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Author Archives: Global Urban History
City Life and Automobility in Twentieth-Century Ghana
By Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University On the eve of his country’s independence in the mid-1950s, Ghanaian journalist Moses Danquah claimed: “We are riding confidently on the crest of the wave to greater economic prosperity, to greater social and cultural achievements, … Continue reading
On the Khartoum Omnibus: Stories of Sudan’s Cosmopolitanism
By Raphael Cormack, University of Edinburgh In July 2005 a helicopter carrying John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and new vice-president of Sudan, crashed in Uganda. Garang and the 13 other passengers were all killed. The most … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Infrastructure, Literature, Migration, Politics, Transport
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Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Industrial Chicago
By Colin Fisher, University of San Diego U.S. environmental and cultural historians and American Studies scholars have long explored privileged Anglo Americans’ desire to come into contact with nature. We know that in response to the perceived ills of urban … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Ethnicity, Industry, Infrastructure, Migration, North America, Politics
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Some Reflections on Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam
Lasse Heerten, Freie Universität Berlin, and Daniel Tödt, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin Let’s judge some books by their covers. In the recently flourishing literature on global and imperial history, port cities have become ubiquitous icons, visual shorthand … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Atlantic, Colonialism, Commodities, Communication, East Asia, Economic History, Empire, Europe, Imperialism, Indian Ocean, Industry, Infrastructure, Ports, Trade, Transport
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Plural Pasts in Southeast Asian Port Cities
By Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol Conflict and division characterize the way we often think of race relations in the colonial era, but the social history of Asia’s most multi-ethnic cities gives us a different view. The colonial scholar … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Ethnicity, Migration, Nationalism, Politics, Ports, Segregation, Social History, Southeast Asia, Trade, Transport
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Analyzing the Palimpsestic Petroleumscape of Rotterdam
By Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology Petroleum – its extraction, refining, transformation, and consumption – has shaped our built environment in visible and invisible interconnected ways around the world over the last 150 years. Industrial structures, buildings, monuments, urban … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Economic History, Europe, Industry, Ports, Spatial History, Trade, Transport
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Sex Work Regulation and the Colonial Order in Late Nineteenth-Century Cairo
By Francesca Biancani, University of Bologna In modern cities, flows of people, capital, and desires intermingled and structured a new spatial order. Straight streets, airy boulevards, agreeable parks, coffee houses, and taverns constituted the backdrop of a new type of … Continue reading
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From Rural to City Dwellers: A New Book on Indians in Kenya
Sana Aiyar, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015, 384 pp., $49.95 / £36.95 / €45.00. Reviewed by Saima Nasar, University of Birmingham Indians have contributed to Kenya’s multiracial tapestry for centuries. At Independence, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Britain, Diaspora, Empire, Ethnicity, India, Indian Ocean, Migration, Race, Trade
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“Urban and Global History Have Been Converging”: A Conversation With Shane Ewen
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, Britain, Europe, Industry, Social History
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“World History Needs More Urban Mess”: A Conversation with Carl H. Nightingale
Since its launch in November 2015, the Global Urban History Blog has published posts on a range of different cities and topics. The blog grew out of the observation that an increasing number of historians are bringing together global and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, North America, Segregation, Theory
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