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Global Urban History Project

Date: 2/13/2018
Subject: Noteworthy in GUH
From: Global Urban History Project




This is the seventh in an ongoing series of profiles of GUHP members' work, highlighting the sheer breadth of scholarship in the field of global urban history.

In this issue we highlight work on colonial cities, a topic that was foundational to global urban history. Each of these works by GUHP members pushes the boundaries of this subfield in imaginative new ways.

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The series also salutes the work of networks and associations whose missions
overlap that of GUHP in significant ways.

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Claiming the City: Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1860–1920
Anindita Ghosh, History, 
The University of Manchester (England)
(Oxford University Press, 2016)

As the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization in the sub-continent, Calcutta proved enormously challenging to both its residents and its architects. In this imaginative study of colonial Calcutta, Anindita Ghosh charts the history of its urbanization from below- in its streets, strikes, and popular urban cultures. [more]

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Beyond the Walled City:
Colonial Exclusion in Havana

by Guadalupe Garcia, History, Tulane (USA)
(University of California Press, 2015)


One of the earliest and most important port cities in the New World, Havana quickly became a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. Beyond the Walled City tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, Guadalupe García shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Connecting colonial governing practices to broader debates on urbanization, the regulation of public spaces, and the racial dislocation of urban populations, Beyond the Walled City points to the ways in which colonialism is inscribed on modern topographies. [more]

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Just Out 
“The Entangled Spanish and British Empires in the Indian and Pacific Ocean World: The View from Manila” in Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, ed., Entangled Histories of the Early Modern Iberian and British Empires

by Kristie Flannery, History, U Texas (USA)
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)


The history of the entangled Spanish, British, and Portuguese empires is the history of connected cities. From Seville, London, and Lisbon, to Kingston, Cartagena and Lima, this volume illustrates that urban centers were the spaces where imperial formations were organized and imagined. Cities were also the sites where empires clashed. Look out for Kristie Flannery’s chapter that examines Manila under British occupation during the Seven Years War. Flannery reveals how the Spanish missionaries, Chinese merchants, and soldiers of all nations who converged in the cosmopolis determined the fate of Spain’s Asian empire. It also considers the colonial government’s major, post-war reorganization of Manila as it attempted to tighten its grip on this global city.

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Hong Kong History Project

The Hong Kong History Project, hosted at the University of Bristol, and funded by the Hatton Trust, aims to encourage and facilitate the study of the history of Hong Kong in the UK, and to build collaborations with partners in Hong Kong, specifically in terms of collaboration between the University of Bristol and the University of Hong Kong, as well as other interested HEI and community/NGO partners. This initiative will support cutting edge research into the history of Hong Kong, by funding research studentships, visiting fellowships, conferences and workshops, exploring new and under-researched areas in Hong Kong history. [more] 


In Memory of Fellow GUHP Member
Juliana Cordeiro da Farias Bosslet

In this issue, we note the tragic death in December of Juliana Cordeiro da Farias Bosslet, a GUHP member and historian of late colonial Luanda, Angola, who was a PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies. GUHP members can read a more thorough tribute to Juliana and her contribution to the topics of colonial cities and decolonization here. Her Master’s Thesis in the History Department of the Universidad Federal Fluminense in Portuguese entitled A cidade e a guerra: relações de poder e subversão em São Paulo de Assunção de The City andthe War: Power relations and subversion in Luanda, 1961-1975 can be accessed here. Information on her list of publications which was growing in the months before her death, can be found on her GUHP profile.

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