| Contents | Journal of Social History, 39.2

Volume 39 Number 2

Winter 2005

Editorial Staff


RICHARD IVAN JOBS PATRICK MCDEVITT	309	Introduction: Where the Hell are the People?

DAVID A. GERBER	315	Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters: Personal Identity and Self-Presentation in Personal Correspondence

BENJAMIN J. LAMMERS	331	The Birth of the East Ender: Neighborhood and Local Identity in Interwar East London

NICOLETTE F. GULLACE	345	Friends, Aliens, and Enemies: Fictive Communities and the Lusitania Riots of 1915

LAURA TABILI	369	"Having Lived Close Beside Them All the Time:" Negotiating National Identities Through Personal Networks

ANNA CLARK	389	Wild Workhouse Girls and the Liberal Imperial State in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland

LEONORE DAVIDOFF	411	Kinship as a Categorical Concept: A Case Study of Nineteenth Century English Siblings

THEODORE KODITSCHEK	429	'Genius' and the Household Mode of Intellectual Production: 1795–1885

TAMMY M. PROCTOR	451	Family Ties in the Making of Modern Intelligence

MALIA FORMES	467	Post-Colonial Domesticity amid Diaspora: Home and Family in the Lives of Two English Sisters from India

RELLI SHECHTER	483	Reading Advertisements in a Colonial/Development Context: Cigarette Advertising and Identity Politics in Egypt, c1919–1939

NATALIA MILANESIO	505	Gender and Generation: The University Reform Movement in Argentina, 1918

MARTIN NESVIG	531	Review Essay: Recent Work on Early Western Mexico and the Revival of the Black Legend

REVIEWS


JOHN MARKOFF	539	Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650–2000. By Charles Tilly

ZACHARY J. S. FALCK	540	A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture. By Michael Kammen

REBECCA M. HERZIG	543	The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. By Carolyn Thomas de la Peña

PIERRE CLAUDE REYNARD	545	The Light-Green Society. Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960–2000. By Michael Bess

MICHAEL S. NEIBERG	547	The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914–1916. By David Silbey

WENDY ST. JEAN	549	Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker

SHEPARD KRECH III	550	Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930. By Alan Trachtenberg

ROGER LANE	551	Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life. By William L. Van DeBurg

JAY R. MANDLE	553	Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks and the Western Steamboat World. By Thomas C. Buchanan

GILLES VANDAL	555	The Making of a Lynching Culture : Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916. By William D. Carrigan

SCOT FRENCH	556	Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660–1740. By Anthony S. Parent, Jr.

SCOTT MILTENBERGER	558	In the Shadow of Slavery: African-Americans in New York City, 1625–1863. By Leslie M. Harris

JOE AMATO	560	A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town. By Alice Garner

ANDREW LEES	562	Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, 1890–1940. By David M. Pomfret

GARY CROSS	565	Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America. By Bryant Simon

DALE WINLING	566	Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. By Alison Isenberg

KATHERINE LEONARD TURNER	568	Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz

SUSAN V. SPELLMAN	570	Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849–1883. By Jocelyn Wills

FRANK J. BYRNE	572	The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800–1861. By Jonathan Daniel Wells

GABRIELLE M. LANIER	574	The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra

BARBARA EVANS CLEMENTS	576	Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia. By Gregory Carleton

LOIS W. BANNER	578	The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s. By Liz Conor

SAMUEL L. BAILY	579	Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World. Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta

ADINA BACK	582	The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality. By Rhonda Y. Williams

KATHLEEN MAPES	584	All We Know Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919–1941. By Melissa Walker

SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN	586	Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society. By Iris Parush

J. A. ZUMOFF	589	The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarland and the Stratemeyer Syndicate By Marilyn S. Greenwald

NANCY LOPATIN-LUMMIS	591	British Friendly Societies, 1750–1914. By Simon Cordery

PAUL MISNER	593	The War against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany. By Michael B. Gross



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