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Investigating European Cities in the Modern Age through the Lens of the Global Urban History Approach
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Rosemary Wakeman, A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 392 (hb), £72.00, ISBN 9781350017665.
Miles Glendinning, Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – A Global History (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 688 (hb), £76.50, ISBN 9781474229272.
Andrew Demshuk, Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020), pp. 272 (hb), $39.95, ISBN 9781501751660.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2023
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This review article focuses on two key developments in urban history. The first is that the new transnational approach to urban history is significantly advancing the field and the second is that within the European context an important new emphasis is being placed on Eastern and Southern Europe. As claimed by Claus Møller Jørgensen in his review of nineteenth-century transnational urban history:
transnational urban history entails a measure of comparative work to find commonalities as hints of connections . . . The enlargement of scale and the search for connections does add new perspectives to urban history and produces new knowledge . . . Focusing on cities as the location of transnational processes of modernity brings urban place more centrally into discussions of national space and national histories.1
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