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Tag Archives: Economic History
Transpatialization: A New Heuristic Model to Think about Modern Cities
By Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva How has the modern world been formed spatially? Historians have pored over that question for the last two hundred years. From the mid-nineteenth century and deep into the twentieth, many concentrated on nation-states; … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Economic History, Empire, Middle East, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Theory
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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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Analyzing the Palimpsestic Petroleumscape of Rotterdam
By Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology Petroleum – its extraction, refining, transformation, and consumption – has shaped our built environment in visible and invisible interconnected ways around the world over the last 150 years. Industrial structures, buildings, monuments, urban … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Economic History, Europe, Industry, Ports, Spatial History, Trade, Transport
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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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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Britain, Economic History, Empire, Europe, Industry, Ports, Trade, Transport
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Of Rags and Riches
David Huyssen, Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2014, 392 pp, 38,- €, ISBN 978-0674281400. Reviewed by Björn Blaß, Max Planck Institute for Human Development “Neither any continental city nor even London … Continue reading
Vicissitudes of Globality: The Many Connections of Eighteenth-century Charleston
Emma Hart, University of St Andrews What is the promise of global urban history for the pre-nineteenth-century era? As the vast majority of discussion about cities and “the global” continue to focus on the decades after 1850, I want to … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Atlantic World, Black Atlantic, Britain, Charleston, Colonialism, Economic History, Empire, North America, Trade
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When New Orleans Took on New York
Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn, The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2015, 232 pp, £19.99, ISBN 9780190211653. Reviewed by Catherine Davies, FernUniversität in Hagen In 1903, the American … Continue reading
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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Berlin, 1873: A New Imperial Center and a Transatlantic Financial Crisis
Catherine Davies, FernUniversität in Hagen When thinking about the interrelationship between the urban and the global, stock exchanges may yield valuable insights. A quintessentially urban locale, they were often seen as institutions that brought global events home with much force … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Berlin, Communication, Economic History, Europe, Finance, Germany, Industry, Stock Markets
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Global Urban History 