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kris_inwood, 3 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, 3 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
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Indigenous #colonization #Australia #violence #genocide

kris_inwood, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Maori #Indigenous #NZ #nzpol #Kikorangi #colonialism #pacific

kris_inwood, 3 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, 3 months ago to history

SSHA 2024 conference submission deadline extended

The submission deadline for the SSHA Conference in Toronto Oct 31 - Nov 3 on the theme 'Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age' is now March 22

There is still time! Visit http://ssha2024.ssha.org

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @epiverse @edutooters #history #histodons

kris_inwood, 3 months ago to history

Centralized higher school admission in early 20thC Japan led to better officials & improved careers for hi-achieving students but increased regional inequality by crowding out rural applicants, according to Chiaki Moriguchi at the 2024 APEBH Conference.
https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2024apebhconference/home

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @edutooters
@educationecon
@education #history #histodons #Japan

Chiaki Moriguchi presents her analysis of the short and long term effects of centralized higher school admissions in early 20th century Japan

kris_inwood, 3 months ago to history

Professor Zhiwu Chen delivered the 2024 Noel Butlin lecture at the Asia-Pacific Eco & Bus History conference in Honolulu, arguing that warfare was a key trigger for the emergence of walled cities leading to the early rise of civilization in north China.
https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2024apebhconference/home
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map of walled cities in Neolithic China showing majority are in the north

kris_inwood, 3 months ago to history

Chicheng Ma (HKU) uses Matteo Ricci’s networks among Chinese officials as an instrument to assess the long-term impact of missionary activity on the intensity of foreign trade in later centuries, in a paper w Zhiwu Chen & Xinhao Li at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Eco & Bus His meeting in Honolulu
https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2024apebhconference/home
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #China #missionaries #colonialism

kris_inwood, 3 months ago to history

Sex imbalance varied by ethnicity & influenced marital decisions & hhold composition at a time of rising ethnic intermarriage in early 20thC Hawaii, according to Sumner LaCroix & coauthors in a new Asia-Pacific Economic History Review paper.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12280

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #Hawaii #marriage #ethnicity #immigration #China #Japan #Korea #Polynesian #pacific

kris_inwood, 3 months ago to history

Simon Chapple argues persuasively that the current wisdom of a 100K Māori population c1770 is too low. Pre-contact population >200K is a distinct possibility implying a more catastrophic pop decline in NZ's colonial era. New in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12281
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @epiverse a.gup.pe #history #histodons #NZ #Maori #colonialism #indigenous #population

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Boyd Hunter reviews details & significance of Butlin’s back-casting of Indigenous population estimates for Australia, points to impact of disease & frontier violence, & confirms Indigenous outnumbered colonists until well into the 1840s. OA in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12279
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @epidemiology @archaeodons #history #histodons #Australia #indigenous #colonialism

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Thursday Feb 15 is the deadline to propose economic history papers for the 2024 meeting of the Canadian Economics Association in Toronto May 30-Jun 1 (online May 24). All topics welcome!
More detail at http://economichistory.ca or www.economics.ca/cpages/cea2024.
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons #Canada #Toronto

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

The economic & political logic of US Army violence against 19thC Native Americans is analyzed in a new open access paper in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. 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 #nativeamerican #indigenous #colonialism #violence

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to australia

Mark Finnane & Jonathan Richards revisit violence against Indigenous people on the Queensland frontier, question recent high mortality estimates & encourage more detailed local studies of colonisation's impact on First Peoples. Open access in @APEHR
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons
#Australia #indigenous
#history #histodons #auspol #mortality #colonialism #violence

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Expressions of interest are invited to publish in the 50th anniversary issue of Social Science History on the theme of ‘past and present’. 200-word abstracts are due Apr 2nd 2024; complete papers are due Jan 15 2023.
More info at
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ag7s084dk5xfko68y1pq4/50th_anniversary_issue_SSHA_CFP.docx?rlkey=mgxjxijplzrd4m0a7ksbaxcle&dl=0

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

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

"One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" is a wonderful new book from Chris Meissner

Check out the trailer https://youtu.be/d579RE1tA6M?si=Ofb9TP_d4PUfAVE3

or more info from OUP: http://tinyurl.com/4kh56m97

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

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

War & the origins of Chinese civilization!

Why did complex societies, characterized by densely-populated walled cities, first arise in northern China?

A lecture by Professor Zhiwu Chen, Feb 17 at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference, Univ of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. Open to the public.

https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2024apebhconference/about-the-conference

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @archaeodons @econhist @urbanecon @devecon #history #histodons #China

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Call for papers explaining historical phenomena with the methods of the social sciences at the European Social Science History Conference, Leiden University March 26-29 2025. Submit by April 15.
https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Call for papers from the exciting African Economic History Network to meet 26-27 Sept 2024 at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Submit abstracts until 2 March; notification 2 April.
Limited number of stipends available for scholars from African universities
https://www.aehnetwork.org/conference/
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @africanstudies #history #histodons #cfp #africa

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

The Canadian Network for Economic History will organize econ history sessions at the 2024 Cdn Economics Association meeting in Toronto May 30-Jun 1. Anyone wishing to present a paper on a topic relating to econ history may submit an abstract by Feb 15. More detail at economichistory.ca
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons #Canada

kris_inwood, 4 months ago to history

Economic history in Asia & beyond!
The 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference Dec 9-10 2024 will be hosted by the Centre for Quantitative History at Hong Kong University.
Submissions are invited by May 31.
Sascha Becker & Joel Mokyr will give keynote talks.
Discover more: https://cqh.hku.hk/ahec2024/

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons #asia #HongKong

kris_inwood, 5 months ago to history

What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature by Áine Doran, Chris Colvin & Eoin McLaughlin
New and #OA!

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116534

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @epiverse #history #histodons

kris_inwood, 5 months ago to history

Hostility to Chinese immigrant workers building the Canadian Pacific Ry in British Columbia 1878-84 took many forms including an increase in the severity of prison sentences for Chinese offenders, according to Blair Long & coauthors in a new working paper
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4666214
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @criminology @geography @anthropology @econhist @immigration
#history #histodons #Chinese #racism #Canada #BC #railway #sentences #immigration #prison #bias #criminology