Urban History

List of books reviewed

List of books reviewed

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 389-389

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004907 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Research Articles

Bureaucratic passions and the colonies of modernity: an urban elite, city frontiers and the rural other in Germany, 1890–1920

LEIF JERRAM

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 390-406

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004919 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Revolutionaries' cemeteries in Berlin: memory, history, place and space

PAUL STANGL

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 407-426

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004920 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Memory in Berlin: a short walk

JOACHIM SCHLÖR

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 427-430

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004932 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Micro-history of a house: memory and place in a Milanese neighbourhood, 1890–2000

JOHN FOOT

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 431-452

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004944 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Robert Mylne, Thomas Telford and the architecture of improvement: the planned villages of the British Fisheries Society, 1786–1817

DANIEL MAUDLIN

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 453-480

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004956 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Pocket borough to county borough: power relations, elites and politics in nineteenth-century Grimsby

P.J. SHINNER

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 481-503

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004968 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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‘Shauri ya Sera Kali’: the colonial regime of urban housing in Kenya to 1939

ALISON HAY and RICHARD HARRIS

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 504-530

doi:10.1017/S096392680700497X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Reviews of Books

D. Munro and B. Gittings, Scotland: An Encyclopaedia of Places and Landscape. Glasgow: Collins and the Royal Geographical Society, 2006. xxvi + 494pp. Maps. £40.00.

Richard Rodger

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 531-532

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004993 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Mavis E. Mate, Trade and Economic Developments, 1450–1550. The Experience of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006. viii + 261pp. 9 tables. 2 maps. Appendix. Bibliography. £50.00/$85.00.

David Ormrod

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 532-533

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005007 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Herbert Knittler (ed.), Minderstädte, Kümmerformen, Gefreite Dörfer. Stufen zur Urbanität und das Märkteproblem. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Städte Mitteleuropas, Band XX. Linz: Österreichischer Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung, 2006. xvii + 356pp. 3 maps. 1 table. €69.00.

Finn-Einar Eliassen

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 533-534

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005019 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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L. A. M. Stewart, Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh 1617–1653. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xvi + 374pp. €134.00/US $181.00.

John Morrill

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 534-536

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005020 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Jeffrery S. Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875–1920. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. 367pp. 14 figures. Appendix. $35.00.

Roger Lane

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 536-537

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005032 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Carl Smith, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 183pp. 68 illustrations. $22.00 hbk/$12.00 pbk (2007).

Elaine Lewinnek

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 537-538

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005044 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Michele H. Bogart, The Politics of Urban Beauty, New York and its Art Commission. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 352pp. 85 halftones. Bibliographical references and index. $55.00.

Patricia J. Fanning

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 538-539

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005056 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Pál Beluszky and Róbert Győri, The Hungarian Urban Network in the Beginning of the 20th Century. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 46, 2005. 32pp. Tables. Price not known.

Zsolt Szilágyi

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 539-542

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005068 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Helen B. McCartney, Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xv + 275pp. 19 plates. 19 figures. 15 tables. 8 maps. Bibliography. £50.00.

Denise McHugh

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 542-545

doi:10.1017/S096392680700507X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Peter Miskell, A Social History of the Cinema in Wales, 1918–1951: Pulpits, Coal Pits and Fleapits. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. x + 232pp. 8 plates. 24 tables. Bibliography. £17.99 pbk.

Martin Johnes

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 545-546

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005081 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Frederick W. Boal and Stephen A. Royle (eds.), Enduring City: Belfast in the Twentieth Century. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2006. xviii + 363pp. 293 figures and photographs. Bibliography. £30.00.

A.C. Hepburn

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 546-548

doi:10.1017/S0963926807005093 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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Bibliography

Bibliography of urban history 2007

LIZ TACEY and LAURA BALDERSTONE

Urban History, Volume 34, Issue 03, December 2007, pp 549-591

doi:10.1017/S0963926807004981 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Dec 2007

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