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Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–1905 Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Will Sack
In the late nineteenth century, the Chosŏn state, which ruled the Korean peninsula from 1392 to 1910, moved settlers, animals and crops to the isolated oceanic island (do) of Ullŭng, displacing or killing the indigenous people, animals and possibly plant species living there. Having first sent observers to investigate Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, the Chosŏn court accurately replicated
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Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Rachael Harkes
As in many areas of pre-Reformation devotion, the dead were a conspicuous presence in English religious guilds of all sizes. Members joined in the expectation that the guild would say prayers and perform masses for their souls after death, and previous members and benefactors would be commemorated with regularity. This article, however, investigates a new avenue of the fraternal relationship with the
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Property and the End of Empire in International Zones, 1919–1947 Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Anna Ross
At the end of the First World War, defeated European empires ceded a wealth of imperial patronage, including palaces, government buildings and offices, to newly forming states in central Europe. While we know a great deal about these property transfers, the fate of ceded property in mandates and other newly emerging sovereign spaces, such as international zones, is less well known. This article traces
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Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Federico Etro
We study art markets in the Greco-Roman world to explore the origins of artistic innovations in classical Greece and the mass production of imitative works in the Roman Empire. Economic factors may have played a role, on one side fostering product innovations when a few rival Greek city-states competed, outbidding each other to obtain higher-quality artworks, and on the other side fostering process
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The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Desiree Desierto, Mark Koyama
Sumptuary laws that regulated clothing based on social status were an important part of the political economy of premodern states. We introduce a model that captures the notion that consumption by ordinary citizens poses a status threat to ruling elites. Our model predicts a non-monotonic effect of income—sumptuary legislation initially increases with income, but then falls as income increases further
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The Prohibition of Child Labour in Factories Revisited: Towards a Social History of Decommodification in the Early Nineteenth Century International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Matthias Ruoss
This article examines the removal of children from factories and their integration into the school system in the early nineteenth century, using decommodification as a conceptual framework. The Swiss canton of Aargau serves as a case study – a region where the textile industry flourished and a liberal government came to power after the July Revolution, subsequently enforcing compulsory education. Through
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Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen
This paper examines judicial and legislative modifications to a specific property rule, the benefit offset, which was widely employed by railroad companies during the 19th century as a way to reduce required compensation for land taken through eminent domain. At the beginning of the railroad boom, all states allowed the benefit offset; by the end of the boom, most states had banned it, some via court
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Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Fabrizio Almeida Marodin, Kris James Mitchener, Gary Richardson
Despite its centrality in debates about the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, banking panics’ impact on the money supply during this period remains a subject of ongoing debate. Before 1936, the Fed's decentralized structure meant that panics impacted money creation regionally while monetary impulses impacted bank stability nationally. We use this structure and newly digitized data to
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The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, Marc Goñi
Customary law governed most European societies during the Middle Ages and early modern period. To better understand the roots of legal customs and their implications for long-run development, we introduce an atlas of customary regions of Ancien Régime France. We also describe the historical origins of French customs, their role as a source of law, and their legal content. We then offer some insights
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Halls of Power: Changing Political and Administrative Culture at the Palace of Westminster in the Sixteenth Century Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Elizabeth Biggs
During the sixteenth century, the medieval Palace of Westminster went from being the most-used royal palace, where the king lived and worked alongside his administration, to becoming solely the home of the law-courts, Parliament, and the offices of state. At the same time, the numbers of individuals who came to the palace seeking governance or to take part in the business of the law-courts increased
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Activism across Borders: A Human Rights Perspective International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mark Hurst
Daniel Laqua's recent monograph Activism across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe raises a number of pertinent issues for historians of human rights to reflect upon. This article takes the four analytical lenses highlighted by Laqua for assessing transnational activism and applies them to cases of human rights activism in the Cold War and post-Cold War era. In
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Activism across Borders since 1870: A Review Dossier International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jessica Reinisch
This essay introduces a review dossier dedicated to Daniel Laqua's Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (London, 2023). The dossier features comments by four historians – Constance Bantman, Georgina Brewis, Nicole Robertson, and Mark Hurst – as well as a response from Laqua himself. Laqua's book provides a framework for studying different forms of
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Humanitarian and Youth Activism across Time and Space International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Georgina Brewis
This essay engages with Daniel Laqua's book Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (London, 2023) from the perspective of a historian of both humanitarianism and youth. This short reflection therefore focuses primarily on the book's engagement with the topic of humanitarianism, before discussing an understated, albeit important, cross-cutting theme
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Reflections on Activism across Borders: A Response International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Daniel Laqua
This essay discusses different approaches to studying transnational activism in historical perspective. In doing so, it concludes a review dossier in which several historians have commented on aspects of Daniel Laqua's book Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (London, 2023). The author responds to the preceding pieces by addressing the contributors’
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Women, Workers, and Women Workers: Connections and Tensions in Transnational Activism International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nicole Robertson
Daniel Laqua's Activism across Borders since 1870 is an impressive contribution to scholarly research on transnational activism. It provides a detailed and innovative study of the connections but also the divisions between individuals, groups, and organizations. Laqua's approach and analysis interrogate the connectedness, transience, ambivalence, and marginality of transnational activism. He explores
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All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Daniel Immerwahr
Industrial capitalism arrived in Europe as great urban fires were already retreating. The United States, however, was generously timbered and far more reliant on wooden construction. As a result, its infernos continued, and even increased, well into its age of capital. They especially struck places of intense commodification: hastily built settler towns, slave cities, financial centres and sites of
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From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Sara Caputo
In the eighteenth century, ‘ship tracks’, lines recording vessels’ movements on charts, facilitated wayfinding, hydrographical surveys and territorial claims. During the long nineteenth century, however, their main function shifted from surveying of the marine environment to surveillance of officers’ movements and actions. Using textual and cartographical sources produced by British naval officers
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Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Leticia Arroyo Abad, Noel Maurer
For most of human history, free wage labor was uncommon compared to various coercive institutions based on the threat of force. Latin America was no exception to this general rule. A number of scholars argue that past coercive labor institutions explain regional and national divergence within Latin America long after the institutions themselves have disappeared. A review of the literature, however
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The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Cormac Ó Gráda, Tyler Anbinder, Dylan Connor, Simone A. Wegge
Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particula...
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Instructing the Young and Comforting the Aged in the Norwich and Norfolk Institution for the Indigent Blind, ca. 1805–55 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Susannah Ottaway, Adam Smart, Michael Schultz
This article considers the ways that Enlightenment ideas and practices shaped the founding of the Norwich and Norfolk Institution for the Indigent Blind, and then analyzes the disparate approaches to the aged versus the working-age blind in its first half-century (ca. 1805–55). While we see change over time, we also find distinctive continuity in the ongoing close connections inmates kept with Norwich
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Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Christopher L Hill
In October 1958, seven Japanese writers attended the first great cultural event of the Bandung era, the week-long Afro-Asian Writers Conference held in Tashkent, the capital of Soviet Uzbekistan. The ‘literary Bandung’ resulted in the creation of the Afro-Asian Writers Association (AAWA), a source of growing interest among historians of anti-colonialism for the institutions it founded to support a
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“A Ceremony of National and Representative Character”: The Four-Nations Politics of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Alison Hight
In June 1887, Britons crowded the streets of London to celebrate Queen Victoria's fiftieth year on the throne. It was an opportunity to publicly revel in the social, political, economic, and imperial progress Britain had made during her historic reign. The Lord Chamberlain was tasked with organizing a formal jubilee ceremony at Westminster Abbey representative of the queen's diverse subjects. But this
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Africans and the Soviet Rights Archipelago International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Thom Loyd
The history of Soviet “rights defenders” is seemingly well known. Emerging in the 1960s in response to fears of a creeping re-Stalinization, the rights movement was part of the broader dissident milieu that coalesced in the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras. Drawing on new documents from the Ukrainian KGB, this article broadens the canon of what we consider “Soviet rights talk” by focusing on a group completely
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“Side by Side with Fighting Nations”: Making the New Culture of Pro-African Solidarity in the Campaigns of the Czechoslovak Committee for Solidarity with African and Asian Peoples International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Barbora Buzássyová
The article analyses the solidarity campaigns organized by the Czechoslovak Committee for Solidarity with African and Asian Peoples between the 1960s and 1980s. It situates the Czechoslovak solidarity towards African countries in the wider framework of the solidarity politics of the Eastern bloc and points out differences as well as similarities. Although the Czechoslovak Solidarity Committee was one
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Solidarity and the Aesthetics of Pain: Soviet Documentary Film and the Vietnam War International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Kristin Roth-Ey
The Soviet campaign in support of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the Vietnam War saturated Soviet public culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was the longest solidarity action in Soviet history and the first to reach mass television audiences. This article examines the production and reception of a televised documentary film about the Vietnam War made by Konstantin Simonov – a celebrity
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An African American Anthropologist in Wales: St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic Ecologies of Race Relations Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kieran Connell
In summer 1947, African American anthropologist John Gibbs St. Clair Drake arrived in Tiger Bay, the port neighborhood of Cardiff in South Wales, to begin field work for his doctoral thesis, “Race Relations in the British Isles.” Drake's academic reputation had already been established by the publication of Black Metropolis (1945), a seminal study of Chicago's so-called Black Belt that Drake co-authored
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Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller, Carlos Sanz
This article exploits two newspaper archives to track economic policy uncertainty in Spain from 1905–1945. We find that the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 was anticipated by a striking upward level shift of uncertainty in both newspapers. We study the reasons for this shift through a natural language processing method, which allows us to leverage expert opinion to track specific issues in our newspaper
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Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Mary Kopriva
This paper estimates the migratory and fertility effects of the federal Relocation Program, which attempted to move Native American individuals to urban areas under the promises of financial assistance and job training. I find the Relocation Program increased the Native American population in the target cities by more than 100,000 people. I also find that second- and third-generation Native American
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Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Kota Ogasawara
I analyze factory worker households in the early 1920s in Osaka to examine idiosyncratic income shocks and consumption. Using the household-level monthly panel dataset, I find that while households could not fully cope with idiosyncratic income shocks at that time, they mitigated fluctuations in indispensable consumption during economic hardship. In terms of risk-coping mechanisms, I find suggestive
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Sovereign Collateral The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Marc Flandreau, Stefano Pietrosanti, Carlotta E. Schuster
Due to a dearth of data, nineteenth century lending to sovereign borrowers was a blind date. We argue this is the reason for collateral pledges found in contemporary lending covenants, which enabled not execution, but the production of reliable fiscal data. Lawyers injected collateral clauses in sovereign debt covenants to permit credible disclosure of hard-to-access tax data. The study foregrounds
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The Anarchist and the Technocrat: Herbert Read, C. P. Snow, and the Future of Britain Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Matthew S. Adams
A conceptual revision occurred at the heart of anarchist theory between the end of the nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. As anarchist thinkers grappled with a state transformed beyond recognition by technological change, they reassessed their critique of state power and the rhetorical methods used to expose its inherent violence. Where nineteenth-century anarchists favored organic metaphors
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Calico Madams and South Sea Cheats: Global Trade, Finance, and Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian England Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Abigail L. Swingen
In the summer of 1719, woolen and silk weavers took to the streets in cities and towns across England to protest the East India Company's importation of cotton calicoes from South Asia. English weavers viewed these popular imports as hurting their economic livelihoods. During the protests, they violently turned their anger against women wearing calico, tearing off their clothes and even throwing acid
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Care and Crisis: Making Beds in the National Health Service Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Agnes Arnold-Forster, Victoria Bates
In July 1979, the Sunday Mirror published an article with the headline: “HOSPITALS AT CRISIS POINT: Jobs and beds to go in cash curbs.” In this article we explore the role of hospital beds in such public discussions of “crisis” within the British National Health Service (NHS). In the 1970s, the media and politicians paid increasing attention to bed numbers as an indicator of resource scarcity within
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“Free Passage” for the “King's True Liegemen”: The Meaning of Free Trade in a Corporate Age, 1555–1624 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 David Pennington
Scholars of late have come to reevaluate and appreciate the achievements of merchant companies that fostered commercial networks and established new global trade routes. This research would seem to lend support to historians who have characterized early seventeenth-century calls for “free trade” as mere sloganeering driven by provincial merchants suspicious of the London-dominated corporations. This
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Underground Empire: Charles Warren, William Simpson, and the Archeological Exploration of Palestine Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jeffrey Auerbach
British army officer Charles Warren's archeological excavations in Jerusalem in the late 1860s on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Scottish artist William Simpson's paintings of those activities articulated a new kind of imperial space: the underground empire. The imperial underground was a place that had not yet been conquered and where the British had limited visibility. In contrast to
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Contested Statues: The Clive Memorial Fund, Imperial Heroes, and the Reimaginings of Indian History Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 James Watts
This article considers the Clive Memorial Fund and the campaigns surrounding proposed statues to Robert Clive in London and Calcutta between 1907 and 1912. The author argues that this campaign was an attempt to glorify Clive's actions, focused on the battle of Plassey and its aftermath, as foundation stones for the Indian Empire. The statues were an anxious attempt to situate Britain as a natural part
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Excommunication in Postrevolutionary England, 1689–1714 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Pranav Jain
This article asks why many divines pushed for reform of the Church of England's use of excommunication after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In response, it argues that, worried by what they perceived as widespread moral decline and the threat posed by the floodgates of Protestant dissent opened up by the Toleration Act of 1689, clergy became concerned that sentences such as excommunication were ineffective
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Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Sam Il Myoung Hwang, Munir Squires
The quality of historical US census data is critical to the performance of linking algorithms. We use genealogical profiles to correct measurement error in census names and ages. Our findings suggest that one in every two records has an error in name or age, and human capital is correlated with lower error rates. While errors in age decline across subsequent census rounds from 1850 to 1930, errors
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Fen Plantation: Commons, Calvinism, and the Boundaries of Belonging in Early Modern England Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Elly Dezateux Robson
In the first half of the seventeenth century, several foreign plantations were established on wetlands drained during a wave of ambitious state-led projects across eastern England. The lines of solidarity and separation forged by this little-known episode in the history of migration pose important questions about how emergent notions of nationhood intersected with local and transnational, religious
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Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850) International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Matilde Cazzola, Anselm Küsters
By tracing mentions of the English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), his revolutionary “Plan”, and his disciples (the “Spencean Philanthropists”) in digitized collections of English-language Irish, Caribbean, Indian, Australian, Canadian, and US-American newspapers in the 1790s–1840s, this article explores the dissemination of the ideas and militancy inspired by Spence (“Spenceanism”) across
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Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Giovanni Facchini, Timothy J. Hatton, Max F. Steinhardt
The 1965 Immigration Act represented a radical shift in U.S. policy, which has been credited with dramatically expanding the volume and changing the composition of immigration. Its passing has often been described as the result of political machinations negotiated within Congress without regard to public opinion. We show that congressional voting was consistent with public opinion on abolishing the
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One British Archive: The Treasures of Stonyhurst College Libraries Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Chelsea Reutcke
This essay inaugurates One British Archive, a new series in the Journal of British Studies. This short essay describes the little-known archive, libraries, and museum of Stonyhurst College in England. Stonyhurst represents a continuation of the College of St Omers, a Catholic institution started in continental Europe in the sixteenth century, when Catholics were routinely prosecuted in England. This
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Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Andreas Ferrara, Joung Yeob Ha, Randall Walsh
This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure that can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We provide three methods for using this secondary variable to deal with non-classical measurement error in a binary treatment: set identification, bias reduction via sample
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Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Grace Stafford
In Late Antiquity, as today, women’s veiling was a contentious topic. Early Christian churchmen wrote about it at length, exhorting women to cover and criticizing those they considered were not veiling appropriately. According to these writers, veils were an essential garment tied to Christian modesty and religious ideas about female submission to male authority. Modern scholarship has tended to side
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Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Pier Paolo Creanza
Recent scholarship contends that ancient Mediterranean economies grew intensively. An explanation is that Smithian growth was spurred by reductions in transaction costs and increased trade flows. This paper argues that an ancient Greek institution, proxenia, was among the key innovations that allowed such growth in the period 500–0 BCE. Proxenia entailed a Greek city-state declaring a foreigner to
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“Lavender for Lads”: Smell and Nationalism in the Great War Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jessica P. Clark
In the Great War, home front schemes in support of wartime causes included the making and transportation of what were called smellies: homemade tokens and commercial gifts that invoked supposedly traditional British scents. For volunteers, this entailed the collection and distribution of homemade lavender and verbena bags as an allegedly effective—and practical—means of aiding those injured at the
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The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–1975 Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Alistair Kefford
In the three decades after 1945 the British property development sector exploded in size and began operating on a worldwide scale. The largest property companies in the world were British in this era and they built office blocks, shopping centres and hotels in cities all over the world. These overseas property developments overlapped firmly with the pre-existing political and economic geographies of
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Between Proclamations of Friendship and Concealed Distrust: The Turkish-Soviet Border Commission, 1925–1926 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.214) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Stephan Rindlisbacher
Opposing the treaties signed after the Paris Peace Conference, the Soviet state and the nascent Turkish Republic saw themselves as potential allies. The Treaties of Moscow and Kars in 1921 were the legal expressions of this. Among other things, both signatory powers agreed that a bilateral commission would demarcate their newly established mutual border in the South Caucasus. This article provides
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Peasant Productivity and Welfare in the Middle Ages and Beyond Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 John Hatcher
Driven by the quality of sources rather than their representativeness, the history of English agriculture has been written primarily from the perspective of well-documented large farms to the neglect of smallholders and cottagers who for centuries cultivated the greater part of the nation’s farmland but left scant records. The superb series recording the mediocre and low crop yields of the expansive
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The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–2020 Past & Present (IF 2.326) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Matthew Kerry
Banging together pots and pans has become established as a common protest technique in Spain and across the world. Pot-banging can be linked to charivari: a centuries-old, Europe-wide, nuptial practice that subjected a marrying couple to mocking moral critique, which was also adapted for political ends. This article, however, distinguishes between nuptial charivari (the cencerrada) and recent political
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Introduction to editorial Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lisa Dillon, Joshua MacFadyen, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
Published in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (Vol. 56, No. 3, 2023)
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Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Andrew Chase Holt
This paper presents evidence that firms had labor market power during the early 1930s. Using plant-level data from the Census of Manufactures between 1929 and 1935, I construct a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of local labor market concentration at the State-Economic-Area-by-industry-by-occupation level. I find that local labor market concentration has a negative relationship with wages which is consistent
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Modeling systems of sentencing in early inquisition trials: Crime, social connectivity, and punishment in the register of Peter Seila (1241–2) Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Robert L. J. Shaw, Tomáš Hampejs, David Zbíral
Despite significant research on the techniques of repression employed by medieval inquisitors against religious dissidents, the case-level influences on the penances they meted out are understood o...
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
Published in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (Vol. 56, No. 3, 2023)
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Correction Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.647) Pub Date : 2023-12-22
Published in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911) The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.459) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Monica Bozzano, Gabriele Cappelli, Michelangelo Vasta
This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of the expansion of mass schooling and the long-term legacy of educational institutions. Based on a new provincial-level dataset for Italy in the period 1861–1911, we argue that different models of schooling provision adopted by the different pre-unification polities influenced primary-education organizations across macro-regions up to WWI
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Winston Churchill versus E. D. Morel, Dundee, 1922, and the Split in the Liberal Party Journal of British Studies (IF 0.764) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jim Tomlinson
In the November 1922 general election in the two-member seat of Dundee, Winston Churchill, Liberal member of Parliament for the city since 1908, lost his seat to Edwin Scrymgeour (Prohibitionist) and E. D. Morel (Labour). Before 1914, Morel, like Churchill, had been a member of the Liberal Party, and this article compares the political trajectory of Churchill and Morel across the war period in order
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Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Erik Bengtsson, Jakob Molinder
This paper analyzes incomes and income inequality in Stockholm from 1870 to 1970. The paper builds on a new dataset of 38,022 randomly sampled Stockholm residents 1870–1950, with information on income, occupation, age, gender, and household composition. This is complemented by the Census of 1930 and a Statistics Sweden sample for 1960 and 1970. Incomes were very unequally distributed between 1870 and
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Winter-Quartering Tribes: Nomad–Peasant Relations in the Northeastern Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire (1800s–1850s) International Review of Social History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Yener Koç
Focusing on the winter quartering of Kurdish nomadic tribes among peasant villages, this article discusses the patterns of Kurdish nomadism and nomad–peasant relations in the Ottoman sanjaks of Muş, Bayezid, and Van during the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the political structure of these regions and the requirements of animal husbandry among the nomads not only created a distinct