Tag Archives: Trade

From Rural to City Dwellers: A New Book on Indians in Kenya

Posted on 29. August 2016 by Global Urban History

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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From Lancashire to the World: The Manchester Ship Canal and Globalization

Posted on 29. April 2016 by Global Urban History

Harry Stopes, University College London “The ship, prophetic feature of the City Arms, will be no longer a prophecy of what is to be; it will be the symbol of what is, the Port of Manchester, with that other feature … Continue reading →

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Vicissitudes of Globality: The Many Connections of Eighteenth-century Charleston

Posted on 14. March 2016 by Global Urban History

Emma Hart, University of St Andrews What is the promise of global urban history for the pre-nineteenth-century era? As the vast majority of discussion about cities and “the global” continue to focus on the decades after 1850, I want to … Continue reading →

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Fashioning the Colonial Metropolis: Asian Influences and Urban Identities in Colonial Mexico City

Posted on 4. January 2016 by Global Urban History

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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