Book Reviews

Michael K. Bess; David Lipset; Kudzai Matereke; Stève Bernardin; Katharine Bartsch; Harry Oosterhuis; Samuel Müller; Frank Schipper; Benjamin D'Harlingue; Katherine Roeder

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10.3167/trans.2017.070211 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 124-143 ◽

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Author(s):

Michael K. Bess ◽

David Lipset ◽

Kudzai Matereke ◽

Stève Bernardin ◽

Katharine Bartsch ◽

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New York ◽

Columbia University ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Political Issues ◽

Cornell University ◽

The Road ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

European Experience ◽

York Review ◽

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Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), 264 pp., 16 illustrations, $26.95 (paperback)Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram, eds., Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 196 pp., $90 (hardback)Lutz Koepnick, On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 336 pp., 43 illustrations, $40 (hardback)Gérard Duc, Olivier Perroux, Hans-Ulrich Schiedt, and François Walter, eds., Histoire des transports et de la mobilité: Entre concurrence modale et coordination (de 1918 à nos jours) [Transport and mobility history: Between modal competition and coordination (from 1918 to the present)] (Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil-Presses Universitaires Suisses, 2014), 462 pp., $54 (paperback)Kimberley Skelton, The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth- Century England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), 204 pp., 60 illustrations, £70 (hardback)Ruth Oldenziel, Martin Emanuel, Adri Albert de la Bruhèze, and Frank Veraart, eds., Cycling Cities: The European Experience—Hundred Years of Policy and Practice (Eindhoven: Foundation for the History of Technology, 2016), 256 pp., 100 illustrations. €37.50 (hardback)Glen Norcliffe, Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture (London: Routledge, 2015), 290 pp., 24 illustrations, $119.95 (hardback)Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), 328 pp., 31 illustrations, $29.95 (hardback)Mathieu Flonneau, Léonard Laborie, and Arnaud Passalacqua, eds., Les transports de la démocratie: Approche historique des enjeux politiques de la mobilité [The transport of democracy: A historical approach to the political issues of mobility] (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014), 224 pp., €19 (paperback)Erik M. Conway, Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), 416 pp., 21 illustrations, $32.95 (paperback)Hariton Pushwagner, Soft City (New York: New York Review Books, 2016), 160 pp., $35 (hardback)

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Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia ◽

10.1163/22134379-90002780 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 127 (3) ◽

pp. 397-416

Author(s):

P.J. Worsley ◽

Ktut Ginarsa ◽

Th. J. Gerold-Scheepers ◽

M.A. Jaspan ◽

Renato Rosaldo ◽

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Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Change ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Folk Medicine ◽

Columbia University ◽

Asian Studies ◽

Cornell University ◽

History Of ◽

Medical Theory

- P.J. Worsley, Ktut Ginarsa, Prasasti Baru Ragajaya 6 April 1155. Direktorat Bahasa dan Kesusastraan, Direktorat Djendral Kebudajaan, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudajaan, Tjabang Singaradja, 1968. XVI, 54 p., 3 maps. - Th. J. Gerold-Scheepers, M.A. Jaspan, Traditional medical theory in Southeast Asia. An inaugural lecture, University of Hull, Hull 1969. 36 pag. - Renato Rosaldo, Don V. Hart, Bisayan Filipino and Malayan Humoral Pathologies: Folk medicine and ethnohistory in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, New York; Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. Data Paper: No. 76. 96 p. - Pierre J. Simon, W.E. Willmott, The political structure of the Chinese community in Cambodia. L.S.E. Monographs nr. 42. The Athlone Press, London 1970. 211 p. - Vivien van Geen, Owen M. Lynch, The politics of untouchability (Social mobility and social change in a city of India). Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1969. XIV-251 pp. - W.F.L. Buschkens, Silvia W. de Groot, Djuka society and social change: History of an attempt to develop a bush negro community in Surinam 1917-1926. Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V. - Doctor H.J. Prakke & H.M.G. Prakke, Assen 1969. XVI + 256 p., met twee kaarten, 12 fotografieën en een bibliografie van Willem Frederik van Lier. - W.F.L. Buschkens, A. Polak-Eltz, Afro-Amerikaanse godsdiensten en culten. J.J. Romen & Zonen, Roermond 1970. 221 blz., 30 ills.

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Pierre Clavel . Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2010. Pp. xx, 232. Cloth $65.00, paper $19.95. Jonathan Soffer . Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City . (The Columbia History of Urban Life.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2010. Pp. xi, 494. $34.95.

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr.116.5.1536 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 116 (5) ◽

pp. 1536-1538

Author(s):

Roger Biles

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Urban Life ◽

Columbia University ◽

Cornell University ◽

City Hall ◽

History Of ◽

Reagan Era

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Jameson W. Doig, Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xix + 582pp. $24.50 Keith D. Revell, Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 327pp. $42.50; £31.50 Francois Weil, A History of New York. Translated by Jody Gladding. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xviii + 354pp. $22.95; £15.50

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926805303208 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 375-379

Author(s):

Angela M. Blake

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Political Power ◽

Civic Culture ◽

Columbia University ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

Port Of New York ◽

History Of

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The Effects of World War I: The Class War After the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties in East Central Europe, 1918-1921, edited by Ivo Banac, New Hungarian Peasants: An East Central European Experience with Collectivization, edited by M. Hollos and B. C. MadayThe Effects of World War I: The Class War After the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties in East Central Europe, 1918-1921, edited by Ivo Banac. (War and Society in East Central Europe, Vol. 13). New York, distributed by Columbia University Press (for East European Monographs), 1983. xv, 277 pp. $27.50.New Hungarian Peasants: An East Central European Experience with Collectivization, edited by M. Hollos and B. C. Maday. (Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change, 32). New York, distributed by Columbia University Press (for East European Monographs), 1983. x, 341 pp. $25.00.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.19.2.317 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 317-319

Author(s):

Stanley Z. Pech

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

World War I ◽

Central Europe ◽

Columbia University ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central ◽

East European ◽

European Experience ◽

The Great War ◽

East Central European

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judith ann tkolander. Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present. (Columbia History of Urban Life.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1987. Pp. x. 300. $37.50

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/94.1.224 ◽

1989 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Change ◽

Urban Life ◽

Columbia University ◽

Settlement House ◽

History Of

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A. G. Hopkins. An Economic History of West Africa. (The Columbia Economic History of the Modern World.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1973. Pp. x, 337. $15.00

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/80.2.447-a ◽

1975 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

West Africa ◽

Economic History ◽

Modern World ◽

Columbia University ◽

History Of

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A History of Magic and Experimental Science. By Lynn Thorndike, Professor of History, Columbia University. Volumes V and VI, The Sixteenth Century. [History of Science Society Publications, New Series, IV.] (New York: Columbia University Press. 1941. Pp. xxii, 695; xviii, 766. $10.00 a set.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/47.3.552 ◽

1942 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

History Of Science ◽

Columbia University ◽

Experimental Science ◽

Science Society ◽

History Of

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Book Review: The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United StatesThe Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States. By EhrenreichJohn H.. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1985. 272 pp. $24.50.

Social Casework ◽

10.1177/104438948706800109 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 61-62

Author(s):

Moya Martin Duplica

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Social Work ◽

Social Policy ◽

The United States ◽

Cornell University ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Social Work

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Laura Randall. An Economic History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. (Columbia Economic History of the Modern World.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1978. Pp. 322. $21.90

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/83.5.1380 ◽

1978 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Economic History ◽

Modern World ◽

Columbia University ◽

History Of

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Civilization and Disease. By Henry E. Sigerist, William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. xi, 255. $3.75.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/49.4.689 ◽

1944 ◽

Keyword(s):

History Of Medicine ◽

Cornell University ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

History Of

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