📢 New out! Open Access! Samuel Dolbee links the transnational environmental history of agriculture with the history of racial formation and immigration in the United States. #Ottomanempire #California #agriculture #environmentalhistory #races #Armenians 👉 Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Yvonne Liao, Julia T. S. Binter, Olivia Irena Durand and Helena F. S. Lopes explore how global historians engage anew in the storytelling of colonial ports. #colonialports #storytelling #Cmaterialsofneglect #vignettes #major-minorcontinuum #transdisciplinarywriting 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Harry Shahee & Mollie Arbuthnot illustrate competing claims to spiritual, ethno-national, scholarly, and ideological authority leveraged in the first decade of Soviet power. #SovietUnion #Russianempire #CentralAsia #decolonization #QuranofUthman #repatriation 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S174...

New out! Open Access! Bruno Walter Renato Toscano offers a new perspective on how national contexts were shaped by the global politics of family planning. #familyplanning #populationcontrolmovement #UnitedStates #Italy #coldwar #globalhistory Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Open Access! Abhimanyu Arni argues that the India League’s 1942–47 anticolonial campaign for a Constituent Assembly for India played a constitutive role in Indian independence. #anticolonialism #deconlonization #Partition #imperial #global #India Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History! JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger. In person and online. Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...

📢 New out! Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social explores different human relationships with the multispecies assemblage of worm and wood across the Pacific. #marineborers #shipworm #PacificOcean #oceanichistories #imperialhistory #historiesofinfrastructure Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Nile Green shows how Meiji-era modern hotels served as mechanisms for an informal and amateur mode of learning about Japanese culture. #tourism #inter-Asia #trans-imperial #travelwriting #arthistory #Japonisme #Shinto #Buddhism #Urdu #Persian Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Simone Schleper @moneschleper.bsky.social traces the origins of corporate environmentalism and flexible interpretations of sustainable development to the 1970s. #globalenvironmentalgovernance #privatesettings #economichumanism #counterculture Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social argues for Black activism in Britain to be viewed through a more global lens. #activism #anti-colonialism #anti-racism #BlackLiberationFront #BlackPower #decolonization #neocolonialism #Pan-Africanism Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Aitor Anduaga offers a new perspective on the history of meteorological services and science globalization. #globalization #Jesuits #network #telegraphy #coextension #nineteenth-centurymeteorology #cyclone #weatherforecasting #EastAsia Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New out! Sveinn Jóhannesson argues that Jón Ólafsson expanded the imagined boundaries of the Angloworld through appeals to what he saw as Teutonic whiteness. #worldorder#Angloworld #socialDarwinism #Teutonicracetheory #world-making #Anglo-Saxonism Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Chloë Mayoux demonstrates how international affairs uniquely crystallized interactions between domestic and regional politics in decolonizing states. #Nigeria #diplomacy #nuclear #decolonization #Africanpolitics #ColdWar Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

And here finally my contribution to this conversation doi.org/10.1017/S174... in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. I trace the origins of #corporateenvironmentalism to heterogeneous, private #governance networks in the 1970s that served as alternatives to official UN settings. Also, great title, yes?

Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social ‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History! JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger. In person and online. Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...

📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History! JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger. In person and online. Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...

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...