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2 postdoc positions and 2 PhD positions in my ERC-CoG project “Race to the Bottom”

Please note the following four vacancies (2 PhD positions and 2 postdoc positions) at the Economic and Social History group of Utrecht University in my ERC-CoG-project "Race to the Bottom".…

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Challenging the de-industrialization thesis. Gender and indigenous textile…

Many dependency theorists as well as economic historians have contended that nineteenth-century imperial policies and economic globalization de-industrialized the global ‘periphery’. European metropoles extracted raw materials and tropical commodities from…

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Language

“One can sleep with anyone, but one can only read some people’s words.” Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991 [2nd ed.]), p. 77   One of the great advantages of staying…