Project MUSE®: Journal of Social History - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Social History.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 33 (1999/00) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Social HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Social History1527-18970022-4529Latest articles in Journal of Social History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®New Generations and the Hopes of Empire: Youth Premilitary Training in Early-Twentieth Century Eurasia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985224
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The world about and above us, which directed all its thoughts only to the fetish of security, did not like youth (…). Austria was an old state, dominated by an aged Emperor, ruled by old Ministers (…). Young people, who always instinctively desire rapid and radical changes, were therefore considered a doubtful element which was to be held down or kept inactive for as long a time as possible. (…) An eighteen-year-old student at the Gymnasium was treated like a child (…). This distrust that every young man was "not quite reliable" was felt at that time in all circles.1Aged nineteen in 1900, Vienna-born author Stefan Zweig wrote these lines in exile during the Second World War. In The World of Yesterday, a eulogy for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallNew Generations and the Hopes of Empire: Youth Premilitary Training in Early-Twentieth Century Eurasia2026-03-17text/htmlen-USNew Generations and the Hopes of Empire: Youth Premilitary Training in Early-Twentieth Century Eurasia2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1939662026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931 by A. G. Hopkins (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985225
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Did Europe underdevelop Africa, as Walter Rodney so famously put it? Or, as European imperialists argued, did colonialism bring vital capitalist transformation and economic growth, despite the shortcomings of African economic actors? This magisterial study of indigenous entrepreneurs in one colonial port city suggests that both formulations are overdrawn.In Capitalism in the Colonies, the eminent economic historian A. G. Hopkins assesses the fortunes of African entrepreneurs under colonial rule in Lagos, Nigeria, between the initial establishment of a British consulate and the onset of global depression. To do so, he supplements the often limited official records with a truly remarkable set of sources he collected
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallCapitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931 by A. G. Hopkins (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USCapitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931 by A. G. Hopkins (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®77682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality by Jeffrey S. Adler (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985226
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Bluecoated Terror is a book about state-formation that does not announce itself as such. Just before the period this book analyzes, but thousands of miles from Louisiana, Max Weber outlined what made a state. His useful, but also bedeviling, definition became canonical: "a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." Most who study the history of the carceral state focus on the achieved monopoly of legitimate use of force. But Weber's definition includes a methodological prompt and challenge by conjoining the aside "(successfully)" and the verb "claims."Weber thus invites scholars to investigate a monumental "how" question: how
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallBluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality by Jeffrey S. Adler (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USBluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality by Jeffrey S. Adler (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®77382026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil by Jacob Blanc (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985227
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Historians of Brazil have embraced region as an important category of analysis since at least the 1970s, a sensible strategy for the world's fifth largest country, which occupies half a continent. We now have excellent English-language studies that compare Brazilian regional identities, from the São Paulo planters and industrialists who took credit for bringing modernity to Brazil to the Northeastern public intellectuals who represented the people of their region as the true backbone of their nation. Jacob Blanc's historiographical aim is to bring attention to the "relational and imaginative category" of "the Brazilian interior," zooming in to the regions that people from coastal and urban areas have imagined as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallThe Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil by Jacob Blanc (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USThe Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil by Jacob Blanc (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®85702026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations ed. by Amy J. Shaw and V. Lynn Kennedy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985228
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This well-organized collection offers insights into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century views on fat and the body from a number of vantage points, some relatively unfamiliar even to readers of the several good monographs on the subject. The editors correctly note that this was a much-discussed topic—though a brief characterization of contrasts with the prior period would have been helpful—and that on balance, fat or at least somewhat corpulent bodies received no single judgment.Most of the essays deal carefully with change over time within the nineteenth century, a precision that is often lacking in collections of this sort. Besides the topic itself, this gives a degree of coherence to the volume as a whole. It
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallFat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations ed. by Amy J. Shaw and V. Lynn Kennedy (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USFat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations ed. by Amy J. Shaw and V. Lynn Kennedy (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®62012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World by Kristie Patricia Flannery (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985229
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This provocative study examines Indigenous loyalty to the Spanish empire in the Philippines by examining how Hispano-Filipino military forces mobilized against external maritime attacks (conceptualized as piracy) and how these attacks shaped colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In doing so, it challenges an Anglophone historiography that has predominantly located Indigenous agency in resistance to colonialism and emphasized the weakness of effective Spanish control, by demonstrating how this focus has obscured Indigenous (and particularly subaltern) loyalty to empire and failed to adequately explain the longevity and resilience of Spanish colonialism. Flannery argues that this older
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallPiracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World by Kristie Patricia Flannery (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USPiracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World by Kristie Patricia Flannery (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®90362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies by Yan Slobodkin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985231
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From Gaza to Sudan to Ukraine, our world's ongoing wars have often sparked debates about one term: famine. Pundits and reporters have argued about whether famines have arisen amid these tragedies, as well as about whom to blame. Yan Slobodkin's fascinating new book The Starving Empire shows the history behind these debates. By explaining the history of famine relief in France's former empire, Slobodkin provides a new lens on the history of colonial governance, decolonization and humanitarianism.Trained as an historian of modern Europe and France's Empire, Slobodkin reveals the global history behind the "French" way of managing famine. Slobodkin argues that from the mid- nineteenth century through the Second World
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallStarving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies by Yan Slobodkin (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USStarving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies by Yan Slobodkin (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®91542026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University: A Social History of the First Amendment in the Struggle for Equality
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985232
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On the afternoon of October 19, 1984, students at Texas A&M University, the second largest institution of higher education in the state with nearly 35,000 enrolled students, witnessed an unprecedented occurrence on their campus. A small group of gay and lesbian students, surrounded by a largely hostile crowd of about 300 people, appeared in front of the student center to talk about Gay Student Services (GSS), a gay and lesbian student group that was nearly a decade old. Since being founded in the 1970s, administrators at the largely traditional and conservative university had consistently refused to recognize the group, claiming its purposes and goals did not align with the educational mission of the university. By
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallGay Student Services v. Texas A&M University: A Social History of the First Amendment in the Struggle for Equality2026-03-17text/htmlen-USGay Student Services v. Texas A&M University: A Social History of the First Amendment in the Struggle for Equality2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1328982026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985233
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The historiography of artisanal labor in colonial India reflects a dynamic and evolving field. While traditional Marxist interpretations highlight the detrimental effects of colonialism on indigenous industries, revisionist scholars and recent research offer a more nuanced view, acknowledging the resilience and adaptability of certain sectors and the multifaceted nature of economic change during this period. Yet "De-industrialization versus Modernization" still dominates the academic debates of economic history in South Asian curricula.As a fresh breeze, in Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India, Amanda Lanzillo examines how Muslim artisans in northern India during the late nineteenth and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallPious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USPious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®122572026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985234
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In their effort to bring queer history into mainstream consciousness, public history initiatives have often sought to find touchstones, exemplary figures who can act as historic rallying points. In Germany, one such figure is Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a Hanoverian lawyer who, in 1867, addressed the Congress of German Jurists in Munich to argue for the rights of people he termed "urnings," who now would fall under the category of gay men. The centering of "great men," however, has come at a cost: a simplification of the complex human histories of such characters. Ulrichs has, in some quarters, been regarded as the "first gay man," and his appearance at the Congress as the "first coming out." Such characterizations are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallUrning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USUrning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®83532026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Regina Kunzel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985235
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After years of chronicling how LGBT people resisted legal and medical forms of oppression, historians seem to be increasingly interested in examining the perspectives of the professional and state institutions that deemed them criminal or neurotic. In In the Shadow of Diagnosis, Regina Kunzel argues that historians' understandable interest in stories of resistance has diminished our understanding of psychiatry's impact on the LGBT community throughout the twentieth century. Her approach echoes that of legal scholar Anna Lvovsky, who in her book, Vice Patrol Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall (Chicago, 2021), revisits the policing of urban gay life from the perspective of the vice
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallIn the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Regina Kunzel (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USIn the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Regina Kunzel (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®88382026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War by Stephanie Freeman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985236
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Stephanie Freeman's book, Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War, sheds new light on the late Cold War, grassroots antinuclear activism, and superpower arms control negotiations in the 1980s. Freeman is a historian at the State Department, and she spent about a decade researching, writing, and revising Dreams for a Decade. It is a well-written, readable monograph based on archival research conducted throughout the United States and Europe. Freeman has written an international history that is aimed at an academic audience, and she focuses on ideas and policy, particularly the interactions between government and grassroots actors. The book begins with the demise of détente
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallDreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War by Stephanie Freeman (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USDreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War by Stephanie Freeman (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®70682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Young Ambassadors of the Fascist Empire: Voices of Italian Children Abroad in the Magazine Il Tamburino
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985237
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The existence of a magazine dedicated exclusively to Italian children abroad demonstrates that the regime considered these children to be potentially significant actors, particularly when it came to the expansion of Fascism beyond the Italian peninsula. Although Mussolini regarded emigration as an indication of national fragility, the regime also considered the approximately 10 million Italians residing abroad as holding an important role in the advancement of its expansionist fascist policy.1 Accordingly, it sought to instill a sense of fascist spirit and patriotism and to foster emotional connections with the homeland through social, cultural, and educational activities directed toward the diverse Italian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallYoung Ambassadors of the Fascist Empire: Voices of Italian Children Abroad in the Magazine Il Tamburino2026-03-17text/htmlen-USYoung Ambassadors of the Fascist Empire: Voices of Italian Children Abroad in the Magazine Il Tamburino2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1459172026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History by Mateo Jarquín (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985238
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Although sanctions have been imposed and condemnations issued, Nicaragua's descent into authoritarianism and dictatorship under Daniel Ortega has not set alite international politics. The situation could hardly be more different to the 1980s when Central America was, in U.S. diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick's view, 'the most important place in the world' (3), and Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution sat at the heart of regional developments. Though fuelled by domestic inequalities and grievances with the ruling Somoza family dynasty, the Revolution was, from inception to conclusion, a thoroughly international affair. International diplomacy was, as this excellently researched and thoroughly engaging work by Mateo Jarquín
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallThe Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History by Mateo Jarquín (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USThe Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History by Mateo Jarquín (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®81172026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17The "Golden Age of Social Mobility" in Postwar Europe: Class Relations, Educational Expansion, and Political Stability in East and West
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985239
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Political leaders, policy experts, and public intellectuals have been telling us for decades that social mobility is stalling in Europe. On every major economy, there is a slew of think tank reports documenting how it is becoming ever more difficult for those from a disadvantaged background to move ahead in life.1 This is not just a fixation of the policy community, but has considerable cut-through with the wider public. The fact that both popular scientific and novelistic accounts of the drying up of life chances, and the resultant sense of betrayal among groups and regions "left behind," have turned into bestsellers shows that there is a substantial market for this narrative.2 Journalists are increasingly tapping
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallThe "Golden Age of Social Mobility" in Postwar Europe: Class Relations, Educational Expansion, and Political Stability in East and West2026-03-17text/htmlen-USThe "Golden Age of Social Mobility" in Postwar Europe: Class Relations, Educational Expansion, and Political Stability in East and West2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1567722026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Shaping Imperial Youth: French Youth and the Ligue Coloniale de la Jeunesse in the Late Nineteenth Century
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985240
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And why, one might ask, are young people coming on to the scene after so many older, more experienced groups? … Our aim is to facilitate the task of all those who, above us, are working for the prosperity of the colonies, by providing them with the subjects they need for this purpose, future colonists, future agricultural, commercial, or industrial officers, future civil servants. We thought that a young people's association might, by the contagion of their proselytism and the fervor of their convictions, help those who have seriously committed to developing the taste for colonization. By trying to attract the students of our schools towards us, we hope to spark colonial vocations in the vast field of those who
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallShaping Imperial Youth: French Youth and the Ligue Coloniale de la Jeunesse in the Late Nineteenth Century2026-03-17text/htmlen-USShaping Imperial Youth: French Youth and the Ligue Coloniale de la Jeunesse in the Late Nineteenth Century2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1372372026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Special Issue: Introduction to Imperial Youth
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985241
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"No more empire! (…) The people and the Enlightened youth—are the only agents of revolution," wrote Giuseppe Mazzini, then aged 30 years, in 1835.1 Some 40 years later, on his deathbed, the Italian intellectual might have felt that his mission to unite Italy had been accomplished, and newspapers across the globe paid homage to an old man epitomizing the ideal patriot and one of the most influential thinkers of the century. For Mazzini, youth was first and foremost the allegory of a necessary and incumbent political renewal, translated as the rise of the national spirit and the demise of the old imperial regime. However, empires were rather alive and well when he died and would continue to be the strongest political
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallSpecial Issue: Introduction to Imperial Youth2026-03-17text/htmlen-USSpecial Issue: Introduction to Imperial Youth2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®192732026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870-1954 by Samuel Kalman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985242
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Samuel Kalman has written a deeply researched, authoritative account of French colonial policing in Algeria. The chronological focus, running from the foundation of the Third Republic to the outbreak of the Algerian War, centers attention on civil authorities, as does the book's subject, the police. It introduces an implicit comparison between the military regimes that bookend the period and, more broadly, inform debates over European imperialism. What was the difference, in practice, between the civil and military governments, between states of exception and normal rule? Kalman sides with those who minimize the difference. The police, he demonstrates, acted with virtual impunity. The kinds of restraints that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallLaw, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870-1954 by Samuel Kalman (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USLaw, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870-1954 by Samuel Kalman (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®72932026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Worlds of Labor on Georgetown's Waterfront: Work, Freedom and the Labor Question in Guyana, c. 1890–1966
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985243
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A specifically liberal conception of work—in the form of free wage labor—was central to British imperial policymakers' understanding of what freedom entailed in the postemancipation Anglophone Caribbean.1 Of course, neither free wage labor nor freedom were static or uncontested concepts in imperial discourse and practice.2 In part, this was because there was no simple transition from unfree to free labor. This was true of not just Britain's Caribbean colonies, where the apprenticeship system (1834–38) imposed strict limits on the freedoms of recently emancipated Afro-Caribbean peoples, but also the wider nineteenth-century British imperial world.3 Throughout the empire, efforts to eradicate nonchattel enslaved
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmallWorlds of Labor on Georgetown's Waterfront: Work, Freedom and the Labor Question in Guyana, c. 1890–19662026-03-17text/htmlen-USWorlds of Labor on Georgetown's Waterfront: Work, Freedom and the Labor Question in Guyana, c. 1890–19662026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®3025192026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17"Go and Live Together Again and Try to be Happy": Gender, Class, and Race in Marital Disputes in the British Police Courts, 1870–1940
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985244
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The role of the law in adjudicating domestic violence in Britain has a long historiography.1 The bulk of these histories focus on gender and class; only recently have historians added race and ethnicity as possible influences, and those that do center on the Divorce Court, assize courts (which heard felonies), or the Court of Criminal Appeal. Such works yield valuable insights but deal with atypical situations.2 In addition, studies that combine legal and social history struggle to integrate the letter of the law, the law in practice, and the social conditions surrounding it. In Margot Finn's words, social history and legal history are "ships passing in the night."3 This is particularly true of cases brought at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/103/image/coversmall"Go and Live Together Again and Try to be Happy": Gender, Class, and Race in Marital Disputes in the British Police Courts, 1870–19402026-03-17text/htmlen-US"Go and Live Together Again and Try to be Happy": Gender, Class, and Race in Marital Disputes in the British Police Courts, 1870–19402026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1712792026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17