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Why are frontiers more conflict-prone—and what is the relevance of historical political economy for answering this?
By Adeel Malik (University of Oxford), Rinchan Ali Mirza (University of Kent, UK), and Faiz-ur-Rehman (IBA, University of Karachi)
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Broadstreet
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The Making of America: migration in colonial times
By Leticia Arroyo-Abad (CUNY) and Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale)
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A New Edition of the Handbook of New Institutional Economics
This post is cross-posted at How the World Became Rich
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Mark Koyama

March 2025

The Myth of Meritocracy: How Exams Helped Build an Empire
By Peng Peng (Washington University in St. Louis)
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The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, Leticia was still a graduate student.
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Leticia Abad
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Noel Maurer
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Religion and Development
It is almost self-evident that religion affects economic growth and development.
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Jared Rubin
African Borders: Neither Random Nor Decided at the Berlin Conference
By Jack Paine (Emory University), Xiaoyan Qiu (Washington University in St. Louis) and Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland
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The Spread of Romantic Nationalism across Europe: A Case of Ideational Diffusion
By Andreas Wimmer, Seungwon Lee, and Jack LaViolette (all Department of Sociology, Columbia University)

February 2025

Feudalism as a Contested Concept in Historical Political Economy
“The tyrant feudalism must be declared once and for all deposed and its influence over students of the Middle Ages finally ended” (Elizabeth Brown…
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Mark Koyama
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Crowdsourcing Historical Data
Today we’re going to consider an innovation in the digital humanities, and look at the practice of crowdsourcing historical data!
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Dr Alexandra (Ali) Cirone
APE, APD, and HPE
In 2024, I had the opportunity to give three public lectures on Historical Political Economy (HPE)—one at IOEA and keynote addresses at the annual…
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Jeffery A. Jenkins
Understanding Digital History
At Broadstreet, we occasionally sit down with other scholars to discuss their work.
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Scott Gehlbach
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