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Tag Archives: 19th Century
Brahmin Boston and the Politics of Interconnectedness
By Noam Maggor, Cornell University The first age of globalization between around 1870 and World War I created a strategic new role for cities, making them into pivotal sites for the worldwide movement of capital, goods, and labor. And yet, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Boston, Capitalism, City Politics, Finance, Gilded Age, Infrastructure, North America
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Princely Architectural Cosmopolitanism and Urbanity in Rampur
By Razak Khan, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen The colonial state in India often justified the continuation of princely states as a policy for the preservation of “traditional patterns” in the cultural sphere. While the “traditional” was seemingly preserved, it was also increasingly … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Architecture, Art, Colonialism, Government, South Asia
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A Conference on Chinese Cities in World History
By Daniel Knorr, University of Chicago The “global turn” in historical studies is a recent phenomenon, but global comparisons have long been foundational in the study of Chinese cities. Max Weber framed this comparison as decisively negative in The City, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, China, Colonialism, Imperialism, Politics, Social History, State
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Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said around 1900
By Valeska Huber, German Historical Institute London Research on the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean has stressed the importance of the opening of the Suez Canal as a transformative factor that had extensive reverberations throughout the region. In the decades … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Cosmopolitanism, Ethnicity, Infrastructure, Middle East, Migration, Transport
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Comparing Transnational and Global Urban History
Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin, ed., Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015. 262 pp., £75. Reviewed by Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Global urban history is not the only approach that seeks … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, North America, Segregation, South Asia, Suburbs, Theory
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The Global Urban History Project
By Mariana Dantas, Ohio University, Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin, Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews, Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego, Tracy Neumann, Wayne State University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, SUNY, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität … Continue reading
Global Ottoman: The Cairo-Istanbul Axis
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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Tagged 19th Century, Art, Cairo, Istanbul, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Politics
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“The ‘Urban Question’ is Now at the Center of Intellectual Life”: A Conversation with Rosemary Wakeman
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, Europe, Intellectual History, Migration, Theory, Urban Modernity
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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance
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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Tagged 19th Century, Argentina, censuses, Colonialism, Latin America, Migration, Race, Slavery, Trade, Urban Modernity
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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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