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Advancing the understanding of industrialization processes.
🍾 We are proud to announce “Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Economic History” by @alkaraman.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk ), author of the piece and editor of the special issue on global economic history in @rhi-ihr.bsky.social .
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November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🍾 We are proud to announce “Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Economic History” by @alkaraman.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk ), author of the piece and editor of the special issue on global economic history in @rhi-ihr.bsky.social .
Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...
Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...
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The first volume of the Special Issue on Global Economic History @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is now out! It features 4 new articles on 4 commodities in global economic history - salt, ivory, raw cotton, and finished cotton goods - all open access. It was a great experience editing this volume!
Vol. 34 No. 95 (2025) of @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is out! The first instalment of New Perspectives in Global Economic History, edited by @alkaraman.bsky.social, shows how commodity based economic history reveals global interconnections and rethinks long-term development. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The first volume of the Special Issue on Global Economic History @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is now out! It features 4 new articles on 4 commodities in global economic history - salt, ivory, raw cotton, and finished cotton goods - all open access. It was a great experience editing this volume!
Vol. 34 No. 95 (2025) of @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is out! The first instalment of New Perspectives in Global Economic History, edited by @alkaraman.bsky.social, shows how commodity based economic history reveals global interconnections and rethinks long-term development. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Vol. 34 No. 95 (2025) of @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is out! The first instalment of New Perspectives in Global Economic History, edited by @alkaraman.bsky.social, shows how commodity based economic history reveals global interconnections and rethinks long-term development. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
"Between International Constraints and State Action: Uruguay's Meat Industry over the Long-Run" is now available in early view and open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By María José Rey (Universidad de la República)
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By María José Rey (Universidad de la República)
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Between International Constraints and State Action: Uruguay's Meat Industry over the Long-Run" is now available in early view and open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By María José Rey (Universidad de la República)
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By María José Rey (Universidad de la República)
"Foreign investment and the development of the stock market in Spain (1961-2007)" is now available in Early View in open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By: Álvaro González-Bernardos, Águeda Gil-López, Elena San Román and @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
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By: Álvaro González-Bernardos, Águeda Gil-López, Elena San Román and @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"Foreign investment and the development of the stock market in Spain (1961-2007)" is now available in Early View in open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By: Álvaro González-Bernardos, Águeda Gil-López, Elena San Román and @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
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By: Álvaro González-Bernardos, Águeda Gil-López, Elena San Román and @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
“Did mining lead to a resource curse or dependency? Some economic effects of silver production in Mexico, 1821-1870” is now available in Early View in open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By: Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Javier Encabo González
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By: Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Javier Encabo González
Did mining lead to a resource curse or dependency? Some economic effects of silver production in Mexico, 1821-1870
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October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“Did mining lead to a resource curse or dependency? Some economic effects of silver production in Mexico, 1821-1870” is now available in Early View in open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By: Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Javier Encabo González
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By: Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Javier Encabo González
The @rhi-ihr.bsky.social was involved in a training session on how to get your paper published in an academic journal at the @ehswomcom.bsky.social
Thanks so much for the invitation!!!
Thanks so much for the invitation!!!
The @echistsoc.bsky.social Women’s Committee organised an early careers training session with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Ramon Ramon-Munoz and Michael Watson @universitypress.cambridge.org
Many thanks to the experts and the participants for their insights useful discussions.
Many thanks to the experts and the participants for their insights useful discussions.
We’ve just finished a most useful @ehswomcom.bsky.social training session with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Ramon Ramon-Munoz @rhi-ihr.bsky.social and Michael Watson @universitypress.cambridge.org on early career years in academia & grants/postdocs processes & publishing academic articles/books.
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The @rhi-ihr.bsky.social was involved in a training session on how to get your paper published in an academic journal at the @ehswomcom.bsky.social
Thanks so much for the invitation!!!
Thanks so much for the invitation!!!
Dear readers,
The @rhi-ihr.bsky.social website is down and may remain so until early next week. Thanks for your patience!
The @rhi-ihr.bsky.social website is down and may remain so until early next week. Thanks for your patience!
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dear readers,
The @rhi-ihr.bsky.social website is down and may remain so until early next week. Thanks for your patience!
The @rhi-ihr.bsky.social website is down and may remain so until early next week. Thanks for your patience!
What do We Know about Catalan Forestry Businesses in the Tropics? Read about it in the post by Jordi Sant and Eduard Gargallo at our blog: The Great Spurt👇
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What do We Know about Catalan Forestry Businesses in the Tropics?
The article also highlights the activities carried out by these companies beyond forest exploitation, specially their establishment of factories in Barcelona. We can thus analyse the connections be…
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September 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
What do We Know about Catalan Forestry Businesses in the Tropics? Read about it in the post by Jordi Sant and Eduard Gargallo at our blog: The Great Spurt👇
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Schwartz, Pedro, ed. 2023. Escritos de Francisco Cabarrús. Economista ilustrado. Madrid: Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, 2 vols., 337 y 575 pp.
Reviewed by Andrés Oliva Duarte (@unizar.es)
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Reviewed by Andrés Oliva Duarte (@unizar.es)
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August 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Schwartz, Pedro, ed. 2023. Escritos de Francisco Cabarrús. Economista ilustrado. Madrid: Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, 2 vols., 337 y 575 pp.
Reviewed by Andrés Oliva Duarte (@unizar.es)
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Reviewed by Andrés Oliva Duarte (@unizar.es)
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Medina-Albaladejo, Francisco J., Jose Miguel Martínez Carrión, and Salvador Calatayud, eds. 2023. Inequality and nutritional transition in Economic History. Spain in the 19th-21st centuries. Abingdon: Routledge, 259 pp.
Reviewed by Carolina Román (Universidad de la República Uruguay)
Reviewed by Carolina Román (Universidad de la República Uruguay)
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Medina-Albaladejo, Francisco J., Jose Miguel Martínez Carrión, and Salvador Calatayud, eds. 2023. Inequality and nutritional transition in Economic History. Spain in the 19th-21st centuries. Abingdon: Routledge, 259 pp.
Reviewed by Carolina Román (Universidad de la República Uruguay)
Reviewed by Carolina Román (Universidad de la República Uruguay)
Papastefanaki, Leda and M. Erdem Kabadayı, eds. 2022. Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. 342 pp.
Reviewed by @diclenuraktan.bsky.social (@ub.edu)
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Reviewed by @diclenuraktan.bsky.social (@ub.edu)
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August 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Papastefanaki, Leda and M. Erdem Kabadayı, eds. 2022. Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. 342 pp.
Reviewed by @diclenuraktan.bsky.social (@ub.edu)
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Reviewed by @diclenuraktan.bsky.social (@ub.edu)
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@carlesmanera.bsky.social. 2024. Economía en crisis. Aprendiendo del a historia económica. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata y Edicions UIB-Universitat de les Illes Balears, 285 pp.
Reviewed by José Luis García Ruiz (@ucm.es)
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Reviewed by José Luis García Ruiz (@ucm.es)
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August 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
@carlesmanera.bsky.social. 2024. Economía en crisis. Aprendiendo del a historia económica. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata y Edicions UIB-Universitat de les Illes Balears, 285 pp.
Reviewed by José Luis García Ruiz (@ucm.es)
revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
Reviewed by José Luis García Ruiz (@ucm.es)
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New Call for Papers for an upcoming Special Issue of @ihr-rhi.bsky.social entitled “New Perspectives on Middle Eastern Economic History” at revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
This issue will be co-edited by Mohammed Saleh, Cihan Artunç, and Onur Yükçü.
Send your abstract before Sept 21!
This issue will be co-edited by Mohammed Saleh, Cihan Artunç, and Onur Yükçü.
Send your abstract before Sept 21!
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New Call for Papers for an upcoming Special Issue of @ihr-rhi.bsky.social entitled “New Perspectives on Middle Eastern Economic History” at revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
This issue will be co-edited by Mohammed Saleh, Cihan Artunç, and Onur Yükçü.
Send your abstract before Sept 21!
This issue will be co-edited by Mohammed Saleh, Cihan Artunç, and Onur Yükçü.
Send your abstract before Sept 21!
Thrilled to welcome some of our new team members at RHI-IHR! We had a truly international kick-off at #WEHC2025 in Lund—complete with Vietnamese coffee and lively discussion. Here’s to fresh perspectives and conversations on global economic history! 🌏☕📚
July 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thrilled to welcome some of our new team members at RHI-IHR! We had a truly international kick-off at #WEHC2025 in Lund—complete with Vietnamese coffee and lively discussion. Here’s to fresh perspectives and conversations on global economic history! 🌏☕📚
“Competing against large private banks: the successful strategy of the la Caja de Ahorros de Madrid during Franco’s dictatorship (1962-1975)” by Pedro Fernández Sánchez (Universidad San Pablo CEU). Read the article in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“Competing against large private banks: the successful strategy of the la Caja de Ahorros de Madrid during Franco’s dictatorship (1962-1975)” by Pedro Fernández Sánchez (Universidad San Pablo CEU). Read the article in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
“Adjusting to technological change: Ship agents in the port of Barcelona during the transition from sail to steam (1849-1900)” by Lluís Rotllan. Find it in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
Adjusting to technological change: Ship agents in the port of Barcelona during the transition from sail to steam (1849-1900)
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July 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“Adjusting to technological change: Ship agents in the port of Barcelona during the transition from sail to steam (1849-1900)” by Lluís Rotllan. Find it in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
“Industry, photography, representations: Portugal, 1897-1914” by Hugo Silveira Pereira (Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology – NOVA School of Science and Technology; Department of History - University of York) find it in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
https://doi.org/10.1344/rhiihr…!
July 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Industry, photography, representations: Portugal, 1897-1914” by Hugo Silveira Pereira (Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology – NOVA School of Science and Technology; Department of History - University of York) find it in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
“Partnership and competition: The strategic alliance between Schneider et Cie and the Škoda Works during the interwar period” by Aleš Skřivan and Tereza Burianová (@vsecz.bsky.social). Find it in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhiihr…
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July 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
“Partnership and competition: The strategic alliance between Schneider et Cie and the Škoda Works during the interwar period” by Aleš Skřivan and Tereza Burianová (@vsecz.bsky.social). Find it in open access at doi.org/10.1344/rhiihr…
We are proud to present the leading article of our new issue “Wages, prices and living standards in a growing economy. The case of Boston, Massachusetts” by Luis Felipe Zegarra (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).
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Read it in open access: doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
July 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
We are proud to present the leading article of our new issue “Wages, prices and living standards in a growing economy. The case of Boston, Massachusetts” by Luis Felipe Zegarra (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).
Read it in open access: doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
Read it in open access: doi.org/10.1344/rhii...
Vol. 34 No. 94 (2025) of @rhi_ihr is out! This issue brings together research spanning the US, Southern & Eastern Europe from the late 18th to mid-20th century on living standards, tech change, corporate strategy & industrialisation and 4 book reviews! revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
July 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Vol. 34 No. 94 (2025) of @rhi_ihr is out! This issue brings together research spanning the US, Southern & Eastern Europe from the late 18th to mid-20th century on living standards, tech change, corporate strategy & industrialisation and 4 book reviews! revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
"A Sectoral Analysis of Steam Power Diffusion in the Late 18th Century: The British Mining and Iron Smelting Industries” is now available in Early View in open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By: Kitsikopoulos, Harilaos.
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By: Kitsikopoulos, Harilaos.
A Sectoral Analysis of Steam Power Diffusion in the late 18th century: The British Mining and Iron Smelting Industries
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July 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"A Sectoral Analysis of Steam Power Diffusion in the Late 18th Century: The British Mining and Iron Smelting Industries” is now available in Early View in open access at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By: Kitsikopoulos, Harilaos.
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By: Kitsikopoulos, Harilaos.
The Early View of “Capitales catalanes en los negocios forestales de la Guinea Española” is ready in Open Access.
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By Jordi Sant Gisbert (@unibarcelonathe.bsky.social) and Edurard Gargallo (ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
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By Jordi Sant Gisbert (@unibarcelonathe.bsky.social) and Edurard Gargallo (ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Catalan Capital in the Timber Trade of Spanish Guinea
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July 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The Early View of “Capitales catalanes en los negocios forestales de la Guinea Española” is ready in Open Access.
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By Jordi Sant Gisbert (@unibarcelonathe.bsky.social) and Edurard Gargallo (ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
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By Jordi Sant Gisbert (@unibarcelonathe.bsky.social) and Edurard Gargallo (ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Find in Open Access the Early View of “Beyond Leading Sectors: Merchant Capital and the Origins of Footwear Manufacturing in the Balearic Islands” at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By Alfons Méndez Vidal (Institut Menorquí d'Estudis)
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By Alfons Méndez Vidal (Institut Menorquí d'Estudis)
Beyond leading sectors: Merchant capital and the origins of footwear manufacturing in the Balearic Islands
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July 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Find in Open Access the Early View of “Beyond Leading Sectors: Merchant Capital and the Origins of Footwear Manufacturing in the Balearic Islands” at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social
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By Alfons Méndez Vidal (Institut Menorquí d'Estudis)
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By Alfons Méndez Vidal (Institut Menorquí d'Estudis)
Open Access Early view of "The Castilian Wool Industry at a Crossroad: Prices, Cost, and Profits, 1550-1650" at
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DOI: doi.org/10.1344/rhii... By José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo (ehu.eus) and Ramón Lanza Garcia (@uam.es)
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DOI: doi.org/10.1344/rhii... By José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo (ehu.eus) and Ramón Lanza Garcia (@uam.es)
The Castilian wool industry at a crossroad: prices, cost, and profits, 1550-1650
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July 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Open Access Early view of "The Castilian Wool Industry at a Crossroad: Prices, Cost, and Profits, 1550-1650" at
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DOI: doi.org/10.1344/rhii... By José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo (ehu.eus) and Ramón Lanza Garcia (@uam.es)
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DOI: doi.org/10.1344/rhii... By José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo (ehu.eus) and Ramón Lanza Garcia (@uam.es)