Continuity and Change a Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies

Continuity and Change A journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies

Editors Chris Briggs, University of Cambridge, UK Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, University of Michigan, USA Julie Marfany, University of Oxford, UK Mary Louise Nagata, Francis Marion University, USA

Continuity and Change aims to define a field of historical Continuity and Change sociology concerned with long-term continuities and is available online at: http://journals.cambridge.org/con discontinuities in the structures of past societies. Emphasis is upon studies whose agenda or methodology combines elements from traditional fields such as history, sociology, law, demography, economics or anthropology, or ranges freely between them. There is a strong commitment to comparative studies over a broad range of cultures and To subscribe contact time spans. Customer Services Americas: Phone +1 (845) 353 7500 Fax +1 (845) 353 4141 Email [email protected]

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Rural History is well known as a stimulating forum for Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture interdisciplinary exchange. Its definition of rural history is available online at: ignores traditional subject boundaries to encourage the http://journals.cambridge.org/ruh cross-fertilisation that is essential for an understanding of rural society. It stimulates original scholarship and provides access to the best of recent research. While concentrating on the English-speaking world and To subscribe contact Europe, the journal is not limited in geographical Customer Services coverage. Subject areas include: agricultural history; Americas: historical ecology; folklore; popular culture and religion; Phone +1 (845) 353 7500 rural literature; landscape history, archaeology and Fax +1 (845) 353 4141 material culture; vernacular architecture; ethnography, Email [email protected] anthropology and rural sociology; the study of women in rural societies; relationships between the urban and Rest of world: Phone +44 (0)1223 326070 the rural; and the politics of rural societies. The journal Fax +44 (0)1223 325150 accommodates varying disciplinary reference systems, and Email [email protected] publishes book reviews and review articles.

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List of books reviewed 564 Nigra crux mala crux: a comparative perspective on urban conflict in Gdansk in 1411 and 1416 565 CORDELIA HESS Volume 41 Part 4 November 2014 Let’s talk about class: towards an intuitionalist typology of class relations in the cities of pre-modern Europe (c. 1200 – c. 1800) 582 JEFF FYNN-PAUL Cette fusion annuelle: cosmopolitanism and identity in Nice, c. 1815–1860 606 ELAINE CHALUS Dyos Prize winner 2013

Churchyard and cemetery in an English industrial city: Sheffield, 1740–1900 627 Volume 41 Part 4 JULIE RUGG, FIONA STIRLING AND ANDY CLAYDEN Slaveholders and slaves in Savannah’s 1860 census 647 TIMOTHY LOCKLEY ‘Suitable lodgings for students': modern space, colonial development and decolonization in Nigeria 664 TIM LIVSEY Neglect of a neighbourhood: oral accounts of life in ‘old Beijing’ since the eve of the People’s Republic 686 HARRIET EVANS

Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition November 2014 in the United Kingdom 705 JOHN BECKETT Reviews of books 721 KATY LAYTON-JONES AND JUSTIN COULSON Bibliography of urban history 2014 732 GERVASE FRENCH Index of towns 781 List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–2013 785

Cover illustration: Quais du Paillon, Hôtel de France (ou Plaza), Place des Phocéens, Anonyme, 1855 (mars), tirage papier salé, droits reservé Serge Kakou (Archives municipales de la Ville de Nice)

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