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kris_inwood, 1 day ago to history

Immigration, trade, inequality, residential schools, war, fertility, Presidential elections & much more are analyzed in 21 economic history papers at this year's meeting of the Canadian Economic Association - May 24, 31 & June 1 at Toronto Metropolitan University

https://eireidium.com/cneh/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CNEH_CEA2024.pdf

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #glamsdons #Canada

kris_inwood, 4 days ago to history

Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"

https://www.utpjournals.press/toc/cpp/50/S1

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Canada #policy #indigenous

kris_inwood, 8 days ago to history

Animal health programs paved the way for federal investments to improve human health in the early 20thC US. Olmstead & Rhode argue that the complex historical relationship between animal & human health policy was an early example of #OneHealth thinking! New in Social Science History.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.35
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@sts @SocArXivBot @devecon #history #histodons #onehealth

kris_inwood, 9 days ago to history

Shared kitchens, lack of laundry & illiteracy were vectors of vulnerability in the 1915-16 Finnish typhoid epidemic. Collective action in the form of a centralized distribution of pure water levelled risks, according to Peltola, Saaritsa & Mikkola in a new SSH article. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.34
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @econhist @epiverse @sts @healthecon #histodons #Finland #Tampere #typhoid

kris_inwood, 13 days ago to history

The racialized efforts of housing reformers missed the big picture, says Carolyn Swope in a new Social Science History article. Poverty & marginalization not housing damaged the health of low income Black residents in early 20th century Washington DC. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.19
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @archaeodons #history #histodons #housing #socialreform #washingtondc

kris_inwood, 22 days ago to history

A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and current professorship in Vietnam

Free YSE-EHES graduate webinar by Luu Duc Toan Huynh (QMUL).
May 2 17:00 CET.
Chair: Ting Cheng (HK Baptist U).

More information:
https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/cfp-economic-history-graduate-webinar-spring-2024/2024-04-11/

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Vietnam #inequality #elite #knowledge

kris_inwood, 1 month ago to history

Data infrastructure for Canada

Attractive new tool to map census data since 1951 at https://edumaps.esri.ca/census/
New polygon files for historic census data at
https://hgiscanada.usask.ca/download
And the historical census microdata are coming soon https://thecanadianpeoples.com

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #hgis #dataviz #Canada #census #glamsdons #data #database

kris_inwood, 1 month ago to Canada

Linked open data for cultural scholarship & memory is the focus of an exciting conference May 5-8 at the U of Ottawa. Many great workshops. Keynotes by Jennifer Wemigwans (UToronto) & Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (ANU).
Supported by https://lincsproject.ca
More info:
https://hsscommons.ca/en/groups/forward_linking/events/2024conference
#culturalheritage #opendata #Canada #Ottawa #semanticweb

kris_inwood, 1 month ago to history

webinar this Thursday, Magnus Neubert (MLU Halle-Wittenberg): The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development.
Chair: Leonard Kukić (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/cfp-economic-history-graduate-webinar-spring-2024/2024-04-11/

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons #socialism #Yugoslavis

kris_inwood, 1 month ago to history

CFP: the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference Dec 9-10 2024 at Hong Kong University. Keynotes by Sascha Becker & Joel Mokyr. Submit 3-5 page proposals or full papers by May 31; acceptance by July 15.
https://www.cqh.hku.hk/ahec2024/
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #HongKong #indigenous

kris_inwood, 1 month ago to history

'Frontier of Space, Frontier of Mind: The British Invasion of Loonwonnylowe' by Don Ransom (PhD, U of Tasmania) is the winner of the SJ Butlin Prize for best thesis in Australian or NZ econ history 2020-2022, offered by the Econ History Society of Aux & NZ
https://economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/news/

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Australia #Kikorangi #Auspol #Indigenous #Tasmania

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

In a new Social Science History article Mujun Zhou argues that Chinese labor NGO activism 1996-2020 had an enduring impact on the culture of public discussion & uses the case study to advance the theory of interstitial emergence in an authoritarian context.

https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.30

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #China #NGO #labor #interstitial #activism

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

In a new Social Science History paper Magnus Bergli Rasmussen investigates the role of political parties in the regulation & reduction of working hours in Norway 1880-1940. Analysis of parliamentary debate & voting confirms class & rural/urban differences shaped party preferences for reform.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.18

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Norway #working #labor #40hours

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Different internal organizations & institutionalization explain the divergent political fortunes of Fuerza Nueva and VOX, both far-right parties in Spain, according to Pablo Ortiz Barquero & coauthors in a new open access article in Social Science History
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.17
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @archaeodons #history #histodons #Spain #VOX #fuerzaNueva

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

War & policy delayed 19thC globalization, based on a variance & cointegration analysis of Cdn, US & UK prices 1760-1860 by Pedersen et al. Cdn grain Xs lost easy access to the US market after 1783 & the Corn Laws gave only modest benefit to Cda in UK market.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.36
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @trade @agecon #history #histodons #Canada #globalization #BritishEmpire #prices #CornLaws

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Mortgage lenders foreclosed on many home owners in the Great Depression. Richard Harris finds that many Hamilton Ont borrowers defaulted voluntarily, local landlords defaulted more than homeowners & private lenders foreclosed less than lending institutions. Open access in Social Science History
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.29
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @archaeodons #history #histodons #Canada #housing #GreatDepression

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Indigenous outnumbered White settlers until ~1850 in Australia, according to Boyd Hunter who points to the impact of disease & frontier violence in his new review of Butlin’s back-cast population model.

Open access in @APEHR

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#history #histodons #Australia #indigenous #colonialism #Auspol #demography #mortality #Butlin

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Careful analysis by Byard & Maxwell-Stewart suggests a high pre-contact Indigenous population in lutruwita Tasmania & subsequent fast decline using historical evidence of disease, fertility decline, violence & resource loss. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12282
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#histodons #Australia #Auspol #indigenous #colonialism #Tasmania

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Ethnic intermarriage increased in early 20thC Hawaii as ethnic sex imbalances influenced marital decisions & hhold composition, according to analysis by Sumner La Croix & coauthors in a new Asia-Pacific Economic History Review paper (@APEHR)
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12280
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @immigration @ecosocio @histodons #history #histodons #Hawaii #marriage #ethnic #indigenous #Japan #Korea

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Speculating about genocide on the Queensland frontier, Finnane & Richard revisit violence against the First Peoples, reassess mortality estimates & encourage more local studies of the impact of colonisation. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278
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kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

There is still time!
March 22 is the deadline for proposals to the Social Science History Assoc conference in Toronto Oct 31-Nov 3.
The theme this year is 'Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources' but all topics welcome,
More information at http://ssha2024.ssha.org.
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Indigenous #Toronto #SSHA

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Warren Anderson analyzes 19thC US Army violence against Native Americans in a new OA paper, part of a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review (@APEHR). Armed conflict was greater in recessionary election years & when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12283
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Indigenous #colonialism #violence

kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Simon Chapple argues in a new @APEHR article that current estimates of pre-contact Māori population are too low. Pre-contact population >200K is a distinct possibility implying a more catastrophic pop decline in the Aotearoa NZ colonial era.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12281

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kris_inwood, 2 months ago to history

Hot off the press! La Croix & Maxwell-Stewart examine ethnic inter-marriage & Indigenous depopulation in the Pacific region from violence, resource loss & disease in their introduction to a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review @APEHR https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12284
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Australia #NZ #Kikorangi #indigenous #Pacific #Hawaii

kris_inwood, 5 months ago to history

Black-white differences in intergenerational mobility contributed to dramatic fluctuations in occupational segregation in the US 1880-2020, according Gueyon Kim at the 2023 SSHA meeting in Washington DC. Sophisticated joint work w Steve Durlauf, Dohyeon Lee & Xi Song
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @inequalityecon #history #histodons #blackandwhite #racism #US #discrimination #mobility

Black-white differences in occupational segregation are related to differences upward social mobility by Gueyon Kim