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Author Archives: Global Urban History
Conflict or Brotherhood? Two Studies of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Urban France
Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, Cambridge, Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 2015, 480 pp, $35.00/ £25.95/ €31.50, ISBN: 9780674088689. Maud S. Mandel, Muslims and Jews in France: History of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Decolonization, Empire, Ethnicity, Europe, France, Migration
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Paris Everywhere? The Challenge of Eurocentrism in Global Urban History
Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Urban history is becoming increasingly global. Recent trends in historiography, such as transnational and global history, have inspired scholars of urban history who show a renewed interest in questions of comparison and connections. This … Continue reading
Of Rags and Riches
David Huyssen, Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014, 392 pp, 38,- €, ISBN 978-0674281400. Reviewed by Björn Blaß, Max Planck Institute for Human Development “Neither any continental city nor even London … Continue reading
Vicissitudes of Globality: The Many Connections of Eighteenth-century Charleston
Emma Hart, University of St Andrews What is the promise of global urban history for the pre-nineteenth-century era? As the vast majority of discussion about cities and “the global” continue to focus on the decades after 1850, I want to … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Atlantic World, Black Atlantic, Britain, Charleston, Colonialism, Economic History, Empire, North America, Trade
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When New Orleans Took on New York
Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn, The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2015, 232 pp, £19.99, ISBN 9780190211653. Reviewed by Catherine Davies, FernUniversität in Hagen In 1903, the American … Continue reading
Hotels for Refugees: Colonialism, Migration, and Tourism in Lisbon
Christoph Kalter, University of California, Berkeley Lisbon is a peculiar metropolis. The city is the capital of a nation that one of its leading intellectuals, the sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, has qualified as semi-peripheral. On the one hand, Lisbon … Continue reading
Rangoon and Singapore: Connections, Comparisons, and the Construction of Southeast Asian Cities
Michael Sugarman, University of Cambridge November’s parliamentary elections in Myanmar have contributed to a sense of cautious optimism not only on the ground, but also amongst academics studying the Southeast Asian nation’s rich and complex history and society. While academic … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, British Empire, Colonialism, Southeast Asia, Spatial History, Urban Planning
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The Palais After Dark: Two Histories of British Dance Halls
James Nott, Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918–1960, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015, 327 pp, £65.00, ISBN 978-0199605194. Dave Haslam, Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Britain, Europe, Gender, Music, Race, Social History, Youth
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What’s in a Grid? Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne
Nadia Rhook, La Trobe University In recent years Melburnians have been educated about an episode of Australian history previously little known in non-Indigenous circles. A play, Coranderrk: we will show the country, has been performed in theatres around Melbourne, and this … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Australia, Colonialism, Dispossession, Empire, Environment, Ethnicity, Migration, Race, Spatial History
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The “Spiritual Capital” of the Rust Belt: Pittsburgh and the Postindustrial Transformation of North Atlantic Cities
Tracy Neumann, Harvard University / Wayne State University In 1973, Daniel Bell’s The Coming of Post-Industrial Society hit bookshelves just as the golden age of postwar capitalism wound to an end. In it, Bell described post-industrial society as one in … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, City Politics, Consumer Culture, Economic History, Environment, Europe, Factories, Industry, North America
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