Economic & Social History
Economic and Social History is a unique academic subject group comprising historians who take a multi-disciplinary social scientific approach to the study of the past, fostering inclusive principles of enquiry, evidence, equality of access and social justice.
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Publications
2025
Phillips, J. (2025) Workforce disability and the 1949 ‘Ineffectives’ Strike in London docks. Labour History Review,
Vanatta, S. H., Hotori, E., Yago, K. (2025) Introduction to special issue on human capital in financial regulation and supervision. Management and Organizational History, (doi: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2446244)
2024
Gildea, R., Phillips, J. (2024) Staying with it. Undertaking oral history with veteran strikers in British coal communities. Oral History, 52, pp. 46-58.
(2024) Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, Histories and Trajectories, c. 1880–Present.
Williams, T. (2024) George Orwell, Pan-Africanism, and reconciling anti-imperialism with "Britishness" Manchester University Press
East, S., Redhead, G., Williams, T. (2024) Introduction: anti-racism in Britain: traditions, histories and trajectories. Manchester University Press
Hay, K. (2024) The pill for the unmarried girl is hardly going to improve her character’: the impact of changing sexual behaviours on the construction of adulthood in Scotland, c. 1968-1980. University of London Press
Gibbs, E., Mackenzie, E., McKinlay, A., McNulty, D., Phillips, J., Procter, S. (2024) Governing the factory: microhistories of the present. Management and Organizational History, (doi: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2409127)
Olley, J., Cvitanovic, M., Ginige, T., Bunt-MacRury, L. (2024) A systematic literature review of sustainable water management in South Africa. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 10, (doi: 10.1007/s40899-024-01135-x)
Hay, K. (2024) ‘The doctor made clear his utter contempt of me and I can remember it still’: unmarried women’s experiences of accessing the pill in Scotland c. 1968-1980. Social History of Medicine,
Phillips, J. (2024) Coalfield Justice. The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press
Cawley, F., Cook, V. (2024) ‘Tea and Pedagogy’: Graduate Teaching Assistant-staff support network in learning and teaching practice. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 4, pp. 296-312.
Cawley, F. (2024) Confidence and Academic Preparedness: Students’ Experiences Transitioning into Undergraduate Study.
Calori, A. (2024) Global Bridges, Local Ruins? Re-thinking Socialist Spaces Through the Experience of Non-aligned Enterprises. Palgrave Macmillan
Rollings, N. (2024) Industry associations: approaches to understanding industry collective action and its impact on industry dynamics. Oxford University Press
Vanatta, S. H. (2024) Revolving door governance: bank supervisors in the United States, 1863–1933. Management and Organizational History, (doi: 10.1080/17449359.2024.2353797)
Vanatta, S. H. (2024) The financialization of US public pension funds, 1945–1974. Review of Social Economy, 82, pp. 261-293. (doi: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2270458)
Ross, L., Gibbs, E. (2024) The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008. Contemporary British History, 38, pp. 245-269. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2293745)
Gibbs, E., McCartney, G., Phillips, J. (2024) The fundamentals of public ownership: learning from UK historical experience and recent Scottish policy. Political Quarterly, 95, pp. 157-166. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13348)
Lefevre, C. (2024) From Détente to Debt: UK–Polish political and economic relations during the development of the Polish debt crisis (1970–1981) International History Review, (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2024.2304007)
Naha, S., Fischer-Tine, H. (2024) Man-making and world-making on two wheels: Indian ‘globe cyclists’ in the interwar years. Journal of Global History, (doi: 10.1017/S1740022823000323)
Tertzakian, A. (2024) The creation of a gendered division of labour in mule spinning: Evidence from Samuel Oldknow, 1788-92. Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History, (doi: 10.1017/eso.2023.56)
Williams, T. (2024) Anticolonialism and Black radicalism in the 1930s. Routledge
Rollings, N. (2024) ”A few pike in a trout river”? Hostile take-over bids and dividend restraint: the debate in government in the 1950s. Hart Publishing
2023
Yaffe, H. (2023) Cuban medical internationalism: A paradigm for south–south cooperation. International Journal of Cuban Studies, 15, pp. 203-234. (doi: 10.13169/intejcubastud.15.2.0203)
(2023) Cricket in the 21st Century. (doi: 10.4324/9781032662138)
Clark, H.-L., Toshner, M. (2023) Physician associates: a solution for healthcare shortages or a colonial throwback? Conversation,
Calori, A. (2023) Losing the global: (Re)building a Bosnian enterprise across transition. Business History, 65, pp. 1226-1241. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2020.1819242)
Cook, V. (2023) “It Takes Two, Baby” – Accessing Male Infertility Clinics in Britain During the Late c. 1950 to 1974.
Phillips, J. (2023) George Bain and memories of the Bullock Committee on Industrial Democracy. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44, pp. 173-180. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.10)
Phillips, J. (2023) Injustice, deindustrialization and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland. Social History, 48, pp. 363-388. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2213980)
Williams, T. (2023) Dark lovers and Desdemonas: Gender, race and Pan-Africanism in Britain, 1935-45. Pluto Press
Mullen, S., Gibbs, E. (2023) Scotland, Atlantic Slavery and the Scottish National Party: from colonised to coloniser in the political imagination. Nations and Nationalism, 29, pp. 922-938. (doi: 10.1111/nana.12925)
Calori, A. (2023) Cigar socialism: an entangled history of Yugoslav-Cuban relations. Cold War History, (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2023.2217759)
Meek, J. (2023) Queer Trades, Sex and Society: Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland. Routledge
Phillips, J. (2023) Strategic injustice and the 1984–85 miners’ strike in Scotland. Industrial Law Journal, 52, pp. 283-311. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwac017)
Vanatta, S. (2023) Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control. Yale University Press
Sarkar, J. (2023) Battlefields to borderlands: Rohingyas between global war and decolonisation. Leiden University Press/University of Chicago Press
Cawley, F. (2023) “It Definitely Geared Me Up”: Academic and Study Skill Development and Access to Higher Education Students’ Experiences of Transitioning to Undergraduate Study.
Gibbs, E. (2023) Review of periodical literature for 2021: (vi) post 1945. Economic History Review, 76, pp. 378-387. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.13234)
Eichenberger, P., Rollings, N., Schaufelbuehl, J. M. (2023) The brokers of globalization: towards a history of business associations in the international arena. Business History, 65, pp. 217-234. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2112671)
Rollings, N. (2023) The development of transnational business associations during the twentieth century. Business History, 65, pp. 235-259. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1958783)
Meek, J. (2023) ‘A purer form of loneliness’: loneliness and the search for community among gay and bisexual men in Scotland, 1940–1980. Routledge
Yaffe, H. (2023) The US blockade, and the “1 cent 4 Cuba” campaign to challenge it. International Journal of Cuban Studies, 14, pp. 207-213. (doi: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0207)
Ballor, G., Recio, G., Vanatta, S. H. (2023) Surveillance archive: using reports in business history. Management and Organizational History, 18, pp. 43-53. (doi: 10.1080/17449359.2023.2179072)
Rollings, N. (2023) Business and global capitalism: continuities and change. Business History Review, 97, pp. 620-626. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680523000429)
Yaffe, H. (2023) Tarea Vida: Cuba’s state plan to confront climate change. Rowman & Littlefield
2022
Mackenzie, N., Perchard, A., Miller, C., Forbes, N. (2022) Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge
Clark, H.-L. (2022) Aro Velmet, Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 79, pp. 460-463. (doi: 10.1163/26667711-20220016)
Naha, S. (2022) Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta. Cambridge University Press
Gibbs, E. (2022) Michael ‘Mick’ McGahey: Miner, communist and trade union leader. Twentieth Century Communism, 2022, pp. 4-34.
Williams, T. (2022) Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation. Verso
Bunt-MacRury, L. (2022) The coloniality of law in Peru: legal positivism, rape and racialized morality in early wtentieth-century courts. Historia Crítica, pp. 59-80. (doi: 10.7440/histcrit86.2022.04)
Gibbs, E., Henderson, S., Bianchi, V. (2022) Intergenerational learning and place-making in a deindustrialized locality: “Tracks of the Past” in Lanarkshire, Scotland. International Labor and Working-Class History, 102, pp. 157-180. (doi: 10.1017/s0147547922000011)
Clark, H.-L. (2022) Shana Minkin. Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt. American Historical Review, 127, pp. 1572-1574. (doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhac345)
Yaffe, H. (2022) Che as Minister: the promotion of science and technology for Cuba’s socialist development. Globalizations, (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2111078)
Sarkar, J. (2022) New Books Network Podcast: Jayita Sarkar Ploughshares and Swords.
Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2022) Women's Political Leadership in Scotland: Successes and Failures.
Sarkar, J. (2022) 1869, Cornell University Press Podcast, Ep. 118 with Jayita Sarkar, author of Ploughshares and Swords.
Vanatta, S. H. (2022) Benjamin Holtzman. The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiii + 331 pp. ISBN 9780190843700, $34.95 (cloth) Enterprise and Society, 23, pp. 594-596. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2022.10)
Naha, S. (2022) Gender, power, and cricket spectators in Calcutta, 1960s–1990s. Historical Journal, 65, pp. 774-796. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X21000406)
Sarkar, J. (2022) Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War. Cornell University Press
Williams, T. (2022) The many faces of Pan-Africanism. African Studies Review, 65, pp. 504-520. (doi: 10.1017/asr.2021.141)
Gibbs, E. (2022) Foreign direct investment policy, multinationals, and subsidiary entrepreneurship success and failure in post-war Scotland. Business History, (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2052852)
Sarkar, J. (2022) Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate lobbying after Three Mile Island, 1979-1985. University of Pennsylvania Press
Gibbs, E., Kerr, E. (2022) Mobilizing solidarity in factory occupations: activist responses to multinational plant closures. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43, pp. 612-633. (doi: 10.1177/0143831X20931928)
Gibbs, E., Scothorne, R. (2022) Radical Scotland. Pluto Press
Phillips, J. (2022) Labour market in crisis: the moral economy and redundancy on the Upper Clyde, 1969–72. Scottish Historical Review, 101, pp. 86-108. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2022.0548)
Sarkar, J., Mehta, S. (2022) Understanding the Rohingya Crisis with Jayita Sarkar.
Sarkar, J. (2022) Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain. H-Diplo, XXIII,
Gibbs, E. (2022) How has deindustrialisation shaped debates about Scottish independence? Economics Observatory, pp. 10 Feb.
Gibbs, E. (2022) Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) since 1945. Economic History Review, 75, pp. 275-287. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.13154)
Tomlinson, J., Phillips, J., Wright, V. (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64, pp. 28-54. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)
Pitteloud, S., Ballor, G., Clavin, P., Perrone, N. M., Rollings, N., Slobodian, Q. (2022) Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History: A Roundtable Discussion.
Acosta, D., Rivalta, H., Yaffe, H., Rivalta, L. (2022) Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change.
Gibbs, E., Henderson-Bone, S. (2022) Teaching industrial history after deindustrialisation: ‘Tracks of the Past’ in the Scottish coalfields. Palgrave Macmillan
2021
Sarkar, J. (2021) H-Diplo Review Essay 399 on "Fateful Triangle" H-Diplo, pp. 399.
Rollings, N. (2021) Organised business and the rise of neoliberalism: The Confederation of British Industry 1965-1990s. UCL Press
Yaffe, H. (2021) US sanctions Cuba ‘to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the government’ Brill
Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2021) Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland. British Politics, (doi: 10.1057/s41293-021-00197-1)
Mackenzie, N. G., Perchard, A., Miller, C., Forbes, N. (2021) Business-government relations and national economic models: a review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63, pp. 1239-1252. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687)
Calori, A., Spaskovska, L. (2021) Reimagining the world: decolonisation and the promise of development. Contemporary European History, 30, pp. 613-620. (doi: 10.1017/s0960777321000539)
Clark, H.-L., Doyle, B. (2021) Special Issue: Imperial and Post-imperial Healthcare before Welfare States [Guest Editors] European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 28,
Elliot, R. (2021) Suffer the children? Divorce and child welfare in postwar Britain. Journal of Family History, 46, pp. 433-459. (doi: 10.1177/0363199020945746)
Williams, T. (2021) Collective security or colonial revolution? The 1938 Conference on Peace and Empire, anticolonialism, and the Popular Front. Twentieth Century British History, 32, pp. 325-349. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaa008)
Naha, S., Malcolm, D. (2021) Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century. Sport in Society, 24, pp. 1267-1273. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2021.1932307)
Yaffe, H. (2021) Cuba’s Tarea Vida: sustainable development and combating climate change. Lexington Books
Phillips, J., Wright, V., Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955. Edinburgh University Press
Naha, S. (2021) Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket. Sport in Society, 24, pp. 1322-1335. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2019.1607012)
Miller, C. W., Murphy, H. (2021) Price collusion, rationalisation and admiralty oversight in British shipbuilding: the case of the Warship Group, 1926-1945. International Journal of Maritime History, 33, pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1177/08438714211037692)
Yaffe, H. (2021) The quest for energy alternatives in post-1959 Cuba. Lexington Books
Calori, A. (2021) Bosnia-Herzegovina: workers’ organization at the root of the 2014 social uprising. VSA: Verlag Hamburg
Lerner, J., Lomi, A., Mowbray, J., Rollings, N., Tranmer, M. (2021) Dynamic network analysis of contact diaries. Social Networks, 66, pp. 224-236. (doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.04.001)
Sarkar, J. (2021) From the dependable to the demanding partner: the renegotiation of French nuclear cooperation with India, 1974–80. Cold War History, 21, pp. 301-318. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1694908)
Sarkar, J. (2021) Brendan Rittenhouse Green, The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) Texas National Security Review,
Clark, H.-L. (2021) Of jinn theories and germ theories: translating microbes, bacteriological medicine, and Islamic law in Algeria. Osiris, 36, pp. 64-85. (doi: 10.1086/713657)
(2021) Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer. (doi: 10.4324/9781003142546)
Spaskovska, L., Calori, A. (2021) A nonaligned business world: the global socialist enterprise between self-management and transnational capitalism. Nationalities Papers, 49, pp. 413-427. (doi: 10.1017/nps.2020.27)
Wright, V., Phillips, J., Tomlinson, J. (2021) Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee. Labour History Review, 86, pp. 63-90. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)
Gibbs, E. (2021) ‘It’s not a lot of boring old gits sitting about remembering the good old days’: The heritage and legacy of the 1987 Caterpillar factory occupation in Uddingston, Scotland. Labour History Review, 86, pp. 117-143. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.6)
Conti-Brown, P., Vanatta, S. H. (2021) The logic and legitimacy of bank supervision: the case of the bank holiday of 1933. Business History Review, 95, pp. 87-120. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000896)
Miller, C. W. (2021) Warships After London: The end of the treaty era in the five major fleets, 1930–1936. Mariner's Mirror, 107, pp. 249-250. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1903753)
Nyamunda, T. (2021) 'Open for business' but bankrupt: currencies, the 'new dispensation' and the Zimbabwean economy. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 56, pp. 204-217. (doi: 10.1177/0021909620986585)
Hay, K. (2021) The Pope and the Pill: Sex Catholicism and Women in Post-war England. By David Geiringer. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 232 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-3838-5, £80. Twentieth-Century British History, 32, pp. 155-157. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaa026)
Sarkar, J. (2021) The economic strategies of U.S. nonproliferation policy during the Nixon-Ford years. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6, (doi: 10.1093/jogss/ogaa009)
Sarkar, J. (2021) How to support the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons without signing it. Lawfare,
Sarkar, J., Meyer, C. (2021) Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
Gibbs, E. (2021) Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. University of London Press
Sarkar, J. (2021) It’s time to take domestic nuclear terrorism seriously. Washington Post,
Clark, H.-L. (2021) "Of Jinn Theory and Germ Theory". Inaugural lecture, "Health and Humanities in the Maghrib" lecture series by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.
Gibbs, E. (2021) Scotland’s faltering green industrial revolution. Political Quarterly, 92, pp. 57-65. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12962)
Gibbs, E. (2021) Ecosse : un passé industriel toujours présent. Les Mondes du Travail, 27, pp. 159-172.
Clark, H.-L., Doyle, B. (2021) Imperial and post-Imperial healthcare before welfare states. European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 28, pp. 617-635. (doi: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1991894)
Fear, J., Kobrak, C. (2021) Making capitalism respectable: the language of German and American corporate governance after the financial crisis of 1873. Oxford University Press
Hay, K. (2021) Tanya Cheadle, Sexual Progressives: Reimagining Intimacy in Scotland, 1800–1914. Innes Review, 72, pp. 223-225. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2021.0314)
Miller, C. W. (2021) The Clydeside Cabal: the influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow, and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on naval and defence policy, around 1918-1940. Mariner's Mirror, 107, pp. 338-357. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1948182)
Clark, H.-L. (2021) The Islamic origins of the French colonial welfare state: hospital finance in Algeria. European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 28, pp. 689-717. (doi: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1990867)
Phillips, J. (2021) The UCS work-in, Jimmy Airlie and deindustrialisation in Scotland from the 1960s to the 1990s. Scottish Labour History, 56, pp. 77-105.
Glass, M. R., Vanatta, S. H. (2021) The frail bonds of liberalism: pensions, schools, and the unraveling of fiscal mutualism in postwar New York. Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, 2, pp. 427-472. (doi: 10.1353/cap.2021.0009)
Phillips, J. (2021) Workers’ voice and the moral economy in Britain’s ‘neoliberal’ age. UCL Press
Hay, K. (2021) ‘More than a defence against bills’: feminism and national identity in the Scottish abortion campaign, c. 1975–1990. Women's History Review, 30, pp. 594-612. (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1791405)
Fear, J., Stanca-Mustea, C. (2021) “Carl Laemmle Presents”: A story of political and cultural risk in Germany, 1917–1934. Business History Review, 95, pp. 375-421. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000902)
Rollings, N. (2021) “The vast and unsolved enigma of power”: Business history and business power. Enterprise and Society, 22, pp. 893-920. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2021.53)
2020
Vanatta, S. H. (2020) Histories of Bank Supervision.
Yaffe, H. (2020) Cuba and COVID-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity.
Vanatta, S. H. (2020) Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 357 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49642-1. Business History Review, 94, pp. 855-858. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000835)
Miller, C. (2020) Interwar pricefixing in naval shipbuilding. Navy Records Society, pp. 4 Oct.
(2020) Gender and Reproduction. Gender and History, 32,
Rollings, N. (2020) Babcock and Wilcox Ltd., the ‘Babcock Family’ and regulation 17/62: a business response to new competition policy in the early 1960s. Business History, 62, pp. 743-762. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1310197)
Rollings, N., Warlouzet, L. (2020) Business History and European Integration: How EEC Competition Policy Affected Companies’ Strategies [Guest Editors] Business History, 62,
Rollings, N., Warlouzet, L. (2020) Business history and European integration: How EEC competition policy affected companies’ strategies. Business History, 62, pp. 717-742. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1488966)
Naha, S. (2020) Hill, Jeffrey. Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. x+ 240. Index and six illustrations. £85, hb. Journal of Sport History, 47, pp. 176-178. (doi: 10.1353/sph.2020.0038)
Majumdar, B., Naha, S. (2020) Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters. Sport in Society, 23, pp. 1091-1099. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1776972)
Naha, S. (2020) The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in India. Routledge
Heuser, B., Harding, R., Miller, C. (2020) COVID-19: Policy-Options, Effects and Resulting Scenarios.
Elliot, R. (2020) The meanings of miscarriage in twentieth-century Britain. Berghahn
Clark, A., Gibbs, E. (2020) Voices of social dislocation, lost work and economic restructuring: narratives from marginalised localities in the ‘New Scotland’ Memory Studies, 13, pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1177/1750698017741931)
Yaffe, H. (2020) We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press
Vanatta, S. H., Pippenger, R. T. (2020) "Let's Have at It": The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Fifty. Davis Center for Historical Studies
Gibbs, E., Scothorne, R. (2020) Accusers of capitalism: masculinity and populism on the Scottish radical left in the late twentieth century. Social History, 45, pp. 218-245. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2020.1732129)
Phillips, J., Wright, V., Tomlinson, J. (2020) Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61, pp. 151-169. (doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)
Roos, N., Nyamunda, T., Yengde, S., Kufandirori, J. T. (2020) Contemporary African history in unusual times. Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 45, pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.38140/sjch.v45i1.4561)
Yaffe, H. (2020) Cuba - Sul filo del rasoio tra lo Stato e il mercato. Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Nyamunda, T. (2020) Foreign consultants, racial segregation and dissent: JL Sadie and 1960s Southern Rhodesia. Emerald Publishing Limited
Gibbs, E. (2020) Remembering Scottish Communism. Scottish Labour History, 55, pp. 83-106.
Vanatta, S. H., Pippenger, R. T. (2020) The gift. Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University
Nyamunda, T., Sibanda, G. (2020) The making of Zimbabwe's currency and economic crisis: International financial architecture, nationalism, and economic policies 1980--2000. Oxford University Press
2019
Gibbs, E., Phillips, J. (2019) Remembering Auchengeich: the largest fatal accident in Scottish coal in the nationalised era. Scottish Labour History, 54, pp. 47-57.
Meek, J. (2019) "It seemed the right thing to do!": Mixed-orientation marriages and emotions in post-war Scotland. Routledge
(2019) Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion. (doi: 10.4324/9780367824228)
Barclay, K., Meek, J., Thomson, A. (2019) Marriage and emotion in historical context. Routledge
(2019) Between East and South: Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the Cold War. (doi: 10.1515/9783110646030)
Clark, H.-L., Gambell, S., Mucha, F., MacLean, R., Rankin, M., Rowan, R. (2019) Global History Hackathon Playbook Version 1.1: Practical Guidance for Hosting a Hackathon for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Yaffe, H. (2019) The curious case of Cuba's biotech revolution. Bloomsbury Academic
Phillips, J., Wright, V., Tomlinson, J. (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood car plant and Scotland’s political divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth-Century British History, 30, pp. 399-423. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)
Phillips, J. (2019) The moral economy and industrial politics in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 40, pp. 223-232. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2019.40.8)
Williams, T. (2019) George Padmore and the Soviet model of the British Commonwealth. Modern Intellectual History, 16, pp. 531-559. (doi: 10.1017/S1479244317000634)
Gibbs, E. (2019) Socialism in a cold climate: the radical left since 1999. Edinburgh University Press
Rollings, N. (2019) Government and regulators. Routledge
Stokes, R. G., Miller, C. W. (2019) Pollution and climate change. Routledge
Blarel, N., Sarkar, J. (2019) Substate organizations as foreign policy agents: new evidence and theory from India, Israel, and France. Foreign Policy Analysis, 15, pp. 413-431. (doi: 10.1093/fpa/ory009)
Vanatta, S. H. (2019) The Municipal Banking Movement: An Opportunity for Baltimore.
Clark, H.-L. (2019) Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis. by Richard C. Parks. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. Edited by A. J. B. Johnston, James D. Le Sueur, and Tyler Stovall. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+196. $55.00. Journal of Modern History, 91, pp. 453-455. (doi: 10.1086/703018)
Phillips, J. (2019) Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press
Vanatta, S. H. (2019) Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession. ByMark H. Rose. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xiv + 258 pp. Notes, index. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5102-9. Business History Review, 93, pp. 215-218. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680519000540)
Sarkar, J. (2019) Terence Roehrig, Japan, South Korea and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017) Passport, 50, pp. 77-79.
Sarkar, J. (2019) U.S. policy to curb West European nuclear exports, 1974–1978. Journal of Cold War Studies, 21, pp. 110-149. (doi: 10.1162/jcws_a_00877)
Sarkar, J. (2019) How WWII shaped the crisis in Myanmar. Washington Post,
Sarkar, J. (2019) Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy. H-Diplo/ISSF, XI,
Meek, J. (2019) Katie Batza, Before Aids: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), pp. xii + 178, £35.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780812250138. Medical History, 63, pp. 95-96. (doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.67)
Phillips, J. (2019) Industrial relations in the “Golden Age” in the UK and the USA, 1945 to 1980. Palgrave Macmillan
Phillips, J. (2019) Participation and Nationalization: the case of British coal from the 1940s to the 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan
2018
Cook, V. (2018) Analysing Silences: Accessing Men’s Emotions Towards Childlessness During the 1960s and 1970s.
Naha, S. (2018) Book Review: Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi & Cricket in India. South Asia Research, 38, pp. 350-352. (doi: 10.1177/0262728018798989)
Vanatta, S. H. (2018) Brine, Kevin R. and Poovey, Mary, Finance in America: an unfinished story ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. x+499. 3 figs. ISBN 9780226502045 Hbk. $110) Economic History Review, 71, pp. 1438-1439. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12809)
Gibbs, E., Phillips, J. (2018) Who owns a factory?: Caterpillar tractors in Uddingston, 1956-1987. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 39, pp. 111-137. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2018.39.4)
(2018) Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance. (doi: 10.4324/9780429453984)
Sarkar, J., Ganguly, S. (2018) India and the NPT after 50 years. Diplomat,
Vanatta, S. H. (2018) Charge account banking: a study of financial innovation in the 1950s. Enterprise and Society, 19, pp. 352-390. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2017.42)
Vanatta, S. H. (2018) Economics and capitalism—a historiographical survey. Routledge
(2018) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. (doi: 10.4324/9781351181921)
Bandyopadhyay, K., Naha, S., Mitra, S. (2018) Introduction. Routledge
Naha, S., Hassan, D. (2018) Introduction: ethical concerns in sport governance. Sport in Society, 21, pp. 721-723. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2018.1400783)
Mitra, S., Naha, S. (2018) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. Routledge
Naha, S. (2018) Sport in emerging markets. Routledge
Krige, J., Sarkar, J. (2018) US technological collaboration for nonproliferation: key evidence from the Cold War. Nonproliferation Review, 25, pp. 249-262. (doi: 10.1080/10736700.2018.1510465)
Miller, C. (2018) Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941. Liverpool University Press
Naha, S. (2018) Dominic Malcolm, Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. x+212, £105, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-82645-8. Medical History, 62, pp. 247-248. (doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.9)
Naha, S. (2018) Jagmohan Dalmiya: the Prometheus of modern cricket? Palgrave Macmillan
Sarkar, J. (2018) Malcolm M. Craig. America, Britain and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1974-1980: A Dream of Nightmare Proportions. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 319 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-51879-4. H-Net Reviews,
Condratto, S., Gibbs, E. (2018) After industrial citizenship: adapting to precarious employment in the Lanarkshire coalfield, Scotland, and Sudbury hardrock mining, Canada. Labour / Le Travail, 81, pp. 213-239. (doi: 10.1353/llt.2018.0007)
Gibbs, E. (2018) The moral economy of the Scottish coalfields: managing deindustrialization under nationalization c.1947–1983. Enterprise and Society, 19, pp. 124-152. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2017.25)
Sarkar, J., Snow, D. (2018) Update on the Rohingya Crisis with Jayita Sarkar.
(2018) Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains. (doi: 10.4324/9781351181204)
Miller, C. W. (2018) Review of: Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, eds., The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871. Oxford, 2017. Economic History Review, 71, pp. 360-361. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12685)
Rabinowitz, O., Sarkar, J. (2018) ‘It isn’t over until the fuel cell sings’: a reassessment of the US and French pledges of nuclear assistance in the 1970s. Journal of Strategic Studies, 41, pp. 275-300. (doi: 10.1080/01402390.2017.1328355)
Sarkar, J. (2018) Rohingyas and the unfinished business of partition. Diplomat,
Meek, J. (2018) LGBT and the ‘theory of dissonant identity priming’ Political Quarterly, 89, pp. 150-152. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923x.12467)
Yaffe, H. (2018) Venezuela, ALBA, and the communal economic system. Institute of Latin American Studies
Naha, S. (2018) “The Russian deadpan expert” vs “America’s white hope”: the personal, the national, and the global in the “Cold War” of chess. De Gruyter
Phillips, J. (2018) The meanings of coal community in Britain since 1947. Contemporary British History, 32, pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2017.1408533)
Naha, S. (2018) Visually playing politics: use of sports as political critique in newspaper cartoons. Primus Books
Brown, G., Yaffe, H. (2018) Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-stop Picket Against Apartheid. Routledge
Gibbs, E., Henderson, S. (2018) ‘Tracks’ of the Past: How Can a Place-responsive Pedagogy Support New Understandings of Industrial Heritage and Major Economic Change Using a Curriculum for Excellence?
2017
Calori, A. (2017) 'I’m both a worker and a shareholder. ' Workers’ narratives and property transformations: continuity and change in post-socialist Bosnia and Serbia. Südsteuropa: Journal of Politics and Society, 65, pp. 654-678. (doi: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0043)
Vanatta, S. H. (2017) Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By Mark Wayne Nelson. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. Pp xxvi, 424. $39.00, hardcover. Journal of Economic History, 77, pp. 1236-1238. (doi: 10.1017/S0022050717000936)
Scothorne, R., Gibbs, E. (2017) Origins of the present crisis?: the emergence of 'left-wing' Scottish nationalism, 1956-81. Manchester University Press
Phillips, J. (2017) Economic direction and generational change in twentieth century Britain: the case of the Scottish coalfields. English Historical Review, 132, pp. 885-911. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cex199)
Miller, C. W. (2017) Extraordinary Gentlemen: the Economic League, business networks, and organised labour in war planning and rearmament. Scottish Labour History, 52, pp. 120-151.
Naha, S. (2017) With or without cricket? The two lives of the English game in a decolonizing India. Sport in Society, 20, pp. 1405-1423. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221074)
Naha, S. (2017) ‘Over the border and the gates’? Global and transnational sport. Sport in Society, 20, pp. 1347-1353. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221049)
Sarkar, J., Rabinowitz, O. (2017) Instead of sanctions or a military strike, the United States should embrace a third option for dealing with North Korea. Washington Post,
Naha, S. (2017) A state without a nation? Historicising India's 'conspiracy' against Bengal and its cricketers. Routledge
Vanatta, S. H. (2017) Executive stewardship of America’s credit card economy. University Press of Florida
Sarkar, J. (2017) Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe. H-Diplo/ISSF, IX,
Naha, S. (2017) Sport, culture, nation: perspectives from Indian football and South Asian cricket, by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, New Delhi, Sage, 2015,240 pp., ₹ 695 (hbk), ISBN 9789351503026. South Asian History and Culture, 8, pp. 390-391. (doi: 10.1080/19472498.2017.1350402)
Sarkar, J. (2017) India’s Nuclear History, Frozen in Time.
Sarkar, J. (2017) Sino-Indian nuclear rivalry: glacially declassified. Diplomat,
Meek, J. (2017) Book Review: Tom Waidzunas, The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality. History of Psychiatry, 28, pp. 246-248. (doi: 10.1177/0957154x17691868c)
Bandyopadhyay, K., Naha, S., Mitra, S. (2017) FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and governance. Sport in Society, 20, pp. 547-554. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158475)
Mitra, S., Naha, S. (2017) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. Sport in Society, 20, pp. 660-674. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158482)
Meek, J. (2017) Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957. By Helen Smith. Twentieth Century British History, 28, pp. 145-147. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hww035)
Rollings, N. (2017) The boards of UK nationalised industries and their members c.1950–c.1979. Palgrave Macmillan
Meek, J. (2017) Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! Navigating queer urban spaces in twentieth-century Scotland. Routledge
Meek, J. (2017) 'That class of men': effeminacy, sodomy and failed masculinities in inter- and post-war Scotland. Edinburgh University Press
Sarkar, J. (2017) Managing nuclear risk in South Asia: an Indian response. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 73, pp. 59-61. (doi: 10.1080/00963402.2016.1264215)
Rollings, N. (2017) Between business and academia in post-war Britain: three advocates of neoliberalism at the heart of the British business community. Oxford University Press
Fear, J. (2017) Gerald D. Feldman: an appreciation. Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
Domínguez López, E., Yaffe, H. (2017) The deep, historical roots of Cuban anti imperialism. Third World Quarterly, 38, pp. 2517-2535. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1374171)
Phillips, J. (2017) The moral economy of deindustrialization in post-1945 Scotland. University of British Columbia Press
Gibbs, E. (2017) Who’s ‘normal’? Class, culture and Labour politics in a fragmented Britain. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 25, pp. 86-91.
2016
Miller, C. (2016) British naval armaments, cartels, and defence planning between the world wars. Entreprises et histoire, 85, pp. 70-87.
Vanatta, S. H. (2016) Protecting plastic: credit card fraud in historical perspective. Palgrave Macmillan
Sarkar, J. (2016) Three concrete steps toward South Asian nuclear stability. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
Airlie, S., Bracke, M. A., Elliot, R. (2016) Editorial. Gender and History, 28, pp. 275-282. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12205)
Clark, H.-L. (2016) Expressing entitlement in colonial Algeria: villagers, medical doctors, and the state in the early 20th century. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, pp. 445-472. (doi: 10.1017/S002074381600043X)
Clark, H.-L. (2016) Administering vaccination in interwar Algeria: medical auxiliaries, smallpox, and the colonial state in the Communes mixtes. French Politics, Culture and Society, 34, pp. 32-56. (doi: 10.3167/fpcs.2016.340203)
Miller, C. W. (2016) Titipu on the Thames. Scottish Opera
Fear, J., Lerner, P. (2016) Behind the Screens: Émigrés, Exiles and Refugees in Mid Twentieth-Century Los Angeles [Guest editors] Jewish Culture and History, 17,
Fear, J., Lerner, P. (2016) Behind the screens: immigrants, émigrés and exiles in mid twentieth-century Los Angeles [Introduction] Jewish Culture and History, 17, pp. 1-21. (doi: 10.1080/1462169X.2016.1190496)
Meek, J. (2016) Boarding and lodging practices in early twentieth-century Scotland. Continuity and Change, 31, pp. 79-100. (doi: 10.1017/S0268416016000084)
Vanatta, S. H. (2016) Citibank, credit cards, and the local politics of national consumer finance, 1968-1991. Business History Review, 90, pp. 57-80. (doi: 10.1017/S0007680515001038)
Miller, C. (2016) Review of: Beaven, Brad: Visions of Empire. Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870–1939. Manchester 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult,
Phillips, J. (2016) A peculiar obscurity? William Gallacher’s missing biography and the role of Stalinism in Scottish Labour history: a contribution to an overdue discussion. Scottish Labour History Review, 51, pp. 154-174.
Gibbs, E. (2016) Confronting Deindustrialisation: Economic Change and Cultural Identities in the Scottish Coalfields.
Colli, A., Decker, S., de Jong, A., Fernández Pérez, P., Rollings, N., Stokes, R. (2016) Editorial: special issues in Business History. Business History, 58, pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2015.1060961)
Gibbs, E. (2016) Historical tradition and community mobilisation: narratives of Red Clydeside in memories of the anti-poll tax movement in Scotland, 1988–1990. Labor History, 57, pp. 439-462. (doi: 10.1080/0023656x.2016.1184027)
Tomlinson, J., Gibbs, E. (2016) Planning the new industrial nation: Scotland 1931-1979. Contemporary British History, 30, pp. 584-606. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2016.1209009)
Phillips, J. (2016) The Miners’ Strike in Britain, 1984-85. Friends of the Earth and History & Policy
Rollings, N. (2016) The boards of UK nationalised industries and their members c.1950-c.1979. Rivista di Politica Economica, 2015, pp. 89-110.
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