Elizabeth Fraterrigo

The Answer to Suburbia: Playboy's Urban Lifestyle
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 747-774. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

John R. Griffiths

Civic Communication in Britain: A Study of the Municipal Journal c. 1893-1910
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 775-794. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Joan Ganau

Reinventing Memories: The Origin and Development of Barcelona's Barri Gòtic, 1880-1950
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 795-832. [Abstract] [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Laurent Vidal, Grégory Beriet, and Christine Haynes

John Merriman: "Cities and Politics in Nineteenth Century France"
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 833-844. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Gabor Vermes

Review Essay: Budapest, Past and Present: GABOR GYANI, Identity and the Urban Experience: Fin-de-Siecle Budapest. Translated by Thomas J. DeKornfeld. Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Monographs; Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications; Budapest: Institute of Habsburg History, 2004, ix, pp. 271, notes, index, $40.00 cloth. JUDIT BODNAR, Fin de Millenaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, vii, pp. 222, notes, bibliography, index, $35.00 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 845-849. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

John R. Breihan

Review Essay: Airport History: JANET R. DALY BEDNAREK, America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2001, pp. viii, 226, index, bibliography, notes, illustrations, $39.95 cloth. DAVID T. COURTWRIGHT, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2005, x, 284, illustrations, notes, references, index, $60 cloth, $24.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 850-854. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Bethany L. Rogers

Review Essay: INTEGRATING EDUCATION HISTORY AND URBAN HISTORY The Politics of Schools and Cities: JACK DOUGHERTY, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 253, illustrations, maps, charts, table, notes, bibliography, index, $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper. ADAM R. NELSON, The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005, xvii, 332, notes, index, $70.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. DORIS HINSON PIEROTH, Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004, ix, 283, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, $30.00 cloth. KATE ROUSMANIERE, Citizen Teacher: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, xi. 271, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, bibliography, index, $81.50 cloth, $25.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 855-869. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Kimberly Katz

Review Essay: MODERNITY AND THE MIDDLE EAST Cities and Their Citizens: JENS HANSSEN, Fin De Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. vi, 307, illustrations, graph, tables, bibliography, index, $95.00 cloth. KEITH DAVID WATENPAUGH, Being Modern in the Middle East : Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. vii, 325, illustrations, tables, maps, $35.00 cloth. CHRISTA SALAMANDRA, A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 199, illustrations, map, bibliography, index, $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 870-878. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Sivananda Mantri

Review Essay: Shaping Southern Urban Development and Social Relations: CHARLES E. CONNERLY, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005, xvi, 360, illustrations, notes, index, $45.00 cloth. CHRISTINA GREENE, Our Separate Ways: Women and Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005, xviii, 366, illustration, notes, bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. DAVID FORT GODSHALK, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005, xvi, 365, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, $59.95 cloth, $22.50 paper. CHRISTOPHER MACGREGOR SCRIBNER, Renewing Birmingham:Federal Funding and the Promise of Change 1929-1979. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002, pp. xii, 188, notes, bibliography, index, $40.00 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 879-888. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Julian C. Chambliss

Review Essay: NEW IN OUR EYES Race, Class, and Progress in New South Atlanta: ANDY AMBROSE, Atlanta: An Illustrated History. Foreword by John Lewis. Athens, GA: Hill Street, 2003, illustrations, maps, resources and suggested reading, index, $18.95 paper. KAREN FERGUSON, Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, pp. xvi, 366, illustrations, maps, appendix, tables, notes, works cited, index, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. GREGORY MIXON, The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005, xv, 197, maps, index, notes, bibliography, $59.95 cloth
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 889-900. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

Luther Adams

Review Essay: EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED Black-Jewish History in Twentieth-Century America: V. P. FRANKLIN, NANCY L. GRANT, HAROLD M. KLETNICK, AND GENNA RAE MCNEIL, eds., African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999, vii, pp. 366, footnotes, index, $34.95. ERIC J. SUNDQUIST, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. 645, notes, $35.00 paper
Journal of Urban History 2008 34: 901-914. [PDF] [References] [Request Permission]  

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