Journal of Global History

2006 - 2026

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Volume 21, issue 1, 2026

Malay magic on the colonial frontier: Ternaten spellcasters and hostages of war in seventeenth-century Manila pp. 1-21

Stephanie Mawson

Theoretical foundations of the economics of slavery: Enslaved people as capital investments in the Atlantic world pp. 22-40

Igor Martins and Erik Green

Ballast: Approaching nineteenth-century maritime mobility ‘from below’ pp. 41-59

Paul Blickle

Chile, Japan, development, and order in the Pacific, 1890s–1940s pp. 60-79

Evan Fernández

Eurasian exchanges: Central Asian nomadic pastoralists, mountain ecosystems, and market economies in the early twentieth century pp. 80-99

Jennifer Keating

The Muslim world as heterotopia: Global encounters in interwar Europe pp. 100-125

Faridah Zaman

Cotton imperialism in Africa: Rethinking the gap between metropolitan rhetoric and colonial practice pp. 126-151

Michiel de Haas

‘For the common good of all’: Global decolonization and the Malaysian initiative for a Muslim Commonwealth, 1961–69 pp. 152-173

Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid

Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank pp. 174-195

Christy Thornton

‘The world’s worst city’: The making of hyperreal Calcutta and the global urban crisis pp. 196-214

Gaurav C. Garg

Volume 20, issue 3, 2025

In the weft of words: Mapping global and local connectivity in the Chinese terminology for American cochineal pp. 217-236

Niping Yan

Nineteenth-century ‘trade guns’ in the Congo Estuary: Local refractions of a global trade pp. 237-251

Giacomo Macola

Imperial politics, open markets and private legal ordering: The global grain trade (1875–1914) pp. 252-270

Jérôme Sgard

Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s) pp. 271-292

Michele Sollai

The (third) world of yesterday: Global anti-colonial struggles, Palestinian consciousness, and Zionist-colonial alliances pp. 293-312

Avi-ram Tzoreff

Nuancing Peruvian Orientalism through the lens of Southeast Asia, 1919–30 pp. 313-333

Jorge Bayona

Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s pp. 334-348

Or Rosenboim

Disputes at port, disputes at sea: how fishing rights and practices shaped Taiwan-Pacific relations from the 1950s to the 1980s pp. 349-364

Jess Marinaccio

Catalanising the Costa Brava: Local interests, global tourism, and the nationalist power of authenticity in the late twentieth century pp. 365-382

Max Ferrer

Computers for China: Technology Trade and the Transformation of the Cold War in East Asia, 1968-80 pp. 383-403

Bingyi Gong

Volume 20, issue 2, 2025

Tropical deforestation and Indigenous resistance over the longue durée in South America pp. 121-142

Freg J. Stokes, Sandra Benites, Anita Ekman, Uraan Anderson Suruí, Laura Furquim, Ricarda Winkelmann, Jürgen Renn and Patrick Roberts

Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 pp. 143-162

Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz

Voyaging into a Christian World: Indian children and the Church Missionary Society’s project of world-making, 1920s–1940s pp. 163-181

Hia Sen

The women’s faces of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The first generation of Cepalinas (1960s–1980s) pp. 182-198

Johanna Gautier Morin

A computerised ark: The International Species Information System (ISIS) and the laborious re-ordering of the zoo world pp. 199-216

Raf De Bont

Volume 20, issue 1, 2025

The seasonality of empire: Coping with the intermittence of the global in Portuguese Asia and beyond (1500–1650) pp. 1-20

Giuseppe Marcocci

Contesting US hegemony: Pan-American infrastructure and South American visions of global transportation, 1880s–1890s pp. 21-42

Mario Peters

The Federation persuasion: Identity, sovereignty, and decolonisation in the Indies East and West pp. 43-60

Jason Parker

Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement pp. 61-81

Siobhán Hearne

The paper famine: Newsprint, development, and the materialities of Third World media in the time of decolonisation pp. 82-102

George Roberts

The ruble lever: Soviet development knowledge and the political economy of the UN pp. 103-120

Elizabeth Banks

Volume 19, issue 3, 2024

Empire of Impartiality: Managing Indebtedness to Foreigners in Eighteenth-Century China pp. 323-343

Meng Zhang

Globalization, welfare, and inequality: Evidence from transoceanic market integration, 1815–1913 pp. 344-369

David Chilosi and Giovanni Federico

South Africa’s Haymarket: the Knights of Labor and political violence in the United States and South Africa, 1886–1892 pp. 370-391

Steven Parfitt

Man-making and World-making on Two Wheels: Indian ‘Globe Cyclists’ in the Interwar Years pp. 392-420

Harald Fischer-Tiné and Souvik Naha

The caged bird sings of freedom: Maya Angelou’s anti-colonial journalism in the United Arab Republic and Ghana, 1961–1965 pp. 421-438

Alex White

Communicating overpopulation to a global audience: Disney’s Family Planning (1968) pp. 439-462

Patrick Ellis and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

Volume 19, issue 2, 2024

Do mountains kill states? Exploring the diversity of Southeast Asian highland communities pp. 195-220

Michael Paul Leadbetter and Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan

Contractor states and globalization of the market for naval artillery technology (1500–1750) pp. 221-239

Brice Cossart

Freeing Chinese Men on the María Luz: Gender and the Latin American Coolie Trade pp. 240-259

Heidi Tinsman

Parsi capital and imperial infrastructure: Shipping and shopping in the port of Aden, 1840-1888 pp. 260-280

Itamar Toussia Cohen

“The Same Causes Occasioning the Same Effects”: The “Jewish Question”, the “Chinese Question” and the Global Precedents of Exclusion in Late Nineteenth Century Central Europe pp. 281-300

Andrei Sorescu

Towards Development: The Yellow River project and UNRRA’s technical assistance to China, 1944–1947 pp. 301-321

Jiayi Tao

Volume 19, issue 1, 2024

Mapping Byzantine Sericulture in the Global Transfer of Technology pp. 1-17

Gang Wu

Rethinking colonialism through early modern global diplomacy: A tale of Pampangan mobility pp. 18-36

Birgit Tremml-Werner

The company-microstate: The Auckland Islands and corporate colonialism in global history, 1849-52 pp. 37-56

Rohan Howitt

Doing Utopia: Radical utopian communities, mobility, and the body in the early twentieth century pp. 57-76

Robert Kramm

White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia pp. 77-97

Aden Knaap

A merger of equals: The political economy of the World Bank’s early contacts with China pp. 98-117

Federico Pachetti

Three meanings of colonialism: Nehru, Sukarno, and Kotelawala debate the future of the Third World Movement (1954-61) pp. 118-134

Sandeep Bhardwaj

The Sino-Malaysian Rubber Trade, 1950-80: A Global History pp. 135-154

Yu Yao and Youxin Guo

Working for the Wireless World: Radio Uganda Technicians and the Wo/manpower of 1970s Cosmopolitanism pp. 155-174

Ismay Milford

India, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and the 1979 Virginity Testing Scandal pp. 175-194

Jinal Parekh and Antara Datta