#glamsdons — Public Fediverse posts

Maritime irony! Tim Hatton in his 2025 Butlin lecture argues that the first iron-hulled, screw-driven ocean-going steamer was uniquely successful on the Britain-Australia route as a steam-assisted sailing ship rather than a sail-assisted steamship. OA in the Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70009

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @econhist @devecon @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #ocean #steam

Alexander and Hatton in ‘Who voted for Australian federation?’ find that the spatial pattern of New South Wales voting does NOT support conventional thinking that manufacturing interests favoured the 1901 Aus political union with its promise of tariff protection!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70008

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #NZ #Auspol #gender

The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do ([email protected]) & Laura Panza ([email protected])
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged!
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #NZ #Auspol #gender

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton University Press 2025)

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/girl-middle-recovered-history-american-west

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-a-historian-saw-this-haunting-photograph-of-a-nameless-native-girl-she-decided-she-had-to-identify-her-180986496/

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #indigenous #USA

Nan Li & Heqi Cai examine governance structures during the Tang-Song transition with cross-sectional county data from 813 & 1080 AD to show social transformations, inc changes in bureaucratic institutions & enhanced state capacity centuries before Europe. OA in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12307
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #China #institutions

Linguistic analysis of 12000 letters leads Félix Krawatzek & Emma Moreton to conclude that America became home for German immigrants much more quickly than the Irish (who maintained a desire to return to Ireland for longer).
New & OA in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.2

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #migration #Irish #German #home #linguistics

As everyone ponders the odd puzzles in modern trade data, Songlin Wang shows that late 19th century improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data reflects key institutional reform & the importance of Hong Kong. New in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12308

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #hongkong #china #trade #data

US census data 1850-1910 show the deaf population invested less in observable educational & physical human capital altho lifecycle differences complicate the comparison of school attendance & employment rates. New from @zachary_bartsch & Emily Henderson in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.6
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #deaf

Lead article in a new issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review is a sweeping reinterpretation of the southward shift in China's economy 671-1371 CE by Professor Zhiwu Chen and coauthors. Open access!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70000

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #China #trade

Songlin Wang uses the rich archival records of Chinese Maritime Customs & careful statistical analysis to show improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data during the late 19th century reflecting key institutional reforms & the importance of Hong Kong.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12308
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #China #trade #institutions

Last Call for Proposals! Tomorrow March 15th is the final day to submit a proposal for the 50th SSHA Conference in Chicago, Nov 20-23 2025 at the Palmer House Hotel. Please consider submitting a paper or panel at https://ssha2025.ssha.org.
Questions to [email protected].
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #globalhealth #socialscience

A reverse salient!
During WWI Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, eg German merchants, were less strict than those of European & US allies until late in the war, according to Chenxiao Li in a new paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aehr.12309

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Japan #WWI #sanctions

A reverse salient!
During WWI Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, eg German merchants, were less strict than those of European & US allies until late in the war, according to Chenxiao Li in a new paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12309

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Japan #WWI #sanctions

Ian, Blair & I are excited to share “Institutional formalism & criminal sentencing on the frontier" arguing that sentences became longer & more predictable as institutional formalism & judicial oversight increased in colonial British Columbia 1864–1913

https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewaf002

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #britishcolumbia #criminology

In a new special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Rev Claire E.F. Wright reflects on the movement to ‘re-engender’ business history & introduces five fascinating articles illustrating the importance of women's business for Australian & NZ history!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12303
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #NZ #Auspol #gender #business

The female share of investors in Australian companies rose markedly in the 1880s & in some sectors approached 50% by the 1930s. Simon Ville & coauthors analyse the growth of female investing using new data in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12300

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons
#Australia #Auspol #gender

Louise Prowse argues that earnings from a ‘side hustle’ have been important for Australian rural women & rural communities for much longer than has been appreciated. New article in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12301

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons
#Australia #Auspol #gender #business #women #farm #farming

Clare E.F. Wright reports women in the family firms common throughout the 20thC often inherited wealth but seldom invited into management or governance. New data demonstrate how business replicated the patriarchal structures of upper-class Australian families.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12302
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #Auspol #gender

Unique oral history collection documents the important contribution of women to the great expansion of Australian wineries after 1960
Professor Julie McInytre documents how women overcame sexism, balancing reproductive & domestic labour with agric business
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12298

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot @inequalityecon #history #histodons #glamsdons #wine #Australia #gender

“Gendered enterprise: Women & Australian business history” - 5 original research articles framed by a thoughtful introduction in a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aehr.12266

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @econhist #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #gender #business #nzpol #Auspol

An unique oral history collection documents the important contribution of women to the great expansion of Australian wineries since 1960. Professor Julie McInytre documents how women overcame sexism, balancing reproductive & domestic labour with agricultural business
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12298

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #wine #Auspol #women

Clare E.F. Wright reports that women in the family firms common throughout the 20thC often inherited wealth but seldom invited into management or governance. New data demonstrate how business replicated the patriarchal structures of upper-class Australian families.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12302
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @econhist #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #gender #business #Auspol

Cath Bishop & Nichole Hoskin in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev show that entrenched understandings of gendered behaviours & local conditions shaped the disconnect between law & licensing practice, as 19th century Victoria legalized female publicans but New Zealand & New South Wales did not!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12299

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #gender #regulation

Louise Prowse argues that earnings from a ‘side hustle’ have been important for Australian rural women and rural communities for a very long time. How off the press in a Asia-Pacific Economic History Review special issue: 'Gendered Enterprise: Women and Australian Business History'.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12301

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #women

The female share of investors in Australian companies rose markedly in the 1880s. By the 1930s it approached 50% in some sectors. Simon Ville & coauthors analyse the growth of female investing using new data in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12300

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @inequalityecon
@archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #gender #women #finance

Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada by Stephanie Rutherford wins the Canada Prize for most inspiring, impactful, and transformative scholarly books in the humanities and social science.
Big congratulations!
https://www.mqup.ca/villain--vermin--icon--kin-products-9780228011088.php
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #animals #wolves #Canada #environment

Professor Peter Turchin outlines a vision for evidence-based big history, “The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference at Hong Kong University www.cqh.hku.hk

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #complexity #Holocene

Applications are invited for a Professorship in Economics with focus on Big Data & Large Language Models in Social Data Science, preferably related to economic history and/or macroeconomics.
U of Southern Denmark, Odense in cooperation with the Danish Institute for Advanced Study.
Deadline Feb 17.
https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/2228?
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons @inequalityecon

Hot off the press!
Gendered Enterprise: Women & Australian Business History, a pioneering special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. Six exciting research contributions. Open access. Includes NZ!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2832157x/current

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #NZ #Kikorangi #biz #gender

The hot new web site of the Economic History Society of Australia & New Zealand
https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/economichistorysocietyofaustra/home includes details of the next Australia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference, at Monash University Feb 6-7 2025
Professor Tim Hatton will give the Noel Butlin lecture
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #NZ #Kikorangi #nzpol #Auspol #Asia

New in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review - Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash Uni using staff personnel files & confidential assessments of candidates.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12296

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot @edutooters #history #histodons #glamsdons #MonashUniversity #Australia #universities

Property rights matter!
In Qing Taiwan the pawning rather than sale of land improved economic efficiency in the presence of weak state capacity by easing land transfer to strangers, according to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. Open access
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12288
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #property #institution #Taiwan #land #Qing

Staff personnel files & the confidential assessment of candidates inform Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash University.
New in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!

https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12296

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot @edutooters #history #histodons #glamsdons #MonashUniversity #research

The Māori population experienced a more catastrophic decline in NZ's colonial era than currently recognized, argues Simon Chapple in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev, because the pre-contact population was much larger than estimated previously
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12281
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @edutooters @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #NZ #Kikorangi #colonialism #indigenous

First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as inferior & 'other' than Rome & Christianity. Asier Aguirresarobe argues in Social Science History that this narrative of alterity has influenced the development of Basque identity. OA
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Basque #pyrenees #alterity #Spain

First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as ‘other’ & inferior than Rome & Christianity. In a new SSH article, Asier Aguirresarobe argues that this narrative of alterity influenced the development of Basque identity. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #glamsdons #Basque #Vascones #pyrenees #alterity

First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as ‘other’ & inferior than Rome & Christianity. In a new SSH article, Asier Aguirresarobe argues that this narrative of alterity influenced the development of Basque identity. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #glamsdons #Basque #Vascones #pyrenees #alterity

First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as ‘other’ & inferior than Rome & Christianity. In a new SSH article, Asier Aguirresarobe argues that this narrative of alterity influenced the development of Basque identity. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #glamsdons #Basque #Vascones #pyrenees #alterity

First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as ‘other’ & inferior than Rome & Christianity. In a new SSH article, Asier Aguirresarobe argues that this narrative of alterity influenced the development of Basque identity. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #glamsdons #Basque #Vascones #pyrenees #alterity

First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as ‘other’ & inferior than Rome & Christianity. In a new SSH article, Asier Aguirresarobe argues that this narrative of alterity influenced the development of Basque identity. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons #history #histodons #glamsdons #Basque #Vascones #pyrenees #alterity

Question for the weekend: Are there any text & data mining procedures established & available that are aiming at identifying ethical, legal or social issues (#ELSI) in large text corpora? Or even in illustrations/images (also multimodal aproaches)?
If yes, we would be interested in applying such procedures to #GLAM datasets. Any hints and links are welcome!
I will share the collected results here...
#toxicity #BigData #RStats #glamsdons
@danielvanstrien
@nfitzger @melissaterras

Question for the weekend: Are there any text & data mining procedures established & available that are aiming at identifying ethical, legal or social issues (#ELSI) in large text corpora? Or even in illustrations/images (also multimodal aproaches)?
If yes, we would be interested in applying such procedures to #GLAM datasets. Any hints and links are welcome!
I will share the collected results here...
#toxicity #BigData #RStats #glamsdons
@danielvanstrien
@nfitzger @melissaterras

Question for the weekend: Are there any text & data mining procedures established & available that are aiming at identifying ethical, legal or social issues (#ELSI) in large text corpora? Or even in illustrations/images (also multimodal aproaches)?
If yes, we would be interested in applying such procedures to #GLAM datasets. Any hints and links are welcome!
I will share the collected results here...
#toxicity #BigData #RStats #glamsdons
@danielvanstrien
@nfitzger @melissaterras

Question for the weekend: Are there any text & data mining procedures established & available that are aiming at identifying ethical, legal or social issues (#ELSI) in large text corpora? Or even in illustrations/images (also multimodal aproaches)?
If yes, we would be interested in applying such procedures to #GLAM datasets. Any hints and links are welcome!
I will share the collected results here...
#toxicity #BigData #RStats #glamsdons
@danielvanstrien
@nfitzger @melissaterras

Question for the weekend: Are there any text & data mining procedures established & available that are aiming at identifying ethical, legal or social issues (#ELSI) in large text corpora? Or even in illustrations/images (also multimodal aproaches)?
If yes, we would be interested in applying such procedures to #GLAM datasets. Any hints and links are welcome!
I will share the collected results here...
#toxicity #BigData #RStats #glamsdons
@danielvanstrien
@nfitzger @melissaterras