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Urban History: prospect and retrospect*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

Richard Rodger
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The appearance of Urban History as a journal marks a further stage in the progression from Newsletter to Yearbook and now to a semi-annual periodical. The timing is apt since it coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the first issue of the Urban History Newsletter, and the enthusiasm surrounding the production and publication of Urban History is a continuing sign of the vigour and confidence expressed by H.J. Dyos thirty years ago, and again in 1974, when the Yearbook first appeared. The current academic self-confidence is matched by a commercial one from the new publishers, Cambridge University Press.

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Urban History , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , April 1992 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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Footnotes

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The section on ‘Theory, practice and urban history in Britain’ represents the distillation of remarks made to the final session of a meeting in Chicago 1990 on ‘Modes of Inquiry for American City History’. Many individuals have written since encouraging me to develop these ideas. I am particularly grateful to Peter Fearon, Josef Konvitz, Lynn Lees, Alan Mayne, Bruce Pennay, David Reeder, Joel Tarr, and Anthony Sutcliffe for their observations, oral and written, and if not by name, would like to acknowledge the enthusiastic promptings of my many other correspondents. My only regret is that I am not equal to the task which they urged me to address, and could not incorporate their observations more effectively.

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