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Structural reading: Developing the method of Structural Collocation Analysis using a case study on parliamentary reporting Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Mathias Johansson, Betto van Waarden
To analyze large, digitized corpora, we introduce the new approach of “structural reading”, which combines the abstraction of distant reading with the nuance of close reading. We do so by developin...
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Book Review: Crosses of Memory and Oblivion: The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936–2022) by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Francisco Jiménez Aguilar
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The War Routes in the European Tourist Market During the Spanish Civil War European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Carlos Larrinaga
During the Spanish Civil War, War Routes with tourist itineraries were organized in the area controlled by General Francisco Franco. They began to operate on 1 July 1938 and ran throughout the whole of the following year. The objective was, on the one hand, to create a new tourism product essentially aimed at the European market in order to attract tourists and obtain foreign currency. On the other
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Polish Conductresses and the Insecurities of Female Labour Migration to France, 1925–1929 European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Jasmin Nithammer, Klaus Richter
In this article we argue that the reports of conductresses accompanying female migrants shed new light on the nature of interwar labour migration. As they mitigated the anxiety and insecurity that women faced during the process of migration, they fulfilled a crucial role in the highly restrictive post-1918 international migration regime. The Polish government introduced conductresses in 1925 to respond
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Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Javier Mejía
Elites were pivotal for Latin America’s modernization, yet granular evidence of their industrial entrepreneurship is limited. I study Antioquia, an early center of industrialization, from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Analyzing elite interactions via newfound archival data and exploiting unexpected deaths as exogenous shocks, I find global connectivity—not local—drove industrial
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Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914 Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a...
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From Darkness to Sunshine: Blind Babies, Families and the Sunshine Homes, 1918–1939 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Julie Anderson
This article examines the contrast between the interwar British state's emphasis on motherhood and the justification for the institutional care of a relatively small group of blind babies. After the First World War, concerns about the state of the nation were addressed in part by legislation and an increase in the number of organisations which purported to help mothers to bring up healthy babies. The
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Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 William J. Collins, Nicholas Holtkamp, Marianne H. Wanamaker
Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era. To assess how these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households’ landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to observe their economic and human capital
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Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Stephen Broadberry, Elena Korchmina
We provide decadal estimates of GDP per capita for the Russian Empire from the 1690s to the 1880s, making it possible for the first time to compare the economic performance of one of the world’s largest economies with other countries. Significant Russian economic growth before the 1760s resulted in catching-up on northwest Europe, but this was followed by a period of negative growth between the 1760s
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From Institutions to Families? The Changing Allocation of Responsibility for Cognitively Disabled Children in Dutch Postwar Long-Term Care Policies Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Paul van Trigt
Who is responsible for health care? Neoliberal policies since the 1970s seem to place this responsibility increasingly on the individual, in a process that is called responsibilization. The recent literature on neoliberalism, however, has questioned the preference of free-market liberalism for individual responsibility and shows how neoliberals often made common cause with communitarian conservatives
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Redefining Family Relationships: The Impact of Disability on Working-Class Families during the Industrial Revolution in Britain Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 David Turner
The Industrial Revolution traditionally has been seen in Disability Studies as marking a decisive shift in the lives of disabled people. It is argued that the rise of mechanisation, time discipline and standardisation made the industrial workplace a hostile environment for people with non-standard bodies. According to this view, increasing demands to work outside the home also meant that families were
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Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911 The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Ziming Zhu
This paper uses a new linked sample constructed from full-count census data of 1851–1911 to revise estimates of intergenerational occupational mobility in England. I find that conventional estimates of intergenerational elasticities are attenuated by classical measurement error and severely underestimate the extent of father-son association in socioeconomic status. Instrumenting one measure of the
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Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Mohamed Saleh
I investigate the effects of trade on labor coercion under the dual-coercive institutions of slavery and state coercion. Employing novel data from Egypt, I document that the cotton boom in 1861–1865 increased both imported slaveholdings of the rural middle class and state coercion of local workers by the elite. As state coercion reduced wage employment, it reinforced the demand for slaves among the
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The Latvian Lost Cause: Veterans of the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion and Post-war Mythogenesis Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Harry C Merritt
During World War II, tens of thousands of Latvians served in German-led military formations, primarily in the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. After the war, around 25,000 former Legionnaires transitioned from prisoner of war camps run by the Western Allies to civilian life in a variety of Western countries. They created veterans’ organisations — such as Daugavas Vanagi (‘Hawks of the Daugava’) — which also
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Divided Care: Differences in the Agencies of Family Caregivers for Disabled Children in East and West Germany Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Raphael Rössel
Parents and their disabled children in both German states faced discrimination and severe challenges in the organisation of family life. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), from the 1960s onwards, parents achieved more far-reaching influence over the schooling and overall treatment of their children. The reasons for and avenues of parental empowerment
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Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011 The Journal of Economic History (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Pablo Astorga
This paper analyzes and documents a new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela based on dynamic social tables with four occupational groups. This enables the calculation of comparable Overall (four groups) and Labor Ginis (three groups) with their between- and within-group components. The main findings are the absence of a unique inequality
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Ghosts and the machine: testing the use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver historical life course biographies from big data Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts, Martin Gibbs
This article presents the findings of an experiment in the use of Artificial Intelligence text generation processes to convert historical ‘big data’ into narrative text. Using an extensive collecti...
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Workers Reconstituting the Factory International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Bridget Kenny
This comment on Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory discusses how the book offers four interrelated theoretical contributions to the study of labour in the digital economy – redefining the factory, specifying digital Taylorism, materializing its infrastructure, and mapping class relations – through four sites of investigation. The piece discusses the implications of the resulting multiplication
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Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–1750 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-28 Alexander Bevilacqua
The four generations of Hohenzollern rulers who transformed the electorate of Brandenburg into the kingdom of Prussia — a regional player into a great power — all employed Black men at their courts and in their armies. Through court performance, including processions and tournaments, as well as through artistic commissions, the Brandenburgian rulers adapted existing traditions of representing and displaying
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The European Response to US Expansion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Miroslav Šedivý
The territorial expansion of the USA in the 1840s represented an important phase on its way to becoming a world power. Historians have paid considerable attention to US foreign policy during this period but have largely neglected the significant impact of US expansion on Europe. Whereas they have written a great deal about European reflections on American democracy or slavery, they have largely overlooked
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Becoming Austrian, Becoming European? Supranationalism in the Habsburg South in an Age of Emerging Nationalisms: The Comparative Relevance of Trieste European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Mario Maritan
Between 1848 and 1867, at a time that is often considered to be central to Italian, German, and Slavic nation building, the Habsburg port city of Trieste witnessed a significant immigration from throughout Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. While the historiography of the city has focused on the Triestine entrepreneurial class, understandably described as cosmopolitan, little research has been conducted
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The Elusive Borders of Regional Feeling: Re-Imagining the Federalist Map in Early West Germany European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Jeremy DeWaal
While a rich body of work on nations and national borderlands has demonstrated how the ideal of the nation state resulted in ever greater (and often violent) demands for geographic fixity, this article shows how territorial visions of regional communities permitted a tremendous level of flexibility and were able to hold highly divergent geographic imaginings in suspension. The article seeks to demonstrate
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The Iron Road to Redemption: Railway Development and the Ghost of Spanish Decline in the Nineteenth Century European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Joel C. Webb
The opening of Spain's first railway in 1848 inaugurated a short-lived period of railway euphoria that consumed the imaginations of Spaniards and resulted in the rapid development of nearly 5000 km of track. While most historians of Spain's nineteenth century concede that the effort failed to trigger the industrialization many had hoped for, it did stimulate the minds of those primed to fantasize about
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On Power at Work International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Chitra Joshi
Power at Work: A Global Perspective on Control and Resistance. Edited by Marcel van der Linden and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja. Work in Global and Historical Perspective, volume 16. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, xi, 342 pp.
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Navigating Labour Shifts: Early Modern Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean (1521–1563) International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez
Narratives about indigenous labour in the pearl fisheries of the Caribbean, widely disseminated across the Atlantic world since the sixteenth century by Castilian chroniclers, have significantly shaped historiography. These accounts have reinforced a singular narrative about labour within pearl fisheries that overlooks this work's spatial and temporal changes in sea depths. This article examines and
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Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Eirik Kvindesland
Thousands of Jews moved from Qajar Iran and Ottoman Iraq to the Persian Gulf ports during the long nineteenth century. Attracted by colonial trade and British patronage, they formed communities on the Gulf littorals and expanded their social and economic networks across the sea. At the same time, modern transportation connected the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, enabling collective long-distance
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Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Ilya Maude, Maroula Perisanidi
This article uses case studies from Byzantium to demonstrate a new trans framework for gendered historical analysis that recognizes identity as both fluid and painful. Instead of placing the emphasis on whether or not we can call an individual trans, it explores the forces that produced cisness, and the cis and trans lives people carved out amidst them. We find ableism and transmisogyny at the heart
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Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor: Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller, 1890–1914 International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Xavier Jou-Badal
The cry of “Get married women out of the factories!” echoed across the Spanish industrial landscape at the turn of the twentieth century, driven by two intertwined factors. From a societal perspective, women's place was at home, not in factories. On an economic note, concerns arose over women's lower wages displacing men from jobs. This research delves into a case study of a workers’ claim aimed against
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Fire in Jamaica, 1831–32 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Miles Ogborn
Fire is a material and social process that is different in different periods and places. This article examines the fires set during the largest, and last, uprising of the enslaved in Jamaica, which occurred in the island's western parishes after Christmas 1831. It argues that different sorts of fire were central to processes of production and everyday life under plantation slavery, and examines what
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The Politics of Outrage: Violence, Policing, and the Archive in Colonial Ireland Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Nicholas Sprenger
During the nineteenth century in Ireland, agents of the colonial state like the police, along with the administrators that they served, forged an association between political motivations and Irish agrarian violence. They did so not only through the policing of Irish violence, but through the methods used by the colonial state to categorize, process, record, and archive it. Central to this endeavor
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Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1911 Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Julia A. Jennings
This paper analyzes the effects of kin availability and short-term economic stress on mortality among older adults in North Orkney, Scotland in the mid-19th through early 20th century. The mortality of those aged 60+ is associated with high oatmeal prices lagged by one year, a delayed effect that may suggest that buffering mechanisms are less effective in the longer term or that relative to younger
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“Be a Miner”: Constructions and Contestations of Masculinity in the British Coalfields, 1975–1983 International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Keith Gildart, Ben Curtis, Andrew Perchard, Grace Millar
In 1975, the National Coal Board (NCB) produced a short film, “People Will Always Need Coal”, to encourage recruitment into mining. It was extraordinarily attention-grabbing, presenting miners as cosmopolitan playboys. It defined the industry in hyper-masculine terms, encouraging would-be recruits to “be a miner”. This article uses the film as a starting point for a discussion of the complex interactions
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The Hidden Labour of Digital Capitalism: Changes, Continuities, Critical Issues International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Nico Pizzolato
Rapid technological development means that the ground on which recent academic studies and public debates about the future of work organisation are based is shifting too rapidly for predictions to be credible. Organisational studies scholars have provided a counterpoint to this futuristic, speculative debate about the world of tomorrow with studies that contextualise seemingly new trends within a longer
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Introduction to the Review Dossier on The Digital Factory: Continuing a Long-Standing Debate International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Görkem Akgöz, Aad Blok
Theories about the impact of digital technology on society and the development of capitalism and debates about the influence of digital information technologies on the future of work have been abundant since the end of the twentieth century. Most of the academic debate has taken place outside labour history, leaving the actual effects of digital technologies on human work and labour relations often
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Light and Shadow of the Digital Factory: Response to the Comments International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Moritz Altenried
This response to the comments on The Digital Factory discusses why and how the concepts of the digital factory and digital Taylorism have been applied in the book, as well as the question of the relationship between digital control and workers' resistance to algorithmic management technologies. While agreeing with the comments that point to the limitations of the concepts used, this response argues
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Mapping the Social Relations of Labor in Contemporary Algorithmic Society International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Greg Downey
Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory (2022) accomplishes in just under two hundred pages what many other books twice that length have struggled with: assembling a concise yet readable introductory map to the global, fragmented, and too-often hidden landscape of digitally-mediated capitalism. But the digital factory itself is an incomplete concept, almost always requiring us to look for the external
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Old Wine in New Bottles, or Novel Challenges? A Labour History Perspective on Digital Labour International Review of Social History (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Görkem Akgöz
A growing body of literature is challenging techno-fetishistic perspectives on digital capitalism, as well as claims of the start of a new era characterized by total automation. This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the implications of digital technology for the future of labour by reading Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory (2022) through the lens of labour history. The use of digital
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Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Sascha Klocke
High racial disparities between Europeans and Africans and high skill premiums are recurrent themes in the literature on inequality in colonial Africa. However, their determinants and effects on inequality remain underexplored. This paper investigates wage inequality, skill premiums, and racial discrimination in British Tanganyika from c. 1920 to 1960. It provides first estimates for wage inequality
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Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Ron Mordechai Makleff
By the thirteenth century, confederations of communes in western Europe were claiming important legal, political and military prerogatives for themselves in written charters of inter-urban alliance. Scholars have seen these alliances as a tool of the emerging economic elite or as forces of resistance to the sovereign territorial state taking shape in the late Middle Ages. To understand alternatives
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Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Rebecca Simson
This article discusses the evolution of Kenya's wealth distribution from the late 1950s to the present. Utilizing previously untapped probate and administration sources, it measures the share of Kenyans leaving estates at death, and maps how this wealth-owning strata has changed over time. It shows a growth in African estates after independence, and by the 1980s roughly 8 % of Kenyans left estates
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“A Colony to Themselves”: Scottish Highland Settler Colonialism in British North America, 1770–1804 Journal of British Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 S. Karly Kehoe, Ciaran O'Neill
This article explores the links between anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom and the acceleration of settler colonialism in British North America, and it does so by considering two group migrations from Catholic districts in the North West Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Occurring over 30 years apart, the Glenaladale settlement (1772) in Prince Edward Island and the Glengarry settlement (1803)
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Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Judith M Bennett
Late medieval Coventry attracted so many in-migrating singlewomen that it might have seemed a city of women — for every ten women, only seven men. Some of these peasants-turned-townswomen supported themselves as labourers, domestic servants or prostitutes, but it was the demand for their industrial labour as spinners of cloth-yarn and cap-yarn that drew most women to the city. Coventry’s merchants
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Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Nikita Lychakov
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Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018 Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Neil Cummins
Using surnames from the universe of death and wealth-at-death records in England and Wales, from 1858 to 2018, I document the emergence of a modern ethnic wealth gradient. Historically, Non-British ethnicities have average wealth 2–5 times that of the English. However, this premium has decreased over the 20th century. By 1980, non-British ethnicities have no advantage over the British. However, this
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Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony Explor. Econ. Hist. (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Jeanne Cilliers, Martine Mariotti, Igor Martins
This paper examines the effects of short-term economic stress, captured by general price volatility and a negative wealth shock on short-run fertility behavior in the rural pre-transitional society of the Cape Colony. First, we link complete birth histories of settler women from the South African Families database to consumer price index data to examine the effect of price volatility on conceptions
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Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017) Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Juan Infante-Amate, Eduardo Aguilera
One of the main challenges facing our society is to decouple levels of well-being from environmental impacts, particularly greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe). Historical knowledge can provide crucial ...
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Legitimising Occupation: The Quest for Popular Consent during the British Occupation of Germany, 1945–1949 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Camilo Erlichman, Christopher Knowles
This article explores the quest for legitimacy and popular consent during the British occupation of north-western Germany between 1945 and 1949. It does so through an analysis of two major propaganda campaigns that sought to publicly legitimise the British occupation at home and in Germany: ‘Germany under Control’, a large-scale exhibition put on display in London in 1946; and ‘Operation Stress’, the
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Mediterranean Farmers and Alternative Europes: Resistance, Europeanisation and CAP Reforms in Italy and France (mid-1970s to mid-1980s) Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Antonio Carbone
This article explores the active participation and, in some cases, resistance of farmers’ associations in Italy and France to European integration from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The article examines, firstly, how Italian associations became active, due to their faltering relationship with the Christian Democrats, in searching new forms of political influence through more radical methods of mobilisation
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Debating Europe Transnationally: The Council of European Industrial Federations and the Struggle over European Integration, 1950–1962 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Katharina Troll
European integration has been promoted, shaped and criticised by a variety of actors in different frameworks since 1945. Non-state actors such as employers’ associations became involved in this process very early on and, contrary to the widespread assumption in political science, created or revived transnational business associations in order to debate and shape the development of European integration
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Sceptics, Enthusiasts, or Architects? The British Labour Group, the European Parliament and Workers’ Rights, 1979–1989 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 William King
The European Parliament influenced policy, and was a forum for the airing and sharing of a wide array of views and approaches to forms of European integration. Often conflicted and divided, members of the British Labour Group, comprising of the elected Labour Party representatives to the European Parliament, viewed the European Economic Community as a key platform and means through which workers’ rights
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The Europeanization of Honour: Wehrmacht Veterans and European Integration in the 1950s Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Alexander Hobe
This article analyses the Europeanization of West German associations of Wehrmacht veterans in the 1950s. Using archival sources concerning the foundation of a European veterans’ umbrella organisation, the article argues that the veterans’ attempts at political reassertion in the post-war decades cannot be understood without accounting for their European dimension. Indeed, the veterans considered their
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Lawyers against European Union: The Maastricht Judicial Review 1992–1993 Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 David Lawton
This article argues that lawyers were important agents in the remaking of British Euroscepticism during the Maastricht treaty period and should be written into its history. It offers new subject matter, exploring how and why lawyers challenged the Maastricht treaty through the English courts. From its initial preparation to its ultimate failure, the legal case fused together a defence of high ideals
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Introduction: Historical Perspectives on Criticisms of European Integration Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Philipp Müller, Christina von Hodenberg
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Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914 Past & Present (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Luke Blaxill, Gidon Cohen, Gary Hutchison, Patrick M Kuhn, Nick Vivyan
This article analyses over 19,000 articles from newspapers and parliamentary commission reports to reveal endemic electoral violence in England and Wales between 1832 and 1914. It offers a new understanding of the phenomenon in three main ways. First, the extent of election violence, which regularly featured major riots requiring police and military intervention, disturbances of the peace, and deaths
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Montenegrins in the Ottoman Empire as ‘Enemy Aliens’ during World War I (1914–1918) Journal of Modern European History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Uğur Özcan
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Ottoman Empire and Montenegro, which no longer shared a border due to the shifted territories following the Balkan Wars (1912–13), faced each other as belligerents in two different coalitions (the Entente and the Central powers). Throughout this process, Montenegrin citizens, both Muslim and non-Muslim, living in the Ottoman territories and working in various
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Book Review: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Francis King
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‘Saviours’, ‘Business Partners’, or ‘Snobs’? How Jewish Inmates Perceived and Interacted with British Prisoners of War in the Nazi Camp Complex Blechhammer (Upper Silesia) European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Susanne Barth
Between 1942 and 1945, Jewish inmates of a forced labour camp and later Auschwitz subcamp at Blechhammer (Blachownia Slaska, Upper Silesia) worked alongside British prisoners of war on the construction site of a giant synthetic fuel facility, the Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke. This paper examines the multifaceted forms of interaction between these two groups, who were situated at the opposite ends of
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The Anti-Cold War Left: Third World Imaginaries and Protest Cultures at the Local Level in Spain, 1968–1986 European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Andrea Davis
This article contributes to recent scholarly efforts to reassess the history of Third-Worldism in Europe during the Cold War. Focusing on left-wing activists who mobilized through and beyond the long 1960s in the Spanish city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the article demonstrates how local communities drew meaning from and projected meaning onto the Third World to help them understand domestic conditions
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Rotspanier. Debate with Regard to the Classification of the Spanish Prisoners Deported to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Diego Martínez López
Spanish prisoners deported to the Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp were treated and classified in an anomalous and problematic fashion that did not correspond to the real reasons for their detention. Thus, despite being prosecuted as Rotspaniers – ‘red Spaniards’ – a category initially employed to designate those Germans who had fought in the Spanish Civil War in support of the republican government
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Book Review: Ni una, ni grande, ni libre. La dictadura franquista by Nicolás Sesma European History Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Claudio Hernández Burgos