HistoryPub Date : 2025-09-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70051
SANDRINE KOTT
{"title":"Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s–1950s. By Amalia Ribi Forclaz. Oxford University Press, 2025. 224 pp. £84.","authors":"SANDRINE KOTT","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"144-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-29DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70052
ERICA L. FRASER
{"title":"State of the Field: The History of Masculinities","authors":"ERICA L. FRASER","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for masculinities in disability history, trans history and Indigenous history. Many scholars involved in this history over the years have openly wondered whether it remains useful, or whether analysing categories of privilege like masculinities only turns the lens back on men as default historical actors, to the detriment of marginalized peoples and themes. However, this article argues that the history of masculinities has done and continues to do important work in demonstrating to other academic disciplines that masculinities are never static or fixed but dynamic and shifting according to historical time and place. The article concludes that with the rights of women and transgender people increasingly under threat in the United Kingdom and North America as well as globally, it is essential for scholars to continue to historicize masculinities, patriarchal constructs and men's relationships to power. Historians are poised to help bridge the gap between the ivory tower and various publics, moreover, who continue to create and consume their own historical narratives about masculinized behaviours and expectations in the past and today.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"5-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145970202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-22DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70049
Tilly Guthrie
{"title":"Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age. By Simeon Koole. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 328 pp. $35.","authors":"Tilly Guthrie","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"137-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-21DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70048
Kate Ballantyne, Tomás Irish, Charlotte Lerg, Christopher P. Loss, Daniel Laqua
{"title":"History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century","authors":"Kate Ballantyne, Tomás Irish, Charlotte Lerg, Christopher P. Loss, Daniel Laqua","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present-day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four historians, each of whom focuses on a particular document and moment in time: a 1912 report from the US Commissioner of Education, Philander Claxton, that indicated a shift towards an internationalization strategy (Charlotte Lerg); a 1915 statement on academic freedom by the American Association of University Professors (Tomás Irish); Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on <i>Science – the Endless Frontier</i> (Christopher Loss); and a ‘Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students’ from 1967 (Kate Ballantyne). Taken together, these pieces point to a wider question – namely the role and public value that different political and academic actors attribute to academic research and higher education – and to the institutions and individuals that are engaged in it.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"546-559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-19DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70047
Ivan Luzardo
{"title":"Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. By Ana María Otero-Cleves. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 264 pp. £90.","authors":"Ivan Luzardo","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"135-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-19DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70046
Colm Murphy
{"title":"The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989. By Matt Myers. Oxford University Press, 2025. ix + 248 pp. £99.","authors":"Colm Murphy","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"148-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-12DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70044
DAVID ZARET
{"title":"Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere, 1500–1850: Essays in Honour of Peter Lake. Edited by David R . Como and Michael Questier. Boydell & Brewer, 2025, xiv + 416 pp. £110.","authors":"DAVID ZARET","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"133-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-11DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70043
Nicholas Morton
{"title":"The Avignon Popes and the Eastern Mediterranean: Power and Authority, 1305–62. By James Hill. Bloomsbury, 2025. 216 pp. £85.","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"129-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145970090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-08-07DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70042
Olga Kantokoski
{"title":"Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century","authors":"Olga Kantokoski","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to as the ‘Western Balkans’ – encompassing states and territories that have been subject to different political systems and constellations since the nineteenth century. Adopting a long-term perspective, the article traces the convoluted paths of penal reform in the Western Balkans over the last two centuries. It shows how the region's adoption of liberal penal elements in some periods alternated with the return to earlier modes of sanctioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"66-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70037
G. A. Loud
{"title":"Rome in the Tenth Century: A History of Art. By John Osborne. Cambridge University Press and the British School at Rome, 2025. xvi + 211 pp. £90.","authors":"G. A. Loud","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"127-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}