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Tag Archives: Theory
Exploring Intersections of Urban History and Global History: A Roundtable Discussion at EAUH 2018
By Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Anindita Ghosh, University of Manchester, Ayala Levin, Northwestern University, Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Carl Nightingale and … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Atlantic World, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Theory
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Henri Lefebvre, Mao Zedong, and the Global Urban Concept
By Stuart Schrader Global urban history takes three primary forms. One is to direct the analytic gaze beyond Euro-America, to cities that were once “off the map” of urban studies. Another is to study the interconnections among far-flung cities. Extensive … Continue reading
Transpatialization: A New Heuristic Model to Think about Modern Cities
By Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva How has the modern world been formed spatially? Historians have pored over that question for the last two hundred years. From the mid-nineteenth century and deep into the twentieth, many concentrated on nation-states; … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Economic History, Empire, Middle East, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Theory
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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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Cairo, Berlin, and the Compartments of Urban History
By Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Around 1900, contemporaries in Cairo and Berlin made remarkably similar arguments about the effects of urban change on city dwellers. A variety of actors from journalists and psychologists to police officers and city … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Emotions, Entertainment, Europe, Middle East, Theory
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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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The Global Urban History Project
By Mariana Dantas, Ohio University, Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin, Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews, Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego, Tracy Neumann, Wayne State University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, SUNY, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität … Continue reading
“The ‘Urban Question’ is Now at the Center of Intellectual Life”: A Conversation with Rosemary Wakeman
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, Europe, Intellectual History, Migration, Theory, Urban Modernity
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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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“World History Needs More Urban Mess”: A Conversation with Carl H. Nightingale
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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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, North America, Segregation, Theory
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