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Tag Archives: 19th Century
Plural Pasts in Southeast Asian Port Cities
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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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Ethnicity, Migration, Nationalism, Politics, Ports, Segregation, Social History, Southeast Asia, Trade, Transport
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Sex Work Regulation and the Colonial Order in Late Nineteenth-Century Cairo
By Francesca Biancani, University of Bologna In modern cities, flows of people, capital, and desires intermingled and structured a new spatial order. Straight streets, airy boulevards, agreeable parks, coffee houses, and taverns constituted the backdrop of a new type of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Colonialism, Empire, Middle East, Race, Spatial History
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“Urban and Global History Have Been Converging”: A Conversation With Shane Ewen
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, Britain, Europe, Industry, Social History
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“World History Needs More Urban Mess”: A Conversation with Carl H. Nightingale
Since its launch in November 2015, the Global Urban History Blog has published posts on a range of different cities and topics. The blog grew out of the observation that an increasing number of historians are bringing together global and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, North America, Segregation, Theory
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The Paris Commune in Global Urban History
By Quentin Deluermoz, Université Paris 13 Translated from the French by Cecilia Terrero Fernández Although the Paris Commune is considered a major event in the history of the modern world – just think about how the Russian and Chinese revolutions … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Communism, Europe, France, Marxism, Paris, Revolution
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Between a Wall and the Sea: A New Book on Colonial Havana
Guadalupe García, Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana, Oakland: University of California Press, 2016, 296 pp., $34.95, £24.95 ISBN: 9780520286047 Reviewed by Cecilia T. Fernández, Freie Universität Berlin Strolling through Havana’s so-called “casco histórico,” its colonial center, can … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Architecture, Colonialism, Cuba, Disease, Empire, Ethnicity, Havana, Latin America, Race, Spatial History
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Claims of Modernity: The Building of the Ottoman Imperial Bank in Istanbul
Fabian Steininger, Max Planck Institute for Human Development In May 1892, the Ottoman state bank (Bank-ı Osmanī-i Şahane) moved into its newly built headquarters in the Voyvoda Caddesi in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The bank had been founded almost twenty years … Continue reading
Mapping as Process: Food Access in Nineteenth-Century New York
Gergely Baics, Barnard College, Columbia University Geographic information system (GIS) has changed social science and humanities research through spatial analysis. It has reinvigorated the spatial turn, which has swept many fields in the past decades, improving their empirical foundations, methodological … Continue reading
From Lancashire to the World: The Manchester Ship Canal and Globalization
Harry Stopes, University College London “The ship, prophetic feature of the City Arms, will be no longer a prophecy of what is to be; it will be the symbol of what is, the Port of Manchester, with that other feature … Continue reading
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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
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