Urban History Review articles from March 2008

Urban History Review archives from March 2008

Introduction.
March 22, 2008... The history of epidemics has been a staple of academic inquiry over the last generation. From "King Cholera" to the "White Plague," there has been a morbid fascination with the grim realities of modern disease outbreaks, whether epidemic or...

An epidemic without enmity: explaining the missing ethnic tensions in New Haven's 1918 influenza epidemic.
March 22, 2008... In the autumn of 1918, as troops in Europe waged the final battles of the First World War, city health officials in New Haven, Connecticut--and worldwide--began to confront a virulent and highly infectious strain of influenza. With over a...

Public health, yellow fever, and the making of modern Tampico.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... In the nineteenth century, emergent cities were important to Mexico's becoming a modern nation-state. Our understanding of the process, however, remains incomplete. There are abundant studies of the process for Mexico City, but a limited number...

Preparing for the pandemic: city boards of health and the arrival of cholera in Montreal, New York, and Philadelphia in 1832.
March 22, 2008... As cholera spread through North America in the spring and summer of 1832, cities found themselves forced to combat the epidemic with minimal support from federal, provincial, or state governments. Historians of the disease have rightly made the...

A Janus-like asylum: the city and the institutional confinement of the mentally ill in Victorian Ontario.
March 22, 2008... Introduction The history of mental health and psychiatry has witnessed tremendous popularity among scholars. The literature is vast, and constitutes, alongside the history of public health, one of the most popular fields within the history...

La ville industrielle et ses poisons: Les mutations des sensibilites aux nuisances et pollutions industrielles a Grenoble, 1810-1914.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Baret-Bourgoin, Estelle. La ville industrielle et ses poisons : Les mutations des sensibilites aux nuisances et pollutions industrielles a Grenoble, 1810-1914. Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2005. Pp 427. Estelle...

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Andrew Burton. African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. Oxford: James Currey, 2005. Especially on the African continent, "the coming anarchy" of chaotic, anomic urban agglomerations has, we learn from...

Pointe Saint-Charles: un quartier, de femmes, une histoire communautaire.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Le Collectif CourtePointe. Pointe Saint-Charles : un quartier, de femmes, une histoire communautaire. Montreal, Les Editions du Remue-Menage, 2006. 286 p. Illustrations, notes, bibliographie. Si le communautarisme en milieu urbain a recu...

Les Sulpiciens de Montreal: Une histoire de pouvoir et de discretion, 1657-2007.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Deslandres, Dominique, John A. Dickinson, et Ollivier Hubert, dir. Les Sulpiciens de Montreal: Une histoire de pouvoir et de discretion, 1657-2007. Montreal, Fides, 2007. 670 p. Ce livre, magnifiquement illustre, se presente comme une...

Questions d'egouts: Sante publique, infrastructures et urbanisation a Montreal au XIXe siecle.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gagnon, Robert. Questions d'egouts : Sante publique, infrastructures et urbanisation a Montreal au XIXe siecle. Montreal, Les Editions du Boreal, 2006. 263 p. Bibliographie, cartes, figures, index. La construction et le developpement des...

La rue a Rome, miroir de la ville: Entre l'emotion et la norme.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gruet, Brice. La rue a Rome, miroir de la ville : Entre l'emotion et la norme. Paris, Presses de l'Universite Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 557 p. Illustrations, bibliographie. > (23) La rue a Rome... est le resultat d'un travail acharne et...

Les annees 60: Montreal voit grand.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lortie, Andre, dir. Les annees 60 : Montreal voit grand. Montreal, Le Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 2004. Pp. 205. Illustrations, bibliographie. Il importe de preciser des le depart que cet ouvrage est le catalogue qui a accompagne...

Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago.
March 22, 2008... Platt, Harold. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Alexis de Tocqueville saw it as a "monstrosity": a city where industrial revolution provoked...

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Teaford, Jon C. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 306 pp, illustrations, notes, index. ISBN: 0-231-13372-3; paper: ISBN: 0-231-13373-1. No historian does a better job...

Hourra pour Santa Claus! La commercialisation de la saison des fetes au Quebec, 1885-1915.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Warren, Jean-Philippe. Hourra pour Santa Claus! La commercialisation de la saison des fetes au Quebec, 1885-1915. Montreal, Boreal, 2006. 302 p. Redige dans un style clair et energique, Hourra pour Santa Claus jette un regard concis sur la...