Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189422
M. Coletta
scholarship. One aspect that could be qualified about domestic service in the Indian colony is that British households were not the only employers of domestic servants. The vast majority of domestic servants in South Asia worked for South Asian elite and eventually middle-class households, as Swapna Banerjee’s work on Bengal, for instance, shows. South Asia had a long tradition of domestic service and Anglo-Indians in fact emulated the servant hierarchies and servant nomenclature of Mughal aristocratic households in order to make their new-found affluence and power legible to their colonial subjects. Readers would have gained from a more rigorous engagement by Dussart with the scholarship on domestic labour in pre-colonial and colonial South Asian households. In the Service of Empire makes important contributions to the scholarship on British and imperial domestic service, as well as British identity formation through race, class, and gender. It is a valuable book for historians of empire, Britain, colonial South Asia, and for scholars interested in labour, race, and gender more broadly. Dussart’s innovative model of bringing the metropole and colony in the same frame can be productively transposed to other imperial contexts, and can be an inspiration for French, Dutch, American, and Japanese Empire historians, working not just on domestic labour, but any aspect of cultural and social history.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189424
E. Moss
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189415
G. Williamson
though, as Woodruff Smith’s analysis of tea drinking demonstrates (Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1992) Nevertheless, the sale of slaves at coffeehouses is documented and so the general point about celebration of free association co-existing with acceptance of chattel slavery certainly stands. The book is unashamedly urban-centric, notwithstanding that only about 1 in 10 of the North American colonists lived outside of rural settings. The notion of a transatlantic community centred on city coffeehouses should not, therefore, be over-stretched. New York, it transpires, lacked a permanent venue prior to the 1750s and remained deficient as late as the eve of the Revolution. What are described as Southern cities (p. 50) were home to populations of a few thousand and the largest urban centre in the south, Charlestown, is not mentioned at all. It is still meaningful to claim that much of the white population had more in common with London than with one another due to the nature and limitations of colonial communications and the book seems to agree with this. Finally, the rise of the coffeehouse is predicated on coffee’s availability. Wesley Reynolds himself, however, draws attention to uncertainties of supply (leading proprietors to lobby for improvements) and its poor taste, prior to the development of better roasting techniques. Consistent with these findings, Phil Withington has shown that proprietors were never single commodity sellers and that the early development of the coffeehouse in fact outpaced coffee’s supply (Journal of Modern History, 2020). Small caveats aside, the kernel of the book is rich and sound, making a valuable contribution to the social and political history of the British Atlantic world.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189423
Annemarie McAllister
Michela Coletta (m.coletta@warwick.ac.uk) is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. She is author of Decadent Modernity: Civilisation and Latinidad in Spanish America, 1880-1920 (LUP 2018) and co-editor of Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America (University of London Press 2016). Her latest article, 'Critical Border Zones and Anti-extractive Knowledge: Perspectives from the Andean World’, was published in the Radical History Review in early 2023.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189412
G. Moore
lished by freelancers. Careful examinations of local evidence permit insights into how demonological ideas from across the social spectrum came to be spread and interpreted. Jens Chr. V. Johansen’s chapter is an evocative account of a rare but recurrent narrative from both Denmark and Germany in the seventeenth century. It traces near-identical versions of a story, about a male personage who used fox tails to play a glass drum at witches’ gatherings, which seems to have been recounted over time by travellers as diverse as merchants, soldiers, and ox drovers. (Sadly, Johansen passed away in 2017 and the collection is dedicated to his memory.) Taking readers further into the world of Danish witchcraft, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup identifies the complex layering of learned and folk demonology and the links of both to witch trials, as well as locating diffusion sites for demonology, including pulpits and executions. Jari Eilola revisits the infamous Blåkulla trials from late seventeenth-century Sweden, tracing with precision connections between the official, adult ‘frame story’ of the witches’ sabbat and the accounts of accused and accusing children. James Sharpe’s survey of English pamphlet literature between 1566 and 1712 makes a strong case for the role of a specifically English ‘popular demonic’ in both trials and wider theological debates. The book’s coverage is focused on western and northern Europe, but its methods will hold good for future research into the prosecution of diabolical witchcraft in Catholic and Protestant jurisdictions elsewhere in Europe and its colonies. This collection will be required reading for current and emerging witchcraft and demonology scholars, as well as being an eminently teachable set of texts for undergraduates encountering this complex and often tragic history for the first time.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189421
Satyasikha Chakraborty
Peter Yeandle (p.yeandle@lboro.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in History at Loughborough University. Publications include Citizenship, Nation, Empire: The Politics of History Teaching in England (2015) and co-edited with Kate Newey and Jeffrey Richards, Politics, Performance, and Popular Culture: Theatre and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2016). His research interests include the environmental humanities, interdisciplinary Victorian Studies, and imperialism and popular culture in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain.
Peter Yeandle (p.yeandle@lboro.ac.uk)，拉夫堡大学历史高级讲师。出版物包括《公民、国家、帝国:英格兰历史教学的政治》(2015年)，并与凯特·纽维和杰弗里·理查兹合编《政治、表演和流行文化:19世纪英国的戏剧与社会》(2016年)。他的研究兴趣包括环境人文、跨学科的维多利亚研究、19世纪和20世纪英国的帝国主义和流行文化。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189418
I. Miller
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189416
Janice Helland
{"title":"Craftworkers in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age","authors":"Janice Helland","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2023.2189416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2189416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"297 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46529343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189407
Imogen Knox
ABSTRACT This article explores self-destructive behaviours in early modern Britain and Ireland through the phenomenon of pin-swallowing, as depicted in cases of bewitchment and possession. It argues that the involvement of witches and demons enabled the expression of self-destructive feelings without condemnation for such thoughts and actions. As supernatural belief was increasingly located within the mind of the individual in the eighteenth century, people were deprived of this outlet. The suicidal connotations of pins and their supernatural cause also sheds light on the different explanations which men and women were able to ascribe such impulses and behaviours.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189411
Sarah Ferber
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