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Labor and Capitalism in Modern Egypt: Wages in a Sugar Factory, 1847-1904

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

This paper contributes to the global history of capitalism in rural contexts, examining the impact of agro-industrial mechanization on wages in African rural communities through a case study of a sugar factory in 19th-century Egypt. Utilizing approximately fifty wage registers from the Rawda factory in Middle Egypt, dating from 1849 to 1903 and now preserved […]

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture 2026 : “Reading Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community” by Paula Findlen

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Paula Findlen, Ubalto Pierotti Professor in History and Italian Studies at Stanford University will be delivering The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture of 2026. Her talk will be on Tuesday, January 27 at 4:30 pm in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Her talk is titled: "Reading Galileo's Letters:  Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community"   Abstract: Galileo's […]

Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara

Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble   Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"   Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]