On the fringes of empire? Rethinking suburbs as colonial spaces in early modern South and Southeast Asia

2024-8-27

Were post-colonial cities US imperial cities?

2024-6-5

Toward a Japanese paradigm of settler-colonial urbanism?

2024-6-5

International zones in global urban history

2024-6-5

Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference

2024-5-30

Egalitarian greetings: the social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–1850

2024-5-30

Jo Guldi, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Appendix. Timeline. xxii + 577pp. £30.00 hbk. $40.00 hbk.

2024-5-27

Jim van der Meulen, Woven into the Urban Fabric: Cloth Manufacture and Economic Development in the Flemish West-Quarter (1300–1600). Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 251pp. €84.00. - Peter Stabel, The Fabric of the City: A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 278pp. €94.00.

2024-5-9

Ritajyoti Bandopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 305pp. 5 maps. 13 tables. 12 images. Bibliography. £75.000 hbk.

2024-5-7

For fame and fortune: the origins of St Petersburg’s zoo, 1865–1871

2024-5-6

Cosmopolitan underworld: opiate refinement in inter-war Istanbul

2024-5-6

Neal Shasore, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxvii + 432pp. 142 illustrations. Bibliography. £71.00 hbk.

2024-5-2

Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. London: Allen Lane, 2023. 352pp. 13 maps. Bibliography. £25.00 hbk. £10.99 pbk.

2024-5-2

Luke Giraudet, Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and His Community, 1400–1450. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 328pp. 8 b/w images. €104.00 hbk.

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UHY volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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UHY volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Post-1800

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Pre-1500

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1500–1800

2024-4-29

Conference report: ‘The state of urban history: past, present, future’, Leicester, 11–13 July 2023

2024-4-25

Merchants’ agents and the process of bottom-up harmonization between European towns, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries

2024-4-24

The legal position of guests in late medieval Stockholm

2024-4-19

Introduction: crossing urban legal boundaries in northern Europe: merchants and the law, 1350–1600

2024-4-19

Administering justice to foreigners: international merchants and mariners before the late medieval Aberdeen courts

2024-4-19

‘To his utter undoing in this world’: maintaining, contesting and crossing Hanseatic legal boundaries in medieval London and Bruges

2024-4-17

The politics of reciprocity: urban councils and intercity conflict management in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck, <i>c.</i> 1470–1570

2024-4-17

Active citizen or pest? Civic authorities, democratization and citizenship in inter-war England

2024-4-11

Making urban memory visible: the on-screen transformation of Beijing’s <i>hutong</i> districts during modernization (1940s–2010s)

2024-4-2

Taylor M. Easum, Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand: A City in the Colonial Margins. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 288pp. 14 illustrations, 1 table. €124.00 hbk; open access ebk. doi:10.5117/9789463726467.

2024-4-2

Making manifestos for urban history: creative collaboration in a conference workshop

2024-4-2

Making the global turn matter: strategies and pathways

2024-4-2

Nicole Eaton, German Blood, Slavic Soil. How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. xiii + 312pp. 4 plates. 11 figures. Bibliography. £31.00 hbk. $14.00 ebk.

2024-4-2

The non-religious and the European city in the nineteenth century: the development of crematories in Milan and Gotha

2024-3-19

Catchwater colonialism: reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–1968

2024-3-18

Rain and the colonial streetscape: reading for water in Freetown’s newspaper archive

2024-3-14

Arbella Bet-Shlimon, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xviii + 275pp. $19.60 hbk.

2024-3-14

‘The Thaw’ in the Arctic: constructing Mirny as a Soviet Arctic city of a new type

2024-3-11

Smugglers and innkeepers: physical and social mobility in early modern Gemona (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries)

2024-2-19

The impact of the British Civil Wars on the meanings and uses of the urban topography of Colchester in the long nineteenth century

2024-2-19

From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–1307

2024-2-13

Brent Cebul, Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 432pp. 10 halftones, 3 maps. 1 table. $39.95 hbk.

2024-2-8

Recovering the past for the future: Racibórz after World War II

2024-2-5

UHY volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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UHY volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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List of books reviewed

2024-2-1

Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, <i>c.</i> 1850–1885

2024-1-25

Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp <i>c.</i> 1860–1910

2024-1-24

Beyond formal and informal: mid-twentieth-century residential architecture in Barcelona’s El Carmel neighbourhood

2024-1-17

The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969)

2024-1-15

Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe

2023-11-28