Full bibliography

The article reviews and comments on "Render Them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800, by John K. Alexander, "City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America," by Gunter Barth, "Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920," by Paul Boyer, "Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family and Group Experience in the 19th Century," edited by Theodore Hershberg, "History and Crime: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy," by James E. Inciardi and Charles E. Faupel, "Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the Development of the American Police, 1800-1887," by David R. Johnson, "Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident and Murder in 19th Century Philadelphia," by Roger Lane, and "Detroit and the Problem of Order, 1830-1880: A Geography of Crime, Riot, and Policing," by John C. Schneider.