Big Business
Corporations in the Liège Coal Basin, 1870-1914,'' Journal of
Social History, 25 (1991), 277-308.
Strom, Sharon Hartman, Beyond
the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office
Work, 1900-1930 (Illinois, 1992).
"Symposium on Making a New
Deal by Lizabeth Cohen,'' Labor History, 17 (1991), 562-97.
Tilly, Louise A., "Does Waged
Domestic Labor Have a Future? A Review Essay,'' International Labor
and Working Class History, No. 39 (Spring '91), 61-71.
Tomich, Dale, "Une Petite Guinée:
Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848,'' Slavery
& Abolition, 12 (May '91), 68-91.
Tucker, Eric, "'That Indefinite
Area of Toleration': Criminal Conspiracy and Trade Unions in Ontario,
1837-77,'' Labour/Le Travail, 27 (Spring '91), 15-54.
Turner, Mary, "Slave Workers'
Subsistence and Labour Bargaining: Amity Hall, Jamaica, 1805-1832,'' Slavery
& Abolition, 12 (May '91), 92-106.
van de Linder, Marcel and Jergen
Rohajn, eds., The Formation of Labor Movements, 1870-1914: An International
Perspective, 2 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990).
Vandal, Gilles, "'Bloody Caddo':
White Violence Against Blacks in a Louisiana Parish, 1865-1876,'' Journal
of Social History, 25 (1991), 373-88.
Venet, Wency Hamand, Neither
Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists during the Civil War (Virginia,
1992).
Watts, Jill, "'THIS WAS THE
WAY': Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement in Los Angeles during the
Great Depression,'' Pacific Historical Review, 60 (1991), 475-96.
Weigand, Kate, "The Red Menace,
the Feminine Mystique, and the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission:
Gender and Anti-Communism in Ohio, 1951-1954,'' Journal of Women's
History, 3 (Winter '92), 70-94.
Whayne, Jeanne, "Creation of
a Plantation System in the Arkansas Delta in the Twentieth Century,''
Agricultural History, 66 (1991), 63-84.
Wikan, Unni, Behind the Veil
in Arabia: Women in Oman (Chicago, 1991).
Wiseman, Nelson, "The Native
Issue in Canada,'' Capital & Class, No. 44 (Summer '91), 15-22.
Woods, Robert and Wally Seccombe,
"Debate: Working-Class Fertility Decline in Britain,'' Past & Present,
No. 134 (Feb. '92), 200-11.
"Working Class and the Welfare
State,'' special issue of International Labor and Working Class History,
No. 40 (Fall '91).
Worster, Donald, Under Western
Skies: Nature and History in the American West (Oxford, 1992).
Zarnowska, Anna, "Religion and
Politics: Polish Workers, c. 1900,'' Social History, 16 (1991),
299-316.
Zimmermann, Eduardo A., "Racial
Ideas and Social Reform: Argentina, 1890-1916,'' Hispanic American
Historical Review, 72 (1992), 23-46.
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