Urban History Review articles from September 2008

Urban History Review archives from September 2008

Les ingenieurs sanitaires a Montreal, 1870-1945: lieux de formation et exercice de la profession.(history of sanitation workers in Montreal, Canada)(article in French and in English)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Cet article a pour objet les ingenieurs sanitaires a Montreal depuis leur emergence, au [XIX.sup.e] siecle, jusqu' au milieu du siecle dernier. Peu etudies par les historiens de la medecine et, plus generalement, par les specialistes de...

Social gospel in the city: Rev. W. E. Gilroy and Hamilton Clergymen respond to labour issues, 1911-1918.(Report)
September 22, 2008... This paper examines clergymen's response to labour issues in early-twentieth-century Hamilton, Ontario. While the majority of Hamilton clergymen ignored the issue of labour, a small group of ministers, with Congregational minister W.E. Gilroy...

Old Home Week Celebrations as tourism promotion and commemoration: North Bay, Ontario, 1925 and 1935.(Report)
September 22, 2008... This paper examines Old Home Week Celebrations held in North Bay, Ontario, in 1925 and 1935 in terms of both tourism promotion and the public use of the past. Tourism promotion in 1925 reflected a booster attitude and the belief that North Bay...

Reform and empire: the case of winnipeg, manitoba, 1870s-1910s.(Report)
September 22, 2008... During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labour leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses,...

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Chickering, Roger. The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 628. Illustrations, bibliography, index. In recent years, the historiography of the First World War has...

Les origines populaires de l'economie sociale au Quebec.(book on Quebec socioeconomics by Martin Petitclerc)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Petitclerc, Martin. Nous protegeons I'infortune: Les origines populaires de l'economie sociale au Quebec. Montreal, VLB editeur, 2007. 278 p. Rares sont les ouvrages portant sur la mutualite au Quebec, encore plus rares ceux qui se...

Naitre, vivre, grandir.(book on the history of Saint Justine hospital in Montreal, Quebec)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... L'hopital Sainte-Justine de Montreal a vu le jour grace a la determination de deux femmes. L'une, lrma Levasseur, fut la premiere femme medecin canadienne-francaise; l'autre, Justine Lacoste-Beaubien, provenait d'une riche famille montrealaise...

Culture, Community and Black Chicago, 1940-1955.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 280 pp. Much literature exists regarding the role played by Martin Luther King Jr. and the tragic death in 1955 of...

Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics.
September 22, 2008... Joshua M. Zeitz, White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 296 pp. Joshua Zeitz's lucid and provocative book about the centrality of ethnicity in...

Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Dimitry Anastakis. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 240 pp. If there was anything that you ever wanted to know about 1965's Autopact but were afraid to...

Tobacco Consumption and Identity.(The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jarrett, Rudy. The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. 232 pp. For the past forty years, public health and medical science have framed popular understandings of...