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Why Join the Fed? The Journal of Economic History (IF 3.547) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Charles W. Calomiris, Matthew Jaremski
We study the decisions of state-chartered banks to join the Fed in its first decade. Ours is the first study to combine state regulatory environment characteristics and individual bank characteristics to explain Fed membership choice. Regulatory environments that reduced the benefit of discount window access or increased the regulatory cost of joining the Fed led to fewer banks joining. Individual
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Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891 Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.259) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Taylor Jaworski, Ian Keay
The dramatic decrease in international trade costs in the second half of the nineteenth century led to a global trade boom. In this paper, we examine the consequences of greater openness to international trade for regional economic activity in a small, open economy during the first era of globalization. Specifically, we provide a quantitative assessment of the role that exposure to globalization played
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“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing The Journal of Economic History (IF 3.547) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Jeremy Atack, Robert A. Margo, Paul W. Rhode
During the nineteenth century, U.S. manufacturers shifted away from the “hand labor” mode of production, characteristic of artisan shops, to “machine labor,” which was increasingly concentrated in steam-powered factories. This transition fundamentally changed production tasks, jobs, and job requirements. This paper uses digitized data on these two production modes from an 1899 U.S. Commissioner of
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Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.259) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Vadim Kufenko, Ekaterina Khaustova, Vincent Geloso
Did late Imperial Russia suffer from Malthusian pressures? At first glance, with its rising levels of population and per capita income, it seems Russia was in a transition away from Malthusian equilibrium. However, the joint increase in population and per capita income could also have been the result of Russia’s high land-to-labor ratio. Which of the two is it? Such a problem is a frequent one in economic
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Black Women Activists: Embracing the Struggle for Intertwined Freedoms on Multiple Fronts International Review of Social History (IF 0.86) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Yevette Richards
Dorothy Cobble's magnificent, sweeping saga of the 100 plus year struggle for “full rights feminism” introduces us to myriad activists who sought common ground in the expansion of civil, political, economic and social rights as the key for raising the standard for working women, and by extension for all of humanity. However, as Cobble notes, some full-rights activists did not measure up to the potential
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“Each of Us is an Other” International Review of Social History (IF 0.86) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Magaly Rodríguez García
Cobble's study of American social democratic feminism is a fascinating narrative of the lives of women who crossed the boundaries of class, race and nation-states to build a better world. Her chronological account of the careers and activism of these women is not only a major contribution to the history of feminism but also a significant addition to the study of social democracy worldwide.
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For the Many: A Review Dossier International Review of Social History (IF 0.86) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Eileen Boris
This introduction to the review dossier on Dorothy Sue Cobble, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality, introduces the major themes of the work in light of Cobble's earlier interventions in gendering labor history and focus on laborite activist women here called “full rights feminists”. It asks the contributors to expand on and decenter the transnational and global
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Full-Rights Feminists and a History of the Care Crisis International Review of Social History (IF 0.86) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Jocelyn Olcott
In 2018, the International Labour Organization published a study about the critical role of paid and unpaid care work for the health of society, the economy, and the planet and about the ways that care work is sustained through the super-exploitation of women, particularly migrant women and racially and ethnically marginalized women. Dorothy Sue Cobble's sweeping, carefully researched, and beautifully
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Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–1775 Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Peter A. Coclanis, Tomoko Yagyu
Abstract In this article, the authors attempt to advance discussions of mercantile concentration in British North America in the eighteenth century by employing two measurement tools common in the field of industrial organization-concentration ratios and the Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI)—to measure and analyze concentration levels in Charleston, South Carolina between 1735 and 1775. These tools
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An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development The Journal of Economic History (IF 3.547) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 John Joseph Wallis
In the middle of the nineteenth century, a handful of societies began creating and enforcing impersonal rules, rules that treat everyone the same, on a broad scale. The existing institutional literatures, while appreciating the importance of impersonal rules for the rule of law, have not understood how they contribute to economic and political development through rules that are enforced but not followed:
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Housing, Hiding and the Holocaust. Introduction Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Joachim von Puttkamer
The introduction outlines content and scope of this special issue on "Housing, Hiding and the Holocaust". It points out that during World War II-ccupation accommodation became a scarce commodity, with collapsing housing markets. As a consequence, in those places where the German army (and navy) was stationed, direct contact between the occupiers and the occupied couldn't be avoided. Worst hit by housing
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Occupied Towns in Poland: Housing, Property and the Urban Space during the Shoah Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Agnieszka Wierzcholska
As elsewhere in Poland, the German occupation deeply disrupted the relations and social dynamics between the non-Jewish population and the Jews in Tarnów from the very first day. Investigating housing, property and the urban space in a society under occupation, in a Kräftefeld dominated by the German occupiers, offers new insights into this relationship. It traces the notions of an ethnically encoded
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Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Jeremi K. Ochab, Jan Škvrňák, Michael Škvrňák
Abstract We provide a detailed case study showing how social network analysis allows scholars to detect an event affecting the entire historical network under consideration and identify the responsible actors. We study the middle 13th century in Czech lands, where a rigid political structure of noble families surrounding the monarchs led to the uprising of part of the nobility. Having collected data
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Gunshots, Sociability and Community Defence. Shooting Associations in Imperial Germany and its Colonies Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Nicola Camilleri
Shooting associations represented one of the most popular expressions of sociability in Imperial Germany. Their club houses were to be found in large and medium-sized towns, in villages, and in overseas colonies, too. Middle class men would regularly gather to practice shooting and to organize competitions, activities characterized by clearly gendered rituals of social life. Based on values of loyalty
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‘Correct German Conduct?’ German Requisition Practices and their Impact on Norwegian Society during World War II Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Maria Fritsche
The article analyses the German requisition and quartering practices in Norway in the light of international law and traces their impact on everyday relations between the enemies. With an average of 350,000 soldiers stationed in Norway, the German demand for housing was enormous. Space became a highly coveted resource. It was both the object of power struggles and a reflection of those struggles. The
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“I Have Never Felt More Utterly Yours”: Presence, Intimacy, and Long-Distance Marriages in the First World War Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Aimée Fox
The unique anxieties experienced by married couples remain under-examined aspects of both the First World War and the early twentieth century. Drawing on the writings of four upper-middle-class couples, this article reveals the complex ways in which couples sought to maintain intimacy across transnational time and space during the war. The author argues that, elements of modern marriage were clearly
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The British German Legion and the Irish “Marriage Force”: Assisted Emigration Schemes and the Mid-Victorian British Empire Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Jill C. Bender
This article examines the Lady Kennaway assisted emigration scheme, designed to send women from Ireland's workhouses to the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in Southern Africa. First proposed by Colonial Secretary Henry Labouchere in 1857, the scheme's purpose was to provide wives for the British German Legion, which had been resettled to British Kaffraria the previous year. Initially, the plan
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Trajectories of Aristocratic Wealth, 1858–2018: Evidence from Probate Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Matthew Bond, Julien Morton
In the past two decades, the decline of the British aristocracy and its apotheosis, the hereditary peerage, have received scant scholarly attention. Major historical works in the 1960s to the 1990s laid much responsibility for the decline on features of the British aristocracy that are anachronistic in modern capitalist societies, such as their landed, rentier status, conspicuously sumptuous lifestyles
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Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Rodrigo Cordero, Aldo Mascareño, Pablo A. Henríquez, Gonzalo A. Ruz
Abstract Drawing conceptual boundaries is one of the defining features of constitution-making processes. These historically situated operations of boundary making are central to the definition of what counts as “constitutional” in a political community. In this article, we study the operations of conceptual delimitation performed by the Constitutional Commission (1973–1978) that drafted the 1980 Chilean
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Robbed and Dispossessed: The Emotional Impact of Property Loss during the German Occupation of the Netherlands, 1940–1945 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Jeroen Kemperman, Hinke Piersma
During the occupation of the Netherlands, the Jewish population was systematically robbed and deprived of their property rights. Their economic and social isolation went hand in hand with a loss of social status, connectedness, security and identity, as homes were expropriated and furniture was confiscated. The process of depriving the Jews of everything they owned, which happened with such apparent
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Home as a Site of Exclusion: The Nazi Occupation, Housing Shortages and the Holocaust in France Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Shannon L. Fogg
During World War II, France faced a housing crisis with over 1.2 million dwellings destroyed or damaged. In addition to the destruction, the German occupiers requisitioned thousands of accommodations including some 6–7,000 locales in Paris. Anti-Jewish persecution forced thousands of Jews from their homes and the average non-Jewish French resident, facing their own housing issues, benefited from the
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The Social Scientist as Security Actor Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.247) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Christine G. Krüger
Recent historiography has been more positive about the Wilhelmine German Empire, which long had a poor reputation. This might be partly due to the trend towards transnational history with a specific focus on transfer and exchange. This article argues that from such a perspective the re-evaluation of the German Empire may easily overshoot the mark. Focusing on a comparative study of Hamburg and London
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‘A Gallant Fight’: The UAW and the 1970 General Motors Strike International Review of Social History (IF 0.86) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Timothy J. Minchin
On 15 September 1970, over 400,000 workers struck General Motors (GM), the biggest corporation in the world. It was a massive walkout, lasting sixty-seven days and affecting 145 GM plants in the US and Canada. GM lost more than $1 billion in profits, and the impact on the US economy was considerable. Despite the strike's size, it has been understudied. Fifty years later, this article provides a re-assessment
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Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited The Journal of Economic History (IF 3.547) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Nathan Sussman
A novel series of interest rates paid by the Corporation of London shows that interest rates in London declined by 350 basis points during the seventeenth century. The decline followed a similar pattern in Europe. Records from the Corporation’s archive provide evidence for financial development: an increase in the number and volume of debt instruments, an increase in the number of lenders, and the
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How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa The Journal of Economic History (IF 3.547) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Warren Whatley
I use newly-developed data on Africa to estimate the effects of the international slave trades (circa 1500–1850) on the institutional structures of African economies and societies (circa 1900). I find that: (1) societies in slave catchment zones adopted slavery to defend against further enslavement; (2) slave trades spread slavery and polygyny together; (3) politically centralized aristocratic slave
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The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890 The Journal of Economic History (IF 3.547) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Yuzuru Kumon
I use new evidence from servant contracts, 1610–1890, to estimate male farm wages and the length of the work year in Japan. I show Japanese laborers were surprisingly poor and could only sustain 2–3 adults relative to 7 adults for the English. Japanese wages were the lowest among pre-industrial societies and this was driven by Malthusian population pressures. I also estimate the work year and find
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The Case of Claud Cardew's Violin: Race, Anxiety, and the British Empire Mail Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Tamar I. Rozett
In the summer of 1894, Claud Cardew, then at British Central Africa, asked his brother in England to send him a violin. In tracing the violin's trajectory from metropole to colony, this article combines two inquiries. It probes, firstly, the emotional vocabulary surrounding Claud's request, and secondly, the technology underpinning the British Empire mail. Closely reading the Cardew family letters
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Exploring the transformation of French trade in the long eighteenth century (1713–1823): The TOFLIT18 project Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin, Paul Girard, Guillaume Plique
Abstract The TOFLIT18 project documents French bilateral international trade flows from the 1710s to the 1820s. This article presents the TOFLIT18 dataset and its exploration tool (the “datascape”). We make four contributions: first, we discuss the institutional framework in which the sources were produced; second, we present our method to standardize the collected data and reduce the variety of commodity
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The Arndale Property Company and the Transformation of Urban Britain, 1950–2000 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Alistair Kefford
This article tracks the remarkable role played by a commercial property developer, the Arndale Property Company, in the transformation of urban Britain across the second half of the twentieth century. This was an era of great change in cities, as urban environments were remodeled and urban centers had to adapt to deindustrialization and the rise of a consumer-driven and service-dominated economy. Arndale
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Internal migrant trajectories within The Netherlands, 1850–1972: Applying cluster analysis and dissimilarity tree methods Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Dolores Sesma Carlos, Jan Kok, Michel Oris
Abstract Based on the life course perspective, this work adopts a sequence analysis approach to examine internal migrant trajectories and their interdependencies with life course factors. The analyses are based on longitudinal data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. The internal migrant trajectories of Dutch cohorts born between 1850 and 1922 are followed from birth until age fifty. Two
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Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia Past & Present (IF 2.188) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Lucy Parker,Rosie Maxton
Abstract This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on traditional characteristics such as links to a defined institutional repository, but on their purpose of community formation. The loose institutional
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Being a Forestry Labourer in the Late Ottoman Empire: Debt Bondage, Migration, and Sedentarization International Review of Social History (IF 0.86) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Başak Akgül
This article examines the survival strategies of forestry workers and craftspeople in the late Ottoman Empire. Through the example of the Tahtacı, a semi-nomadic community specialized in lumbering in the forests along the western and southern coasts of Anatolia, it visualizes the adaptation strategies of forestry labourers in the changing economic and ecological environment of the Mediterranean Basin
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US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.259) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Ariell Zimran
I study the rates of, selection into, and sorting of European immigrants’ secondary migration within the United States and their geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration. These phenomena are recognized as important components of the economics of immigration, but data constraints have limited prior study of them in this context. As part of the debate over immigrant distribution, they
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Victor I. Stoichita. Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art. Translated by Samuel Trainor. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 288. $40.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Grace Harpster
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Christopher Ivic. The Subject of Britain, 1603–25. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $120.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Andrew Hadfield
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Onni Gust. Unhomely Empire: Whiteness and Belonging, c.1760–1830. Empire's Other Histories 2. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 248. $115.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Manushag N. Powell
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Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez. Radicals in Exile: English Catholic Books during the Reign of Philip II. Iberian Encounters and Exchange, 475–1755, 4. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. Pp. 250. $99.95 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jonathan Roche
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Nadine El-Enany. (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 302. $29.95 (paper). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Rieko Karatani
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Karen A. Winstead. Fifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Pp. 220. $100.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Heidi Olson Campbell
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Karen Green. Catharine Macaulay's Republican Enlightenment. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 266. $160.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Mary Caputi
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Richard Fulton. Warrior Generation, 1865–1885: Militarism and British Working-Class Boys. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 344. $115.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Buck Thornton
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Laura Kalas. Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 268. $99.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Katherine J. Lewis
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Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 318. $49.95 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Anelise Hanson Shrout
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E. Amanda McVitty. Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture. Gender in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020. Pp. 258. $99.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Shannon McSheffrey
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Lloyd Bowen. John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. Pp. 370. $19.00 (paper) Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 William White
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Matthew Sergi. Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 296. $30.00 (paper). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Mariah Min
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Lia Paradis. Imperial Culture and the Sudan: Authorship, Identity and the British Empire. London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. Pp. 264. $115.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Iris Seri-Hersch
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Nicola Bishop. Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 256. $115.00 (cloth). Journal of British Studies (IF 0.959) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Geoffrey Crossick
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