Urban History Review articles from March 1997

Urban History Review archives from March 1997

Special issue on housing.
March 1, 1997... Editor's Introduction Although in most respects the amount and quality of Canadian research on the history of urban housing cannot compare with that on British and U.S. cities, in recent years its comparative disadvantage has been reduced....

Senator, the merchant, two carpenters, and a widow: a survey of Canadian landlords in 1871.
March 1, 1997... Abstract: Recent scholarship has improved our understanding of the increase in home ownership in Canada from the late nineteenth century, but less attention has been directed to the group that owners displaced, landlords. With data sampled...

Home or homelessness? Marginal housing in Vancouver, 1886-1950.
March 1, 1997... Abstract: Between 1886 and 1950, marginal housing in Vancouver ran the gamut from home to homelessness: in the spectrum of housing conditions, it could be anything between a room in a lodging house in a respectable suburb and a tea box in...

Industrial efficiency, social order and moral purity: housing reform thought in English Canada, 1900-1950.
March 1, 1997... Abstract: This paper traces the evolution of reform ideology in the housing sphere in the first half of the twentieth century by critically analyzing the ideas and practices of a number of key housing reformers and agencies. Premised on...

Wartime housings as cultural landscape, national creation and personal creativity.
March 1, 1997... Abstract: Early in the 1940s, in response to a housing crisis compounded of lack of construction during the depression, rural to urban migration, and the relocation of labour to the burgeoning wartime industries, dockyards and military...

Dominion housing act.
March 1, 1997... Abstract: Since its inception fifty years ago, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has played a dominant role in the development of Canadian housing. Although the policy mechanisms and directions have expanded over the years, the...

Toronto's girl problem: the perils and pleasures of the city, 1880-1930.
March 1, 1997... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995, pp. Xi, 299. Illustrations, $22.95 paper. These three books all relate to the intersections of women's history and urban history and, as such, have important things to say about how women's lives...

Earning respect: the lives of working women in small-town Ontario, 1920-1960.
March 1, 1997... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995, pp. X, 333, Illustrations. These three books all relate to the intersections of women's history and urban history and, as such, have important things to say about how women's lives are...

Rape and heterosexual conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929.
March 1, 1997... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. IX 228, $14.95 (U.S.) paper. These three books all relate to the intersections of women's history and urban history and, as such, have important things to say about how women's lives are...

`Suburb of happy homes': Burnaby centennial themes.
March 1, 1997... Burnaby, British Columbia: Community and Economic Development Centre and Centre for Canadian Studies, Simon Fraser University, 1995. Pp. xviii, 192. Illustrations. Maps. $??.?? paper. Readers might welcome the appearance of this book since...

Canada dry: temperance crusades before Confederation.
March 1, 1997... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 310. Illustrations. Price? paper. One of the many pleasures gained from reading Jan Noel's prize-winning history of the temperance movement in pre-Confederation British North America is...

Riots in cities: popular politics and the urban poor in Latin America, 1765-1910.
March 1, 1997... Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1996. Pp. ix, 248. Index. The seven essays in this volume deal with "urban riots in Latin America before the period of populist politics" (p. 1). Yet some of them show nineteenth-century city...

Parish boundaries: the Catholic encounter with race in the twentieth-century urban north.
March 1, 1997... Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp.vi, 362. Illustrations. $27.50 (US). British historian Paul Johnson has observed that more than any other country in history the United States affords a unique opportunity to...

Free to all: Carnegie libraries and American culture, 1880-1920.
March 1, 1997... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xxvii, 276. 121 black and white illustrations, graphs, bibliography, index $29.95 (U.S.). Between 1886 and 1917, by donating funds to build public libraries in large cities and small towns...

I saw the city invincible: urban portraits of Latin America.
March 1, 1997... Wilmington, Deleware: Scholarly Resources, 1996. pp. xiii, 213. Preface, acknowledgements, suggested readings. $45.00 (cloth). Latin America's history, culture and society is delineated by its urban centres. Both during pre-Colombian times...

Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: city, caste, and the colonial experience.
March 1, 1997... Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 346. Preface, illustrations, maps, appendixes, glossary, bibliography, index. Latin America's history, culture and society is delineated by its urban centres. Both during...

Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994.
March 1, 1997... Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pages ix, 279, preface, bibliography, index. Havana USA is the best study to date of the Cuban exile community in the United States. Mar-a Cristina Garc-a offers an analysis which does not...

Transforming Paris: the life and labors of Baron Haussmann.
March 1, 1997... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 455. Maps, illustrations, photographs, index. $17.95 (paper). This is a splendid book, splendidly conceived, researched, written, and packaged. Fittingly, it is a book about the...

Insurgent identities: class, community, and protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune.
March 1, 1997... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 253. & black and white plates, statistical and methodological appendices, bibliography, index. Craft traditions, class consciousness, or neighbourhood ties -- which of these factors...

Home across the water.
March 1, 1997... (Portland, Or. and North York, Ont.: Braeward Publishing, 1996), 210 pp., photos. $10.95 ISBN 0-9652061-0-6. [Copies may be purchased at the Gibson House, 5172 Yonge Street, North York, or ordered from Braeward Publishing, 14 Ashdean Ave.,...