Tianjin Cosmopolis - An Alternative History of Globalization

Pierre Singaravélou tells the story of Tianjin's emergence as a transnational metropolis, arguing that the city's experience challenges conventional narratives of the origins of globalization.

List of contents

Introduction. Ten Empires on the Head of Pin: A Situated History of Imperial Globalization
1. “Pandemonium”: The Siege, the Battle, and the Sacking
2. The Invention of an International Government: Foreign Military Bureaucracy or Chinese Democracy by Petition?
3. “Bringing Order to Chaos”: Police Practices, Legal Repression, and Social Protection
4. Regional Planning: Foreign Appropriations and Local Contestations
5. A Revolution in Hygiene? Public Health, Environmental Protection, and Population Control
6. The Salt of the City: Statebuilding and the Emergence of Civil Society
7. The Urban Scramble: Dividing the City, Battling in the Streets
8. A Government for Posterity? Retrocession of the City and Administrative Continuities
Conclusion. “Straddling East and West at the Turn of the Century”: A Contribution to the History of Modernity in 1900
Appendix. Archives Around the Globe: A Note on Sources
Translator’s Note
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Pierre Singaravélou. Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer.

Summary

Pierre Singaravélou tells the story of Tianjin’s emergence as a transnational metropolis, arguing that the city’s experience challenges conventional narratives of the origins of globalization.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Singaravelou, Pierre Singaravélou
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9780231192002
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19200-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Politics & government, Tianjin, Politics and government, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, political science; social science; history