Radical History Review presents innovative scholarship and commentary that looks critically at the past and its history from a non-sectarian left perspective.

Radical History Review presents innovative scholarship and commentary that looks critically at the past and its history from a non-sectarian left perspective. RHR scrutinises conventional history and seeks to broaden and advance the discussion of crucial issues such as the role of race, class and gender in history.

Includes articles by Imanuel Wallerstein ('Beyond Annales'), Nathan Huggins ('The Deforming Mirror of Truth: Slavery and the Master Narrative of American History'), Natalie Zemon Davis on women's rights historians and Tim Mason on Fascism.

Feature articles in this issue include: "Women and Guilds in Bologna: The Ambiguities of 'Marginality'," by Dora Dumont; "Unpacking the First Person Singular: Negotiating Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Chile," by Andy Daitsman; "Culture Wars Won and Lost, Part II: Ethnic Museums on the Mall," by Fath Davis Ruffins (a continuation of an article published in RHR 68); and "'All the Intensity of My Nature': Ida B. Wells and African-American Women's Anger in History," by Patricia A. Schechter.

This issue embodies the journal's recent move toward a more overtly political discussion of historical topics.

This issue examines Latin American labour, and includes coverage of topics such as: the organization amongst San Marcos coffee workers during Guatemala's National Revolution 1944-1954; the myth of the history of Chile - the Araucanians; and the representation of class and populism in Sao Paolo.

This is volume 52 of the Radical History Review series. It deals specifically with new directions in gender history and the history of sexuality.