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CITIES BEYOND BORDERS

Cities Beyond Borders

Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History

Edited by

NICOLAS KENNY
Simon Fraser University, Canada

REBECCA MADGIN
University of Glasgow, UK

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2015 Nicolas Kenny, Rebecca Madgin and the contributors

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Cities beyond borders : comparative and transnational approaches to urban history / edited by Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin.
pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-3479-1 (hardcover)ISBN 978-1-4724-3480-7 (ebook)ISBN 978-1-4724-3481-4 (epub) 1. Cities and townsHistory. I. Kenny, Nicolas, 1977 editor. II. Madgin, Rebecca, editor.

HT111.C538 2015

307.7609dc23

2015017521

ISBN: 9781472434791 (hbk)

ISBN: 9781315572116 (ebk)

Contents

Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin

Carl H. Nightingale

Dan Horner

Jordan Stanger-Ross

Jeffry Diefendorf

Marion Pluskota

Janet Polasky

Nikhil Rao

Stefan Couperus and Shane Ewen

Janet Ward

Harold L. Platt

Richard Rodger

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Contributors

Stefan Couperus is Assistant Professor of Politics and Society (European Languages and Cultures Department) at the University of Groningen. He has worked on the history of urban governance and municipal transnationalism in early twentieth-century Europe. Currently he is working on a project entitled Beyond New Jerusalem. The Governance of Planning in Rotterdam, Coventry and Le Havre: 19201960, which examines governance practices and community-building discourses in bombed cities.

Jeffry Diefendorf is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. His book, In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II (Oxford University Press, 1993), and other publications examine different forms of postwar planning.

Shane Ewen is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University. He is the co-editor of Urban History and the UK Representative on the International Committee for the European Association of Urban History. He has written extensively on issues related to urban governance, disasters and transnational urban history. His publications include Fighting Fires: Creating the British Fire Service (Palgrave, 2010) and, with Pierre-Yves Saunier, Another Global City: Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment (Palgrave, 2008). He has also written What is Urban History?, forthcoming with Polity Press.

Dan Horner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. He has published a number of articles on public life in mid-nineteenth-century Montreal.

Nicolas Kenny is a member of the History Department at Simon Fraser University. His research examines the bodily and emotional relationship to the urban environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing especially on Montreal and Brussels in a comparative and transnational context. He is the author of The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation (University of Toronto Press, 2014).

Rebecca Madgin is Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Management in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She currently researches the economic and emotional values of heritage in relation to urban development. Her work is located in an international context spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and she is the author of Heritage, Culture and Conservation: Managing the Urban Renaissance (VDM Verlag, 2009).

Carl H. Nightingale is Professor of Urban History and World History in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Segregation: A Global History Divided Cities (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and numerous articles concerning the transnational dynamics of the politics of race and urban space.

Harold L. Platt is Professor of History Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of several books on the city, the environment, and technology, including The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area (University of Chicago Press, 1991), and Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1991). His most recent book is Building the Urban Environment: Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America (Temple University Press, 2015).

Marion Pluskota is a Postdoctoral Researcher on crime and gender at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her current research focuses on criminality and gender interactions in nineteenth-century Europe. This project uses a comparative methodology to explain gender constructions in a criminal and in a court setting. Her other research interests include the history of prostitution and colonial crime history.

Janet Polasky is Presidential Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. Her most recent publications include: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country (Cornell University Press, 2010) and Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (Yale University Press 2015).

Nikhil Rao is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College, where he teaches South Asian and urban history. His book, House, But No Garden. Apartment Living in Bombays Suburbs, 18981964, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013. He is currently working on a history of cooperative housing.

Richard Rodger is Professor of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University. He has published widely on the history of British towns and cities, and on the evolution of urban history as a field of study. For many years he was Editor of

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