Transformations of Patriarchy in the West (Miller).
posted by Lloyd at 8:29 AM

* Review: [untitled]
* Author(s): Karl Appuhn
* Reviewed work(s): Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille by Daniel Lord Smail
* Source: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 177-178
* Published by: The Sixteenth Century Journal
* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2671420
posted by Lloyd at 12:36 PM

Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille (Hardcover)
by Daniel Lord Smail (Author)


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How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.

Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups--notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans--developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.

Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring late medieval and Renaissance urban society while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.
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* Hardcover: 256 pages
* Publisher: Cornell University Press (December 1999)
posted by Lloyd at 12:13 PM

Discusses Stearns's work on the history of emotions.

* Author(s): Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
* Reviewed work(s): Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America by Peter N. Stearns
* Source: Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer, 2001), pp. 980-983
* Published by: Peter N. Stearns
* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3789430

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posted by Lloyd at 10:34 AM

American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View (New York University Series in Education and Socialization in) (Hardcover)
by Colin Burke (Author)

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American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting as answers to these questions a mass of new data put together in an original and interpretive manner.

The author offers a devastating critique of the two reference works which until now have commanded scholars' attention. Burke examines Bailey Burritt's Professional Distribution of College and University Undergraduates (1912) noting that Burritt's categories oversimplify the data of the 37 institutions he studies. Donald G. Tewksbury's American Colleges and Universities Before the Civil War (1932), the author explains, presents a skewed interpretation of collegiate decline in the antebellum period. Using a far larger data base and capitalizing on the advances in quantitative history made in the last decade, Burke adopts appropriate analytic categories for college students and their subsequent careers. Amierican Collegiate Populations thus becomes the referent work to replace Burritt and Tewksbury and will likely have an equal longevity in print.

American Collegiate Populations systematically compares denominational colleges, colleges by region, and student groups from a host of angles - age entering college, geographical origins, parental occupations. subsequent careers, and professional choices. Burke shows the reach of American colleges back into the socio-economic fabric of the culture. a reach that carries implications for many subjects - religious, economic, social, and intellectual - beyond the mere subject of college alone.

Few works force the re-thinking of a whole field of historical inquiry - particularly one that has important bearings on current policy - as Burke's study does. The findings and implications presented in American Collegiate Populations will profoundly affect the scholarly community for decades to come.
posted by Lloyd at 8:59 AM