Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this
collection explores the internationalization process of social rights, in a number of national …

In a now-classic round table discussion among a group of noted historians in 1990, the
Journal of American History introduced its readers to the then-new discipline of …

The idea of “globalization” has become a commonplace, but we lack good histories that can
explain the transnational and global processes that have shaped the contemporary world …

This series presents some of the finest and most innovative work coming out of the current
landscapes of international and global historical scholarship. Grounded in empirical …

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political
contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users. The intrauterine …

The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human
rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in …

This article traces the history of the Nestlé boycott, one of the most well-known and
successful boycotts of the 1970s. As part of the campaign to end bottle-feeding in Third …

The ironic tone of historians of modernization theory in the 1990s, as Africanist Frederick
Cooper suggests, inverted the earnestness of the modernizers themselves. Economist and …

This essay examines the entanglement between population science and population
governance immediately after World War II. It analyzes debates on population and birth …

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or
hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories included tales of laboratory …