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

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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