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Alessandro De Cola

@ale_decola

Research fellow of the Department of History and Cultures @Unibo
Researching Money in Africa, Global History of Money, Colonial currencies, Geldscheiße

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#twitterguest Giacomo Macola consiglia: Luca Jourdan e Karin Pallaver, «Parlare d’Africa. 50 parole chiave». Per la gioia di ogni studente

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The team - Lauren Coetzee and Karin Pallaver - presenting new work on pre-modern currency areas African Economic History Network (AEHN). Frontier research using BIG DATA to show how Africa was more integrated than previously thought. Joint with @MoradiAlexander, Alessandro De Cola and Edward Kerby

The team - <a href="/coetzeelauren/">Lauren Coetzee</a> and <a href="/KarinPallaver/">Karin Pallaver</a> - presenting new work on pre-modern currency areas <a href="/AfEconHis/">African Economic History Network (AEHN)</a>. Frontier research using BIG DATA to show how Africa was more integrated than previously thought. Joint with @MoradiAlexander, <a href="/ale_decola/">Alessandro De Cola</a> and <a href="/Edkerby/">Edward Kerby</a>
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📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. Elliott Ash Philine Widmer @essobecker

📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. <a href="/ellliottt/">Elliott Ash</a> <a href="/phinifa/">Philine Widmer</a> @essobecker
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Thrilled to share my last article, on the role of the Egyptian trader Ḥasan Mūsā al-ʿAqqād in the first colonial monetary reform that the Italian government attempted in Eritrea in 1890: doi.org/10.23810/AEOXX… I'm looking forward to receiving some feedback!

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Don’t miss the first session of our seminar series! 📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim

Don’t miss the first session of our seminar series!
📍7 February 2025 at 4 p.m. CET - “The history of firearms among the Acholi of Uganda” by Patrick Otim
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If you would like to receive updates on the project and reminders about our upcoming talks, please email [email protected] and request to be added to our mailing list. Find the calendar of our seminar series here: armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/african…

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Don’t miss next session of our seminar series! 🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia 📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/african…

Don’t miss next session of our seminar series!
🔸🔹“From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century” with Pierre Niccolò Sofia
📍21 February, 4 pm CET on Zoom armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/african…
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Don’t miss our next seminar! 📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919) with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025 🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/seminar…

Don’t miss our next seminar!
📍 “Merchandise of power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919) with Felix Brahm on 7 March 2025
🔗 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/evento/seminar…
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‼️Unfortunately the next session of our seminar series cannot be held on 7th March We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will update you soon about our next sessions

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Don’t miss our next seminar! 🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt 📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online 🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr

Don’t miss our next seminar!
🔴 “Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism” with Jeremy Prestholdt
📍 11 April 2025, 6 p.m. CET, online
🔗 bit.ly/4g6hVPr
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Excited to share my latest publication on women and artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe. Special thanks to my PhD supervisor Sandra Swart and geraldine sibanda and Alessandro De Cola for putting together the special issue on Reframing African Monetary History. journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…

Excited to share my latest publication on women and artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe. Special thanks to my PhD supervisor <a href="/WildPasts_/">Sandra Swart</a> and <a href="/geraldinsibanda/">geraldine sibanda</a> and <a href="/ale_decola/">Alessandro De Cola</a> for putting together the special issue on Reframing African Monetary History.

journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…
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Did you miss any of our seminars? You can now watch the recordings in our video gallery 🔀 armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/videos/ #abc #africa #global #economy #19thcentury