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The Journal

of

Interdisciplinary History

Volume xxvIII, Number 2 Autumn 1997 xxvmI(2) 9/97 (I83-34I) ISSN 0022-1953

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The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Editors Associate Editors Robert I. Rotberg Bernard Bailyn Henry Rosovsky Theodore K. Rabb Myron Gutmann Reed Ueda

Stanley N. Katz Richard H. Ullman Bruce Mazlish

Board of Editors

Joyce Appleby Erich S. Gruen Peter Temin Allan G. Bogue Philip S. Khoury Stephan Thernstrom Sugata Bose J. Morgan Kousser Charles Tilly W. Dean Burnham Miles F. Shore Myron Weiner Natalie Z. Davis Thomas E. Skidmore E. A. Wrigley Raymond Grew

Managing Editor Ed Freedman

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The Journal of

Interdisciplinary History Volume xxvIII, Number 2 Autumn 1997

Contents

ARTICLE

Flowers and Fruits: Two Thousand Years of Menstrual Regulation Etienne van de Walle 183

RESEARCH NOTE

"Tyranny" in Nineteenth-Century American Legal Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis Assaf Likhovski 205

REVIEW ESSAY

Political Culture: Genealogy of a Concept Glen Gendzel 225

REVIEWS

Revolution and War by Stephen M. Walt Jonathan M. DiCicco 251

The Sources of Economic Growth by Richard R. Nelson Peter Temin 252

Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds edited by David Buisseret Jacob M. Price 253

Drugs and Narcotics in History edited by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich David F. Musto 254

History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders by Gerhard Dorhn-van Rossum Donald R. Hoke 256

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Databases in Historical Research: Theory, Methods and Applications by Charles Harvey and Jon Press Ian

Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge by Stephen Katz B]

Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science by W. Andrew Achenbaum Dail A

The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby St,

European Proto-Industrialization edited by Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Marcus Cerman Paul M.

Winchester

rian Gratton

. Neugarten

even Shapin

Hohenberg

The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton Katherine L. French

Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 by Judith M. Bennett Julie Hardwick

Gender, Sex & Subordination in England, 1500-18oo

by Anthony Fletcher Jodi Mikalachki

The Business Community in Seventeenth-Century England by Richard Grassby

Courtship, Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modern England by Richard Adair

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David Cressy 270

Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History by John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, and David Vincent Randall McGowen 272

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After the Famine: Irish Agriculture 1850-1914 by Michael Turner Barbara L. Solow

City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715 by Andrew Trout Christine Adams

Les Grammaires d'une Ville: Essai sur la genese des structures urbaines a Marseille by Marcel Roncayolo Louise A. Tilly

Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799 by Malcolm Crook Gail Bossenga

Genoa & the Genoese by Steven A. Epstein Edward Muir

Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600

by Dennis Romano Susan Mosher Stuard

An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context by Lauro Martines William J. Bouwsma

A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State by Giovanna Benadusi R. Burr Litchfield

Repubblica per contratto: Bologna: una citta europea nello Stato della Chiesa by Angela De Benedictis Guic

Italian Industrialistsfrom Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906-1934 by Franklin Hugh Adler Su~

The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castille: Mobility and Migration in Everyday Rural Life by David E. Vassberg

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The Making of an Enterprise: The Society ofJesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and Beyond, 1540-1750 by Dauril Alden Willi

In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany edited by R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann Ephrai

Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy by John Patrick Diggins

The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933 by William Brustein Ricd

Economic Relations Between Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain 1936-1945 by Christian Leitz Stai

Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent by Peter Arnade Katherine

The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery by Edward G. Ruestow I

Franfoise sauvee des flammes? Une Valaisanne accusee de sorcellerie au XVe siecle by Sandrine Strobino I

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown I

Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 by Michael Meranze Sha:

iam S. Maltby 289

im Kanarfogel

Fritz Ringer

hard M. Hunt

nley G. Payne

Fischer Drew

-larold J. Cook

)eborah Fraioli

Russell Menard

ron V. Salinger 299

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The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation by John G. West, Jr. John F. Wilson

The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841 by Elaine K. Swift William L. Barney

The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America by Glen W. Fisher W. Elliot Brownlee

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle by Janet Golden Pau

Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, & the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country by Stephanie McCurry Jar

Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives ofJewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924 by Kathie Friedman-Kasaba Ka

Rural Democracy: Family Farmers and Politics in Western Washington, 1890-1925 by Marilyn P. Watkins Robert C.

la A. Treckel

nes L. Roark

thleen Parker

McMath, Jr.

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller Carl Smith

Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 by Ewa Morawska Daniel Horowitz

Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Katherine Kish Sklar

Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture by Rima D. Apple Joseph F. Kett

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International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods by Harold James LoL

A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology edited by Gary Alan Fine G;

Race, Campaign Politics, & the Realignment in the South by James M. Glaser Jo

From People's War to People's Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam by Timothy J. Lomperis Conrn

The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics by Dan T. Carter Charles S.

The Kingdom of Quito, 169o-183o: The State and Regional Development by Kenneth J. Andrien

lis W. Pauly

ary T. Marx

el H. Silbey

id C. Crane

Bullock, III

Ronn Pineo

Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas by Richard C. Trexler Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof

Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857 by Peter F. Guardino Tirr

Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty by Christopher Wrigley Chr

Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville by Phyllis M. Martin M

The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict by Sudhir Kakar A

Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change by Fatma Miige G6oek

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istopher Ehret

artin A. Klein

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Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary in China, 1000-1700

by Richard von Glahn

China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism by Hill Gates

Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model by Suzanne Pepper

Tokugawa Village Practice: Class, Status, Power, Law by Herman Ooms

Policy

William T. Rowe

Thomas B. Gold

Lucian W. Pye

Susan B. Hanley

Malaysia's Democratic Transition: Rapid Development, Culture, and Politics by Richard Leete Donald R. Snodgrass

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ANNOUNCEMENT

The Gerontological Society of America and The University Press of Virginia announce a new award to be given biannually to an outstanding book-length manuscript in interdisciplinary scholarship about aging, written for a humanities audience. The winner will receive $I,ooo and publication in the University Press' Age Studies Series.

Submission Deadline for the First Award: October 3I, 1997.

Submission Requirements: Three copies of a description with table of contents, a sample chapter, and the author's CV to

Age Studies Award University Press of Virginia Box 3608, University Station Charlottesville, VA 22903

Finalists will be asked to send five copies of the complete manuscript. Only original unpublished submissions not presently under consideration by a pub- lisher will be considered. Manuscripts will not be returned. Announcement of the winner will be made on or about June I5, 1998.

Review Criteria: Submissions will be judged by the Humanities and Arts Com- mittee of the Gerontological Society of America on the basis of creativity, originality, contribution to the field, and appropriateness for publication in the Age Studies series. Applicants are encouraged to look at Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity (I993), edited by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown and Janice Rossen, for a sense of the kind of work of interest to the series.

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