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A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England’s Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649. By David Rollison

This unusually bold and thought-provoking book offers a new interpretation of the course of English history. While it focuses on the period from the twelfth century to the seventeenth, and especially on the later middle ages of c.1300-c.1550, its story of the “commoning” of the English political system—the rise of the common people and their concerns to the centre of politics—has very wide resonances, extending to the industrial revolution, the British Empire and beyond.

Posted in: History on 10/24/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Free neighborhood classes for adults Enroll now : Classes in reading – writing – arithmetic – also art – music – psychology – language – social studies

LoC | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection

Posted in: History on 10/23/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Living Arrangement Preferences of Elderly People in Taiwan as Affected by Family Resources and Social Participation

The authors consider the effects of three factors: the elderly persons’ health situation, their family resources, and their social participation, such as community workshops or political activities

Posted in: History on 10/22/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Monopolizing the Property of Skill: A Prosopographic Analysis of a Finnish Ironworks Community

This article examines the survival of artisan labour structures and their property of skill in a case where neither a guild nor a union was present.

Posted in: History on 10/20/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Forging ahead : Works Progress Administration

LoC | Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]

Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to work for America, showing blacksmith.

Posted in: History on 10/19/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Planning the Growth of a Metropolis: Factors Influencing Development Patterns in West London, 1875-2005

The article presents the results of a study investigating the growth of metropolitan London from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present.

Posted in: History on 10/18/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Making and Breaking the Working Class: Worker Recruitment in the National Textile Industry in Interwar Egypt

This article examines how worker mediation to secure jobs for relatives and co-villagers in the nationalist textile industry influenced working-class formation in interwar Egypt. Mediation was conducted out of a sense of communal commitment or for commission, or indeed both.

Posted in: History on 10/17/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The nature of King James VI/I’s medical conditions: new approaches to the diagnosis

The life of James is reviewed and previously-proposed diagnoses are considered. James’s medical history is
discussed in detail and, where possible, examined with validated symptom scales. Using an online database
of neurological diseases, the authors show that James’s symptomatology is compatible with a diagnosis of
Attenuated (mild) Lesch-Nyhan disease; no evidence was found to support a diagnosis of acute porphyria.
In addition, there is evidence of associated Asperger traits which may explain some of the King’s unusual
behavioural and psycho-social features.

Posted in: History on 10/16/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“I’ve Got Some Lovin’ To Do”

Murphy, the daughter of noted architect Luther R. Bailey, grew up in Portland, Ore. and attended Reed College. She later made her way to the Bay Area, where she became a social worker and married Joe Murphy, a labor activist and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or “Wobblies”).

Posted in: History on 10/14/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“These Indians Are Apparently Well to Do”: The Myth of Capitalism and Native American Labor

In many histories of Native Americans it seems that the original inhabitants of the Americas have become obscured in the national mythology of colonization. People who do not fit into the liberal capitalist notion of individualism and economic development simply vanish from the annals of history.

Posted in: History on 10/13/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Getting miles away from Terman: Did the CRPS fund Catharine Cox Miles’s unsilenced psychology of sex?

Psychologist Catharine Cox Miles (1890–1984) is often remembered as the junior author, with Lewis Terman, of Sex and Personality. Written with support from the Committee for Research on the Problems of Sex (CRPS), Sex and Personality introduced the “masculinity-femininity” personality measure to psychology in 1936. Miles has been overlooked by some historians and constructed as a silent, indirect feminist by others.

Posted in: History on 10/12/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood 1890-1915. By Daniel A. Clark (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. 256 pp. $26.95)

A century ago, the college campus was transitioning from the reserve of the elite to the proving ground of the middle class.

Posted in: History on 10/11/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Britain’s Siberia (1909)

LSE | Coutts

Posted in: History on 10/10/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Sympathy for the Devil?’ The West German Left and the Challenge of Terrorism

Posted in: History on 10/09/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Looking as Little Like Patients as Persons Well Could’: Hypnotism, Medicine and the Problem of the Suggestible Subject in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain

During the late nineteenth century, many British physicians rigorously experimented with hypnosis as a therapeutic practice. Despite mounting evidence attesting to its wide-ranging therapeutic uses publicised in the 1880s and 1890s, medical hypnosis remained highly controversial.

Posted in: History on 10/08/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Help your neighborhood by keeping your premises clean: Tenement House Dept. of the City of New York (1936/37)

LoC | POS – WPA – NY .01 .H453, no. 1

Posted in: History on 10/02/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Aliéné enchaîné à Bedlam

History of Medicine (NLM)

A man is sitting on a straw bed in a prison; he is wearing a shoulder harness which is chained to the wall behind him; his feet are also shackled and chained to the wall.

Posted in: History on 10/01/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The problem of the morally defective (1904)

LSE | WA Potts

Posted in: History on 09/30/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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History of child protection services

This Resource Sheet provides a brief history of developments in child protection services in Australia and internationally.

Posted in: History on 09/27/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Social Worker

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C. R. Attlee (1920)

Posted in: History on 09/25/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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John is not really dull – he may only need his eyes examined (1936/37)

LoC | POS – WPA – NY .01 .J64, no. 1

Posted in: History on 09/24/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Statistical analysis of infant mortality and its causes in the United Kingdom (1910)

LSE | H Blagg

Posted in: History on 09/23/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Positions in social work (1916)

Google | NY School of Philanthropy

Devine & Van Kleeck

Posted in: History on 09/22/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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An enquiry into malnutrition based on investigation by the Ipswich Committee against Malnutrition (1938)

LSE | A.M.N. Pringle

Posted in: History on 09/21/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The attitude of the Socialist Party toward the alcohol question (1907)

Brown University/Center for Digital Initiatives | American Issue Pub. Co.|

E Vandervelde

Posted in: History on 09/20/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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One for the Road: Drunk Driving since 1900

Remarkably little has been written about the history of traffic accidents—a strange omission since, as numerous commentators have pointed out, many more people died in the twentieth century as a result of road crashes than combined fatalities, military and civilian, during two world wars.

Posted in: History on 09/19/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Distress in East London (1867)

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Posted in: History on 09/18/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A history of the Irish poor law: in connexion with the condition of the people (1856)

G Nicholls

Posted in: History on 09/17/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Construction of Shell Shock in New Zealand, 1919-1939: A Reassessment

This article explores the competing constructions of shell shock in New Zealand during and after the Great War. It begins by considering the army’s construction of shell shock as a discipline problem, before going on to consider the medical profession’s attempts to place it within a somatic and then psychogenic paradigm. While shell shock was initially viewed as a psychogenic condition in New Zealand, within a few years of the end of the war it had become increasingly subject to medical understandings of the psychiatric profession, who dominated the treatment of the mentally ill.

Posted in: History on 09/16/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Japanese American Wartime Experience, Tamotsu Shibutani and Methodological Innovation, 1942–1978

Posted in: History on 09/15/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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St Martin’s Workhouse (1871)

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This is a detail of the 1871 large scale Ordnance Survey map of the Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square area.

Posted in: History on 09/13/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Death of the Sick Role

The concept of the sick role was introduced into sociology in 1951 and was widely used in medical sociology. A sick person at that time would assume a special social role that permitted him or her to deviate from his or her normal social roles.

Posted in: History on 09/12/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Before and After 9-11-01

Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum. Gift of NYU Child Study Center | J Harrattan

Posted in: History on 09/11/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Paternal authority and patrilineal power: stem family arrangements in peasant communities and eighteenth-century Tyrolean marriage contracts

In historical research, stem family arrangements are regarded as a classic context for the exertion of paternal power and authority. Inheritance practice has hitherto been considered a crucial basis for stem family households, but this paper emphasizes the significance of marital property law, as an instrument for further reinforcing paternal authority by means of patrilineal logics and the vertical orientation derived from these.

Posted in: History on 09/10/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility

By discussing their narratives together in this book the author wishes to ‘expose the centrality of domestic practices to the shaping of imperial medical culture’ (p. 4).

Posted in: History on 09/09/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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ANIMAL TALES: OBSERVATIONS OF THE EMOTIONS IN AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1890–1940

In nineteenth-century science, the emotions played a crucial role in explaining the social behavior of animals and human beings.

Posted in: History on 09/08/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Pauper Lives in Georgian London

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St Martin’s Workhouse admissions ticked for Mary Snider, 16th March 1798.

Posted in: History on 09/07/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America

At the American Civil War’s end, President Andrew Johnson affirmed the federal government’s commitment to disabled veterans, intoning that ‘a grateful people will not hesitate to sanction any measures having for their relief of soldiers mutilated . . . in the effort to preserve our national existence’ (p. 2).

Posted in: History on 09/06/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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IN SEARCH OF THE KINGDOM: THE SOCIAL GOSPEL, SETTLEMENT SOCIOLOGY, AND THE SCIENCE OF REFORM IN AMERICA’S PROGRESSIVE ERA

This critical narrative history examines the development of sociology in the United States during what has come to be labeled as the Progressive Era, roughly the years from the 1890s to World War I.

Posted in: History on 09/04/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Le Pays du Soleil: The Art of Heliotherapy on the Côte d’Azur

This interdisciplinary article explores the early history of heliotherapy (natural sunlight therapy) on the Côte d’Azur through its visual culture. It concentrates on images, and the texts within which they appear, of children undergoing heliotherapy dating to the First World War, as a way into examining the significance of the cure during a period of perceived national degeneration.

Posted in: History on 09/04/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The residents of RD Laing’s Kingsley Hall

D Harris | Guardian

RD Laing, the radical psychiatrist opened a centre in London in 1965 that aimed to revolutionise the treatment of mental illness. Kingsley Hall soon became notorious for drugs, wild parties, therapy and mystics. Almost five decades on, photographer Dominic Harris has tracked down former residents, visited them, photographed them and interviewed them. The result is a self-published photography book, The Residents, which includes Harris’s intimate portraits, as well as personal testimonies of those who were there.

Posted in: History on 09/03/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Kingsley Hall: RD Laing’s experiment in anti-psychiatry

Guardian | K Robinson

‘A radical moment’: Kingsley Hall residents, 1965.

Posted in: History on 09/02/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Rethinking sexual modernity in twentieth-century Germany

Posted in: History on 08/31/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Automatism, Surrealism and the making of French psychopathology: the case of Pierre Janet

Of special interest are the acknowledged influences of Surrealism’s leading representative. Why did André Breton, in his mythical love affair with Freudianism, systematically silence his indebtedness to the Janetian model of the mind?

Posted in: History on 08/30/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Demographics of Empire: the Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge. Edited by Karl Ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell, and Gregory H. Maddox (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010. ix plus 292 pp. $64.95, hardcover)

In The Demographics of Empire, Dennis Cordell suggests that postmodern and postcolonial theories have led the study of African historical demography, on decline in the 1990s, into a period of renaissance. He argues that scholars are “responding to and profiting from the challenges presented by these theoretical perspectives” that have cast doubt on demographic studies of the African past.

Posted in: History on 08/29/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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St Martin’s Workhouse

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Part of the St Martin’s Workhouse was depicted in a picture by T. H. Shepherd in 1850

Posted in: History on 08/28/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Efficacy and Enlightenment: LSD Psychotherapy and the Drug Amendments of 1962

Posted in: History on 08/27/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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President Roosevelt’s Economic Security Bill

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When President Roosevelt submitted his Social Security proposal to Congress in January 1935, he also transmitted draft legislation, entitled the Economic Security Bill. The Administration’s bill was introduced in the House by Congressmen Doughton and Lewis and in the Senate by Senator Wagner. This draft bill was the starting point for the legislative consideration of Social Security in 1935.

Posted in: History on 08/26/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Of sentiment, science and myth: shifting metaphors of racial inclusion in twentieth-century Brazil

Posted in: History on 08/25/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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English pauper lunatics in the era of the old poor law

Many of those considered to be insane in the past were regarded as paupers and so came within the ambit of the poor law. Little work has yet been published on the ways in which the poor law dealt with the psychologically disturbed during the era of the old poor law.

Posted in: History on 08/24/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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