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Agnes Gehbald is a postdoctoral research fellow in Modern History at the University of Bern. Her research interests include global book history, migration and mobility, and transatlantic connections. In 2020, she completed her PhD in Latin American History at the University of Cologne. Before, she was a short-term fellow at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (2018) and a visiting PhD student at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge (2019–2020). Her first monograph, A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2023), reveals how books permeated late colonial society on a broad scale and how they figured as objects in the inventories of diverse individuals, both women and men, who, in previous centuries, had been far less likely to possess books. Her postdoc project examines the patterns of transatlantic return migration from the Americas to Europe during the age of mass migration, c. 1870–1920. During that time period, thousands of Europeans emigrated to North America and Latin America, however, a considerable number returned to their home countries after spending some time in the Americas. The research project focuses on the ports as transit points and analyses the return migration in its conjunctures and individual biographies.

Publications and Presentations (BORIS)

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2024

Gehbald, Agnes (22 October 2024). Out of Patriarchal Structures: Multiple Transatlantic Migrations and Female Mobility around 1900 (Unpublished). In: Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration – Transatlantic and Global Perspective. GHI West / UC Berkeley.

Gehbald, Agnes (2 July 2024). Not Wholly White: Enslaved Labour in the Colonial Printing Workshops of the Southern Cone (Unpublished). In: SHARP Conference Global Book Cultures.

Gehbald, Agnes (17 June 2024). Ein transatlantisches Hin und Her: Sozialwissenschaftliche Quantifizierungsversuche der Rückwanderungsquote um 1900 (Unpublished). In: Forschungskolloquium Kulturgeschichte des Ökonomischen. Universität Duisburg-Essen.

Gehbald, Agnes (25 April 2024). Camping in Front of the Immigrants’ Hotel: Seasonal Migration, Strike Action, and Failure in Transatlantic Migration Policy (Unpublished). In: Crossings: Non-Privileged Migration and Mobility Control in the Age of Global Empires (c. 1850–1914). GHI London.

Gehbald, Agnes (2024). Buchhandelsmonopol. Die Hoheit über das gedruckte Wort zur Kolonialzeit. In: Biersack, Martin; Crailsheim, Eberhard; Kaps, Klemens (eds.) Das Amerika-Monopol. Vorstellung und Wirklichkeit des spanischen Kolonialhandels (pp. 147-164). Wien: Mandelbaum

2023

Gehbald, Agnes (23 October 2023). “Riesige Personenzahlen, die nach Europa zurückzukehren beabsichtigen”. Transatlantische Rückwanderungen von Buenos Aires und New York um 1900 (Unpublished). In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte: Migration in der Moderne. Systeme – Wege – Erfahrungen – Konflikte. Bonn.

Gehbald, Agnes (19 October 2023). Earning and Returning: Migrant Statistics in the Americas, 1857–1907 (Unpublished). In: Atlantic Crossings: Forms of Temporary Labour Migration around 1900. Bern.

Gehbald, Agnes (2023). REVIEW ESSAY John Darwin. Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830–1930; and Christina Reimann and Martin Öhman (Eds.). Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940. New Global Studies, 17(1), pp. 105-110. De Gruyter 10.1515/ngs-2022-0014

Gehbald, Agnes (2023). A Pious Privilege: Printing for Hospitals and Orphanages across the Spanish Empire. In: Cachero, Montserrat; Maillard-Álvarez, Natalia (eds.) Book Markets in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America (pp. 35-63). Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-13268-1_3

Gehbald, Agnes (2023). A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. Cambridge Latin American Studies. Cambridge University Press

Gehbald, Agnes (2023). La libertad de las artes: luchadoras de la imprenta en la Lima colonial. In: Garone Gravier, Marina (ed.) Las mujeres y los estudios del libro y la edición en Iberoamérica: panorama histórico y enfoques interdisciplinarios, ed. by Marina Garone Gravier (pp. 51-68). Bogotá / México / Santiago: Universidad de los Andes; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Universidad de Santiago de Chile

2022

Gehbald, Agnes (3 December 2022). Evaluating the Port Statistics of Buenos Aires: Return Migration to Europe, 1857–1924 (Unpublished). In: SSLAS Migration: Crossing Borders, Creating Spaces.

Gehbald, Agnes (2022). Druckprojekte indigener Sprachen im Vizekönigreich Peru: Publizierbarkeit und unveröffentlichte Manuskripte. Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de historia de América Latina, 59, pp. 181-217. Hamburg University Press 10.15460/jbla.59.271

Gehbald, Agnes; Horn, Philipp (October 2022). Was it a Man’s World? Intersections of Gender and Global History. H-Net Reviews Humanities & Social Sciences Online

Gehbald, Agnes (9 September 2022). No Way Back Home: Preventing Trans-Atlantic Return Migration around 1900 (Unpublished). In: Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructure since 1800. GHI Washington.

Gehbald, Agnes (1 September 2022). Tinta china, papel japonés e un grabado de las Filipinas: huellas de Asia en impresos peruanos de la época colonial (Unpublished). In: Asia in the Colonial Latin American Book World (UCLA / IIB–UNAM).

Gehbald, Agnes (24 June 2022). The Harbour of Hamburg as Bottleneck: Infrastructures of Trans-Atlantic Return Migration around 1900 (Unpublished). In: ReMigra: Return Migration as an Interdisciplinary Research Area. Innsbruck.

Gehbald, Agnes (11 June 2022). "Mein Feld ist die Welt": Enttäuschte Weltbilder und das Geschäft der transatlantischen Remigration um 1900 (Unpublished). In: Historische Globalitätsvorstellungen. Burg Windeck.

Gehbald, Agnes (2022). REVIEW Juan David Murillo Sandoval / Aimer Granados (Hg.), La circulación de impresos en América Latina, (Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, Bd. 48,2). Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte, 24, p. 133. Franz Steiner Verlag

Gehbald, Agnes (2022). Lima Inside and Out: City Criticism and Transatlantic Book Confiscation around 1800. Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, 1(2), pp. 141-160. Liverpool University Press https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.19

2021

Gehbald, Agnes; Jiménez, Nora E. (eds.) (2021). Libros en movimiento: Nueva España y Perú XVI–XVIII. Michoacán: Colegio de Michoacán

Gehbald, Agnes; Jiménez, Nora E. (2021). Introducción. In: Gehbald, Agnes; Jiménez, Nora (eds.) Libros en movimiento: Nueva España y Perú XVI-XVIII (pp. 9-29). Michoacán: Colegio de Michoacán

Gehbald, Agnes (2021). El libro importado: surtiendo el mercado peruano a finales de la Carrera de Indias (1776-1778). In: Libros en movimiento: Nueva España y Perú XVI-XVIII (pp. 123-152). Michoacán: Colegio de Michoacán

Gehbald, Agnes (22 October 2021). Casting Types, Print Production, and the Freedom of the Press in Colonial Lima, 1811–1814 (Unpublished). In: APHA Impresos: Printing Across Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.

Gehbald, Agnes (22 October 2021). La razón de los libros en Lima tardío colonial: sobre el orden y método en contra del alfabeto (Unpublished). In: Testigos de cultura libresca: el canon bibliográfico y la circulación de saberes en la Nueva España.

Gehbald, Agnes (8 September 2021). An Unpublished Calendar: On Science and Religion as Subjects in Peruvian Colonial Printing (Unpublished). In: Durham History of the Book Conference: Organizing and Disorganizing Knowledge.

Gehbald, Agnes (18 June 2021). Women in the Workshop: Property Structure, Female Management, and Print Culture in Colonial Peru (Unpublished). In: USTC Conference Gender and the Book Trades.

Gehbald, Agnes (2021). Nebrija en el Perú: la preponderancia del Arte y Vocabulario durante el siglo XVIII. In: Álvarez, Natalia Maillard; Chaves, Manuel F. Fernández (eds.) Bibliotecas de la Monarquía Hispánica en la primera globalización (Siglos XVI-XVIII) (pp. 195-214). Zaragoza: Editorial de la Universidad de Zaragoza

Gehbald, Agnes; Zegarra Moretti, Carlos (2021). Libros en los Andes. La biblioteca robada del cura indígena Fernando Ramos Titu Atauchi (1809). Revista Complutense de Historia de América, 47(47), pp. 181-208. Ed. Complutense 10.5209/rcha.75325

Gehbald, Agnes (2021). REVIEW Marina Garone Gravier / María Andrea Giovine Yáñez (Hg.): Bibliología e iconotextualidad. Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre las relaciones entre textos e imágenes. Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte(23), pp. 155-156. Franz Steiner Verlag

2020

Gehbald, Agnes (2020). Popular Print Culture and the Book Market in Late Colonial Peru, 1763–1821 (Unpublished). (Dissertation, Universität zu Köln, Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Geschichte)

Gehbald, Agnes (6 February 2020). Hospital and Orphanage: Beneficiaries of the Printing Privilege in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (Unpublished). In: Institutions and Book Market during the Early Modern Period: Between Regulation and Promotion. Sevilla.

Gehbald, Agnes (2020). REVIEW Pedro Guibovich Pérez: Imprimir en Lima durante la colonia. Historia y documentos, 1584–1750. Archiv zur Geschichte des Buchwesens(75), pp. 229-254. Degruyter 10.1515/9783110680140-010

2019

Gehbald, Agnes (19 December 2019). Prince Euclid, Practical Arithmetic, and Print Promotion: Mathematical Books in the Spanish-Peruvian Trade of the Eighteenth Century (Unpublished). In: The Mathematical Book Trade in the Early Modern World. Oxford.

Gehbald, Agnes (17 May 2019). Books, Prints, and Manuscripts: On the Coexistence of Media in Late Colonial Lima (Unpublished). In: Centre of Latin American Studies, PhD Research Day. Cambridge.

Gehbald, Agnes (2019). REVIEW Garone Gravier, Marina: Historia de la imprenta y la tipografía colonial en Puebla de los Ángeles (1642–1821). Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte(21), pp. 197-198. Franz Steiner Verlag

2018

Gehbald, Agnes (16 June 2018). El libro importado: surtiendo el mercado peruano a finales de la Carrera de Indias (Unpublished). In: ICA: Congreso Internacional de Americanistas. Salamanca.

Gehbald, Agnes (30 May 2018). En una buena impresión: Popular Print Culture in Lima (Unpublished). In: John Carter Brown Library Fellow Talk. Providence, RI.

Gehbald, Agnes (2018). REVIEW Bas Martín, Nicolás / Taylor, Barry (Hg.): El libro español en Londres. La visión de España en Inglaterra (siglos XVI al XIX). Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte(20), pp. 195-196. Franz Steiner Verlag

Gehbald, Agnes (2018). REVIEW Dubcovsky, Alejandra: Informed Power. Communication in the Early American South. Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte(20), pp. 189-190. Franz Steiner Verlag

Gehbald, Agnes (2018). REVIEW Bianca Premo: The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, 42(2), pp. 321-324. Wallstein

2017

Gehbald, Agnes (2017). REVIEW Gomis Coloma, Juan: Menudencias de imprenta. Producción y circulación de la literatura popular (Valencia, siglo XVIII). Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte(19), pp. 174-175. Franz Steiner Verlag

2016

Gehbald, Agnes (16 December 2016). Populäre Printkultur im spätkolonialen Peru (Unpublished). In: ADLAF Nachwuchstagung. Bielefeld.

Gehbald, Agnes (9 December 2016). The Transatlantic Book Trade in Late Colonial Peru (Unpublished). In: Les circulations globales, PhD Workshop Sciences Po Paris. Paris.

Gehbald, Agnes (27 October 2016). De Cádiz al Cusco: el libro en el Perú a finales de la época colonial (Unpublished). In: Instituto de Pastoral Andina & Centro Tinku. Cusco.

Gehbald, Agnes (8 July 2016). Almanach. Eine globale Gattung? Von Paris nach Lima im 18. Jh. (Unpublished). In: AGIG: Globalgeschichte in der Praxis. Konstanz.

Gehbald, Agnes (24 June 2016). Laughing about Lima: Print and Prohibition in the 18th Century (Unpublished). In: The Books and the City. Maastricht.

2015

Gehbald, Agnes (16 September 2015). Impresos populares y talleres de imprenta en Lima durante el XVIII (Unpublished). In: Municipalidad de Lima. Lima.