Category: Article
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Roundtable Panel—Christy Thornton’s Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
The Toynbee Prize Foundation Presents A Roundtable Panel Discussion on: Christy Thornton, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California…
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Archival Reflections—Insights from the Vast and Rich Resources at the Barings Archives
Letter from Nicolas Bouwer, Baring’s agent in Argentina to Barings dated 14th December, 1876. Reference: HC4/1/65/1 (Baring) By Tehreem Husain (University College London) “I may…
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Review—Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers
Aladejebi, Funké. Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) Review by Antoney Bell, McGill University Funké Aladejebi’s seminal manuscript,…
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Roundtable Panel—On Barak’s Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization
The Toynbee Prize Foundation Presents A Roundtable Panel Discussion on: On Barak, Powering Empire How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (University of…
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Review—Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
Jayita Sarkar, Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022) Review by Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut.…
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Roundtable Panel—Cécile Vidal’s Caribbean New Orleans: Rethinking the Interconnected Nature of the Global North and South Through a Transcolonial Study of Racial Slavery in the French Atlantic Empire
The Toynbee Prize Foundation Presents A Roundtable Panel Discussion on: Cécile Vidal, Caribbean New Orleans: Race, Empire, and the Making of a Slave Society (University…
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On Empires and Global Cities: A Conversation with Anne-Isabelle Richard, Catia Antunes, and Cyrus Schayegh
By Dries Lyna, Radboud University Nijmegen What role did cities play in imperial expansion and globalization? Despite massive urbanisation and a revolution in transport technologies…
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Nixon in China: Back to Bretton Woods
By Federico Pachetti, Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies Often heralded as marking the start of a significant shift in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)…
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Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper win 2023 Toynbee Prize
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper have been named the joint winners of the Toynbee Prize for 2023. The Toynbee Prize Foundation recognizes the value and…
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Roundtable—In the Land of Forgetfulness: History, Memory, and Culture in Disney’s Encanto
Your caption text here White Colombia! reads a bright flyer on the window of my local corner shop in Berlin, Germany. To sell a new…