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Graduate Review of History PastGraduate Review Tense of History Volume 5, Issue 1 | Spring 2017 Graduate Review of History Authors who publish with Past Tense agree to the following terms: Past Tense Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simulta- neously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-ex- clusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institu- tional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. 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Copyright © 2017 by the Authors All rights reserved First Published April 2017 Typeface Herr Von Muellerhoff and Minion Pro Cover design by Katie Davis Volume 5, Issue 1 Layout design by Eriks Bredovskis Spring 2017 Table of Contents Volume 5, Issue 1 Letter from the Editors............................................................................................vi Review of Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers Andrew Seaton.....................................................................................................121 Popular Liberalism: Vladimir Anzimirov and the Influence of Imperial Russia’s Penny Press...........................................................................................8 Review of Robeson Taj Frazier, The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Felix Cowan Radical Imagination Winner of the 12th Annual Graduate History Symposium Best Paper Prize, John S. Miller........................................................................................................122 University of Toronto, 2016 Review of Margaret Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Looking Beyond the Archive: An Interdisciplinary Approach Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and to Dealing with Difficult Archives................................................................................29 Australia, 1880–1940 Kelsey Kilgore Baligh Ben Taleb..................................................................................................124 Framing Military Violence in German Africa: Metropolitan Indoctrination, Review of Marjorie Gehrhardt, The Men with Broken Faces: Gueules Cassées of Masculinity, and the Conceptualized Other................................................................34 the First World War Christopher Goodwin Evan P. Sullivan.....................................................................................................126 A Well-Worn and Far-Travelled Tome: The Life and Times of a 1652 Edition Editorial Board.........................................................................................................129 of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quixote.........................................................65 David Purificato Rejecting Notions of Passivity: African American Resistance to Lynching in the Southern United States.............................................................................................71 Sarah Whitwell Volume 5, Issue 1 5, Issue Volume Managing Marital Expectations: Marian Speech Practices and the Domestic 1 5, Issue Volume iv Sphere in the Corpus Christi Cycles..............................................................................96 v Vanessa R. Corcoran Past Tense Past Past Tense Past Dear Readers, From the Editors Over the past year, Past Tense has seen many changes. We welcomed The study of gender also figures prominently in this issue. Christopher a new editorial board and piloted a new peer review system. We re- Goodwin’s article examines the history of German colonial violence in designed the journal’s image, launched a new website, created a new Africa that resulted in the Herero genocide of 1904 to 1907. Using the publication layout, and introduced new genre of writing to the journal: German military as a starting point, Goodwin introduces the reader to the critical commentary. Throughout all these changes we have been the role of masculinity and male culture in the German military as an motivated by the desire to promote graduate research in all fields of explanatory factor for colonial violence. Vanessa Corcoran’s piece on history and to provide graduate students at the University of Toronto English liturgical dramas looks at the ways in which the Virgin Mary and around the world with opportunities to participate in the journal- provided Medieval women with a powerful image to emulate. She high- making process. lights the variations in gender roles illustrated through the marital rela- tionship between Mary and Joseph, emphasizing the contested nature of The fifth edition of Past Tense brings together four academic articles, propriety and vocal expression. two critical commentaries, and four book reviews written by graduate students from across North America. Although these articles address As historians, we must seek to learn about and integrate new methods topics that span centuries and continents, each author advocates for the and frames of analyses into our own work. We hope that the exciting use of new sources, methodologies, and approaches to writing history. and innovative ideas presented in this issue inspires you to consider new approaches to your own research. Thank you for supporting graduate Felix Cowan’s award-winning piece on the prolific publisher of a late Im- research in history, and please enjoy the latest issue of Past Tense Gradu- perial Russian penny newspaper introduces readers to an understudied ate Review of History. source that illuminates a unique vision of modernity. He explains how the newspaper acted as a platform to communicate this popular liberal- Sincerely, ism to lower-class Russian culture. Sarah Whitwell’s article tackles the history of African American resistance to racial violence in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using tes- timonies collected in the 1930s by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration, Whitwell accesses the hidden histories Katie Davis Laurie Drake of African American resistance to racism through theft, sabotage, boy- cotting, and migration. Co-Editors, Past Tense Graduate Review of History Toronto, Canada Our two critical commentaries also engage with the value of primary Volume 5, Issue 1 5, Issue Volume 1 5, Issue Volume sources. Kelsey Kilgore details her experience with missing archival vi sources, making a strong case for integrating non-traditional sources vii and interdisciplinary approaches into our research methodologies. Da- vid Purificato walks us through the value of reading a source as object by tracing the international travels of a rare volume of Don Quixote. Past Tense Past This issue also features book reviews written by Andrew Seaton, John Tense Past Miller, Evan Sullivan, and Baligh Ben Taleb. These reviews highlight re- cently published works in the discipline. Popular Liberalism Felix Cowan n the wake of Russia’s 1905 that included the traditional “working revolution, the press found a new class” of industrial labourers, but also audience in Russia’s lower classes. those who might be called the working Research Article IThe newspaper Gazeta-Kopeika (Kopeck poor in industries such as day labour, Gazette, hereafter Kopeika), firstpetty trade, and domestic service, as well Winner of the 12th Annual Graduate History Symposium published in St. Petersburg on June as the much larger peasantry. Drawn Best Paper Prize, University of Toronto, 2016 19, 1908,1 rapidly established itself as from multiple social estates, working the most popular newspaper in the in multiple professions, with multiple Russian Empire because it was the identities, associations, and cultures, it first to make Russia’s impoverished is nearly impossible to categorize these lower classes its primary audience. Russians into one neat group, hence Popular Liberalism: Expressing a liberal stance on most the ambiguous term “lower classes.” issues, Kopeika championed workers’ At times, these Russians distinguished Vladimir Anzimirov and the Influence rights and democratic institutions. But themselves by who they were not, rather its first publisher, Vladimir Anzimirov, than who they were: they were included of Imperial Russia’s Penny Press used Kopeika as an outlet for his in neither the wealthy and privileged own vision of Russian modernity, an elite nor the small Russian “middle agrarian rather than urban plan that class” of professionals and merchants combined elements of liberalism and who were the typical audience for Felix Cowan development along western lines with Russian newspapers before Kopeika. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign older Russian populist ideas about Russia’s lower classes did share a paucity the centrality of agriculture and the of disposable income, however, making peasantry. Anzimirov did not neatly fit them an ideal readership for Kopeika, into any defined
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