Vanessa Ogle
Biographic Data
| ID | 2107472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Ogle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogle |
| SIGNATURE | OGLE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Noblesse Without Oblige
Over the past eight years, a series of major document leaks has shone a spotlight on tax havens and their users. the Panama Papers, made up of 11.5 million documents from the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, broke in 2016. Next came the Paradise Papers in 2017, a trove of even more material, mostly from the Bermuda-based law firm Appleby and two other offshore corporate services providers. The Pandora Papers, published in October 2021, constitu…
Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s
During the 1970s, governments increasingly expressed concerns about the loss of revenue through the use of tax havens by both individuals and corporations. This article explores a covert international working group (the Group of Four) set up between France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States in 1969 in response to such concerns. At regular meetings, officials exchanged information gathered by their respective tax authorities in au…
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Funk Money: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event
This article explores the question of what happened to European assets in the process of decolonization. It argues that decolonization created a money panic of sorts that led white settlers, businessmen, and officials to seek to liquidate assets they owned and move funds out of the colonial world. Instead of being repatriated to metropolitan countries with high tax rates and exchange controls, money moved to tax havens. Decolonization thus provid…
Time, Temporality and the History of Capitalism
The year 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s landmark article ‘Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism’ in the pages of this journal. At currently 4,298 citations on Google Scholar, it is one of the most frequently cited articles in the field of history.1 Although ostensibly about work and industrial labour in particular, the appeal of Thompson’s suggestive piece has extended far beyond a more narr…
Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s
This article traces the emergence of an archipelago-like landscape of distinct legal and economic spaces throughout the long midcentury. Consisting of tax havens, offshore financial markets, flags of convenience, and economic free zones, this archipelago allowed free-market capitalism to flourish on the sidelines of a world increasingly dominated by more sizable and interventionist nation-states. It argues that certain characteristics of the rise…
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950
As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.
Alexis McCrossen. Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
In this thoroughly researched and documented book, Alexis McCrossen tells the important story of American timekeepers in the “public clock” age. Roughly from the 1870s to the 1930s, public spaces were marked by an increased presence of “time.” Jewelers placed clocks in their shop windows. Time balls, dropped from an elevated point at noon, did not compute time but still marked it. Especially in the years after the Civil War, clocks were purchased…
Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s–1940s
AFTER WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN A hot day in August 1909, a journalist for a Beirut newspaper felt inclined to take an evening stroll.Jubran Massuh decided that he would "pretend to be European," and that meant donning a tie and other European apparel and adopting European behavior.But suddenly it occurred to him that it was entirely un-European to walk around aimlessly "wasting time"; after all, as Europeans said, "Time is money."Young Jubran therefor…
Die Kolonisierung der Zeit: Repräsentationen französischer Kolonien auf den Pariser Weltausstellungen von 1889 und 1900
Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s
This article traces the emergence of an archipelago-like landscape of distinct legal and economic spaces throughout the long midcentury. Consisting of tax havens, offshore financial markets, flags of convenience, and economic free zones, this archipelago allowed free-market capitalism to flourish on the sidelines of a world increasingly dominated by more sizable and interventionist nation-states. It argues that certain characteristics of the rise…
Funk Money: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event
This article explores the question of what happened to European assets in the process of decolonization. It argues that decolonization created a money panic of sorts that led white settlers, businessmen, and officials to seek to liquidate assets they owned and move funds out of the colonial world. Instead of being repatriated to metropolitan countries with high tax rates and exchange controls, money moved to tax havens. Decolonization thus provid…
Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s–1940s
AFTER WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN A hot day in August 1909, a journalist for a Beirut newspaper felt inclined to take an evening stroll.Jubran Massuh decided that he would "pretend to be European," and that meant donning a tie and other European apparel and adopting European behavior.But suddenly it occurred to him that it was entirely un-European to walk around aimlessly "wasting time"; after all, as Europeans said, "Time is money."Young Jubran therefor…
Time, Temporality and the History of Capitalism
The year 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s landmark article ‘Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism’ in the pages of this journal. At currently 4,298 citations on Google Scholar, it is one of the most frequently cited articles in the field of history.1 Although ostensibly about work and industrial labour in particular, the appeal of Thompson’s suggestive piece has extended far beyond a more narr…
Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s
During the 1970s, governments increasingly expressed concerns about the loss of revenue through the use of tax havens by both individuals and corporations. This article explores a covert international working group (the Group of Four) set up between France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States in 1969 in response to such concerns. At regular meetings, officials exchanged information gathered by their respective tax authorities in au…
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Die Kolonisierung der Zeit: Repräsentationen französischer Kolonien auf den Pariser Weltausstellungen von 1889 und 1900
Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s–1940s
AFTER WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN A hot day in August 1909, a journalist for a Beirut newspaper felt inclined to take an evening stroll.Jubran Massuh decided that he would "pretend to be European," and that meant donning a tie and other European apparel and adopting European behavior.But suddenly it occurred to him that it was entirely un-European to walk around aimlessly "wasting time"; after all, as Europeans said, "Time is money."Young Jubran therefor…
Alexis McCrossen. Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
In this thoroughly researched and documented book, Alexis McCrossen tells the important story of American timekeepers in the “public clock” age. Roughly from the 1870s to the 1930s, public spaces were marked by an increased presence of “time.” Jewelers placed clocks in their shop windows. Time balls, dropped from an elevated point at noon, did not compute time but still marked it. Especially in the years after the Civil War, clocks were purchased…
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950
As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.
Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s
This article traces the emergence of an archipelago-like landscape of distinct legal and economic spaces throughout the long midcentury. Consisting of tax havens, offshore financial markets, flags of convenience, and economic free zones, this archipelago allowed free-market capitalism to flourish on the sidelines of a world increasingly dominated by more sizable and interventionist nation-states. It argues that certain characteristics of the rise…
Time, Temporality and the History of Capitalism
The year 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of E. P. Thompson’s landmark article ‘Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism’ in the pages of this journal. At currently 4,298 citations on Google Scholar, it is one of the most frequently cited articles in the field of history.1 Although ostensibly about work and industrial labour in particular, the appeal of Thompson’s suggestive piece has extended far beyond a more narr…
Funk Money: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event
This article explores the question of what happened to European assets in the process of decolonization. It argues that decolonization created a money panic of sorts that led white settlers, businessmen, and officials to seek to liquidate assets they owned and move funds out of the colonial world. Instead of being repatriated to metropolitan countries with high tax rates and exchange controls, money moved to tax havens. Decolonization thus provid…
Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s
During the 1970s, governments increasingly expressed concerns about the loss of revenue through the use of tax havens by both individuals and corporations. This article explores a covert international working group (the Group of Four) set up between France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States in 1969 in response to such concerns. At regular meetings, officials exchanged information gathered by their respective tax authorities in au…
Noblesse Without Oblige
Over the past eight years, a series of major document leaks has shone a spotlight on tax havens and their users. the Panama Papers, made up of 11.5 million documents from the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, broke in 2016. Next came the Paradise Papers in 2017, a trove of even more material, mostly from the Bermuda-based law firm Appleby and two other offshore corporate services providers. The Pandora Papers, published in October 2021, constitu…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Decolonization (2 works) · Economic policy (2 works)