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Author Archives: Global Urban History
Berlin, 1873: A New Imperial Center and a Transatlantic Financial Crisis
Catherine Davies, FernUniversität in Hagen When thinking about the interrelationship between the urban and the global, stock exchanges may yield valuable insights. A quintessentially urban locale, they were often seen as institutions that brought global events home with much force … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Berlin, Communication, Economic History, Europe, Finance, Germany, Industry, Stock Markets
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Imperial Cities as Cultural Nodes: A View from Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University I recently published a collection of essays exploring the culture of the Japanese empire. It proved impossible to talk about this subject without talking about other empires, which provided the institutional models and many of the material … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Colonialism, East Asia, Education, Empire, Japan, Migration, Painting, Paris, Tokyo, Universities
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Fashioning the Colonial Metropolis: Asian Influences and Urban Identities in Colonial Mexico City
Nino Vallen, Freie Universität Berlin At the end of the seventeenth century, the Mexican artist Cristóbal de Villalpando painted the main square of Mexico City. His image of the zócalo depicts approximately 1,200 persons strolling around or standing in groups … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, China, Empire, Justice, Latin America, Mexico City, Pacific, Social History, Southeast Asia, Spanish Empire, Trade, Transport
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Rush Hour in Ottoman Istanbul: Mechanized Transportation and the Emergence of Modern Temporal Patterns
Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv University It is the morning rush hour in the Istanbul neighborhood of Eminönü. Another ferry is approaching the quay and even before it is tied to the platform, hordes of people alight and rush on to … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Bureaucracy, Infrastructure, Istanbul, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, State, Transport, Urban rhythms
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Detroit: Capital of the Automotive Age
Stefan Link, Dartmouth College In 1913, Detroit’s Ford Motor Company made history when it introduced moving assembly lines into car manufacturing. In 2013, the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. A century ago, Detroit was a fast-growing metropolis, attracting immigrants from … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Detroit, Economic History, Factories, Fordism, Industry, North America, Transport
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Revolutionary Chic: Left-Wing Exiles, Design, and Urbanism in Mexico City
Randal Sheppard, Universität zu Köln Mexico City was one of the most important and culturally vibrant hubs of political exile in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century. However, the scholarly literature about this phenomenon has so far been limited … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Design, Latin America, Mexico City, Migration, Spatial History
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Historicizing “Urbanity”: Buenos Aires in the epidemic years
Antonio Carbone, Freie Universität Berlin Scholars in the field of urban studies have been arguing for decades about what exactly the object of their research could be. At a first glance the ‘urban’ appears as a clearly defined field of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Buenos Aires, Environment, History of Medicine, Latin America, Migration, Spatial History
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Buenos Aires and the Modern Girl
Cecilia Tossounian, CONICET (Argentina) The modern girl, who emerged during the 1920’s and 1930’s, was a global figure that circulated worldwide through commodity and cultural flows. Born and grown in the city, she was an eminently urban phenomenon. In my study of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Buenos Aires, Consumer Culture, Gender, Latin America, Media History, Nationalism
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The Latin Quarter and the Third World
Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin Between the two World Wars, imperial centers such as London or Paris became bridgeheads for the spread of nationalism throughout the colonial world. As I argue in my recent book about Paris as an Anti-Imperial Metropolis, migration to … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Decolonization, Empire, Europe, France, Migration, Nationalism, Paris, Spatial History
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