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Volume 37 - December 2010

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Nelida Fuccaro, Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 276pp. 21 black and white illustrations. 5 maps. £55.00.

Domenic Vitiello with George E. Thomas, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City it Made. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. xvi + 253pp. 44 plates. £29.50, $45.00.

Phillada Ballard (ed.), Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects. Wetherby: Oblong for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society, 2009. 652pp. 330 figures. £41.00.

Thomas Adam, Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii + 240pp. 17 plates. $39.95.

Shannon Lee Dawdy, Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 344pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. $35.00 hbk; $22.50 pbk. E-book (2009).

Paul A. Elliott, The Derby Philosophers. Science and Culture in British Urban Society, 1700–1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. x + 294pp. 40 figures. Select bibliography. £65.00.

Edward J. Ahearn, Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848–2001 (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010). 246pp. £55.00.

Eric C. Schneider, Smack: Heroin and the American City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 xvii + 259 pp.

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, History, Culture and the Indian City: Essays by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 270pp. £50.00

Chris Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 382pp. 65 halftones. Bibliography. £34.00/$65.00 hbk; £13.00/$25.00 pbk.

Wendell Pritchett, Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ix + 433pp. 27 figures. $30.00.

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Bernd Roeck, Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia. Translated by Stewart Spencer. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. xiii + 317pp. 28 figures. Bibliography. £25.00.

Adam R. Seipp, The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. xiii + 266pp. Bibliography. £60.00.

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Harvey J. Graff, The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxviii + 388 pp. 55 figures. 1 table. Appendices. $34.95.

Jordan Stanger-Ross, Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Post-war Toronto and Philadelphia. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 190pp. 39 figures. 14 maps. $35.00.

Louise Nelson Dyble, Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 296pp. 29 illustrations. $39.95.

D. Bradford Hunt, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x + 392 pp. 28 halftones. 4 line drawings. 1 table. $35.00.

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