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...Albert Simons Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements . By Murtagh William J. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1967 . Pp. [ xvii ], 145 . $8.75 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 AUSTRALIAN LABOR S CLOSED PRESERVE: The mining town of Broken Hill Frank T. de Vyver You are now in the most highly unionized city in the world, said the guide to his busload of tourists in Detroit. No, remarked a passenger...

...Robert H. Woody The Puritan Frontier: Town-planting in New England Colonial Development, 1630-1660 . By Haller William Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. 119 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews I5i see evidences...

...Robert H. Woody Mobile: History of a Seaport Town . By Summersell Charles Grayson . University, Alabama : University of Alabama Press , 1949 . Pp. xi , 81 . Paper, $1.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly to disaster...

...Theodore Ropp Storm over Savannah: The Story of Count d’Estaing and the Siege of the Town in 1779 . By Lawrence Alexander A. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1951 . Pp. x , 220 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 472 The South Atlantic...

...Anne Firor Scott Town Planning in Frontier America , by Reps John W. ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1969 ; pp. xi , 473 ; $13.50 Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 170 The South Atlantic Quarterly Princeton University Press, it is sponsored...

...Aubrey W. Naylor Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town . By Berkeley Edmund Berkeley Dorothy Smith . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1969 . Pp. xv , 379 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 421 South in American...

...Frank J. Huffman, Jr. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Town and Country in the South, 1850-1880: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Social Structures Frank J. Huffman, Jr. Daniel R. Hundley in Social Relations in Our Southern States de­ scribes an encounter in 1857 with an old...

...Joseph C. Robert Concord: American Town . By Scudder Townsend . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1947 . Pp. 421 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 589 Concord: American Town. By Townsend Scudder. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. Tom’s Town, Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend . By Reddig William . Philadelphia and New York : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1947 . Pp. 394 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 312 The South Atlantic Quarterly Bend on the Cahaba...

...Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.; John Nolen Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Public Open Spaces in American Towns and Cities* By Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and John Nolen At the present time public spirited people in this country appreciate the value of open spaces in towns...

... in a system of mutual checks and balances. In part, Mr. Boxer concludes that the institution of municipal councils helped to hold together Portugal s far-flung empire. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN ERIC AXELSON The Communist International and Its Front Organizations: A Research Guide and Checklist of Holdings...

...Sarah Balakrishnan Between June 18 and 24, 1888, the British colonial government of the Gold Coast killed an estimated eight hundred people on the small borderland town of Taviefe. This essay studies the massacre at Taviefe as a central event in the colonization of the Gold Coast. Although Taviefe...

...Ahmad A. Sikainga This essay examines the role of organized labor in Sudanese politics in the twentieth century. The essay focuses on the development of labor activism among the Sudanese railway workers who were concentrated in the town of Atbara, headquarters of the Sudan Railways...

... in this, the largest and most cosmopolitan city of the former Confederacy. Postwar regulation made no racial distinctions among women in the trade, and prostitutes’ lives were thus often remarkably similar. Women worked and resided in the same parts of town, even on the same notorious block; faced similarly explosive...

... stayed put and contributed to the destruction of slavery on the South’s plantations and farms and in its cities and towns. This essay suggests, however, that while neither Du Bois nor the scholars who followed him fully grasped the part slave women played in the wartime destruction of slavery, his...

...Ann Larson For the last three decades, cities and towns across the United States have grappled with a severe reduction in public funding which has weakened municipalities’ ability to provide basic services. As a result, municipal governments are increasingly financed by debt. Public Authorities (PA...

... of land in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, where a sixteenth-century mosque once stood and was destroyed by the mobs of the Hindu Right, and the Hindu Right’s claim that the site marks the spot where the Hindu god Ram was born. The case reveals how the right to freedom of religion has been used...

...Marina Peterson This essay focuses on the qualities and textures of the present in a place long conditioned by decline. In the Little Cities of Black Diamonds, a microregion of Appalachian Ohio, a legacy of coal mining and its aftermath continues to reverberate into the present, shaping towns...