Tag Archives: Ethnicity

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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The Bloodlands’ City: A New Book on the Making of Ukrainian Lviv

Posted on 24. May 2016 by Global Urban History

Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, 356 pp., $35.00. Reviewed by Franziska Davies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München In the course of the twentieth century the city … Continue reading →

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Conflict or Brotherhood? Two Studies of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Urban France

Posted on 14. April 2016 by Global Urban History

Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, Cambridge, Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 2015, 480 pp, $35.00/ £25.95/ €31.50, ISBN: 9780674088689. Maud S. Mandel, Muslims and Jews in France: History of a … 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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