Week of Events
History Associates Talk | The Rickshaw’s Journey Through 20th Century Japan | Kate McDonald
The History Associates in partnership with the UCSB Affiliates are excited to present April's Profs at the Pub! History Professor Kate McDonald shares her favorite rickshaw stories from twentieth-century Japan. Invented in 1869, the rickshaw quickly came to define Japan’s urban modernity. Though it declined in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, the rickshaw was […]
Labor and Capitalism in Modern Egypt: Wages in a Sugar Factory, 1847-1904
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 […]
UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9, 14, 19, 2026)
Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), by Betty Smith, and The Hate U Give (2017), by Angie Thomas A unique event organized by UCSB's History Associates, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. Click here to RSVP and to […]