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Tag Archives: Industry
Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City
By John Munro, St. Mary’s University It was, on the face of it, an unremarkable event. In the spring of 1989, a single-room-occupancy hotel and beer parlor was torn down in North Vancouver, Canada, and a new condominium tower was … Continue reading
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Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Industrial Chicago
By Colin Fisher, University of San Diego U.S. environmental and cultural historians and American Studies scholars have long explored privileged Anglo Americans’ desire to come into contact with nature. We know that in response to the perceived ills of urban … Continue reading
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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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“Urban and Global History Have Been Converging”: A Conversation With Shane Ewen
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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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Britain, Europe, Industry, Social History
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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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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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Detroit: Capital of the Automotive Age
Stefan Link, Dartmouth College In 1913, Detroit’s Ford Motor Company made history when it introduced moving assembly lines into car manufacturing. In 2013, the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. A century ago, Detroit was a fast-growing metropolis, attracting immigrants from … Continue reading
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