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Volume 35 - December 2008

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Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman (eds.), Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 256pp. 10 plates. Bibliography. £50.00.

Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. i + 242pp. 32 plates, 10 figures, 1 table. $50.00/£33.50.

Colman O Mahony, Cork's Poor Law Palace. Workhouse Life 1838–90. Cork: Rosmathún Press, 2005. xiv + 330pp. 17 illustrations. 3 appendices. Bibliography. €45.00.

Alex Windscheffel, Popular Conservatism in Imperial London 1868–1906. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007. xii + 260pp. 11 tables. £50.00.

Marcy S. Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 240pp. 8 illus. Bibliography. $49.95.

Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. vii + 202pp. Illustrations and charts. Bibliography. $35.00.

Eric Ross, Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xv + 290pp. 56 plates. Bibliography. £45.00/$75.00.

Mary Hilson, Political Change and the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective. Britain and Sweden 1890–1920. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2006. 352pp. 5 maps. 3 figures. 23 tables. Bibliography. £42.00.

Kevin Mumford, Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America. New York: New York University Press, 2007. xi + 308pp. 41 illus. $39.00.

Evelyn Gonzalez, The Bronx. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ix + 263pp. 29 illustrations. 20 maps. 30 tables. Bibliography. £23.50 hbk; £13.95 pbk.

Prashant Kidambi, The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890–1920. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xxi + 268pp. 6 figures. £55.00.

Martin Gorsky, John Mohan and Tim Willis (eds.), Mutualism and Health Care. British Hospital Contributory Schemes in the Twentieth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. xii + 243pp. £55.00.

Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert (eds.), Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1919. Volume II: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 545pp. 15 figures. Bibliography. £60.00.

Marjaana Niemi, Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. x + 228pp. 24 figures, 2 tables. Bibliography. £55.00.

Steven Thompson, Unemployment, Poverty and Health in Interwar South Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. xvii + 296pp. 26 figures, 18 tables. Bibliography. £45.00.

Elizabeth Darling, Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction. London: Routledge, 2007. 275pp. Bibliography. £75.00.

Robert Freestone, Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900–1930. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. viii +325pp. 111 figures, 1 table. Bibliography. £75 hbk, £30 pbk.

Natasha Vall, Cities in Decline? A Comparative History of Malmo and Newcastle after 1945. Malmo: Malmo University, 2007. 242pp. Illustrations. 90 SEK pbk.

Joseph L. Scarpaci, Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xix + 267pp. 92 illustrations. 14 tables. Bibliography. $24.95.

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