Reviews

Author: 
Eleni Kefala
Reviewer: 
Brian Bockelman

Bockelman on Kefala, 'Buenos Aires across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939'

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

Author: 
Chad Bryant
Reviewer: 
Joshua Hagen

Hagen on Bryant, 'Prague: Belonging in the Modern City'

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

Author: 
Chris Pearson
Reviewer: 
Jovana Babović

Babović on Pearson, 'Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris'

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)

Author: 
Barbara J. Black
Reviewer: 
Eric G. Zuelow

Zuelow on Black, 'Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories'

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

Author: 
Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, Ingo Zechner, eds.
Reviewer: 
Janek Wasserman

Wasserman on McFarland and Spitaler and Zechner, 'The Red Vienna Sourcebook'

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)

Author: 
Christina Schwenkel
Reviewer: 
Hazel Hahn

Hahn on Schwenkel, 'Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam'

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. 

Author: 
Emanuela Grama
Reviewer: 
Antonela Capelle Pogacean

Capelle Pogacean on Grama, 'Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania (New Anthropologies of Europe)'

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

Author: 
Petr Roubal
Reviewer: 
Chad Bryant

Bryant on Roubal, 'Spartakiads: The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia'

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)

Author: 
Nicholas Hewitt
Reviewer: 
Venus Bivar

Bivar on Hewitt, 'Wicked City: The Many Cultures of Marseille'

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

Author: 
Derek B. Scott
Reviewer: 
Antje Dietze

Dietze on Scott, 'German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940'

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

Author: 
Matthew Mindrup
Reviewer: 
Nick Dunn

Dunn on Mindrup, 'The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse'

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)

Author: 
Catherine E. Clark
Reviewer: 
Patricia Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy on Clark, 'Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970'

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)

Author: 
Paul Stangl
Reviewer: 
Jan Musekamp

Musekamp on Stangl, 'Risen from Ruins: The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin'

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)

Author: 
Eloise Moss
Reviewer: 
Aaron Freundschuh

Freundschuh on Moss, 'Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968'

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)

Author: 
Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Kamil Piskała, Wiktor Marzec, Kaja Kaźmierska, Jacek Burski
Reviewer: 
Malgorzata Fidelis

Fidelis on Zysiak and Śmiechowski and Piskała and Marzec and Kaźmierska and Burski, 'From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897-1994'

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

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