The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews relating historical research and work in applied fields-such as economics and demographics. Spanning all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include:    - social history   - demographic history   - psychohistory   - political history   - family history   - economic history   - cultural history   - technological history

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History publishes substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews that relate historical research to applied fields such as economics and demographics. Covering all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include social history, demographic history, psychohistory, political history, family history, economic history, cultural history, and technological history.

《Journal of Interdisciplinary History》期刊刊登与历史研究及应用领域（如经济学和人口统计学）相关的实质性文章、研究笔记、评论文章和书评。该期刊涵盖所有地理区域和历史时期，主题包括：社会历史、人口历史、心理历史、政治历史、家庭历史、经济历史、文化历史和技术历史。

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

In examining records from the U.S. Census Bureau and from the Japanese Consulates General in the United States, Jin estimates that 50,000 Nisei Japanese (citizens born in the United States) departed the United States for Japan or the territories of the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century—approximately one-fourth of the Nisei Japanese in the United States during this era. The scholarly and popular historical works about the Nisei Japanese, which are hardly numerous, generally discuss these people as an Asian American minority rooted within the United States. Jin’s use of sources from both sides of the Pacific, however, discovers that for the Nisei Japanese, transpacific migration was more “the norm rather than the exception.” The diversity of their experiences is the major theme throughout this well-researched study.Some of the Nisei Japanese went to Japan to join their families and others to study the Japanese language, to find work, or to find a spouse. Most were also driven from the United States by anti-Asian immigrant movements, especially in the American West. Asian-exclusion sentiment was often supported by state and national laws, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1924 Immigration Act, and various alien land laws. Executive Order 9066 was eventually to confine first-generation Japanese and Nisei Japanese to interment camps in the American West, following the Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbor.Although Jin often uses the concept of diaspora effectively as a framework to interpret the transpacific experiences of Nisei Japanese, the individual stories about various Nisei Japanese experiences in the first half of the twentieth century are particularly engaging. For example, Toshiko Inaba’s American citizenship was revoked after his marriage and divorce in Japan. David Akira Itami, who was held at the Manzanar internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor, joined the U.S. Army as a language specialist during the war and afterward at the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. Kanji Kuramoto and Kaz Tanaka Suyeishi somehow managed to survive the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Such are just a few of the book’s many stories that demonstrate the legal, social, and personal hardships faced by transpacific Nisei immigrants.Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless is an important contribution to the fields of immigration and Asian American history due in no small part to Jin’s polished writing skills. His combination of clear historical description, context, and analysis with just the right amount of sociological and interpretive language helps to make book both readable and informative. The endnotes and bibliography demonstrate his significant bilingual and transnational research of primary, secondary, and popular source material.Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless is not simply a study of a marginalized immigrant group “caught between two worlds.” It portrays a diverse people who had to exercise considerable initiative to navigate multiple social, legal, national, and geopolitical contexts. Although complex factors, such as racism in the American West and the deteriorating geopolitical relations between Japan and the United States, affected the Nisei immigrants as a group, Jin demonstrates that they were more than capable of making decisions on an individual basis whenever the opportunity arose. On a broader scale, the Nisei Japanese experience is directly related to the issues of racism, immigration, imperialism, and war that are fundamental in any discussion of twentieth-century history.

John E. Van Sant

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific by Michael R. Jin

《公民、移民与无国籍者：太平洋地区的日裔美国人散居》，作者：迈克尔·R·金

Kevin Boyle

Revolution by Law: The Federal Government and the Desegregation of Alabama Schools by Brian K. Landsberg

《法律革命：联邦政府与亚拉巴马州学校的废除种族隔离》作者：布莱恩·K·兰茨伯格

Kristina Richardson

Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia by Kate Franklin

《日常世界主义：中世纪亚美尼亚的丝绸之路生活》，作者：凯特·富兰克林

Abstract A first synthesis of available data for the period of Rome’s expansion in Italy (about 400–29 b.c.e.) shows the role of climate and environment in early Roman imperialism. Although global indices suggest a warmer phase with relatively few short-term climate events occuring around the same time as the expansion, local data emphasize the highly variable timing and expression of these trends. This variability casts doubt on ideas of a unitary, historically consequential “Roman Warm Period.” The historical importance of climate and environment to socioeconomic development merits emphasis, but should be understood in terms of evolving, contingent forms of resilience and risk-mitigating behavior by Italian communities during Roman expansion.

Seth Bernard

Joseph McConnell

Federico Di Rita

Fabrizio Michelangeli

Donatella Magri

Laura Sadori

Alessia Masi

Giovanni Zanchetta

Monica Bini

Alessandra Celant

Angela Trentacoste

Lisa Lodwick

J. Troy Samuels

Marta Mariotti Lippi

Cristina Bellini

Claudia Paparella

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

James Tan

Peter van Dommelen

Andrea U. De Giorgi

Caroline Cheung

An Environmental and Climate History of the Roman Expansion in Italy

罗马在意大利扩张的环境与气候史

Sonenscher has written a short (174 pages of text), dense, and provocative book on the history of capitalism, or, more precisely, the idea of capitalism. Positioned as an intellectual historian, the author seeks to define capitalism, or to elucidate “the story behind the word,” as his subtitle puts it. He traces the word’s origins and its evolution into its widely accepted meaning in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He contextualizes it within related concepts, discusses what he sees as the problem of capitalism—inequality—and assesses the contributions of period thinkers to an understanding of capitalism and to a solution to the problem of inequality.Sonenscher begins by showing that before the term capitalism was first used in the mid-nineteenth century, the French term capitaliste had a history going back well into the eighteenth century when it referred to those who financed wars by lending to the states that fought them. Capitalism acquired its “apocalyptic aura” when it was associated with the concepts of “commercial society” and the “division of labor” (xv). The book is devoted to explicating these terms, how they are problematic, and how various thinkers sought to solve the resulting problems.The book is divided into two parts, “Problems” and “Solutions.” The first describes the development of the idea of capitalism and relates it to other political concepts. Sonenscher distinguishes between capitalism on the one hand and commercial society and the division of labor on the other. His analysis is political, and he regards these institutions as problematic because they lead to inequality. Capitalism is a system of property ownership, and arrangements other than private ownership of capital are readily conceivable. Commercial society, on the other hand, arises from humans’ propensity to exchange, and it is hard to imagine a world without that and its concomitant, the division of labor. The potential for commercial society or capitalism to act as economic engines producing growth is not discussed.1Subsequently, the book navigates the course of capitalism’s evolution during the early nineteenth century. This transformation by continental thinkers developed capitalism from an idea mostly involving international economics based on war and debt into a national one. In the years leading up to the Revolution of 1848, Alphonse de Lamartine and Louis Blanc clarified the debate over capitalism by revealing that there were really two problems, which required two solutions: “the problem of … the ownership of capital” and “the problem of the division of labour and markets” (73).In the second part, Sonenscher discusses the solutions to the problem of inequality. Karl Marx’s communism, a “synthesis of French legal thought and German theology,” was based on a “negative community of goods” in which property could be used but not individually appropriated (78, 87). The many followers of Adam Smith struggled to reconcile the sympathy or virtue of his moral philosophy with the self-interest or expediency of his economics. Other philosophers envisioned a role for the state in mitigating the inequalities of capitalism without abolishing it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, for instance, thought that public administration could serve as “a bridge and a buffer between civil society and the state” (140). David Ricardo’s comparative advantage did not only produce benefits, it resulted in unequal returns to different producers and disadvantaged those turning out basic products. The resulting inequality could, however, be mitigated by adept monetary and fiscal policies. Finally, legal theorist Lorenz von Stein found a solution wherein administrative principles applied to groups could foster “real social cohesion” (157).After examining the dualities in the thought of these late eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinkers, Sonenscher returns to the distinction between capitalism and commercial society. He encourages a focus on the latter because, in its complexity and belief that “individuals are radically dependent upon one another,” it opens up many possibilities for what society might become (169).

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher

《资本主义：词语背后的故事》作者：迈克尔·索南舍尔

Abstract Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases—training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter the transmission of pathogenic viruses in Brazil—take place in contexts where animals are being modified to achieve certain developmental, medical, or humanitarian goals. These animals, like any in the history of domestication, breach boundaries, crossing wild and domestic categories, in these cases at the moment and experience of being bitten. These moments draw our attention to the stakes involved in thinking about domestication.

Luisa Reis-Castro

Jia Hui Lee

Bites, Blood, Boundaries: Rats, Mosquitoes, and Domestication across Disciplines

咬痕、血液、界限：跨学科视角下的老鼠、蚊子与驯化

Abstract Had the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo lived, he might have led the Congolese people to a unified and prosperous nation post-independence. But Patrice Lumumba’s aspirations were cut short by his brutal assassination in late 1960, just months after Congo gained independence from Belgian rule. His death and the enduring impact of it on the Congo’s trajectory are the focus of Reid’s compelling The Lumumba Plot, which exposesthe many egregious errors and sinister efforts of the cia to eliminate Lumumba.

Robert I. Rotberg

The Lumumba Legacy and the Enduring Tragedy of the Congo

卢蒙巴遗产与刚果的持久悲剧

Abstract The concept of nonhuman agency is a contentious issue in historical discourse, provoking disagreement due to its loose definition. The lack of a consistent definition for the term has led to varied and contradictory interpretations, sometimes rendering it counterproductive. Diverse theoretical models across disciplines engage questions of nonhuman agency, spanning Indigenous methodologies, actor-network theory, and new materialisms. Exploration of early modern scientific study of animals reveals the importance of rooting theories of nonhuman influence in concrete historical processes rather than abstractions and within the context of period actors’ categories. Challenging the centrality of nonhuman agency in historical discussions prompts a deliberate consideration of its role for historians, suggesting alternative ways of valuing and analyzing past human entanglements with nonhumans, and questioning whether agency must remain so central to discussions of the more-than-human.

Whitney Barlow Robles

On Nonhuman Agency

论非人类行为体

Valeria Pinchera

Ellan F. Spero

Introduction: Textiles and Clothing as Markers and Makers of Value

引言：纺织品与服装作为价值标志与创造者

Abstract Textiles played a crucial role in defining gender, rank, and race in British imperial expansion during the long eighteenth century. This period saw an emphasis on whiteness in skin and cloth, symbolizing social status and racial hierarchy, with laundering, largely performed by low-ranked and racialized women, maintaining pristine garments representing social “whiteness.” Everyday clothing, its care, and the opulent societal lifestyle of the elite, characterized by events such as masquerade balls, upheld the imperial ethos of race and reinforced social hierarchies. A critical history of empire must examine fabrics and their use, as well as the motivations behind material whiteness.

Beverly Lemire

Empire and the Fashioning of Whiteness: Im/Material Culture in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660–1820

帝国与白人形象的塑造：1660-1820年间大英帝国大西洋世界的非物质文化

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Journal Impact	0.15
Quartiles(Global)	HISTORY(Q2)

ISSN	0022-1953, 1530-9169
h-index	37

Publication Information	Publisher: MIT Press Journals，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1998，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 18.92%

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