Synopses & Reviews
This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.
Synopsis
What is "authoritarian rule" and how can we best study it? Using the case of the twentieth-century Dominican southwest, this book investigates new ways of analyzing political authoritarianism. The Dominican Republic was ruled for several decades in the twentieth century by the dictator Rafael Trujillo and later by another authoritarian leader, Joaquin Balaguer. In this study, Krohn-Hansen examines "from below" the state formation headed by Trujillo and Balaguer. The book offers a historical ethnography from one part of the country. Krohn-Hansen argues that it should be imperative to approach authoritarian histories - like other histories - on the basis of detailed investigations of power relationships, everyday practices, and meanings.
About the Author
Pierre-Yves Saunier is a chargé de recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Shane Ewen is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Table of Contents
In the Precincts of the Global City: The Transnational Network of Municipal Affairs in Mebourne, Australia at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Andrew Brown-May * Mediterranean Connections: The Circulation of Municipal Knowledge and Practices at the Time of the Ottoman Reforms, c. 1830-1910 / Nora Lafi * Pacific Crossings: Transnational Urban Progressivism in the Twentieth Century / Jefferey Hanes* A City in a World of Cities: The Involvement of Lyon in the International Union of Local Authorities (1913-1940) and in Eurocities (1986-2006) / Renaud Payre and Pierre-Yves Saunier * Selling the City-State: Planning and Housing in Singapore, 1945-1990 / Nancy H. Kwak * "Transnational Municipalism" in a Europe of Second Cities: Rebuilding Birmingham with Municipal Networks / Shane Ewen * Mayor Edward I. Koch and New York's Municipal Foreign Policy 1977-1990 / Jonathan Soffer * The Municipal Making of Transnational Networks: A Case Study of Montreal's Twinning with Shanghai / Yon Hsu * Latin American Municipalities in Transnational Networks: Reforming Municipal Government in Rosario (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) in the 1990s / Silvia Robin and Sebastian Velut * Lost in Translation?: Mapping, Moulding, and Managing the "Transnational Municipal Moment" / Shane Ewen * The Study of Municpal Connections / Marjatta Hietala