Campop blog #50: In 2021, 76% of UK women with children at home were employed: a century earlier about the same % were engaged in 'home duties'. @awakelam.bsky.social explores patterns and implications from the 1921 census @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

I have been staying away from purely political posts but the attack on Wikipedia is more than I can bear. Wikipedia is the most valuable intellectual resource of the internet era. The MAGA crowd is not just against science, it is against knowledge.

From the nation that brought us the Marshall Plan, we now have this proposal for the “Trump Plan” for #Ukraine. Where the Marshall Plan embraced enlightened self-interest by America, the Trump plan is predatory, and basically an extortion bid against the people of Ukraine. 1/7

Songlin Wang uses the rich archival records of Chinese Maritime Customs & careful statistical analysis to show improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data during the late 19th century reflecting key institutional reform & the importance of Hong Kong 📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky #polisky #HistIR

This is a very difficult time to be a Tankie. Suddenly they have to be in favor of the USA grabbing the mineral wealth of a small country.

Now, the (estimated) distribution of free national workers (including freedmen) employed in coffee production in São Paulo, prior to the Great Immigration and Abolition.

Campop blog #36: Who did older people live with in the pre-industrial English past? Richard Smith shows that, as today, they lived independently for as long as possible, and rarely moved in with married children @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

OTD in 2022, Russian ambassador to US said "Russia recognises Donbas as a part of Ukraine, does not have any claims on Ukrainian lands, does not have plans of any attack". So you can believe it we promise to stop.

The (estimated) spatial distribution of European immigrants engaged in coffee production in São Paulo, before the Great Immigration and the Abolition.

A warrant for a $100 ordinary share of Port of Pará Co. (Belém, Brazil) from the Percival Farquhar group, 1907.

The Neglected History of Slavery in the Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/history-slavery-middle-ages/ #history #medieval #slavery

"There was a strong connection between European fascism and the various dictatorships that the Southern Cone... experienced in the [1960s and] 1970s." wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/t...

Participação feminina crescendo nos programas de mestrado e doutorado em economia da FEA-USP! Sejam todas bem-vindas!! 👩‍🎓 🌟

🎨 Children Who Love Chicks, Late 19th Century #painting #history #chick

1.ª edição do clássico de José Maria dos Santos, A Política Geral do Brasil (1930).

Excellent opportunity for PhD students researching financial history: Leonardo Weller, Rui Esteves and Coşkun Tunçer are organizing the FAPESP/CEPR São Paulo School in Financial History in July 2025, with applications open until February 28, 2025. More details below. t.co/SwBReleeC3

The difficulties in counting Brazil's population even during the early decades of the 20th century, using the example of the state of Ceará. In Sobral, 1918: civil registration of births = 106; baptisms = 1,345. 1/2

Obra liberada no Google Livros, Phelippe Guerra e Theophilo Guerra, "Seccas contra a secca, Rio Grande do Norte. Seccas e invernos, açudagem, irrigação, vida, costumes e sertanejos" (1909). Download no link abaixo. books.google.com.br/books?id=XoV...

Linux distro hoping 2025 edition

John Joseph Wallis's 2006 paper "The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History" is a ridiculously good paper. We usually think of corruption as rent seeking. But systematic corruption is rent creating to feed a political coalition. This is a huge barrier to growth.

🌎✨ Cinco mapas, cinco histórias: Para fechar 2024 com chave de ouro, selecionamos 5 mapas especiais que traduzem o impacto de questões cruciais na Amazônia. 💡🌱 Segue o fio

Os três volumes do estado de São Paulo da Enciclopédia dos Municípios Brasileiros, publicada pelo Conselho Nacional de Estatística-IBGE entre 1957-1964. A mais importante referência sobre os municípios brasileiros até meados do século XX.

Na revista HE & HE, dossiê sobre os 200 anos da imigração alemã no Brasil editado por Bruno Witzel de Souza e Miqueias Henrique Mügge. Uma grande contribuição com novas evidências e perspectivas sobre uma das mais importantes correntes imigratórias. Ver link a seguir: 1/2

Curiosa tabela de Ónody (1960) com uma classificação das origens étnicas e do comportamento social da população brasileira. 1/2

Exportação per capita dos estados brasileiros em 1905, em uma estimativa da época. Amazonas, Pará, São Paulo, Espírito Santo e Mato Grosso com os 5 maiores índices - borracha e café. 1/2

Mapa do estado do Ceará em 1913, com rios, localidades, as duas ferrovias em operação e os trechos em construção. 1/2

I'm thrilled to receive the 2024 Haralambos Simeonides Best Dissertation Award from ANPEC. Thanks to my supervisor, Raphael Corbi, and my co-author, Renata Narita, for all the support over these years.

1/ This very important paper by Tim Conley and Morgan Kelly is now forthcoming. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Fabrica de assucar", Rio de Janeiro, década de 1890. 1/2

powerful research from the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past leapstellenbosch.org.za finds high levels of income persistence & unexpectedly low mobility for settler households in the Cape Colony using linked tax data 1776-1829. Open access in Social Science History! 📉📈🗃📗 🏺 #AcademicSky

Mais uma obra de difícil acesso liberada pelo Google Livros: Henrique Dumont Villares, Brasil Industrial (1937). Villares foi incorporador do Centro Industrial Jaguaré nos anos 1930 e um dos fundadores da Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga (1931). Link abaixo: https://t.co/qAXuGb4FRq

‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media

Pica-paus-do-campo filhotes espiam a vida no ninho, bem-vindos ao mundo.

Online via @archive.org at: archive.org/details/in.e... #History 🗃️

A desconcentração da indústria (VTI) no estado de São Paulo entre 2003 e 2021 (fonte: SEADE). (1/1)

O texto metodológico e histórico com a nova série de anos de escolaridade no Brasil entre 1925 e 2015, trabalho super importante de Júlia Walter & Thomas Kang @kangthomas.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We got our first @geodatascience.bsky.social migrants landing on Bluesky. Give them a follow for lots of exciting research happening at the intersection of data science and geography! And if you want to see lots of cool maps! 🗺️

Stanley Stein em 1960 sobre o livro de José Maria dos Santos, Os Republicanos Paulistas e a Abolição (1942), um trabalho essencial embora pouco lembrado hoje sobre os diferentes grupos republicanos e a política partidária da Abolição. 1/2

diverging fortunes: at the time when King Leopold was forcing Congo's population to produce rubber, the neighboring kingdom of Kongo, which was still independent, was experiencing a rubber boom, and the majority of the wealth was retained by the African producers. thread with some graphs:

Felicitaciones Frente Amplio y Uruguay.

Casal de pica-paus (aparentemente pica-pau-do-campo) tomando conta do ninho com os filhotes recém-nascidos ao lado de casa, na primeira vez que conseguimos fotografá-los juntos. Protegem e alimentam com dedicação e muito barulho.

Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app

Algumas fotos do Workshop de História Econômica ontem na FEA-USP, um dia inteiro de discussão de pesquisas em andamento sobre diferentes temas da história econômica brasileira. Além dos excelentes trabalhos, o público muito animado e simpático foi o ponto alto do evento. 1/3

N'hésitez pas à lire ou relire les 289 (!) articles et comptes rendus de Marc #Bloch publiés dans les #Annales: www.persee.fr/authority/27...

Nesta sexta-feira, dia 22/11, teremos o Workshop de História Econômica da FEA-USP, um evento já na sua 9ª edição destinado à apresentação e discussão intensiva de pesquisas em andamento ou recém-concluídas. Abaixo, a programação:

📣New blog post alert!📣 Today, Tracy Dennison tells us about serfdom in Europe, and how it varied across different countries and over time. Check itout! www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians

O 2o paper relacionado ao dia de hoje é "Quem eram os Trabalhadores do Café nas Vésperas da Abolição?", com novas estimativas do número de trabalhadores escravizados, imigrantes e nacionais nas fazendas de café de São Paulo em 1886-1887: http://www.repec.eae.fea.usp.br/documentos/Colistete_27WP.pdf

Comemorando o dia no Brasil, reposto 2 papers recentes. O primeiro, "Predicting Skills of Runaway Slaves", um estudo das habilidades (skills) de 3.376 escravizados com fugas registradas em jornais de São Paulo entre 1854 e 1887: http://www.repec.eae.fea.usp.br/documentos/Colistete_15WP.pdf

Thomaz Pompêo de Sousa Brasil (1908) sobre fome, varíola e migração durante a grande seca de 1877-1879 no Ceará: 1/2

“President Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said. The weapons are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops in…Kursk” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...