18th Century

Research Interests: The history of Dutch capitalism in global comparative perspective; war and economic development; and slavery.

Pim de Zwart studied (economic) history at Utrecht University, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the London School of Economics. He graduated from Utrecht in August 2010 and wrote his master's thesis on real wages in South Africa in the...

Research interests: Historical forces underpinning food insecurity among pastoralist communities residing along Africa's Red Sea littoral.

Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies in 2016. His book manuscript, “The Texture of Change: Cloth...