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Tag Archives: North America
The City as a Palimpsest and Crucible of National Identity
By Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Northern State University The tendency of successive regimes to rework commemorative landscapes speaks to the intrinsic and intricate linkages between place, memory, and identity. We affix memories and identities to urban space … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Central Asia, Commemoration, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Memorials, Memory, Monuments, North America, Spatial History
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Words Matter, Silences too: Speaking About Urban Spaces
By Richard Harris, MacMaster University, and Charlotte Vorms, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne As historical scholars, we know that the meaning of words often changes, and that those changes can matter. Sometimes they matter a lot, familiar examples being “race” … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, concepts, language, North America, Suburbs, Theory
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Brahmin Boston and the Politics of Interconnectedness
By Noam Maggor, Cornell University The first age of globalization between around 1870 and World War I created a strategic new role for cities, making them into pivotal sites for the worldwide movement of capital, goods, and labor. And yet, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Boston, Capitalism, City Politics, Finance, Gilded Age, Infrastructure, North America
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“Historians of Cities and Global Historians Have Much to Learn From Each Other”: A Conversation with Nancy Kwak
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 different regional … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Housing, Latin America, North America, Southeast Asia
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Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States
By Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania, and Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University Recent refugee crises, xenophobic nationalism, and calls to deport unauthorized immigrants remind historians of earlier eras in which cities and nations have taken opposing stances on immigration. … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Migration, North America, Public Policy, Urban Revitalization
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Comparing Transnational and Global Urban History
Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin, ed., Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015. 262 pp., £75. Reviewed by Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Global urban history is not the only approach that seeks … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, North America, Segregation, South Asia, Suburbs, Theory
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Infrastructural Statecraft and the Rise of Just-in-Time Urbanism
By Boris Vormann, Freie Universität Berlin Containerization has led international trade to triple since the mid-1970s. This massive expansion and deepening of exchange networks would have been unthinkable without the construction of material transportation infrastructures in the world’s metropolitan agglomerations. … Continue reading
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Tagged Infrastructure, North America, Politics, Theory, Trade, Transport
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Liberal Cities? What Recent Elections Mean for Global Urban History
By Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin The agitated politics of 2016 have led intellectuals the world over to ponder the “end of the Anglo-American order,” the “bankruptcy of the post-war world order,” and the death of “liberalism.” That this death … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Democracy, Demography, Elections, India, Liberalism, London, North America, Philippines, Politics
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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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Tagged 20th Century, Canada, Colonialism, Ethnicity, gentrification, Industry, North America, Politics, Race
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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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Tagged Environment, Ethnicity, Industry, Infrastructure, Migration, North America, Politics
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