Tag Archives: Commodities

Multireligiosity as a Rallying Call: The Petticoat Lane Street Market in the 1850s

Posted on 17. April 2019 by Global Urban History

By Ole Münch Today, urban street markets are often places where migrants from different origins meet and mingle. This was the case in the past as well. By the middle of the nineteenth century the East End of London already hosted … Continue reading →

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Some Reflections on Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam

Posted on 29. October 2016 by Global Urban History

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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Mapping as Process: Food Access in Nineteenth-Century New York

Posted on 17. May 2016 by Global Urban History

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 →

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