Finnane & Richards in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review investigate the evidence of genocide against First Nations on the Queensland frontier 1859-1897. They argue that the impact of colonisation needs to be studied carefully using local sources. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278
A systematic genocide? Army violence against Native Americans was greater when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building & in recessionary election years, according to economist Warren Anderson in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12283
First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as inferior & 'other' than Rome & Christianity. Asier Aguirresarobe argues in Social Science History that this narrative of alterity has influenced the development of Basque identity. OA https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
In a new Social Science History article Robert Lieberman argues that the study of US politics shares origins, concepts & methods with the field of comparative politics. Recognizing this helps us understand the current crisis of American democracy & governance.
Open access! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.5
@mayrl, Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Matthew Mahler & Josh Pacewicz draw on methodological writings by ethnographers & original interviews with historical sociologists to examine the growing ties between the two fields. This is an excellent case study of interchange between scholarly communities. New & OA in Social Science History! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.31
Racialized efforts by housing reformers missed the big picture in early 20th century Washington DC, says Carolyn Swope in the new Social Science History. Poverty & marginalization not housing damaged the health of low income Black residents.
Open access! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.19
The 1915-16 Finnish typhoid epidemic spread via shared kitchens, lack of laundry & illiteracy. The introduction of central water distribution levelled risks, according to Jarmo Peltola, Henri Mikkola & Sakari Saaritsa in a new Social Science History article. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.34
Olmstead & Rhode argue in SSH that animal health programs paved the way for federal investments to improve human health in the early 20th century US. The complex historical relationship between American animal & human health policies was an early example of #OneHealth thinking! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.35
The internal organization of empire contributed to the choice of ocean shipping technology, Portugal’s decline & ascendancy of the Dutch in the 17th century, according to Claudia Rei in an exciting new paper in Social Science History. Open access! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.7
The Export Of Capital To Colonies And The Falling Rate Of Profit In Economic Thought: 1776-1917
“The colonization of South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand was closely linked with European emigration. After 1870, colonization affected large areas of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific where the population remained overwhelmingly non-European (Bayly 2004). As an advocate of emigration writing in the 1830s, Wakefield argued that the main purpose of acquiring colonies was to extend the agricultural frontier by settling European farmers on previously uncultivated land.”
Walke, A. (2024) ‘THE EXPORT OF CAPITAL TO COLONIES AND THE FALLING RATE OF PROFIT IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: 1776–1917’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837224000166.
Damon Mayrl, Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Matthew Mahler & Josh Pacewicz draw on methodological writings by ethnographers & original interviews w historical sociologists to examine the growing ties between the two fields, a useful case study of interchange between scholarly communities. New & OA in Social Science History! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.31
Immigration, trade, inequality, residential schools, war, fertility, Presidential elections & much more are analyzed in 21 economic history papers at this year's meeting of the Canadian Economic Association - May 24, 31 & June 1 at Toronto Metropolitan University
Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"