Tag Archives: Europe

“Urban and Global History Have Been Converging”: A Conversation With Shane Ewen

Posted on 18. August 2016 by Global Urban History

The Conversations section of our blog seeks to foster critical exchange about the theoretical and methodological implications of bringing together global and urban history. The blog’s editors will occasionally interview scholars to discuss questions of global urban history, spanning across … Continue reading →

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“World History Needs More Urban Mess”: A Conversation with Carl H. Nightingale

Posted on 8. August 2016 by Global Urban History

Since its launch in November 2015, the Global Urban History Blog has published posts on a range of different cities and topics. The blog grew out of the observation that an increasing number of historians are bringing together global and … Continue reading →

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The Paris Commune in Global Urban History

Posted on 28. July 2016 by Global Urban History

By Quentin Deluermoz, Université Paris 13 Translated from the French by Cecilia Terrero Fernández Although the Paris Commune is considered a major event in the history of the modern world – just think about how the Russian and Chinese revolutions … Continue reading →

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Reflections on “Global Urban History” at the Second Global History Student Conference

Posted on 29. June 2016 by Global Urban History

Philipp Kandler, Freie Universität Berlin, and Thomas Lindner, Max Planck Institute for Human Development The global history of cities is en vogue at the moment. Increasing numbers of historians interested in global history turn to cities as spaces of connectedness … Continue reading →

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Claims of Modernity: The Building of the Ottoman Imperial Bank in Istanbul

Posted on 1. June 2016 by Global Urban History

Fabian Steininger, Max Planck Institute for Human Development In May 1892, the Ottoman state bank (Bank-ı Osmanī-i Şahane) moved into its newly built headquarters in the Voyvoda Caddesi in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The bank had been founded almost twenty years … 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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From Lancashire to the World: The Manchester Ship Canal and Globalization

Posted on 29. April 2016 by Global Urban History

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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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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Paris Everywhere? The Challenge of Eurocentrism in Global Urban History

Posted on 5. April 2016 by Global Urban History

Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Urban history is becoming increasingly global. Recent trends in historiography, such as transnational and global history, have inspired scholars of urban history who show a renewed interest in questions of comparison and connections. This … Continue reading →

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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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