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Seminar
SoSe 17: Cities in Global History
Michael Goebel
Comments
Cities have long been regarded as the pinnacles of progress. As early as 1938 urban historian Lewis Mumford described the city as “the maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community.” By this time, however, the city did not only serve as a center of regional or national communities but also as a nodal point that enabled the establishment of long-distance connections. Looking at urban areas through the lens of global history, the seminar will explore the role played by cities in a world connecting and in how far the development of cityscapes was affected and shaped by conditions of global connectedness. While the rise and fall of cities can be traced back into ancient history, the seminar will focus on selected case studies from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. This longue durée-view allows highlighting emblematic effects of a globalizing world in specific contexts as well as the changing function of cities within this process. While the seminar will investigate cases that served as commercial and cultural hubs, it will also explore effects of asymmetrical power relations that produced segmented, unequal, and unmixed cityscapes. close
11 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2017-04-24 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-05-08 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-05-15 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-05-22 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-05-29 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-06-12 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-06-19 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-06-26 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-07-03 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-07-10 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2017-07-17 10:00 - 12:00