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Volume 40 Number 2

Winter 2006


  Editorial Staff

SECTION I
SEXUALITY AND GENDER

ELIZA EARLE FERGUSON 293

Judicial Authority and Popular Justice: Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

MARY BLEWETT 317

Yorkshire Lasses and Their Lads: Sexuality, Sexual Customs, and Gender Antagonisms in Anglo-AmericanWorking-Class Culture

SARA BUTLER 337

Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England

SECTION II
ISSUES OF CONSUMERISM

TIMOTHY PARSONS 361

The Consequences of Uniformity: The Struggle for the Boy Scout Uniform in Colonial Kenya

PETER J. GURNEY 385

"The Sublime of the Bazaar": A Moment in the Making of a Consumer Culture in Mid-Nineteenth Century England

SECTION III
REGIONAL ISSUES

LUTHER ADAMS 407

"Heading for Louisville": Rethinking Rural to Urban Migration in the South, 1930–1950

JAN DUMOLYN 431

Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders

R. A. HOUSTON 453

Poor Relief and the Dangerous and Criminal Insane in Scotland, c. 1740–1840

REVIEW ESSAY

PETER N. STEARNS 477

Fear and Contemporary History: A Review Essay

REVIEWS

SECTION 1
AMERICAN IDENTITIES

JOCELYN WILLS 485

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. By Scott A. Sandage

DANIEL E. BENDER 487

A Nation of Realtors®: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. By Jeffrey M. Hornstein

SECTION 2
GENDER ISSUES

JESSIE B. RAMEY 489

SomeWore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1945. By Kelly Schrum

LISA Z. SIGEL 491

American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports. By Miriam G. Reumann

LISA Z. SIGEL 493

Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture. By Karen Harvey

ANNA D. JAROSZYNSKA-KIRCHMANN 495

The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made. By Mary Patrice Erdmans

THOMAS M. ADAMS 497

From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. By Barbara B. Diefendorf

MICHAEL B. KATZ 500

Backlash AgainstWelfare Mothers: Past and Present. By Ellen Reese

JACQUELINE R. BRAITMAN 502

Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880–1940. By Lee M.A. Simpson

PHILIP WHALEN 504

Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914–1945. By Kristen Stromberg Childers

JOSEPH P. WARD 506

Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. By Alexandra Shepard

J. CARTER WOOD 508

Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680–1720. By Jennine Hurl-Eamon

SECTION 3
CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY

BRETT MIZELLE 510

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson

STEVEN MINTZ 513

Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood. By Jyotsna Kapur

DURBA GHOSH 514

Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Indrani Chatterjee, ed.

ANDREA R. FOROUGHI 516

A History of Household Government in America. By Carole Shammas

SIGURDUR GYLFI MAGNUSSON 518

Rethinking Home. A Case for Writing Local History. By Joseph A. Amato

STEVEN MINTZ 520

Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest. By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

SECTION 4
IMMIGRATION

PATRICK MANNING 522

Migration and Immigration: A Global View. By Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea

DARIO A. EURAQUE 523

The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960. By Lara Putnam

WILLIAM H. MULLIGAN, JR. 525

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675–1815. By Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling and David N. Doyle

JOSEPH A. AMATO 525

Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German American Identity. By Russel A. Kazal

SECTION 5
CLASS AND RACE

THOMAS C. BUCHANAN 529

Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett

W. J. RORABAUGH 531

Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919. By Karin L. Zipf

GILLES VANDAL 533

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movement in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986. By J. Todd Moye

RENEE ROMANO 534

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954. By Alex Lubin

LEON FINK 536

The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage

L. MARA DODGE 538

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams

GILLES VANDAL 541

Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. By Paul Ortiz

MICHAEL PERRI 542

The Criminals of Lima and their World: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935. By Carlos Aguirre

545 ARTICLE ABSTRACTS


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