Tag Archives: Empire

Real Estate and Global Urban History: Interview with Alexia Yates

Posted on 19. June 2021 by Global Urban History

To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Joseph Ben Prestel interviews Alexia Yates, the author … Continue reading →

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The Archive Box #5: Chasing Archives in Ottoman Tunis

Posted on 19. April 2021 by Global Urban History

By Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard University The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities … Continue reading →

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The Archive Box #4: The Worlds of the Paris Commune

Posted on 22. January 2021 by Global Urban History

By Quentin Deluermoz*, University of Paris The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities … Continue reading →

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A New Governor Arrives in Batavia: Public Ceremony in a Colonial City

Posted on 20. April 2020 by Global Urban History

By Mikko Toivanen, University of Edinburgh How can historians relate urban spaces to the lives of city dwellers? Does it matter if the city is located in a colonial setting? Brenda Yeoh has argued that an excessive focus on abstract … Continue reading →

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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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Dakar, Senegal: Cosmopolitan Interwar City

Posted on 24. August 2018 by Global Urban History

By Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College One of largest cities in West Africa, Dakar, Senegal sits at the western-most tip of the continent. Now home to a population of over two million people, Dakar of today is the capital of … Continue reading →

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Transpatialization: A New Heuristic Model to Think about Modern Cities

Posted on 14. December 2017 by Global Urban History

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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Imagine Lagos: Mapping a Pre-Colonial West African City

Posted on 28. March 2017 by Global Urban History

By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside Africa’s cities are now among the fastest growing in the world. But how well are their pre-colonial origins understood? Recent research on Lagos’s past reveals a thriving, indigenous yet cosmopolitan urban community, one … 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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Sex Work Regulation and the Colonial Order in Late Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Posted on 9. September 2016 by Global Urban History

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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