Project MUSE®: Histoire sociale / Social History - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Histoire sociale / Social History.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 41 (2008) through current issueLatest Articles: Histoire sociale / Social HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Histoire sociale / Social History1918-65760018-2257Latest articles in Histoire sociale / Social History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Observance et profanation du dimanche dans l'industrie ferroviaire du Québec au XIXe siècle
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981103
<p></p>
LE 1er MARS 1907, la première loi fédérale sur l'observance du dimanche, sanctionnée en 1906, entre en vigueur au Canada. Cet Act respecting the Lord's Day singularise le temps dominical en lui conférant un statut distinctif : le commerce et le travail, certains jeux et divertissements publics sont dorénavant illégaux pendant cette « period of time which begins at twelve o'clock on Saturday afternoon and ends at twelve o'clock on the following afternoon1 », frappés d'une interdiction que les législatures provinciales ont cependant le pouvoir d'annuler et à laquelle, du reste, échappe la classe des activités réputées nécessaires, qui jouissent d'une dispense. La loi de 1906 traduit la montée d'une préoccupation
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallObservance et profanation du dimanche dans l'industrie ferroviaire du Québec au XIXe siècle2026-01-30text/htmlen-USObservance et profanation du dimanche dans l'industrie ferroviaire du Québec au XIXe siècle2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®1630082026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30A Conservative Student Assault on the Canadian Federation of Students in the Mid-1980s
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981104
<p></p>
NATIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS of the post–Second World War period, including the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), have long been sites of diverse political struggle and contestation.1 While a range of political opinions and partisan affiliations has always existed in the national student organizations, partisan differences were usually set aside for the sake of national unity and collaboration.2 However, starting in 1981, during an organization transition period from the National Union of Students (NUS) to the CFS that required campus-wide referenda, a few conservative student leaders, mainly in Western Canada, seized the opportunity to begin challenging the legitimacy of the new organization. They broke
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallA Conservative Student Assault on the Canadian Federation of Students in the Mid-1980s2026-01-30text/htmlen-USA Conservative Student Assault on the Canadian Federation of Students in the Mid-1980s2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®1832702026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Marriage à la Chatelaine: Negotiating Marriage and Divorce in the 1960s and 1970s through the Pages of Canada's Leading English Women's Magazine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981105
<p></p>
ALTHOUGH HISTORIANS have done an excellent job exploring the wide history of feminist activism in Canada, we still know relatively little about how the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s transformed daily life in Canada for men, women, and children. Among the most significant of these transformations were changes to the roles that men and women played in marriage and to their expectations for the institution. Divorce rates skyrocketed in the 1970s, thanks to new legislation that made divorce more accessible; the increase in women's workforce participation, which made it more possible for women to support themselves after divorce; and new expectations that people began to bring to their relationships. Among
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallMarriage à la Chatelaine: Negotiating Marriage and Divorce in the 1960s and 1970s through the Pages of Canada's Leading English Women's Magazine2026-01-30text/htmlen-USMarriage à la Chatelaine: Negotiating Marriage and Divorce in the 1960s and 1970s through the Pages of Canada's Leading English Women's Magazine2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®1413422026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30"Treats from a Belgian Cook": Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Canadian Tobacco Grower, 1960s–1970s
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981107
<p></p>
IN AUGUST 1963, an interview with Mrs. Simonne DeSutter of Rural Route (RR) 2 Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada, titled "Treats from a Belgian Cook," was published in the Canadian Tobacco Grower magazine's monthly food column.1 DeSutter was a Belgian immigrant, born in the city of Ninove in 1919. Husband Edgar, a tobacco farmer, was also of Belgian descent. The two married in Tillsonburg in 1938 and grew tobacco in the area until 1981.2 In her interview with the Canadian Tobacco Grower, Simonne reminisced about cooking for the farm's "harvest gang" in the 1940s. For the column's readers, who were tobacco farm wives like herself, she shared some of her favourite harvesttime dishes, including spare ribs with celery
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmall"Treats from a Belgian Cook": Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Canadian Tobacco Grower, 1960s–1970s2026-01-30text/htmlen-US"Treats from a Belgian Cook": Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Canadian Tobacco Grower, 1960s–1970s2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®1544002026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Dearly Departed: Piety and Community in the Stanstead Journal's Obituaries and Death Notices, 1850–1900
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981108
<p></p>
CANADIAN HISTORIES OF DEATH AND DYING have examined wills, cemeteries, diaries, sermons, and roadside shrines, among other sources,1 but newspaper obituaries remain surprisingly neglected. The same is true for the United States, but a notable exception in that country is Janice Hume's Obituaries in American Culture, published in 2002. There she notes that because an obituary is "an idealized account of a citizen's life, a type of commemoration meant for public consumption," it "reflects what society values and wants to remember about that person's history." It follows, therefore, that "the systematic examination of obituaries can provide a useful tool for exploring the changing values of Americans of any era."2 As
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallDearly Departed: Piety and Community in the Stanstead Journal's Obituaries and Death Notices, 1850–19002026-01-30text/htmlen-USDearly Departed: Piety and Community in the Stanstead Journal's Obituaries and Death Notices, 1850–19002026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®652572026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India by Nandini Bhattacharya (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981109
<p></p>
Bhattacharya's second book, a fascinating study of the medical market in colonial India, makes a significant contribution to the historiography of medicine in South Asia. Moving beyond the familiar entry points to the field that focus on statist medicine, or more recently on vernacular knowledge, it situates the South Asian market for medicines within transregional sites of commerce, the global traffic in both therapeutic commodities and the ideas about them. The resultant multi-scalar analysis examines how medical markets, simultaneously extensions of state power and also embedded in the cultural specificities of regional Indian traditions, are co-constituted with professional identities, marketing practices, and
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallDisparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India by Nandini Bhattacharya (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USDisparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India by Nandini Bhattacharya (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®90262026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town by Michelle D. Brock (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981110
<p></p>
The story of one minister and his town, Plagues of the Heart is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the remarkable phenomenon of early modern Scottish Protestantism. Part urban history, part biography, it is structured chronologically around the tenure of minister William Adair, who arrived in Ayr just after the community swore to uphold the National Covenant in 1638. Brock then guides us through the town's experiences during the era of the Scottish Covenant, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Cromwellian occupation, the Restoration and the risings of the Covenantors. In doing so, Brock demonstrates how the townspeople's responses to these crises were shaped by their swearing of the National Covenant
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallPlagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town by Michelle D. Brock (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USPlagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town by Michelle D. Brock (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®89442026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30La Révolution tranquille entre l'ici et l'ailleurs ed. by Jean-Philippe Carlos and Stéphane Savard (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981111
<p></p>
Today's news junkie recognizes the ways global forces—most notably American hegemony—penetrate and reshape national and local discourse. While such dynamics are hardly unprecedented, our hyperconnected age has made these relationships more visible and immediate. Against this present-day backdrop, La Révolution tranquille entre l'ici et l'ailleurs offers a timely reminder that social transformation, whether it be today or in the mid-twentieth century, stems as much from local conditions as from global context. The volume, published by Septentrion, emerged from a 2021 scholarly conference—conducted virtually during the pandemic—and presents 15 polished contributions. By examining Quebec's Quiet Revolution through
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallLa Révolution tranquille entre l'ici et l'ailleurs ed. by Jean-Philippe Carlos and Stéphane Savard (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USLa Révolution tranquille entre l'ici et l'ailleurs ed. by Jean-Philippe Carlos and Stéphane Savard (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®85032026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Soldiers in Peacemaking: The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800–Present ed. by Beatrice de Graaf, Frédéric Dessberg, and Thomas Vaisset (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981112
<p></p>
This collection of essays explores the role of soldiers in the fragile exercise of peacemaking. Though published in 2023, the contributors reflect an era of academic exchange that now seems remote. They include American, but also British, Greek, Irish, French, Dutch, and Russian scholars. Eleven contributions are organized under three themes: the politico-military relationship; the military and the population; the military as a source of expertise. The result offers an impressive range of military and historical expertise. It may be tempting to draw lines from post-Napoleonic Europe to the Treaty of Versailles to the Dayton Accords, but there are no easy lessons here about exiting war.The politico-military
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallSoldiers in Peacemaking: The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800–Present ed. by Beatrice de Graaf, Frédéric Dessberg, and Thomas Vaisset (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USSoldiers in Peacemaking: The Role of the Military at the End of War, 1800–Present ed. by Beatrice de Graaf, Frédéric Dessberg, and Thomas Vaisset (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®95652026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Witnessing Stalin's Justice: The United States and the Moscow Show Trials by Kelly J. Evans and Jeanie M. Welch (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981113
<p></p>
From the summer of 1936 through the spring of 1938, the trials of senior Communist Party leaders and Red Army generals in Moscow provoked sensational headlines in American newspapers, sparked heated debates among American intellectuals, disillusioned many former admirers of the Soviet Union, exacerbated divisions among American Communists and Socialists, poured fuel on the fire of American anti-Communism, and deeply disturbed diplomats who would have significant influence on US policies in the following decades. Conservative anti-Communists, liberal New Dealers, Trotskyists, and Stalinists found very different meanings in reports of the trials of old Bolsheviks on charges of espionage, sabotage, plotting against
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallWitnessing Stalin's Justice: The United States and the Moscow Show Trials by Kelly J. Evans and Jeanie M. Welch (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USWitnessing Stalin's Justice: The United States and the Moscow Show Trials by Kelly J. Evans and Jeanie M. Welch (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®90982026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Les Québécois au volant. La révolution de l'automobilisme dans la région de Québec, XIXe-XXe siècles by Étienne Faugier (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981114
<p></p>
Bien que plusieurs mémoires, thèses et articles se soient intéressés à la question, il manquait un livre qui retrace l'histoire de la motorisation de la société québécoise sur le temps long. C'est maintenant chose faite avec Les Québécois au volant, une riche monographie qui s'intéresse à l'introduction et à la popularisation des véhicules à moteur dans la ville de Québec et sa région de la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu'aux années 1960. Cette histoire retrace en détail le développement d'un système et d'une culture automobiles dans cette partie de l'Amérique du Nord où les véhicules thermiques dominent l'aménagement du territoire et les pratiques de mobilité.L'échelle de ce livre, la région de Québec, lui permet
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallLes Québécois au volant. La révolution de l'automobilisme dans la région de Québec, XIXe-XXe siècles by Étienne Faugier (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USLes Québécois au volant. La révolution de l'automobilisme dans la région de Québec, XIXe-XXe siècles by Étienne Faugier (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®96952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Quantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past ed. by Johan Fourie (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981115
<p></p>
What some might think of as "good old social history" is new again in Johan Fourie's edited collection Quantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past. In it, Fourie makes a plea for historical scholars, broadly, to embrace what he is calling the "(new) history from below," a movement enabled by a "renaissance in quantitative history." The volume advocates that historians critically deploy digital quantitative methods on large data collections to find out about the lives of everyday people, particularly those who are otherwise "uncharted" in history (p. 26). By analyzing aggregates, we can understand the agency of marginalized groups. We can also appreciate the space between what
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallQuantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past ed. by Johan Fourie (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USQuantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past ed. by Johan Fourie (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®105332026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Writing the History of Emotions: Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics by Ute Frevert (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981116
<p></p>
Ute Frevert is a prominent figure in the field of the history of emotions, especially notable for leading a body of work that emerged from the German Max Planck Centre in the History of Emotions. Writing the History of Emotions provides an overview of her major contributions to the field, with chapters that summarize her monographs, reprinted and substantively edited book chapters, and translations of works that were originally published in German. The purpose of the volume, however, is not simply to provide a summary of a fruitful career—as valuable and useful as that is—but to seriously reflect on questions of continuity and change in the field of emotions research.The relatively brief introduction is shaped
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallWriting the History of Emotions: Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics by Ute Frevert (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USWriting the History of Emotions: Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics by Ute Frevert (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®91142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation by Edward G. Gray (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981117
<p></p>
Long ago, I lived in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and taught at a small college 13 miles away. Each morning, driving to work, I crossed the Maryland-Pennsylvania state line. Beside the "welcome to" billboards, the only notice of this fact was a small brown sign in the highway median (placed, oddly, 100 yards into Maryland) that stated, in letters four inches high: "Mason-Dixon Line." Once upon a time, however, this border was more portentous. For 80 years before the Civil War, it marked the boundary between slavery and freedom. In this book, Edward Gray, author of biographical studies of John Ledyard and Thomas Paine, has written another biography of sorts, this time of a geographic abstraction and its very real
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallMason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation by Edward G. Gray (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USMason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation by Edward G. Gray (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®94082026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present ed. by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981118
<p></p>
The editors of Men and Masculinities, Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen, present an ambitious collection of essays. The brilliance of this volume lies primarily in the variety of topics covered by each author, the logical structure of its chapters, and its reflections, which raise broader questions about how historians should engage with masculinity to inform present understandings of gender.Men and Masculinities' central thesis is not new—that "the formation of masculine ideals, experiences, and subjectivities should be understood as an ongoing and unfinished historical process.… Masculinities, like men, were always of a particular time, and a particular place" (p. 3) has been well established since the
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallMen and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present ed. by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USMen and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present ed. by Matt Houlbrook, Katie Jones, and Ben Mechen (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®105012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life: Desire, Domesticity and Kinship in Britain and Australia, 1945–2000 by Rebecca Jennings (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981119
<p></p>
Rebecca Jennings has accomplished a tour de force for lesbian feminist gendered histories of domesticity, relationships, marriage-like unions, and parenting. Based on an impressive collection of 76 oral interviews Jennings collected in Australia and Britain alongside a rich trove of cultural, medical and media texts, Lesbian Intimacies offers a richly detailed history of how women who loved, desired, and shared their lives with other women forged intimate bonds and domestic lives and parented through the second half of the twentieth century. Social and feminist historians in the Anglosphere know that the latter half of the twentieth century was a formative period for transformational change in how people coupled
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallLesbian Intimacies and Family Life: Desire, Domesticity and Kinship in Britain and Australia, 1945–2000 by Rebecca Jennings (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USLesbian Intimacies and Family Life: Desire, Domesticity and Kinship in Britain and Australia, 1945–2000 by Rebecca Jennings (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®101932026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West by Holly M. Karibo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981120
<p></p>
Holly Karibo's impressive Rehab on the Range promises to say something about the intertwined histories of addiction and incarceration and to place that story in the specific context of the American West. That's an ambitious scope of work that demands a careful approach, given that these historiographical landscapes have not traditionally overlapped as much as they should. Happily, Karibo's work makes good on its claims. The author has chosen a fertile site for inquiry—the federal "narcotic farm" at Fort Worth, opened in 1938 to provide drug treatment to federal prisoners and voluntary patients from west of the Mississippi. Karibo skillfully deploys existing primary sources to give the reader the context in which
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallRehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West by Holly M. Karibo (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USRehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West by Holly M. Karibo (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®85142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War by Gregory M. W. Kennedy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981121
<p></p>
The main focus of this rigorous study is the 165th Battalion, the only Acadian unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) of the First World War. Community leaders in southeastern New Brunswick, determined to protect Acadians' French language and Roman Catholic identity, successfully lobbied for the creation of the unit in December 1915. Their concern was that many young men had already joined English-speaking, predominantly Protestant units. Hence the title of the book, which quotes Senator Pascal Poirier, a key figure in the Acadian "renaissance" of the early twentieth century. The young men who had enlisted in Anglophone units, he declared, were "perdus dans la foule."The battalion recruited, primarily in
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallLost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War by Gregory M. W. Kennedy (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USLost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War by Gregory M. W. Kennedy (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®92842026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet'suwet'en Resistance by Tyler McCreary (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981122
<p></p>
Anyone attentive to efforts to protect Indigenous lands and rights from resource extractive industrial incursions has likely heard about Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline and more recent pipeline proposals in northern British Columbia. Tyler McCreary's Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities gives readers a detailed view of the story behind these stories. McCreary examines the history and prehistory of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline—a project proposed in 2005 and cancelled in 2016 that would have moved vast quantities of tar sands oil to the coast for shipping. A settler from the region in question, the author is personally invested in understanding what it means to live responsibly on
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallIndigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet'suwet'en Resistance by Tyler McCreary (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USIndigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet'suwet'en Resistance by Tyler McCreary (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®105142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30The Dutch Hatmakers of late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilingual Guild Ordinances by Shannon McSheffrey et Ad Putter (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981123
<p></p>
Ce court ouvrage (153 pages) paru dans la collection « Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles » chez Boydell Press illustre parfaitement l'intérêt du champ des études médiévales et sa démarche multidisciplinaire. En effet, le livre a été rédigé à quatre mains, par l'historienne Shannon McSheffrey (Université Concordia) et par le littéraire philologue Ad Putter (Université de Bristol, Royaume-Uni). Si aucun des deux ne se spécialise dans l'histoire textile, leurs domaines de recherche en font toutefois des experts dans l'analyse croisée d'un document exceptionnel, les ordonnances de chapeliers de feutre installés à Londres en provenance des Pays-Bas. Ce manuscrit conservé dans la Guildhall Library de Londres
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallThe Dutch Hatmakers of late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilingual Guild Ordinances by Shannon McSheffrey et Ad Putter (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USThe Dutch Hatmakers of late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilingual Guild Ordinances by Shannon McSheffrey et Ad Putter (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®82822026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785 ed. by Jeffrey Merrick (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981124
<p></p>
Jeffrey Merrick, the pre-eminent historian of same-sex sexuality in eighteenth-century Paris, notes in the preface to his newest book, Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785, that this "volume represents my last word on this subject, or so I think at this time" (p. x). Since 1998, Merrick has published numerous articles, several edited volumes, a source reader, and a monograph on the subject, as well as co-created the digital humanities project "Policing Homosexuality: Eighteenth-Century Paris" at Colorado College.1 Over the span of more than two and a half decades, Merrick has slowly shifted away from making broader—though always well-evidenced—arguments, to
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallPolicing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785 ed. by Jeffrey Merrick (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USPolicing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785 ed. by Jeffrey Merrick (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®95952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 ed. by Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981125
<p></p>
"Scholarship on Great War–era humanitarianism remains surprisingly contested, episodic, and uneven," write Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie in the introduction to their edited collection Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24. Piller and Wylie are right to point to both an ever-growing historiography on humanitarianism in the era of the First World War and its limitations. The centenary of the end of the war and of the emergence of an internationalist world that followed through the establishment of international organizations and a growing landscape of non-governmental institutions of assistance (emergency-driven, rehabilitative, and/or peace-oriented) created an impetus for historians to think through the
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallHumanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 ed. by Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USHumanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 ed. by Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®97242026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Countercurrents: Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal by Amanda Ricci (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981126
<p></p>
Le livre Countercurrents: Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal offre une plongée dans les différents mouvements féministes présents à Montréal et Kanhawà :ke dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Rompant avec la métaphore des « vagues » du féminisme, davantage centrée sur les priorités des femmes Blanches et relativement aisées, Countercurrents entend mettre en lumière les contacts et influences entre les différents mouvements féministes de cette période, d'une part entre eux et, d'autre part, avec les mouvements sociaux plus largement. La relationnalité de ces groupes est ainsi au cœur de l'ouvrage. Une des spécificités du livre — et sa force — est de mettre côte à côte, dans un même cadre analytique, des femmes
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallCountercurrents: Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal by Amanda Ricci (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USCountercurrents: Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal by Amanda Ricci (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®107522026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30L'Office du film du Québec. Le cinéma au service de l'État et de ses citoyens, 1961–1976 by Marc-André Robert (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981127
<p></p>
La mémoire publique entretenue à propos du cinéma québécois, tout comme les quelques synthèses historiques qui lui ont été consacrées depuis les années 1970, véhicule et réactive généralement un récit que l'on pourrait qualifier de dominant ; une trame narrative reposant, à peu de détails près, sur les mêmes individus et institutions, les mêmes événements et temporalités et, surtout, sur une même idéologie esthétique axée sur la créativité, l'originalité et l'identité nationale. Dans cette perspective, les œuvres des prêtres-cinéastes précèderaient celles, plus subversives et éclatées, de l'équipe française de l'Office national du film du Canada (ONF), lesquelles préfigureraient l'émergence d'un véritable cinéma
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallL'Office du film du Québec. Le cinéma au service de l'État et de ses citoyens, 1961–1976 by Marc-André Robert (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USL'Office du film du Québec. Le cinéma au service de l'État et de ses citoyens, 1961–1976 by Marc-André Robert (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®91082026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30States of Anxiety: Scarcity and Loss in Revolutionary Russia by William G. Rosenberg (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981128
<p></p>
There are many definitions of the word "anxiety." AI, for example, defines it as "a feeling of unease, worry, or fear, often about an anticipated event or something perceived as a threat," and The Concise Oxford Dictionary as "concern about an imminent danger, difficulty, etc." For his part, Rosenberg associates the word "anxiety," used multiple times in his narrative, with the many challenges that a huge country inevitably faces once involved in a major war. This deeply researched and densely written monograph uses the word "anxiety" as the red thread that ties together three key moments in the life of Russia that have been recounted by participants and historians as the liberal, democratic socialist, and Soviet
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallStates of Anxiety: Scarcity and Loss in Revolutionary Russia by William G. Rosenberg (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USStates of Anxiety: Scarcity and Loss in Revolutionary Russia by William G. Rosenberg (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®97092026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm by Ana Sabau (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981129
<p></p>
This highly innovative and nuanced work by Ana Sabau opens new doors for the study of the so-called long nineteenth century in Mexico (the period roughly from the 1760s to 1910). It is not so much about the history of race or racism as it is about the perception of governing White elites that peasant and lower-class riots, rebellions, and political resistance were based in a "race war paradigm" by which the non-White Mexican majority was seen as threatening to wage war on the European-descendant Whites. This is far more subtle and therefore more pervasive than outright racism. Tracing it over a very complex period of history is something of a tour de force, and the book received the 2023 award for best book in the
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallRiot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm by Ana Sabau (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USRiot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm by Ana Sabau (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®79632026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Sacred Habitat: Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic by Ran Segev (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981130
<p></p>
Dans ce court ouvrage, Ran Segev propose de réviser et renverser l'historiographie dominante qui a tendance à voir une contradiction ou une dichotomie entre science et religion, foi et raison, modernité et tradition dans l'Amérique espagnole. Il tente ainsi de mettre en lumière la manière dont les fondements d'une catholicité rénovée à partir de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle ont été transportés et transposés au Nouveau Monde, et comment le savoir sur ce nouvel environnement, sur cette faune et cette flore si étranges et si étrangères, sont venus soutenir, éclairer et valider la tradition chrétienne. Ultimement, l'auteur cherche à affirmer la place du catholicisme ibérique, traditionnellement associé à la défense
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallSacred Habitat: Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic by Ran Segev (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USSacred Habitat: Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic by Ran Segev (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®86802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30Rainbow Cattle Co.: Liberation, Inclusion and the History of Gay Rodeo by Nicholas Villanueva Jr. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981131
<p></p>
Professeur spécialisé en études ethniques et des sports à l'Université du Colorado à Boulder, Nicholas Villanueva propose une exploration de l'univers du « rodéo gai » des années 1970 à aujourd'hui dans Rainbow Cattle Co. Cet évènement sportif brouille les frontières rigides du rodéo traditionnel pour en faire un lieu d'expression où se côtoient diversité sexuelle et de genre et identité western. Encore très peu étudié par l'historiographie, le rodéo gai et l'organisation qui le chapeaute, l'International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA), ont pourtant joué un rôle central dans la vie sociale, politique et culturelle de la communauté lesbienne, gaie, bisexuelle, transgenre et queer (LGBTQ+) du Midwest américain.Dans les
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallRainbow Cattle Co.: Liberation, Inclusion and the History of Gay Rodeo by Nicholas Villanueva Jr. (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USRainbow Cattle Co.: Liberation, Inclusion and the History of Gay Rodeo by Nicholas Villanueva Jr. (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®87542026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30A History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust by Steven Zdatny (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981132
<p></p>
Why was France—a leader on the world political, military, and cultural stage for centuries—seen by so many both at home and abroad as shockingly filthy and hygienically primitive until the mid-twentieth century? And when and how did France finally become clean and "modern"? These are the questions taken up by Steven Zdatny's exhaustively researched and lively book. His goal, announced from the start, is to follow in the footsteps of Eugen Weber's monumental Peasants into Frenchmen (1976), and he has succeeded. Like Weber, Zdatny has combed through countless archival and published sources from every corner of France and has assembled a richly detailed (if extremely unpleasant) catalogue of descriptions, experiences
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallA History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust by Steven Zdatny (review)2026-01-30text/htmlen-USA History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust by Steven Zdatny (review)2026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®95952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30The Telephone as a "Therapeutic Instrument": The Establishment of Suicide and Crisis Hotlines in Canada, ca. 1961–1979
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133
<p></p>
IN 1973, a University of Lethbridge professor of sociology, Menno Boldt, undertook a collaborative venture with one of his students, Leroy Little Bear, to develop a proposal for one of Canada's first Native American Studies departments. Their initiative took them to the neighbouring Blood First Nation for consultations with Elders. Returning from a visit, the Yale graduate's drive home took him incidentally past the reserve's cemetery. According to Boldt's account, he and Little Bear spotted several new grave sites poking through the snow, graves that had not been there when they had passed by a few days earlier. Upon further inquiry they learned that six people in that community had died during the previous five
... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981133">Read More</a>
Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/440/image/coversmallThe Telephone as a "Therapeutic Instrument": The Establishment of Suicide and Crisis Hotlines in Canada, ca. 1961–19792026-01-30text/htmlen-USThe Telephone as a "Therapeutic Instrument": The Establishment of Suicide and Crisis Hotlines in Canada, ca. 1961–19792026-01-302026TWOProject MUSE®1423282026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-01-30