CONTENTS

African-Americans versus the Memphis Street Railway Company Or, How to Win the Battle but Lose the Way, 1890-1920
KENNETH W. GOINGS

Religion as Urban Culture A View from Strasbourg, 1870-1914
ANTHONY STEINHOFF

The Makings of a Fine Prosperity Thomas M. Stroke, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and the Campaign to Approve the Cachuma Project, 1948-1949
MICHAEL R. ADAMSON

Chicagoland More than the Sum of its Parts
ANN KEATING

Conversation with Lizabeth Cohen Urban History and the Consumer’s Republic
BRUCE M. STAVE

REVIEW ESSAYS

Landscapes of Leisure Building an Urban History of Tourism
MARK SOUTHER

MANSEL BLACKFORD, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959- 2000. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

CAHTHERINE COCKS, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

HARVEY K. NEWMAN, Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.

A Few Great Men Or How to Get Things Done in New York City
AMY RICHTER

JAMESON W. DOIG, Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority. Columbia University Press, 2000.

KURT C. SCHLICHTING, Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

The Rise of the Golden City Los Angeles in the Twentieth Century
LESLIE WILSON

DANA CUFF, The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2000.

CATHERINE MULHOLLAND, William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000,

RACHEL J. SONENSHIEN, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

JULES TYGIEL, The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Social Citizenship and the American City
JENNIFER FROST

MICHAEL K. BROWN, Race, Money, and the American Welfare State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

MICHAEL B. KATZ, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

ALICE O’CONNOR, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth- Century US History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

JOEL SCHWATRZ, Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825-2000. Indiana University Press, 2000.

Property, Power, and the City in Great Britain
ALASTAIR OWENS

SIMON GUNN, The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority In the English Industrial City, 1840-1914. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.

JOHN J. PARKINSON-BAILEY, Manchester: An Architectural History. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.

COLIN G. POOLEY and MICHAEL J. HARMER, Property Ownership in Britain c. 1850-1950: The Role of the Bradford Equitable Building Society and the Bingley Building Society in the Development of Homeownership. Cambridge, UK: Granta Editions, 1999.

RICHARD ROGER, The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Early Modern London and the End of Polarities
LEONARD SCHWARTZ

J.M. BEATTIE, Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750. Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.

PAUL GRIFFITHS and MARK JENNER, eds. Londonopolis: Essays in the Cultural And Social History of Early Modern London. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.

TODD LONGSTAFFE-GOWAN, The London Town Garden 1700-1840. London and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

J.F. MERRITT, ed., Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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