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Tag Archives: Trade
Cartographies of Global Connectivity in Interwar Japan
By Jeffrey C. Guarneri, University of Wisconsin-Madison Japan’s interwar period (1918-1941) was a time of profound changes in Japan’s ports of international trade, cities which simultaneously helped to drive Japan’s rise to world economic power status during World War I … Continue reading
Multireligiosity as a Rallying Call: The Petticoat Lane Street Market in the 1850s
By Ole Münch Today, urban street markets are often places where migrants from different origins meet and mingle. This was the case in the past as well. By the middle of the nineteenth century the East End of London already hosted … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodities, London, Religion, Street Life, Street Markets, Trade
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Remodeling Tianjin: A New History of Globalization in a Chinese City
Pierre Singaravélou, Tianjin Cosmopolis: Une autre histoire de la mondialisation, Paris, Seuil, 2017. 384 pp., € 24.00. Reviewed by Gabriel Doyle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales In the study of European imperialism in China, the Boxer rebellion that … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Colonialism, East Asia, Imperialism, Municipality, Trade, War
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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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Imagine Lagos: Mapping a Pre-Colonial West African City
By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside Africa’s cities are now among the fastest growing in the world. But how well are their pre-colonial origins understood? Recent research on Lagos’s past reveals a thriving, indigenous yet cosmopolitan urban community, one … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Colonialism, Empire, Mapping, Slavery, Spatial History, Trade
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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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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance
By Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina, Charlotte It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I, a young, small-town girl had landed in a foreign country to begin my study abroad. I knew nothing about Argentina and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Argentina, censuses, Colonialism, Latin America, Migration, Race, Slavery, Trade, Urban Modernity
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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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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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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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Tagged 20th Century, Architecture, Economic History, Europe, Industry, Ports, Spatial History, Trade, Transport
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Global Urban History 