Urban History

List of books reviewed

List of books reviewed

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 348-348

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005671 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Research Articles

Portraiture, precedence and politics amongst the London liveries c. 1540–1640

ROBERT TITTLER

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 349-362

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005683 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Symbolizing the civic ideal: the civic portraits in Belfast Town Hall

GILLIAN MCINTOSH

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 363-381

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005695 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Symbols of civic pride, national history or European tradition? City halls in Scandinavian capital cities

LAURA KOLBE

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 382-413

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005701 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Accommodating the outcast: common lodging houses and the limits of urban governance in Victorian and Edwardian London

TOM CROOK

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 414-436

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005713 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Boldness diminished? The post-war battle to replan a bomb-damaged provincial city

STEPHEN ESSEX and MARK BRAYSHAY

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 437-461

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005725 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

A British Empire for the twentieth century: the inauguration of New Delhi, 1931

DAVID A. JOHNSON

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 462-484

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005737 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Review Essay

Slavery in colonial New York City

JOYCE D. GOODFRIEND

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 485-496

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005749 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Liverpool: past, present and future

COLIN G. POOLEY

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 497-501

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005750 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Review of Books

David Richardson, Suzanne Schwartz and Anthony Tibbles (eds.), Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. 315pp. 4 figures, 35 tables. Bibliography. £50.00.

R. H. Costello

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 502-503

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005762 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Martin Spence, The Making of a London Suburb: Capital Comes to Penge. Monmouth: Merlin Press, 2007. xii + 131pp. 14 figures. Bibliography. £9.95 pbk.

Mark Merry

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 503-505

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005774 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Ian Duncan, Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 416pp. 7 halftones. Bibliography. $39.50/£23.95.

Penny Fielding

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 505-507

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005786 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Andrew Lees and Lynn Hollen Lees, Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914 (New Approaches to European History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 300pp. 24 plates, 6 maps. 6 tables. Bibliography. £14.99 pbk.

Dieter Schott

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 507-508

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005798 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. i + 242pp. 32 plates, 10 figures, 1 table. $50.00/£33.50.

Paul Laxton

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 509-510

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005804 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Alex Windscheffel, Popular Conservatism in Imperial London 1868–1906. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007. xii + 260pp. 11 tables. £50.00.

James R. Moore

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 510-512

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005816 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Eric Ross, Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xv + 290pp. 56 plates. Bibliography. £45.00/$75.00.

Steven J. Salm

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 512-514

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005828 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Prashant Kidambi, The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890–1920. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xxi + 268pp. 6 figures. £55.00.

Aditya Sarkar

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 514-516

doi:10.1017/S096392680800583X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Martin Gorsky, John Mohan and Tim Willis (eds.), Mutualism and Health Care. British Hospital Contributory Schemes in the Twentieth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. xii + 243pp. £55.00.

F. Condreau

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 516-517

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005841 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Robert Freestone, Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900–1930. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. viii +325pp. 111 figures, 1 table. Bibliography. £75 hbk, £30 pbk.

I. Morley

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 517-519

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005853 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 384pp. 27 illustrations, 2 maps. Bibliography. $59.95 hbk; $22.50 pbk.

Adam Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 280pp. 31 illustrations. $35.00.

Jeffrey Helgeson

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 519-520

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005865 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Matthew J. Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 432pp. 14 illustrations. $42.40/£28.00 hbk; $22.50/£15.00 pbk.

James Wolfinger, Philadelphia Divided. Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 336pp. 24 illustrations, 6 tables, 6 maps. Bibliography. $49.95.

Jason Sokol

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 521-523

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005877 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References

Bibliography

Bibliography of urban history 2008

MALCOLM NOBLE

Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 03, December 2008, pp 524-573

doi:10.1017/S0963926808005889 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 18 Nov 2008

• Preview
• Abstract
• Add to Basket £20.00 / $30.00
• Request Permissions

• Abstract
• HTML Article Structure
• Figures and Tables
• References