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The Pied Piper and the Magpie: Current Work in Urban History - English Urban Life, 1776–1851. By James Walvin. London and Dover, N.H.: Hutchinson, 1984. Pp. vii + 216. £14.95 (cloth). - The Transformation of English Provincial Towns. Edited by Peter Clark. London and Dover, N.H.: Hutchinson, 1984. Pp. 359. £20.00 (cloth). - European Urbanization, 1500–1800. By Jan de Vries. London: Methuen; and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. Pp. xvii + 398. £22.50 (cloth). - The Shopkeeper's World, 1830–1914. By Michael J. Winstanley. Manchester and Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp. x + 230. $24.50 (cloth). - House and Home in the Victorian City: Working-Class Housing, 1850–1914. By M. J. Daunton. London and Baltimore: Edward Arnold, 1983. Pp. ix + 320. £32.50 (cloth). - English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography. By Richard Dennis. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 368. $49.50 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Derek Fraser*
Affiliation:
Department of Education and Science, Leeds

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1 By way of example of advanced work from the Dyos school, see Cannadine, D. and Reeder, D., eds., Exploring the Urban Past (Cambridge, 1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Fraser, D. and Sutcliffe, A., eds., The Pursuit of Urban History (London, 1983)Google Scholar. As far as new research is concerned, distillations of a large amount of thesis research have appeared in the series Themes in Urban History, published in the United Kingdom by the Leicester University Press and in the United States by St. Martin's Press.

2 By way of example, see Palliser, D. M., Tudor York (Oxford, 1979)Google Scholar; Clark, P., ed., Country Towns in Pre-industrial England (Leicester, 1981)Google Scholar; Corfield, P. J., The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800 (Oxford, 1982)Google Scholar; and Patten, J., English Towns, 1500–1700 (Folkstone, 1978)Google Scholar.

3 See Wrigley, E. A. and Schofield, R. S., The Population History of England, 1541–1871: A Reconstruction (London, 1981)Google Scholar.

4 Anderson, G., Victorian Clerks (Manchester, 1976)Google Scholar; Walton, J. K., The Blackpool Landlady (Manchester, 1978)Google Scholar.

5 Crossick, G. and Haupt, H., eds., Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe (London, 1984)Google Scholar.

6 See Offer, A., Property and Politics, 1870–1914 (Cambridge, Mass., 1981)Google Scholar; and Englander, D., Landlord and Tenant in Urban England, 1838–1918 (Oxford, 1983)Google Scholar.

7 For other geographical approaches, see Johnson, J. H. and Pooley, C. G.. eds., The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities (London. 1982)Google Scholar.

8 Finch, John, Statistics of Vauxhall Ward (Liverpool, 1842)Google Scholar.