TY - JOUR
AU - Zunz, Olivier
AB - United States 1161 spirit and vision of the Dutch wartime e ffort in Least useful are the essays that are conceptually Asia. more ambitious than those on subfields, such as a ROBERT VAN NIEL poorly focused chapter on the city as a social University of Hawaii system (Alan Marcus) that seems to argue that urban historians are too preoccupied with the present moment and a meandering essay on UNITED STATES neighborhoods (Patricia Mooney Melvin) that by- HOWARD GILLETTE, JR., and ZANE L. MILLER, editors. passes much important work in political history American Urbanism: A Historiographical Overview. and does not offer any conceptual breakthroughs. (Contributions in American History, number The final essay on local history (Robert Dykstra 125.) New York: Greenwood. 1987. Pp. vi, 328. and William Silag) surveys monographs of small $45.00. communities only and treats local history as if it were a recent creation. It would have been instruc- Twice in this century, urban history has offered tive to contrast the new, methodologically sophis- the promise of renovating American history. In ticated urban monograph to the old urban biog- The Rise of the City (1933), Arthur Meier Schles- raphy. inger, Sr., meant to document the positive, domi- The 
TI - Howard Gillette, Jr., and Zane L. Miller, editors. American Urbanism: A Historiographical Overview. (Contributions in American History, number 125.) New York: Greenwood. 1987. Pp. vi, 328. $45.00
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/94.4.1161
DA - 1989-10-01
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SP - 1161
EP - 1161
VL - 94
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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