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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2016
      July 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316257937
      9781107108332
      9781107519350
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316257937
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 322 Pages
      • Series:
      Asian Connections
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, South-East Asian History, Global History
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    Series:
    Asian Connections
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, South-East Asian History, Global History
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    In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played a pivotal role in shaping civic culture. Moving away from a nationalist reading of the period, Su Lin Lewis explores layers of cross-cultural interaction in various spheres: the urban built environment, civic associations, print media, education, popular culture and the emergence of the modern woman. While the book focuses on Penang, Rangoon and Bangkok - three cities born amidst British expansion to the region - it explores connected experiences across Asia and in Asian intellectual enclaves in Europe. Cosmopolitan sensibilities were severely tested in the era of post-colonial nationalism, but are undergoing a resurgence in Southeast Asia's civil society and creative class today.

    Awards

    Winner, 2015–2016 Urban History Association Best Book Award (Non-North American)

    Reviews

    '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 Source: Global Urban History (www.globalurbanhistory.com)

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    • Introduction: Seeing through the City
      pp 1-26
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