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Volume 26 - May 1999

Book Review

Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns. London and New York: Verso, 1995. viii + 248pp. 67 Illus. $60.00.

M. Glendenning et al., A History of Scottish Architecture from the Renaissance to the Present Day. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996. 604pp. 335 b/w, 25 line drawings. £60.00 hbk, £25.00 pbk.

Helen Meller, Towns, Plans and Society in Modern Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. vi + 138pp. Bibliography. £7.95. US$12.95.

Richard D. Bingham and Robert Mier (eds), Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development. The Urban Affairs Annual Revues Nr. 47. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997. 344pp. £22.00.

Natacha Coquery, L'Hôtel Aristocratique. Le marché du luxe à Paris au xviiie siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998. 444pp. 72 documents. Bibliography. 180 FF.

Gareth Shaw and Tim Coles, A Guide to European Town Directories. Volume one: Germany Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997. xiv + 327pp. 23 plates. 20 figures. £55.00.

Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, Interpreting Nairobi: The Cultural Study of Built Forms. Helsinki: Suomen Historiallinen Seura, 1996. 371pp. 147 plates. Bibliography. No price stated.

Martin Hewitt, The Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City: Manchester, 1832–67. Aldershot: Scolar, 1996. xii + 355pp. 7 tables. 4 figures. Bibliography. £45.00.

James Hodsdon (compiler), An Historical Gazetteer of Cheltenham. Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester Record Series vol. 9), 1997. xiv + 208pp. 4 maps incl. 3 facsimiles in end pocket. Bibliography. £30.00.

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Andrzej Olechnowicz, Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 273pp. 2 maps. 17 tables. Illustrations. Bibliography. £45.00.

William Beik, Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 283pp. 14 plates. 3 tables. Bibliography. £35.00.

W.G. Huff, The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi + 472pp. 12 figures. 97 tables. Bibliography. £50.00 hbk; £16.95 pbk.

Michael Dumper, The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. X + 365pp. 28 maps. 10 tables. Bibliography. $29.50.

François-Joseph Ruggiu, Les élites et les villes moyennes en France et en Angleterre (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). Paris and Montreal: L'Harmattan, 1997. 356pp. 37 tables. No price stated.

Pierre-Yves Saunier, L'Esprit lyonnais XIXe–XXe siècle. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1995. 233pp. 15 plates. Bibliography. 190FF.

Rosemary Sweet, The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. viii + 356pp. 4 figures. 1 table. Bibliography. Index. £45.00.

Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. xiv + 271pp. 10 figures. 3 maps. Bibliography. £37.95.

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