Category: Article
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VIDEO—Toynbee Coronavirus Series: Priscilla Wald on structural inequality and contagion
Living through historically unprecedented times has strengthened the Toynbee Prize Foundation’s commitment to thinking globally about history and to representing that perspective in the public…
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Kenneth Pomeranz wins 2021 Toynbee Prize
Kenneth Pomeranz has been named winner of the Toynbee Prize for 2021. Pomeranz is a University Professor of History, of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,…
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Toynbee Coronavirus Series—Global Historians Analyze the Pandemic: Glenda Sluga, Jie-Hyun Lim, Lauren Benton, and Hsiung Ping-chen
“Changchun Epidemic Hospital” https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280981 Living through historically unprecedented times has strengthened the Toynbee Prize Foundation’s commitment to thinking globally about history and to representing that…
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Archival Reflections—Transatlantic Material Culture Research in Spain and the Americas
By Haley Schroer, PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin On June 21, 1604, Dr. Martos de Bohorquez, lawyer for the Inquisition in Mexico, demanded…
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OP-ED—Toynbee Coronavirus Series: At war with the virus, no battles to win, only a future to lose by Glenda Sluga and Madeleine Herren
Toynbee Coronavirus Series—A Global Historical View of the Pandemic A woman dropping her tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a…
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Archival Reflections—Spanish Manila’s seventeenth century Media Anata: A quantitative dataset for global histories from below
One of several illustrations from the left panel of Pedro Murillo Velarde, SJ’s 1734 map of the Philippines, which emphasizes Manila’s global characterSource: Murillo 1734…
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Review—The Irish Revolution: 1919-21, A Global History
There is a quote often attributed to Woodrow Wilson: ‘I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow’.…
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Lauren Benton wins 2019 Toynbee Prize
Lauren Benton has been named winner of the 2019 Toynbee Prize. Benton is Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at…
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Jürgen Osterhammel Named 2017 Toynbee Prize Winner
The Toynbee Prize Foundation has selected Jürgen Osterhammel as the recipient of the 2017 Toynbee Prize. The Prize, given every other year to a distinguished…