Places of Encounter, Volume 2

Aran MacKinnon

• CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500–1800), SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549–1822), NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571–1945), LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660–1851), GORÉE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677–1890), PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s), CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700–1840), SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730–1865), ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800–1954), GALLIPOLI: War’s Global Concourse (1915), ST.PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890–1918), KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s–1900s), BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945-1991), NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911–2011), DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820–2010)