John Darwin: Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830–1930 and Christina Reimann and Martin Öhman: Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940.

John Darwin: Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 and Christina Reimann and Martin Öhman: Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940 In the same vein, both publications under review examine several port cities, but rather than comparing them and analyzing the linkages, they provide a panorama of port cities that exposes the similar yet locally specific developments around the globe. As an analytical tool, port cities enable the study of these complexities, yet as both publications demonstrate, a port city was a microcosm itself that must be analyzed along with its history, in its specific context and framework, with its respective connections, and the people passing through. [Extracted from the article]

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