CONTENTS PART I: Introduction 1. ROBERT ROSS & GERARD J. TELKAMP, Introduction1 2. ANTHONY D. KING, Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change7 PART II: Case Studies 3. ADRIAAN C. VAN OSS, Central America's Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600- 1800)33 4. J.L. OOSTERHOFF, Zeelandia, A Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624-1662) 51 5. LEONARD BLUSSE, An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619-1799)65 6. P.J. MARSHALL, Eighteenth-Century Calcutta87 7. ROBERT ROSS, Cape Town (1750-1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents105 8. MARY KARASCH, Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808-1850)123 9. COLIN G, CLARKE, A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692-1938) 153 10. J.L. MIEGE, Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830-1961)171 11. X. GUILLAUME, Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858-1945)181 12. RAYMOND F. BETTS, Dakar, Ville imperiale (1857-1960)193 13. DIRK KOOIMAN, Bombay: From Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662-1947) 207 PART III: Epilogue 14. G.A, DE BRUIJNE: The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World231 Notes on the Contributors245 Index247