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

Author:   Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107519350


Pages:   322
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
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Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940


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Author:   Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781107519350


ISBN 10:   1107519357
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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.

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'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)


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Su Lin Lewis is currently Lecturer in Modern Global History at the University of Bristol. She has taught at the University of Birmingham, the University of California, Berkeley, and at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was a Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London and received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge in 2010. Dr Lewis has also worked on and managed community-driven development projects for the World Bank and for the International Organization for Migration in Southeast Asia, where she developed an interest in the history of civil society and social movements in the region.

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