Urban History Review articles from September 2003

Urban History Review archives from September 2003

Redonner a la ville son autonomie comme objet de recherche.(Introduction)(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... Quelles sont les tendances recentes de la recherche en histoire urbaine? Quelles preoccupations et quelles questions animent, aujourd'hui, les chercheurs? Comment l'histoire urbaine est-elle definie par ceux qui la pratiquent? Voila un ensemble...

L'histoire urbaine en France. Nouvel objet, nouvelles approches.
September 22, 2003... Abstract This paper analyzes the difficulties of conducting independent research on the subject of tbe ctty in France, while exploring fruitful areas of study opened by recent scholarship that defines the urban specificity. Three of these...

L'urbain : un entre-deux historiographique. Les villes italiennes a l'epoque contemporaine. Parcours de lectures a travers les themes de l'historiographie recente.
September 22, 2003... Abstract The essay deals with some crucial points in the historiographical discussion about Italian towns. It begins by considering rural society's ability of resistance and bow this resistance has conditioned the historiographical...

North American urban history: the everyday politics and spatial logics of metropolitan life.
September 22, 2003... Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing. Compared to twenty-five years ago, the field has become more interdisciplinary and intellectually invigorating. Scholars are publishing...

L'histoire urbaine au Canada : l'espace, les citadins et les gouvernants.
September 22, 2003... Abstract This paper reviews recent developments in the field of urban history in Canada. In the last decade, scholars have examined different aspects of city life : housing, work, culture, ethnicity, etc. Despite the fragmentation of the...

Taking stock: perspectives on British urban history *.
September 22, 2003... Abstract Drawing on an unprecedented volume of recent scholarship on the urban history of Britain, this paper seeks to identify areas for future academic research. These include a closer alignment of intellectual disciplines to...

Clark, Peter and Raymond Gillespie, eds. Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500-1840.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Proceedings of the British Academy, volume 107. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 311. Black and white illustrations, maps, tables, index. $140.00 This volume, the product in part of a conference held in Dublin in 1998,...

De Barros, Juanita. Order and Place: In a Colonial City. Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... De Barros, Juanita. Order and Place: In a Colonial City. Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 252, Illustrations, bibliography,...

Rodger, Richard. The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land. Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 540. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. US$80.00. With this substantial tome, resting on an impressive quantity of archival research, Richard Rodger buttresses his...

Brumfield, William Craft; Boris V. Anan'ich; Yuri A. Petrov, eds. Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 239. Illustrations, index. US$49.50 (hardcover). The first post-communist decade in Russia saw a massive flight of historians from...

Sheard, Sally; and Power, Helen, eds. Body and City: Histories of Urban Public Health.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Historical Urban Studies. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xvii, 221, tables, figures, index. US$84.95 The essays in this volume were, with one exception, presented at a conference on the history of public health held to mark the 150th...

Mayne, Alan, and Tim Murray, eds. The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland. New Directions in Archaeology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi. 192. Illustrations, bibliography, index. US$25,00 (paperback) Archaeologists can help historians understand the history of cities by recovering and interpreting past material culture. A...