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The Journal of Global History is an open access journal published by Cambridge University Press. It aims to be the leading scholarly outlet for innovative analyses of global historical phenomena.

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Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · 8d

📢 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.

Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation

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European Network in Universal and Global History @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social · 26d

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).

Photo: Florian Förster

Photo: Florian Förster

Photo: Florian Förster

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 9

'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

Dutch probe of colonial science ‘about present as much as past’

Researchers hope examining history of scientific academy can help create a more ‘just’ organisation in the modern day

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Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 8

Raf De Bont (@rafdebont.bsky.social) discusses how computers changed zoos, touching upon databases, ‘infrastructural globalism’ and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers!

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A computerised ark: The International Species Information System (ISIS) and the laborious re-ordering of the zoo world | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

A computerised ark: The International Species Information System (ISIS) and the laborious re-ordering of the zoo world - Volume 20 Issue 2

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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The women’s faces of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The first generation of Cepalinas (1960s–1980s) | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

The women’s faces of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The first generation of Cepalinas (1960s–1980s) - Volume 20 Issue 2

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hia Sen examines how India and Indian children mattered to the internationalist imaginaries that the Church Missionary Society (CMS) promoted from the 1920s.

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Voyaging into a Christian World: Indian children and the Church Missionary Society’s project of world-making, 1920s–1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Voyaging into a Christian World: Indian children and the Church Missionary Society’s project of world-making, 1920s–1940s - Volume 20 Issue 2

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 - Volume 20 Issue 2

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Tropical deforestation and Indigenous resistance over the longue durée in South America | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Tropical deforestation and Indigenous resistance over the longue durée in South America - Volume 20 Issue 2

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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.

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Catalanising the Costa Brava: Local interests, global tourism, and the nationalist power of authenticity in the late twentieth century | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Catalanising the Costa Brava: Local interests, global tourism, and the nationalist power of authenticity in the late twentieth century

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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.

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Imperial politics, open markets and private legal ordering: The global grain trade (1875–1914) | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Imperial politics, open markets and private legal ordering: The global grain trade (1875–1914)

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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.

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The Muslim world as heterotopia: Global encounters in interwar Europe | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

The Muslim world as heterotopia: Global encounters in interwar Europe

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Jess Marinaccio examines how the Taiwanese fishing community in American Samoa became intertwined in American Samoan society and complicated state-level relationships.

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Disputes at port, disputes at sea: how fishing rights and practices shaped Taiwan-Pacific relations from the 1950s to the 1980s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Disputes at port, disputes at sea: how fishing rights and practices shaped Taiwan-Pacific relations from the 1950s to the 1980s

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Jul 16

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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.

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In the weft of words: Mapping global and local connectivity in the Chinese terminology for American cochineal | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

In the weft of words: Mapping global and local connectivity in the Chinese terminology for American cochineal

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Bingyi Gong explores how multilateral negotiations for technology trade accelerated the fall of the Cold War economic divide in East Asia.

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Computers for China: Technology Trade and the Transformation of the Cold War in East Asia, 1968-80 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Computers for China: Technology Trade and the Transformation of the Cold War in East Asia, 1968-80

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Jun 24

📢 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...

Call for registration: JGH x TPF Publishing Workshop II | Toynbee Prize Foundation

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Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Jun 13

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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.

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Nuancing Peruvian Orientalism through the lens of Southeast Asia, 1919–30 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Nuancing Peruvian Orientalism through the lens of Southeast Asia, 1919–30

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · Jun 6

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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.

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The (third) world of yesterday: Global anti-colonial struggles, Palestinian consciousness, and Zionist-colonial alliances | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

The (third) world of yesterday: Global anti-colonial struggles, Palestinian consciousness, and Zionist-colonial alliances

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · Jun 2

very exciting new article - by @tomlongphd.bsky.social &
Carsten-Andreas Schulz in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social

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Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85

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Michele Sollai @michelesollai.bsky.social · May 27

🎉 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...

Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s) | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s)

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · May 27

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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.

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Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s) | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s)

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · May 27

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Giacomo Macola makes a case for the role of African consumer demand in fostering processes of global economic integration.

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Nineteenth-century ‘trade guns’ in the Congo Estuary: Local refractions of a global trade | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Nineteenth-century ‘trade guns’ in the Congo Estuary: Local refractions of a global trade

Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · May 27

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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.

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Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s

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Or Rosenboim @orrosenboim.bsky.social · May 26

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

Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s