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Urban History Review articles from October 2001
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Urban History Review archives from October 2001
Philanthropic Landmarks: The Toronto Trail from a Comparative Perspective, 1870s to the 1930s (1).(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Abstract
In this essay the author compares nineteenth-and early twentieth-century philanthropy in Toronto to that in German and American cities such as Leipzig and New York. The argument is divided into four parts, each dealing with...
The Landscapes of Winnipeg's Wildwood Park.
October 1, 2001... Abstract
This paper is a review of the history of the differentiated landscapes of Winnipeg's Wildwood Park--their origins and their transformations since the community's establishment in the late 1940s by builder/developer Hubert Bird....
"The Heritage of the People Closed Against Them:" Class, Environment, and the Shaping of Burlington Beach, 1870s-1980s.
October 1, 2001... Abstract
Following serious flooding in the 1970s, Hamilton, Ontario politicians and planners sought to transform the Burlington Beach area into a recreational parkland. This dream was not a new one. One hundred years earlier, Hamilton...
Surf City: A Guide to the Web for Urban Historians.
October 1, 2001... The World Wide Web is useful for the scholarly needs of urban historians. Not only can it present information in the traditional print format, but it can also provide information in the visual form that urban scholars are usually concerned...
Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... July Fudge and Eric Tucker. Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000.
A great deal of recent scholarship in labour studies has focused on how legal...
La cite au bout du fil. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(text in French)
October 1, 2001... Claire Poitras, La cite au bout du fil, P.U.M., Montreal 2000, 325 p.
Le livre, La cite au bout du fil, de Claire Poitras presents les grandes lignes de sa these de sa doctorat en amenagement, these qui portait sur Ia construction du...
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. I: 600-1540. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... D. M. Palliser, ed., The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. I: 600-1540. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 841. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. US.$140 (cloth)
This is an immensely useful book....
Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... Joseph W. Esherick, ed. Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. x, 278. Maps, black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. US$65.00 (cloth)
With a large...
Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in the City. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... Annabelle Sabloff. Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in the City. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 252. Photographs. $55.00 hard, $22.95 paper.
This erudite study hunts for metaphors that will help realign...
Cairo. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... Andre Raymond. Cairo, trans. by Willard Wood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 2000. Pp. 436. Illus., maps, photos, bibliography and index. (Originally published by Fayard in Paris, 1993, as Le Caire.)
Andre Raymond, distinguished...
The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... Peter Borsay. The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 434. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index.
In this book, Peter Borsay sets out to examine...
Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
October 1, 2001... Brigitte Hamann. Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship. Trans T. Thornton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 482. Black and white illustrations, bibliography, index.
The specialist receives another book about Adolf...