Eleni Kefala.
Buenos Aires across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939.
Pitt Illuminations Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 264 pp.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4692-2. 
Chad Bryant. Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04865-2.
Reviewed by Joshua Hagen (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point) Published on H-Urban (November, 2022) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58152
Chris Pearson. Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris. Animal Lives Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 265 pp. $23.95 (pdf), ISBN 978-0-226-79704-5; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-79816-5; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-79699-4.
Reviewed by Jovana Babović (SUNY Geneseo) Published on H-Urban (May, 2022) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Barbara J. Black.
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. x + 245 pp.
$64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1417-6.
Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, Ingo Zechner, eds. The Red Vienna Sourcebook. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series. Rochester: Camden House, 2020. 804 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64014-067-7; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-355-7.
Reviewed by Janek Wasserman (University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa) Published on H-Urban (January, 2022) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Christina Schwenkel.
Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xviii + 403 pp.
$30.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1106-4; $114.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1001-2.
Emanuela Grama.
Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania (New Anthropologies of Europe).
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xv + 247 pp.
$58.86 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-04479-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04480-8.
Petr Roubal.
Spartakiads: The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia.
Karolinum Press, 2018. 350 pp.
$23.00 (paper), ISBN 978-80-246-3851-5.
Reviewed by Chad Bryant (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-Urban (September, 2021) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Nicholas Hewitt. Wicked City: The Many Cultures of Marseille. London: Hurst Publishers, 2019. Illustrations. 323 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78738-199-5.
Reviewed by Venus Bivar (University of York, UK) Published on H-Urban (August, 2021) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56154
Derek B. Scott. German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 392 pp. $96.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48458-9.
Reviewed by Antje Dietze (University of Leipzig) Published on H-Urban (June, 2021) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54705
Matthew Mindrup.
The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. Illustrations. xviii + 326 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-04275-8.
Reviewed by Nick Dunn (Lancaster University) Published on H-Urban (December, 2020) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Catherine E. Clark. Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp. $78.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-068164-7.
Reviewed by Patricia Goldsworthy (Western Oregon University) Published on H-Urban (November, 2020) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Paul Stangl.
Risen from Ruins: The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 352 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0320-2.
Reviewed by Jan Musekamp (University of Pittsburgh) Published on H-Urban (September, 2020) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Eloise Moss. Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-884038-1.
Reviewed by Aaron Freundschuh (City University of New York - Queens College) Published on H-Urban (September, 2020) Commissioned by Alexander Vari (Marywood University)
Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Kamil Piskała, Wiktor Marzec, Kaja Kaźmierska, Jacek Burski.
From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897-1994.
Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2019. 308 pp.
$60.00 (paper), ISBN 978-83-233-4488-9.
