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Announcing our 2024-25 First Book Workshop Competition Winner

Burak Sayım … We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition is Burak Sayım. His book project, The Making of Communism in the Middle East:

Interviews

Historicizing a planetary future: A discussion with Emma Rothschild on the convergence of climate science and historical thinking in the “1800 Histories” project.

TPF Executive board members Glenda Sluga and Heidi J.S. Tworek interviewed Emma Rothschild on her latest project “1800 Histories”; a collaborative effort to bring together climate science methodologies and various micro-histories of methane production…

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Review: Inspectors for Peace by Elisabeth Roehrlich

Elisabeth Roehrlich, Inspectors for Peace: A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) Review by Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut. On the morning of May 18, 1974, Dimitri Perricos noticed an unusual number of smirking faces at his hotel.

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Plowshares into Swords: An Interview with David Ekbladh

As much as it was a moment of America’s reckoning of its own immense power or its sudden vulnerability, the early-1940s was also a moment of a successful transplantation.

Interviews

Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: An Interview with Lewis Wade

Dr. Lewis Wade’s new book Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France:

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What We're Reading: December 2023

Damaged archival documents from Réunion examined in Sue Peabody's Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press 2017) Matilde Cazzola, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

Conference Reports

Discussing the History of International Orders: A Workshop Report

… Background … This workshop took place on May 11-12, 2023. It was hosted and organized by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition: An interview with Shahla Hussain

Often told as the cleaving of the provinces of Bengal and the Punjab, most studies of Partition and its aftermath have not devoted attention to the region of Kashmir. Treated as an exceptional case in official narratives and consequently in histories, Kashmir has been largely absent from accounts of Partition and its ramifications for the lives of millions of its inhabitants, many of whom faced displacement and violence as the erstwhile princely state was prized apart. Shahla Hussain’s Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition (Cambridge University Press, 2021) offers a corrective to this absence by braiding the history of Kashmir into the history of Partition and by introducing a bottom-up approach to this study.

Interviews

The History of Modern Sports in South America: An Interview with Matthew Brown

Two balls were brought onto the pitch in the first soccer World Cup Final, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1930. The two teams, Argentina, and Uruguay had been unable to agree on which ball to use. Both were made of leather:

The Blog

Call for registration: JGH x TPF Introduction to Publishing Workshop

JGH x TPF: An Introduction to Publishing Workshop … March 1st, 2024 … … Are you an early career scholar or graduate student in global history? Are you interested in publishing your research in a peer-reviewed journal, and aren’t sure how to get started?

The Foundation

The Toynbee Prize Foundation — a Hub for Global History

Named after Arnold J.Toynbee, the Toynbee Prize Foundation was chartered in 1987 “to contribute to the development of the social sciences, as defined from a broad historical view of human society and of human and social problems.” The Foundation seeks to promote scholarly engagement with global history.

The Blog | May 12, 2025

Call for Applications: Editor-at-Large

The Toynbee Prize Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025-2026 Call for Editors-at-Large.

The Blog | April 22, 2025

The Political Economy of Interventionism and Arbitration: A Conversation Between Edward Jones Corredera and Allison Powers

Edward Jones Corredera (EJC) and Allison Powers (AP) have each respectively recently published Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America and Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law , both with Oxford University Press.

Interviews | January 13, 2025

Rethinking the End of the Empire and the Birth of the Nation: An interview with Lynn Tesser

The Modern Period since the French Revolution has seen the progressive emergence and consolidation of an international order of Nation-States, first in Europe and then in the globe.

Quote of the month

“…even the nation—super-relevant, super-charged—is itself the effect of global processes, and not some product of what we may call an auto-poietic process that emerges from the inside of the society, sticks out the grounds for a national identity, and then agrees to lock arms with other nations and societies in the creation of something called international. The causality goes the other way around.”
Toynbee Prize Foundation Trustee Jeremy Adelman

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