Segregation: a global history of divided cities

Ancestries

Seventy centuries of city-splitting

Before race mattered

The long shadow of the Ziggurat

Segregating strangers

Scapegoat ghettos

Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, castes, and the sexes

Ancient and medieval legacies

Color and race come to the city

White town/black town

Governor Pitt's Madras

The rise and fall of American (and South African) segregation in colonial times

Eastward connections

The cross-colonial color connection

Color before race

Race and the London-Calcutta connection

The modern way to split a city

How London conquered and divided Calcutta

Race and the imperial city

The London-Calcutta sanitation connection

The West End's White Town connection

London's Calcutta problem

Surges of segregation in the colonies

The stations Raj

Paradoxes of detachment and dependence

Beyond Calcutta

Stations of the empire

"Bring your cities and stations within the pale of civilization"

Stations for sale?

Beyond India

Segregating the Pacific

Incomings and outgoings

Segregating China's gateways

Tides in the Pacific

Segregating all oceans

Segregation mania

A call to all continents

The germ theory of segregation

Segregation sails East with the plague

Hunting rats, fleas, and mosquitoes in Africa

The high tide of segregation mania

The long end of the craze

Legacies of the mania

The outer limits of colonial urbanism

Imperial monuments, imperial tombstones

French connections

A French Calcutta?

Planet Haussmann

Splitting cities, beaux-arts style

Sunset at New Delhi

A bitter epitaph

The archsegregationists

The multifarious segregation of Johannesburg

Archsegregationism and the wider world

Squaring race and civilization

A keystone of global anglo-saxondom

The birth of "separate development"

From labor control to "influx control"

Grandparents of the group areas

The furies fly in the settlers' city

Arrogance and its agonies

The intimacies of race war

They will buy us out of the country

Pandora's segregationism

The birth pangs of nation-state segregation

Camouflaging the color line in Chicago

A subtler sort of segregation?

Segregating the United States

Jim-crowing the neighborhoods

Segregation by profiteer, protective association, and pogrom

A time for camouflage

The "iron ring"?

Segregation at the extremes

Split cities and the global cataclysm

Hitler's "death boxes"

A new deal for America's color lines

The sinister synthesis of apartheid

Fragmented legacies

Outflanking a global revolution

Age of liberation, age of apocalypse

Have ghettos gone global?

Postcolonial and neocolonial city-splitting

A new century of settler segregation?

Epilogue: people, the planet, and segregated cities.