This article relates to a new special issue published in Urban History titled ‘Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn’. The issue was edited by Michael Goebel, Christian Jones, Yorim Spoelder, and Xinge Zhai. The articles are available online through FirstView https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/firstview and are linked individually below.
By Christian Jones, Free University of Berlin
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Matthew Vitz, the author of Globalizing Urban Environmental History. Matthew Vitz is Associate Professor of History at The University of California, San Diego. He is the author of A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City.
An excerpt of Globalizing Urban Environmental History follows the interview.
Rosemary Wakeman’s new book, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941, is an interpretative history of global urbanity following the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon across three cities at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it entered an era of globalized commerce. Global Urban History blog associate editor Maytal Mark spoke with the author about her process and the direction of global urban history.
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Carl Nightingale, the author of Our Urban Planet in Theory and History. Carl Nightingale has taught world history and urban history for thirty years, most recently in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His book Segregation: a Global History of Divided Cities was co-winner of the World History Association Jerry Bentley award for best book in world history in 2012. His most recent book is Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet (Cambridge, 2022). An excerpt of Our Urban Planet in Theory and History follows the interview.
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Mariana Dantas and Emma Hart, the authors of Early Modern Atlantic Cities. Mariana Dantas is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. She is a specialist in the history of slavery and African diasporic peoples in the Atlantic World. Emma Hart is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She is a historian of early North America, the Atlantic World, and early modern Britain between 1500 and 1800.
Early Modern Atlantic Cities traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Dantas and Hart show how cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis.
An excerpt of Early Modern Atlantic Cities follows the interview.
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Katherine Zubovich, the author of Making Cities Socialist. Katherine Zubovich is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is a historian of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her book, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, explores the history of skyscraper building in the Soviet capital during the Stalin era. An excerpt of Making Cities Socialist follows the interview.
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Tracy Neumann interviews Kristin Stapleton, the author of The Modern City in Asia. Kristin Stapleton is Professor of History at University of Buffalo and the author of several books and articles on Chinese history. An excerpt of The Modern City in Asia follows the interview.
By Carl H. Nightingale*, University of Buffalo
The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives across the world.
How does one write a continent and millennia-spanning “biography of an Urban Planet,” while maintaining a strong grasp of the different sources which allow us to tell such story? Carl H. Nightingale has taken on this arduous task, and reflects here on the necessary interplay between primary, secondary, and tertiary archives to push global urban history forward at a moment of political and environmental crisis.
Continue readingTo mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Michael Goebel interviews Lila Caimari, the author of our third Element, Cities and News (2022). Lila Caimari is is a full-time Researcher at Conicet in Buenos Aires. She has published extensively on the history of urban crime, the police, and the prison experience in Argentina. She is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters about the social and cultural history of modern Argentina. Her latest book, La vida en el archivo (2017), is a collection of writings about the practice of historical research. She currently works on the history of news and news circuits in South America.
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Joseph Ben Prestel interviews Alexia Yates, the author of our second Element, Real Estate and Global Urban History (2021). Alexia Yates is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester and author of Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital (Harvard UP, 2015) as well as numerous articles. An excerpt of Real Estate and Global Urban History follows the interview.
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