Category Archives: Article

Global Ottoman: The Cairo-Istanbul Axis

Posted on 13. February 2017 by Global Urban History

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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Infrastructural Statecraft and the Rise of Just-in-Time Urbanism

Posted on 9. January 2017 by Global Urban History

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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Liberal Cities? What Recent Elections Mean for Global Urban History

Posted on 29. December 2016 by 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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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance

Posted on 19. December 2016 by Global Urban History

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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Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City

Posted on 8. December 2016 by Global Urban History

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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City Life and Automobility in Twentieth-Century Ghana

Posted on 1. December 2016 by Global Urban History

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 →

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On the Khartoum Omnibus: Stories of Sudan’s Cosmopolitanism

Posted on 22. November 2016 by Global Urban History

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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Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Industrial Chicago

Posted on 14. November 2016 by Global Urban History

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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Some Reflections on Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam

Posted on 29. October 2016 by Global Urban History

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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Plural Pasts in Southeast Asian Port Cities

Posted on 19. October 2016 by Global Urban History

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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