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Tag Archives: Migration
Plural Pasts in Southeast Asian Port Cities
By Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol Conflict and division characterize the way we often think of race relations in the colonial era, but the social history of Asia’s most multi-ethnic cities gives us a different view. The colonial scholar … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Ethnicity, Migration, Nationalism, Politics, Ports, Segregation, Social History, Southeast Asia, Trade, Transport
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From Rural to City Dwellers: A New Book on Indians in Kenya
Sana Aiyar, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015, 384 pp., $49.95 / £36.95 / €45.00. Reviewed by Saima Nasar, University of Birmingham Indians have contributed to Kenya’s multiracial tapestry for centuries. At Independence, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Africa, Britain, Diaspora, Empire, Ethnicity, India, Indian Ocean, Migration, Race, Trade
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Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital
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
Conflict or Brotherhood? Two Studies of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Urban France
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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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Decolonization, Empire, Ethnicity, Europe, France, Migration
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Hotels for Refugees: Colonialism, Migration, and Tourism in Lisbon
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
What’s in a Grid? Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne
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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Tagged 19th Century, Australia, Colonialism, Dispossession, Empire, Environment, Ethnicity, Migration, Race, Spatial History
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Imperial Cities as Cultural Nodes: A View from Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo
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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Tagged 20th Century, Art, Colonialism, East Asia, Education, Empire, Japan, Migration, Painting, Paris, Tokyo, Universities
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Revolutionary Chic: Left-Wing Exiles, Design, and Urbanism in Mexico City
Randal Sheppard, Universität zu Köln Mexico City was one of the most important and culturally vibrant hubs of political exile in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century. However, the scholarly literature about this phenomenon has so far been limited … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Design, Latin America, Mexico City, Migration, Spatial History
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Historicizing “Urbanity”: Buenos Aires in the epidemic years
Antonio Carbone, Freie Universität Berlin Scholars in the field of urban studies have been arguing for decades about what exactly the object of their research could be. At a first glance the ‘urban’ appears as a clearly defined field of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Buenos Aires, Environment, History of Medicine, Latin America, Migration, Spatial History
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The Latin Quarter and the Third World
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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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Decolonization, Empire, Europe, France, Migration, Nationalism, Paris, Spatial History
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