Scolar Press, 1996. 90.00 Cumulating the annual bibliographies of The Urban History Yearbook from 1974 to 1991, this work is intended to make bibliographic research more convenient, not to expand the coverage of the original volumes. 20,000 monograph and article titles are grouped into ten categories, including social structure, politics and administration, and attitudes to towns and cities. Each group is arranged by author or title. Detailed place and author indexes facilitate searches.
Entries are relatively brief.
The lack of a good subject index and miniscule print on crowded pages hinder the easy use of the bibliography- whose very purpose, after all, is ease of use. 3d, fully rev. Not discussed is the worrisome possibility of their integration into the German online regional catalogs, which threatens their very existence. By adding materials acquired in the last twenty years, and including older bibliographies and other relevant listings, especially bibliographies and catalogs of regional newspapers, the bibliography now lists 515 titles, almost doubled from 261 in the previous edition. Following a short section of general bibliographies, the main entries, most of which are annotated briefly, are arranged alphabetically by region.