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Published online: 24 October 2022 This is the first volume of the newly established Yearbook for the History of Global Development – a serial publication we hope will became a key outlet in this field of research. In an academic world crammed with journals, conference proceedings, websites, and blogs, establishing a new serial publication requires some explanation. As editors, we believe that development is an important subject; that there is a tangible need for more knowledge about the history of development; and that a yearbook is the most appropriate format to publish research on this topic. In the following, we would like to explain why we believe that this is so and how we intend the Yearbook to contribute to the future of the field.

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What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in the future? -- Introduction -- Globalizing Development: A View from Late Imperial China -- Where Did the Idea of International Development Come From? Looking Beyond the Industrialized Core -- Entangled Histories of “Development,” “development,” and “Christian development” -- Development, Modernization, and the Remaking of an Imperial World Order -- Which Speeches Matter? Reflections on the Invention of Development -- The Historiography of Measuring Development -- Numbers in Space: Measuring Living Standards and Regional Inequality in the Soviet Union -- Profitability Through Quantification: The World Bank and Rural Development in the 1970s -- Was the Large Dam a “Modern Temple”? Taking Stock of India’s Development Tryst with the Bhakra-Nangal -- A Note on the Historical Origins of ISEW-GPI -- The Origins of the National Welfare Index (NWI) -- GNH-Led Development in Bhutan -- The Happy Planet Index -- Commentary: The New Epicureans -- List of contributors