{"title":":Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany","authors":"Joel F. Harrington","doi":"10.1086/728553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"37 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140286291","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":"Rumor and Wartime Migration: Informal Communication, Propaganda, and the 1939 “Option” in South Tyrol","authors":"Caroline Mezger","doi":"10.1086/728595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"58 37","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140400095","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":":God’s Marshall Plan: American Protestants and the Struggle for the Soul of Europe","authors":"Maria Mitchell","doi":"10.1086/728552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"25 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140407666","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":"In Pursuit of Greater Hungary: Eugenic Ideas of Social and Biological Improvement, 1940-1941.","authors":"Marius Turda","doi":"10.1086/670822","DOIUrl":"10.1086/670822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"85 3","pages":"558-591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3868933/pdf/emss-55941.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31979226","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 imagined hausfrau: national identity, domesticity, and colonialism in Imperial Germany.","authors":"N Reagin","doi":"10.1086/319879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/319879","url":null,"abstract":"Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, the author of the 1908 work Home Life in Germany, was a bourgeois woman of German parentage who married an Englishman around the turn of the century. Accustomed to German styles of housekeeping, she had to adjust to English approaches to household management after her marriage, and she observed English domesticity with wry amusement. When she first heard a discussion of “English housekeeping,” she later wrote, “it was a new idea to me that any women in the world except the Germans kept house at all. If you live among Germans when you are young you adopt this view quite insensibly and without argument.”1 Bourgeois English housewives, Mrs. Sidgwick wrote, left much of their work to the servants and did not maintain really clean houses. Although she spent most of her adult life in England, Mrs. Sidgwick clearly admired and preferred the community of German bourgeois Hausfrauen to which her mother, aunts, and cousins belonged. It was a community that was at least partly imagined, in the sense defined by Benedict Anderson, because most of its members would never meet each other and yet thought of themselves as belonging to a common group.2 Reading Mrs. Sidgwick’s work (and earlier literature produced by nineteenth-century bourgeois German women) makes it clear that many considered themselves to be part of a community of German bourgeois Hausfrauen and that this community helped define the na-","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"73 1","pages":"54-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/319879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27317216","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":"Fathers against sons/sons against fathers: the problem of generations in the early Soviet workplace.","authors":"D P Koenker","doi":"10.1086/340146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/340146","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the 1920s, the Soviet Union underwent a series of massive and convulsive transformations that have been variously labeled the “second Russian revolution,” “Stalin revolution,” “cultural revolution,” and “revolution from above.” Among the many and complex elements of this period of revolutionary and transformatory fervor, the young communists, or Komsomol, stood out for their bold assaults on bureaucracy, on the older generation, and on the socialist status quo. Young communists responded to the party call to serve as the “light infantry” of the new drive for economic and cultural transformation, sending their shock brigades to storm the fortresses of class enemies and Soviet complacency alike. The youthful zeal of these Komsomol activists has been compared to that of youth movements in other revolutionary societies, particularly the Red Guards of the Chinese cultural revolution.1 The highly visible role of young Communists in the cultural revolution of 1928–30 seemed to vindicate a decade-long project of the Communist party to nurture, educate, and mobilize youth as the “next generation” of communism, as the key to the future of the revolution itself. Lenin himself set the tasks for youth","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"73 4","pages":"781-810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/340146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27246793","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":"Senses of belonging: the politics of working-class insurance in Britain, 1880-1914.","authors":"T Alborn","doi":"10.1086/339125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/339125","url":null,"abstract":"The social history of British working people has traditionally been framed by two categories, community formation and consumerism, which are usually assumed to be either mutually exclusive or openly at odds. E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class showcased a rich variety of ritual without pausing to consider the extent to which consumption patterns were interwoven into workers’ efforts to build a vibrant community. Consumerism, for him, was a process to be wished away as a bourgeois obstacle to the search for a uniquely working-class culture. And when Richard Hoggart attacked the new habits of mass consumption that he saw emerging in the 1950s, he did so by ascribing to them the erosion of a purer community marked by neighborliness and family values. His approach more directly recognized the presence of consumerism in the lives of working people, but it failed to extend that recognition to the working-class subjects who filled his pages; for these subjects, any consciousness of the commodity was doomed to be delusory.1 Successors to these pioneering contributions have added sophistication to their arguments without moving much beyond either overlooking the existence of working-class consumption or identifying it as a form of false consciousness.2 Historians have only recently started to revisit working-class spending patterns with an eye to the important sense in which consumption itself assisted in the formation of distinctive communities—in studies ranging from “co-operative culture” to male fashion, and from “the cultural meanings of food” to the invention of local variants of “populism.”3","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"73 3","pages":"561-602"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/339125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27322028","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":"Women and gender in early modern England.","authors":"P Mack","doi":"10.1086/321030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/321030","url":null,"abstract":"In the afterword to Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England, Jean Howard muses, “I wonder . . . how many historians will read this book and avail themselves of the new knowledge it contains, as compared to the number of literary critics who eagerly devour the lastest historical monographs . . . ? In recent years, the two-way street between literature and history increasingly has felt like a one-way thoroughfare” (p. 309). Leaving aside the question of the relative curiosity and openmindedness of historians and literary critics, Howard’s remark leads one to ponder the benefits and perils of interdisciplinary research and writing: the degree to which researchers in different areas of gender studies have actually succeeded in talking to one another and the degree to which scholars in different fields (or in the same field) have engaged successfully in collaborative research and writing. All of the books reviewed here are in some sense interdisciplinary or collaborative efforts. The two edited books, Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition and Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England, contain essays by literary critics, historians, and political scientists. In Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture, 1665–1800, Marcia Pointon utilizes the techniques and sources of both the art critic and the social historian, presenting formal analyses of allegorical and religious portraiture alongside accounts of women’s bequests and patterns of consumption. Laura Gowing’s study, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London, combines meticulous social history with analyses of women’s courtroom testimonies that reflect the recent work of literary critics on language","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"73 2","pages":"379-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/321030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27576566","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":"Transplanting and rooting workers in London and Brussels: a comparative history.","authors":"J Polasky","doi":"10.1086/339122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/339122","url":null,"abstract":"Teeming, chaotic, and congested cities troubled reform-minded British and Belgian observers at the end of the nineteenth century. Reformers in the first two industrialized nations of Europe recognized that they faced a common crisis. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the everincreasing number of workers and their families who huddled in blind alleys and rookeries threatened urban order. The tumbledown tenements and malodorous hovels, hidden from light and the gaze of passers-by, frightened the middle class. There epidemics and debauchery were spawned, and criminal conspiracies and rebellions bred. The British and the Belgians watched each other as they struggled to control the working class sheltered in their troubled cities. Reformers on both sides of the Channel shared dreams of a respectable working class residing outside a reconfigured urban space. The Belgians and the British alike adopted residential dispersion as the solution to their shared crisis of urban overcrowding. Toiling masses by day, Belgian and British workers and their families would be separated each night in individual cottages spread through the countryside. Neither the Belgian nor the British reformers expected these residential patterns to develop or to stay in place on their own. Despite the entrenched liberal, laissez-faire convictions that checked the growth of government in nineteenthcentury Belgium as well as Britain, the reformers introduced strategies of government intervention. The Belgians planned to root the laborers in their an-","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"73 3","pages":"528-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/339122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27362703","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":"Escape from the great confinement: the genealogy of a German workhouse.","authors":"J F Harrington","doi":"10.1086/235249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/235249","url":null,"abstract":"Early in 1588, the city council of Nuremberg commissioned a blue-ribbon panel of local notables to address the perennial local problem of street begging. Since the council’s centralization of almsgiving and poor relief in 1522, all public panhandling had been considered unnecessary as well as illegal. Yet despite over sixty years of mandates and ordinances threatening fines, imprisonment, or even banishment, the practice appeared to magistrates to be actually increasing in frequency and magnitude. Among the various suggestions offered by panel members, one stands out by reason of its remarkably precocious timing. Councilman Paulus Koler commiserated with his fellow city councilors on the plague of street beggars harassing and occasionally threatening the city’s residents. He considered all previous legislation useless, however, and could not foresee that simple rewording of the same would in any way alter the outcome. Even previous surveys of beggars in the city and its suburbs “had borne little fruit,” both because of the list compilers’ ineptitude and the council’s failure to make effective use of the information. Instead Koler made the following more radical proposal: “that the council ordain a special place (for which purpose the pesthouse might be renovated) . . . and therein appoint an industrious man (who might be chosen from among the alms officials) and have an ordinance written for him [entailing] how and under what conditions he should feed the arrested beggars and children and otherwise provide for the","PeriodicalId":517905,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern History","volume":"71 2","pages":"308-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/235249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30200937","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}