HISTORIA INDUSTRIAL 93 VOL. XXXIV 2025

Founded in 1992, Revista de Historia Industrial – Industrial History Review (RHI-IHR) is a pioneering journal indexed in the most prestigious international databases. It promotes historical research into the processes of industrialisation and the social, economic, institutional, environmental, and demographic transformations associated with them. With a global scope and an inclination toward methodological diversity, RHI-IHR publishes original papers in English and Spanish in three regular issues each year. This is the first of a two-volume special issue offering new perspectives on global economic history from the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries. It opens with an introductory article and features research on labour, technology, and institutions in the salt islands of the British Caribbean; raw cotton markets, industrial strategies, and trade organisation in India and Japan; port labour and material skill development at the ivory warehouse in the Port of London; and knowledge and merchant networks in the British textile trade. The issue concludes with four book reviews.