Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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Monday, November 24, 2025

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The Repressed Political Economy of Global Intellectual History

by Veronica Lazăr Intellectual history's recent global turn signaled the need for both an epistemic renewal of the field and its strong repoliticization. Global intellectual history is at least partially a result of the critical forces that, for decades, had... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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The Fractured Clock: Exploitation and Control of Transport Workers in Colonial Calcutta

by Amartyajyoti Basu The story of modern capitalism is often told through the lens of the factory whistle and the punch clock – symbols of progress and industrial modernity. Yet, in colonial Calcutta, between 1920 and 1960, these symbols represented... Continue Reading →

Monday, November 17, 2025

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Zvi Griliches and the Productivity Puzzle in Midcentury American Agriculture

by Ibanca Anand The years between 1935 and 1965 marked a second "Agricultural Revolution" for the United States (Rasmussen 1962). The introduction and widespread adoption of farm machinery, genetically modified crops, artificial insemination, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and other emergent... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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From Petro-Modernity to Petro-Post-Modernity: Disney and the American Cultural Imagination of the Oil Industry

by Levi Thompson In its celebration of machines, of speed as success, and of petro-culture—i.e., the transformation of human experience following from oil extraction in the twentieth century—as the primary organizing principle of society, Disney's Cars dramatizes a concept that... Continue Reading →

Monday, November 10, 2025

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The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus

by Alexander Curtis On March 11, 1980, an embattled Margaret Thatcher delivered a much-anticipated Party Political Broadcast. Her budget cuts to state and welfare programs were facing fierce resistance, both from political opponents on the Left and even from within... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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"Passing" as Japanese at the Turn of the Century: On Civilizational Equivalence in Onoto Watanna's Oeuvre

by Julia Meghan Walton In November 1896, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune introduced its readers to Onoto Watanna, a "bright" half-Japanese girl who had been "prevailed upon" by the newspaper's editors to write a "real" Japanese romance ("A Bright Japanese Girl").... Continue Reading →

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