Emiliano Travieso
Biographic Data
| ID | 1060782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emiliano Travieso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emiliano |
| FAMILY NAME | Travieso |
| SIGNATURE | TRAVIESO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6692-7680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Immigrant occupations in 1900s Uruguay
Were economic migrants to Latin America able to access the same occupations as locals? We examine 1900s Uruguay, where immigrants accounted for approximately one-fifth of the total population. Historical censuses in Uruguay are very limited, so we rely on random sampling to mine a new individual-level source: Uruguayan civil birth records. We find that the occupations of foreign-born fathers were in general like that of their Uruguayan counterpar…
The history of a + 3 °C future
Global & regional analysis of all GHG drivers (1820–2050) • Economic growth (+81Gt) overwhelmed efficiency gains (−31Gt) • Carbon intensity must immediately fall 3 × faster (−2.25 %/yr) to 2050. • Regional drivers: population vs affluence patterns vary sharply. • Reveals unprecedented gap between trends and climate needs. Identifying the socio-economic drivers behind greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to design mitigation policies. Existing stud…
What counts as rural? Evidence from Southern Spain, 1787–2017
The demographic decline of the rural world is usually seen as solid evidence of long-run economic and social development. Its correlate, urbanization, plays a key role in studies of comparative development. And yet, this is often founded on shaky empirical grounds: what exactly counted as rural in the past(s)? We compare the many thresholds used by historians to define the rural/urban boundary and, through the case of modern southern Spain, show …
Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (southern Spain, 1787–2019)
In modern societies, changes in population patterns are often studied based on a rural vs urban duality. This dichotomous simplification overlooks the existence of a broad range of human settlements, especially in the rural world. In this work, we quantified and analysed southern Spain’s population and rural settlements from the late eighteenth century to the present, distinguishing three types of settlements: agrotowns, the villages and disperse…
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years
We examine decoupling between augmented human development index and greenhouse gas emissions since 1870. • Wellbeing-growth decoupling is more common in low-income countries, while growth-impact decoupling is more common in higher income countries. • Growth-impact decoupling, i.e., ‘green growth’, is not new nor exclusively Western, and has proved reversible. • No world region has reached a ‘safe and just operating space’ at any point in the last…
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750-1810
In colonial Uruguay black slaves could supervise the work of white creoles and even hold the power to have their wages docked. To most historians this might seem puzzling and almost fictional in the context of the colonial Americas. This article makes sense of the puzzle by examining interactions between the economy and the environment on the Río de la Plata frontier. It argues that the natural world (soils, topography, climate, crops and animals…
What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911-52
The Sokoto Caliphate of northern Nigeria was the workshop of West Africa in the pre-colonial nineteenth century, producing famous blue-black cloth that reached many markets south of the Sahara as well as across it. Under British colonial rule this large handicraft textile industry was faced with the winds of foreign competition. We rely on a newly digitized set of colonial district reports to measure the impact of trade on northern Nigerian texti…
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880-1913
This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub-provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle crossbreeding - the genetic improvement of local herds through hybridisation with foreign breeds. Contra…
Cash-Crop Migration Systems in East and West Africa
From the late 19th into the mid-20th century millions of people migrated, seasonally or more permanently, to regions where African farmers produced cocoa, groundnuts, coffee, cotton, and palm oil for export. These “cash-crop migrations” occurred mostly under colonial rule, but they were not directed or controlled by Europeans, and were shaped by a history that preceded colonialism. This chapter studies the four major cash-crop migration systems a…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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United by grass, separated by coal
While the role of coal has been the subject of long-running debate in the historiography of the Industrial Revolution, its part in the economic development of the global periphery has been comparatively neglected. The technological context of the ‘First Globalization’ ( c .1870–1914) made pastoral production in the periphery increasingly dependent on modern energy, as new methods of production and transportation bridged the distance between grass…
Hacia un nuevo Estado desarrollista
La primera década del siglo xxi constituyó una coyuntura de transformaciones en el mapa político de América Latina. Después de una larga hegemonía de las fuerzas políticas de derecha y centro-derecha, las de izquierda y centro-izquierda —un conjunto muy heterogéneo— conquistaron los gobiernos de la región con un discurso crítico del modelo neoliberal, que subrayaba el papel del Estado como actor clave del proceso de desarrollo. En este escenario,…
Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (southern Spain, 1787–2019)
In modern societies, changes in population patterns are often studied based on a rural vs urban duality. This dichotomous simplification overlooks the existence of a broad range of human settlements, especially in the rural world. In this work, we quantified and analysed southern Spain’s population and rural settlements from the late eighteenth century to the present, distinguishing three types of settlements: agrotowns, the villages and disperse…
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years
We examine decoupling between augmented human development index and greenhouse gas emissions since 1870. • Wellbeing-growth decoupling is more common in low-income countries, while growth-impact decoupling is more common in higher income countries. • Growth-impact decoupling, i.e., ‘green growth’, is not new nor exclusively Western, and has proved reversible. • No world region has reached a ‘safe and just operating space’ at any point in the last…
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880-1913
This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub-provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle crossbreeding - the genetic improvement of local herds through hybridisation with foreign breeds. Contra…
Hacia un nuevo Estado desarrollista
La primera década del siglo xxi constituyó una coyuntura de transformaciones en el mapa político de América Latina. Después de una larga hegemonía de las fuerzas políticas de derecha y centro-derecha, las de izquierda y centro-izquierda —un conjunto muy heterogéneo— conquistaron los gobiernos de la región con un discurso crítico del modelo neoliberal, que subrayaba el papel del Estado como actor clave del proceso de desarrollo. En este escenario,…
Hacia un nuevo Estado desarrollista
La primera década del siglo xxi constituyó una coyuntura de transformaciones en el mapa político de América Latina. Después de una larga hegemonía de las fuerzas políticas de derecha y centro-derecha, las de izquierda y centro-izquierda —un conjunto muy heterogéneo— conquistaron los gobiernos de la región con un discurso crítico del modelo neoliberal, que subrayaba el papel del Estado como actor clave del proceso de desarrollo. En este escenario,…
United by grass, separated by coal
While the role of coal has been the subject of long-running debate in the historiography of the Industrial Revolution, its part in the economic development of the global periphery has been comparatively neglected. The technological context of the ‘First Globalization’ ( c .1870–1914) made pastoral production in the periphery increasingly dependent on modern energy, as new methods of production and transportation bridged the distance between grass…
Cash-Crop Migration Systems in East and West Africa
From the late 19th into the mid-20th century millions of people migrated, seasonally or more permanently, to regions where African farmers produced cocoa, groundnuts, coffee, cotton, and palm oil for export. These “cash-crop migrations” occurred mostly under colonial rule, but they were not directed or controlled by Europeans, and were shaped by a history that preceded colonialism. This chapter studies the four major cash-crop migration systems a…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880-1913
This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub-provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle crossbreeding - the genetic improvement of local herds through hybridisation with foreign breeds. Contra…
Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (southern Spain, 1787–2019)
In modern societies, changes in population patterns are often studied based on a rural vs urban duality. This dichotomous simplification overlooks the existence of a broad range of human settlements, especially in the rural world. In this work, we quantified and analysed southern Spain’s population and rural settlements from the late eighteenth century to the present, distinguishing three types of settlements: agrotowns, the villages and disperse…
Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years
We examine decoupling between augmented human development index and greenhouse gas emissions since 1870. • Wellbeing-growth decoupling is more common in low-income countries, while growth-impact decoupling is more common in higher income countries. • Growth-impact decoupling, i.e., ‘green growth’, is not new nor exclusively Western, and has proved reversible. • No world region has reached a ‘safe and just operating space’ at any point in the last…
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750-1810
In colonial Uruguay black slaves could supervise the work of white creoles and even hold the power to have their wages docked. To most historians this might seem puzzling and almost fictional in the context of the colonial Americas. This article makes sense of the puzzle by examining interactions between the economy and the environment on the Río de la Plata frontier. It argues that the natural world (soils, topography, climate, crops and animals…
What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911-52
The Sokoto Caliphate of northern Nigeria was the workshop of West Africa in the pre-colonial nineteenth century, producing famous blue-black cloth that reached many markets south of the Sahara as well as across it. Under British colonial rule this large handicraft textile industry was faced with the winds of foreign competition. We rely on a newly digitized set of colonial district reports to measure the impact of trade on northern Nigerian texti…
The history of a + 3 °C future
Global & regional analysis of all GHG drivers (1820–2050) • Economic growth (+81Gt) overwhelmed efficiency gains (−31Gt) • Carbon intensity must immediately fall 3 × faster (−2.25 %/yr) to 2050. • Regional drivers: population vs affluence patterns vary sharply. • Reveals unprecedented gap between trends and climate needs. Identifying the socio-economic drivers behind greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to design mitigation policies. Existing stud…
What counts as rural? Evidence from Southern Spain, 1787–2017
The demographic decline of the rural world is usually seen as solid evidence of long-run economic and social development. Its correlate, urbanization, plays a key role in studies of comparative development. And yet, this is often founded on shaky empirical grounds: what exactly counted as rural in the past(s)? We compare the many thresholds used by historians to define the rural/urban boundary and, through the case of modern southern Spain, show …
Immigrant occupations in 1900s Uruguay
Were economic migrants to Latin America able to access the same occupations as locals? We examine 1900s Uruguay, where immigrants accounted for approximately one-fifth of the total population. Historical censuses in Uruguay are very limited, so we rely on random sampling to mine a new individual-level source: Uruguayan civil birth records. We find that the occupations of foreign-born fathers were in general like that of their Uruguayan counterpar…
Economics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)