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Author Archives: Global Urban History
The Archive Box #1: Calcutta Pulp Fiction
By Anindita Ghosh*, University of Manchester 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 in different cities … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Archives, Colonialism, Communication, South Asia
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A New Governor Arrives in Batavia: Public Ceremony in a Colonial City
By Mikko Toivanen, University of Edinburgh How can historians relate urban spaces to the lives of city dwellers? Does it matter if the city is located in a colonial setting? Brenda Yeoh has argued that an excessive focus on abstract … Continue reading
Is settler colonial history urban history?
By Efrat Gilad, Graduate Institute Geneva Tel Aviv, “the First Hebrew City” founded in 1909, is also referred to as “the city that begat a state”. This celebratory proverb illustrates how the city’s capitalist ventures were the economic and cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, British Empire, Colonialism, Empire, Food, Imperialism, Middle East
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Cartographies of Global Connectivity in Interwar Japan
By Jeffrey C. Guarneri, University of Wisconsin-Madison Japan’s interwar period (1918-1941) was a time of profound changes in Japan’s ports of international trade, cities which simultaneously helped to drive Japan’s rise to world economic power status during World War I … Continue reading
No Escape
By Guy Ortolano, New York University I went urban to escape the global. Supranational histories – imperial, international, transnational, global, world – have become the default frames within which scholarship proceeds. At their best, these approaches shatter the complacencies of … Continue reading
The Next Step in Global Urban History
By Joseph Ben Prestel (Freie Universität Berlin), Michael Goebel (Graduate Institute Geneva), and Tracy Neumann, (Wayne State University). We launched the Global Urban History Blog in November 2015. Three and a half years later, we are pleased to announce a new project … Continue reading
Multireligiosity as a Rallying Call: The Petticoat Lane Street Market in the 1850s
By Ole Münch Today, urban street markets are often places where migrants from different origins meet and mingle. This was the case in the past as well. By the middle of the nineteenth century the East End of London already hosted … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodities, London, Religion, Street Life, Street Markets, Trade
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Exploring Intersections of Urban History and Global History: A Roundtable Discussion at EAUH 2018
By Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Anindita Ghosh, University of Manchester, Ayala Levin, Northwestern University, Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Carl Nightingale and … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Atlantic World, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Theory
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The City as a Palimpsest and Crucible of National Identity
By Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Northern State University The tendency of successive regimes to rework commemorative landscapes speaks to the intrinsic and intricate linkages between place, memory, and identity. We affix memories and identities to urban space … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Central Asia, Commemoration, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Memorials, Memory, Monuments, North America, Spatial History
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An Unlikely Environmentalism: Mexico City’s Urban Ecological Thought in the Age of Development
By Matthew Vitz, University of California San Diego Considering Mexico City epitomized environmental catastrophe for much of the 1980s and 1990s, one would not expect it to have been a bastion of innovative urban ecological thinking during the middle of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Environment, Latin America, Mexico, Politics, Water
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