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Book Review Of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, And The Making Of Modern India, Marc A. Reyes
Book Review Of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, And The Making Of Modern India, Marc A. Reyes
Madison Historical Review
Attached is a book review on Benjamin Robert Siegel's Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India.
Book Review Of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History, James Barney
Book Review Of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History, James Barney
Madison Historical Review
Attached is a book review on Hugh Ryan's When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History.
Measles, Movements And Medical Exemptions: How California Learned To Lead The Way, Joseph Bishop
Measles, Movements And Medical Exemptions: How California Learned To Lead The Way, Joseph Bishop
Madison Historical Review
In 2000, the United States celebrated the elimination of measles. Yet within twenty years, measles epidemics had sprung up throughout the country. This article examines the factors responsible for measles’ return to the United States and argues for a state policy that effectively reduces potential outbreaks. The growing anti-vaccination movement and vaccine misinformation largely account for the increase in vaccine hesitancy, leading to measles epidemics. California’s Senate Bill 277, a school-entry vaccination policy, demonstrates how withholding religious and philosophical exemptions increased vaccination rates in unprotected communities. By decreasing vaccine hesitancy with effective vaccine exemption policies, the United States can be …
Carolina Sunset, Cuban Sunrise: A Comparative Study Of Race, Class, And Gender In The Reconstructed South And Colonial Cuba, 1867-1869, Eric Walls
Madison Historical Review
The loss of the American Civil War and the consequence of Reconstruction literally turned the South on its head, profoundly altering the dynamics of race, class, and gender that previously defined antebellum Southern society. The letters of Harriet Rutledge Elliott Gonzales reveal one formerly elite South Carolina family’s struggle as they faced a new social landscape that forced them to adapt to new challenges, particularly surrounding emancipation and the drastic reversal of the norms that previously characterized Southern society that development entailed. Harriet Rutledge Elliot Gonzales never abandoned a sense of her “aristocratic” origins and “good blood,” despite the hardships …
Books As Objects Of Exchange: A Study Of Cross-Cultural Interaction And Connected Systems Between The Mughals And Ottomans, Ankita Choudhary
Books As Objects Of Exchange: A Study Of Cross-Cultural Interaction And Connected Systems Between The Mughals And Ottomans, Ankita Choudhary
Madison Historical Review
The cross-cultural relations between the Ottomans and their contemporaneous Islamic states of the Mughals, Uzbeks, and Khans of Crimea have mainly remained a desideratum, obscured by the modern boundaries of a nation-state. An examination of existing communication networks and cultural linkages renders a global dimension to the medieval Islamic empires united by a prevalent literary culture and shared connective systems. The availability of Persian manuscripts of South Asian origin in the Turkish museum, existing diplomatic ties with the Mughals alluded by Naimur Rahman Farooqi (Mughal-Ottoman Relations), and the confrontation with the Safavids indicate that conduits of interactions existed at both …
Economic Populism In Post-Soviet Lithuania, Scott Cichowlas
Economic Populism In Post-Soviet Lithuania, Scott Cichowlas
Madison Historical Review
In 2003, the Economist published a lauding article about Lithuania called Baltic Tiger. This was the nickname given to the Baltic states during their economic boom in the early 21st century. A popular perception that the Baltic countries quickly transformed after independence into capitalist systems had become prevalent. In actuality, the transition to a free market economy was tumultuous, marred by ideological shifts in the electorate. This research explores the motivations behind Lithuanian political activism. Why has Lithuania supported different political ideologies instead of favoring one consistently? Why did the ex-Communists return to power so soon after independence? What motivates …
"The Violence Of Place And Pen" Identities And Language In The Twentieth-Century Historiography Of King Philip's War, Kevin A. March
"The Violence Of Place And Pen" Identities And Language In The Twentieth-Century Historiography Of King Philip's War, Kevin A. March
Madison Historical Review
This article traces the twentieth-century historiography of King Philip’s War, a destructive eleven-month conflict between New Englanders and their “Praying Indian” allies and a loose alliance of Southern Algonquians led by the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, or King Philip. Although widely impactful across New England, the war attracted little scholarly attention until the late 1950s, when historian Douglas E. Leach wrote Flintlock and Tomahawk. Leach’s book reignited the historical profession’s interest in the conflict and launched two significant and wide-ranging historiographic debates that are the subjects of this article. The first of these historiographic debates concerned the relationship between categories of …
Letter From The Editor, Lara Ressler-Horst
Letter From The Editor, Lara Ressler-Horst
Madison Historical Review
Letter acknowledging editorial board and previewing this years journal.
Madison Historical Review: Volume 17 Full Issue
Madison Historical Review: Volume 17 Full Issue
Madison Historical Review
Attached is the complete publication of the Madison Historical Review, Volume 17.
Move: Philadelphia's Forgotten Bombing, Charles Abraham
Move: Philadelphia's Forgotten Bombing, Charles Abraham
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)
On May 13, 1985, the city of Philadelphia erupted into flames. Under the orders of Mayor Wilson Goode, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto the row house containing MOVE, a cult-like organization, on Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. The resulting fire killed eleven people, including five children, and burned down sixty-one houses. By examining newspaper articles on MOVE, the bombing by the Philadelphia Police, and the public’s response, this paper investigates how Mayor Goode was able to continue his political career and how this bombing has faded into obscurity outside of the city. The media’s attitude and reporting …
The Russo-Japanese War: Origins And Implications, Benjamin E. Mainardi
The Russo-Japanese War: Origins And Implications, Benjamin E. Mainardi
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)
The 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the twentieth century and a turning point in the balance of power in East Asia. In the short term, Russia’s defeat helped precipitate the 1905 Russian Revolution and the 1917 October Revolution. More broadly, the aftermath of the war informed Japan’s imperial ambitions in Manchuria—the early stages of World War II in Asia during the 1930s—and continuing Russo-Japanese enmity over Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Island chain. Studying this historical conflict in terms of international relations provides valuable insights into the nature of the conflict and how the past continues …