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Alina-Sandra Cucu on the transformations in economic vocabularies, practices and institutions that accompanied the turn towards high value-added and technology-driven industrialization in late socialist Romania.
Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000201
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Mauricio Onetto Pavez on the first circumnavigation of the world, introducing South America as a key space in the formation of the ‘global’.
Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000225
To commemorate the International Day of Peace here is a selection of two great articles on the subject published in our journal.
on the Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/ZWXC50KIFl5
on world peace, American slavery and the global politics of information before the Universal Postal Union.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/8SB450KIFl6
To commemorate the International Day of Democracy, here is a selection of two insightful articles published in our journal
Martin Albers on the development of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the 1920s.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/x5EA50KIFgN
and Stephen Jacobson on Democratic imperialism and Risorgimento colonialism.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/IqYK50KIFgM
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reconstructs the reception of Zen Buddhism in N**i Germany as an extension of the regime’s project to transform religion and society.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/WZTz50Kxfq5
Commemorating the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition with a selection of insightful research published in our journal.
First is John. A. E. Harris on financing the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the age of suppression, 1850-66. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022816000218
Second is Klas Ronnback on the economic importance of slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022818000177
Third is Alessandro Stanziani on the legal status of labour in Russia from the 16th-19th century. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S174002280800260X
Fourth is Matthias van Rossum giving a global perspective on early modern slave trade. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022821000139
Fifth is Sebastian Prange on the economic organisation of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022806000143
Last is J. Bohorquez on the financing of the Portuguese-Brazilian slave trade (1760-1808). Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022819000317
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reframes the modern refugee as an emerging category of statistics and demography.
http://ow.ly/wa3I50JXeKg
Huge congratulations to on winning the Alexander prize. The article explores the history of private colonial enterprise in order to show how companies influenced British settlement and emigration to South Australia and New Zealand in the 1830s, thus connecting the settler revolution to global capitalism.
Read the award-winning article here
http://ow.ly/R3lR50JN8EM
History, Sovereignty, Capital: Company Colonization in South Australia and New Zealand - Volume 16 Issue 1
To celebrate 2022, here is a fantastic list of articles published in our journal.
, and on refugee history https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022821000243
and on the Algerian war globalising the international refugee regime https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022821000449
Kevin O'Sullivan on the global humanitarian sector’s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000170
Congratulations to Eva-Maria Muschik on her recent book 'Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965' published by Columbia University Press .
Eva recently authored the introduction to our special issue 'Towards a global history of international organizations and decolonization'.
Read the article here: http://ow.ly/JBzp50JvSVL.
To celebrate 🌊 here is a list of fantastic articles celebrating the ocean and our personal connection to the sea.
and Hollian Wint on law and cross-cultural Indian Ocean trade http://ow.ly/2jRp50JsnLV
on prices of the enslaved in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds http://ow.ly/shwF50JsnLX
on how animals have negotiated and shaped boundaries between spheres of land and sea 🐀🚢http://ow.ly/oKa950JsnLY
Markus P.M.Vink on the past, present and possible future directions on the 'new thalassology' http://ow.ly/kkIW50JsnLW
To celebrate 🌍 2022, here is a fantastic article published in our journal.
on organisations competing for recognition during 1968-72 for their work on raising environmental concerns http://ow.ly/eoaK50JpPVo
Before UNEP: who was in charge of the global environment? The struggle for institutional responsibility 1968–72 - Volume 14 Issue 1
In celebration of , here is a selection of the fantastic articles published in our journal on African unity.
On the ANLCA mission to Nigeria http://ow.ly/398Z50JfwLm
On Afro-Asian solidarity http://ow.ly/meak50JfwLo
On pan-Africanism
http://ow.ly/pXP450JfwLn
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on the spatial, architectural, and sensory relationships between rats and humans on British and American vessels from approximately the 1850s–1950s. 🐀🚢
http://ow.ly/6K0m50J9MiF
Next Bogdan C. Iacob de-centres the global history of disease by examining the agency of Eastern Europe expertise at international organizations and during decolonization.
Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000067
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Next is on the League Against Imperialism arguing that a critical aspect of the LAI’s anti-imperial politics concerned the relationship between political independence and the world economy.
Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000079
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First up in our special issue!
writes an introduction to our special issue on international organizations and decolonization, offering an overview of recent literature on the topic and discussing promising avenues for further research.
Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000043
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Next is on how postwar international organizations may have provided a setting for postcolonial internationalism and South-South solidarity that did not always translate into consensus on those issues.
Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000055
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Next Giorgio Potì addresses the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over Sudan following the Ottoman defeat in World War One and Cairo’s nominal independence in 1922.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000031
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Last is on the interactions between Afghan elites and the UN, specifically the way that Afghanistan fought the growing global consensus that self-determination in the era of decolonization meant the establishment of an international states system.
Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022822000080
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📕New Special Issue on decolonization and international organizations is now online!📕
Get a sneak peak at our website http://ow.ly/A47b50J2VJF.
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Journal of Global History - Professor Ewout Frankema
Huge congratulations to Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper on jointly winning the 2023 Toynbee Prize. Here is a review of their outstanding book ‘Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference’ published in our journal
http://ow.ly/t2CN50IWhCe
Toynbee Prize Foundation
Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference By Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 511. 39 illustrations, 39 maps. Hardback £39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12708-8; paperback £17.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15236-3. - Volume 9 Issue 3
Huge congratulations to Kyle Harper who has been named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Here is a link to his article published in our journal on germs, genomes and global history in the time of COVID-19
http://ow.ly/IlzQ50ITWAV
To mark , 🌍 here is a fantastic paper by Benjamin Goossen, Harvard History Department examining the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year as a powerful fulcrum in the transfer of ideas about Earth’s global environment from Western security establishments to conservationists worldwide.
http://ow.ly/R01w50IPEZo
Delighted to highlight another journal on Twitter. Nice to have you . Follow if you're interested in business history - plenty of relevant articles for global history!
In celebration of here is an article by Aurélie Elisa Gfeller offering new historical analysis of global heritage by tracking the evolution of heritage concepts.
http://ow.ly/ju5f50IKyVm
Negotiating the meaning of global heritage: ‘cultural landscapes’ in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, 1972–92* - Volume 8 Issue 3
Congratulations to two of our board members on their new positions!
is moving to as Assistant Professor of History of Southeast Asia.
And will become Distinguished Research Professor .
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Congratulations to JGH author, Jordan Sand, on receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship
Check out Sand's article on a pig's history of the Pacific here: http://ow.ly/6bmv50IGX3p
People, animals, and island encounters: A pig’s history of the Pacific
With the Economic History Society conference ( ) conference showcasing great research, here is a selection of articles on Economic History published in our journal.
Patrick O’Brien on the British Industrial Revolution in global economic history http://ow.ly/NcSw50Iz2nt
Ronald Findlay and on Commodity Frontiers and Economic History http://ow.ly/9wmv50Iz2nu
Morten Jerven on national income estimates http://ow.ly/Lhob50Iz2ns
Carmen Gruber on Japan and the Great Divergence http://ow.ly/8LuJ50Iz2nr
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