Vol. 22, Summer 2020.
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GUHP is now a member-supported organization. To join or renew your membership, visit our Homepage. | | Automobility and the City in Twentieth Century Britain and Japan
Simon Gunn & Susan C. Townsend
Bloomsbury, 2019.
Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment; and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. [more] | | | | Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War.
edited by Andra B. Chastain & Timothy W. Lorek
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects. [more] | | | | "The Indian City and its 'Restive Publics'"
by Debjani Bhattacharyya
Modern Asian Studies, May 2020.
How do we write about cities in a world of deepening inequality, real-estate geopolitics, and the planetary water crisis that is unfolding in parts of Asia and elsewhere? Indian urban studies, which began to gain ground as a legitimate subject of scholarly enquiry two decades ago, has now emerged as a site to study political society, state-making, and citizenship, and to offer rich accounts of how post-colonial urban governance and law-making work. In this review, the author explores the powerful analytics developed in three recent books in urban studies: Anindita Ghosh's historical work on colonial Calcutta; Asher Ghertner's geographical analysis of neoliberal Delhi; and Nikhil Anand's ethnographic account of restive publics and citizenship in Mumbai.
[Access the article here] | | | | "Institutions and Interest Groups: Meat Provision in Mexico City, 1850-1967"
by Maria Aparecida-Lopes
Mundo Agrario, 2020
This article--in Spanish language--analyzes the meat supply networks and systems in Mexico City, between 1850 and 1967.
[Access the article here]
| | | World Trade Historical Database
This website contains annual series of trade by polity from 1800 to 1938 which sum as series for continent and world. Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito created it in 2009, and continue updating it. They have used both national sources (trade statistics or statistical yearbooks) and international collections of trade data – most notably the United Kingdom (colonies) Statistical Yearbook and France (colonies) Statistical Yearbook, which report yearly data on total trade for all British and French colonies and many protectorates. In addition, they incorporate recent national estimates of trade series from the secondary literature, own estimates from statistics of main commercial partners, and as a last resort, neighbouring polities trade or population data.
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Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle 2021
At next year's Asian Studies Annual Conference, this panel seeks to examine the intersections of broad themes of anticolonialism and internationalism in Asia from the late 19th to the 20th centuries. If you are interested in participating, please reply to Mark Reeves (mlreeves@live.unc.edu) and Zardas Lee (zardas@unc.edu) by July 15, 2020 (Eastern Time). | | | | Call for Papers
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For the fourth issue of Diyâr (Autumn 2021), original and as yet unpublished contributions from all research areas of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies are welcomed. Diyâr accepts contributions in German, English, and French. [more] | | | |