Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xli:1 (Sommer, 2010), 7–25. LIBERALISM AND THE LIMITS OF INCLUSION David Cook-Martín and David FitzGerald Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Race and Immigration Law in the Americas, 1850–2000 The relationship between classical political liberalism and racism poses distinct puzzles for different schools of scholarship. Einerseits, conventional accounts maintain that racism has been an ab- erration in politically

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xl:4 (Frühling, 2010), 551–578. TRADITIONAL BASQUE FISHING BROTHERHOODS Andreas Hess “Working the Waves”: The Plebeian Culture and Moral Economy of Traditional Basque Fishing Brotherhoods The Basque ªshing fraternity (cofradía de mareantes) is the institutional manifestation of a rich local plebeian culture and the moral economy that once grounded it. Its original raison d’être was to facilitate a collective voice for local

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xl:3 (Winter, 2010), 399–412. BIOGRAPHY AS HISTORY Stanley Wolpert Biography as History: A Personal Reºection His- tory has illuminated every ªeld of human endeavor—science as well as the arts—embracing countless modern disciplines, expand- ing its focus on change over time to comprehend entire nations, Kulturen, and civilizations, each far more complex than any indi- vidual life. But at its best, biography

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xl:2 (Herbst, 2009), 215–238. ACCOUNTING FOR GOVERNMENT Jacob Soll Accounting for Government: Holland and the Rise of Political Economy in Seventeenth-Century Europe The Dutch may ascribe their present grandeur to the virtue and frugality of their ancestors as they please, but what made that contemptible spot of the earth so considerable among the powers of Europe has been their political wisdom

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xl:1 (Sommer, 2009), 33–56. PLANNING THE PEACE Melissa Willard-Foster Planning the Peace and Enforcing the Surrender: Deterrence in the Allied Occupations of Germany and Japan “A well behaved occupied country,” writes Schelling in Arms and Inºuence, “is not one in which violence plays no part; it may be one in which latent violence is used so skillfully that it need not

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxix:4 (Frühling, 2009), 471–495. CREATING SOCIAL CAPITAL Johann N. Neem Creating Social Capital in the Early American Republic: The View from Connecticut To Connec- ticut’s Congregational ministers, something had gone wrong. Hardly had independence been won when ordinary people began challenging elite authority at home. In the newer settlements of the Old Northwest, many former Connecticut residents did not even go

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxix:3 (Winter, 2009), 323–348. THE GASTRODYNAMICS OF DISPLACEMENT Knut Oyangen The Gastrodynamics of Displacement: Ort- Making and Gustatory Identity in the Immigrants’ Midwest Between 1830 Und 1920, millions of Europeans ar- rived on the prairies and plains of the rural Midwest. Scholars tend to stress the surprising cultural continuity in the lives of these men and women, but immigrants were, In

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxix:2 (Herbst, 2008), 211–232. THE STATURE AND BMI OF MEXICANS IN THE U.S. Scott Alan Carson The Stature and Body Mass of Mexicans in the Nineteenth-Century United States Nineteenth- century Mexico experienced considerable political and economic instability. Initially a Spanish colony, Mexiko (New Spain), gained its independence in 1821. For the next ªfty-ªve years, political power vacillated between various factions. Der

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxix:1 (Sommer, 2008), 37–64. NATIONALE SICHERHEIT UND U.S. EINWANDERUNGSPOLITIK Robbie Totten Nationale Sicherheit und die USA. Einwanderungspolitik, 1776–1790 Warum haben die USA. federal government do so little to restrict immigration until almost the twentieth century? Most ex- planations of early U.S. immigration policy stress ideological and economic factors. Higham, a prominent immigration scholar, ar- gued that America opened its doors

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxviii:3 (Winter, 2008), 377–399. VORTEIL DES ZWEIFELS Larry M. Logue und Peter Blanck „Beneªt of the Doubt“: Afroamerikanische Bürgerkriegsveteranen und Renten Eine Lektüre aus der Feder des Bürgerkriegs- sion statutes and lawmakers’ pronouncements suggests a federal military-beneªt system that was color-blind. Pension laws rarely mention race, and a Congressional committee saw “no reason why the heirs of colored soldiers

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxviii:2 (Herbst, 2007), 233–254. SCHIESSEN, UM Jeffrey S. ZU TÖTEN. Adler Shoot to Kill: Der Einsatz tödlicher Gewalt durch die Polizei von Chicago, 1875–1920 The American police have a long history of violent behavior. From the baton-wielding patrol- men of the nineteenth century—invariably nicknamed “Club- bers”—to the four New York City policemen who ªred forty- one shots at an unarmed, twenty-two-year-old Guinean

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxviii:2 (Herbst, 2007), 207–232. WITWENSTRATEGIEN Martin Dribe, Christer Lundh, and Paul Nystedt Widowhood Strategies in Preindustrial Society The household was of utmost importance for the daily lives of the rural population in preindustrial times. The organization of pro- duktion, consumption, and social welfare (Zum Beispiel, nursing care of children and the elderly) took place there. The division of labor within

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxviii:2 (Herbst, 2007), 177–205. HAUSHALTE UND DIE PEST Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., and Guido Alfani Households and Plague in Early Modern Italy The past decade has seen the debate about the Black Death and its suc- cessive waves edging away from social and cultural history toward questions of biology and epidemiology: Was the Black Death Yersinia pestis? Does it make sense to

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxviii:1 (Sommer, 2007), 33–64. Alleinerziehende Elternschaft und Kindheitsergebnisse Howard Bodenhorn Alleinerziehende Elternschaft und Kindheitsergebnisse im städtischen Süden der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts An in- creasing volume of research documents the rising incidence of single parenthood and its consequences for children. Issues sur- rounding the consequences of single motherhood have special salience for black Americans. According to Fields, um 16 pro- cent of

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxvii:4 (Frühling, 2007), 513–542. Die kolonialen Ursprünge der amerikanischen Sprache Paul K. Longmore „Gutes Englisch ohne Redewendung oder Tonfall“: The Colonial Origins of American Speech Questions about shared language have played an important role in driving nationalism. European, Asian, and African nationalizing cam- Schmerzen, facing obstacles of dialect and language diversity, all pro- moted, and sometimes tried to, enforce particular dialects

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxvii:1 (Sommer, 2006), 35–58. Die Wiege rockt Gloria L. Main rockt die Wiege: Verkleinerung der New England Family Irgendwann im Jahr 1800, wenn nicht- Vordergrund, couples throughout New England began talking to each other about the desirability of postponing children. Why they did so is something of a mystery, but the consequences of those con- versations are unmistakable: Der

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxv:3 (Winter, 2005), 481–500. DIE OTTOMANISCHE ÖFFENTLICHE KÜCHE Amy Singer spendet Wohltätigkeit: Die osmanische öffentliche Küche Osmanische öffentliche Küchen, bekannt als „imaret“., er ist verrückt, darü’l-es(Bin, oder darü'z-ziyafe, Essen verteilt, free of charge, to speciªc groups and to fortunate individuals. These public kitchens were con- structed throughout the territories of the Ottoman Empire, from the fourteenth century into the nineteenth. Prior

Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Geschichte, xxxiv:1 (Sommer, 2003), 1–25. RATTEN, KOMMUNIKATION, UND PEST Michael McCormick Ratten, Kommunikation, und Pest: Auf dem Weg zu einer ökologischen Geschichte Bis vor kurzem, Es gab keine römischen Ratten. Als Krankheit, ökologischer Wandel, and their economic implica- tions push their way to the top of the historian’s agenda, ancient rodents have triggered controversy and new research, some of it in the pages of this journal.