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Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital
Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 414 pp., $29.95 / £22.95, ISBN: 9780520284302 Kennetta...
View ArticleLiberal Cities? What Recent Elections Mean for Global Urban History
By Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin The agitated politics of 2016 have led intellectuals the world over to ponder the “end of the Anglo-American order,” the “bankruptcy of the post-war world...
View ArticleMultireligiosity as a Rallying Call: The Petticoat Lane Street Market in the...
By Ole Münch Today, urban street markets are often places where migrants from different origins meet and mingle. This was the case in the past as well. By the middle of the nineteenth century the East...
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