Tag Archives: British Empire

Is settler colonial history urban history?

Posted on 10. February 2020 by Global 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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Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital

Posted on 7. June 2016 by Global Urban History

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 →

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Rangoon and Singapore: Connections, Comparisons, and the Construction of Southeast Asian Cities

Posted on 24. February 2016 by Global Urban History

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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