Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940

ISBN-13: 9781107108332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str.

Su Lin Lewis

Opis

A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.

Recenzje

'There are few recent books as deeply anchored in both global and urban history as Su Lin Lewis's exploration of urban life in early-twentieth-century Southeast Asian port cities. … While Lewis speaks to recent debates in global history, she successfully eschews the now familiar charge that the field's practitioners have veered too far from concrete, empirical studies of the local. The elegantly presented results of her research therefore should be read by a wide range of historians.' Michael Goebel, Global Urban History (www.globalurbanhistory.com)

Spis treści

Introduction: seeing through the city; 1. Maritime commerce, old rivalries, and the birth of three cities; 2. Asian port cities in a turbulent age; 3. Cosmopolitan publics in divided societies; 4. Newsprint, wires, and the reading public; 5. Playgrounds, classrooms, and politics; 6. Gramophones, cinema halls, and bobbed hair; Epilogue: cosmopolitan legacies; Bibliography; Index.