Urban History Review articles from March 1999

Urban History Review archives from March 1999

Eastside Landmark: history of the East Los Angeles community union, 1968-1993.
March 1, 1999... Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998, Pp., vii, 321. The 1970s marked the rise of the "new urban history" that promised to write the city from the bottom up. Allen Davis's 1973 history of Philadelphia marked a watershed: it set out to...

Gateway to the promised land: ethnic cultures in New York's Lower East Side 1968-1993.
March 1, 1999... New York: New York University Press, 1995. Pp. 343. The 1970s marked the rise of the "new urban history" that promised to write the city from the bottom up. Allen Davis's 1973 history of Philadelphia marked a watershed: it set out to...

Becoming Mexican American: ethnicity, culture and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945.
March 1, 1999... New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 367. The 1970s marked the rise of the "new urban history" that promised to write the city from the bottom up. Allen Davis's 1973 history of Philadelphia marked a watershed: it set out to...

Blood relations: Caribbean immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930.
March 1, 1999... Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 238. The 1970s marked the rise of the "new urban history" that promised to write the city from the bottom up. Allen Davis's 1973 history of Philadelphia marked a...

Artisan and the European town, 1500-1900.
March 1, 1999... Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 263, tables, charts, maps. Geoffrey Crossick not only did a fine job editing this collection of twelve essays, he included one of his own which is by far the longest (40 pages) and...

Capitale: lieu du pouvoir.
March 1, 1999... Sainte-Foy (Qc): La Commission de la capitale nationale du Quebec, Les publications du Quebec, 1997, 132 p. ISBN: 2-551-17205-5 La Commission de la capitale nationale du Quebec nous propose, sous la plume de Jean-Marie Lebel, Jacques...

Reconquete de Montreal.
March 1, 1999... Montreal, VLB Editeur, Co II. Etudes quebecoises, 404 p. Voici enfin en version francaise l'excellent livre de Marc Levine, publie en 1990 sous le nom The Reconquest of Montreal chez Temple University Press (Philadelphie). J'avais eu...

Los Angeles A to Z: an encyclopedia of the city and county.
March 1, 1999... Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 603. Maps, black and white illustrations, appendices, selected readings and films. US$34.95 (cloth). This volume is the latest in a wave of encyclopedic treatments of...

Urbanization of opera: music theatre in Paris in the nineteenth century.
March 1, 1999... Trans. Mary Whittall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. [Originally published as Die Verstadterung der Oper: Paris und das Musiktheater des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel...

Cathedrals of urban modernity: the first museums of contemporary art, 1800-1930.
March 1, 1999... Historical Urban Studies. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK/Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xiii, 322. Black and white plates, bibliography, index. Although the title of J. Pedro Lorente's book alludes to the well-known metaphor of the...

Housing design and society in Amsterdam: reconfiguring urban order and identity, 1900-1920.
March 1, 1999... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 386. Maps, black and white illustrations, and index. This scholarly work tells the story of housing design in Amsterdam during the time when H.P. Berlage, J.M. van der Mey, Michel de...

Capital cities at war.
March 1, 1999... Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 622. US$90.00 (cloth). War and social change are prominent subjects for historians interested in the cultural and social aspects of conflict, with most...

Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930.
March 1, 1999... Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998. Pages, 567. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Jose Moya presents Spaniards of Buenos Aires as those who were not "other" enough, the "invisible" immigrants who...