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The ruble lever: Soviet development knowledge and the political economy of the UN Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Elizabeth Banks
From the early 1950s, the USSR was the second largest contributor to the UN. Following UN rules, it gave much of its contribution in rubles, an infamously unconvertible currency that generally limited Soviet actions overseas. In the hands of UN officials, however, these ‘weak’ rubles became a powerful lever that made UN development projects more Soviet. Seeking to extract value from the ruble, officials
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South Africa’s Haymarket: the Knights of Labor and political violence in the United States and South Africa, 1886–1892 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Steven Parfitt
This article compares and connects two episodes of political violence in the late nineteenth century: the Haymarket Affair in Chicago in 1886 and the bombing of the offices of the De Beers Company, chaired by Cecil Rhodes, at Kimberley on the South African diamond fields in 1891. These episodes were connected by the existence in both countries of an American and then global movement, the Knights of
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Communicating overpopulation to a global audience: Disney’s Family Planning (1968) Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Patrick Ellis, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Family Planning (1968), a short, animated film featuring Donald Duck, was translated into at least twenty-four languages and viewed in the span of two years by nearly 1.4 million people around the world. Commissioned by the Rockefeller’s Population Council and expensively produced by Disney, the movie represents the international family planning industry’s single largest investment in a media object
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Globalization, welfare, and inequality: Evidence from transoceanic market integration, 1815–1913 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 David Chilosi, Giovanni Federico
This article contributes to the growing historical literature on the ‘first globalization’ (1815–1913) and income inequality in countries that exported agricultural products. International market integration is expected to increase the demand for exports and therefore their prices. We estimate the effects of increased prices from international market integration on national welfare and income inequality
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Contractor states and globalization of the market for naval artillery technology (1500–1750) Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Brice Cossart
This article reflects on the dynamics that underlay the circulation of military technology during the early modern phase of globalization. The debate on the development and transfer of gunpowder weaponry has been dominated by a grid of analysis which implicitly puts value on sovereign production and direct state control over the resources used for war. Focusing on the transfer of naval artillery between
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The caged bird sings of freedom: Maya Angelou’s anti-colonial journalism in the United Arab Republic and Ghana, 1961–1965 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alex White
At the height of the ‘global 1960s’, hundreds of African Americans moved to Africa in search of a refuge from racism and the opportunity to participate in anti-colonial politics. One of the most prominent figures in this movement was Maya Angelou. Nine years before the publication of her first book, Angelou lived in Egypt, then known as the United Arab Republic, where she worked as a writer, editor
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Man-making and World-making on Two Wheels: Indian ‘Globe Cyclists’ in the Interwar Years Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Harald Fischer-Tiné, Souvik Naha
Around 20 cyclists from India embarked on long and arduous intercontinental journeys between 1923 and 1942 individually or in groups. Many of these ‘globe cyclists’, as they were often referred to by the Indian press, later wrote media articles and longer travelogues about their expeditions. This article examines the narratives of these long-distance cycling expeditions to argue that these journeys
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Do mountains kill states? Exploring the diversity of Southeast Asian highland communities Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Michael Paul Leadbetter, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan
Mountains and highlands are not what scholars have conventionally imagined them to be: environments that limit and constrain their inhabitants in deterministic ways. Rather, mountains and highlands provide unique opportunities for people to engage in creative transformation of their societies. Highland communities are connected to a wider world, and they radically remake and experiment with their landscapes
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Parsi capital and imperial infrastructure: Shipping and shopping in the port of Aden, 1840-1888 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Itamar Toussia Cohen
For a century following the opening of the Suez Canal, the scale and scope of global capital and information flows was predicated on a chain of imperial outposts like Aden, where ships could replenish their fuel supplies while shorefront godowns and telegraph stations gathered commodities and information to be received, processed, and relayed; by the 1950s, over 5,000 vessels called on the harbour
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Connecting the ancient Afro-Eurasian world Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Matthew Adam Cobb
This introductory article sets out the global historical approach adopted by the articles in this special issue, focusing on the circulations of goods, peoples, and ideas in ancient Afro-Eurasia (300 BCE-700 CE). Special attention is given to the overland Silk Road and Indo-Pacific networks of maritime exchange. Our aims are to apply globalization thinking to a wider (macro) frame than has arguably
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Behind gold for pepper: The players and the game of Indo-Mediterranean trade Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jeremy A. Simmons
This article offers a fresh approach to the study of ‘Indo-Roman’ trade by defining the ‘players’ of the ‘game’ of Indian Ocean commerce in the early centuries of the Common Era. Numerous specialized personnel hailing from the Mediterranean, Near East, and Indian subcontinent were involved in the movement, processing, and sale of Indian Ocean commodities. Players throughout the ancient world formed
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Indian merchants abroad: Integrating the Indian ocean world during the early first millennium CE Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Matthew Adam Cobb
With the rise of post-colonialism during the latter part of the twentieth century, more focus has been given to non-western perspectives (the so-called nativist turn). In the case of Indian Ocean trade during the early first millennium CE, the view that ‘Roman’ merchants and sailors were the near-exclusive movers of goods, who were also (indirectly) responsible for commercial developments within South
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From cakravartin to bodhisattva: Buddhist models for globalization Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Signe Cohen
This article examines globalization in an Asian context through the lens of two Buddhist concepts: the cakravartin and the bodhisattva. A cakravartin is a ruler who fuses spiritual and political power in his global reign. This article argues that the cakravartin represents one model of Buddhist globalization where the spread of the religion coincides with the growing military dominion of a BuddhGist
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Rethinking colonialism through early modern global diplomacy: A tale of Pampangan mobility Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Birgit Tremml-Werner
This study is an intervention in early modern global diplomacy. Integrating an indigenous community of the Philippines into foreign relations and maritime connections, the article reevaluates the complex story of the Pampangans of Luzon, allegedly long-term allies of the Spanish conquerors, and the narrative of indigenous collaboration. Foregrounding the Pampangans’ involvement in military campaigns
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Working for the Wireless World: Radio Uganda Technicians and the Wo/manpower of 1970s Cosmopolitanism Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Ismay Milford
This article argues that technicians’ working lives and workplaces are crucial to conceptualizing the inequalities that characterized the ‘wireless world’ of radio broadcasting during a period of demands for a new information order. Taking Uganda’s national broadcaster and the files it has preserved as a focus, I follow calls to move beyond the exceptionalism of 1970s Uganda to locate it in global
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Three meanings of colonialism: Nehru, Sukarno, and Kotelawala debate the future of the Third World Movement (1954-61) Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Sandeep Bhardwaj
As the post-colonial Global South was weaving together the Third World Movement in the 1950s, it was also struggling to arrive at a common definition of colonialism. Since the movement was primarily premised on anti-colonial sentiments, redefining the term ‘colonialism’ could change its parameters. This article examines debates between three Asian leaders – Jawaharlal Nehru, Sukarno, and Sir John Kotelawala
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The company-microstate: The Auckland Islands and corporate colonialism in global history, 1849-52 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Rohan Howitt
The Auckland Islands, a subantarctic archipelago 465 kilometres south of New Zealand, were the setting for one of the stranger episodes in the global history of colonial expansion. From 1849–52, these remote, inhospitable islands were governed and settled by a chartered company. The project was driven by lofty ambitions to simultaneously create a flourishing settler colony and unlock vast new whaling
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India, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and the 1979 Virginity Testing Scandal Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Jinal Parekh, Antara Datta
This article looks at India’s complaint at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 1979 about the ‘virginity test’ performed on a migrant Indian woman at Heathrow. It examines the use of arguments about race and racial discrimination by India to compel Britain to discuss immigration on a bilateral basis. The article argues that the pivot to a race-based argument was deliberately patriarchal and
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Substituting Coffee and Tea in the Eighteenth Century: A Rural and Material History with Global Implications Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Hanna Hodacs
This article discusses the material history of coffee and tea by drawing on mid-eighteenth-century substitute recipes collected by physicians in different provinces of Sweden, applying perspectives from economic history, the history of science, medicine, and globalization. The starting point for the analysis is that a substitute can be said to reflect what are perceived as the most important properties
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White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Aden Knaap
Popular support for the League of Nations spread around the world in the interwar period but it did not spread evenly. Instead, it was concentrated in white-majority countries: both in Europe and beyond in the form of settler societies around the world. This article explores the relationship between the League movement and white supremacy in one such community: Australia. Citizens in that country combined
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Doing Utopia: Radical utopian communities, mobility, and the body in the early twentieth century Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Robert Kramm
This article analyses communal projects in the first half of the twentieth century. It investigates communes in various places of the non-Western world, including the Tolstoy Farm in South Africa, the Nōson Seinen Sha’s anarchist commune in imperial Japan, and the Rastafarian Pinnacle Commune on Jamaica. At first glance these communes seem completely unrelated as they emerged in distinct cultural and
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The Development Dichotomy: Colonial India’s Accession to the ILO’s Governing Body (1919–22) Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Thomas Gidney
At its founding in 1919, the International Labour Organization (ILO) selected its Governing Body from eight ‘states of Chief Industrial Importance’. The ILO’s attempt to define industrial importance was predicated on its seemingly expert-driven and statistical impartiality. As a technical organization, this standard was created to depoliticize the selection of its Governing Body. Yet, with its utilization
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The World in Blocs: Leo Amery, the British Empire and Regionalist Anti-internationalism, 1903–1947 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Liane Hewitt
A new liberal international order was born in 1918. Many rejected this regime embodied by the League of Nations and attempts to restore free trade. Among the critics were a host of European ‘regionalists’ who envisioned a world organized into federal super-states. They feared that geopolitical hegemony would soon belong to territorially contiguous super-states, such as the US and the Soviet Union.
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The extreme southern origins of globality: Circumnavigation, habitability, and geopolitics Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Mauricio Onetto Pavez
This article analyses how the first circumnavigation of the world, from 1519 to 1522, introduced South America as a key space in the formation of the ‘global’, thus producing a historical point of inflection. We examine the commercial and political plans and networks that began to function as a result of this new connectivity, which turned the American continent into a major global axis. The analysis
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The archer and the arrow: Zen Buddhism and the politics of religion in Nazi Germany Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Sarah Panzer
Zen may be most commonly associated with Japan, but the ‘art of Zen’ was made in Germany. This article reconstructs the reception of Zen Buddhism in Nazi Germany as an extension of the regime’s project to transform Christianity. Although Japanese reformers emphasized Zen’s universal qualities, in Nazi Germany it became associated instead with a combination of völkisch nationalism and spiritual mysticism
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Interwar statistics, colonial demography, and the making of the twentieth-century refugee Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Anne Schult
The historiography of the twentieth-century refugee typically unfolds as a tale of national displacement followed by international surrogate protection. This article challenges that narrative by reframing the modern refugee as an emerging category of statistics and demography. Focusing on the world’s first international refugee survey, which was led by former British colonial administrator John Hope
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Early modern Iberian empires, global history and the history of early globalization Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
This essay discusses the main lines of current research on the social and economic history of the early modern Iberian worlds. It then goes on, in light of recent debates, to make the case for the value of a purposeful dialogue between global history and imperial history. The issues of primary concern here are the extent to which lateral, inter-regional relations in the Iberian worlds dominated vertical
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Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Jules Skotnes-Brown
This paper provides a broad overview of spatial, architectural, and sensory relationships between rats and humans on British and American vessels from approximately the 1850s–1950s. Taking rats as my primary historical actors, I show how humans attempted to prevent the movement of these animals between ports across three periods. Firstly, the mid- to- late-nineteenth century, where few attempts were
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The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924 – CORRIGENDUM Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Giorgio Potì
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UNHCR and the Algerian war of independence: postcolonial sovereignty and the globalization of the international refugee regime, 1954–63 – ADDENDUM Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Malika Rahal,Benjamin Thomas White
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The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935-1936) – CORRIGENDUM Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Arlena Buelli
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States, nations, and self-determination: Afghanistan and decolonization at the United Nations Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Elisabeth Leake
Afghanistan is not traditionally seen as a ‘decolonized’ state, given that it was never formally part of any empire. Yet Afghan state leaders embraced the language of anti-colonialism and self-determination to assert influence in the international community, and especially at the UN. This paper explores the interactions between Afghan elites and the UN, particularly the way that Afghanistan fought
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(Anti-)Colonialism, religion and science in Bengal from the perspective of global religious history Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Julian Strube
This article focuses on debates about the relationship between religion, science and national identity that unfolded in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal. Combining perspectives from religious studies and global history, it offers a specific approach to theoretical and methodological issues revolving around entanglement, agency and modernity. This will be operationalized, first, through
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Special issue introduction: Towards a global history of international organizations and decolonization Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Eva-Maria Muschik
Decolonization and the expansion of international organizations in the twentieth century are crucial developments in modern global history, yet scholars have seldom closely studied their impact on one another. While decolonization is often presented as the ‘success story’ of international organizations, these bodies have also been condemned as instruments of neocolonialism. This introduction and special
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UNHCR and the Algerian war of independence: postcolonial sovereignty and the globalization of the international refugee regime, 1954–63 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Malika Rahal, Benjamin Thomas White
The Algerian war of independence (1954-62) was crucial to the extension of the modern international refugee regime beyond Europe. It is also the exemplar of how that regime became a site for the establishment of postcolonial sovereignty, globally. Tunisia and Morocco, newly independent, requested UNHCR’s help in assisting hundreds of thousands of Algerian refugees: interacting with the refugee regime
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The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Giorgio Potì
This article addresses the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over Sudan following the Ottoman defeat in World War One and Cairo’s nominal independence in 1922. Drawing from Foreign Office documents, League of Nations archives, Egyptian parliamentary records and contemporary academic jurisprudence, it traces the failed Egyptian attempt to activate the settlement mechanisms of the Covenant after the assassination
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The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935–36) Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Arlena Buelli
The transnational campaign against the Italian invasion of the Ethiopian Empire (1936–36) has been widely acknowledged as a turning point for antiracist and anticolonial political organizing in the African continent and diaspora. This article seeks to reconstruct the South Asian participation in the Hands Off Ethiopia protests, to expand historical knowledge of the early-twentieth-century development
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Asia’s oceanic Anthropocene: How political elites and global offshore oil development moved Asian marine spaces into the new epoch Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Stefan Huebner
The Anthropocene epoch, characterized by human-caused planetary-scale transformations like climate change and ocean acidification, today is usually associated with the period beginning in the mid-twentieth century. Taking an oceanic perspective on the Anthropocene in Asia, the article argues that oceanic and terrestrial energy regimes synchronized since the 1950s when, for the first time in history
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Local advantage in a global context. Competition, adaptation and resilience in textile manufacturing in the ‘periphery’, 1860–1960 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Katharine Frederick, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
This article analyses the resilience of domestic textile production in Java and sub-Saharan Africa to uncover how local industries coped with the effects of broader global and colonial forces in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. We demonstrate that many domestic handicraft manufacturers managed to survive due to specific competitive advantages. Strategies of product differentiation
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Entangled political histories of twentieth-century West Africa: The case of Guinean exile networks Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 John Straussberger
Following independence in 1958, hundreds of Guinean soldiers, students, and politicians fled their home country in order to build an opposition to President Sékou Touré in exile. This article examines how these exiles built regional and global networks in order to effect political change. In turn, West African states sought to manage exiles in order to apply political pressure on regional rivals. Despite
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Hinterland: The political history of a geographic category from the scramble for Africa to Afro-Asian solidarity Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Matthew Unangst
This article traces the history of one geographical concept, hinterland, through changing political contexts from the 1880s through the 1970s. Hinterland proved a valuable tool for states attempting to challenge the global territorial order in both the Scramble for Africa and the postwar world of nation-states. In the context of German territorial demands in East Africa, colonial propagandists used
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Was the British industrial revolution a conjuncture in global economic history? Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Patrick O’Brien
Past and recent representations of the first industrial revolution As long ago as 1967, Marshal Hodgson recognized that the rise of Western economies could only be properly analysed and understood in a global context.1 Alas, the recommendation by this eminent scholar of Islam and the Islamicate world to re-conceptualize Britain’s Industrial Revolution within the wider spaces, longer chronologies and
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The Industrial Revolution and globalization: A discussion of Patrick O’Brien’s contribution Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Joseph E. Inikori
The sheer volume of Patrick O’Brien’s writings on the Industrial Revolution, the geographical stretch of the comparative mode of analysis employed, and the unusual effective combination of detailed political history and economic history (which his current essay exemplifies1) all these make for an intimidating proposition to discuss.2 The defining features of O’Brien’s writings on the Industrial Revolution
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The industrial revolution, an unintended consequence of self-defence? Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Patrick O’Brien’s take on the industrial revolution In his new and ambitious essay, ‘Was the British Industrial Revolution a Conjuncture in Global Economic History?’, Patrick O’Brien proposes a deeply revisionist interpretation of the Industrial Revolution. He examines three major ideas deeply rooted in the views of the Industrial Revolution: that it was a significant discontinuity in British economic
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Patrick O’Brien on industrialization, little Britain and the wider world Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Peer Vries
Patrick O’Brien has dedicated most of his career to studying British economic history, focusing on the Industrial Revolution, its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. He has always paid attention to long-term developments and never confined himself to strictly economic aspects. From the late 1990s onward, he increasingly turned ‘global’. His importance for global history cannot be overstated
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The intimate labour of internationalism: maternalist humanitarians and the mid-twentieth century family planning movement Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Nicole C. Bourbonnais
This article moves past high politics and the most prominent activists to explore the daily, intimate practice of international movement building by mid-level fieldworkers within the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) during its first decade of existence (1952–62). It illustrates how fieldworkers and the IPPF’s practitioner-oriented newsletter Around the World attempted to bridge the
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‘To the benefit of Africa, the world, and ourselves’: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) Mission to Nigeria, 1966-1968 – CORRIGENDUM Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-12 James Austin Farquharson
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People, animals, and island encounters: A pig’s history of the Pacific Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Jordan Sand
This essay traces the diffusion of pigs and the introduction of new practices of pig husbandry in East Asia and the Pacific, with particular attention to the cases of Hawaii, Okinawa, and Japan. Countering the trend in animal history to emphasize environmental and genetic factors, it demonstrates that discourses of property, sovereignty, freedom, and slavery, brought to the region with modern imperialism
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Three days in December: Jewish human rights between the United Nations and the middle east in 1948 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 James Loeffler
The twin birth of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Genocide Convention in 1948 have received enormous scholarly attention in recent years. Yet historians have largely ignored how these legal projects intersected with that year’s war in Israel/Palestine. In this article, I push these two stories back into a single frame by examining the year-long efforts of one early human rights
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From administrative to political order? Global legal history, the organic law, and the constitution of mandate Syria, 1925–1930 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Adam Mestyan
This article explores the making of the State of Syria after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. I argue that an event-based approach in global legal history offers a useful perspective for studying the transition from imperial to international and national systems. Drawing on new archival research in France and Saudi Arabia, I focus upon the creation of the 1928 Syrian constitution in the League’s
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‘To the benefit of Africa, the world, and ourselves’: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) Mission to Nigeria, 1966–1968 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 James Austin Farquharson
Far from having only marginal significance and generating a ‘subdued’ response among African Americans, as some historians have argued, the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) collided at full velocity with the conflicting discourses and ideas by which Black Americans sought to understand their place in the United States and the world in the late 1960s. One of the most significant aspects of African American
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Co-opting the cooperative movement? Development, decolonization, and the power of expertise at the Co-operative College, 1920s–1960s Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Mo Moulton
Cooperative departments and organizations were a ubiquitous but rarely studied aspect of British colonial governance in the twentieth century. The Co-operative College in Britain provided specialized training in colonial cooperation to students from across the British Empire. The cooperative movement was a key part of the emergence of regimes of development in the decades between the 1920s and 1960s
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Islam and the cognitive study of colonialism: The case of religious and educational reform at Egypt’s al-Azhar Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Aria Nakissa
This article argues that the emerging Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) provides a valuable new perspective on colonialism. CSR argues that humans are innately inclined towards certain types of religious belief (e.g., belief in spirit beings, belief in immortal souls) and certain types of non-utilitarian morality (e.g., belief in an obligation to care for kin, belief in an obligation to avoid ‘disgusting’
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What is refugee history, now? Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Lauren Banko, Katarzyna Nowak, Peter Gatrell
Refugee history at present lacks a conceptual framework, notwithstanding the proliferation of recent contributions that contribute to enlarging the field. Our article seeks to advance refugee history by drawing upon extensive research into historical case studies and proposing the framework of refugeedom. Refugeedom takes proper account of the states and other actors that defined the ‘refugee’ as a
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Commodity frontiers and global histories: the tasks ahead – CORRIGENDUM Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Sven Beckert,Ulbe Bosma,Mindi Schneider,Eric Vanhaute
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The value within multiform commodities: North African phosphates and global markets in the interwar period Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Rebecca Gruskin
Phosphates mined in France’s North African empire fed interwar Europe’s voracious appetite for chemical fertilizers. In critique of histories vesting commodities themselves with the agency to make the modern world, I trace not the substance but the value embedded within it. By following value, I argue that the ‘commodity’ is not a stable unit of analysis. Rather, commodities are multiform. They can
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A great convergence: The American frontier and the origins of Japanese migration to Brazil Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Sidney Xu Lu
This article explains how the US westward expansion influenced and stimulated Japanese migration to Brazil. Emerging in the nineteenth century as expanding powers in East Asia and Latin America, respectively, both Meiji Japan and post-independence Brazil looked to the US westward expansion as a central reference for their own processes of settler colonialism. The convergence of Japan and Brazil in
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Past growths: pre-modern and modern Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Paolo Malanima
The article by Jack Goldstone, Dating the Great Divergence, has the merit of discussing both the wide panorama of recent global history and the conclusions stemming from specific northEuropean long-term series of GDP.1 The article’s main target is the deeply rooted idea that Modern Growth was the continuation of previous trends of GDP growth. Goldstone’s opinion is that the rise of the West, in the
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Two concerns about the interpretation of the estimates of historical national accounts before 1850 Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Jan Luiten van Zanden, Jutta Bolt
As contribution to the debate about the interpretation of the process of economic growth before the Industrial Revolution, we discuss two concerns about the currently available estimates of historical national accounts and the way in which these estimates should be interpreted. Firstly, we argue that estimates of the long-term trends of economic growth should make use of all information contained in
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Commodity frontiers: concepts and history Journal of Global History (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Maxine Berg
‘COMMODITY FRONTIERS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GLOBAL COUNTRYSIDE: A RESEARCH AGENDA’ provides an opportunity to connect recent topics in global history, environmental history and the new history of capitalism. I will first summarize the key points of the paper and the way it engages in particular with global economic history. I go on to discuss key concepts of commodity frontiers and frontier