"Recent Books and Articles of Interest"
compiled by Tom Dublin
(reprinted from recent issues of the Radical Historians Newsletter)



Number 74, June 1996
Anderson, Karen, Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern America (Oxford, 1996).

Ash, Stephen V., When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (North Carolina, 1996).

Azoulay, Dan, "Winning Women for Socialism: The Ontario CCF and Women, 1947-1961," Labour/Le Travail, No. 36 (Fall '95), 59-90.

Bell, Susan E., "Gendered Medical Science: Producing a Drug for Women," Feminist Studies, 21 (1995), 469-500.

Bernstein, Michael A., "American Economics and the National Security State, 1941-1953," Radical History Review, No. 63 (Fall '95), 8-27.

Bodnar, John, "Generational Memory in an American Town," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26 (1996), 619-38.

Boris, Eileen, and Elisabeth Prugl, eds., Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (Routledge, 1996).

Brown, Richard D., The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry, 1650-1870 (North Carolina, 1996).

Brunk, Samuel, Emiliano Zapata: Revolution and Betrayal in Mexico (New Mexico, 1995).

Buhle, Paul and Dan Georgakas, eds., The Immigrant Left in the United States (SUNY Press, 1996).

Buhle, Paul, "The Hollywood Left: Aesthetics and Politics," New Left Review, #212 (July/Aug. '95), 101-19.

Burman, Sandra, and Patricia Van der Spuy, "The Illegitimate and the Illegal in a South African City: The Effects of Apartheid on Births Out of Wedlock," Journal of Social History, 29 (1996), 613-36.

Calloway, Colin G., ed., Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford, 1996).

Canning, Kathleen, "`The Man Transformed into a Maiden'? Languages of Grievance and the Politics of Class in Germany, 1850-1914," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 49 (Spring '96), 47-72.

Cannistraro, Philip V., "Mussolini, Sacco-Vanzetti, and the Anarchists: The Transatlantic Context," Journal of Modern History, 68 (1996), 31-62.

Cannon, Brian Q., "`Keep on a-goin': Life and Social Interaction in a New Deal Farm Labor Camp," Agricultural History, 70 (Winter '96), 1-32.

Carter, Dan T., "Legacy of Rage: George Wallace and the Transformation of American Politics," Journal of Southern History, 62 (1996), 3-26.

Cary, Francine Curro, ed., Urban Odyssey: A Multicultural History of Washington, D.C. (Smithsonian, 1996).

Casanovas, Joan, "Slavery, the Labour Movement and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1890," International Review of Social History, 40 (1995), 367-82.

Cashmere, John, "Sisters Together: Women without Men in Seventeenth-Century French Village Culture," Journal of Family History, 21 (1996), 44-62.

"Chinese and Japanese Family in the Recent and Distant Past," special issue of Journal of Family History, 20:3 (1995).

Christina, Garna L., Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917 (Texas A&M, 1995).

"Citizenship, Identity and Social History," special supplement of International Review of Social History, 40 (1995), edited by Charles Tilly.

Cohen, Lizabeth, "Struggling on the Home Front: The Personal, the Political, and Working Class Women," Radical History Review, No. 64 (Winter '96), 105-12.

Countryman, Edward, Americans: A Collision of Histories (Hill & Wang, 1996).

Couvares, Francis G., Movie Censorship and American Culture (Smithsonian, 1996).

Crawford, Patricia, and Sara Mendelson, "Sexual Identities in Early Modern England: The Marriage of Two Women in 1680," Gender & History, 7 (1995), 362-77.

Cutler, Irving, The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb (Illinois, 1996).

Dandaneau, Steven P., A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization (SUNY Press, 1996).

Daunton, M.J., "Payment and Participation: Welfare and State-Formation in Britain, 1900-1951," Past & Present, No. 150 (Feb. '96), 169-216.

Davis, Natalie Zemon, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeeth-Century Lives (Harvard, 1996).

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes, Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (North Carolina, 1996).

De Groot, Gerard J., "Ronald Reagan and Student Unrest in California," Pacific Historical Review, 65 (1996), 107-29.

de Groot, Gertjan and Marlou Schrover, "Between Men and Machines: Women Workers in New Industries, 1870-1940," Social History, 20 (1995), 279-96.

DeCaro, Louis A., Jr., On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X (NYU, 1996).

Deslippe, Dennis A., "Organized Labor, National Politics, and Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, 1965-1975," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 49 (Spring '96), 143-65.

Douglas, Davison M., Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools (North Carolina, 1996).

Draper, Alan, "The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938," Journal of Southern History, 62 (1996), 87-108.

Dublin, Thomas, ed., Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic: College Students Explore Their Roots (Temple, 1996).

Edwards, Alfred, "The Mill: A Worker's Memoir of the 1930s and 1940s," Labour/Le Travail, No. 36 (Fall '95), 253-98.

Eley, Geoff and Keith Nield, "Starting Over: The Present, the Post-modern and the Moment of Social History," Social History, 20 (1995), 355-64, with a response by Patrick Joyce, "The End of Social History?" in 21 (1996), 96-98.

Erenberg, Lewis A. and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II (Chicago, 1996).

Erkkila, Betsy, "Ethnicity, Literary Theory, and the Grounds of Resistance, American Quarterly, 47 (Dec. '95), 563-94.

Ernst, Daniel R., Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Illinois, 1996).

Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann, "The Mysterious Case of the Missing Men: Gender and Class in Early Industrial Medellin," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 49 (Spring '96), 73-92.

Faust, Drew Gilpin, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (North Carolina, 1996).

Finkel, Alvin, "Even the Little Children Cooperated: Family Strategies, Childcare Discourse, and Social Welfare Debates, 1945-1975," Labour/Le Travail, No. 36 (Fall '95), 91-118.

Fissell, Mary, "Gender and Generation: Representing Reproduction in Early Modern England," Gender & History, 7 (1995), 433-56.

Flamming, Douglas, Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (North Carolina, 1995).

Fraddosio, Maria, "The Fallen Hero: The Myth of Mussolini and Fascist Women in the Italian Social Republic," Journal of Contemporary History, 31 (1996), 99-124.

Frank, David and Gregory S. Kealey, eds., Labour and Working Class History in Atlantic Canada: A Reader (Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1995).

Franzen, Trisha, Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States (NYU, 1996).

Fraser, Nancy, "From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a `Post-Socialist' Age," New Left Review, #212 (July/Aug. '95), 68-93.

Freedman, Estelle B., "The Historical Construction of Homosexuality in the US," Socialist Review, 25:1 (1995), 31-46.

________, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition, 1887-1974 (Chicago, 1996).

Freeman, Michael, "Plebs or Predators? Dear-stealing in Whichwood Forest, Oxfordshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Social History, 21 (1996), 1-21.

Friedberg, Aaron L., "Science, the Cold War, and the American State," Diplomatic History, 20 (Winter '96), 107-18.

Friedman-Kasaba, Kathie, Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924 (SUNY Press, 1996).

Gaspar, David Barry, and Darlene Clark Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Indiana, 1995).

"Gender in the Early Republic," special issue of Journal of the Early Republic, 15 (Fall '95).

Gere, Anne Ruggles, and Sarah R. Robbins, "Gendered Literacy in Black and White: Turn-of-the-Century African American and European-American Club Women's Printed Texts," Signs, 21 (1996), 643-78.

Gifford, Carolyn De Swarte, ed., Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96 (Illinois, 1995).

Gillis, John, "Making Time for Family: The Invention of Family Time(s) and the Reinvention of Family History," Journal of Family History, 21 (1996), 4-21.

Goodwin, Joanne L., "`Employable Mothers' and `Suitable Work': A Re-evaluation of Welfare and Wage-earning for Women in the Twentieth-Century United States," Journal of Social History, 29 (1996), 253-74.

Gorman, Paul R., Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America (North Carolina, 1996).

Gorn, Elliot J., Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ (Illinois, 1995).

Gottfried, Heidi, ed., Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice (Illinois, 1996).

Greenberg, Kenneth S., ed., The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Bedford, 1996).

Griffin, Larry J. and Robert R. Korstad, "Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South," Social Science History, 19 (1995), 425-54.

Gunn, Simon, "The Ministry, the Middle Class and the `Civilizing Mission' in Manchester, 1850-80," Social History, 21 (1996), 22-36.

Gunning, Sandra, Writing a Red Record: Gender, Representation, and Racial Violence in American Literature (Oxford, 1996).

Herzog, Dagmar, Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton, 1996)

"History and Memory," special section of Amerasia Journal, 21 (Winter '95/'96), pp. 137-200.

"History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table about History after the Enola Gay Controversy," special section in Journal of American History, 82 (Dec. '95), 1029-1115.

Hollandsworth, James. G., Jr., The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (LSU Press, 1996).

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, "Women and Children First: New Directions in Anti-Immigrant Politics," Socialist Review, 25:1 (1995), 169-90.

Hood, Adrienne D., "The Material World of Cloth: Production and Use in Eighteenth-Century Rural Pennsylvania," William & Mary Quarterly, 53 (1996), 43-66.

Horne, Gerald, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (Virginia, 1996).

Horowitz, Daniel, "Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America," American Quarterly, 48 (March '96), 1-42.

Hull, Isabel V., Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815 (Cornell, 1996).

Jameson, Frederic, "Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism," Monthly Review, 47 (April '96), 1-10.

Johnson, Lyman L., "The Competition of Slave and Free labor in Artisanal Production: Buenos Aires, 1770-1815," International Review of Social History, 40 (1995), 409-24.

Jones, Colin, "The Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Origins of the French Revolution," American Historical Review, 101 (Feb. '96), 13-40.

Kaplan, Laura, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (Pantheon, 1995).

Kaplan, Michael, "New York City Tavern Violence and the Creation of a Working-Class Male Identity," Journal of the Early Republic, 15 (1995), 591-618.

Kar, Snehendu B., et al., "Invisible Americans: An Exploration of Indo-American Quality of Life," Amerasia Journal, 21 (Winter '95/'96), 25-52.

Kazin, Michael, "The Agony and Romance of the American Left," American Historical Review, 100 (Dec. '95), 1488-1512.

Kealey, Gregory S., Workers and Canadian History (McGill-Queen's, 1995).

Keith, Jeanette, Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland (North Carolina, 1995).

Kelley, Robin D.G., Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (Free Press, 1996).

Klee, Marcus, ""Hands-off Labour Forum': The Making and Unmaking of National Working-Class Radio Broadcasting in Canada, 1935-1944," Labour/Le Travail, No. 35 (Spring '95), 107-32.

Klein, Kerwin Lee, "In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the Peoples without History," History and Theory, 34 (1995), 275-98.

Knupfer, Anne Meis, "`Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood': African-American Women's Clubs in Chicago, 1890 to 1920," Journal of Women's History, 7 (Fall '95), 58-76.

Kocka, Jurgen, "What is Leftist About Social History Today?" Journal of Social History, 29 (1996, supplement), 67-72.

Koenker, Diane P., "Men against Women on the Shop Floor in Early Soviet Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace," American Historical Review, 100 (Dec. '95), 1438-64.

Lazerow, Jama, Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America (Smithsonian, 1996).

Legrand, Catherine C., "Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation during the Trujillo Dictatorship," Hispanic American Historical Review, 75 (1995), 555-96.

Leong, Andrew, "The Struggle over Parcel C: How Boston's Chinatown Won a Victory in the Fight against Institutional Expansion and Environmental Racism," Amerasia Journal, 21 (Winter '95/'96), 99-124.

Lewis, Andrew, "`An Incendiary Press': British West Indian Newspapers during the Struggle for Abolition," Slavery & Abolition, 16 (1995), 346-61.

Lichtenstein, Alex, "Chain Gangs, Communism, and the `Negro Question': John Spivak's Georgie Nigger," Georgia Historical Quarterly, 79 (Fall '95), 633-58.

________, Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Verso, 1996).

Lorence, James J., Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland (SUNY Press, 1996).

Luker, Kristin, Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (Harvard, 1996).

Malik, Kenan, "Universalism and Difference: Race and the Postmodernists," Race & Class, 37 (Jan.-March '95), 1-18.

Mandell, Daniel R., Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (Nebraska, 1996).

Mann, Michael, "Sources of Variation in Working-Class Movements in Twentieth-Century Europe," New Left Review, #212 (July/Aug. '95), 14-54.

Matovina, Timothy M., The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives (Texas A&M, 1995).

Mayne, Alan, "A Just War: The Language of Slum Representation in Twentieth-Century Australia," Journal of Urban History, 22 (1995), 75-107.

McChesney, Robert W., "Is There Any Hope for Cultural Studies?" Monthly Review, 47 (March '96), 1-18.

McIlvanney, Liam, "Robert Burns and the Calvinist Radical Tradition," History Workshop Journal, No. 40 (Autumn '95), 133-50.

Molloy, Scott, Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line (Smithsonian, 1996).

Molyneux, Maxine, "Gendered Transitions in Eastern Europe," Feminist Studies, 21 (1995), 637-46.

Montgomery, David, "Wage Labor, Bondage, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 48 (Fall '95), 6-27.

Nash, Gary B., "The History Standards Controversy and Social History," Journal of Social History, 29 (1996, supplement), 39-50.

Needell, Jeffrey D., "Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Public Space and Public Consciousness in Fin-de-Siecle Latin America," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37 (July '95), 519-40.

Neff, Charlotte, "Pauper Apprenticeship in Early Nineteenth Century Ontario," Journal of Family History, 21 (1996), 144-71.

Nelson, Cary, and Jefferson Hendricks, eds., Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War (Routledge, 1996).

Nelson, Peery, Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary (New Press, 1994).

Nolan, Mary, "Rationalization, Racism and Resitenz: Recent Studies of Work and the Working Class in Nazi Germany," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 48 (Fall '95), 131-51.

Norton, Mary Beth, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (Knopf, 1996).

Odem, Mary E., Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (North Carolina, 1995).

Oshinsky, David M., Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Prison and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (Free Press, 1996).

Pereira, Anthony W., "Working for Democracy: Brazil's Organized Working Class in Comparative Perspective," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 49 (Spring '96), 93-115.

Pettegrew, John, "`The Soldier's Faith': Turn-of-the-Century Memory of the Civil War and the Emergence of Modern American Nationalism," Journal of Contemporary History, 31 (1996), 49-74.

Pfeffer, Paul F., "The Women Behind the Union: Halena Wilson, Rosina Tucker, and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters," Labor History, 36 (1995), 557-78.

Pieke, Frank N., "Bureaucracy, Friends, and Money: The Growth of Capital Socialism in China," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37 (July '95), 494-518.

Piven, Frances Fox, "Is It Global Economics of Neo-Laissez Faire?" New Left Review, #213 (Sept./Oct. '95), 107-14.

Plummer, Brenda Gayle, Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (North Carolina, 1996).

Porter, Susan L., ed., Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (Massachusetts, 1996).

Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, eds., Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century (North Carolina, 1996).

"Queer Subjects," special section of Socialist Review, 25:1 (1995), 25-168.

Reich, Steven A., "Soldiers of Democracy: Black Texans and the Fight for Citizenship, 1917-1921," Journal of American History, 82 (1996), 1478-1504.

Reidy, Joseph P., From Slavery to American Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (North Carolina, 1995).

Renehan, Edward J., Jr., The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown (Crown, 1996).

Roberts, Kenneth M., "From the Barricades to the Ballot Box: Redemocratization and Political Realignment in the Chilean Left," Politics & Society, 23 (1995), 495-519.

Robertson, Claire, "Grassroots in Kenya: Women, Genital Mutilation, and Collective Action, 1920-1990," Signs, 21 (1996), 615-42.

Rogers, Joel, "How Divided Progressives Might Unite," New Left Review, #210 (Mar./April '95), 3-32.

Rose, Margaret, "`Woman Power Will Stop Those Grapes': Chicana Organizers and Middle-Class Female Supporters in the Farm Workers' Grape Boycott in Philadelphia, 1969-1970," Journal of Women's History, 7 (Winter '95), 6-36.

Royster, Jacqueline Jones, ed., Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 (Bedford, 1996).

Salvatore, Nick, We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (Times Books, 1996).

Samford, Patricia, "The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture," William & Mary Quarterly, 53 (1996), 87-114.

Sangster, Joan, "Women Workers, Employment Policy and the State: The Establishment of the Ontario Women's Bureau, 1963-1970," Labour/Le Travail, No. 36 (Fall '95), 119-46.

Satter, Beryl, "Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality," American Quarterly, 48 (March '96), 43-76.

Schinto, Jeanne, Huddle Fever: Living in the Immmigrant City (Knopf, 1995).

Seed, Patricia, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1660 (Cambridge, 1995).

Seitz, Virginia Rinaldo, Women, Development, and Communities for Empowerment in Appalachia (SUNY Press, 1996).

"Sex and Gender," special section of History Workshop Journal, No. 41 (Spring '96), 1-92.

Shaw, Stephanie, What A Woman Ought To Be and To Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (Chicago, 1996).

Sherr, Lynn, Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words (Times Books, 1996).

Smith, Carol A., "Race-Class-Gender Ideology in Guatemala: Modern and Anti-Modern Forms," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37 (Oct. '95), 723-49.

Smith, Mark M., "Times, Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in the Ante-Bellum American South," Past & Present, No. 150 (Feb. '96), 142-168.

Smith, Timothy B., "Public Assistance and Labor Supply in Nineteenth-Century Lyon," Journal of Modern History, 68 (1996), 1-30.

Stavig, Ward, "`Living in Offense of Our Lord': Indigenous Sexual Values and Marital Life in the Colonial Crucible," Hispanic American Historical Review, 75 (1995), 597-622.

Steinberg, Marc W., "`The Labour of the Country is the Wealth of the Country': Class Identity, Consciousness, and the Role of Discourse in the Making of the English Working Class," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 49 (Spring '96), 1-25.

Steinberg, Stephen, "Affirmative Action and Liberal Capitulation," New Politics, No. 20 (Winter '96), 76-80.

Stepan-Norris, Judith and Maurice Zeitlin, Talking Union (Illinois, 1996).

Stern, Steve J., The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico (North Carolina, 1995).

Stone, Judith F., Sons of the Revolution: Radical Democrats in France, 1862-1914 (LSU Press, 1996).

Strout, Jan, "Women, the Politics of Sexuality, and Cuba's Economic Crisis," Socialist Review, 25:1 (1995), 5-16.

Sugrue, Thomas, "`Forget About Your Inalienable Right to Work': Deindustrialization and Its Discontents at Ford, 1950-1953," International Labor and Working Class History, No. 48 (Fall '95), 112-30.

Taylor, Alan, William Cooper's Town: A Story of Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Knopf, 1995).

Taylor, Antony, "`Commons-Stealers' `Land-Grabbers' and `Jerry-Builders': Space, Popular Radicalism and the Politics of Public Access in London, 1848-1880," International Review of Social History, 40 (1995), 383-408.

"Teaching Gender in American History," special section in Radical History Review, No. 64 (Winter '96), 1-57.

Teeple, Gary, Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform (Humanities Press, 1995).

Thompson, Dorothy, "On the Trail of the New Left," New Left Review, #215 (Jan./Feb. '96), 93-100.

Tilly, Louise, "History as Exploration and Discovery," Journal of Social History, 29 (1996, supplement), 115-18.

Trotter, Joe W., "Reflections on the African American Experience, Social History, and the Resurgence of Conservatism in American Society, Journal of Social History, 29 (1996, supplement), 85-90.

________, and Earl Lewis, eds., African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History, 1915-1945 (Northeastern, 1995).

Tyler, Pamela, Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920-1963 (Georgia, 1995).

"United States and the Third World: A Symposium," special section in Diplomatic History, 20 (Winter '96), 1-106.

Varikas, Eleni, "Gender, Experience and Subjectivity: The Tilly-Scott Disagreement," New Left Review, #211 (May/June '95), 89-104.

Voss-Hubbard, Mark, "The Amesbury-Salisbury Strike and the Social Origins of Political Nativism in Antebellum Massachusetts," Journal of Social History, 29 (1996), 565-90.

Wall, Cheryl A., Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana, 1996).

Watts, Martin J., "Trends in Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender in the USA, 1983-1992," Review of Radical Political Economics, 27 (Dec. '95), 1-36.

Weir, Lorna, "Social Movement Activism in the Formation of Ontario New Democratic Policy on Abortion, 1982-1984," Labour/Le Travail, No. 35 (Spring '95), 163-94.

Weir, Robert E., Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor (Penn State, 1996).

White, Luise, "`They Could Make Their Victims Dull': Genders and Genres, Fantasies and Cures in Colonial Southern Uganda," American Historical Review, 100 (Dec. '95), 1379-1402.

Williams, Patricia J., The Rooster's Egg: Imagining How It Might Be Different in the Time of Democracy's Doldrums (Harvard, 1996).

Williams, Vernon J., Jr., Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries (Kentucky, 1995).

Woloch, Nancy, ed., Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford, 1996).

"Women in Latin America," special issue of Latin American Perspectives, No. 88 (Winter '96).

"Women's Revolutions: The Work of Sheila Rowbotham, a Twenty-Year Assessment," special section of Radical History Review, No. 63 (Fall '95), 141-65.

"Workers and Citizenship in Europe and North America," special section of International Labor and Working Class History, No. 48 (Fall '95).

Yeager, Timothy J., "Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America," Journal of Economic History, 55 (1995), 842-59.

Zaniello, Tom, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor (Cornell, 1996).

 

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