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Tag Archives: Southeast Asia
A New Governor Arrives in Batavia: Public Ceremony in a Colonial City
By Mikko Toivanen, University of Edinburgh How can historians relate urban spaces to the lives of city dwellers? Does it matter if the city is located in a colonial setting? Brenda Yeoh has argued that an excessive focus on abstract … Continue reading
“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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Emporia of Cosmopolitanism: A Social History of Early-Twentieth-Century Port Cities in Southeast Asia
Su Lin Lewis, Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 309 pp., $ 99.99 / £ 64.99 / € 94.99. Reviewed by Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin There are few recent … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Colonialism, Ethnicity, Imperialism, Ports, Segregation, Southeast Asia, Trade
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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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Rangoon and Singapore: Connections, Comparisons, and the Construction of Southeast Asian Cities
Michael Sugarman, University of Cambridge November’s parliamentary elections in Myanmar have contributed to a sense of cautious optimism not only on the ground, but also amongst academics studying the Southeast Asian nation’s rich and complex history and society. While academic … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, British Empire, Colonialism, Southeast Asia, Spatial History, Urban Planning
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Fashioning the Colonial Metropolis: Asian Influences and Urban Identities in Colonial Mexico City
Nino Vallen, Freie Universität Berlin At the end of the seventeenth century, the Mexican artist Cristóbal de Villalpando painted the main square of Mexico City. His image of the zócalo depicts approximately 1,200 persons strolling around or standing in groups … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, China, Empire, Justice, Latin America, Mexico City, Pacific, Social History, Southeast Asia, Spanish Empire, Trade, Transport
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