Tag Archives: Empire

Hotels for Refugees: Colonialism, Migration, and Tourism in Lisbon

Posted on 2. March 2016 by Global Urban History

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 →

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What’s in a Grid? Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne

Posted on 11. February 2016 by Global Urban History

Nadia Rhook, La Trobe University In recent years Melburnians have been educated about an episode of Australian history previously little known in non-Indigenous circles. A play, Coranderrk: we will show the country, has been performed in theatres around Melbourne, and this … Continue reading →

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Imperial Cities as Cultural Nodes: A View from Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo

Posted on 13. January 2016 by Global Urban History

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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Fashioning the Colonial Metropolis: Asian Influences and Urban Identities in Colonial Mexico City

Posted on 4. January 2016 by Global Urban History

Nino Vallen, Freie Universität Berlin At the end of the seventeenth century, the Mexican artist Cristóbal de Villalpando painted the main square of Mexico City. His image of the zócalo depicts approximately 1,200 persons strolling around or standing in groups … Continue reading →

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The Latin Quarter and the Third World

Posted on 3. December 2015 by Global Urban History

Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin Between the two World Wars, imperial centers such as London or Paris became bridgeheads for the spread of nationalism throughout the colonial world. As I argue in my recent book about Paris as an Anti-Imperial Metropolis, migration to … Continue reading →

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