Journal of Urban History articles from September 1997

Journal of Urban History archives from September 1997

Sport in urbanizing America: a historical review.
September 1, 1997... In January of 1995, the Los Angeles Rams announced that they were moving to St. Louis, a city that had lost its football Cardinals to Phoenix only seven years earlier. Another sports battle was under way, but like most interesting...

Antiprostitution reform and the use of public space in Hartford, Connecticut, 1878-1914.
September 1, 1997... As the brothels of Hartford's East Side stood dark and empty in the winter of 1912, a few stubborn voices insisted that the red light district had kept the city morally decent. In a letter to the Hartford Times, observer A. N. Brooks...

Metropolitan Frontiers: Atlanta, 1835-2000. (Exhibition)
September 1, 1997... 7,700 square foot permanent exhibition Atlanta History Museum 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30305-1366 Dr. Darlene R. Roth, Project Director Don Rooney, Exhibition Curator and Coordinator ...

The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West.
September 1, 1997... CARL ABBOTT, Tucson University of Arizona Press, 1993, vi, 244 pp., figures, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index, $29.95 cloth. New books by John Findlay and Carl Abbott offer fresh interpretations of the...

Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940.
September 1, 1997... JOHN M. FINDLAY, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, vi, 394 pp., maps, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index, $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper. New books by John Findlay and Carl Abbott offer fresh...

Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990.
September 1, 1997... DAVID R. CONTOSTA, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992, xvii, 353 pp., illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index, $35.00 cloth. Suburbanization has been one of the most fertile topics in U.S. urban history...

Expanding the American Dream: building and Rebuilding Levittown.
September 1, 1997... BARBARA M. KELLY, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, xi, 284 pp., introduction by William R. Taylor, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, $16.95 paper. Suburbanization has been one of the most fertile...

Suburban Lives.
September 1, 1997... MARGARET MARSH, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990, xvi, 231 pp., illustrations, figures, notes, index, $32.00 cloth, $13.00 paper. Suburbanization has been one of the most fertile topics in U.S. urban history for...

Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives.
September 1, 1997... MASASHI HANEDA and T. MIURA, eds., New York: Kegan Paul International, 1994, 365 pp., bibliography, index. The ways that we perceive the cities of other cultures are not necessarily the ways that we perceive our own. In our own...

Istanbul Households.
September 1, 1997... ALAN DUBEN and CEM BEHAR, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 276 pp., illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. The ways that we perceive the cities of other cultures are not necessarily the ways that we perceive our own....

The Making of the Modern Greek Family.
September 1, 1997... PAUL SANT CASSIA with CONSTANTINA BADA, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 282 pp., bibliography, notes, index. The ways that we perceive the cities of other cultures are not necessarily the ways that we perceive our own. In our own...

The Mediterranean City in Transition.
September 1, 1997... LILA LEONTIDOU. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 296 pp., bibliography notes, index. The ways that we perceive the cities of other cultures are not necessarily the ways that we perceive our own. In our own culture we...

Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930.
September 1, 1997... RUTH HUTCHINSON CROCKER, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992, 347 pp., $39.95 cloth. Ruth Crocker and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn have contributed important studies in a field of history that many scholars believed had been exhausted...

Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945.
September 1, 1997... ELISABETH LASCH-QUINN, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993, 225 pp., $39.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Ruth Crocker and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn have contributed important studies in a field of history that many scholars...

Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.
September 1, 1997... DOROTHY SUE COBBLE, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991, $34.95. These five volumes, which constitute a rich sampling of recent scholarship on women's labor history, focus primarily on the life experiences of white women who...

Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh.
September 1, 1997... ILEEN A. DEVAULT, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990,$21.50. These five volumes, which constitute a rich sampling of recent scholarship on women's labor history, focus primarily on the life experiences of white women who entered...

The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930.
September 1, 1997... LISA M. FINE, 1870-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, $34.95. These five volumes, which constitute a rich sampling of recent scholarship on women's labor history, focus primarily on the life experiences of white...

Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923.
September 1, 1997... STEPHEN H. NORWOOD, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990, $32.50. These five volumes, which constitute a rich sampling of recent scholarship on women's labor history, focus primarily on the life experiences of white women who...

Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930.
September 1, 1997... SHARON HARTMAN STROM, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992, $42.50. These five volumes, which constitute a rich sampling of recent scholarship on women's labor history, focus primarily on the life experiences of white women who...

'Metropolitan Frontiers: Atlanta, 1835-2000.' (permanent exhibit at Atlanta History Museum)
September 1, 1997... It is a quiet but powerful moment. In a corner of the Atlanta History Center's "Metropolitan Frontiers" exhibit hangs a picture covered by a black drape. The label next to it reads, "Unidentified lynching, 1920s. This photograph of a disturbing...

Western urban history comes of age.
September 1, 1997... New books by John Findlay and Carl Abbott offer fresh interpretations of the process of western city building. While neither engages in the discourse of "otherness" current among the New Western historians, nor debates whether the West is urban...

Suburbia: middle class to the last?
September 1, 1997... Suburbanization has been one of the most fertile topics in U.S. urban history for more than thirty years. This literature has enriched understanding of the physical, social, political, and cultural development of suburbs. It has illustrated the...

Illusions of the city. (Westerners' stereotyped views of foreign cities)
September 1, 1997... The ways that we perceive the cities of other cultures 'are not necessarily the ways that we perceive our own. In our own culture we perceive variety, but in some distinct other we see a homogeneity that is not apparent to the inhabitants of...

Beyond Hull House: new interpretations of the settlement movement in America.
September 1, 1997... Ruth Crocker and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn have contributed important studies in a field of history that many scholars believed had been exhausted years, perhaps even decades, before. The primary source of this often expressed, but mistaken,...

Crossing the collar line: working women at desks, switchboards, and tables.
September 1, 1997... These five volumes, which constitute a rich sampling of recent scholarship on women's labor history, focus primarily on the life experiences of white women who entered the workplaces of urban industrial America before the onset of the Great...