Showing papers on "Social history published in 2006"

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2005

Abstract: (The place of publication is London and the date 2005 unless otherwise stated.)

Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation

Abstract: How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of "coolies" in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States. Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that racial notions of coolies were articulated in many, often contradictory, ways. They could mark the progress of freedom; they could also symbolize the barbarism of slavery. Welcomed and rejected as neither black nor white, coolies emerged recurrently as both the salvation of the fracturing and reuniting nation and the scourge of American civilization. Based on extensive archival research, this study makes sense of these contradictions to reveal how American impulses to recruit and exclude coolies enabled and justified a series of historical transitions: from slave-trade laws to racially coded immigration laws, from a slaveholding nation to a "nation of immigrants," and from a continental empire of manifest destiny to a liberating empire across the seas. Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction, and Asian American history.

Leprosy in Medieval England

Abstract: One of the most important publications for many years in the fields of medical, religious and social history. Rawcliffe's book completely overhauls our understanding of leprosy and contributes immensely to our knowledge of the English middle ages. This is a fascinating study that will be a seminal work in the history of leprosy for many years to come. EHR Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious, comprehensive study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most of our stereotyped ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later Middle Ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available; that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal. Written with consummate skill, subtlety and rigour, this book will change forever the image of the medieval leper. CAROLE RAWCLIFFE is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.

The eagle and the virgin : nation and cultural revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940

Abstract: When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940. Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully. Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. Lopez, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velazquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala

Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods

Abstract: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. A variety of interpretations: a preview 3. Hegel and the birth of art history 4. Connoisseurship 5. Formalism: Heinrich Wolfflin and Alois Riegl 6. Iconography - Iconology: Erwin Panofsky 7. Marxism and the social history of art 8. Feminism 9. Psychoanalysis 10. Semiotics 11. Postcolonialism 12. Conclusion

From Hegemony to Governmentality: Changing Conceptions of Power in Social History

Abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s the emergent domain of social history was marked by a reconceptualisation of the concept of power. The dimensions of power and its operations were no longer understood to be confined to elite institutions such as parliament, but extended to the relations and institutions of everyday life. In the process, social historical writing helped to redefine the notion of the political itself. Since this early phase a number of different conceptions of power have been utilised by social historians, including the Gramscian notion of hegemony and, more recently, the Foucauldian idea of governmentality. This article explores the theoretical implications of these concepts and looks at how ideas associated with governmentality in particular have been operationalised in recent historical writing, including the work of Mary Poovey and Patrick Joyce. In conclusion, the article identifies some of the problems arising from governmentality approaches and sketches briefly an alternative way of thinking about power centred on analysis of the body.

The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond

Abstract: In the middle years of the twentieth century, the history of ideas rose like a new sign of the zodiac over large areas of American culture and education. In those happy days, Dwight Robbins, the president of a fashionable progressive college, kept "copies of Town and Country, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and a small magazine-a little magazine-that had no name" on the table in his waiting room. True, Robbins did not exist: he was the fictional president of Randall Jarrell's equally fictional Benton, a liberal arts dystopia where "[h]alf of the college was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe."1 But Jarrell's notation of the Journal's status was accurate nonetheless.2The Journal, in the twenty years or so after its foundation, attracted attention from many quarters, some of them unexpected. And it occupied a unique position, between the technical journals of history and philology, each firmly identified with a discipline, in which professional humanists normally published their results, and the quarterlies, often based not in disciplines but in liberal arts colleges and universities, which cultivated a mixed readership to which they offered fiction and poetry as well as essays. By contrast with both, the JHI fifty years ago ran on a rich mix of technical articles and wide-ranging essays that could easily have attracted the attention of a sophisticated administrator-or at least made a good impression on his coffee table. Bliss was it to be a subscriber in that happy day when the JHI glowed with something of the luster that haloed Representations in the 1980s and Critical Inquiry more recently.3The main reason for the Journal's prominence was that it represented a new field, appealingly located between disciplines as the Journal was between other sorts of periodical. In its postwar heyday, the history of ideas was not a dim subdivision of history, itself a discipline whose luster has worn off with time, but an intellectual seismic zone where the tectonic plates of disciplines converged and rubbed against one another, producing noises of all sorts. In recent years, it has sometimes seemed impossible, even to the best informed observers, that intellectual history, or the history of ideas, ever enjoyed this sort of prestige. A quarter century ago, Robert Darnton surveyed the state of intellectual and cultural history in the United States in an informative and influential essay. Using a language more resonant of the historical President Carter than the fictional President Robbins, Darnton detected "malaise" everywhere he looked. In the fifties, he noted, intellectual historians had seen "their discipline as the queen of the historical sciences. Today she seems humbled." True, desperate cries for help were not yet called for. Historians continued to write histories of ideas, and even to cast them in the technical languages of A.O. Lovejoy or Perry Miller: "one still finds 'unit-ideas' and 'mind' among the trendier terms." The justpublished Dictionary of the History of Ideas, moreover, offered a vast selection of Lovejoyan formal analyses, systematically organized, to the reading public.4But for the last ten years, Darnton argued, younger scholars, especially graduate students, had been scrambling over the gunwales of the good ship History of Ideas, abandoning the effort to converse abstractly with the mighty dead, and clambering in hordes over the side of a newer vessel, Social History, which boasted a Hogarthian passenger list of heretics, misfits, and military women. At the level of the dissertations written in history departments, social history was outpacing intellectual, by a proportion of three to one. At the level of the scholarly journal, too, social history had forged ahead, though by a smaller margin. In the murkier, but no less significant, world of opinion, finally, the decline of intellectual history appeared clearest. History of ideas no longer occupied the cutting edge in young scholars' mental vision of their discipline. …

Gendering Labor History

Abstract: This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays included in Alice Kessler-Harris's Gendering Labor History are divided into 4 sections, narrating the evolution and refinement of her central project: to show gender's fundamental importance to the shaping of U.S. history and working-class culture. The first section considers women and organized labor; the second pushes this analysis towards a gendered labor history as the essays consider the gendering of male as well as female workers and how gender operates with and within the social category of class. Subsequent sections broaden this framework to examine U.S. social policy as a whole, the question of economic citizenship, and wage labor from a global perspective. While each essay represents an important intervention in American historiography in itself, the collection taken as a whole reveals Kessler-Harris as someone who has always pushed the field of American history to greater levels of inclusion and analysis, and who continues to do so today.

Living Black history : how reimagining the African-American past can remake America's racial future

Abstract: Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In "Living Black History "scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and W.E.B. Du Bois. Marable creates a "living history" that brings the past alive for a generation he sees as having historical amnesia. His activist passion and scholarly memory bring immediacy to the tribulations and triumphs of yesterday and reveal that history is something that happens everyday. "Living Black History "dismisses the detachment of the codified version of American history that we all grew up with. Marable's holistic understanding of history counts the story of the slave as much as that of the master; he highlights the flesh-and-blood courage of those figures who have been robbed of their visceral humanity as members of the historical cannon. As people comprehend this dynamic portrayal of history they will begin to understand that each day we-the average citizen-are "makers" of our own American history. "Living Black History "will empower readers with knowledge of their collective past and a greater understanding of their part in forming our future.

A Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China

Abstract: This book deals with a wide range of issues on the history of the book in late imperial China (1000 to 1800), mainly concerned with literati publications and readers in the lower Yangzi delta.

Students: A Gendered History

Abstract: This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts. Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press coverage of student life and life histories of men and women who graduated before the Second World War, this text provides rich insights into changes in student identity and experience over the past century. The book examines : - men's and women's differing expectations of higher education - the sacrifices that families made to send young people to college - the effect of equality legislation - demography - changing patterns of marriage and the impact of the 'sexual revolution' on female students - the cultural life of students and the role that gender has played in shaping them. For students of gender studies, cultural studies and history, this book will have meaningful impact on their degree course studies.

Making Sense of Generation Y: The World View of 15- to 25-year-olds

Abstract: For Generation Y, born after 1982, Margaret Thatcher is a piece of social history, relationships happen over the Internet and music marks their territory. How does this generation think about the world? What does their spirituality look like? And what implications does this have for the Church? "Making Sense of Generation Y" addresses the urgent need for the Church to reconnect with young people in today's society, and to communicate with them in a way they can understand. Through researching the relationship young people aged 16-25 have to the popular arts (soaps, film, music, clubbing, advertising and culturally iconic images), the authors explore the implications of their worldview for youth work and youth ministry as well as the wider church.

Beyond ¿Decorative Sociology¿: Contextualizing Female Surf, Skate, and Snow Boarding

Abstract: Following criticism leveled at sociologists by Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner in “Decorative Sociology: A Critique of the Cultural Turn,” this article identifies a troubling absence of systematic contextualization in sport sociology. In addressing this issue, I begin by describing the role of history and context in sociology and conclude that the discipline should take history more seriously, not least by giving context greater due. I then engage the debate as to whether radical contextual cultural studies or social history offers the best explanation of context. Here I argue for the latter. In justifying my position, I adapt a model employed by the conservative social historian Arthur Marwick in “The sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958–c. 1974,” to contextualize a contemporary cultural phenomenon, the female boarder (i.e., the female surfboard rider, skateboarder, and snowboarder). Ultimately, this paper illustrates that the systematic and transhistorical ...

Nationalism in pre-modern guise: the discourse on hadhar and badu in kuwait

Abstract: The duality of nomad/sedentary or nomads/settlers-in Arabic badu/hadhar-is a classic feature of the social history of the Middle East. Related to this duality is the notion of tribe and its cultural ideology, tribalism. These are all concepts familiar to the students of the region, although increasingly, they are acquiring an antiquated character due to rapid urbanization and other forms of socioeconomic change. In the Arabian Peninsula, the dichotomy is still widely used. Whereas important research has been carried out over the years on the relationship between tribalism and nationalism in the Middle East, the persistence of this particular dichotomy in the Gulf has received little analytical attention.' Many studies on the region speak of "bedouin" as groups, constituencies, or social or political actors, without clarifying what lies in the term and without asking by what criteria this category is defined or how it differs from other, non-bedouin categories. The association of bedouinism/tribalism with the Arabian Peninsula, "home of all the Arab tribes," is so deeply anchored in the imagination of both inhabitants and outsiders that to speak of Arabian bedouin in the late 1990s to early 2000s hardly raised any eyebrows. On closer observation, however, one has to acknowledge the growing lack of consonance between the original lexical meaning of the term bedouin (pastoral nomads) and its derivative meaning ("country" as opposed to "city," or "primitive" as opposed to "civilized") and the category to which it is purported to apply. Both meanings beg the question of why the hadhar-badu dichotomy has such a central place in Kuwaiti popular discourse-Kuwait being for all purposes a city-state with hardly any country and where "the rural areas" is a euphemism for the sprawling suburbs around the capital city. At the same time, official history tells us that Kuwait was founded by bedouin who had fled drought and famine from Central Arabia in the first half of the 18th century.2 Under these circumstances, what does it take to qualify as a badu or to disqualify as a hadhar in present-day Kuwaiti society? There is one more thing: far from slipping into oblivion as a result of urbanization, the hadhar-badu dichotomy has made a noticeable comeback in popular discourse over the past two decades. This article seeks to explain the present popular concern in Kuwait with a dichotomy whose analytical, if not historical, validity has often been questioned.3 It explores the reasons why important symbolic

Who's Not Yet Here? American Disability History

Abstract: As with the experiences of many minorities in America, the story of disabled people in America has remained, until recently, in the margins — one might even say in the locked wards — of academic inquiry. Beginning in earnest in the 1980s, Disability Studies emerged with and from the Disability civil rights movement. The scholarship of Disability Studies reflects and responds to other social histories. In America, race, class, and gender have been the dominant models for studying social history since the 1950s. This classic interpretive troika has enabled scholars to produce invaluable materials and methodologies. Their conspicuous impact can be seen in American history classes across the nation; today, thankfully, it is inconceivable to write American history textbooks without including the important role of ethnic minorities, the working class, or women. Disability history is a natural extension of these models, and it offers new analytical tools for exploring issues of identity. In 2003, Cathy Kudlick, a historian at the University of California at Davis,

Introduction: Translation of Reinhart Koselleck's "Krise," in Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe

Abstract: This translation and introduction are dedicated to the memory of Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006). We are pleased that he read and approved them; but saddened that he could not see them in print here. His unique combination of extraordinary erudition, originality, contagious enthusiasm, and intellectual rigor will be missed by all those he inspired to work in Begriffsgeschichte, the new discipline he created.I.Reviewing Futures Past in 1987, David Carr identified Reinhart Koselleck as among the most original and important historians and theorists of history and historiography who remained relatively unknown outside Germany.1 Since then many of Koselleck's books and papers have been translated into other languages, including English.2 Yet his international reputation has come in large part as the result of his contributions as editor and theorist of a remarkable lexicon, Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (GG) (Basic Concepts in History: A Historical Dictionary of Political and Social Language in Germany).3 This exemplifies Koselleck's distinctive version of Begriffsgeschichte (the history of concepts, conceptual history), a method he carefully differentiates from both intellectual and social history. Because of the growing number of foreign projects modeled on the GG, Begriffsgeschichte has some claim to being the most successful German contribution to the writing of history and historiography since the establishment of the Federal Republic in 1949. Ambitious projects in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland have been inspired by the GG. An analogous Brazilian work is being considered. The Spanish government has just funded an Ibero-American study which will chart the transfer of political and social concepts from Portugal and Spain to Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia.Perhaps because fewer and fewer anglophone scholars read German, the GG merits more attention than it has received in the English-speaking world. Given this situation, only by translating key entries from the GG can its historiographical theory, substantive contributions, and distinctive method be judged by those to whom the original is not available.What is being presented here is a translation in full of one entry, that of Krise (Crisis), written in its entirety by Koselleck himself.4 Few articles in the GG demonstrate more clearly or successfully Koselleck's theoretical concerns, his methods, sources, and contributions than does the entry on "crisis." Its historical sweep, its subtle and complex analysis of the continuities and changes in the meaning and use of the term before and since the eighteenth century, the wealth and range of materials consulted, cannot and should not be reduced to a brief and unambiguous summary. This is why a complete translation of the article is offered here. The persistent and ubiquitous use of this term in foreign policy, domestic politics, economics, sociology, culture, psychology attests to its importance in political and social analysis and discourse. The storm recently caused by President George W. Bush's declaration of a "crisis" in the social security system serves to indicate the continuing political potential of this term. As Koselleck makes clear in his conclusion to this entry in the GG: "This makes it all the more important for scholars to weigh the concept carefully before adapting it in their own terminology." How productive and stimulating this approach can be has been demonstrated by Istvan Hont's essay on theories concerning the oft-proclaimed "crisis" of the nation-state.5II.In order to point up what is distinctive about the GG, this introduction offers a brief discussion of its program, method, and scope.6 "Crisis" ranks high among the "basic concepts" (Grundbegriffe) treated in the GG. Koselleck defines "basic concepts" as inescapable, irreplaceable parts of the political and social vocabulary. Only after concepts have attained this status do they become crystallized in a single word or term such as "revolution," "state," "civil society," "democracy," or "crisis. …

Common Ground: Integrating Social and Environmental History

Abstract: Since the 1960s, one of the great strengths of social history has been its willingness to respond to contemporary concerns. However, as environmental issues have pushed their way to the top of the global political agenda, social historians have been slow to meet this new challenge. This paper examines reasons for this reluctance and, more importantly, explores the opportunities for integrating social and environmental history. It is divided into three main parts. The first section deals with the failure of social history to strike up a dialogue with environmental history. Section two aims to show that social and environmental history are basically compatible and complementary fields, and argues for increased collaboration by making human-environment relations a key theme for future research. Drawing on studies—both rural and urban—that have begun to establish common ground between the two fields, section three outlines new areas for investigation, including: the interconnections between social inequality and environmental degradation; environments and identities; and consumption and the environment. By focusing attention on how ordinary people interacted with their environments in the past, social historians could make a significant contribution to current discussions about a sustainable future.

Gender Balance in K-12 American History Textbooks

Abstract: This research study evaluated K-12 American history textbooks for gender balance. Elementary, middle school, and high school texts were assessed for the number of male and female historical figures in text content and illustrations. Significantly more males than females were found at all levels in both content and illustrations, and all differences were significant at the .001 level. However, American history textbooks do include more women than in previous editions and since the publication of the National History Standards. The challenges of defining gender balance are discussed, and recommendations for teachers and textbook adoption committees are presented. Teachers of history often use the metaphor of a journey through time. Students travel by train through each time period, and teachers help students gain basic historical knowledge as they travel toward the present (Frederickson, 2004). Using this metaphor, students have encountered very few women on their journeys, and the historical record has been narrated by a man. The metaphor highlights the debate over the integration of women’s history into current American history textbooks. This article describes the issues related to teaching women’s history by reviewing controversies related to the National Standards for History and early American history textbooks. A research study designed to assess gender balance in current K-12 American history textbooks is discussed. Conclusions and recommendations for teachers and textbook adoption committees are presented with emphasis on the importance of high-quality history instruction. The National Standards for History (K-grade 4) and the National Standards for U.S. History (grades 5-12) were first published in 1994 (National Center for History in the Schools, 1994). The controversy that ensued, often termed the “history wars,” focused on an incomplete historical record, bias in standards, negative events in American history, and an anti-European

To the past : history education, public memory, and citizenship in Canada

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a breakdown in consensus about what history should be taught within Canadian schools; there is now a heightened awareness of the political nature of deciding whose history is, or should be, included in social studies and history classrooms. Meanwhile, as educators are debating what history should be taught, developments in educational and cognitive research are expanding our understanding of how best to teach it. To the Past explores some of the political, cultural and educational issues surrounding what history education is, and why we should care about it, in the twenty-first century in Canada. Originally broadcast in the fall of 2002 on the CBC Radio program Ideas, the lectures that comprise this volume not only address how history is taught in Canadian classrooms, but also explore strands within larger discussions about the meaning and purposes of history more generally. Contributors show how Canadians are demonstrating a new interest in what scholars have termed 'historical consciousness' or collective memory, through participation in a wide range of cultural activities, from visiting museums to watching the History Channel. Canadian adults and children alike seem to be seeking answers to questions of identity, meaning, community and nation in their study of the past. Through this series of essays, readers will have the opportunity to explore some of the political and ethical issues involved in this emerging field of Canadian 'citizenship through history' as they learn about public memory and broadly defined history education in Canada.

Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine

Abstract: This book challenges prevailing assumptions about family, courts of law, and the nature of modernity in Muslim societies against the backdrop of Haifa and Jaffa during "the long nineteenth century". The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris Agmon suggests an entirely different view, grounded in a detailed study of nineteenth-century Ottoman court records from the flourishing Palestinian port cities of Haifa and Jaffa. She depicts the Sharia Muslim court of law as a dynamic institution, capable of adapting to rapid and profound social changes - indeed, of playing an active role in generating these changes. Court and family interact and transform themselves, each other, and the society of which they form part. Agmon's book is a significant contribution to scholarship on both family history and legal culture in the social history of the Middle East.

The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History

Abstract: Preface and acknowledgements Part I. The Field Proposed: 1. The Antipodean perception 2. British history: a plea for a new subject Part II. The Three Kingdoms and the English Problem: 3. The field enlarged: an introduction 4. Two kingdoms and three histories? Political thought in British contexts 5. The Atlantic archipelago and the War of the Three Kingdoms 6. The third kingdom in its history Part III. Empire and Rebellion in the First Age of Union: 7. Archipelago, Europe and Atlantic after 1688 8. The significance of 1688: some reflections on Whig history 9. Empire, state and confederation: the war of American independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy 10. The Union of 1801 in British history Part IV. New Zealand in the Strange Multiplicity: 11. The neo-Britains and the three empires 12. Tangata whenua and Enlightenment anthropology 13. Law, sovereignty and history in a divided culture: the case of New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi Part V. Britain, Europe and Post-Modern History: 14. Sovereignty and history in the late twentieth century 15. Deconstructing Europe 16. The politics of the new British history 17. Conclusion: history, sovereignty, identity Bibliographies Index.

The Long History Of Old Age

Abstract: Seven chronological chapters proceed from antiquity to the current day 'The Age of Old Age' - Pat Thane 'Ancient Greece & Rome' - Tim Parkin 'The Middle Ages' - Shalamith Shahar 'The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century' - Lynn A. Rutelho 'The Eighteenth Century' David Troyansky 'The Nineteenth Century' - Thomas A. Cole and Claudia Edwards 'Caring for the Old in the Twentieth Century' - Pat Thane.

The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

Abstract: Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architecture's trajectories toward modernism. The book argues that the interior emerged with a sense of 'doubleness', being understood and experienced as both a spatial and an image-based condition. Incorporating perspectives from architecture, critical history and theory, and psychoanalysis, The Emergence of the Interior will be of interest to academics and students of the history and theory of architecture and design, social history, and cultural studies.

Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

Abstract: This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific and professional field. Here, Alice Boardman Smuts shows how interrelated movements--social and scientific--combined to transform the study of the child. Drawing on nationwide archives and extensive interviews with child study pioneers, Smuts recounts the role of social reformers, philanthropists, and progressive scientists who established new institutions with new ways of studying children. Part history of science and part social history, this book describes a fascinating era when the normal child was studied for the first time, a child guidance movement emerged, and the newly created federal Children's Bureau conducted pathbreaking sociological studies of children.