"Recent
Books and Articles of Interest"
compiled by Tom Dublin
(reprinted from
recent issues of the Radical Historians Newsletter)
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Number 80, June 1999
Abel, Emily K., "Valuing Care:
Turn-of-the-Century Conflicts between Charity Workers and Women Clients,"
Journal of Women's History, 10:3 (Fall 1998), 32-52.
Almeida, Paul and Ruben Urbizagastegui,
"Cutumay Camones: Popular Music in El Salvador's National Liberation Movement,"
Latin American Perspectives, 26 (March 1999), 13-42.
Ambruster-Sandoval, Ralph, "Globalization
and Cross-Border Labor Organizing: The Guatemalan Maquiladora Industry
and the Phillips Van Heusen Workers' Movement," Latin American Perspectives,
26 (March 1999), 108-28.
Ansell, Christopher K., and
Antoine Joseph, "The Mass Production of Craft Unionism: Exploring Workers'
Solidarity in Late Nineteenth-Century France and America," Politics
& Society, 26 (1998), 575-602.
Asada, Sadao, "The Shock of
the Atomic Bomb and Japan's Decision to Surrender--A Reconsideration,"
Pacific Historical Review, 67 (1998), 477-512.
Baron, Ava, "Introduction to
Symposium on Eileen Boris, Home to Work," with additional contributions
by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Sybil Lipschultz, Daniel R. Ernst, Judith G. Coffin,
Eileen L. McDonagh, and Eileen Boris, Labor History, 39 (1998),
407-34.
Berry, Mary Frances, The
Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of
Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present (Knopf, 1999).
Bordin, Ruth, Women at Michigan:
The "Dangerous Experiment," 1870s to the Present (Michigan, 1999),
with a foreword by Martha Vicinus and an introduction by Kathryn Kish
Sklar and Lynn Y. Weiner.
Boxer, Marilyn Jacoby, When
Women Ask Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America (Johns Hopkins,
1999).
"Braverman and the Class Struggle,"
special issue of Monthly Review, 50:8 (Jan. 1999).
Brenner, Johanna, "On Gender
and Class in U.S. Labor History," Monthly Review, 50 (Nov. 1998),
1-15.
Brock, Lisa, "Oil, the Ogoni,
and Nigeria: A Conversation with Barine Yorbe TeeKate," Radical History
Review, No. 74 (Spring 1999), 25-30.
Brunk, Samuel, "Remembering
Emiliano Zapata: Three Moments in the Posthumous Career of the Martyr
of Chinameca," Hispanic American Historical Review, 78 (1998),
457-90.
Bruno, Robert, Steelworker
Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown (Cornell, 1998).
Burton, Antoinette, "From Child
Bride to 'Hindoo Lady': Rukhmabai and the Debate on Sexual Responsibility
in Imperial Britain," American Historical Review, 103 (1998), 1119-46.
Bystydzienski, Jill M., and
Joti Sekhon, eds., Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements
(Indiana, 1998).
Calloway, Colin G., ed., After
King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England
(New England, 1998).
Chavez, John R., Eastside
Landmark: A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968-1993
(Stanford, 1999).
Chomsky, Aviva, "Beyond 'Culture':
Sources and Themes in Latino History," Radical Teacher, No. 54
(1999), 31-36.
Corney, Frederick C., "Rethinking
a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project," Social Science
History, 22 (1998), 389-414.
Cott, Nancy F., "Marriage and
Women's Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934," American Historical
Review, 103 (1998), 1440-74.
Craft, William, Running a
Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from
Slavery (LSU Press, 1998); with a forward and biographical essay by
Richard J.M. Blackett.
Crew, David F., "Gender, Media
and Consumerism in Germany, 1920s-1950s," Journal of Social History,
32 (1998), 395-402.
DeCaro, Lou, Malcolm and
the Cross: The Black Muslims and the White Man's Religion (Northeastern,
1998).
Deere, Carmen Diana, "Here Come
the Yankees! The Rise and Decline of United States Colonies in Cuba, 1898-1930,"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 78 (1998), 729-66.
Dorinson, Joseph, and William
Pencak, "Paul Robeson (18098-1976): A Centennial Symposium," special issue
of Pennsylvania History, 66:1 (Win. 1999).
DuBois, Ellen Carol, Woman
Suffrage and Women's Rights (Northeastern, 1998).
Farrell, Amy Erdman, Yours
in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism (North
Carolina, 1998).
"Feminisms and Internationalism,"
special issue of Gender & History, 10 (Nov. 1998).
Ferrer, Ada, "Cuba, 1898: Rethinking
Race, Nation, and Empire," Radical History Review, No. 73 (Win.
1999), 22-46.
________, "Rustic Men, Civilized
Nation: Race, Culture and Contention on the Eve of Cuban Independence,"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 78 (1998), 663-86.
Fick, Carolyn E., "Dilemmas
of Emancipation: From the Saint Domingue Insurrections of 1791 to the
Emerging Haitian State," History Workshop Journal, No. 46 (Fall
1998), 1-16.
Finnegan, Margaret, Selling
Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women (Columbia, 1998).
Fisher, Harry, Comrades:
Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War (Nebraska, 1998).
Flax, Jane, The American
Dream in Black and White: The Clarence Thomas Hearings (Cornell, 1998).
Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth and Ken
Fones-Wolf, "Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel,
1930-1942," Labor History, 39 (1998), 381-96.
Forde-Jones, Cecily, "Mapping
Racial Boundaries: Gender, Race, and Poor Relief in Barbardian Plantation
Society," Journal of Women's History, 10:3 (Fall 1998), 9-31.
Franklin, John Hope and Loren
Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, 1790-1860
(Oxford, 1999).
Friedman, Gerald, State-Making
and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914 (Cornell,
1998).
Gabaccia, Donna and Franca Iacovetta,
"Work, Women, and Protest in the Italian Diaspora: An International Research
Agenda," Labour/Le Travail, No. 42 (Fall 1998), 161-82.
Games, Alison, "'The Sanctuary
of our rebell negroes': The Atlantic Context of Local Resistance on Providence
Island, 1630-41," Slavery & Abolition, 19:3 (1998), 1-21.
Gerlach, Christian, "The Wannsee
Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle
to Exterminate All European Jews," Journal of Modern History, 70
(1998), 759-812.
Gilfoyle, Timothy J., "Prostitutes
in History: From Parables of Pornography to Metaphors of Modernity," American
Historical Review, 104 (1999), 117-41.
Glazier, Jack, Dispersing
the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America (Cornell,
1998).
"Globalisation," special issue
of Race & Class, 40 (Oct. 1998).
Gordon, Robert, "Poisons in
the Fields: The United Farm Workers, Pesticides, and Environmental Politics,"
Pacific Historical Review, 68 (1999), 51-77.
Grada, Cormac O, Black '47
and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine (Princeton, 1999).
Grant, Hugh, "Solving the Labour
Problem at Imperial Oil: Welfare Capitalism in the Canadian Petroleum
Industry, 1919-1929," Labour/Le Travail, No. 41 (Spring 1998),
69-96.
Gray, Mia, Elyse Golob, Ann
Markusen, and Sam Ock Park, "New Industrial Cities? The Four Faces of
Silicon Valley," Review of Radical Political Economics, 30 (Dec.
1998), 1-28.
Gustafson, Melanie, Kristie
Miller, and Elisabeth Israels Perry, eds., We Have Come to Stay: American
Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960 (New Mexico, 1999).
Gyory, Andrew, Closing the
Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (North Carolina,
1998).
Hamilton, Marybeth, "Sexual
Politics and African-American Music; or, Placing Little Richard in History,"
History Workshop Journal, No. 46 (Fall 1998), 161-76.
Hausman, Bernice L., "Sex Before
Gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Evolutionary Paradigms of Utopia,"
Feminist Studies, 24 (1998), 489-510.
Hill, Herbert, "Lichtenstein's
Fictions: Meany, Reuther and the 1964 Civil Rights Act," New Politics,
7 (Summer 1998), 82-107; Lichtenstein, Nelson, "Walter Reuther in Black
and White: A Rejoinder to Herbert Hill," New Politics, 7 (Winter
1999), 133-47; Hill, "Lichtenstein's Fictions Revisited: Race and the
New Labor History," New Politics, 7 (Winter 1999), 148-63.
Hogan, Michael J. et al.,
"The American Century: A Roundtable (Part 1)," Diplomatic History,
23 (1999), 157-370; contributors include Bruce Cumings, Walter LaFeber,
John Hoff, and others.
Hurtado, Albert L., "Sex, Gender,
Culture, and a Great Event: the California Gold Rush," Pacific Historical
Review, 68 (1999), 1-20.
"Interpreting the Declaration
of Independence by Translation: A Round Table," special section of Journal
of American History, 85 (1998), 1280-1460.
Isenberg, Nancy, Sex and
Citizenship in Antebellum America (North Carolina, 1998).
Jensen, Joan M., "Women on the
Pacific Rim: Some Thoughts on Border Crossings," Pacific Historical
Review, 67 (1998), 3-40.
Kaplan, Cora, "Black Heroes/White
Writers: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the Literary Imagination," History
Workshop Journal, No. 46 (Fall 1998), 33-62.
Katz, Friedrich, The Life
and Times of Pancho Villa (Stanford, 1999).
Katz, Michael B., and Lorrin
R. Thomas, "The Invention of 'Welfare' in America," Journal of Policy
History, 10 (1998), 399-418.
Kaufmann, Eric, "'Naturalizing
the Nation': The Rise of Naturalistic Nationalism in the United States
and Canada," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40 (1998),
666-95.
Kelly, Brian, "Policing the
'Negro Eden': Racial Paternalism in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921,"
Alabama Review, 51 (July 1998), 163-83 and (Oct. 1998), 243-65.
Kim, Claire Jean, "The Racial
Triangulation of Asian Americans," Politics & Society, 27 (1999),
105-38.
Klein, Martin, "Slavery and
French Rule in the Sahara," Slavery & Abolition, 19:2 (1998),
73-90.
Kramer, Paul, "Making Concessions:
Race and Empire Revisited at the Philippine Exposition, St. Louis, 1901-1905,"
Radical History Review, No. 73 (Win. 1999), 74-115.
Kwon, Insook, "'The New Women's
Movement' in 1920s Korea: Rethinking the Relationship Between Imperialism
and Women," Gender & History, 10 (1998), 381-405.
Lasar, Matthew, "'Right Out
in Public': Pacifica Radio, the Cold War, and the Political Origins of
Alternative Media," Pacific Historical Review, 67 (1998), 513-42.
________, Pacifica Radio:
The Rise of an Alternative Network (Temple, 1999).
Lee, Deborah A., and Warren
R. Hofstra, "Race, Memory, and the Death of Robert Berkeley: 'A murder.
. . of . . . horrible and savage barbarity,'" Journal of Southern History,
65 (1999), 41-76.
Luciak, Ilja A., "Gender Equality
in the Salvadoran Transition," Latin American Perspectives, 26
(March 1999), 43-67.
Lundh, Christer, "Servant Migration
in Sweden in the Early Nineteenth Century," Journal of Family History,
24 (1999), 53-73.
McCallum, Todd, "'Not a Sex
Question'? The One Big Union and the Politics of Radical Manhood," Labour/Le
Travail, No. 42 (Fall 1998), 15-54.
McClymer, John F., This High
and Holy Moment: The First National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester,
1850 (Harcourt Brace, 1999).
McDonnell, Michael A., "Popular
Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure
of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below," Journal of American
History, 85 (1998), 946-81.
McDonough, Terrence, "A Million
of the Irish Toilers: A Marxist Approach to the Great Irish Famine," Review
of Radical Political Economics, 30 (Sept. 1998), 56-63.
Melman, Billie, ed., Borderlines:
Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1870-1930 (Routledge, 1998).
Mettler, Suzanne, "The Stratification
of Social Citizenship: Gender and Federalism in the Formation of Old Age
Insurance and Aid to Dependent Children," Journal of Policy History,
11 (1999), 31-58.
________ Dividing Citizens:
Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (Cornell, 1999).
Michel, Sonya, Children's
Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy
(Yale, 1999).
Minchin, Timothy J., Hiring
the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry,
1960-1980 (North Carolina, 1999).
Modell, Judith, A Town Without
Steel: Envisioning Homestead (Pittsburgh, 1998).
Moeller, Robert G., "The 'Remasculinization'
of Germany in the 1950s," special section in Signs, 24 (1998),
101-70.
Monroy, Douglas, Rebirth:
Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression
(California, 1998).
Moran, Jonathan, "The Dynamics
of Class Politics and National Economies in Globalisation: The Marginalisation
of the Unacceptable," Capital & Class, No. 66 (Fall 1998),
53-84.
Morris, Christopher, "The Articulation
of Two Worlds: The Master-Slave Relationship Reconsidered," Journal
of American History, 85 (1998), 982-1007.
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, Afrotopia:
The Roots of African American Popular History (Cambridge, 1998).
Myers, Martha A., Race, Labor,
and Punishment in the New South (Ohio, 1999).
Nash, Gary B., "Reverberations
of Haiti in the American North: Black Saint Dominguans in Philadelphia,"
Pennsylvania History, 65 (1998), special supplement, 44-73.
Ngai, Mae M., "Legacies of Exclusion:
Illegal Chinese Immigration during the Cold War Years," Journal of
American Ethnic History, 18:1 (Fall 1998), 3-35.
Nishida, Mieko, "From Ethnicity
to Race and Gender: Transformations of Black Lay Sodalities in Salvador,
Brazil," Journal of Social History, 32 (1998), 329-48.
Numbers, Ronald L., Darwinism
Comes to America (Harvard, 1998).
Pasture, Patrick and Johan Verberckmoes,
eds., Working Class Internationalism and the Appeal of National Identity
(Johns Hopkins, 1998).
Pintzuk, Ed, Reds, Racial
Justice and Civil Liberties: Michigan Communists during the Cold War
(MEP Publications, 1998).
Polletta, Francesca, "Legacies
and Liabilities of an Insurgent Past: Remembering Martin Luther King,
Jr., on the House and Senate Floor," Social Science History, 22
(1998), 479-512.
Rashid, Ismail, "'Do Dady nor
Lef me Make dem Carry me': Slave Resistance and Emancipation in Sierra
Leone, 1894-1928," Slavery & Abolition, 19:2 (1998), 208-31.
Restall, Matthew, Maya Conquistador (Beacon,
1998).
Riddle, David, "HUD and the
Open Housing Controversy of 1970 in Warren, Michigan," The Michigan
Historical Review, 24:2 (Fall 1998), 1-36.
Rodgers, Daniel T., Atlantic
Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard, 1998).
Rose, James D., "The Struggle
over Management Rights at US Steel, 1946-1960: A Reassessment of Section
2-B of the Collective Bargaining Contract," Business History Review,
72 (1998), 446-77.
Rosen, Louis, The South Side
(Ivan Dee, 1999).
Rosen, Robyn L., "Federal Expansion,
Fertility Control, and Physicians in the United States: The Politics of
Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years," Journal of Women's History,
10:3 (Fall 1998), 53-73.
Rosenzweig, Roy, "Wizards, Bureaucrats,
Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet," American
Historical Review, 103 (1998), 1530-52.
Ross, Michael A., "Justice Miller's
Reconstruction: The Slaughter-House Cases, Health Codes, and Civil Rights
in New Orleans, 1861-1873," Journal of Southern History, 64 (1998),
649-76.
Rossinow, Doug, The Politics
of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America
(Columbia, 1998).
Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor,
"Forging Feminist Identity in an International Movement: A Collective
Identity Approach to Twentieth-Century Feminism," Signs, 24 (1999),
363-86.
Ryan, Mary P., "Civil Society
as Democratic Practice: North American Cities during the Nineteenth Century,"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 29 (1999), 559-84.
Schwartz, Bill, "Breaking Bread
with History: C.L.R. James and The Black Jacobins [interview with Stuart
Hall], History Workshop Journal, No. 46 (Fall 1998), 17-32.
Scott, Rebecca J., "Race, Labor,
and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos,
1886-1909," Hispanic American Historical Review, 78 (1998), 687-728.
Sellman, James Clyde, "Social
Movements and the Symbolism of Public Demonstrations: The 1874 Women's
Crusade and German Resistance in Richmond, Indiana," Journal of Social
History, 32 (1999), 557-88.
Sharoni, Simona, "Gender in
Conflict: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict through Feminist Lenses," Signs,
24 (1999), 487-99.
Sheller, Mimi, "Quasheba, Mother,
Queen: Black Women's Public Leadership and Political Protest in Post-emancipation
Jamaica, 1834-65," Slavery & Abolition, 19:3 (1998), 90-117.
Sides, Josh, "'You Understand
My Condition': The Civil Rights Congress in the Los Angeles African-American
Community, 1946-1952," Pacific Historical Review, 67 (1998), 233-57.
Smith, S.D., "Sugar's Poor Relation:
Coffee Planting in the British West Indies, 1720-1833," Slavery &
Abolition, 19:3 (1998), 68-89.
Spalding, Hobart, "U.S. Imperialism
and 1898," Monthly Review, 50 (Dec. 1998), 31-38.
Stanley, Amy Dru, From Bondage
to Contract: Wage labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave
Emancipation (Cambridge, 1998).
Stern, Alexandra Minna, "Buildings,
Boundaries and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico
Border, 1910-1930," Hispanic American Historical Review, 79 (1999),
41-82.
Strasser, Susan, Charles McGovern,
and Matthias Judt, eds., Getting and Spending: American and European
Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 1998).
Stroud, Ellen, "Troubled Waters
in Ecotopia: Environmental Racism in Portland, Oregon," Radical History
Review, No. 74 (Spring 1999), 65-95.
Summers, John H., "The Future
of Labor's Past: American Labor History on the World Wide Web," Labor
History, 40 (1999), 69-80.
Sweet, Rosemary, "Working-Class
Women and the Contest for Consumer Control in Victorian County Courts,"
Past & Present, No. 161 (Nov. 1998), 116-54.
"Teaching Medical History,"
special section of Radical History Review, No. 74 (Spring 1999),
137-96.
Thomas, Brook, "China Men, United
States v. Wong Kim Ark, and the Question of Citizenship," American
Quarterly, 50 (1998), 689-717.
Thompson, Heather Ann, "Rethinking
the Politics of White Flight in the Postwar City: Detroit, 1945-1980,"
Journal of Urban History, 25 (1999), 163-98.
Topik, Steven, "The Construction
of Market Society in Latin America: Natural Process or Social Engineering,"
Latin American Perspectives, 26 (Jan. 1999), 3-21.
Turner, Patricia R., "Hostile
Participants? Working-Class Militancy, Associated Life, and the 'Distinctiveness'
of the Prewar French Labor Movement," Journal of Modern History,
71 (1999), 28-55.
van der Walt, Lucien, "Trade
Unions in Zimbabwe: For Democracy, Against Neo-Liberalism," Capital
& Class, No. 66 (Fall 1998), 85-118.
Walkowitz, Daniel J., Working
with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
(North Carolina, 1999).
Wegren, Stephen K., "Russian
Agrarian Reform and Rural Capitalism Reconsidered," Journal of Peasant
Studies, 26 (1998), 82-111.
Weiner, Richard, "Competing
Market Discourses in Porfirian Mexico," Latin American Perspectives,
26 (Jan. 1999), 44-64.
West, Emily, "Surviving Separation:
Cross-Plantation Marriages and the Slave Trade in Antebellum South Carolina,"
Journal of Family History, 24 (1999), 212-31.
White, Deborah Gray, Too
Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (Norton,
1998).
Wolf, Eric R., Envisioning
Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (California, 1998).
Woollacott, Angela, "Inventing
Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific Feminisms: Australian Women's Internationalist
Activism in the 1920s-30s," Gender & History, 10 (1998), 425-48.
Yates, Charlotte, "Defining
the Fault Lines: New Divisions in the Working Class," Capital &
Class, No. 66 (Fall 1998), 119-48.
Zamponi, Simonetta Falasca,
"Of Storytellers and Master Narratives: Modernity, Memory, and History
in Fascist Italy," Social Science History, 22 (1998), 415-44.
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