Maritime irony! Tim Hatton in his 2025 Butlin lecture argues that the first iron-hulled, screw-driven ocean-going steamer was uniquely successful on the Britain-Australia route as a steam-assisted sailing ship rather than a sail-assisted steamship. OA in the Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70009

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Alexander and Hatton in ‘Who voted for Australian federation?’ find that the spatial pattern of New South Wales voting does NOT support conventional thinking that manufacturing interests favoured the 1901 Aus political union with its promise of tariff protection!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70008

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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton University Press 2025)

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/girl-middle-recovered-history-american-west

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-a-historian-saw-this-haunting-photograph-of-a-nameless-native-girl-she-decided-she-had-to-identify-her-180986496/

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Linguistic analysis of 12000 letters leads Félix Krawatzek & Emma Moreton to conclude that America became home for German immigrants much more quickly than the Irish (who maintained a desire to return to Ireland for longer).
New & OA in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.2

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As everyone ponders the odd puzzles in modern trade data, Songlin Wang shows that late 19th century improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data reflects key institutional reform & the importance of Hong Kong. New in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12308

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Lead article in a new issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review is a sweeping reinterpretation of the southward shift in China's economy 671-1371 CE by Professor Zhiwu Chen and coauthors. Open access!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70000

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