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The IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel: progress and prospects Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Steven Ruggles, Julia Drew, Catherine A. Fitch, J. David Hacker, Jonas Helgertz, Matt A. Nelson, Nesile Ozder, Matthew Sobek, John Robert Warren
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The Economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-11 Viktor Malein
This paper studies the economic impacts of land ownership concentration among the aristocratic elite in the Russian Empire. I document that areas with a higher concentration of noble land ownership were associated with lower levels of primary education during 1880-1911. Exploring the mechanisms, I show that by controlling local governments the landed elites decreased public spending on education, shifting
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Data retrieval from local heritage books—Is artificial intelligence the solution? Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-07 Robert Stelter, Rafael Biehler
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Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2025-06-06 Guanmian Xu, Shohei Okubo
In the early modern period, while slavery became firmly entrenched in the Atlantic’s sugar economies, Southeast Asia witnessed the rise of distinct plantation regimes. Unlike their Atlantic counterparts, these Asian plantation regimes relied not on enslavement but on addiction — particularly to opium smoking — as a means to control and exploit plantation labour. Existing research has highlighted how
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Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-03 Jacob Greenspon, Gordon Hanson
How does improving access to the supply of energy affect regional specialization in manufacturing? We evaluate the long-run employment impacts of pipelines constructed by the U.S. government during World War II to transport oil and gas from the oil fields of the Southwest to wartime industrial producers in the Northeast. The pipelines were built rapidly to connect end points along a direct path that
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The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-02 Adriana Lleras-Muney, Tommy Morgan, Joseph Price, William Wygal
We investigate how World War II affected the longevity of the Black population. We focus attention on two aspects of the war. First, during the war a very large number of men served in the military. Second, many companies received large Federal contracts to support the war effort and employed a large number of workers in the production of war-related goods and services. Previous work has found that
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More than a feeling. Introducing an NLP-based media sentiment index for the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1872–1930 Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Lino Wehrheim, Janos Borst-Graetz, Bernhard Liebl, Manuel Burghardt, Mark Spoerer
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Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-29 Mark Carlson
This paper explores simultaneous developments in the banking sector and the real economy during the Great Depression and whether these are related to shifts in beliefs about economic prospects. It identifies a notable coincidence of bank closures and declines in consumer durable consumption (new automobile purchases) in Ohio in the early 1930s. To examine whether shifts in beliefs and the economic
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Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920 Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-26 Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe, Jonas Helgertz
Between 1850 and 1930, millions of Europeans emigrated to the United States, attracted by opportunities for a better life. We study the role of migrant networks in fostering emigration, using individual-level Swedish full-count census data for men and women, linked to emigration records. Our findings show that having previously migrating siblings was an important determinant of emigration, particularly
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Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-26 Mark Humphries, Lianne C. Leddy, Quinn Downton, Meredith Legace, John McConnell, Isabella Murray, Elizabeth Spence
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From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-24 Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell
Most modernization or development theories that incorporate law emphasize a growth in the scope of individual choice as law becomes impartial, relevant to all. An early expression of this conceptualization was Henry Maine's (1822–1888) celebrated dictum that progressive societies move from status to contract. We conduct an inquiry into Maine's conjecture using machine-learning applied to two early-modern
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Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio, Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham
Over the last few years, a number of articles have featured in Past and Present on the subject of late medieval lordship. Three were accepted within a four-month period between July and October 2023 (Christian D. Liddy, ‘The Making of Towns, the Making of Polities’; Tristan W. Sharp, ‘Seigneurial Predation in the Late Medieval Feud’; Frederik Buylaert, Thijs Lambrecht, Klaas Van Gelder, and Kaat Cappelle
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The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 Colm Murphy
In histories of Western political economy in the 1970s–1980s, Keynesianism is conventionally depicted as a victim of neoliberal ascendancy. Building on revisionist scholarship, this article looks beyond neoliberalism to explain the fate of Keynesianism in the transforming political economy of the United Kingdom in its global contexts. It explores a neglected case study: the intense controversies sparked
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The economics of Greco-Roman slavery Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Rafael R. Guthmann, Walter Scheidel
This paper investigates the economic aspects of slavery in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Existing evidence reveals significant variation in the relative cost of slaves compared to unskilled wages: it appears that at different times and places, a typical slave could be purchased for prices equivalent to wages paid from 150 to 1000 days of unskilled labor. To explain this great disparity, we develop
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Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth? Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Taylor Jaworski, Dongkyu Yang
The participation of the United States in World War II led to a substantial mobilization of domestic resources to produce the materiel used on the battlefields of Europe and in the Pacific. We produce new estimates for the impact of war mobilization on long-run economic growth and regional development in the United States over the postwar period. Guided by an economic geography model, we interpret
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Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940–2010 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Stefan Goebel
Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, both destroyed in the Second World War, are often mentioned in the same breath, treated as architectural, commemorative, and religious equivalents. Nothing could be further from the truth. While the ruins of Coventry Cathedral were transformed into a site of—and memorial to—postwar reconciliation, the Frauenkirche was neither a revered shrine nor an
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Ascending from the bottom rung: The labor market assimilation of rural-urban migrants in Sweden, 1880–1910 Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Jonatan Andersson
This article examines the assimilation of rural-born people into the urban economy in the industrialization context, focusing on Sweden from 1880 to 1910—a time characterized by a notable shift in economic activity towards urban areas. I utilize individual-level data on three cohorts of rural-urban migrants linked across census records, allowing for an examination of their labor market assimilation
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The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Priya Satia
Historians of capitalism have put monopoly corporations and slavery at the heart of the history of a political-economic system long mythologized as founded on free markets. Liberal political economic theory, presupposing and demanding a private economic realm free from state intervention that would drive world-historical progress, was partly a reaction to the long sway of corporations that collapsed
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Vanished Institutions: The Life and Death of Europe's International Organisations – Introduction Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-06 Kiran Klaus Patel, Kenneth Weisbrode
Why do international organisations die? Their causes of death deserve attention and analysis. Europe in the 20th century with its plenitude of international organisations provides a rich ground for studying why some of them died, why some lived, why some were resurrected from near-death and why some survive as institutional shells, or zombies. The introduction to this special issue summarises the cases
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NATO’s ‘Near Death’ and the Study of ‘Vanishing Institutions’ Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Seth A Johnston
A newly elected president declares NATO ‘obsolete’ and announces his country's withdrawal from parts of the transatlantic Alliance. Some European leaders fear a more complete abandonment. Although France remained a treaty ally after Charles de Gaulle's 1966 announcement, this episode remains the most significant rejection of NATO's organisation in its history. And yet, the potentially fatal crisis
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Book Review: Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics and Practices by Peder Roberts and Alejandra Mancilla, eds RobertsPeder and MancillaAlejandra, eds, Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics and Practices, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2024; 312 pp.; 9781526170637, £90.00 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Klaus Dodds
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Book Review: Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest by Anke Pinkert PinkertAnke, Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2024; 360 pp., 38 illus.; 9780226835327, $115.00 (hbk); 9780226835334, $35.00 (pbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Anna Saunders
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Book Review: Informing Interwar Internationalism: The Information Strategies of the League of Nations by Emil Elby Seidenfaden SeidenfadenEmil Elby, Informing Interwar Internationalism: The Information Strategies of the League of Nations, Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2024; 224 pp., 10 b/w illus.; 9781350382121, £85.00 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Ilaria Scaglia
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Book Review: Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere 1917–1922 by Svetlana Suveica SuveicaSvetlana, Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere 1917–1922, De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, 2022; 509 pp., 6 colour illus., 6 line drawings, 2 maps; 9783111166339, £50.00 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 James Koranyi
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Book Review: Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City by Dennis Romano RomanoDennis, Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2024; 800 pp., 8 colour illus., 78 b/w illus.; 9780190859985, £31.99 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Jennifer McFarland
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Book Review: Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation by Jadwiga Biskupska BiskupskaJadwiga, Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2022; 320 pp., 4 maps; 9781316515587, £75.00 (hbk); 9781009012508, £22.99 (pbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Anita Prażmowska
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Book Review: Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning BlanningTim, Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Allen Lane: London, 2024; 432 pp.; 9780241705148, £30.00 (hbk); 9781802066418, £10.99 (pbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Urszula Kosińska
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Book Review: Maniera Greca in Europe’s Catholic East: On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland (1380s–1720s) by Giedrė Mickūnaitė MickūnaitėGiedrė, Maniera Greca in Europe’s Catholic East: On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland (1380s–1720s), Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, 2023; 238 pp., 56 illus.; 9789462982666, €122.00 European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Tomasz Grusiecki
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Book Review: Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland–Lithuania by Tomasz Grusiecki GrusieckiTomasz, Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland–Lithuania, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2023; 264 pp., 44 b/w illus., 1 map; 9781526164360, £85.00 (hbk); 9781526164353, £80.00 (ebook) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Paul Hulsenboom
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Book Review: ‘Nit on meines Capitels Wissen’. Praktiken des Informations- und Wissensmanagements in der Verwaltung und Herrschaft des Bamberger Domkapitels, 1522–1623 by Oliver Kruk KrukOliver, ‘Nit on meines Capitels Wissen’. Praktiken des Informations- und Wissensmanagements in der Verwaltung und Herrschaft des Bamberger Domkapitels, 1522–1623, Ergon Verlag: Baden-Baden, 2024; 437 pp., 10 illus.; European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Daniel Pfitzer
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Editors’ Response: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Kate Ferris, Suzanna Ivanič, James Koranyi
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Book Review: Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans EvansRichard J., Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich, Allen Lane: London, 2024; 642 pp.; 9780241471500, £35.00 (hbk); 9780141994437, £14.99 (pbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Lisa Pine
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Book Review: Stalin vs Gypsies: Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR by Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov MarushiakovaElena and PopovVesselin, Stalin vs Gypsies: Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR, Brill: Leiden, 2024; 664 pp., 27 b/w illus., 8 colour illus.; 9783506790965, €139.25 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Anna G. Piotrowska
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Book Review: Living the German Revolution 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses by Christopher Dillon and Kim Wünschmann, eds DillonChristopher and WünschmannKim, eds, Living the German Revolution 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2023; 380 pp.; 9780198898207, £80.00 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Andrew G. Bonnell
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Book Review: History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian ‘Patriotic War’, 1812–1914 by Andrew M. Nedd NeddAndrew M., History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian ‘Patriotic War’, 1812–1914, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2024; 273 pp., 50 illus.; 9783031603341, £109.99 European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Robert Justin Goldstein
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Book Review: Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914: Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters by Catherine Horel HorelCatherine, Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914: Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters, Central European University Press: Budapest, 2023; 574 pp., 83 photos, 46 tables; 9789633862896, $121.00 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Robert Justin Goldstein
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Book Review: The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917–1945 by Daniel Maul MaulDaniel, The Politics of Service: American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917–1945, De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, 2024; 334 pp., 8 illus.; 9783110675597, £71.00 (hbk) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Marina Pérez de Arcos
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Fascist Internationalism: From a Vanished Institution to a Failed Concept? Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Daniel Hedinger
During the early 1930s, a number of fascist international organisations emerged in Europe and East Asia. Italy's ambition to universalise fascism led to the establishment of the Action Committees for the Universality of Rome (Comitati d’Azione per l’Universalità di Roma, CAUR) in mid-1933. Meanwhile, some months earlier, Japan's continental expansion and the founding of Manchukuo brought about the
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The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-26 Giuliana Freschi, Marco Molteni
This paper examines the effects of abolishing the foundling wheel (ruota) on reproductive decision-making in post-unitary Italy (1863–1882). The ruota was a turning wheel placed on a wall outside foundling homes across Catholic Europe, which offered a means for anonymous infant abandonment. As infant abandonment rates and foundling mortality soared in the nineteenth century, countries began dismantling
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The Quiet End of the Front-Runner: The Expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Tobias Witschke
The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was the first and most notable post-war supranational community advancing the process of European integration. It is also the only such community which ceased to exist after 50 years, as laid down in its founding treaty. Based on archival research, this article reviews the discussion on the future of the ECSC Treaty within the European institutions held
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European Lives and Deaths – Atlantic Revival? The Europeanness of the League of Nations’ Protracted Demise Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Haakon Andreas Ikonomou
In this article, we revisit the story of the League of Nations’ (1919–1946) death. Throughout its existence, the League served as an instrument for a series of important experiments in organising European politics and negotiating Europe's place in the wider global order. To understand the League's demise and legacy, we need to study these different conceptions of Europe, their shortcomings, failures
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Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Karolina Hutková, Ernesto Dal Bó, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman
The significance of the state’s fiscal system for military capacity, colonization, trade, and economic development is a long-studied topic. Much scholarship has focused on Britain and the emergence of its fiscal-military state. This article shows that fiscal capacity was not created only by government bureaucracies: the ‘company-state at home’ model presented here complements the narrative of the ‘fiscal-military
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The impact of World War II Army service on income and mobility in the 1960s by ethnoracial group Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-17 Sergio E. Barrera, Andreas Ferrara, Price V. Fishback, Misty L. Heggeness
We link the 1940 full-count Census to World War II enlistment records and 1969 administrative tax returns to study how WWII service in the Army and Army Airforce impacted the income and mobility of non-Hispanic White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American male Army veterans relative to their non-Army counterparts in 1969. The size of our data set provides enough power to shed new light on previously
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Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-15 Claudia Goldin, Claudia Olivetti, Joseph Ferrie
The Lanham Act was a federal infrastructure bill passed by Congress in 1940 and eventually used to fund programs for the preschool and school-aged children of working women during WWII. It remains, to this day, the only example in US history of an (almost) universal, largely federally supported childcare program. We explore its role in enabling and increasing the labor supply of mothers during WWII
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Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-15 D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Krzysztof Karbownik, Daniel I. Rees, Camila Steffens
The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest, recruit, and hold non-violent protests. Using data from 1960–1970, we estimate the effects of these protests
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Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-15 Kris James Mitchener, Gary Richardson
Bank distress was a defining feature of the Great Depression in the United States. Most banks, however, weathered the storm and remained in operation throughout the contraction. We show that surviving banks cut lending when depositors withdrew funds en masse during panics. This panic-induced decline in lending explains about one-third of the reduction in aggregate commercial bank lending between 1929
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Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-13 Partha Pratim Shil
In colonial Bengal, the average police constable was largely unlettered. Nevertheless, constables were at the frontline in the enforcement of colonial law. This paradox of an unlettered constabulary enforcing the letter of law defies the familiar logic in the historical scholarship on British India that associates the written word with histories of state power and orality with histories of subaltern
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Historical context and creation of the IPUMS Ancestry full count population census data 1900–1930 Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-12 Matt A. Nelson, Diana L. Magnuson, Matthew Sobek, Lap Huynh
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“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 William White
This article revisits and attempts to explain the failure of settlement in England between the outbreak of civil war in late 1642 and the execution of Charles I in January 1649. It argues that doubts about the process—and not just the proposed terms—of settlement worked against the possibility of an accommodation in the 1640s. An influential parliamentarian faction regarded negotiated treaties as inherently
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Sonic Strategy and Sensory Experience in the Eighty Years’ War European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Saúl Martínez Bermejo
Early modern war was a complex phenomenon that marked not only the lives of soldiers and civilians directly involved in conflicts, but also the technology, the economy and the culture of the epoch. Current intellectual approaches to war nevertheless tend to ignore that war was also experienced as a particular series of sounds, from drums to cannons and cries. In fact, aural perception constituted in
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European History Quarterly Roundtable: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Bolaji Balogun, Sarah Demart, Claire Eldridge, Chandra Frank, Camilla Hawthorne, Stefanie Michels, Erin Kathleen Rowe, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
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Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823 The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Ernesto Dal Bó, Karolina Hutková, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman
We evaluate the role of taxes on overseas trade in the development of imperial Britain’s fiscal-military state. Influential work, for example, Brewer’s Sinews of Power, attributed increased fiscal capacity to the taxation of domestic, rather than traded, goods: excise revenues, coarsely associated with domestic goods, grew faster than customs revenues. We construct new historical revenue series disaggregating
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Benjamin Schneider
This article analyses the elimination of hand-spinning in Britain during the Industrial Revolution and shows that it produced large-scale technological unemployment. First, it uses new empirical evidence and sources to estimate spinning employment before the innovations of the 1760s and 1770s. The estimates show that spinning employed 8 per cent of the population by about 1770. Next, the article systematically
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Classifying Occupational Hazards: Narratives of Danger, Precariousness, and Safety in Indian Mines, 1895–1970 International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-08 Dhiraj Kumar Nite
This article suggests that classification exercises were the quintessential modality for both the narrative and labour–management relations of occupational health and safety in Indian mines for the period 1895–1970. The extant literature has underestimated the cause-and-effect relationship that such classification practices had, including punitive safety regulation clauses, compensation clauses, the
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Beyond the Great Divergence: Household Income in the Indian Subcontinent, 1500–1870 International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-07 Hélder Carvalhal, Jan Lucassen
The article explores the evolution of household income in India before the late nineteenth century. At a time when criticism of estimates of global real wages challenges the assumptions arising from the Great Divergence Debate, we aim to provide alternative ways of contributing to the discussion. By looking at individual and household income, as well as consumption levels in different parts of India
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The Distinct Seasonality of Early Modern Casual Labor and the Short Durations of Individual Working Years: Sweden 1500–1800 International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-07 Kathryn E. Gary
This article makes use of nearly 25,000 observations representing over 95,000 paid workdays across over 300 years to investigate individual work patterns, work availability, and the changes in work seasonality over time. This sample is comprised of workers in the construction industry, and includes unskilled men and women as well as skilled building craftsmen – the industry that is often used to estimate
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Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 David Chilosi, Carlo Ciccarelli
To address growing concerns on the representativeness of real wages, we generate new estimates of GDP pc in pre-industrial England and Italy, as well as new exploratory estimates for Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Sweden, with Groth and Persson's (2016) general equilibrium model. Our results question the robustness of the current theoretical consensus
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The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Stephen Brooke
This article examines the death of Colin Roach in Stoke Newington Police Station, Hackney, in 1983, and explores the emotional politics of the campaigns that followed his death. These campaigns were focused on both determining the circumstances of Roach's death and highlighting tensions between the police and the Black community of Hackney. Using hitherto unpublished archival sources, local newspapers
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“A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant”: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Liz Egan
This article traces the reproduction of whiteness in Jamaica during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the lens of domestic labor. Articulated in dialogue—and at times in tension—with Britain, what it meant to be white was forged through representations and practices of domestic service and household management, shaped by the legacies of slavery and the shifting colonial relationship
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Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913) Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Paolo Di Martino, Fabio C. Bagliano
This paper analyzes monetary policy in Italy between 1894 and WWI by focusing on the main bank of issue at the time (the Banca d’Italia, BdI) and the Treasury. We show that the Treasury set multiple official rates, and the BdI determined an ”effective” rate transmitted to the market by discounting different bills to the various rates; we provide an original measure of this rate based on primary sources