Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Bills, Emily, “Connecting Lines: L.A.’s Telephone History and the Binding of the Region,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2009), 27–67.
Cragg, Thomas, “Habitués of the Police Court: Criminal Justice for the Poor in Antebellum Detroit,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Spring 2009), 1–28.
Desiderio, Francis, “‘A Catalyst for Downtown’: Detroit’s Renaissance Center,” Michigan Historical Review, 35 (Spring 2009), 83–112.
Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, “The World by Gaslight: Urban-Gothic Literature and Moral Reform in New York City, 1845–1860,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 137–62.
Kurashige, Scott, “Crenshaw and the Rise of Multiethnic Los Angeles,” Afro-Hispanic Review, 27 (Spring 2008), 41–58.
Lassiter, Matthew D., and Kevin M. Kruse, “The Bulldozer Revolution: Suburbs and Southern History since World War II,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 691–706.
Martinko, Whitney A, “Progress and Preservation: Representing History in Boston’s Landscape of Urban Reform, 1820–1860,” New England Quarterly, 82 (June 2009), 304–34.
Mirabal, Nancy Raquel, “Geographies of Displacement: Latinas/os, Oral History, and the Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco’s Mission District,” Public Historian, 31 (May 2009), 7–31.
Mitrani, Sam, “Reforming Repression: Labor, Anarchy, and Reform in the Shaping of the Chicago Police Department, 1879–1888,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Summer 2009), 73–96.
Nance, Susan, “The Veiled Prophet’s Oriental Tale: St. Louis’s Famous Festivals in Context, 1878–1900,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Jan. 2009), 90–107.
Richardson, Gary, and Patrick Van Horn, “Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City during the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (June 2009), 446–65.
Gehlawat, Monika, “Boom: The New York City Flâneur in Postwar American Literature and Art” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331627.
Gioielli, Robert R., “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: Urban Environmentalism in Postwar America” (University of Cincinnati, 2008). Order No. DA3323850.
Heath, Andrew David, “‘The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia’: Imperialism, Republicanism, and the Remaking of a City and Its People, 1837–1877” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328573.
Jenks, Hillary, “‘Home Is Little Tokyo’: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3325078.
Lyes, Madeleine, “Writing Urbanity: Urban Literature and Culture during the Golden Era of the New Yorker Magazine” (University Collge Dublin, Ireland, 2009).
Miller, Paul T., “The Interplay of Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in the Experience of San Francisco’s African American Community, 1945–1975” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3319971.
Peaslee, Liliokanaio, “Agents of Social Change: Police–Social Policy Engagement in Four New England Cities” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3319786.
Rowan, Jamin Creed, “Urban Sympathy: Reconstructing an American Literary Tradition” (Boston College, 2008). Order No. DA3327284.
Scott, Damon John, “The City Aroused: Sexual Politics and the Transformation of San Francisco’s Urban Landscape, 1943–1964” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3320461.
Hunt, D. Bradford, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x, 380 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-36085-0.)
Nishiyama, Takayuki, Amerika-gata fukushi kokka to toshi seiji: Nyuyoku-shi niokeru aban riberarizumu u no tenkai (An American-style welfare state and urban politics: The development of urban liberalism in New York City). (Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2008. 334 pp. ¥6,825, isbn 978-4-13036-231-3.) In Japanese.
Rosenblum, Constance, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. xii, 267 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8147-7608-7.)
Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna, Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii, 196 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-226-52078-0.) Heavily illustrated.
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