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Category Archives: Article
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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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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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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Berlin, 1873: A New Imperial Center and a Transatlantic Financial Crisis
Catherine Davies, FernUniversität in Hagen When thinking about the interrelationship between the urban and the global, stock exchanges may yield valuable insights. A quintessentially urban locale, they were often seen as institutions that brought global events home with much force … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Berlin, Communication, Economic History, Europe, Finance, Germany, Industry, Stock Markets
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Imperial Cities as Cultural Nodes: A View from Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University I recently published a collection of essays exploring the culture of the Japanese empire. It proved impossible to talk about this subject without talking about other empires, which provided the institutional models and many of the material … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Colonialism, East Asia, Education, Empire, Japan, Migration, Painting, Paris, Tokyo, Universities
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Fashioning the Colonial Metropolis: Asian Influences and Urban Identities in Colonial Mexico City
Nino Vallen, Freie Universität Berlin At the end of the seventeenth century, the Mexican artist Cristóbal de Villalpando painted the main square of Mexico City. His image of the zócalo depicts approximately 1,200 persons strolling around or standing in groups … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, China, Empire, Justice, Latin America, Mexico City, Pacific, Social History, Southeast Asia, Spanish Empire, Trade, Transport
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Rush Hour in Ottoman Istanbul: Mechanized Transportation and the Emergence of Modern Temporal Patterns
Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv University It is the morning rush hour in the Istanbul neighborhood of Eminönü. Another ferry is approaching the quay and even before it is tied to the platform, hordes of people alight and rush on to … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Bureaucracy, Infrastructure, Istanbul, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, State, Transport, Urban rhythms
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Detroit: Capital of the Automotive Age
Stefan Link, Dartmouth College In 1913, Detroit’s Ford Motor Company made history when it introduced moving assembly lines into car manufacturing. In 2013, the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. A century ago, Detroit was a fast-growing metropolis, attracting immigrants from … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Detroit, Economic History, Factories, Fordism, Industry, North America, Transport
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