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

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Career

She was a professor of Economic and Social History at the

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from 1990 to 2021. She retired from that post in 2021. 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

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Awards and honours

She is a Fellow of the

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; Fellow of the

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, and Fellow of

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

Publications

Her notable books include: * ''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

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References

External links

Festschrift
(www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk)
Biography
(ehs.org.uk)
Biography
(www.ae-info.org) {{DEFAULTSORT:Zahedieh, Nula 20th-century English historians Historians of South Asia People from Bristol Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge People educated at Clifton College Academics of the University of London Year of birth missing (living people) Living people