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kris_inwood

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Economic historian with broad social science & historical interests. I investigate aspects of population health, mobility & inequality, incarceration & the lives of prisoners in Canada, NZ, Australia & SouthAfrica with census & other digital resources

current project: https://thecanadianpeoples.com

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Disease, violence, fertility decline & resource loss point to a high pre-contact Indigenous population in Tasmania & subsequent fast decline, according to Roger Byard & Hamish Maxwell-Stewart in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
Open access!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12282
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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
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Boyd Hunter in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic History Review revisits Noel Butlin’s classic 'Economics and the Dreamtime' & reviews the impact of disease & frontier violence on Indigenous people who outnumbered White settlers in Australia until ~1850. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12279
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Finnane & Richards in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review investigate the evidence of genocide against First Nations on the Queensland frontier 1859-1897. They argue that the impact of colonisation needs to be studied carefully using local sources.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278

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A systematic genocide? Army violence against Native Americans was greater when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building & in recessionary election years, according to economist Warren Anderson in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12283

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Volunteer Louise Pengelley shows a page from the 1638 Mercator Atlas to delegates of the Societies of Antiquaries of Ireland and Scotland today at the delightful Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest free lending library - established 1680!
https://innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk

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June 20 deadline! Last call for best dissertation in Asia-Pacific economic history.
Finalists are invited to present (hybrid) at the Dec 2024 Asian Historical Economics conference & publish a summary in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
https://economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/asia-pacific-prize-2024-final.pdf

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The internal organization of overseas empires influenced the choice of ship technology & contributed to Portugal’s decline & the 17th century ascendancy of the Dutch, according to Claudia Rei in an exciting Social Science History paper. OA
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.7

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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

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Pierre Benz & coauthors identify family strategies to preserve elite power in 20th century Switzerland using social network, kinship & sequence analysis. Other families lost influence while some lost & then regained it.
New & open access in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.6

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In a new Social Science History article Robert Lieberman argues that the study of US politics shares origins, concepts & methods with the field of comparative politics. Recognizing this helps us understand the current crisis of American democracy & governance.
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https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.5

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Kinship matters! Tianning Zhu (LSE) uses clan-based genealogical accounts to identify kinship networks underpinning 19th & early 20th-century migration from Guangdong to Malaysia, SE Asia & elsewhere in China, at the 2024 Canadian Economics Association meeting in Toronto.
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Tianning Zhu shows a sample geneaological card from which she infers kin-based migration networks from Guangdong to Southeast Asia, June 1 at the Canadian Economics Association annual meeting in Toronto

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The internal organization of empire contributed to the choice of ocean shipping technology, Portugal’s decline & ascendancy of the Dutch in the 17th century, according to Claudia Rei in an exciting new paper in Social Science History. Open access!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.7

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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
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Immigration, trade, inequality, residential schools, war, fertility, Presidential elections & much more are analyzed in 21 economic history papers at this year's meeting of the Canadian Economic Association - May 24, 31 & June 1 at Toronto Metropolitan University

https://eireidium.com/cneh/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CNEH_CEA2024.pdf

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Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"

https://www.utpjournals.press/toc/cpp/50/S1

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Animal health programs paved the way for federal investments to improve human health in the early 20thC US. Olmstead & Rhode argue that the complex historical relationship between animal & human health policy was an early example of thinking! New in Social Science History.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.35
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Shared kitchens, lack of laundry & illiteracy were vectors of vulnerability in the 1915-16 Finnish typhoid epidemic. Collective action in the form of a centralized distribution of pure water levelled risks, according to Peltola, Saaritsa & Mikkola in a new SSH article. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.34
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The racialized efforts of housing reformers missed the big picture, says Carolyn Swope in a new Social Science History article. Poverty & marginalization not housing damaged the health of low income Black residents in early 20th century Washington DC. Open access.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.19
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Black-white differences in intergenerational mobility contributed to dramatic fluctuations in occupational segregation in the US 1880-2020, according Gueyon Kim at the 2023 SSHA meeting in Washington DC. Sophisticated joint work w Steve Durlauf, Dohyeon Lee & Xi Song
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Black-white differences in occupational segregation are related to differences upward social mobility by Gueyon Kim

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This important paper is now out as an NBER working paper
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32370

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