Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, 1890-1940.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Lees, Andrew | Copyright information

Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne, 1890-1940. By David M. Pomfret (Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. xii plus 315 pp. $84.95).

A recent addition to a new series of "Historical Urban Studies" that now numbers over twenty volumes, Pomfret's book amply fulfills the assertion by the series's editors, Richard Rodger and Jean-Luc Pinol, that the works they are show-casing are informed by "analytical...

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