Marc Palen
@mwpalen.bsky.social
Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
“officials often destroyed or doctored countless files in an effort to uphold the Empire’s glorious image…. One former British colony has, however, remained absent from the literature: Hong Kong”
- @mrmhurst.bsky.social
@jich.bsky.social
imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/10/16/d...
- @mrmhurst.bsky.social
@jich.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“officials often destroyed or doctored countless files in an effort to uphold the Empire’s glorious image…. One former British colony has, however, remained absent from the literature: Hong Kong”
- @mrmhurst.bsky.social
@jich.bsky.social
imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/10/16/d...
- @mrmhurst.bsky.social
@jich.bsky.social
imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/10/16/d...
Pax Economica "unsettles modern orthodoxies...it challenges the tendency to universalize England and the United States, and it invites engagement from scholars working on many different traditions"
- Prof. Mo Moulton, American Historical Review
🙏
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- Prof. Mo Moulton, American Historical Review
🙏
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October 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Pax Economica "unsettles modern orthodoxies...it challenges the tendency to universalize England and the United States, and it invites engagement from scholars working on many different traditions"
- Prof. Mo Moulton, American Historical Review
🙏
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
- Prof. Mo Moulton, American Historical Review
🙏
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
@princetonupress.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social @branchuk.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Had an all too timely discussion with GWU’s Illiberalism Studies Program about the long historical right-wing love affair with protectionism - and the left-wing internationalists that opposed it.
August 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Had an all too timely discussion with GWU’s Illiberalism Studies Program about the long historical right-wing love affair with protectionism - and the left-wing internationalists that opposed it.
And for no reason, here are some pics of my kitten, Paz Purrmann the birman
May 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And for no reason, here are some pics of my kitten, Paz Purrmann the birman
the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) joined the wider 20th-century feminist free-trade movement, including co-founding, in 1972, the Consumer Education Council on World Trade to support the GATT and ending embargoes against Vietnam and Cuba
May 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) joined the wider 20th-century feminist free-trade movement, including co-founding, in 1972, the Consumer Education Council on World Trade to support the GATT and ending embargoes against Vietnam and Cuba
Provided some historical reflections on trade wars and their left-wing critics, in light of our new Trump-induced economic nationalist order for @newsweek.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Provided some historical reflections on trade wars and their left-wing critics, in light of our new Trump-induced economic nationalist order for @newsweek.com
Excited to discuss the 150-year left-wing free trade fight for Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social Tuesday 15 April with Fordham’s History Dept and the O’Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism at Fordham
April 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Excited to discuss the 150-year left-wing free trade fight for Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social Tuesday 15 April with Fordham’s History Dept and the O’Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism at Fordham
My concluding remarks in this @nplusonemag.com interview resonate even stronger on the heels of Trump’s tariffs
April 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My concluding remarks in this @nplusonemag.com interview resonate even stronger on the heels of Trump’s tariffs
For UK folks, Trump has just Trussed the global economy
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
For UK folks, Trump has just Trussed the global economy
So this means the @washingtonpost.com opinion pages are going to be non-stop anti-Trump now, right?
April 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So this means the @washingtonpost.com opinion pages are going to be non-stop anti-Trump now, right?
"Pax Economica is a compelling history of the left-wing struggle for commercial peace, and it forces us to think deeply about the present as economic nationalism rises once again."
Thanks to Dr Kavi Abraham for reviewing Pax Economica for International Affairs.
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Thanks to Dr Kavi Abraham for reviewing Pax Economica for International Affairs.
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Pax Economica is a compelling history of the left-wing struggle for commercial peace, and it forces us to think deeply about the present as economic nationalism rises once again."
Thanks to Dr Kavi Abraham for reviewing Pax Economica for International Affairs.
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
Thanks to Dr Kavi Abraham for reviewing Pax Economica for International Affairs.
academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
"Pax Economica...presents a rich Venn diagram of overlapping free trade, anti-imperial, and peace interests among some surprising sectors of American and European society between roughly 1840 and 1940."
Thanks to Sean Braniff for reviewing Pax Economica in Aether
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
Thanks to Sean Braniff for reviewing Pax Economica in Aether
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
February 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"Pax Economica...presents a rich Venn diagram of overlapping free trade, anti-imperial, and peace interests among some surprising sectors of American and European society between roughly 1840 and 1940."
Thanks to Sean Braniff for reviewing Pax Economica in Aether
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
Thanks to Sean Braniff for reviewing Pax Economica in Aether
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
Yes! Naoroji also makes an important cameo in my most recent book Pax Economica
February 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Yes! Naoroji also makes an important cameo in my most recent book Pax Economica
Canadians are right to be outraged at the Trump administration's imperial designs, but glad to see that my article on the last time the GOP tried (and failed) to coercively use tariffs to annex Canada has helped give the @theglobeandmail.com readership hope.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
February 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Canadians are right to be outraged at the Trump administration's imperial designs, but glad to see that my article on the last time the GOP tried (and failed) to coercively use tariffs to annex Canada has helped give the @theglobeandmail.com readership hope.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Then a map, allegedly printed in a prominent New York City newspaper, began making its way through Canadian Conservative circles to gin up wider Canadian opposition to closer trade ties with its southern neighbour.
December 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Then a map, allegedly printed in a prominent New York City newspaper, began making its way through Canadian Conservative circles to gin up wider Canadian opposition to closer trade ties with its southern neighbour.
Lot’s of great books on the list!!
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Lot’s of great books on the list!!
Now featured in the @financialtimes.com weekend print edition, in case you missed it
November 24, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Now featured in the @financialtimes.com weekend print edition, in case you missed it
For recent Bluesky arrivals, I wrote a book, Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social, about the long international left-wing fight for a peaceful, anti-imperial free trade world.
They’ve been fighting right-wingers like ‘Tariff Man’ Trump since the 1840s.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
They’ve been fighting right-wingers like ‘Tariff Man’ Trump since the 1840s.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM
For recent Bluesky arrivals, I wrote a book, Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social, about the long international left-wing fight for a peaceful, anti-imperial free trade world.
They’ve been fighting right-wingers like ‘Tariff Man’ Trump since the 1840s.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
They’ve been fighting right-wingers like ‘Tariff Man’ Trump since the 1840s.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
None of the three contestants on Jeopardy this week could identify Keir Starmer. Peak post-Brexit Britain?
November 14, 2024 at 8:26 AM
None of the three contestants on Jeopardy this week could identify Keir Starmer. Peak post-Brexit Britain?
50% off @princetonupress.bsky.social books!! Including my new book press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
May 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM
50% off @princetonupress.bsky.social books!! Including my new book press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
If you are in the area, please join me for the official UK book launch for ‘Pax Economica’ at the RAI Oxford on Wed April 24 at 5pm
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/pax-ec...
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/pax-ec...
April 10, 2024 at 11:29 AM
If you are in the area, please join me for the official UK book launch for ‘Pax Economica’ at the RAI Oxford on Wed April 24 at 5pm
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/pax-ec...
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/pax-ec...
So delighted to share the publication of my new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, with @princetonupress.bsky.social!
February 27, 2024 at 11:15 AM
So delighted to share the publication of my new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, with @princetonupress.bsky.social!