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Tag Archives: 19th Century
The Archive Box #5: Chasing Archives in Ottoman Tunis
By Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard University The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Archives, Empire, France, Historiography, North Africa, Ottoman Empire
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The Archive Box #1: Calcutta Pulp Fiction
By Anindita Ghosh*, University of Manchester The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Archives, Colonialism, Communication, South Asia
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Is settler colonial history urban history?
By Efrat Gilad, Graduate Institute Geneva Tel Aviv, “the First Hebrew City” founded in 1909, is also referred to as “the city that begat a state”. This celebratory proverb illustrates how the city’s capitalist ventures were the economic and cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, British Empire, Colonialism, Empire, Food, Imperialism, Middle East
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No Need to Go to Paris Anymore: Brazilians’ visits to Buenos Aires around 1900
By Ori Preuss, Tel Aviv University “The enthusiasm with which he described what he calls the ‘the major phenomenon of the Latin race in the nineteenth century,’ his endless admiration for a growth unmatched by any other people of our … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Atlantic World, Brazil, Intellectual History, Latin America, Press, Transnational
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Searching for Meiji-Tokyo: Heterogeneous Visual Media and the Turn to Global Urban History, Digitalization, and Deep Learning
By Beate Löffler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology, and Tino Mager, Delft University of Technology For a long time, urban history, as a field of study, focused on textual sources and elite subjects, and the scholars … Continue reading
‘Serfing’ Metropolitanism in Fin-De-Siècle Russia: Village Structures for Global Infrastructures
By Botakoz Kassymbekova, Technical University of Berlin In fin-de-siècle Russia, just as in many other parts of the world, rapid industrialization and the development of transportation and communication systems led to the growth of modern metropolises. Mass luxury hotels became … Continue reading
Immigration, Communities, and Neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, 1880–1930
By Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern British Columbia In 1869, Buenos Aires was a small city of 178,000 inhabitants. Yet by 1914, it had grown to almost 1.6 million people and become the second largest city on the Atlantic coast … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Associations, Ethnicity, Infrastructure, Latin America, Migration, Social History, Transport
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Transpatialization: A New Heuristic Model to Think about Modern Cities
By Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva How has the modern world been formed spatially? Historians have pored over that question for the last two hundred years. From the mid-nineteenth century and deep into the twentieth, many concentrated on nation-states; … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Economic History, Empire, Middle East, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Theory
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Cairo, Berlin, and the Compartments of Urban History
By Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Around 1900, contemporaries in Cairo and Berlin made remarkably similar arguments about the effects of urban change on city dwellers. A variety of actors from journalists and psychologists to police officers and city … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Emotions, Entertainment, Europe, Middle East, Theory
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The Urban and the Powerful: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Urban History
Göran Therborn, Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global, London, Verso, 2017, 408 pp. $35/£20/$47 CAN. Reviewed by Gemma Masson, University of Birmingham The recent growth in popularity of global history has caused many scholars to … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, Nationalism, Politics, State, Urban Modernity
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