Elements in Global Urban History – serie
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Urban Disasters
Av Cindy Ermus
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It introduces the reader to central concepts that help define the study of disasters, then moves on to explore the relationship between cities and disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, …
A History of Policing Cities
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, namely across two capital cities, Dublin and later London. From the mid-1700s, poor harvests …
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City
Av Maria-Aparecida Lopes, María Cecilia Zuleta
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City explores a fundamental question through the lens of the modern metropolis: How did the experience of food and eating evolve throughout the twentieth century? In answering this query, this Element examines significant changes in the production, distribution, …
Our Urban Planet in Theory and History
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the Anthropocene. We must enlarge our concept …
Globalizing Urban Environmental History
Av Matthew Vitz
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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'Globalizing Urban Environmental History' melds the methodological prescriptions of global urban history, the innovative methods of environmental history, and the interdisciplinary field of urban political ecology to trace the contours of a global urban environmental history. I argue that a global …
The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning
Av Ian Morley
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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During the past one hundred or so years, urbanists have composed grand narratives regarding the development of urban design and the international dissemination of planning models. Yet, building upon this historiography, whilst the transnational dimension of modern city planning has centred itself …
Africa in Urban History
Av Ambe J. Njoh
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firstly, it employs race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory as conceptual frameworks to analyze the spatial structures, social, and political-economic …
Early Modern Atlantic Cities
Inbunden, 2024
918 kr
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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of …
Making Cities Socialist
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also highlighting features of everyday life in …
Globalizing Urban Environmental History
Av Matthew Vitz
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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'Globalizing Urban Environmental History' melds the methodological prescriptions of global urban history, the innovative methods of environmental history, and the interdisciplinary field of urban political ecology to trace the contours of a global urban environmental history. I argue that a global …
Our Urban Planet in Theory and History
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the Anthropocene. We must enlarge our concept …
Africa in Urban History
Av Ambe J. Njoh
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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This Element in Global Urban History seeks to promote understanding of the urban history of Africa. It does so by undertaking four main tasks. Firstly, it employs race, ethnicity, class, and conflict theory as conceptual frameworks to analyze the spatial structures, social, and political-economic …
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City
Av Maria-Aparecida Lopes, María Cecilia Zuleta
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City explores a fundamental question through the lens of the modern metropolis: How did the experience of food and eating evolve throughout the twentieth century? In answering this query, this Element examines significant changes in the production, distribution, …
The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning
Av Ian Morley
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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During the past one hundred or so years, urbanists have composed grand narratives regarding the development of urban design and the international dissemination of planning models. Yet, building upon this historiography, whilst the transnational dimension of modern city planning has centred itself …
A History of Policing Cities
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, namely across two capital cities, Dublin and later London. From the mid-1700s, poor harvests …
How Cities Matter
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Most historians and social scientists treat cities as mere settings. In fact, urban places shape our experience. There, daily life has a faster, artificial rhythm and, for good and ill, people and agencies affect each other through externalities (uncompensated effects) whose impact is inherently …
Early Modern Atlantic Cities
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of …
Making Cities Socialist
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also highlighting features of everyday life in …
Real Estate and Global Urban History
Av Alexia Yates
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Capitalist private property in land and buildings - real estate - is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a central, pressing matter of political …
Cities and News
Av Lila Caimari
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, when everyday information about faraway places found its way into newspapers all over the world. Building on the premise that news carried an …
Epidemic Cities
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Epidemic Cities provides an overview of the history of epidemics through a particular focus on a range of cities in different regions of the world. The dual focus on both epidemics and specific cities provides an unusual perspective on global history: the analysis of globally circulating epidemics …
The Modern City in Asia
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Kristin Stapleton analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past 150 years. In the early twentieth century, activists took advantage of the new significance of the city to pursue a wide variety of goals. Thus, …
