Nuala Zahedieh

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Nuala Zahedieh is a British historian and university professor.

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Nuala Zahedieh
Born	England
Nationality	British
Occupation	University Professor
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She completed her undergraduate degree, a master's degree, and a PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics.^[1]

She was a professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh from 1990 to 2021. She retired from that post in 2021.^[2]

She served as Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies from 2014 to 2019 and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History from 2019 to 2020. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 1997-8 and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society.^[2]

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Fellow of Academia Europaea.^[3]

Zahedieh is also on the Academic Panel of the Museum of London and is Chair of the Publications Committee of the Economic History Society.^[3]

Her notable books include:^[4][5][6]

• The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy 1660–1700
• The British Atlantic Empire and Economic Change 1607–1775 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
• War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652-89
• A Global Trading Network: The Spanish empire in the world economy (1580-1820)

Her book Capital and the Colonies was reviewed positively by Thomas M. Truxes due to the way it handled the historical relationship between London's economy and the Atlantic slave trade.^[7]

• Festschrift (www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk)
• Biography (ehs.org.uk)
• Biography (www.ae-info.org)