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Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and Cities. Urban History is leading the way in academic publishing with its multimedia companions. The companions are refereed and fully linked and provide real depth to research. Online subscribers also gain access to Urban History’s comprehensive online bibliography, which contains 34,000 searchable items including books, articles and edited collections.
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- Maureen A. Flanagan, Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. 327pp. 14 halftones, 6 maps. $104.50 hbk. $37.95 pbk. $37.95 ebk.
- Urban History, Volume 46, Issue 1
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926818000664
History blog
- Contemporary European Historians on Brexit
- 21 February 2019,
- The upshot of this roundtable cannot be easily reduced to a political headline, and that is precisely the point. Serious history rarely works that way.
- Why (not) Feathers? Period Hands and Material Encounters in Colonial Peru
- 21 February 2019,
- My article on feather-work in colonial Peru shows, above all, that we should no longer differentiate between non-literate (material) Native Americans with feathers...
- Reassessing the First Red Scare of 1919-20 at its Centennial
- 05 February 2019,
- The time has come to take stock of both our historical understanding of the First Red Scare and what it means for us today. The January 2019 issue of The Journal...
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