Publications

Journal articles

11. (forthcoming 2025) ‘Immigrant occupations in 1900s Uruguay: new evidence from birth records’, Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (with Cecilia Lara)

10. (2025) ‘What counts as rural? Evidence from southern Spain, 1787-2017’, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (with Juan Luis Martínez de la Fuente and Juan Infante-Amate) [link]

9. (2025) ‘The history of a + 3 °C future: Global and regional drivers of greenhouse gas emissions (1820–2050)’, Global Environmental Change 92, 103009 (with Juan Infante-Amate and Eduardo Aguilera) [link]

8. (2025) ‘Green Growth in the Mirror of History’, Nature Communications 16, 3766 (with Juan Infante-Amate and Eduardo Aguilera) [link]

7. (2024) ‘Environment, Slavery, and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750-1810,’ Past & Present 265, 1, 57–96. [link]

6. (2024) ‘What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial Northern Nigeria, 1911-1952,’ Economic History Review 77, 4, 1314-1335 [link] (with Tom Westland) (Winner of the T.S. Ashton Prize of the Economic History Society)

5. (2024) ‘Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years’, World Development 184, 106574 (with Juan Infante-Amate and Eduardo Aguilera) [link]

4. (2024) ‘Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (Southern Spain, 1787-2019),' Journal of Rural Studies 106, 103217 (with Juan Infante-Amate and Juan Luis Martínez de la Fuente) [link]

3. (2023) ‘Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880-1913,’ Economic History Review, 76, 2, 498-524 [link] [data & code]

2. (2022) ‘Resources, Environment and Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1913,’ Journal of Economic History 82, 2, 587-591. (Gerschenkron Prize thesis summary) [link]

1. (2020) ‘United by grass, separated by coal: Uruguay and New Zealand during the First Globalization,’ Journal of Global History 15 (2), 269-289. [link] [data]

Book chapters

  • Travieso, E. and Herranz-Loncán, A. (2023) ‘Uruguay: The Rise of a Monocentric Economy’, in Valencia Caicedo (ed.) Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean, Palgrave-Macmillan, 433-462. [link]

  • de Haas, M. and Travieso, E. (2022) ‘Cash-Crop Migration Systems in East and West Africa: Rise, Endurance, Decline,’ in M. de Haas and E. Frankema (eds.) Migration in Africa. Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century, London: Routledge, 231-255. [link]

Pre-PhD publications

  • Travieso, E. (2020) Cómo hacer una transición energética sin revolución industrial. Los usos de la energía moderna en Uruguay, 1902-1954, Montevideo: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República. [link]

  • Travieso, E. (2017) ‘Railroads and Regional Economies in Uruguay, c.1910,’ Revista Uruguaya de Historia Económica 7 (12), 30-57. [link] [data]

  • Zurbriggen, C. and E. Travieso (2016) ‘Hacia un nuevo Estado desarrollista: desafíos para América Latina,’ Perfiles Latinoamericanos 24 (47), 259-281. [link]

  • Travieso, E. (2016) ‘Energía, luces y sombras de la industria uruguaya, 1943-1954,’ Revista de Economía 23 (1), 41-67. [link]

  • Bertoni, R. and E. Travieso (2016) ‘Economía política de la energía en clave regional. Una propuesta analítica y un estudio de caso histórico.’ in Zuleta, M.C. & Lopes, M.A. (eds.), Mercados en Común. Conexiones, negocios y diplomacia en las Américas, Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 543-581.