TOC: Journal of Urban History 43:5 (September 2017)

Journal of Urban History Assistant to the Editor Discussion

The Journal of Urban History is pleased to announce the table of contents for the September 2017 issue.

 

Journal of Urban History

Volume 43, Number 5/September 2017

 

Urban Governance and Tolerance: The Regulation of Suspect Spaces and the Burden of Surveillance in Post-World War I Asheville, North Carolina

 

Seth Epstein

Metropolitan Growth Along the Nation’s River: Power, Waste, and Environmental Politics in a Northern Virginia County, 1943-1971

Andrew C. Baker

 

Industrialization on Chicago’s Periphery: Examining Industrial Decentralization, 1893-1936

Edward Miller

 

Shanghai Industries in the Civil War (1945-1947)

Christian Henriot

 

The Metropolitan Military: Homeowner Resistance to Military Family Housing in Southern California, 1979-1990

 

Ryan Reft

Sahat al-Borj: A Feminine City Square as a Container of Events

 

Dolly Daou

 

Disassembling the CityA Historical and an Epistemological View on the Agency of Cities

 

Bert De Munck

 

Review Essays

 

Cities in a World-historical Perspective

Paul Hohenberg

Peter Clark, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

 

Christopher Kennedy. The Evolution of Great World Cities(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).

 

Andrew LeesThe City: A World History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

 

Geoffrey Parker. Power in Stone: Cities as Symbols of Empire(London: Reaktion Books, 2014).

 

 

The Great Rebuilding, American Style: Infrastructure

Robert Buerglener

Herbert L. Hiller. Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida2005).

 

Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.  (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

 

Robert W. Jackson. Highway under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel.  (New York: New York University Press, 2011).

 

David W. Jones. Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010).

 

Brian LaddAutophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age.(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).

 

 

Experiencing Urban Spaces in Early Modern Europe 

Ann Tlusty

Daniel JütteThe Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

 

Yair Mintzker. The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

 

Susanne Rau. Räume der StadtEine Geschichte Lyons 1300-1800(Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag2014).

 

Harlem:  New Perspectives on an Old Neighborhood

Michael Marino

Vivek BaldBengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). 

Shannon KingWhose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots activism during the New Negro Era(New York: New York University Press, 2015).

Kevin McGruderRace and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem(New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).