A Conference on Chinese Cities in World History
By Daniel Knorr, University of Chicago The “global turn” in historical studies is a recent phenomenon, but global comparisons have long been foundational in the study of Chinese cities. Max Weber...
View ArticlePrincely Architectural Cosmopolitanism and Urbanity in Rampur
By Razak Khan, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen The colonial state in India often justified the continuation of princely states as a policy for the preservation of “traditional patterns” in the...
View ArticleBrahmin 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...
View ArticleThe Urban and the Powerful: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Urban...
Göran Therborn, Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global, London, Verso, 2017, 408 pp. $35/£20/$47 CAN. Reviewed by Gemma Masson, University of Birmingham The recent growth in...
View ArticleCairo, 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...
View ArticleTranspatialization: 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...
View ArticleImmigration, Communities, and Neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, 1880–1930
By Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern British Columbia In 1869, Buenos Aires was a small city of 178,000 inhabitants. Yet by 1914, it had grown to almost 1.6 million people and become the second...
View Article‘Serfing’ Metropolitanism in Fin-De-Siècle Russia: Village Structures for...
By Botakoz Kassymbekova, Technical University of Berlin In fin-de-siècle Russia, just as in many other parts of the world, rapid industrialization and the development of transportation and...
View ArticleSearching for Meiji-Tokyo: Heterogeneous Visual Media and the Turn to Global...
By Beate Löffler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Carola Hein, Delft University of Technology, and Tino Mager, Delft University of Technology For a long time, urban history, as a field of study, focused...
View ArticleNo Need to Go to Paris Anymore: Brazilians’ visits to Buenos Aires around 1900
By Ori Preuss, Tel Aviv University “The enthusiasm with which he described what he calls the ‘the major phenomenon of the Latin race in the nineteenth century,’ his endless admiration for a growth...
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Is settler colonial history urban history?
By Efrat Gilad, Graduate Institute Geneva Tel Aviv, “the First Hebrew City” founded in 1909, is also referred to as “the city that begat a state”. This celebratory proverb illustrates how the city’s...
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The Archive Box #1: Calcutta Pulp Fiction
By Anindita Ghosh*, University of Manchester The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they...
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The Archive Box #5: Chasing Archives in Ottoman Tunis
By Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard University The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they...
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