The March 2007 issue of Reviews in American History is out. There are, of course, many interesting reviews, but I do want to point out “Did Racists Create the Suburban Nation?” [Project Muse PDF] by David Chappell, which is a review of Matthew Lassiter’s Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South and Kevin Kruse’s White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.
Archive for March, 2007
Reviews in American History
March 30, 2007New Issue of the Journal of Women’s History
March 26, 2007The latest issue of the Journal of Women’s History (Volume 19, Number 1, 2007) is dedicated to the memory of Susan Porter Benson (author of, most notably, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940). The main articles, offered in tribute to Benson, all deal with aspects of consumer culture and include a posthumous article by Benson (What Goes ‘Round Comes ‘Round: Secondhand Clothing, Furniture, and Tools in Working-Class Lives in the Interwar United States – links to Project Muse PDF). Additionally, there is a roundtable discussion titled “Babies Across Borders: Problems for Women’s History in the Study of Transborder Adoption” and a series of articles that deal with “Gendering Trans/National Historiographies: Similarities and Differences in Comparison”.
CFP: American Society for Environmental History 2008 Annual Meeting
March 26, 2007American Society for Environmental History 2008 Annual Meeting
Call for Papers and Posters
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: JULY 1, 2007
“Agents of Change: People, Climate, and Places through Time”
Boise, Idaho March 12 – 16, 2008
The program committee for the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History invites panel and poster proposals for its March 2008 meeting in Boise, Idaho. Proposals may address any area of environmental history, but in keeping with the conference themes we solicit submissions examining the intersecting roles of people, climate, and place in environmental history. The conference site is one of the nation’s most rapidly growing cities. Set in the Great Basin desert on the fringe of the Rocky Mountains, Boise has long been shaped by booster dreams of a desert transformed through water works. Today, Boise, like many places, is facing profound changes as global climate and economic trends intersect with its regional demography and environment. The committee encourages panel and poster proposals that focus on the following broad themes:
Agents of Change—Contemporary science and politics have forced public recognition of the importance of natural agents in human affairs, especially climate, while forcing reconsideration of the status of these agents as “natural”. Historians, geographers, and historical ecologists can help advance and refine these perspectives. We encourage submissions from researchers that consider these agents, and whose work spans historical periods, from the modern to the medieval or ancient.
Region and Place— Environmental historians are increasingly questioning conventional views of regions and regionality, through research on places that transcend national boundaries and traditionally-defined regions, and by considering people—including immigrant, diasporic, and refugee communities—as “place makers.” We encourage proposals that rethink region and place in light of dynamic climatic, demographic, economic, or political processes.
Shifting Boundaries – Boise sits amid volatile boundaries: between mountains and desert, public land and private land, urban and rural communities. Similarly, environmental history encompasses multiple methods and disciplines. We encourage proposals that examine how spatial relationships, ecological processes, and intellectual boundaries have shaped our understanding of change, and our views of our own scholarly practices.
The committee strongly prefers complete panel proposals rather than individual papers. Limit panels to three papers (commentator optional) or four papers and no commentator. Plan the length of introductions, presentations, and comments so that your panel leaves ½ hour for discussion. Participants may only present one formal paper, but they may also engage in roundtable, chairing, or comment duties.
To submit your panel or poster proposal, go to ASEH’s website (www.aseh.net) and click on “Submit Session Proposals.”
Should you have questions, please contact any member of the program committee:
- Lynne Heasley, Chair, Western Michigan University (lynne.heasley@wmich.edu)
- Stephen Bocking, Trent University (sbocking@trentu.ca)
- Kimberly Little, University of Central Arkansas (klittle@uca.edu, kslittle@alltel.net)
- Kevin Marsh, Co-chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Idaho State University (marskevi@isu.edu)
- Kendra Smith Howard, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (kendrasmith@wisc.edu)
Recent Issue of Cold War History
March 21, 2007The February 2007 issue of Cold War History (vol. 7, issue 1) contains the following articles:
- Archie Brown, Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
- Giles Scott-Smith, Confronting Peaceful Co-existence: Psychological Warfare and the Role of Interdoc, 1963-72
- Linda Risso, ‘Enlightening Public Opinion’: A Study of NATO’s Information Policies between 1949 and 1959 based on Recently Declassified Documents
- Takeshi Yamamoto, Détente or Integration? EC Response to Soviet Policy Change towards the Common Market, 1970-75
- Vincent Dujardin, Go-Between: Belgium and Détente, 1961-73
- John Lewis Gaddis, Response to Painter and Lundestad
- Michael Cox, Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War
“A Nation Among Nations”
March 19, 2007There’s a very positive review of Thomas Bender’s A Nation Among Nations posted to H-Soz-u-Kult; here’s an excerpt:
All in all, A Nation among Nations makes a convincing plea to place U.S. history in a global setting. Bender contextualizes America in a double sense: he demonstrates that the main issues of U.S. history are problems that spanned the globe. As well as these parallels of comparable challenges and varying results, Bender offers us insights into how global interactions impacted on America and other societies. Thus, he draws together the two main strands of the debate on transnational or global history. Also, it is inspiring to see how easily he brings together political, social, economic, and cultural history. The book builds upon a stupendous historical knowledge of American and world history. And while some of his findings might not be completely new for the expert of the specific field and others provocative or even doubtful, it is hard to imagine a reader to whom this book does not offer surprising and inspiring insights.
Readers interested in Bender’s book may also want to consult Andrew Cayton’s review in Reviews in American History [vol. 34, issue 4 (2006): 573-580; full-text at Project Muse].
February Issue of AHR Now Online
March 9, 2007My trusty page2rss feed tells me that the February 2007 issue of the American Historical Review is now available at The History Cooperative:
- Linda K. Kerber, The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United States (AHA Presidential Address)
- Brian DeLay, Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War
- Louise Blakeney Williams, Overcoming the “Contagion of Mimicry”: The Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Modernist History of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats
- Sho Konishi, Reopening the “Opening of Japan”: A Russian-Japanese Revolutionary Encounter and the Vision of Anarchist Progress
- Marilyn J. Boxer, Rethinking the Socialist Construction and International Career of the Concept “Bourgeois Feminism”
New Issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies
March 7, 2007The latest issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 1) is out and begins with a new set of features called “Quick Studies.” Here’s an explanation from the editorial introduction:
Quick Studies comprises two sections. In the first section, we invite senior scholars to present and comment on data and other kinds of research materials in one of three possible categories [textual, visual, and quantitative]. [...] This format allows experienced researchers to draw our attention to the primary materials that underpin their analytical work and to educate us in the methods they use to interrogate these materials. [...] In the second section, “Question and Pensées,” we pose one question of broad relevance in the field of Middle East studies to two or three scholars and invite their brief reflections. This issue features pensées by Professor Roger Owen (Harvard University) and Professor Elizabeth Thompson (University of Virginia) in response to the question, “What is a strikingly new characteristic of imperial projects—or the way they are analyzed—in the Middle East?”
All four “quick studies” in this issue are interesting, though I found the first part of the quick studies (the analyses of research material) to be too brief. Here are the articles from the issue (links to Cambridge Journals Online PDFs):
- James H. Meyer, Immigration, Return, and the Politics of Citizenship: Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914
- Ayse Bugra, Poverty and Citizenship: An Overview of the Social-Policy Environment in Republican Turkey
- Pete W. Moore and Bassel F. Salloukh, Struggles Under Authoritarianism: Regimes, States and Professional Associations in the Arab World
- M. Sait Özervarli, Alternative Approaches to Modernization in the Late Ottoman Period: Izmirli ˙Ismail Hakkı’s Religious Thought Against Materialist Scientism
- Thomas Hegghammer and Stéphane Lacroix, Rejectionist Islamism in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Juhayman al-’Utaybi Revisited
Review Articles from Vol. 78 of the Journal of Modern History
March 6, 2007Since I’m a big fan of review articles, I’d like to post here a list of the review articles that have appeared in Vol. 78 of the Journal of Modern History (links to UChicago Press full-text):
March 2006
- Larry Wolff, Revising Eastern Europe: Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography
- Jonathan Beecher and Valerii N. Fomichev, French Socialism in Lenin’s and Stalin’s Moscow: David Riazanov and the French Archive of the Marx-Engels Institute
- Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in the Postwar West
June 2006
- Katharine Crawford, Privilege, Possibility, and Perversion: Rethinking the Study of Early Modern Sexuality
- Susan A. Crane, Historical Subjectivity: A Review Essay
September 2006
- Andrew Sartori, The British Empire and Its Liberal Mission
- Neil Gregor, Politics, Culture, Political Culture: Recent Work on the Third Reich and Its Aftermath
December 2006
- Raymond Grew, Expanding Worlds of World History
- Michael Lang, Globalization and Its History
New Issue of the Journal of Modern History
March 6, 2007The March 2007 issue of the Journal of Modern History is now available. Here are the three main articles (links to UChicago Press full-text):
Talbot Imlay, Democracy and War: Political Regime, Industrial Relations, and Economic Preparations for War in France and Britain up to 1940
Josie McLellan, State Socialist Bodies: East German Nudism from Ban to Boom
Margaret Lavinia Anderson, “Down in Turkey, far away”: Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany
I also want to draw your attention to the two review articles (links again to UChicago Press full-text):
Caroline Ford, Nature’s Fortunes: New Directions in the Writing of European Environmental History
Padraic Kenney, After the Blank Spots Are Filled: Recent Perspectives on Modern Poland
