Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 16, issue 3, 2021

The value within multiform commodities: North African phosphates and global markets in the interwar period pp. 315-335

Rebecca Gruskin

Developing communities: the Ford Foundation and the global urban crisis, 1958–66 pp. 336-354

Sam Collings-Wells

Bringing fish to the shore: fishermen’s knowledge and the anti-whaling protests in Norway and Japan, 1900–12 pp. 355-374

Fynn Holm

Miranda in the Balkans: decadent despotism, consulship, and the making of a south-eastern revolutionary in the Age of Revolution pp. 375-394

Simeon Simeonov

Scaling up and zooming in: global history and high-definition archaeology perspectives on the longue durée of urban–environmental relations in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) pp. 395-414

Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, Eivind Heldaas Seland and Ian A. Simpson

From converts to cooperation: Protestant internationalism, US missionaries and Indian Christians and ‘Professional’ social work between Boston and Bombay (c. 1920–1950) pp. 415-434

Michael Phillipp Brunner

Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside: a research agenda pp. 435-450

Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider and Eric Vanhaute

Commodity frontiers: concepts and history pp. 451-455

Maxine Berg

Comments on time, space and method for the study of commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside pp. 456-461

Ruth Mostern

Commodity frontiers: a view from economic history pp. 462-465

Ronald Findlay and O’Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj

Commodity frontiers and global histories: the tasks ahead pp. 466-469

Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider and Eric Vanhaute

Commodity frontiers and global histories: the tasks ahead – CORRIGENDUM pp. 470-470

Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider and Eric Vanhaute

Perspectivizing pandemics: (how) do epidemic histories criss-cross contexts? – ERRATUM pp. 471-471

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Volume 16, issue 2, 2021

The Great Eastern Crisis (1875–1878) as a global humanitarian moment pp. 159-184

Adrian Ruprecht

Why were there no war crimes trials for the Korean War? pp. 185-206

Sandra Wilson

‘An ombudsman for Mauritius?’ Decolonization and state human rights institutions in the 1960s pp. 207-226

James Kirby

Reputation on the (green) line: revisiting the ‘Plaza moment’ in United Nations peacekeeping practice, 1964–1966 pp. 227-245

Margot Tudor

Civil War in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism pp. 246-265

O’Sullivan, Kevin

Dating the Great Divergence pp. 266-285

Jack Goldstone

Historical national accounting and dating the Great Divergence pp. 286-293

Stephen Broadberry

Two concerns about the interpretation of the estimates of historical national accounts before 1850 pp. 294-300

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Jutta Bolt

Past growths: pre-modern and modern pp. 301-308

Paolo Malanima

Why understanding the timing of divergence matters pp. 309-314

Jack Goldstone

Volume 16, issue 1, 2021

Why was nationalism European? Political ethnicity in Asia and Europe 1400–1850 pp. 4-23

Victor Lieberman

Aphrodisiacs in the global history of medical thought pp. 24-43

Alison M. Downham Moore and Rashmi Pithavadian

Into the bazaar: Indian Ocean vernaculars in the age of global capitalism pp. 44-64

Fahad Bishara and Hollian Wint

How global was the age of revolutions? The case of Mount Lebanon, 1821 pp. 65-84

Peter Hill

The shift from indirect to direct trade between China and South Asia, 1684–1740 pp. 85-100

Ryan Holroyd

Up from the farm: a global microhistory of rural Americans and Africans in the First World War pp. 101-121

Melvin E. Page

Solving world problems: the Indian women’s movement, global governance, and ‘the crisis of empire’, 1933–46 pp. 122-140

Rosalind Parr

History, Sovereignty, Capital: Company Colonization in South Australia and New Zealand pp. 141-157

Matthew Birchall

Volume 15, issue 3, 2020

Pandemics that changed the world: historical reflections on COVID-19 pp. 333-335

Ewout Frankema and Heidi Tworek

Perspectivizing pandemics: (how) do epidemic histories criss-cross contexts? pp. 336-349

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Germs, genomes, and global history in the time of COVID-19 pp. 350-362

Kyle Harper

Comparative pandemics: the Tudor–Stuart and Wanli–Chongzhen years of pestilence, 1567–1666 pp. 363-379

Timothy Brook

Epidemics, indigenous communities, and public health in the COVID-19 era: views from smallpox inoculation campaigns in colonial Guatemala pp. 380-393

Martha Few

Pandemics and the politics of difference: rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera† pp. 394-407

Valeska Huber

Connectivity and seasonality: the 1918 influenza and COVID-19 pandemics in global perspective pp. 408-420

Siddharth Chandra, Julia Christensen and Shimon Likhtman

How reminders of the 1918–19 pandemic helped Australia and New Zealand respond to COVID-19 pp. 421-433

Geoffrey W. Rice

’17, ’18, ’19: religion and science in three pandemics, 1817, 1918, and 2019 pp. 434-443

Howard Phillips

Viral surveillance and the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic pp. 444-458

Robert Peckham

Endemic risks: influenza pandemics, public health, and making self-reliant Indian citizens pp. 459-477

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Pandemics and soft power: HIV/AIDS and Uganda on the global stage pp. 478-492

Shane Doyle

Ebola and COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: comparative lessons of epidemics for society pp. 493-507

Paul Richards

Volume 15, issue 2, 2020

Transoceanic Arabic historiography: sharing the past of the sixteenth-century western Indian Ocean pp. 203-223

Christopher D. Bahl

Slavery and the new history of capitalism pp. 225-244

Trevor Burnard and Giorgio Riello

Environmental factors in trade during the great transformation: advancing the geographical coverage before 1950 pp. 245-267

John Brolin and Astrid Kander

United by grass, separated by coal: Uruguay and New Zealand during the First Globalization pp. 269-289

Emiliano Travieso

‘Mingled in an almost inextricable confusion’: the panics of 1873 and the experience of globalization pp. 291-309

Hannah Catherine Davies

Speaking for the ‘world power economy’: electricity, energo-materialist economics, and the World Energy Council (1924–78) pp. 311-329

Daniela Russ

German religious women in late Ottoman Beirut: competing missions, by Julia Hauser. Studies in Christian Mission 45. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. x + 391. Hardback €149.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-28249-0 pp. 331-332

David Motadel

Volume 15, issue 1, 2020

Disentangling commodity histories: pauame and sassafras in the early modern global world pp. 1-18

Clare Griffin

Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808) pp. 19-38

J. Bohorquez

Why don’t some cuisines travel? Charting palm oil’s journey from West African staple to Malayan chemical pp. 39-60

Geoffrey Kevin Pakiam

Transnationalism and insurrection: independence committees, anti-colonial networks, and Germany’s global war pp. 61-79

Jennifer Jenkins, Heike Liebau and Larissa Schmid

The Trading with the Enemy Acts in the age of expropriation, 1914–49 pp. 81-99

Nicholas Mulder

The globalization of hybrid maize, 1921–70 pp. 101-122

Derek Byerlee

Water powers: the Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany pp. 123-147

Julie Cohn, Matthew Evenden and Marc Landry

A benchmark for the environment: big science and ‘artificial’ geophysics in the global 1950s pp. 149-168

Benjamin W. Goossen

Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ routes to higher education overseas, 1957–65 pp. 169-191

Eric Burton

Global entanglements of a man who never traveled: a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian and his conflicted worlds, by Dominic Sachsenmaier. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 268. Hardback £50.00, ISBN: 978-0-231-18752-7 pp. 193-194

Frederik Vermote

Abraham’s luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian Ocean world, by Elizabeth A. Lambourn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 301. Hardback £75.00, ISBN: 978-110-717388-0; paperback £29.99; ISBN: 978-1-316-62627-6 pp. 194-196

Christopher D. Bahl

The killing season: a history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965–1966, by Geoffrey B. Robinson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 456. Hardcover £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-691-16138-9; paperback £18.99, ISBN: 978-0-691-19649-7 pp. 196-199

Roger L. Albin

The global process of thinking global literature: from Marx’s Weltliteratur to Sarkozy’s littérature-monde† – ERRATUM pp. 201-201

Jernej Habjan