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Author Archives: Global Urban History
Emporia of Cosmopolitanism: A Social History of Early-Twentieth-Century Port Cities in Southeast Asia
Su Lin Lewis, Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 309 pp., $ 99.99 / £ 64.99 / € 94.99. Reviewed by Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin There are few recent … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Ethnicity, Imperialism, Ports, Segregation, Southeast Asia, Trade
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Imagine Lagos: Mapping a Pre-Colonial West African City
By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside Africa’s cities are now among the fastest growing in the world. But how well are their pre-colonial origins understood? Recent research on Lagos’s past reveals a thriving, indigenous yet cosmopolitan urban community, one … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Colonialism, Empire, Mapping, Slavery, Spatial History, Trade
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Imagining Johannesburg: A New Book on South Africa’s Metropolises
Vivian Bickford-Smith, The Emergence of the South African Metropolis: Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 340 pp., $ 99.99 / £ 64.99 / € 94.99. ISBN 978-1-107-00293-7. Reviewed by Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University and … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Cape Town, Film, Johannesburg, Literature, South Africa
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Conveying Urban History Through Apps: Berlin’s Kudamm ’31
By Viola Benz and Birgit Wienand, Freie Universität Berlin Recent years have seen an enormous growth of possibilities for historians to engage with a wider public beyond the academy. Urban history has benefited from these changes, particularly as cheaper airfare … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Berlin, Digital History, Education, Europe, Germany, Nationalism, Public History
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Global Ottoman: The Cairo-Istanbul Axis
By Adam Mestyan, Duke University On a Sunday at the end of January 1863 groups of sheikhs, notables, merchants, consuls, and soldiers gathered in the Citadel of Cairo. They came to witness a crucial event: the reading aloud of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Art, Cairo, Istanbul, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Politics
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“The ‘Urban Question’ is Now at the Center of Intellectual Life”: A Conversation with Rosemary Wakeman
The Conversations section of our blog seeks to foster critical exchange about the theoretical and methodological implications of bringing together global and urban history. The blog’s editors will occasionally interview scholars to discuss questions of global urban history, spanning across … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, Intellectual History, Migration, Theory, Urban Modernity
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Infrastructural Statecraft and the Rise of Just-in-Time Urbanism
By Boris Vormann, Freie Universität Berlin Containerization has led international trade to triple since the mid-1970s. This massive expansion and deepening of exchange networks would have been unthinkable without the construction of material transportation infrastructures in the world’s metropolitan agglomerations. … Continue reading
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Tagged Infrastructure, North America, Politics, Theory, Trade, Transport
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Liberal Cities? What Recent Elections Mean for Global Urban History
By Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin The agitated politics of 2016 have led intellectuals the world over to ponder the “end of the Anglo-American order,” the “bankruptcy of the post-war world order,” and the death of “liberalism.” That this death … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Democracy, Demography, Elections, India, Liberalism, London, North America, Philippines, Politics
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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance
By Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina, Charlotte It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I, a young, small-town girl had landed in a foreign country to begin my study abroad. I knew nothing about Argentina and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Argentina, censuses, Colonialism, Latin America, Migration, Race, Slavery, Trade, Urban Modernity
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Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City
By John Munro, St. Mary’s University It was, on the face of it, an unremarkable event. In the spring of 1989, a single-room-occupancy hotel and beer parlor was torn down in North Vancouver, Canada, and a new condominium tower was … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Canada, Colonialism, Ethnicity, gentrification, Industry, North America, Politics, Race
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