Nineteenth-century transnational urban history

Abstract

ABSTRACT:The aim of this article is to take stock of nineteenth-century transnational urban history. After a short introduction to transnational history, general urban histories are analysed with respect to the ways in which transnational perspectives are incorporated into the narratives. Specific contributions to urban history in a transnational perspective are analysed. Approaches to urban planning history that focus on transnational linkages and international organization are discussed. Approaches to urban history within enlarged geographical scales that go beyond the nation-state framework, with a particular focus on cities as nodes in translocal networks, are analysed. The article concludes with a critical discussion of nineteenth-century transnational urban history.

Ottó Kornis, a Forgotten Author and Survivor of the Nazi Camps

“…5 However, as Claus Møller Jørgensen has rightly observed, scholarship on the topic has thus far been limited in large part to studies of urban planning and the city as a socioeconomic unit, which overlooks the transnational and intellectual-historical dimensions of urban culture. 6 Migration history evidently has a long tradition of thinking about the transnational circulation of people, goods and cultural representations. It has recently adopted perspectives from what is called 'mobility studies' in sociology, an approach that accounts for the experience of movement itself, as well as of place, and aims to study on an equal footing the motions of people as well as material and mental objects.…”