Nuala Zahedieh

Nuala Zahedieh
Born
England
NationalityBritish
OccupationUniversity Professor

Nuala Zahedieh is a British historian and university professor.

Biography

She completed her undergraduate degree, a master's degree, and a PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics.[1]

Career

She was a professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh from 1990 to 2021. She retired from that post in 2021.[2]

She served as Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies from 2014 to 2019 and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History from 2019 to 2020. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 1997-8 and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society.[2]

Awards and honours

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Fellow of Academia Europaea.[3]

Zahedieh is also on the Academic Panel of the Museum of London and is Chair of the Publications Committee of the Economic History Society.[3]

Publications

Her notable books include:[4][5][6]

  • The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy 1660–1700
  • The British Atlantic Empire and Economic Change 1607–1775 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
  • War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652-89
  • A Global Trading Network: The Spanish empire in the world economy (1580-1820)

Her book Capital and the Colonies was reviewed positively by Thomas M. Truxes due to the way it handled the historical relationship between London's economy and the Atlantic slave trade.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org.
  2. ^ a b "Centre for History and Economics". www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Nuala Zahedieh". Economic History Society.
  4. ^ "Nuala Zahedieh". www.goodreads.com.
  5. ^ "Nuala Zahedieh books and biography | Waterstones".
  6. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org.
  7. ^ Truxes, Thomas M. (April 2012). "Review of The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700,". reviews.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2024.