Contents

Introduction to the Symposium: Global History of Empires

The Environmental Consequences of Two Portuguese Colonization Strategies (15th and 16th Centuries)

This article analyzes two colonization strategies carried out by the Portuguese between the 15th and 16th centuries, demonstrating how they...

The Prefect and the Potato: Bernardo Peres Da Silva and the Politics of Agriculture in the ‘Age of Revolutions’

Medical doctor, liberal revolutionary, parliamentarian, and promoter of new agricultural crops. Born in Goa, in a Catholic Brahmin family, Bernardo...

The Basel Mission Weaving Establishment in Malabar: Work Discipline and Resistance C. 1840-1910

Although Switzerland never had a formal empire, it was integrated across national boundaries into larger processes of western European imperial...

An Empire of Women. The Association des femmes de l’Union française and the French Civilizing Mission in the 1940s and 1950s

The Political Conditions of the Market. Álvaro Alsogaray between Strong Democracy and Dictatorship

This article sheds light on a neglected but crucial aspect of the global intellectual history of neoliberalism by analyzing the...

The Legacy of Puviani’s Fiscal Illusion between Misunderstanding and Late Rediscovery

The past year, 2023, marked the 120th anniversary of the publication of Puviani’s book, “Theory of Fiscal Illusion” (Teoria delle...

Review of Alberto Burgio (ed.), Adam Smith and Modernity 1723-2023, New York and London: Routledge, 2023

Review of Matthew Evangelista, Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1943-1945. Bombing among Friends, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023