Field: Urban History
Examiner: David Quigley
GENERAL URBAN STUDIES AND HISTORY
Chandler, James and Kevin Gilmartin. Romantic Metropolis: the urban scene of British culture, 17801840
Chauncey, George. Gay New York
Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940
Hershatter, Gail. Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth Century Shanghai
Ladd, Brian. Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
Morris, R.J. and Richard Rodgers. The Victorian City: A Reader in British Urban History, 1820-1914
Strand, David. Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s
Vale, Lawrence J. and Thomas J. Campanella (eds.) The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from
Disaster
Wakeman Jr., Frederic. Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937
Walkowitz, Judtih. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London
COLONIAL URBAN STUDIES AND HISTORY
Banerjee, Sumanta. Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal
Bayly, C.A. Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 17701780
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “Of Garbage, Modernity, and a Citizen’s Gaze,” in Habitations of Modernity
Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny
Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan. The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the
working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940
Dossal, Mariam. Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875
Dossal, Mariam and Ruby Maloni (eds.) State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the
19th Century
Farooqi, Amar. Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay
Gupta, Narayani. “Military Security and Urban Development: A Case Study of Delhi 1857-1912,”
MAS, 5:1 (1971)
Hazareesingh, Sandip. “Colonial modernism and the flawed paradigms of urban renewal: uneven
development in Bombay, 1900-1925,” Urban History, 28:2 (2001)
Kaviraj, Sudipta. “Filth and the Public Spehre: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta,”
Public Culture, 10:1 (1997)
Kennedy, Dane. The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj
Levine, Philippa. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
Lewandowski, Susan. “Changing Form and Function in the Ceremonial and the Colonial Port City
in India,” MAS, 11:2 (1977)
Oldenburt, Veena Talwar. “The City Must be Clean,” in The Making of Colonial Lucknow
Rao, Nikhil. “’Apartment to let’: The origins of the Bombay apartment building suburb in the
1930s,” presented at Boston College Dissertation Workshop
Ray, Raka. Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India
Sen, Atreyee. Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum
Sen, Samita. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry
Tambe, Ashwini. Codes of Misconduct: The Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial Bombay, 1860-1947.
Dissertation Thesis. American University, 2000.
White, Luise. The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
Wright, Gwendolyn. The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism
POST-COLONIAL URBAN STUDIES AND HISTORY
Masselos, Jim. The City in Action: Bombay Struggles for Power
Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Nair, Janaki. The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century
Patel, Sujata and Jim Masselos. Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition
Neuwirth, Robert. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
Srinivas, Smriti. Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High Tech City
Tambiah, Stanley. Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia