Publications by Journal of Social HistoryResent articles by the "Journal of Social History" from The Free Libraryhttp://www.thefreelibrary.comen-usFarlex, Inc.Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:08:36 GMT360Free Online Libraryhttp://www.thefreelibrary.comhttp://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/static/TFLbyFarlex.gif17565Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+Hard+Rain+Fell%3a+SDS+and+Why+It+Failed.-a0209577983
A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed. By David Barber (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. xi plus 286 pp.).

In 1960 a small number of young white activists created Students for a Democratic Society. These idealistic radicals called themselves the New Left, a name that proclaimed separation from an older generation. Some SDS members participated in the...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Many+Meanings+of+Poverty%3a+Colonialism%2c+Social+Compacts%2c+and...-a0209577982
The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador. By Cynthia E. Milton (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii plus 356 pp. $65.00).

While the poor may always be with us, what it means to be poor varies widely, even in a precisely defined time and place. This is the well-argued conclusion of...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Something+Happened%3a+A+Political+and+Cultural+Overview+of+the...-a0209577981
Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. By Edward D. Berkowitz (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 283 pp.).

At the end of the 1970s, a chorus of journalists and pundits cheered the decade's end. Nothing had happened, they wrote, and these words turned into conventional wisdom. Some of us scratched our heads and wondered whether these...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Archaeology+of+Improvement+in+Britain%2c+1750-1850.-a0209577980
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850. By Sarah Tarlow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii plus 222 pp. $88).

Any historian working in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British history and worth his salt is familiar with the notion of Improvement. He thinks immediately of improver landholders like those in the Midlands or Scottish...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 Years of the New Zealand School Journal.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+Nest+of+Singing+Birds%3a+100+Years+of+the+New+Zealand+School+Journal.-a0209577979
A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 Years of the New Zealand School Journal. By Gregory O'Brien (Wellington: Learning Media Limited, 2007. 160 pp. NZ $59.95 HB, NZ $39.95 PB.).

Started in 1907, and surviving the educational cuts of the 1950s, the New Zealand School Journal has remained part of New Zealand's educational scene. Produced quarterly by the Schools Publication Branch of...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Social History of Science in Colonial India. Themes in Indian History.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Social+History+of+Science+in+Colonial+India.+Themes+in+Indian+History.-a0209577978Social History of Science in Colonial India. Themes in Indian History. Edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. xl plus 395pp.).

The last few decades have seen a boom in academic writing on the history of science in India and also a sea-change in the way in which scholars have construed the relationship between science and imperial rule. In the...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Hotel: An American History.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hotel%3a+An+American+History.-a0209577977
Hotel: An American History. By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp.).

Since the early nineteenth century the hotel has been a key definer of place--of city, town, and resort alike. For virtually each generation, the hotel has helped advance new ideas in design expression; in the planning of complex spatial relationships; in the efficient...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Governing+Passions%3a+Peace+and+Reform+in+the+French+Kingdom%2c+1576-1585.-a0209577976
Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585. By Mark Greengrass (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv plus 423 pp. $150.00).

Governing Passions immerses readers in the political discourse of French elites during the French Wars of Religion. The texts of speeches that French notables presented during Estates General meetings, peace conferences,...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Saving+the+Modern+Soul%3a+Therapy%2c+Emotions%2c+and+the+Culture+of...-a0209577975
Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help. By Eva Illouz (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. x plus 294 pp. $21.95).

In December 2007, Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host and self-help entrepreneur, endorsed a candidate for president. Using the language of self help, she said, "I want you to think about a man who knows who we are and a man...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dynamic+of+Destruction%3a+Culture+and+Mass+Killing+in+the+First+World...-a0209577974
Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. By Alan Kramer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii plus 434 pp. $34.00).

The historiography that has revolutionized the study of World War I since the early 1990s has emphasized two broad objectives--exploring the war of 1914-1918 as a "total war" that engulfed whole societies and cultures; and...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Myth+and+the+Greatest+Generation%3a+A+Social+History+of+Americans+in...-a0209577973
Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II. By Kenneth D. Rose (London: Routledge Press, 2008. xvii plus 361 pp.).

A book like this one was probably inevitable. All of the popular sentiment about "The Greatest Generation" was bound to produce a more critical scholarly analysis. Even many members of that generation, most famously Andy Rooney,...]]>