Publications

Journal articles

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

8. (2025) ‘Green Growth in the Mirror of History’, Nature Communications 16, 3766 (with J. Infante-Amate and E. 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 T. 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 J. Infante-Amate and E. Aguilera) [link]

4. (2024) ‘Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (Southern Spain, 1787-2019),' Journal of Rural Studies 106, 103217 (with J. Infante-Amate and J.L. 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.