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Author:

Nicole Haumont, ed.

Reviewer:

Alain Faure

Faure on Brun and Rhein, 'La segregation dans la ville' and Fourcaut, 'La ville divisee. Les segregations urbaines en question (France 18e-20e siecles)' and Haumont, 'La ville: agregation et segregation sociales'

Jacques Brun, Catherine Rhein, eds. La segregation dans la ville. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1994. 258 pp. ISBN 978-2-7384-2477-8.Annie Fourcaut, ed. La ville divisee. Les segregations urbaines en question (France 18e-20e siecles). Grane: Creaphis, 1996. 465 pp. ISBN 978-2-907150-66-8.Nicole Haumont, ed.

Author:

Peter Fritzsche

Reviewer:

Benjamin Lapp

Lapp on Fritzsche, 'Reading Berlin 1900'

Peter Fritzsche. Reading Berlin 1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. X+ 308 S. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-74881-1.

Reviewed by Benjamin Lapp (Montclair State University) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

Author:

Mary Murphy

Reviewer:

Peggy Pascoe

Pascoe on Murphy, 'Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941'

Mary Murphy. Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xviii + 279 pp. $21.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-06569-9; $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-02267-8.

Reviewed by Peggy Pascoe (University of Oregon) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

Surviving on Stories

Author:

Ira Robinson, Mervin Butovsky, eds.

Reviewer:

Pierre Anctil

Anctil on Robinson and Butovsky, 'Renewing our Days. Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century'

Ira Robinson, Mervin Butovsky, eds. Renewing our Days. Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century. Dossier Quebec series Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1995. 192 pp. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55065-062-4.

Reviewed by Pierre Anctil (Departement d'histoire, Universite du Quebec a Montreal) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

Complexites et brillance du judaisme montrealais

Author:

Jean-Luc Pinol, ed.

Reviewer:

pierre yves saunier

saunier on Guardia and Monclus and Oyon, 'Atlas historico de ciadades europeas. I Penisula Iberica' and Pinol, 'Atlas historique des villes de France'

Manuel Guardia, Francisco Javier Monclus, Jose Luis Oyon. Atlas historico de ciadades europeas. I Penisula Iberica. Barcelona, Salvat / Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Hachette, 1994. xv + 335. ISBN 978-84-345-5681-2.Jean-Luc Pinol, ed. Atlas historique des villes de France. Paris: Hachette, 1996. xv + 318 pp. 395 FF (cloth), ISBN 978-2-01-235192-9.

Author:

Richard Longsreth

Reviewer:

Geoffrey DeVerteuil

DeVerteuil on Longsreth, 'City Center to Regional Mall'

Richard Longsreth. City Center to Regional Mall. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. xxxi + 504 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-12200-9.

Reviewed by Geoffrey DeVerteuil (Department of Geography, University of Southern California) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

Los Angeles and Commercial Geography

Author:

Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin

Reviewer:

Mustafa Dikec

Dikec on Graham and Marvin, 'Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places'

Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. xvii + 434 pp. $59.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-11903-0; $220.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-11902-3.

Reviewed by Mustafa Dikec (Middle East Technical University--University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

Author:

Davison M. Douglas

Reviewer:

Wayne J. Urban

Urban on Douglas, 'Reading, Writing & Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools'

Davison M. Douglas. Reading, Writing & Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xii + 357 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-4529-5; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2216-6.

Reviewed by Wayne J. Urban (Georgia State University) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

A Tale of One City

Author:

Sally M. Miller

Reviewer:

Chloe Carroll-Burke

Carroll-Burke on Miller, 'Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century American Socialism'

Sally M. Miller. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century American Socialism. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996. xvi + 303 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8153-1163-8.

Reviewed by Chloe Carroll-Burke (University of Michigan) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

Diversity and the Socialist Party in America

Author:

Kenneth W. Goings, Raymond A. Mohl, eds.

Reviewer:

Henry L. Taylor

Taylor on Goings and Mohl, 'The New African American Urban History'

Kenneth W. Goings, Raymond A. Mohl, eds. The New African American Urban History. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications Inc., 1996. xviii + 381 pp. $64.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7619-0309-3; $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7619-0308-6.

Reviewed by Henry L. Taylor (SUNY-Buffalo) Published on H-Urban (October, 1997)

The New African American History?: A Review

Celebrating 25 Years Online

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Faure on Brun and Rhein, 'La segregation dans la ville' and Fourcaut, 'La ville divisee. Les segregations urbaines en question (France 18e-20e siecles)' and Haumont, 'La ville: agregation et segregation sociales'

Lapp on Fritzsche, 'Reading Berlin 1900'

Pascoe on Murphy, 'Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941'

Anctil on Robinson and Butovsky, 'Renewing our Days. Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century'

saunier on Guardia and Monclus and Oyon, 'Atlas historico de ciadades europeas. I Penisula Iberica' and Pinol, 'Atlas historique des villes de France'

DeVerteuil on Longsreth, 'City Center to Regional Mall'

Dikec on Graham and Marvin, 'Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places'

Urban on Douglas, 'Reading, Writing & Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools'

Carroll-Burke on Miller, 'Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century American Socialism'

Taylor on Goings and Mohl, 'The New African American Urban History'

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