Urban History

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Municipal modernity: the politics of leisure and Johannesburg's swimming baths, 1920s to 1930s10
Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities7
Revisiting the playground: Charles Wicksteed, play equipment and public spaces for children in early twentieth-century Britain5
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship: the view from north-west Europe since c. 18704
Flows and fixes: water, disease and housing in Bangalore, 1860–19154
A lesson in urban renewal: the role of residents in designing clearance and construction policy in an Israeli neighbourhood4
Cartographies of catastrophe: mapping World War II destruction in Germany and Poland4
Rediscovering Shanghai modern: Chinese cosmopolitanism and the urban art scene, 1912–19483
Social housing policy in the metropolitan area of Athens during the period 1922–20123
Narrative heroes and civic builders in Newcastle city region during the nineteenth century2
A political framework for understanding heritage dynamics in Turkey (1950–1980)2
Hong Kong triads: the historical and political evolution of urban criminal polity, 1842–20202
The cost of living in early modern cities: a study on eighteenth-century northern Italy2
The birth of oppida: small towns in Hungary in the Angevin period1
The transfer of foreign modernity in Beijing: the new urban space in the Legation Quarter, 1900–19281
Bibliography of urban history 20221
From public interest to public obligation: compulsory land expropriation for capital reconstruction in Nationalist China1
The decline and fall of an early modern slum: London's St Giles ‘Rookery’, c. 1550–18501
Sheltering refugees: ephemeral architecture and mass migration in early modern Venice1
AIDS and the city: bathhouses, emplaced empathy and the de-sexualization of San Francisco1
Stones and slaves: labour, race and spatial exclusion in colonial Santo Domingo1
‘A mere gutter!’ The Carioca Aqueduct and water delivery in mid-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro1
To be had for a Pesthouse for the use of this parish’: plague pesthouses in early Stuart London, c. 1600–16501
Youth, race and the inner-city estate: narratives of everyday life in Manchester's Hulme, 1970–19941
Regulating sense and space in late Renaissance Florence1
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–19491
The urban networks of Anglo-Norman Meath and the Teutonic Order's Kulmerland: a comparative analysis1
Boundary making in the formative years of Tel Aviv Township, 1920–19231
Markets made modular: constructing the modern ‘wet’ market in Hong Kong's public housing estates, 1969–19751
The image of the foreign squatter: British and Irish youths in the Dutch city of Leiden during the 1990s1
The politics of everyday life: urban materialities, modernity and conflictual interactions on two Danish mass housing estates in the 1970s1
‘Empty’ space in Central European medieval towns through an interdisciplinary perspective1
Force and the city: occupying and controlling Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War1
Fleeting gestures and changing styles of greeting: researching daily life in British towns in the long eighteenth century1
Stonehouse: Scotland's last new town, c. 1967–19771
Industrial housing clusters in nineteenth-century Lisbon: finding spatial patterns0
Conference report: ‘The state of urban history: past, present, future’, Leicester, 11–13 July 20230
International zones in global urban history0
Julie Hardwick, Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 288pp. £22.99 hbk.0
Were post-colonial cities US imperial cities?0
Teresa Phipps, Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. v + 222pp. 2 figures. 16 tables. Bibliography. £85.0
Index of towns0
Stephen H. Rigby and Robert C. Nash, The Overseas Trade of Boston, 1279–1548. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2023, 135pp. 9 figures. 14 tables. Bibliography. €32.00 pbk.0
Luke Giraudet, Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and His Community, 1400–1450. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 328pp. 8 b/w images. €104.00 hbk.0
The vowesses, the anchoresses and the aldermen's wives: Lady Margaret Beaufort and the devout society of late medieval Stamford0
Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota and Sanne Muurling (eds.), Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 257pp. £78.99 hbk.0
The role of women in the shaping of civic identity in Edwardian Leicester: Edith Gittins and the Anglo-Saxon past of Æthelflæd's fountain. Historical reconstruction and 3D visualization0
When Saturday comes: football, public disorder and Liverpool's urban crisis, c. 1965–19850
The non-religious and the European city in the nineteenth century: the development of crematories in Milan and Gotha0
Urban space, power and people through the optic of cemeteries in late medieval Cairo and Paris0
List of books reviewed0
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Moving ‘out’ to be ‘in’: the suburbanization of London Jewry, 1900–19390
Sunlight and free markets: an urban political ecological perspective on social housing in Victorian London (1850–1914)0
Jim van der Meulen, Woven into the Urban Fabric: Cloth Manufacture and Economic Development in the Flemish West-Quarter (1300–1600). Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 251pp. €84.00. - Peter Stabel, The Fabric0
Ottawa, 1857–1860: the making of Canada's capital city on the eve of Confederation0
Andrew Israel Ross, Public City/Public Sex. Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. xi + 264pp. $110.50 hbk. $34.95 pbk0
Twinned cities: reconciliation and reconstruction in Europe after 1945 – an introduction0
Carl Abbott, Suburbs. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 140pp. 10 b/w images. Ppk £8.99.0
J. Dumolyn and A.-L. Van bruaene (eds.), City and State in the Medieval Low Countries: Collected Studies by Marc Boone. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 264pp. €84.00 hbk.0
‘Monarchical modern’: the making of Mysore city, 1880–19400
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Vera Bácskai and her significance in the development of European urban history: a personal account0
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Joseph Brady, Dublin from 1970 to 1990: The City Transformed. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. 456pp. 262 plates. 14 tables. Bibliography. £36.39 hbk. £26.25 pbk.0
David Morton, Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. 336pp. 72 illustrations. $90.00 hbk. $32.95 pbk.0
Picturing an industrial city: green and modern? Postcards from Chemnitz and Lodz (1880s–1980s)0
Peter Borsay: an appreciation0
Inner-city possibilities: using place and space to facilitate inter-ethnic dating and romance in 1960s–1980s Leicester0
Alice Johnson, Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 361pp. 39 plates. Bibliography. £80.00 hbk.0
Caroline M. Barron and Laura Wright (eds.), The London Jubilee Book, 1376–1387. An Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.3.11, folios 133–157. London Record Society 55. Woodbridge: Boydell & B0
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Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe0
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Otto Saumarez-Smith, Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 198pp. 35 b&w illustrations. £65.00 hbk. £220
Bibliography of urban history 20200
Jelle Haemers and Ben Eersels (eds.), Words and Deeds: Shaping Urban Politics from below in Late Medieval Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 224pp. 3 plates, 3 figures. €85.00 hbk.0
John Garrard and Ekaterina Mikhailova (eds.), Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time. London: Routledge, 2019. xxiv + 334pp. £120.00 hbk. £36.99 pbk. £33.29 ebk. - John Ga0
Charlie Taverner, Street Food. Hawkers and the History of London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xi + 244pp. 17 figures inc. 2 maps, 15 illustrations. Index. £32.49 hbk.0
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Michael Parkinson, Liverpool beyond the Brink: The Remaking of a Post-Imperial City. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. ix + 178pp. Pbk/eBook £19.95.0
Dietrich W. Poeck (ed.), Das zweite Kolberger Stadtbuch 1373–1436. Cologne: Böhlau, 2021. 892pp. €100.00 hbk.0
Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis (eds.), Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 322pp. 22 figures. 30 tables. £75.00 hbk.0
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R.J. Morris0
Empires’ city-building and the 1792 intervention of Aupaumut's book0
Bombay: the genealogy of a global imperial city0
Sam Wetherell, Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2020. 272pp. 43 b/w illustrations. £32.00 hbk. £22.00 pbk.0
The facade of power and the power of the facade: memory and meaning in Victorian cities0
Susana Zapke and Elisabeth Gruber (eds.),A Companion to Medieval Vienna. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. 611pp. 72 figures. Bibliography. €202.00 / $243.00 hbk.0
Michael E. Smith, Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Xviii + 350pp. 83 figures. 17 tables. £100.00 hbk.0
Dominic Bryan and S.J. Connolly with John Nagle, Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast since 1780. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. ix + 238pp. 15 plates. Bibliography. £80.00 hbk.0
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Edward Saunders, Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory: Cold War and Post-Soviet Representations of a Resettled City. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. viii + 308pp. £48.00 pbk.0
Ben Wilson, Metropolis. A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention. New York: Vintage, 2021. 442pp. 30 plates. £10.99 pbk.0
Carla Roth, The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii + 191pp. 14 illustrations. 4 tables. Index. £75.00 hbk.0
Chris Otter, Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 400pp. 65 halftones. $49.00 cloth. $48.99 eBook.0
Index of towns0
Race, homelessness and inner-city policy in 1980s Britain0
Refugees, expellees and immigrants: comparing migrant reception policies and practices in post-war Bristol, Dortmund and Malmö0
Andrew Hobbs (ed.), The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, vol. I: 1865–1887. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022. xlix + 672pp. 5 plates. 3 figures. Bibliography, £35.95 hbk0
Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism. Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. 368pp. £50.00/$60.00 hbk.0
Stephen Stuempfle, Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–1962. Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press, 2018. xiii + 465pp. 31 plates. 7 figures. Bibliography. £78.00 pbk.0
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Charles-François Mathis and Émilie-Anne Pepy, Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century. Winwick: White Horse Press. 2020. 340pp. 54 figures. £75.00 hbk.0
‘Dance is a disease for us’: dancing through the night as a threat to moral order in urbanizing Estonia0
Anita Kurimay, Queer Budapest, 1873–1961. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020. 336pp. 16 halftones. Bibliography. $97.50 hbk. $32.50 pbk. $31.99 eBook.0
Twinning across the Adriatic: history, memory and municipal co-operation between Italy and Yugoslavia during the Cold War0
Waterworks, municipal government and the environment in twentieth-century Britain0
Toward a Japanese paradigm of settler-colonial urbanism?0
‘Differences within a range of similarity’: mapping Australian urban history0
Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop0
Building green urban expertise: politicians, agronomists, gardeners and engineers at Lisbon City Council (1840–1900)0
There’s no time like the present: path-dependent urban growth, agglomeration economies and congestion externalities in contemporary Athens0
Captured with malicious intent? The opportunities and limits of debt imprisonment in late medieval Bruges0
Egalitarian greetings: the social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–18500
Sven Sterken and Evan Weyns (eds.), Territories of Faith: Religion, Urban Planning and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. 362pp. 99 figures (b/w). Bibliograp0
Paul Watt, Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. xiv + 506pp. 54 plates. 14 figures. 7 tables. Bibliography. £75.00 hbk.0
Richard Kirkland, Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 223pp. 10 illustrations. £90.00 hbk. £28.99 pbk.0
Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp c. 1860–19100
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From post-war reconciliation to European integration? Competing historicities of ‘exchange’ in European small-town twinning0
Kevin Siena, Rotten Bodies. Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. x + 333pp. 8 figures. £30.00 hbk.0
Pre-15000
Ritualizing citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona0
For fame and fortune: the origins of St Petersburg’s zoo, 1865–18710
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The origins of the negative historical representations of burghers in Hungary0
Index of towns0
How deep is your love? Patriotism, money and the people in Canton in the early phase of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–19380
Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, John S. Lee and Katie Phillips, Compassionate Capitalism: Business and Community in Medieval England. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020. xiv + 382pp. 7 figures. 410
Review of periodical articles0
Bruno Blondé and Jeroen Puttevils (eds.), Antwerp in the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 315pp. €94.00 hbk.0
Princely cities in South Asia, c. 1850–1950: themes and perspectives0
Letters of challenge: displayed writing, urban public space and honour culture in seventeenth-century Madrid0
Michał Murawski, The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and the City Transfixed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019. 338pp. 115 illustrations. 2 maps. Pbk $40.00; 0
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Peter Clark and Denis Menjot (eds.), Subaltern City? Alternative and Peripheral Urban Spaces in the Pre-modern Period (13th to 18th Centuries). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019. 274pp. €86 hbk.0
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List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–20190
Making space for resistance: the spatiality of popular protest in the late medieval Southern Low Countries0
Respectability and race between the suburb and the city: an argument about the making of ‘inner-city’ London0
Carlos López Galviz, Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century. London: Routledge, 2019. 294pp. 39 b&w figures. 3 tables. £120.00 hbk.0
Late-night noise hazards and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's countermeasures in the 1960s0
Sue Silberberg, A Networked Community: Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century. Carlton, Victoria: University of Melbourne Press, 2020. xi + 244pp. Illus. Bibliography. $A34.99.0
Stefan Höhne, Riding the New York Subway: The Invention of the Modern Passenger. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021 [Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2017]. xvi + 365pp. 60 figures. Bibliography. £40.00 pbk.0
Brent Cebul, Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 432pp. 10 halftones, 3 maps. 1 table. $39.95 hbk.0
Administering justice to foreigners: international merchants and mariners before the late medieval Aberdeen courts0
The image of the foreign squatter: British and Irish youths in the Dutch city of Leiden during the 1990s – CORRIGENDUM0
The city as a national work of art: modernity and nation building in fin-de-siècle Lviv – CORRIGENDUM0
Parker Daly Everett, Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism 1871–1933. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 392pp. $92.00 hbk.0
Robert Lewis, Chicago’s Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2020. 272pp. 13 b&w halftones. 1 map. $39.95 hbk.0
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Stephanie Newell, Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. xvi + 249pp. 14 illustrations. Bibliography. $26.95 pbk.0
Bram Caers, Lisa Demets and Tineke van Gassen (eds.), Urban History Writing in Northwest Europe (15th–16th Centuries). Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 231pp. €81 hbk.0
Neighbourhood exceptionalism and racial liberalism in the Great Society city: integration as civic showpiece at St Louis’ LaClede Town0
Post-18000
Beyond colonial urbanism: state power, global connections and fragmented land regimes in twentieth-century Hyderabad city0
Index of towns0
Jo Guldi, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Appendix. Timeline. xxii + 577pp. £30.00 hbk. $40.00 hbk.0
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Eloise Moss, Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860–1968. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 250pp. £27.99 hbk.0
‘A very exclusive experiment in communism’: the radical origins of the Manhattan co-op0
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Steven Carl Smith, An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2017. 264 pp. Bibliography. $29.95 pbk.0
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Sylvia E. Thornbush and Mary J. Thornbush, Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards. Singapore: Bentham Books, 2020. ii + 286pp. 6 maps. 11 figures. 28 tables. Bibliography. $58.00 print. $29.0
Rosemary Wakeman, A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. x + 382pp. 69 figures. Bibliography. £72.00 hbk. £22.49 pbk. £17.99 ebook.0
Branding in practice, or how an Amsterdam publisher used the city to promote Gerbrand Bredero (1585–1618)0
Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme (eds.), New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe since 1500. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, xviii + 285pp. 14 figures. 1 table. £120 hbk. £36.99 ebk.0
Bob Morris: an appreciation0
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Benno Engels, The Poverty of Planning: Property, Class, and Urban Politics in Nineteenth-Century England. Maryland and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 461pp. £112.00/$145.00 hbk. £38.00/$50.000
Cristina Viviana Groeger, The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384pp. 24 illustrations. 1 map. £28.95 hbk.0
The impact of the British Civil Wars on the meanings and uses of the urban topography of Colchester in the long nineteenth century0
Transient marginal identities and networks in early modern Madrid: the 1614 case of the ‘Armenian’, ‘Greek’ and ‘Turkish’ counterfeiters0
Visions of public and private mobility: the Kowloon railway terminus in Hong Kong0
Community, culture, crisis: the inner city in England, c. 1960–19900
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Ambiguities of urban détente: East German town twinning and the struggle with globalization in the 1960s0
Artisans’ chase for urban space. Clusters of construction entrepreneurs in Brussels, c. 1830–19300
1500–18000
Experiences of political mobilization and popular participation in Milan's working-class neighbourhoods: 1945–19670
Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern Hamburg0
Malte Fuhrmann, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xi + 477pp. 9 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. £75.00 hb0
The plans for Tokyo Bay: the challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s0
Merchants’ agents and the process of bottom-up harmonization between European towns, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries0
Making urban memory visible: the on-screen transformation of Beijing’s hutong districts during modernization (1940s–2010s)0
Anna Lvovsky, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 360pp. 16 figures. $105.00 hbk. $35.00 pbk.0
Katherine French, Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 314pp. 50 figures, 2 maps, 9 tables. £52.00 hbk.0
Stuart Jenks and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (eds.), Message in a Bottle. Merchants’ Letters, Merchants’ Marks and Conflict Management in 1533–34. A Source Edition. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 257pp. €86.00 h0
Catchwater colonialism: reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–19680
The economic space of cities: an analysis of leather tanners in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome0
East Germany and the lost German East: Dresden–Wrocław ‘socialist friendship’ after Nazism and forced migration0
Lincoln A. Mitchell, San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock, and a Third-Place Baseball Team. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. xii + 280pp. 31 plates. £29.95 hbk.0
Assembling urban worlds: always-becoming urban in and through Bir al-Saba’0
Bibliography of urban history 20230
Making the global turn matter: strategies and pathways0
Sophie Cooper, Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c. 1830–1922. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. vi + 258pp. Bibliography. $110.00 hbk.0
Annalise J.K. DeVries, Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Suburb. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2021. 264pp. £39.95 hbk.0
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‘This has not been done because it was not made any one's business to do it.’ Conserving Hyderabad city's Hussain Sagar tank in the late nineteenth century0
John Davis, Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 588pp. 83 plates. Bibliography. £30.00/$39.95 hbk.0
Introduction: crossing urban legal boundaries in northern Europe: merchants and the law, 1350–16000
Elizabeth LaCouture, Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ix + 364pp. 40 figures. 2 tables. $145.00 hbk. $35.00 pbk. 0
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. vii + 279pp. 27 figures. 9 tables. Bibliography. £35 hbk.0
1500–18000
Ben Anderson, Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xii + 302pp. £64.99 hbk. £51.99 eBook.0
Geoffrey Tyack, The Making of Our Urban Landscape. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xv + 367pp. 144 illustrations and maps. Further Reading. £25.00 hbk.0
Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid and Bert De Munck (eds.), Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Natures since 1500. New York: Routledge, 2019. 33 figures. £120.00
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Carole O'Reilly, The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 1840–1939. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. x + 154pp. 11 illustrations. £120.00 hbk.0
Arash Khazeni, The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. xv + 244pp. 2 maps. 28 figures. Bibliography. £66.00 hbk. £24.0
Italo Insolera, Modern Rome: From Napoleon to the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lucia Bozzola, Roberto Einaudi and Marco Zumaglini. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. xxviii +0
Michael Reeve, Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. viii + 390pp. 16 figures. 10 tables. Bi0
Peter Borsay with Rosemary Sweet, The Invention of the English Landscape 1700–1939. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. xi + 289pp. 27 figures. Bibliography. £85.00 hbk. £76.50 ebk.0
Recovering the past for the future: Racibórz after World War II0
Lauren Pikó, Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England. Routledge: Abingdon, 2019. 230pp. 15 figures. £120.00 hbk. £36.99 pbk. £36.99 eBook.0
Joel Rast, The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Development in Twentieth-Century Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. ix + 280pp. 19 halftones. $35.00 pbk.0
Judy Z. Stephenson, Contracts and Pay: Work in London Construction 1660–1785. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xii + 261 pp. £101.00 hbk.0
‘To stay, serve and witness’ – church politics and British inner cities in the 1980s0
Taylor M. Easum, Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand: A City in the Colonial Margins. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 288pp. 14 illustrations, 1 table. €124.00 hbk; open access 0
Richard D. Wragg, The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press in association with Boydell & Brewer, 200
The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969)0
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B. Ann Tlusty and Mark Häberlein (eds.), A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xvii + 595pp. €228 hbk.0
Juliana Adelman, Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 248pp. 28 figures. £85.00 hbk. £14.99 pbk.0
The legal position of guests in late medieval Stockholm0
Jaap Evert Abrahamse and Heidi Deneweth (eds.),Transforming Space: Visible and Invisible Changes in Premodern European Cities, Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800) volume 58. Tu0
Adam Page, Architectures of Survival: Air War and Urbanism in Britain, 1935–52. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2019. 243pp. 12 figures. £80.00 hbk.0
Ewa Wampuszyc, Mapping Warsaw: The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 225pp. 27 figures. $34.95 pbk/eBook.0
Porpoise, punishment and partnership: the meaning of presenting and consuming a marine mammal in late medieval coastal Flanders0
The Knights Templar in English towns0
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Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. London: Allen Lane, 2023. 352pp. 13 maps. Bibliography. £25.00 hbk. £10.99 pbk.0
Lena Liapi, Roguery in Print: Crime and Culture in Early Modern London. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. ix + 194pp. 6 Plates. 3 Figures. £65.00 hbk.0
David Fée, Bob Colenutt and Sabine Coady Schäbitz (eds.), Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021. 266pp. 15 figures. 3 tables. £70.00 h0
Tara A. Dudley, Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. i + 336pp. 20 plates. 83 figures. 22 tables. Bibliography. £48.52 hb0
‘Look out! Get back!’ Horse-drawn traffic and its challenges in Belgian cities in the early modern period0
Colin J. Brett (ed.),Thomas Kytson's ‘Boke of Remembraunce’ 1529–1540. London Record Society, 54. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. 512pp. 77 figures. £40.00 / $70.00 hbk.0
‘To his utter undoing in this world’: maintaining, contesting and crossing Hanseatic legal boundaries in medieval London and Bruges0
Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin: an instructive history of urban infrastructure security0
Benjamin Holtzman, The Long Crisis: New York and the Path to Liberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 352pp. $34.95 hbk.0
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