New Series: Economic History

Tom Mullaney
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of “Economic History Dissertation Reviews,” which will bring you friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended, unpublished dissertations on various topics in modern and early modern economic history. Like all the other series on this website, “Economic History” will feature reviews and guides for archives, libraries and collections around the world. If you wish to participate in Dissertation Reviews, please click here to become a reviewer or to have your dissertation reviewed. You may also propose a “Fresh from the Archives” or “Talking Shop” article by contacting mark.rice@dissertationreviews.org.

Introducing our new field editor

Mark Rice is an assistant professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York where he focuses on modern Latin American economic history. He is currently completing his first book project which examines the historical development of tourism in the Cusco region of Peru. He has received fellowships and awards from institutions including the Social Science Research Council and the Tinker Foundation. Mark has presented his research in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He has also published research, including a 2012 article in the Journal of Latin American Studies.

Image: Stock brokers working at the New York Stock Exchange. Photograph by Timothy O’Halloran. Library of Congress.

Post written by: Tom Mullaney

Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at Stanford University, having received his Ph.D. in History in 2006 from Columbia University. He is the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (University of California Press, 2011, Foreword by Benedict Anderson). This book charts the history of China’s 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie), a joint social scientific-Communist state expedition wherein a group of ethnologists, linguists, and Party cadres traveled to the most ethnically diverse province in the People’s Republic to determine which minority communities would and would not be officially recognized by the state. He is also principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority, a pathbreaking volume that examines China’s majority ethnonational group. He is currently writing the first-ever global history of the Chinese typewriter, one of the most significant and misunderstood technological innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.