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Indigenous London
by Coll Thrush, Associate Professor,
Department of History, The University of British Columbia
Yale University Press, 2016
An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries. London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. [more]
GUHP profile, Author website
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"The Sundry Acquaintances of Dr. Albino Z. Sycip: Exploring the Shanghai-Manila Connection, circa 1910–1940"
by Phillip Guingona, Assistant Professor,
Department of History, Wells College
Journal of World History, vol. 27, no. 1 (2016): 27-52
This microhistorical account of the understudied Philippine-Chinese leader Albino Z. Sycip explores the many early twentieth-century connections between Shanghai and Manila that he fostered and represented. Coming from an elite background that linked him with influential people in the United States, China, and the Philippines, Sycip built a transnational network of acquaintances. [more]
GUHP profile
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Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910 (Brand New)
by Joseph Ben Prestel, Assistant Professor,
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, The Free University of Berlin
Oxford Univeresity Press, 2017
Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that between 1860 and 1910, contemporaries in both Berlin and Cairo began to negotiate the transformation of the urban realm in terms of emotions. [more]
GUH blog entry, GUHP profile, Author website
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To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire (Brand New)
by Lorelle D. Semley, Associate Professor
History Department, College of the Holy Cross
Cambridge University Press, 2017
The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French Republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labor in the colonization of Africa. [more]
GUHP profile, Author website
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The Society for American City and Regional Planning will be holding its Biennial National Conference on Planning History in Cleveland, Ohio from October 26-29. The Global Urban History project is grateful for SACRPH’s kind invitation to hold our first Roundtable on Global Urban History at the conference on Saturday Oct 28 from 2:30pm to 4:15pm.
The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the planning of cities and metropolitan regions over time, and to bridging the gap between the scholarly study of cities and the practice of urban planning. {more] on main web site. The organization’s members come from a range of professions and areas of interest, and include historians, architects, planners, environmentalists, landscape designers, public policy makers, preservationists, community organizers, and students and scholars from across the country and around the world. |
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