'Frontier of Space, Frontier of Mind: The British Invasion of Loonwonnylowe' by Don Ransom (PhD, U of Tasmania) is the winner of the SJ Butlin Prize for best thesis in Australian or NZ econ history 2020-2022, offered by the Econ History Society of Aux & NZ https://economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/news/
In a new Social Science History article Mujun Zhou argues that Chinese labor NGO activism 1996-2020 had an enduring impact on the culture of public discussion & uses the case study to advance the theory of interstitial emergence in an authoritarian context.
In a new Social Science History paper Magnus Bergli Rasmussen investigates the role of political parties in the regulation & reduction of working hours in Norway 1880-1940. Analysis of parliamentary debate & voting confirms class & rural/urban differences shaped party preferences for reform. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.18
Indigenous outnumbered White settlers until ~1850 in Australia, according to Boyd Hunter who points to the impact of disease & frontier violence in his new review of Butlin’s back-cast population model.
Simon Chapple argues in a new @APEHR article that current estimates of pre-contact Māori population are too low. Pre-contact population >200K is a distinct possibility implying a more catastrophic pop decline in the Aotearoa NZ colonial era. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12281
Big congratulations to Sijie Hu, winner of the Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize for best article published in the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. The article examining marital fertility in five Qing China lineages over 300 years is free to read at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aehr.12269
The submission deadline for the SSHA Conference in Toronto Oct 31 - Nov 3 on the theme 'Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age' is now March 22
Centralized higher school admission in early 20thC Japan led to better officials & improved careers for hi-achieving students but increased regional inequality by crowding out rural applicants, according to Chiaki Moriguchi at the 2024 APEBH Conference. https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2024apebhconference/home