{"title":"‘Temples Devoted to Cold Coffee and Hot Sex’: Coffee Bars and Youth Culture in Postwar Britain","authors":"Catherine Ellis","doi":"10.1111/hic3.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores contemporary and scholarly perspectives on coffee bars in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, with a particular focus on themes in the modern history of youth. In the immediate postwar decades, young people in Britain were described as simultaneously angry and apathetic, active troublemakers and passive consumers. Young people's use and abuse of leisure time often grounded these contradictory typologies, and coffee bars attracted particular concern. The consumption of coffee was not new in Britain, but this article focuses on heightened anxieties about the association of coffee bars with unsupervised teen sociability, foreign cultures, the ‘Americanization’ of British culture, and the erosion of ‘community’ after Second World War. A closer examination of coffee bars demonstrates both their significance in contemporary debates about young people and their many connections to recent historical analysis of youth in the postwar period.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 10-11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142707710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Australasian Histories of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean World","authors":"Rohan Howitt","doi":"10.1111/hic3.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australia and New Zealand have deep historical connections—geological, environmental, cultural, political, and economic—with Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Yet while Australasia and the Southern Ocean are historically entangled, their historiographies are largely estranged. This article provides a survey of Australian and New Zealand histories of Antarctica, the subantarctic, and the Southern Ocean. I argue that historians in and of Australasia have contributed significantly to understandings of the region's southern hinterland, including the histories and legacies of Antarctic whaling, sealing, science, exploration, politics, and culture. These same connections and entanglements have rarely been used to shed light on Australian and New Zealand histories, but can offer new perspectives on Australasian histories of intercultural contact and exchange, mobilities, the frontier, imperialism, and internationalism. I argue that conceptualising Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica as littorals of a ‘terraqueous’ Southern Ocean World provides a way to both generate new insights into this region's history and draw new connections with global, world, and oceanic histories.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Good Death in Early Modern Europe","authors":"Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12819","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In <i>The Hour of Our Death</i> (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific epoche of European history and was an historical inflection point, coinciding with the 18th century Enlightenment. Ariès looked unfavorably at this climax for what he saw as a process of de-spiritualization, waning of faith, and the beginnings of commercialization and medicalization of death. Since his publications, scholars from a range of fields—history, anthropology, literature, religion, and art—have sought to address the omissions, exaggerations, and misleading claims in Ariès' account and, in doing so, have developed a rich field studying the cultural history and significance of death. Now situated in a transdisciplinary space, studying the good death and the tradition of <i>ars moriendi</i> (the art of the dying well) offers new perspectives and answers new questions about death. Although there is much that could be discussed, the focus here will be on recent trends in scholarship on the tradition of <i>ars moriendi</i> and its relationship to the interrelated histories of burial, the role of clerical and lay comforters, and the role of physicians as well as the historical and religious-philosophical problems of the prolongation of life and sudden death.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142013532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration and Technological Dialogue in Early Modern East Asia: A Historiographical Review","authors":"Floris van Swet","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12818","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12818","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By reviewing historiographical trends within existing scholarship on migration and movement, and knowledge and technological dialogue in early modern East Asia, this article demonstrates how these bodies of work have become increasingly interdisciplinary and inclusive, thereby challenging prior characterisations of the region. Recent trends within the field combined with considerations of embodiment are, however, laying the groundwork for more meaningful integration by examining how migrants actually transferred, adapted, and leveraged their knowledge and skills. This article concludes by pointing to the potential to fully bring to the fore the complex nature of both migrants and technological dialogue.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12818","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pacifism and peace activism in modern Britain: A history of the ‘peace studies problem’","authors":"Fiona Reid","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12816","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is over 40 years since Ceadel defined interwar British pacifism as a ‘faith’. During that time, pacifism has had little political significance and the influential peace movement of the interwar years is now scarcely within living memory. Yet, what Margaret Thatcher once described as ‘the peace studies problem’ is a diverse and interdisciplinary field, and one in which scholarship, peace activism and mainstream politics are all closely intertwined. Feminist scholars and peace activists have queried the links between militarism and patriarchy; historians and ethicists have explored medical pacifism and have asked whether medicine is (or should be) a pacifist profession. More recently, scholars have looked at interwar pacifism through the lens of the Empire and have challenged the imperialist pacifist delusion. Despite pacifism's limited political influence, its history over the last 40 years has explored the beliefs and motivations of men and women struggling to respond to militarism and the threat of war.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12816","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141639516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political challenges and economic cooperation: The legacy of the 1930s USSR–Turkey economic relations and the contemporary economic context of Russia–Turkey","authors":"Önder Deniz","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12817","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the early 20th century, the emergence of the Soviet Union and Turkey in the political arena led to the end of Russo-Turkish conflicts and the formation of bilateral relations. In the 1920s, the political cooperation that commenced between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Turkey transformed into economic solidarity. The 5-year plans of the USSR and the financial support and technical knowledge it provided to Turkey significantly contributed to Turkey's industrialisation process. After World War II, political and economic dynamics changed, leading to a decline in these relations. Following the dissolution of the USSR, relations between Turkey and the Russian Federation revived and economic cooperation increased. This collaboration, particularly evident in the tourism, energy, and trade sectors, has intensified. This article analyses the contributions of the 1930s USSR–Turkey cooperation to Turkey's industrialisation process and its contemporary effects. Additionally, it highlights a positive public and political approach in Turkey towards its economic relations with Russia.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141597136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa","authors":"Kate Tilson","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12815","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article provides a short overview of ‘entanglement’ in recent histories of mission, examining what distinguishes it from earlier conceptualisations of cross-cultural encounters. This article locates the emergence of the term in the social sciences and global histories of empire, and explores its current influence in studies of Christian evangelism in imperial and colonial contexts. This article shows the strengths of recent works on entanglement, while indicating some new research avenues for scholars of mission. The discussion primarily focuses on research on Africa and the South Pacific.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12815","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141536636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In search of an empirical foundation: Firearms trade and Pacific history","authors":"Sebastian Hepburn-Roper","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12814","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the importance of economic relationships and structures to the functioning of the Empire has received considerable attention for other regions, the Pacific has only begun to be more fully integrated into these discourses. This article explores how histories of maritime trade might take advantage of recent innovations in digitised sources to rectify this exclusion. The firearms trade is the key focus, as this item was almost a universal trade good for much of the nineteenth century Pacific. Given that these weapons were both a complex industrial product and also often attributed to devastating social impacts, they offer unique potential both for indicating the global nature of nineteenth century Pacific trade, and for querying the role of Europeans in impacting indigenous island populations. The use of data provided by careful cross referencing of traditional primary material with large digital archives such as the Australian National Library's TROVE database offers the potential to lift such discussion above supposition and assumption, providing valuable contributions for many regional histories in the Pacific and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12814","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141439563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is disability history the history of?","authors":"Coreen Anne McGuire","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12813","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article has two connected aims. First, to contour the boundaries of modern disability history through outlining its development and second, to provide a new methodological agenda for disability history. The design model of disability has outlined an important new programme to integrate the social and medical models of disability by foregrounding materials. Yet ‘disability things’ (to use Ott's memorable term) have been part of disability history's genesis since the material turn, which started the process of social historians recovering the lives of those not recorded in textual sources through objects, including prosthetics. From considering objects as things, the influence of Science and Technology Studies scholars pushed disability historians to further consider objects as agents and objects in use. These approaches have highlighted the differential levels of autonomy and power that objects and their users have in making history. However, this focus on materials has highlighted visible and recorded disability over ‘invisible’ disability, which has perpetuated its opacity and created definitional difficulties around disability demarcation. Medical history methodologies aimed at revealing the ‘patient view’ can help bring people back into focus but uphold the categories of patients and biomedicine in a way that impedes the aims of disability scholars. Focusing on exactly <i>what</i> is hidden is less useful than focusing on <i>how</i> it is hidden, and science and technology study methodologies can illuminate these processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12813","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141308809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bandits, heroes and villains: A view from a settler colony","authors":"Meg Foster","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12801","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Bushrangers’ were late 18th to early 20th-century bandits who lived in the Australian bush through the proceeds of crime, but today, they are national legends. A particular constellation of factors led to the white male bushranger's status as a national hero in Australia. By charting the development of bushranging historiography alongside bushranging in practice and the bushranging myth, this article will demonstrate the distinctive Australian and settler colonial dimensions of this bandit tradition. In describing how white bushranging men came to national prominence, the piece will also draw attention to those excluded from this legend—women and people of colour, with particular reference to Aboriginal people. The Australian bushranging myth, as it exists today, was not an organic or natural development. It was actively constructed by white settlers, including white settler historians.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"22 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12801","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140881053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}