New on First View! Esther Sahle uses evidence from eighteenth-century Hamburg to show that free trade policies emerged in response to Atlantic trade expansion. #freetrade #Atlantictrade #colonialism #CentralEurope #freeports Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

New out! Damian Clavel examines how Miskitu King Robert Charles Frederic (1824–42) used colonial contracts with foreign merchants to advance his political agenda in Moskitia. #Moskitia #CentralAmerica #colonialcontracts #financialcapitalism #nineteenthcentury Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Oliver Godsmark considers the responses of the Indian Workers’ Association to food scarcities in India during the late 1960s. #agriculture #China #decolonization #development #diaspora #food #imperialism #India #IWA #Maoism Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Maja Janmyr (@myrmek.bsky.social) examines the establishment of UNHCR’s branch office for the Middle East in Beirut in 1962. #UNHCR #UNRWA #MiddleEast #internationalorganizations #UnitedNations Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

New on First View! Emese Muntán investigates the role of Catholic and non-Catholic local actors in shaping missionary activities in seventeenth-century Ottoman Europe. #globalCatholicism #OttomanEurope #Catholicmissions #localagents #earlymodernperiod Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

New on First View! Christopher Cooper-Davies reconstructs the religious and political activities of the Lebanese Shi‘i scholar Mohamad Jawad Chirri. #Shi’ism #Lebanon #Iraq #Detroit #IslamicRevival #diaspora Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

New on FirstView! Jingkai Liu examines the 1895 anti-missionary riot in Chengdu and the ensuing dispute over the responsibility of Qing officials. #protection #extraterritoriality #lateQingChina #unequaltreaties Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

New on First View! Diego Luis (@diegojavierluis.bsky.social) argues that the novelty of transpacific empire affected Mexico’s Indigenous peoples. #PacificOean #Spain #empire #Mexio #colonialism #repartimiento #indigenous #labour #earlymodern #Dutch Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Andrei Mamolea (@andreimamolea.bsky.social) shows that a Latin American bloc with a common agenda emerged in Geneva in the 1920s. #LeagueofNations #LatinAmerica #internationallaw #smallstates #transatlantic Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Shawn Van Ausdal shows how the roots of the Panama Canal emerged from the forests of Colombia’s Sinú River Valley. #Colombia #Darien #globalmicrohistory #exploration #foreigninvestment #speculators Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’. #ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Ceyda Karamursel examines how the diffusion of sewing machines unfolded in the Ottoman empire during the Armenian massacres of the 1890s. #capitalism #economicnationalism #intercommunalviolence #Ottomanempire #sewingmarchines #SingerCompany Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

論文　末期オスマン帝国におけるミシン、宗派間暴力、モノの経済的秩序 Karamursel, Ceyda. “Sewing Machines, Intercommunal Violence, and the Economic Order of Things in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Journal of Global History, 2025, 1–18. otmn doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out on FirstView! Michiel de Hass (@w-u-r.bsky.social) shows how the stylized rendering of ‘cotton imperialism’ was at odds with actual colonial efforts in 20thC Africa. #cotton #colonialism #Africa #textile #economicimperialism #trade Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New Out! Maria Cullen, Bertrand Taithe and Janelle Winters consider the history of Emergency Health Kits established by United Nations agencies. #humanitarianmedicine #MédecinsSansFrontières #WorldHealthOrganization #logistics #standardization #essentialdrugslists doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Out Now! Evan Fernández situates Chilean–Japanese relations within a global moment of decolonization that sought to reform North Atlantic dominion over international affairs. #LatinAmerica #development #ThePacific #Japan #internationalrelations #worldorder Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Gaurav C. Garg examines how Calcutta’s image as the world’s foremost crisis city was constructed from the mid-1950s. #urbancrisis #urbandeath #globalurbandevelopment #globalurbanhistory #Calcuttaurbanpolitics #ColdWarandcities Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Jennifer Keating investigates the multiscalar history of the Karkara trade fair and its Kazakh and Kyrgyz pastoralist communities. #Inner/CentralAsia #pastoralism #environment #ruraleconomy #Russianempire #spatialscale #temporalscale #globalmarkets #tradefairs doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Igor Martins and Erik Green show that in the United States, Brazil and the Cape Colony, slavery gave enslavers complete rights over mobile property. #slavery #Atlanticworld #newhistoryofcapitalism #labourcoercion #capitalinvestment #collateralization doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Out Now! Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid recovers the goals and reception of Malaysian PM Tunku Abdul Ram’s project to establish the ‘Muslim Commonwealth.’ #Pan-Islamism #TunkuAbdulRahman #CommonwealthofNations #decolonization #GlobalSouth #ColdWar #Malaysia Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Exciting news! The Toynbee Prize Foundation and JGH are holding a roundtable at the American Historical Association's Annual Meeting 2026, Chicago. The roundtable takes place on Jan 8 at 3:30 PM. We hope to see you there! See link for more information: toynbeeprize.org/posts/aha-26...

📢 New on First View! Christy Thornton (@llchristyll.bsky.social) argues that in 1970 World Bank officials were already deeply concerned with public opinion. #World Bank #development #social movement #protest #international financial institutions Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.

📢 The Toynbee First Book Workshop 2025-26 is now open for applications! To support early career scholars in global history, it funds a first book manuscript/work in progress workshop. Find the application details here: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f... Deadline: November 2, 2025.

Our closing roundtable on “Publishing Global History” highlights how editorial practices shape the field’s horizons – featuring co-editors from "Comparativ", "History" (@hisjournalha.bsky.social), "Global and International History", and the "Journal of Global History" (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).

📢 New on FirstView! Stephanie Mawson (@york.ac.uk) argues that the spellcasting activities of Ternaten hostages represent a hidden transcript of politics and power. #folk magic #empire #Manilia #Maluku #Southeast Asia #captives of war 👉 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

'A research consortium...will launch a three-year study of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) next month, aiming to "make a substantive contribution to the current scholarly debate on colonial legacies and their contemporary impact”.' 1/3

Delighted to draw your attention to JGH’s July 2025 volume – now available on Open Access!

📢 New on FirstView! Max Ferrer explores claims to authenticity in Catalan tourism attractions and promotion, which emerged as shrewd marketing language in the increasingly competitive tourism market of the 1980s and 1990s. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Jérôme Sgard uses the archives of the London Corn Trade Association to show that market power, private ordering, and legal pluralism should be seen as a defining feature of Britain’s global economic governance. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social‬) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Jess Marinaccio examines how the Taiwanese fishing community in American Samoa became intertwined in American Samoan society and complicated state-level relationships. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Niping Yan demonstrates that the evolution of Chinese terminology for cochineal was intricately linked to shifts within the intertwined spheres of global, regional, and local histories. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Bingyi Gong explores how multilateral negotiations for technology trade accelerated the fall of the Cold War economic divide in East Asia. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Call for Registration! JGH and the Toynbee Prize Foundation are delighted to announce the Second TPFxJGH Publishing Workshop with @emleake.bsky.social‬ and @heiditworek.bsky.social‬ (July 9 8-9:30 am PST/3-4:30PM GMT via Zoom). Find out more and register here: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...

📢 New on FirstView! Jorge Bayona (@jbayona.bsky.social‬)uses non-literary essays that appeared in the Peruvian press during the Oncenio period in Peru (1919–30) to nuance our understanding of Latin American Orientalism. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Avi-ram Tzoreff examines Palestinian disillusionment with the expectation that the principle of self-determination would serve as a basis for the creation of a new world political order. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

very exciting new article - by @tomlongphd.bsky.social & Carsten-Andreas Schulz in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉 My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social). Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Open Access! Michele Sollai ‪(@michelesollai.bsky.social‬) shows how Italian agrarian scientists developed a ‘dryland’ science, allowing the adaptation of modern and intensive food production to semi-arid regions. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Giacomo Macola makes a case for the role of African consumer demand in fostering processes of global economic integration. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social‬) shows that jurist Hans Kelsen’s global thinking is characterised by a multi-scalar logic and an emphasis on positive law as the foundation of political and legal order. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Tom Long (‪@tomlongphd.bsky.social‬) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz ‪(@caschulz.bsky.social‬) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Freg Stokes et al. show how Indigenous resistance assisted in the conservation of South American tropical forests, acting as a significant factor in both regional and global environmental history. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Hia Sen examines how India and Indian children mattered to the internationalist imaginaries that the Church Missionary Society (CMS) promoted from the 1920s. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with our very own board member Stefanie Gänger. May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email [email protected] for link.

We are looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Jürgen Osterhammel and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email [email protected] to request link.

📢 New on FirstView! Johanna Gautier Morin examines the contributions of a generation of women who reshaped CEPAL’s development agenda by advocating for the integration of gender perspectives into regional policies. Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Now available on FirstView! Raf De Bont (@rafdebont.bsky.social) discusses how computers changed zoos, touching upon databases, ‘infrastructural globalism’ and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...