Global Urban History
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The Global Urban History Blog is run by a group of historians who share an interest in both global and urban history.
Global Urban History
1w ago
Rosemary Wakeman’s new book, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941, is an interpretative history of global urbanity following the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon across three cities at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the ..read more
Global Urban History
6M ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Carl Nightingale, the author of Our Urban Planet in Theory and History. Carl Nightingale has taught world history and urban history for thirty years, most recently in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His book Segregation: a Global History of Divided Cities was co-winner of the World History Association Jerry B ..read more
Global Urban History
7M ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Mariana Dantas and Emma Hart, the authors of Early Modern Atlantic Cities. Mariana Dantas is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. She is a specialist in the history of slavery and African diasporic peoples in the Atlantic World. Emma Hart is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and the ..read more
Global Urban History
8M ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Katherine Zubovich, the author of Making Cities Socialist. Katherine Zubovich is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is a historian of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her book, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, explores the history of skyscraper building in the Soviet c ..read more
Global Urban History
2y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Tracy Neumann interviews Kristin Stapleton, the author of The Modern City in Asia. Kristin Stapleton is Professor of History at University of Buffalo and the author of several books and articles on Chinese history. An excerpt of The Modern City in Asia follows the interview.
Tracy Neumann (TN): Your previous work has focused on China and Chinese cities, while your Element ranges more ..read more
Global Urban History
2y ago
By Carl H. Nightingale*, University of Buffalo
The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives across the world.
View of Nairobi from the Wind Farm on the Ngong Hills. This particular view of the Urban Planet from the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi is a wonderful piece of primary evidence encompassing the pre-urban past, the present day “Great Acceleration” of the urban, and the future potential of cities driven by energy more directly harveste ..read more
Global Urban History
2y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Michael Goebel interviews Lila Caimari, the author of our third Element, Cities and News (2022). Lila Caimari is is a full-time Researcher at Conicet in Buenos Aires. She has published extensively on the history of urban crime, the police, and the prison experience in Argentina. She is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters about the social and cultural history of modern Ar ..read more
Global Urban History
3y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Joseph Ben Prestel interviews Alexia Yates, the author of our second Element, Real Estate and Global Urban History (2021). Alexia Yates is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester and author of Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital (Harvard UP, 2015) as well as numerous articles. An excerpt of Real Estate and Global Urban Histo ..read more
Global Urban History
3y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Tracy Neumann interviews Richard Harris, the author of our first Element, How Cities Matter (2021). Richard Harris is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and the author of many books, articles, and essays on urban and suburban development. An excerpt of How Cities Matters follows the interview.
Tracy Neumann (TN): I think we have to open with the obvious question: How d ..read more
Global Urban History
3y ago
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 faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities across the world.
What happens to the sovereign status of a polity when it is the object of a global imperial rivalry, and how do the archives of its capital city tell this story? From the French colonial heritage of the Tunisian National Archives to the multilingual informal correspondences of Tunisians across the Ottoman Mediterr ..read more