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Quarterly (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring)
190 pp. per issue, 5 7/8 x 9
Founded: 1969
ISSN 0022-1953 E-ISSN1530-9169 2008 ISI Impact Factor: 0.400

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Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb, Editors

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews relating historical research and work in applied fields-such as economics and demographics. Spanning all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include:

social history
demographic history
psychohistory
political history
family history
economic history
cultural history
technological history

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Volume 40, Issue 1 - Summer 2009

Articles

The Facts of Life in Rural Counter-Reformation Tuscany no access

Gregory Hanlon

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 1–31.

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Planning the Peace and Enforcing the Surrender: Deterrence in the Allied Occupations of Germany and Japan

Melissa Willard-Foster

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 33–56.

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Review Essay

Extending the Frontiers of Transatlantic Slavery, Partially no access

Paul E. Lovejoy

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 57–70.

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Reviews

Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment. By Joachim Radkau (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 430 pp. $80.00 cloth $24.99 paper no access

Gordon Whitney

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 71–72.

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Global Environmental History. By I. G. Simmons (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008) 271 pp. $49.00 no access

Brian Fagan

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 72–73.

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007) 420 pp. $29.95 no access

Peter Howitt

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 73–74.

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Slave Systems, Ancient and Modern. By Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 375 pp. $99.00 no access

Peter Temin

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 74–76.

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The Fall of the Roman Household. By Kate Cooper (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 319 pp. $ 99.00 no access

Eric Rebillard

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 76–77.

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Essays on Medieval Childhood: Responses to Recent Debates. Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal (Donington, England, Shaun Tyas, 2007) 180 pp. N.P. no access

Barbara A. Hanawalt

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 77–78.

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Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. Edited by S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 360 pp. $99.00 no access

Regina Grafe

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 78–82.

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Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. By Margaret Meserve (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2008) 359 pp. $49.95 no access

Thomas J. Dandelet

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 82–83.

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Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna. By Derek B. Scott (New York, Oxford University Press, 2008) 287 pp. $39.95 no access

William Weber

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 83–85.

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The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England. By Robert Zaller (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2007), 832 pp. $65.00 no access

Mark Knights

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 85–87.

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The Family in Early Modern England. Edited by Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 244 pp. $105.00 no access

David Cressy

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 87–89.

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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War. By Daniel C. Beaver (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 173 pp. $95.00 no access

Keith Wrightson

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 89–90.

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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain. By Joyce Burnette (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 377 pp. 99.00 no access

Andrew August

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 91–92.

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Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800–1940. By Maria Luddy (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 352 pp. $80.00 cloth $29.99 paper no access

Jacqueline R. deVries

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 92–93.

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Growing Up in France from the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic. By Colin Heywood (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 313 pp. $90.00 no access

Mary Jo Maynes

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 93–95.

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The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris. By Casey Harison (Newark, Delaware University Press, 2008) 331 pp. $65 no access

Leslie Page Moch

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 95–96.

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All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World. By Stuart B. Schwartz (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008), 352 pp., $40.00 no access

Liam Matthew Brockey

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 96–97.

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Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy. By Trevor Dean (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 226 pp. $110.00 no access

Steven A. Epstein

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 98–99.

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Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy. Edited by David S. Peterson with Daniel E. Bornstein (Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008) 518 pp. $37.00 no access

John A. Marino

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 99–100.

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Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad. By Mark I. Choate (Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2008) 340 pp. $45.00 no access

Rudolph M. Bell

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 100–102.

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Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I. By Larry Frohman (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 259 pp. $85.00 no access

Edward Ross Dickinson

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 102–103.

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Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. By Deborah R. Coen (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007) 380 pp. $45.00 no access

Robert M. Brain

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 103–106.

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Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860–1925. By Till van Rahden (trans. Marcus Brainard) (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) 486 pp. $ 65.00 cloth $29.95 paper no access

Rebecca Ayako Bennette

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 106–107.

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Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946–1949. By Paul Steege (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 348 pp. $89.00 cloth $32.99 paper no access

Jonathan R. Zatlin

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 107–108.

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Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food. By Andrew Warnes (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2008) 206 pp. $59.95 cloth $19.95 paper no access

Hasia R. Diner

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 109–110.

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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America. By Colin G. Calloway (New York, Oxford University Press, 2008) 392 pp. $35.00 no access

Christina Snyder

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 110–111.

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For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s. By Ronald P. Formisano (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008) 315 pp. $35.00 no access

Catherine McNicol Stock

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 111–112.

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Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880. By Daniel R. Mandell (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) 321 pp. $55.00 no access

Rachel Wheeler

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 113–114.

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One Nation under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright (New York, McGraw Hill, 2008) $27.95 no access

W. Elliot Brownlee

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 114–115.

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Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. By Wilma Dunaway (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 301 pp. $80.00 no access

Max Grivno

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 115–117.

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The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820–1930. By Gregory J. Renoff (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2008) 235 pp. $34.95 no access

Justin A. Nystrom

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 117–118.

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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. By Shannon A. Novak (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2008) 226 pp. $29.95 no access

Robert V. Wells

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 119–120.

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Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism. By Peter C. Myers (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2008) 265 pp. $34.95 no access

Vernon J. Williams, Jr.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 120–121.

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Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. By Margaret Humphreys (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) 197 pp. $40.00 no access

Sven Wilson

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 121–122.

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Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850–1920. By Edith Sparks (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006) 329 pp. $59.95 cloth $19.95 paper no access

Susan Ingalls Lewis

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 122–123.

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The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City. By Harvey J. Graff (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2008) 388 pp. $34.95 no access

Roger Lane

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 124–124.

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The Race between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2008) 496 pp. $39.95 no access

John L. Rury

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 125–126.

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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. By Christopher Capozzola (New York, Oxford University Press, 2008) 334 pp. $34.95 no access

Michael E. Parrish

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 126–127.

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Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells. By Steven D. Hoelscher (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) 194 pp. $24.95 no access

Sherry L. Smith

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 128–129.

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“Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact”: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow. By Jennifer Jensen Wallach (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2008) 176 pp. $34.95 no access

Jeremy D. Popkin

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 129–130.

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Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism. By Elizabeth D. Blum (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2008) 194 pp. $34.95 no access

Maureen A. Flanagan

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 130–131.

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The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. By Claiborne A. Skinner (Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2008) 224 pp. $50.00 cloth $25.00 paper no access

Rebecca Nutt

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 131–133.

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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. By Neil Safier (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008) 387 pp. $45.00 no access

Barbara E. Mundy

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 133–134.

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Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements. By Marc Becker (Durham, Duke University Press, 2008) 303 pp. $79.95 cloth $22.95 paper no access

Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 134–135.

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U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War. Michael S. Grow (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2008) 266 pp. $34.95 no access

Bradley R. Simpson

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 136–138.

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A Kingly Craft: Art and Leadership in Ethiopia: A Social History of Art and Visual Culture in Pre-Modern Africa. By Earnestine Jenkins (Lanham, University Press of America, 2008) 115 pp. $19.95 no access

Tim Carmichael

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 138–139.

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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. By Vincent Brown (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2008) 368 pp. $35.00 no access

Sharla M. Fett

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 139–140.

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The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult. By Brigitte Baptandier (trans. Kristin Ingrid Fryklund) (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008) 374 pp $ 65.00 no access

Livia Kohn

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 141–142.

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The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories. By Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar (New York, Columbia University Press, 2007) 304 pp. $50.00 no access

Yasmin Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary History Summer 2009, Vol. 40, No. 1: 142–143.

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