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Tag Archives: 20th Century
Japan’s Urban Colonial Past and the Problem of Commemoration
Emer O’Dwyer, Oberlin College In January of this year, Miura Hideyuki, a journalist for the Asahi shinbun, was awarded the Kaikō Ken Memorial Nonfiction Prize for his work of reportage, Five-Colored Rainbow (Goshiki no niji, Shūeisha, 2015). In it, Miura … Continue reading
Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital
Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 414 pp., $29.95 / £22.95, ISBN: 9780520284302 Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the … Continue reading
The Bloodlands’ City: A New Book on the Making of Ukrainian Lviv
Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, 356 pp., $35.00. Reviewed by Franziska Davies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München In the course of the twentieth century the city … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Eastern Europe, Ethnicity, Europe, Genocide, Lviv, Nationalism, Ukraine, Violence, War
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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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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Britain, Economic History, Empire, Europe, Industry, Ports, Trade, Transport
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Conflict or Brotherhood? Two Studies of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Urban France
Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, Cambridge, Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 2015, 480 pp, $35.00/ £25.95/ €31.50, ISBN: 9780674088689. Maud S. Mandel, Muslims and Jews in France: History of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Decolonization, Empire, Ethnicity, Europe, France, Migration
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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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The Palais After Dark: Two Histories of British Dance Halls
James Nott, Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918–1960, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015, 327 pp, £65.00, ISBN 978-0199605194. Dave Haslam, Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Britain, Europe, Gender, Music, Race, Social History, Youth
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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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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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