Now on Early View: 'Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth-century Italy'. By Francesco Maria Salvatore Fiore Melacrinis & Mauro Rota. Francesco Fiore Melacrinis Dept. Economics, Management & Statistics - Unimib Sapienza Università di Roma onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

New Dataset on Opposition Movements & Groups This new dataset includes information on the stated goals, duration, size, tactics, ideology, & social & organizational composition of 1452 mass mobilization movements, globally, from 1789 to 2019 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Many colleagues have been asking for the slides from my keynote at the WEHC. You can find them on the Knowledge Transfer tab of my webpage, or use this direct link: drive.google.com/file/d/16QF6Dv… Feel free to share with anyone who might find them useful!

Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the

Thrilled to announce that my new article "Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58" is out in the Economic History Review Open access here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

I've been actively engaged in genocide studies for around 30 years - teaching, attending professional conferences, publishing in academic fora - and I recognize about 6 names on this list as actual people engaged in comparative genocide studies.

Avui a les 15h publiquem el 1r episodi de "No n'hi ha per tant". Entrevistes a gent que ens interessa com pensa. Amb l'Oriol Farrés Juste. Comencem amb Manuel Delgado Ruiz. Estarà a YT, Spotify i fragments al meu l'IG. Si voleu, podeu passar ja a subscriure-us-hi-lo-la youtu.be/gFNLyY5MT34

New series from Empire Podcast THE HISTORY OF GAZA

I've published 'The Genocide that Changed the World', my fullest overview of Israel's genocide and its implications, as part of a new roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies from Journal of Genocide Research. The rest of the roundtable will be up soon, I imagine. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NUEVO LIBRO! Con Nigel Caspa trabajamos en una historia de la minería boliviana. El libro ofrece una base de datos de acceso abierto (aquí: joseperescajias.com/data/) Les pido compartir! Tb compartan sus críticas o comentarios sobre los datos, la idea es mejorar en sigus versiones.

This is probably one of my favourite reads of the year. Focusing mostly from 1850 onwards it tells the darker side of an empire which preached 'civilized' rule, but could only keep together via enormous amounts of violence. V much recommend

The Wickham Reviews Thought I’d compile all my attempts to get to grips with Chris Wickham’s three great tomes of mediaeval economic history, for posterity. Check them *all* out below!

Greetings from the Global Sumud Flotilla as we make our final approach to Gaza ⛵️ Today, I am writing a very personal letter to you all — a letter about what it means to me to be Jewish on a mission that is set to arrive to the “Red Zone” during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of

States and Nations This new Cambridge University Press - Politics book by Nick Kuipers offers a fresh look at the relationship between state- and nation-building, a focus of discussion since the works by Stein Rokkan in the 1970s. It is a great read! Open access: cambridge.org/core/books/sta…

Following the Hamas-led attack on #Israel on 7 Oct 2023, Israel launched a military campaign in #Gaza. This military campaign has continued, with little interruption, for the past two years. Using #SIPRI data, this backgrounder looks at how 6 of the top 10 exporters of major

Many people are sceptical of Mokyr's idealist take on the Industrial Revolution, but even if you are suspicious, The Enlightened Economy is still a tremendous book. I think this review in JEL gives the correct flavour. It says the comprehensiveness is a curse, but from that you

Powerful and necessary column explaining what happens in Palestine never stays there. I appreciate Jones referencing my Verso Books book:

Very excited to receive this new book by Nick Kuipers. Using an impressive mix of methods, and drawing on a range of cases from Asia, Nick examines how unequal bureaucracies can impede the complex task of nation building. A must read!

The way private university administrations are slashing PhD programs is clearly retaliation for the self-assertion of graduate workers over the past decade and in that sense is fully continuous with the assault of Trump, Musk, and the Silicon Valley oligarchy on knowledge workers

🚩My new report is out. With their actions and omissions, third states have enabled the oppression of the Palestinian people and their genocide. Those states have an obligation to stop their complicity and deliver justice. And We The People, have to make it happen.