New post on @broadstreetblog.bsky.social by yours truly and co-author José Antonio Espín-Sánchez. Check it out! #econhistory #colonialism #migration www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...

The Making of America: migration in colonial times

By Leticia Arroyo-Abad (CUNY) and Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale)

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New Broadstreet post! By @larroyoabad.bsky.social and Noel Maurer www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of...

New Broadstreet post! By @larroyoabad.bsky.social and Noel Maurer www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of...

HPE gang rejoice! Broadstreet Blog is now on Bluesky!!! We have a new & sparkling look at substack with an array of old and new editors. This week: a new post by one of our contributing editors @larroyoabad.bsky.social along with Noel Maurer on the historical persistence of labor coercion in Peru.

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New Broadstreet post! By @larroyoabad.bsky.social and Noel Maurer www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of...

New post on Broadstreet by yours truly! Check it out. #econhistory #peru #laborcoercion open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru

Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, when I, Leticia, was still a graduate student.

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Check out Mark Koyama's post for Broadstreet! #Econhistory www.broadstreet.blog/p/feudalism-...

Feudalism as a Contested Concept in Historical Political Economy

“The tyrant feudalism must be declared once and for all deposed and its influence over students of the Middle Ages finally ended” (Elizabeth Brown, 1974)

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@ipums.bsky.social undefeated

we should lobby to get "endogenous" put in there along with "indigenous" and then we can all go home

New post on Broadstreet: Understanding Digital History. Check it out! www.broadstreet.blog/p/understand...

Understanding Digital History

At Broadstreet, we occasionally sit down with other scholars to discuss their work.

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Case 2: Census Bureau shapefiles! These are in the public domain, so you should keep, and share, the files that you do have. www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/... (this is exactly why we always ask you to provide US Government files in the replication package, even when they are still available online....)

Happy to announce that my paper with Noel Maurer on labor coercion in colonial Peru has finally been upgraded to "published" by the Journal of Economic Growth. Share it please with your family, friends, colleagues, and enemies! #econhistory link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The long shadow of history? the impact of colonial labor institutions on economic development in Peru - Journal of Economic Growth

We examine a canonical case of forced labor: the mita and the encomienda in colonial Peru. The mita was a labor draft designed to provide workers for mines, churches, and public works in colonial Peru...

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First @larroyoabad.bsky.social presenting estimates of the population in the 16th century at the local level for the whole country