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The study of urban history in the People's Republic of China

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, most of the topics associated with the study of urban history have languished largely unstudied beneath a pall of ideologically based neglect. The list of understudied subjects includes urban population, physical structure, social structure, economic activity, urban politics, urban planning and the environment, and urban culture. This lack of interest in urban history directly reflects the emphasis on the role of the peasantry as a creative force in Chinese history. The history of Chinese peasant uprisings and wars became the focus of attention and left little interest for what changes might have taken place in urban settings. Today, a combination of forces has generated considerable changes in the institutional structure of historical studies in China, as well as compelling historians to reconsider established research preferences. In this atmosphere it appears that for the first time since 1949 topics that concern urban historians in the West and Japan are receiving serious attention in the People's Republic of China. While it is still too early to speak of urban history in China, continuation of current trends in historical research over the next five to ten years will almost certainly bring this specialization into existence.

The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company and the Study of Urban History

The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company and the Study of Urban History

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History

Part I. Chioggia: 1. Introduction 2. Origins of the town 3. Early medieval Chioggia 4. Local records from the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century 5. The late medieval apogee and the war of 1380 6. Reconstruction of the town 1380-1400 7. Chioggia in the quattrocento: retrenchment and social problems 8. The sixteenth century: civic pride and financial decline 9. From Sabbadino to the second great plague, 1630 10. The later seicento and the building boom of the eighteenth century 11. The Napoleonic survey: nineteenth-century postscript Part II. The Lidi of the Southern Lagoon Part III. The Northern Venetian Lagoon Burano Part IV. Some Notes on Other Venetian Sites Part V. Three Other Lagunar Settlements Part VI. Conclusions.

Review: Low Cost Home Ownership: An Evaluation of Housing Policy under the Conservatives, Studies in Urban and Regional Policy 3. Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair?, Urban and Regional Studies 12. Housing and Urban Renewal: Residential Decay and Revitalization in the Private Sector, Surveys in Economics: Labour Economics, Uncertainty and the Labour Market: Recent Developments in Job-Search

Review: Low Cost Home Ownership: An Evaluation of Housing Policy under the Conservatives, Studies in Urban and Regional Policy 3. Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair?, Urban and Regional Studies 12. Housing and Urban Renewal: Residential Decay and Revitalization in the Private Sector, Surveys in Economics: Labour Economics, Uncertainty and the Labour Market: Recent Developments in Job-Search

GarryWotherspoon (editor), Sydney’s Transport: Studies in Urban History (Sydney, Hale & Iremonger in association with The Sydney History Group, 1983), pp. 212: $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paperback

GarryWotherspoon (editor), Sydney’s Transport: Studies in Urban History (Sydney, Hale & Iremonger in association with The Sydney History Group, 1983), pp. 212: $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paperback

The Essence of Medieval Urban Communities: the Vill of Westminster 12001540The Alexander Prize Essay

THE modern study of urban history began in the nineteenth century, and has since continued to reflect the preoccupations of its founders. For these historians, the towns of the European Middle Ages nurtured the seeds of political democracy and economic liberalism. Consequently, two great historians of the late nineteenth century, Charles Gross and F.W. Maitland, laid down criteria for the definition of towns which stressed above all the theme of administrative independence. It was declared that fundamental legal differences distinguished the borough from other forms of community, in particular the village. Burghal status, and the features associated with itsuch as the existence of a civil constitution, the right to representation in parliament, and the free tenure of propertyhave been exhaustively analysed by subsequent writers, not-ably James Tait. This emphasis upon the legal autonomy of towns has been strengthened by the prestige of the great medieval cities of Flanders, Germany and Italy, which repeatedly exemplify the trade centre fighting or bargaining to achieve communal independence from feudal overlords and control over the surrounding countryside. In accordance with this pattern of urban development, historians have tended to seek, as a necessary first stage of growth, evidence of such a struggle for self-governing independence.

Book Review: House and Home in the Victorian City: Working Class Housing 1850-1914 by M. J. DAUNTON. Studies in Urban History 7. London: Edward Arnold. 1983. pp. 320. £32.50

Book Review: House and Home in the Victorian City: Working Class Housing 1850-1914 by M. J. DAUNTON. Studies in Urban History 7. London: Edward Arnold. 1983. pp. 320. £32.50

J. S. Grewal and Indu Banga(ed.): Studies in urban history. [iii], 209 pp., 2 maps. Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University, [1982?]. Rs. 42 (paper Rs. 35).

J. S. Grewal and Indu Banga(ed.): Studies in urban history. [iii], 209 pp., 2 maps. Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University, [1982?]. Rs. 42 (paper Rs. 35).

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Convict Society and Its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales. By J.B. Hirst. George Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1983. pp. 244.$519.95 hardback. $9.95 paperback. Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid‐Nineteenth Century New South Wales. By Michael Sturma. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia 1983. pp. xii + 224. $29.95. Public Servants and Patronage. The Foundation and Rise of the New South Wales Public Service, 1786–1859. By Arthur McMartin. Sydney University Press, Sydney 1983. pp. xiii + 345. $32.50. Mr Santamaria and the Bishops. By Gerard Henderson. Studies in the Christian Movement, Sydney 1982. pp. xii + 230. $19.95. Rockchoppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia. By Edmund Campion. Penguin Books, 1982. pp. vi + 241. $6.95. Brother P.A. Treacy and the Christian Brothers in Australia and New Zealand. By K.K. O'Donoghue. The Polding Press, Melbourne 1983. pp. 339. $22.50. The Demon of Discord: Tensions in the Catholic Church in Victoria, 1853–1864. By Margaret M. Pawsey, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1982. Pp. xvi + 183. $19.95. A History of the Highland Clearances: Agrarian Transformation and the Evictions, 1746–1886. By Eric Richards, Croom Helm, London and Canberra 1982. Pp. xviii + 532. The Scots in Australia: A Study of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, 1788–1900. By Malcolm D. Prentis. Sydney University Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 304. $33.50. Stales of Mind: A Study of Anglo–Irish Conflict 1780–1980. By Oliver MacDonagh, Allen & Unwin, London 1983. Pp. viii + 151. The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake. By Cyril Pearl. Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1983. Pp. vi + 234. $14.95. In the Midst of Life ... The Australian Response to Death. By Graeme M. Griffin and Des Tobin. Melbourne University Press. Melbourne 1982. Pp. xiv + 177. $7.95 (pb). Historical Records of Victoria, Foundation Series, Volume 2A: The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835–1819, Volume 2B: Aborigines and Protectors 1838–1839. Victorian Government Printing Office, Melbourne 1982 and 1983. Editor‐in‐chief: Michael Cannon. Pp. xviii + 803. $22.95 hardback, $15.50 paperback. Race Relations in Australia: A History. By A.T. Yarwood and M.J. Knowling Methuen Australia, Sydney 1982. Pp. 312. $14.95. Indentured Labour in the British Empire 1834–1920. Edited by Kay Saunders. Croom Helm, London and Canberra 1984. Pp. 290 + index, maps and illustrations. 539.95. Historians, Puritanism, and the English Revolution: The Religious Factor in English Politics Before and After the Interregnum. By Michael G. Finlayson. University of Toronto Press. Toronto 1983. Pp. x + 209. $27.50. Italy and the Approach of the First World War. By Richard Bosworth. Macmillan London 1983. Pp. viii + 174. Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia. Edited by Anthony Reid, with the assistance of Jennifer Brewster. Universty of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1983. Pp. xvi + 382. $24.95. The Diplomatic Battles of Billy Hughes. By Peter Spartalis. Hale and Iremonger, Sydney 1983. Pp. xv + 309. $27.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, GIL—LAS. Edited by Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1983. Pp. xxiv + 677. $35.00. Sir Thomas Playford: A Portrait. By Walter Crocker. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1983. Pp. xi + 200. $19.50. Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians. By Brij V. Lal. The Journal of Pacific History, Canberra 1983. Pp. vii +151. $9.75 + 51.75 postage. Sydney's Transport: Studies in Urban History. Edited by Garry Wotherspoon. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1983. Pp. 212. $14.95. Past Continuous: Learning Through the Historical Environment. Edited by Judy Mackinolty. History Teachers’ Association of Australia, Southward Press, Marrickville. NSW 1983. Pp. xvii + 237. $13.50. Letters from Menie: Sir Henry Parkes and His Daughter. Edited by A.W. Martin. Melbourne University Press 1983. Pp. xx + 192. $19.95.

Book reviews

Ralph Gibson, The People Stand Up, Red Rooster Press, Melbourne, 1984, pp. viii + 415, $28, paper $22. Vincent Buckley, Cutting Green Hay: Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades, Penguin, Melbourne, 1983, pp. xii + 315, $7.95; Edmund Campion, Rockchoppers: Growing Up Catholic In Australia, Penguin, Melbourne, pp. 241, $6.95. Walter Crocker, Sir Thomas Playford, A Portrait, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp. xi + 200, $19.50. Garry Wotherspoon (ed.), Sydney's Transport: Studies in Urban History, Hale & Iremonger and Sydney History Group, Sydney, 1983, pp. 212, $27.95, paper $14.95. Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thorley, For Love or Money, A pictorial history of women and work in Australia, Penguin, Melbourne, 1983, pp. vi +186, $14.95. Kevin Fewster, Gallipoli Correspondent, The frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983, pp. 217, $19.95. Robert Spreadborough and Hugh Anderson (compilers), Victorian Squatters, Red Rooster Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. xxxii + 350, $55, paper $40. John McLaren (ed.) A Nation Apart, Essays in Honour of Andrew Fabinyi, Personal Views of Australia in the Eighties, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1983, pp. xiv + 267, $12.95. Jim Falk, Taking Australia Off The Map, Penguin, Melbourne, 1983, pp. xii + 290, $6.95; Dennis Phillips, Cold War 2 & Australia, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. xi + 122, $15,95; paper $6.95. W.H. Richmond and P.C. Sharma (eds), Mining and Australia, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1983, pp. xiv and 320, $24.95, paper $19.95. Bruce O'Meagher (ed.), The Socialist Objective, Labor & Socialism, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1983, pp. x + 198, $24.95, paper $11.95. Andrew Parkin & John Warhurst (eds), Machine Politics in the Australian Labor Party, George Allen & Urwin, Sydney, 1983, pp. 281, $24.95, paper $12.95. Brian Head (ed.) State and Economy in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. x + 305, $25, paper $12.99. Wolfgang Kasper, Australian Political Economy, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1982, pp. vi + 146, $24.95. paper $10.95. B.J. Costar and C.A. Hughes (eds.) Labor to Office: The Victorian State Election 1982, Drummond, Melbourne, 1983, pp. xvii + 293, $17.95.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA: A Comparative Political Economy Analysis. By Malcolm C. Brown. Canberra.WHY SO FEW? Women Academics in Australian Universities. By Bettina Cass.THE LONG FAREWELL: The Perilous Voyages of Settlers under Sail in the Great Migrations to Australia. By Don Charlwood.ARBITRATOR AT WORK: Sir William Raymond Kelly and the Regulation of Australian Industrial Relations. By Braham Dabscheck.NEW GUINEA UNDER THE GERMANS. By Stewart Firth.ALL THAT DIRT: Aborigines 1938. An Australian 1938 Monograph. Edited by Bill Gammage and Andrew Markus.FREDERICK WELD. By Jeanine Graham.THE REMARKABLE REVEREND CLARKE: The Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology. By Elena Grainger.THE GLENNIE: A Work of Faith. By Christine Henderson.CONVICT SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES: A History of Early New South Wales. By J. B. Hirst.THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN NIGHTMARE: A Critique of Home‐ownership Ideology. By Jim Kemeny.PUBLIC SECTOR ADMINISTRATION: New Perspectives. Edited by Alexander Kouzmin.A NATION APART: Essays in Honour of Andrew Fabinyi. Personal Views of Australia in the Eighties. Edited by John McLaren.FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia. By Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley.AUSTRALIA'S CONSTITUTION: Time for Change? By John McMillan, Gareth Evans and Haddon Storey.AUSTRALIAN FEDERALISM: Future Tense. Edited by Allan Patience and Jeffrey Scott.SUB ROSA: Memoirs of an Australian Intelligence Analyst. By R. H. Mathams.PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by R. L. Mathews.MICRONATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Edited by R. J. May.THE FIRM AND THE FORMLESS: Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia. By Hans Mol.THE FIXED AND THE FICKLE: Religion and Identity in New Zealand. By Hans Mol.INTERNEE 1/5126. By Robert Paterson. Annerley, Queensland, Dr Robert Paterson, 1983.THE PHONE BOOK: The Future of Australia's Communications on the Line. By Ian Reinecke and Julianne Schultz.A HISTORY OF TASMANIA. Vol. I: Van Diemen's Land from the Earliest Times to 1855. By Lloyd.MINING AND AUSTRALIA. Edited by W. H. Richmond and P. C. Sharma.TRADE, TACTICS AND TERRITORY: Britain in the Pacific 1783–1823. By Margaret Steven.HEATHCOTE: A Study of Local Government and Resident Action in a Small Australian Town. By R. A. Wild.SOCIAL PROCESS AND THE CITY. Urban Studies Yearbook I. Edited by Peter Williams.SYDNEY'S TRANSPORT: Studies in Urban History. Edited by Garry Wotherspoon.ARMING THE CHINESE: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920–1928. By Anthony B. Chan.COLD WAR HOT WAR. An Australian Perspective on the Korean War. By Gavan McCormack.IMPERIALISMUS UND KOLONIALMISSION: Kaiserliches Deutschland und Koloniales Imperium. Edited by Klaus J. Bade, Weisbaden, Steiner Verlag, 1982.THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO THE SOVIET STATE: By Alexander Benningsen and Marie Broxup.ITALY AND THE APPROACH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By Richard Bosworth.THE CRISIS OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA 1200–1304. By John Fennell.THE STATE, FRANCE AND THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By Howell A. Lloyd.SOCIALISM AND EUROPEAN UNITY: The Dilemma of the Left in Britain and France. By Michael Newman.SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIETY: Working‐class Radicalism in Diisseldorf, 1890–1920. By Mary Nolan.POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE. Edited by Jeremy Richardson.IMAGES OF IMPERIAL RULE. By Hugh Ridley.THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Loukas Tsoukalis.NAZI PROPAGANDA: The Power and the Limitations. Edited by David Welch.THE UNOFFICIAL COMMONWEALTH: The Story of the Commonwealth Foundation, 1965–1980. By John.COVENANTS WITHOUT THE SWORD: Public Opinion and British Defence Policy 1931–1935. By Patrick Kyba.THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. By P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams.WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? Industrial Performance, Education and the Economy in Victorian Britain. Edited and introduced by Gordon Roderick and Michael Stephens.LOCAL GOVERNMENT: The Conditions of Local Choice. By John Stewart.THE ORIGINS OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. By Noel Tracy.CHINESE MINE LABOUR IN THE TRANSVAAL. By Peter Richardson.POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA: Principles and Perspectives. Edited by D. J. van Vuuren and D. J. Kriek.MAX WEBER ON CAPITALISM, BUREAUCRACY AND RELIGION: A Selection of Texts. Edited by Stanislav Andreski.MODERNISATION AND REVOLUTION. By Bill Brugger and Kate Hannan.A CRITIQUE OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY. By John Charvet.THE MODERN LIBERAL THEORY OF MAN. By Gerald F. Gaus.FROM RIGHT TO LEFT: An Autobiography. By Frederick Vanderbilt Field.MAKING HISTORIES: Studies in History‐Writing and Politics. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz and David.GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY 1895–1905: Great Power Pressure in Venezuela. By Miriam Hood.EDUCATED GUESSING: How to Cope in an Uncertain World. By Samuel Kotz and Donna F. Stroup.THE PURSUIT OF POWER: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000. By William H. McNeill.LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND ITS CRITICS. Edited by Norman Wintrop.ORGANIZING INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS. By Timothy B. Woolstencroft.PUBLIC MONEY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR: Industrial Assistance Policy and Canadian Federalism. By Allan Tupper.

Municipal Bonusing of Industry: The Legislative Framework in Ontorio to 1830

Nombreuses furent les municipalités qui, en Ontario, ont tenté, entre les années 1870 et les années 1920, d'influer sur la vitesse et la forme de la croissance urbaine en offrant des stimulants aux fabricants. La présente étude résume la législation ontarienne régissant ce type de stimulants. Elle définit les diverses formes d'aide que pouvaient fournir les conseils municipaux aux entreprises industrielles et les contraintes limitant les pouvoirs modifiés de temps à autre des municipalités. Le cadre législatif du système de primes sur lequel porte l'étude est divisé en quatre périodes: 1867-1892; 1892-1900; 1900-1924; après 1924; des extraits des lois sont présentés en annexe. L'auteur évoque certaines incidences du système de primes dont doit tenir compte l'étude de l'histoire urbaine.

Urban history in France: achievements, tendencies and objectives

In the last ten years, a significant development in the study of urban history has allowed French historians to begin to consider some of the problems which have preoccupied their foreign colleagues, notably in Britain and the United States, for some time. The attraction of the town for the French historian is due, clearly enough, to two main factors. On the one hand, the town's growing dominance over the location of employment and population is bound to attract attention—in 1980 80 per cent of the population of France live in towns, exactly reversing the distribution of 200 years ago. On the other hand, this same distension of the town demands historical attention. It places the town at the centre of a very long-term development in which the urban criterion becomes increasingly dominant, defining a particularly appropriate field for the measurement of the linking mechanisms which regulate relationships between the different levels of social reality. Urbanity, in short, brings together the whole gamut of questions posed by the development of our system of civilization over the centuries. To reconstruct its history is to indulge in nostalgia for a past which appears all the richer in comparison with the drabness of our own day. It is also to dream of a city of the future, capable of reconciling community and social control, nature and culture. In France the history of towns is inseparable from a long process of examination which began with the humanist enthusiasm for the city, continued through the speculations of the Enlightenment and the tentative researches of nineteenth-century local anti-quarians, and has recently been supplemented by the more precise discoveries of the urban historian.

Urban Histotry in the British Idiom

1. The British approach Five volumes have now appeared in the series Studies in Urban History. They are sufficient to provide a basis for some consideration of the state of British urban history and the progress it has made since the Leicester conference of 1966. The British have, of course, their own way of doing things, deeply rooted in their own experience. It is perhaps rated by Canadians as below that of the Americans. Among the reasons for this is the fact that the historical evolution of Canadian cities approximates more to the American than to the British; this is reinforced by the British reserve about compelling conceptual frameworks either economic or sociological. There is also a British unwillingness to make more than minor concessions to the quantitative. And, of course, as in all fields of scholarship, there is a good deal less British output than American.

James H. Bater. <italic>St. Petersburg: Industrialization and Change</italic>. (Studies in Urban History, number 4.) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1976. Pp. xxiii, 469. $32.00

James H. Bater. St. Petersburg: Industrialization and Change. (Studies in Urban History, number 4.) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1976. Pp. xxiii, 469. $32.00 Get access Bater James H.. St. Petersburg: Industrialization and Change. (Studies in Urban History, number 4.) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1976. Pp. xxiii, 469. $32.00. Reginald E. Zelnik Reginald E. Zelnik University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 1025–1026, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/82.4.1025 Published: 01 October 1977

St. Petersburg, Industrialization and Change, by James H. Bater

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C. W. Chalklin, The Provincial Towns of Georgian England; A Study of the building Process 1740–1820, Edward Arnold, London, 1974, Studies in Urban History 3. xxii + 367 pp. £10.00.

C. W. Chalklin, The Provincial Towns of Georgian England; A Study of the building Process 1740–1820, Edward Arnold, London, 1974, Studies in Urban History 3. xxii + 367 pp. £10.00.