The ''Journal of Urban History'' (abbreviated ''JUH'') is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

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covering the field of

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. The current

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is David Goldfield, who is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the

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. The journal was established in 1974 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Urban History Association.

History

The journal published its first issue in November 1974. Raymond A. Mohl served as editor-in-chief from the inaugural issue until 1977. At that point, Blaine A. Brownell was appointed as editor, and he was succeeded by David Goldfield in 1990. Mohl's first editorial noted that the journal would encompass a variety of subjects, methodologies, and interpretations of urbanity in the then-emerging field of

urban history Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urb ...

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to

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, its 2017

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was 0.261.

References

External links

Journal of Urban History official website

Urban History Association official website
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History

Abstracting and indexing

See also

References

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