Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Beeching, Barbara J., “Reading the Numbers: Census Returns as Key to the Nineteenth Century Black Community in Hartford, Connecticut,” Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 224–47.
Coates, Peter, “Easterners Go West: English Sparrows, Immigrants, and the Nature of Fear,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 39 (Dec. 2005), 431–62.
Colten, Craig E., “Cities and Water Pollution: An Historical and Geographic Perspective,” Urban Geography, 26 (July–Aug. 2005), 435–58.
Denzer, Anthony, “Community Homes: Race, Politics, and Architecture in Postwar Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2005), 269–85. Heavily illustrated.
Estrada, Gilbert, “If You Build It, They Will Move: The Los Angeles Freeway System and the Displacement of Mexican East Los Angeles, 1944–1972,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2005), 287–315.
Friedberger, Mark, “Development, Politics, and the Rural-Urban Fringe in North Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 359–83.
Glynn, Tom, “The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Fall 2005), 493–529.
Hirata, Miwako, “America ni okeru daitoshiken seifu hatten no futatsu no nami” (Two great waves of metropolitan governments in U.S. history), Musashi Daigaku Jinbun Zasshi (Tokyo), 36 (no. 2, 2004), 130–98. In Japanese.
Hurley, Andrew, “Aqueducts and Drains: A Comparison of Water Imperialism and Urban Environmental Change in Mexico City and Los Angeles,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 12–21. Heavily illustrated.
Johnson, Bertram, “Associated Municipalities: Collective Action and the Formation of State Leagues of Cities,” Social Science History, 29 (Winter 2005), 549–74.
Lee, J. Lawrence, “Baltimore’s Belt,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 30–51. Heavily illustrated.
Loose, John Ward Willson, “Lancaster’s Sweet Tooth,” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 107 (Fall 2005), 74–97. Heavily illustrated.
McCoy, Matthew G., “Base Instinct: Phoenix and the Fight Over Luke Field, 1946–1948,” Military History of the West, 35 (2005), 57–76.
Miller, Char, “Running Dry: Water and Development in San Antonio,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 44–51. Heavily illustrated.
Miyares, Ines M., “From Exclusionary Covenant to Ethnic Hyperdiversity in Jackson Heights, Queens,” Geographical Review, 94 (Oct. 2005), 462–83.
Pipkin, John S., “The Moral High Ground in Albany: Rhetorics and Practices of an ‘Olmstedian’ Park, 1855–1875,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 666–87.
Schnurmann, Claudia, “Anglo-Dutch Relations in and around Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam/ New York,” in Amsterdam—New York: Transatlantic Relations and Urban Identities since 1653, ed. George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam, 55–66. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2005. 199 pp. Paper, €29.90, isbn 90-5383-955-0.)
Sokol, Marienka, “Reclaiming the City: Water and the Urban Landscape in Phoenix and Las Vegas,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 52–61. Heavily illustrated.
Suga, Miya Shichinohe, “Little Tokyo Reconsidered: The Transformation of the Japanese American Community through the Early Redevelopment Projects,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo) (no. 15, 2004), 237–56.
Sugawara, Kazuyuki, “New york shi ni okeru shiseikaikaku to machine seiji” (Urban reform and machine politics in New York City: Civil service reform during the administration of Fiorello H. La Guardia), Amerika-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 38 (2004), 141–58. In Japanese.
Sukkoo, Kim, “Industrialization and Urbanization: Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?,” Explorations in Economic History, 42 (Oct. 2005), 586–98.
Szymanski, Ann-Marie, “Stop, Thief! Private Protective Societies in Nineteenth-Century New England,” New England Quarterly, 78 (Sept. 2005), 407–39.
Buckley, Constance R., “Searching for Fort Dearborn: Perception, Commemoration, and Celebration of an Urban Memory” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3174231.
Chitnavis, Sham M., “Uganda Asian Refugees and Expellees in Los Angeles, the American El Dorado” (University of Hawai‘i, 2005). Order No. DA3171039.
Chronopoulos, Themis, “Disorderly Space: Power Relations and the Postwar Decline of New York City” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174589.
Ganz, Cheryl R., “A New Deal for Progress: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3174177.
Harrison, Marjorie Freeman, “Machine Politics Suburban Style: J. Russel Sprague and the Nassau County (New York) Republican Party at Midcentury” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3274807.
Hartley, Benjamin L., “Holiness Evangelical Urban Mission and Identity in Boston, 1860–1910” (Boston University School of Theology, 2005). Order No. DA3176974.
Henderson, Andrea Davies, “Reconstructing Home: Gender, Disaster Relief, and Social Life after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906–1915” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3171786.
Howard, Amy Lynne, “‘More than shelter’: Community, Identity, and Spatial Politics in San Francisco Public Housing, 1938–2000” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3172892.
Kerr, Daniel R., “Open Penitentiaries: Institutionalizing Homelessness in Cleveland, Ohio” (Case Western Reserve University, 2005). Order No. DA3177657.
Lemmey, Karen Yvonne, “Henry Kirke Brown and the Development of American Public Sculpture in New York City, 1846–1876” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3169946.
Rawson, Michael J., “Nature and the City: Boston and the Construction of the American Metropolis, 1820–1920” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3175588.
Strathman, Theodore Andrew, “‘Dream of a big city’: Water Politics and San Diego County Growth, 1910–1947” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3169320.
Wilson, Jamie Jaywann, “Sickness, Health, and the Politics of Well Being in Harlem, New York, during the Interwar Period” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170888.
Brian, Denis, Sing Sing: The Inside Story of a Notorious Prison. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2005. 263 pp. $25.00, isbn 1-59102-357-2.)
Conforti, Joseph A., ed., Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005. xxxiv, 348 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-58465-521-6.)
Hill, Beatrice, and Brenda Lee, comps., South of Main. (Spartansburg: Hub City, 2005. xvi, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-891885-45-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Hofsommer, Don L., Minneapolis and the Age of Railways. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xiv, 337 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8166-4501-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Lesy, Michael, Angel’s World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto. (New York: Norton, 2006. 127 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-393-06111-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Panetta, Roger, ed., Westchester: The American Suburb. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xii, 468 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 0-8232-2593-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8232-2594-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Schnurmann, Claudia, and Iris Wigger, eds., Tales of Two Cities/Stadtgeschichten: Hamburg und Chicago im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Tales of Two Cities/Stadtgeschichten: Hamburg and Chicago in 19th and 20th centuries). (Hamburg: lit, 2006. 312 pp. €29.90, isbn 3-825-89254-9.) In German and English.
Wasik, John F., The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xiv, 270 pp. $24.95, isbn 1-4039-6884-5.)
Xu, Wang, Meiguo chengshihua de lishi jiedi (A historical explanation of United States urbanization). (Changsha: Yuelu, 2003. 502 pp. Y 30.00, isbn 7-80665-311-2.) In Chinese.
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