The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France, by Ari Joskowicz Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession, by Todd H. Weir
Founders and Fellowship: The Early History of Exeter College, Oxford, 1314–1592, by John Maddicott
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850, by Gabriel Paquette
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern, by James Vernon
City Glow: Streetlights, Emotions, and Nocturnal Life, 1880s-1910s
Proliferating streetlights generated complex emotional responses in modern cities. Drawing on recent scholarship in the history of the emotions, this article argues that examining the feelings of pride and prestige associated with technological innovation, but also of anger and fear when light was lacking or unpleasant, reveals the intimate nature of urban dwellers’ relationship to their environment. Street lighting is often studied as part the networks of infrastructure that gave cities their contemporary form, or as elements of the commercial expansion that made them centers of consumerism. At the intersection of these trends stood the emotional experiences of those seeking to lay claim to the urban night. If the cultural significance of emotions varies according to historical circumstances, comparing the tensions, politics, and atmospheres of streetlights in distant places like Montreal and Brussels suggests that the rapidly changing urban environment of the period produced its own distinct emotional regime.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/91?rss=1
Taming the War on Poverty: Memphis as a Case Study
President Johnson’s War on Poverty encountered significant opposition in southern states where impoverishment and race served to reinforce both social and economic systems. In Memphis, the War on Poverty underwent political attacks primarily aimed at neighborhood organizing. However, two agencies used Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) recruits to implement significant antipoverty initiatives. VISTAs developed a prisoner release–mentoring program and a pretrial release for indigent detainees who could not post bail. The Metropolitan Inter Faith Association recruited savvy local residents to design VISTA services for the poor. The latter drew on local volunteers and reflected a paternalistic approach rather than one that reflected the voice of the poor.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/43/1/70?rss=1