"Recent
Books and Articles of Interest"
compiled by Tom Dublin
(reprinted from
recent issues of the Radical Historians Newsletter)
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Number 75, December
1996
Accampo, Elinor A., "The Rhetoric
of Reproduction and the Reconfiguration of Womanhood in the French Birth
Control Movement, 1890-1920," Journal of Family History, 21 (1996),
351-71.
Anderson, Carol, "From Hope
to Disillusion: African Americans, the United Nations, and the Struggle
for Human Rights, 1944-1947," Diplomatic History, 20 (1996), 531-64.
Andrews, George Reid, "Brazilian
Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpart," Journal of Contemporary
History, 31 (1996), 483-508.
Andrews, Gregg, City of Dust:
A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer (Missouri, 1996).
Ashworth, John, Slavery,
Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic (Cambridge, 1996).
Baker, Christina Looper, In
a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page (Illinois,
1996).
Banks, William M., Black
Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life (Norton, 1996).
Barrow, Logie, and Ian Bullock,
Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement, 1880-1914 (Cambridge,
1996).
Beik, Mildred Allen, The
Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
(Penn State, 1996).
Beik, William, Urban Protest
in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution (Cambridge,
1996).
Bennett, Judith M., Ale,
Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
(Oxford, 1996).
Bergad, Laird W., Fe Iglesias
Garcia, and Maria del Carmen Barcia, The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
(Cambridge, 1996).
Berlanstein, Lenard R., "Breeches
and Breaches: Cross-Dress Theater and the Culture of Gender Ambiguity
in Modern France," Comparative Studies in Society and History,
338-69.
Berlin, Ira and Leslie S. Rowland,
eds., Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African American
Kinship in the Civil War (New Press, 1996).
Berlin, Ira, "From Creole to
African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society
in Mainland North America," William & Mary Quarterly, 53 (1996),
251-88.
Bernstein, Deborah S., "Expanding
the Split Labor Market Theory: Between and Within Sectors of the Split
Labor Market of Mandatory Palestine," Comparative Studies in Society
and History, 38 (1996), 243-66.
Bernstein, Henry, ed., "The
Agrarian Question in South Africa," special issue of Journal of Peasant
Studies, 23 (Jan./April '96).
Besse, Susan K., Restructuring
Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940
(North Carolina, 1996).
Bishel, William V., "Fall from
Grace: U.S. Business Interests versus U.S. Diplomatic Interests in Peru,
1885-1890," Diplomatic History, 20 (1996), 163-84.
Blackett, R.J.M., "African Americans,
the British Working Class and the American Civil War," Slavery &
Abolition, 17:2 (Aug. '96), 51-67.
Bodek, Richard, "The Not-So-Golden
Twenties: Everyday Life and Communist Agitprop in Weimar-Era Berlin,"
Journal of Social History, 30 (1996), 55-78.
Boydston, Jeanne, "The Woman
Who Wasn't There: Women's Market Labor and the Transition to Capitalism
in the United States," Journal of the Early Republic, 16 (1996),
183-206.
"Bringing Together Feminist
Theory and Practice: A Collective Interview," special section in Signs,
21 (1996), 917-51.
Brown, Kathleen M., Good
Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power
in Colonial Virginia (North Carolina, 1996).
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, A
Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and
Georgia (Illinois, 1996).
Bruner, David, Making Peace
with the 60s (Princeton, 1996).
Brunk, Samuel, "'The Sad Condition
of Civilians and Soldiers': The Banditry of Zapatismo in the Mexican Revolution,"
American Historical Review, 101 (1996), 331-53.
Brustein, William, The Logic
of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933 (Yale, 1996).
Bunzl, Matti, "On the Politics
and Semantics of Austrian Memory: Vienna's Monument against War and Fascism,"
History & Memory, 7 (1996), 7-40.
Burke, Janet M., and Margaret
C. Jacob, "French Freemasonry, Women and Feminist Scholarship," Journal
of Modern History, 68 (1996), 513-29.
Bynum, Caroline Walker, The
Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Columbia,
1996).
Campbell, James T., Songs
of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and
South Africa (Oxford, 1995).
Canning, Kathleen, Languages
of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 (Cornell,
1996).
Cantwell, Robert, When We
Were Good: The Folk Revival (Harvard, 1996).
"Capitalism in the Early
Republic," special issue of Journal of the Early Republic, 16:2
(Summer '96).
Catagay, Nilufer, "Gender and
International Labor Standards in the World Economy," Review of Radical
Political Economics, 28:3 (Sept. '96), 92-101.
Chomsky, Noam, R.D. Lewontin,
et al., The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History
of the Postwar Years (New Press, 1996).
Clark, Christopher, "Rural America
and the Transition to Capitalism," Journal of the Early Republic,
16 (1996), 223-36.
Clyman, Toby W and Judith Vowles,
Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia
(Yale, 1996).
Coffin, Judith, The Politics
of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915 (Princeton, 1996).
Cohn, Samuel K., Jr., Women
in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy (Johns
Hopkins, 1996).
Cooper, Frederick, Decolonization
and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa
(Cambridge, 1996).
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, A Social
History of American Technology (Oxford, 1996).
Crawford, Margaret, Building
the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (Verso,
1996).
Creighton, Colin, "The Rise
of the Male Breadwinner Family: A Reappraisal," Comparative Studies
in Society and History, 38 (1996), 310-37.
Critical Reflections on Asian
American Religious Identity," special section in Amerasia Journal,
22:1 (Spring '96), 161-98.
Daniels, Christine, "Gresham's
Laws: Labor Management on an Early-Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Plantation,"
Journal of Southern History, 62 (1996), 205-38.
Davis, Martha F., "Welfare Rights
and Women's Rights in the 1960s," Journal of Policy History, 8
(1996), 144-65.
de Grazia, Victoria and Ellen
Furlough, eds., The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical
Perspective (California, 1996).
Delaney, Jeane, "Making Sense
of Modernity: Changing Attitudes toward the Immigrant and the Gaucho
in Turn of-the-Century Argentina," Comparative Studies in Society and
History, 38 (1996), 434-59.
Drucker, Peter, "'In the Tropics
There is No Sin': Sexuality and Gay-Lesbian Movements in the Third World,"
New Left Review, #218 (July/Aug. '96), 75-101.
Dupuy, Alex, "Race and Class
in the Postcolonial Caribbean: The Views of Walter Rodney," Latin American
Perspectives, No. 89 (Spring '96), 107-29..
Dusinberre, William, Them
Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (Oxford, 1996).
Edelman, Marc, "Reconceptualizing
and Reconstituting Peasant Struggles: Central America in the 1990s," Radical
History Review, No. 65 (Spring '96), 26-47.
Edwards, Laura F., "The Disappearance
of Susan Daniel and Henderson Cooper: Gender and Narratives of Political
Conflict in the Reconstruction-Era U.S. South," Feminist Studies,
22 (1996), 363-86.
Engelhardt, Tom, The End
of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
(Basic, 1995).
English, Richard, "'The Inborn
Hate of Things English': Ernie O'Malley and the Irish Revolution, 1916-1923,"
Past & Present, No. 151 (May '96), 174-99.
Epstein, Barbara, "Why Poststructuralism
is a Dead End for Progressive Thought," Socialist Review, 25:2
(1995), 83-120.
"Ethnicity and Class in
Latin America," special issue of Latin American Perspectives, No.
89 (Spring '96).
Evans, Richard J., Rituals
of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 (Oxford,
1996).
Eynon, Bret, "Cast upon the
Shore: Oral History and New Scholarship on the Movements of the 1960s,"
Journal of American History, 83 (1996), 560-70.
Ferguson, William D., "Explaining
the Rising Wage-Productivity Gap of the 1980s: Effects of Declining Employment
and Unionization," Review of Radical Political Economics, 28:2
(June '96), 77-115.
Fields, Leslie Leyland, The
Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives
(Illinois, 1996).
Fink, Leon and John D. French,
"The Future of the International Labour Questions from the Inside Looking
Out," Labour/Le Travail, No. 37 (Spring '96), 221-32.
Fink, Leon, Stephen T. Leonard,
and Donald M. Reid, eds., Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism
and Reform (Cornell, 1996).
Fleischner, Jennifer, Mastering
Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
(NYU, 1996).
Foley, Neil, "Mexicans, Mechanization,
and the Growth of Corporate Cotton Culture in South Texas: The Taft Ranch,
1900-1930," Journal of Southern History, 62 (1996), 275-302.
Fones-Wolf, Ken, "From Craft
to Industrial Unionism in the Window-Glass Industry: Clarksburg, West
Virginia, 1900-1937," Labor History, 37 (1995-96), 28-49.
Freedman, Estelle, "The Prison
Lesbian: Race, Class, and the Construction of the Aggressive Female Homosexual,
1915-1965," Feminist Studies, 22 (1996), 397-424.
Fried, Albert, McCarthyism,
the Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History (Oxford, 1996).
Galambos, Louis, "Paying Up:
The Price of the Vietnam War,' Journal of Policy History, 8 (1996),
166-79.
Galbi, Douglas A., "Through
Eyes in the Storm: Aspects of the Personal History of Women Workers in
the Industrial Revolution," Social History, 21 (1996), 142-59.
Garcia, Maria Cristina, Havana
USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994
(California, 1996).
Gardell, Mattias, In the
Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (Duke,
1996).
Garden, Dale T., "An Act 'Even
of Public Security': Slave Resistance, Social Tensions, and the End of
the International Slave Trade to Brazil, 1835-1856," Hispanic American
Historical Review, 76 (1996), 249-82.
Garnett, Robert F., Jr., "Markets,
Modernism, and Marx: Some Thoughts on Economics after the Cold War," Rethinking
Marxism, 8:3 (Fall '95), 26-37.
Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and
Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina,
1896-1920 (North Carolina, 1996).
Gluck, Sherna, "Special Topics
in Women's Oral History: Toward an Inclusive History of U.S. Feminist
Activism," Radical History Review, No. 65 (Spring '96), 142-47.
Goldberg, David, "Unmasking
the Ku Klux Klan: The Northern Movement against the KKK, 1920-1925," Journal
of American Ethnic History, 15:4 (Summer '96), 32-48.
Golden, Janet, A Social History
of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (Cambridge, 1996).
Gonzalez, Michael J., "U.S.
Copper Companies, the Mine Workers' Movement, and the Mexican Revolution,
1910-1920," Hispanic American Historical Review, 76 (1996), 503-34.
Gorman, Paul R., Left Intellectuals
and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America (North Carolina,
1996).
Gowing, Laura, Domestic Dangers:
Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford, 1996).
Grant, Jaime M., "Building Community-Based
Coalitions from Academe: The Union institute and the Kitchen Table: Women
of Color Press Transition Coalition," Signs, 21 (1996), 1024-33.
Gray, Robert, The Factory
Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860 (Cambridge, 1996).
Green, Archie, Calf's Head
and Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play (Illinois, 1996).
Green, Nancy L., "Women and
Immigrants in the Sweatshop: Categories of Labor Segmentation Revisited,"
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38 (1996), 411-33.
Green, S.J.D., Religion in
the Age of Decline: Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire,
1870-1920 (Cambridge, 1996).
Greenwald, Maurine, "Women and
Pennsylvania Working-Class History," Pennsylvania History, 63 (1996),
5-16.
Grim, Valerie, "Black Participation
in the Farmers Home Administration and Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service, 1964-1990," Agricultural History, 70 (Spring
'96), 321-36.
Grossardt, Ted, "Harvest(ing)
Hoboes: The Production of Labor Organization through the Wheat Harvest,"
Agricultural History, 70 (Spring '96), 283-301.
Grove, Wayne A., "The Mexican
Farm Labor Program, 1942-1964: Government-Administered Labor Market Insurance
for Farmers," Agricultural History, 70 (Spring '96), 302-20.
Guard, Julie, "Fair Play or
Fair Play? Gender Relations, Class Consciousness, and Union Solidarity
in the Canadian UE," Labour/Le Travail, No. 37 (Spring '96), 149-78.
Hagen, William W., "Before the
'Final Solution': Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism
in Interwar Germany and Poland, Journal of Modern History, 68 (1996),
351-81.
Haine, W. Scott, The World
of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working Class, 1789-1914
(Johns Hopkins, 1996).
Halpern, Rick and Roger Horowitz,
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their
Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality (Twayne, 1996).
Hanson, Holly, "'Mill Girls'
and 'Mine Boys': The Cultural Meanings of Migrant Labour," Social History,
21 (1996), 160-79.
Hartford, William F., Where
Is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the new England Textile
Industry, 1870-1960 (Massachusetts, 1996).
Heath, Julia A. and David H.
Ciscel, "Escaping the Fate of Sisyphus: Bargaining, Divorce, and Employment
in the Patriarchal Family," Review of Radical Political Economics,
28:1 (March '96), 1-19.
Heineman, Elizabeth, "The Hour
of the Woman: Memories of Germany's 'Crisis Years' and West German National
Identity," American Historical Review, 101 (1996), 354-95.
Hewitt, Nancy, Jean O'Barr,
and Nancy Rosebaugh, eds., Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal
Journeys, and Political Critiques (North Carolina, 1996).
Hinshaw, John and Judith Modell,
"Perceiving Racism: Homestead from Depression to Deindustrialization,"
Pennsylvania History, 63 (1996), 17-52.
Hobsbawm, Eric, "Identity Politics
and the Left," New Left Review, #217 (May/June '96), 38-47.
Hollander, Nancy Caro, "The
Gendering of Human Rights: Women and the Latin American Terrorist State,"
Feminist Studies, 22 (1996), 41-80.
Honig, Emily, "Women at Farah
Revisited: Political Mobilization and Its Aftermath among Chicana Workers
in El Paso, Texas, 1972-1992," Feminist Studies, 22 (1996), 425-52.
hooks, bell with Tanya McKinnon,
"Sisterhood: Beyond Public and Private," Signs, 21 91996), 814-29.
Horn, Gerd-Rainer, European
Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the
1930s (Oxford, 1996).
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz and
Kathy Peiss, eds., Love across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice
Hanley to Channing Lewis (Massachusetts, 1996).
Horton, James O., and Lois E.
Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern
Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (Oxford, 1996).
Hurd, Madeleine, "Education,
Morality, and the Politics of Class in Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914,"
Journal of Contemporary History, 31 (1996), 619-50.
"Indians and Others in
Early America," special issue of William & Mary Quarterly,
53:3 (July '96).
"Irving Bernstein's Labor
History: A Symposium," special section in Labor History, 37 (1995-96),
75-99.
Jeansonne, Glen, Women of
the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II (Chicago, 1996).
Jenson, Jane, and Mariette Sineau,
"Family Policy and Women's Citizenship in Mitterrand's France," Social
Politics, 2 (1995), 244-69.
Jordan, Ellen, "The Lady Clerks
at the Prudential: The Beginning of Vertical Segregation by Sex in Clerical
Work in Nineteenth-Century Britain," Gender & History, 8 (1996),
65-81.
Juravich, Tom, William F. Hartford,
and James R. Green, Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of
Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions (Massachusetts, 1996).
Juster, Susan and Lisa MacFarlane,
eds., A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American
Protestantism (Cornell, 1996).
Kagan, Robert, A Twilight
Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990 (Free Press, 1995).
Kaplan, Steven Laurence, The
Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 (Duke, 1996).
Kaplan, Temma, Crazy for
Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements (Routledge, 1996).
Katznelson, Ira, Liberalism's
Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik (Princeton, 1996).
Kim, Jun Ha, "The Labor of Compassion:
Voices of Churches' Korean American Women," Amerasia Journal, 22:1
(Spring '96), 93-106.
King, Anthony D., ed., Re-Presenting
the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st-Century Metropolis
(NYU, 1996).
Kinsbrunner, Jay, Not of
Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century
Puerto Rico (Duke, 1996).
Klemencic, Matjaz, "American
Slovenes and the Leftist Movements in the United States in the First Half
of the Twentieth Century," Journal of American Ethnic History,
15:3 (Spring '96), 22-43.
Kornbluh, Felicia A., "The New
Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The U.S. Case (Review Essay),"
Feminist Studies, 22 (1996), 171-98.
Kudlick, Catherine J., Cholera
in Postrevolutionary Paris (California, 1996).
Landers, Jane G., ed., "Against
the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas," special
issue of Slavery & Abolition, 17:1 (April '96).
Laslett, John H.M., ed., The
United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
(Penn State, 1996).
Lauck, Jon, "American Agriculture
and the Problem of Monopoly," Agricultural History, 70 (Spring
'96), 196-215.
Lazare, Lucien, Rescue as
Resistance: How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
(Columbia, 1996).
Lear, John, "Mexico City: Space
and Class in the Porfirian Capital, 1884-1910," Journal of Urban History,
22 (1996), 454-92.
Levine, Lawrence W., The
Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (Beacon,
1996).
Lewis, Jane and Kathleen Kiernan,
"The Boundaries between Marriage, Nonmarriage, and Parenthood: Changes
in Behavior and Policy in Postwar Britain," Journal of Family History,
21 (1996), 372-87.
Lincoln, C. Eric, Coming
through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America (Duke, 1996).
Lipschutz, Sybil, "Hours and
Wages: The Gendering of Labor Standards in America," Journal of Women's
History, 8 (1996), 114-36.
Lockman, Zachary, Comrades
and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (California,
1996).
Luhrmann, T.M., The Good
Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society (Harvard,
1996).
Lutz, Tom and Susanna Ashton,
eds., These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the
1920s (Rutgers, 1996).
Lynd, Staughton, "We Are
All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s (Illinois,
1996).
Malone, Carolyn, "The Gendering
of Dangerous Trades: Government Regulation of Women's Work in the White
Lead Trade in England, 1892-1898," Journal of Women's History,
8 (1996), 15-35.
Marcus, Irwin W., "The Johnstown
Steel Strike of 1919: The Struggle for Unionism and Civil Liberties,"
Pennsylvania History, 63 (1996), 96-118.
Marilley, Suzanne M., Woman
Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920
(Harvard, 1996).
Marsh, Rosalind, ed., Women
in Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge, 1996).
Martin-Perdue, Nancy J. and
Charles L. Perdue, Jr., eds., Talk about Trouble: A New Deal Portrait
of Virginians in the Great Depression (North Carolina, 1996).
"Marxism and Ecology,"
special issue of Science & Society, 60:3 (Fall '96).
Mastboom, Joyce M., "Protoindustrialization
and Agriculture in the Eastern Netherlands," Social Science History,
20 (1996), 235-58.
McLaurin, Irma, Women of
Belize: Gender and Change in Central America (Rutgers, 1996).
McLennan, Gregor, "Post-Marxism
and the 'Four Sins' of Modernist Theorizing," New Left Review,
#218 (July/Aug. '96), 53-74.
Meranze, Michael, Laboratories
of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Pennsylvania, 1760-1835
(North Carolina, 1996).
Meyers, Barton, "The Bell
Curve and the New Social Darwinism," Science & Society,
60 (1996), 195-203
Mintz, Steven, "Models of Emancipation
during the Age of Revolution," Slavery & Abolition, 17:2 (Aug.
'96), 1-21.
Mitchell, Don, The Lie of
the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Minnesota,
1996).
Montgomerie, Deborah, "Reassessing
Rosie: World War II, New Zealand Women and the Iconography of Femininity,"
Gender & History, 8 (1996), 108-32.
"More Working-Class Studies,"
Radical Teacher, #48 (Spring '96), 14-26.
Mullen, Bill and Sherry Linkon,
eds., Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture (Illinois, 1996).
Munro, William A., "Power, Peasants,
and Political Development: Reconsidering State Construction in Africa,"
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38 (1996), 112-48.
Murphy, Mary, Mining Cultures:
Gender, Work, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 (Illinois, 1996).
Nagel, Joane, American Indian
Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture
(Oxford, 1996).
Naimann, Joanne, "Left Feminism
and the Return to Class," Monthly Review, 48 (June '96), 12-28.
Nash, Margaret, "Feminist Economies,"
Rethinking Marxism, 8:3 (Fall '95), 66-78.
"Nelson Lichtenstein's
Walter Reuther: A Symposium," special section in Labor History,
37 (1996), 332-64.
New, Caroline, "Man Bad, Woman
Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms," New Left Review, #216 (Mar./April
'96), 79-93.
Nonn, Christoph, "Putting Radicalism
to the Test: German Social Democracy and the 1905 Suffrage Demonstrations
in Dresden," International Review of Social History, 41 (1996),
183-208.
Norwood, Stephen, "Ford's Brass
Knuckles: Harry Bennett, the Cult of Muscularity, and Anti-Labor Terror--1920-1945,"
Labor History, 37 (1996), 365-91.
O'Brien, Patrick Karl, "Path
Dependency, or Why Britain Became an Industrialized and Urbanized Economy
long before France," Economic History Review, 49 (1996), 213-49.
O'Farrell, Brigid and Joyce
L. Kornbluh, Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975
(Rutgers, 1996).
Olwell, Robert, "Becoming Free:
Manumission and the Genesis of a Free Black Community in South Carolina,
1740-90," Slavery & Abolition, 17:1 (April '96), 1-19.
Olwell, Russell, "'Condemned
to Footnotes': Marxist Scholarship in the History of Science," Science
& Society, 60 (1996), 7-26.
Painter, Nell Irvin, Sojourner
Truth: A Life, a Symbol (Norton, 1996).
Palmer, Phyllis, "Outside the
Law: Agricultural and Domestic Workers under the Fair Labor Standards
Act," Journal of Policy History, 7 (1995), 416-40.
Pascoe, Peggy, "Miscegenation
law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century America,"
Journal of American History, 83 (1996), 44-69.
Peabody, Sue, "There Are
No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the
Ancien Regime (Oxford, 1996).
Pepper, Suzanne, Radicalism
and Education Reform in 20th-Century China (Cambridge, 1996).
Piersen, William D., From
Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the
Early Republic, 1526-1790 (Twayne, 1996).
Pino, Julio Cesar, "Dark Mirror
of Modernization: The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the Boom Years, 1948-1960,"
Journal of Urban History, 22 (1996), 419-53.
Platt, Anthony M., "U.S. Race
Relations at the Crossroads in California," Monthly Review, 48
(Oct. '96), 29-42.
Plummer, Brenda Gayle, Rising
Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (North Carolina,
1996).
Polsky, Andrew, "Welfare State
History: The Limits of the New," Journal of Policy History, 7 (1995),
441-55, with additional comments by Jill Quadagno and Linda Gordon.
Prude, Jonathan, "Capitalism,
Industrialization, and the Factory in Post-revolutionary America," Journal
of the Early Republic, 16 (1996), 237-56.
Rabinowitz, Victor, Unrepentant
Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir (Illinois, 1996).
Rajala, Richard A., "A Dandy
Bunch of Wobblies: Pacific Northwest Loggers and the Industrial Workers
of the World, 1900-1930," Labor History, 37 (1996), 205-34.
Ratcliffe, Barrie M., "Popular
Classes and Cohabitation in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris," Journal
of Family History, 21 (1996), 316-50.
Reagan, Leslie J., When Abortion
Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
(California, 1996).
"Rethinking the American
Revolution," special section in William & Mary Quarterly, 53
(1996), 341-86.
"Robert Zieger's History
of the CIO: A Symposium," special section in Labor History, 37
(1996), 157-88.
Rogin, Michael, Blackface,
White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot (California,
1996).
Roorda, Eric Paul, "Genocide
Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy, the Trujillo Regime, and the Haitian
Massacre of 1937," Diplomatic History, 20 (1996), 301-20.
Rorabaugh, W.J., "Challenging
Authority, Seeking Community, and Empowerment in the New Left, Black Power,
and Feminism," Journal of Policy History, 8 (1996), 106-45.
"A Roundtable Review: McNamara's
In Retrospect," special section in Diplomatic History, 20:3
(Summer '96).
Salisbury, Neal, "The Indians'
Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans," William &
Mary Quarterly, 53 (1996), 435-58.
Samson, Gloria Garrett, The
American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy,
1922-1941 (Greenwood, 1996).
San Buenaventura, Steffi, "Filipino
Folk Spirituality and Immigration: From Mutual Aid to Religion," Amerasia
Journal, 22:1 (Spring '96), 1-30.
Schoppmann, Claudia, Days
of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich
(Columbia, 1996).
Schwalbe, Michael, Unlocking
the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture
(Oxford, 1996).
Schwarz, Bill, "'The only white
man in there': The Re-racialisation of England, 1956-68," Race &
Class, 38:1 (July-Sept. '96), 65-78.
Scott, Joan Wallach, ed., Feminism
and History (Oxford, 1996).
Scott, Joan, Only Paradoxes
to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Harvard, 1996).
Sider, Gerald, "Cleansing History:
Lawrence, Massachusetts, the Strike for Four Loaves of Bread and No Roses,
and the Anthropology of Working-class Consciousness," Radical History
Review, 65 (Spring '96), 48-83, with comments by Paul Buhle, Ardis
Cameron, David Montgomery, and Christine Stansell.
Skotnes, Andor, "The Communist
Party, Anti-Racism, and the Freedom Movement: Baltimore, 1930-1934," Science
& Society, 60 (1996), 164-94.
Smith, Steve A., "Workers, the
Intelligentsia and Marxist Parties: St. Petersburg, 1895-1917 and Shanghai,
1921-1927," International Review of Social History, 41 (1996),
1-56.
Soyinka, Wole, The Open Sore
of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (Oxford,
1996).
Spindel, Donna J., "Assessing
Memory: Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives Reconsidered," Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 27 (1996), 247-62.
Stacey, Judith, In the Name
of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age (Beacon,
1996).
Stark, David M., "Discovering
the Invisible Puerto Rican Slave Family: Demographic Evidence from the
Eighteenth Century," Journal of Family History, 21 (1996), 395-418.
Stuart, Robert, "Calm,
with a Grave and Serious Temperament, Rather Male': French Marxism, Gender
and Feminism, 1882-1905," International Review of Social History,
41 (1996), 57-82.
Sugrue, Thomas J., The Origins
of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton,
1996).
Sullivan, Patrick, Days of
Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (North Carolina, 1996).
Swain, Tony, A Place for
Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being (Cambridge,
1995).
Switzer, Les, ed., South
Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1873-1963
(Cambridge, 1996).
"Symposium: African Americans
and U.S. Foreign Relations," special section in Diplomatic History,
20:4 (Fall '96).
Tilly, Charles, "What Good is
Urban History?" Journal of Urban History, 22 (1996), 702-19.
Tucker, Eric, "Forging Responsible
Unions: Metal Workers and the Rise of the Labour Injunction in Canada,"
Labour/Le Travail, No. 37 (Spring '96), 81-120.
Umansky, Lauri, Motherhood
Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties (NYU, 1996).
Varese, Stefano, "The Ethnopolitics
of Indian Resistance in Latin America,," Latin American Perspectives,
No. 89 (Spring '96), 58-71.
Vincentnathan, S. George, "Caste
Politics, Violence, and the Panchayat in a South Indian Community," Comparative
Studies in Society and History, 38 (1996), 484-509.
Von Eschen, Penny M., Race
Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Cornell,
1996).
Waldinger, Roger, Still the
Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial
New York (Harvard, 1996).
Walker, Melissa, "Home Extension
Work among African American Farm Women in East Tennessee, 1920-1939,"
Agricultural History, 70 (Summer '96), 487-502.
Walker, Vanessa Siddle, Their
Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated
South (North Carolina, 1996).
Warren, Donald, Radio Priest:
Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio (Free Press, 1996).
Watkins-Owens, Irma, Blood
Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930
(Indiana, 1996).
Watson, Harry L., "'The Common
Rights of Mankind': Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republican
South," Journal of American History, 83 (1996), 13-43.
Whitney, Susan B., "Embracing
the Status Quo: French Communists, Young Women and the Popular Front,"
Journal of Social History, 30 (1996), 29-54.
Wilks, Stuart, "Class Compromise
and the International Economy: The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy,"
Capital & Class, No. 58 (Spring '96), 89-112.
Wong, K. Scott, "The Transformation
of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America," American Quarterly,
48 (1996), 201-32.
Wood, Ellen Meiskins, "Capitalism,
Merchants and Bourgeois Revolution: Reflections on the Brenner Debate
and its Sequel," International Review of Social History, 41 (1996),
209-32.
Wood, Gordon S., "The Enemy
is Us: Democratic Capitalism in the Early Republic," Journal of the
Early Republic, 16 (1996), 293-308.
Wynn, Neil A., "The 'Good War':
The Second World War and Postwar American Society," Journal of Contemporary
History, 31 (1996), 463-82.
Zahavi, Gerald, "Passionate
Commitments: Race, Sex, and Communism at Schenectady General Electric,
1932-1954," Journal of American History, 83 (1996), 514-48.
Zinn, Maxine Baca and Bonnie
Thornton Dill, "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism," Feminist
Studies, 22 (1996), 321-32.
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