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Income Mobility before Industrialization: Evidence from South Africa’s Cape Colony Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Johan Fourie, Erik Green, Auke Rijpma, Dieter von Fintel
Attempts to measure social mobility before the twentieth century are frequently hampered by limited data. In this paper, we use a new source – annual, matched tax censuses over more than 70 years – to calculate intragenerational income mobility within a preindustrial, settler society, the Dutch and British Cape Colony at the southern tip of Africa. Our unique source allows us to measure income mobility
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Legal Boundaries, Organizational Fields, and Trade Union Politics: The Development of Railway Unions in the US and the UK Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Maya Adereth
Throughout the nineteenth century, powerful railway unions in the USA and the UK cultivated an expansive system of voluntary sickness, death, unemployment, and superannuation benefits. By the early twentieth century, the movements had diverged: while the British Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants relinquished its commitment to voluntarism in favor of state healthcare and pensions, the American
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Why so antisocial? Football ultras, crowd modalities, and atmospherics of discontent in public space Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Max Jack
As some of the most intensively devoted football fans in Germany, ultras coordinate crowd atmosphere in the arena to support their respective clubs on the field while actively positioning themselves against sport’s governing bodies, whom they see as corrupted by the strategies used to transform professional football from a game into a capitalist industry. Focusing on travel and transportation as a
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The Cold War from the Global South: Maoism and the Future of Liberalism Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Kristin Plys
In the mid-20th century, The Cold War structured possibilities for politics across the Global South. These strategies were articulated through three competing means to realize the justice and equality promised by newly won independence from colonialism. Global South states could choose from among the following three options, which had many overlaps and intersections: alignment with the United States
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Mosaic Database: Consolidation, Innovation, and Challenges in the Comparative Family Demography of Historical Europe Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Mikołaj Szołtysek, Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber, Radosław Poniat
This paper looks at the progress that the Mosaic database has enabled in the study of family structures in continental Europe in the past. Our main argument is that the combination of comprehensive archival research, digitization and computation, data mining, and open-access dissemination that is at the core of the Mosaic project is bringing about an important shift in the fundamental principles that
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The Origins of a Fiscal Outlier: The Abandonment of a Federal VAT in the Nixon Presidency Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Seiichiro Mozumi
Richard Nixon was the first president who examined the possibility of introducing a value-added tax (VAT) at the federal level in the late twentieth century. By 1970, his administration had considered recommending it alongside other domestic programs to overcome the criticism against the VAT’s regressivity, potential conflict in the federal–state tax authority, and the fragmented decision-making authority
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The Democratization of Long-Distance Migration: Trajectories and Flows during the “Mobility Transition,” 1850–1910 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Hilde Greefs, Anne Winter
This article analyzes and demonstrates the declining social selectivity of migration distance in Europe’s long nineteenth century and argues that this drove a radically new process of democratization of long-distance migration. It uses innovative spatial and quantitative analysis of nominal data on more than 5,000 international migrants who moved to the booming port city of Antwerp in present-day Belgium
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A macroscope of English print culture, 1530–1700, applied to the coevolution of ideas on religion, science, and institutions Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell
We combine unsupervised machine learning and econometric methods to study England’s print culture in the pivotal sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Machine learning synthesizes the content of 57,863 texts comprising 83 million words into 110 topics. Topics include the expected, such as Natural Philosophy, and the unexpected, such as Baconian Theology. Timelines suggest that religious and political
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The rise of the Spanish right during the Second Republic (1931–36). Social structures, Catholic associations, and conservative electoral mobilization Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Iván Llamazares
Comparative historical analyses have emphasized the role played by conservative parties in the consolidation of democratic regimes in Europe. They have also identified the main factors shaping the political and electoral strength of the right in democratization processes. On the basis of these analyses, the Spanish Second Republic (1931–36) has been characterized as a very inauspicious ground for the
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The Swiss Patrician Families between Decline and Persistence: Power Positions and Kinship Ties (1890–1957) Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Pierre Benz, Pedro Araujo, Geoffroy Legentilhomme, André Mach, Steven Piguet, Michael A. Strebel, Emilie Widmer
Scholarship demonstrated the major role of inheritance and kinship for elite’s power reproduction, particularly among noble families. In the absence of monarchic and court structures, ruling classes that enjoyed privileges and engaged in social closure could become the functional equivalent of a nobility. In this paper, we examine the evolution of the power of Swiss patrician families in the three
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Turning points in leadership: Ship size in the Portuguese and Dutch merchant empires Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Claudia Rei
This paper discusses the implications of organizational control on the race for technological leadership in merchant empires. I provide an illustrative framework in which poor organizations have reduced incentives to invest, which in turn stifle technology improvements making leaders lag new entrants. In the late sixteenth century, Portugal’s large ships carried more merchandise and were more fitting
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Compared to what?: Setting American political development in comparative context Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Robert C. Lieberman
The recent crisis of democracy in the United States and around the world has highlighted the value of both historical and comparative analysis and brought the subfields of American political development and comparative politics into frequent conversation with each other. In fact, these subfields emerged from common origins and draw on similar conceptual and methodological tools. This essay identifies
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Power and alterity: Depictions of the Vascones from antiquity to the middle ages Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Asier H. Aguirresarobe
This article undertakes an examination of the origins and evolution of a discourse of alterity against the Vascones –the alleged forefathers of the Basques – and other Western Pyrenean peoples from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The methodology employed involves the study of literary references made to these peoples, which are then compared to recent scholarly and archeological evidence. Through this
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Tale of a Missed Opportunity: Japan’s Delay in Implementing a Value-Added Tax Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ryotaro Takahashi
While a value-added tax (VAT), which supports a welfare state, was officially introduced in Japan in 1989, earlier attempts to implement this tax system failed. This study looks in-depth at why Japan was slower than other countries to implement a VAT. The tax authorities’ debates during the 1960s and 1970s are reviewed to understand why other attempts to introduce a VAT failed. Implementing the VAT
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U.S. Animal Disease Policies and Human Health Debates Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
The U.S. federal government adopted aggressive policies to control animal diseases decades before it made significant attempts to improve human health. Progressive-era reformers crafted a powerful argument that the male-dominated, rural-oriented political system valued the lives of hogs more than the well-being of babies. The invidious hog-baby comparison became a pervasive theme in debates over the
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Can’t Boil, Won’t Boil: Material Inequality, Information, and Disease Avoidance during a Typhoid Epidemic in Tampere, Finland, in 1916 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jarmo Peltola, Sakari Saaritsa, Henri Mikkola
Historical research on urban epidemics has focused on the interaction of diseases with social and spatial gradients, such as class, ethnicity, or neighborhood. Even sophisticated historical studies usually lack data on health-related behavior or health-related perceptions, which modern analysts tend to emphasize. With detailed source material from the Finnish city of Tampere during a typhoid epidemic
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Reverberations of Empire: How the Colonial Past Shapes the Present Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Julian Go
Modern colonialism from the eighteenth century onward encompassed most of the world’s surface. Today, the world is different. In theory at least, nation-states rather than empires and colonies are the global norm. The sorts of colonial conquests that mark earlier centuries appear to have ended. But does this mean colonialism in the past is not relevant for the present? Scholarly and popular discussions
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Globalization and Empire: Market Integration and International Trade among Canada, the US, and Britain, 1750–1870 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Maja Uhre Pedersen, Vincent Geloso, Paul Sharp
Wheat market integration between the US and the UK before the “first era of globalization” (in the second half of the nineteenth century) was frequently interrupted by policy and “exogenous” events such as wars. This paper adds Canada to this story by looking at trade and price data, as well as contemporary debates. This allows us to triangulate the role of policy and wars, since Canada as a small
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Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Damon Mayrl, Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Matthew Mahler, Josh Pacewicz
What happens at the point of interchange between scholarly communities? We examine this question by investigating the case of growing ties between historical sociology and ethnography, two social scientific methods that once seemed to have little in common. Drawing on methodological writings by ethnographers and original interviews with practicing historical sociologists, we argue that these ties have
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The Spatial Configuration of Segregation, Elite Fears of Disease, and Housing Reform in Washington, D.C.’s Inhabited Alleys Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Carolyn B. Swope
In the early 1900s, Washington, D.C. contained many alleys in the interior of blocks inhabited by impoverished Black residents. Elite reformers engaged in an aggressive campaign to eliminate alleys, on the grounds of their purported unsanitary environment and high disease prevalence. In this paper, I combine quantitative, qualitative, and spatial sources to explore new perspectives on segregation,
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A Local Housing Market in the Great Depression Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Richard Harris
Housing figures prominently during economic crises, a notable example being the Great Depression. Because housing is immobile, its market is very localized. In each city, the main agents are closely interconnected. Lenders depend on mortgaged homeowners and landlords to maintain payments; landlords rely on tenants; municipalities need all property owners to pay taxes. The Depression experiences of
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Fatal Years: Background and Aftermath Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Samuel H. Preston, Michael R. Haines
This is a history of the creation of the book Fatal Years: Child Mortality in late-Nineteenth-Century America (1991) by the authors. The data were a sample of households from the 1900 United States Census manuscripts. The primary method used was indirect estimation of child mortality (approximately ages 0–4) using information on the age and marriage duration of women. Among the findings were overall
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“The Magic of Numbers is Strong”: Hobson v Hansen and Contested Social Science in Judicial Decision Making Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Keith McNamara
Hobson v. Hansen (1967) is best known as the first federal court case to rule against discriminatory use of standardized tests in the context of educational tracking. It was also significant as one of the first desegregation cases after Brown v Board of Education (1954) to use psychological evidence in its ruling. This essay briefly examines the debates over ability testing before Hobson, the contexts
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The Great War and the Warfare–Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Carina Schmitt, Amanda Shriwise
In the Global North, mass warfare created a huge demand for social protection, pushing governments to provide income for invalids, war victims, and the survivors of fallen soldiers. Most European colonial powers, including France and Great Britain, recruited soldiers and other security forces not only from their metropoles but also from their colonies during both World Wars. However, the question of
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“Power to the People!”: The Catalytic Role of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago’s Industrialization Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Keston K. Perry, Zophia Edwards
Recent developmental state research highlights state-society configurations and contentious politics in shaping industrialization. Still, much of this work focuses on East Asia and tends to sidestep racialized labor exploitation, imperialism, and uneven incorporation into the global capitalist system through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism as important drivers. Through an historical
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The Role of Organizational Institutionalization in Electoral Sustainability. A Comparative Analysis of the Spanish Far Right: Fuerza Nueva and VOX Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Pablo Ortiz Barquero, Manuel Tomás González-Fernández, Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez
This article focuses on the most relevant far right parties since the restoration of democracy in Spain, namely, Fuerza Nueva and VOX. These two parties show divergent electoral trajectories. While the former had some ephemeral prominence during the democratic process of transition, the latter emerged in 2018 and, for the time being, seems to have become established in several political arenas. Through
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Immigration, Poverty, and Infant and Child Mortality in the City of Madrid, 1916–1926 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Michel Oris, Stanislao Mazzoni, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
In this paper, we study differential infant and child mortality according to the origin of the mothers, natives of Madrid or immigrants, between 1916 and 1926. From 1880 to 1939, Madrid experienced spectacular demographic growth, with a massive influx of immigrants, mainly from the Castilian Plateau. Using the city’s records of births and deaths, which we linked for the study period, we demonstrate
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Infant and childhood death in the medical profession. Evidence from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Netherlands Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Frans van Poppel, Peter Ekamper
This paper shows the effect that the medical expertise of medical practitioners had on the life chances of their children. We focus on infant and early childhood mortality. We reconstructed the life histories of the offspring of a group of around 2800 medical practitioners who were practicing in a high-mortality region in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1922, the period during which infant and child
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Fatal Places? Contextual Effects on Infant and Child Mortality in Early Twentieth Century England and Wales Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Hannaliis Jaadla, Kevin Schürer, Sarah Rafferty
This paper takes, as its starting point, Preston and Haines’ observation in Fatal Years that social class was the most important influence on infant and child mortality in England and Wales in the early twentieth century. A subsequent study suggested that this could in part be due to the spatial distribution of the different classes across different types of place, and that some of the mortality differences
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Visions of deliverance: Social scientization, functionalism, and the expansive purposiveness of state schooling in nineteenth-century British parliamentary politics Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Daniel Scott Smith
Early in the nineteenth century, members in the UK Parliament (MPs) hardly ever debated education. When they did, it was nearly always in the context of aid for the religious instruction of the poor. Indeed, even by 1850, nearly two decades after the first Great Reform Act (1832), the Prime Minister Lord John Russell made the case that a system of compulsory state schooling would be immoral and un-British
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Wealth and Child Mortality in the Nineteenth-Century United States: Evidence from Three Panels of American Couples, 1850–1880 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 J. David Hacker, Martin Dribe, Jonas Helgertz
With only a few exceptions, the historical study of individual-level correlates of child mortality in the United States has been limited to the period surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, when children ever born and children surviving data collected by the 1900 and 1910 censuses allow indirect estimation of child mortality. The recent release of linked census data, such as the IPUMS MLP datasets
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Migration, Kinship and Child Mortality in Early Twentieth-Century North America Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Marie-Ève Harton, J. David Hacker, Danielle Gauvreau
This article appraises kin availability and migration timing on French-Canadian child mortality in an early twentieth-century North American industrial city. The analysis is based on the exploitation of an original dataset constructed by linking the 1910 census data (IPUMS-Full Count) for Manchester, New Hampshire to Quebec Catholic marriage records (BALSAC) and geocoding census data at the household
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Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Aja Antoine-Jones, James J. Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Christopher Muller, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
In the first half of the twentieth century, deaths from infectious disease, especially among the very young, fell dramatically in American cities. However, as infant mortality fell and life expectancy rose, racial inequality in urban infectious disease mortality grew. In this paper, we show that the fall in mortality and the rise in racial inequality in mortality reflected two countervailing processes
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Religion and Child Death in Ireland’s Industrial Capital: Belfast 1911 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Francesco Scalone, Lucia Pozzi, Liam Kennedy
Ireland is often seen as an outlier within the western world in terms of demographic behavior. As a society it has also been noted for its religious fervor, including religious division, at least until fairly recently. Might there be connections historically between these two spheres? One intriguing area of enquiry relates to possible links between religious denomination and child mortality. We explore
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Introduction to Fatal Years 30 Years Later: New Research On Child Mortality in the Past Special Issue Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Martin Dribe, J. David Hacker
2021 marked the 30-year anniversary of the publication Fatal Years: Child Mortality in the late Nineteenth-Century United States, a pioneering work in historical demography by Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. This special issue showcases the current state of historical mortality studies through a collection of articles originally presented at two commemorative sessions at the 2021 meeting of
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Abortion and Directive Genetic Counseling Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Matthew Kearney
This multi-method study uses statistical and comparative-historical investigations to find that abortion values shape genetic counseling practices across societies. Genetic counselors and genetically interested social scientists have long questioned, but never systematically demonstrated, whether this relationship exists. Genetic counseling data are drawn from cross-national surveys of genetic counselors
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World Wars and the Establishment of Welfare Ministries Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Klaus Petersen, Carina Schmitt, Herbert Obinger
Welfare ministries are key institutions of modern nation-states. However, we still lack knowledge about when and why national welfare ministries were established. In this paper, we argue that both the First and Second world wars were major driving forces behind the establishment of independent welfare ministries. To test our argument, we introduce a novel dataset on the establishment of welfare-related
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“Ministering at the Altar of Slavery”: Religious slavery conflict and social movement repression Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Kristin George
Why did some American Protestant denominations experience slavery-related schism during the nineteenth century, while others appear to have been unaffected by slavery conflict? I conduct a comparative case study of four national Protestant denominations and find that slavery-related schism was not a consequence of a particular theological orientation, but instead occurred when denominational leaders
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Carrots over Sticks? Mothers’ Pensions and Child Labor in the Early 20th Century U.S. Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Elisabeth Anderson, Sabino Kornrich, Eman Abdelhadi
While existing research suggests that nineteenth-century child labor laws largely failed to significantly reduce children’s workforce participation, we examine whether policies that tackled the problem by providing aid – rather than by penalizing work – were more effective. Between 1910 and 1920, forty U.S. states enacted mothers’ pension programs, giving needy “deserving” mothers, typically widows
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The Diffusion of Knowledge during the British Industrial Revolution Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Gregori Galofré-Vilà
While technological progress played a central role in the British Industrial Revolution, statistical evidence on how inventors and entrepreneurs engaged in the process of technological innovation has typically received minor attention. In this paper I use quantitative methods to show that counties with a relatively high number of informal networks −in the form of Freemasonry, friendly societies, libraries
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Political Centralization, Federalism, and Urbanization: Evidence from Australia Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 George Wilkinson, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Julian Bolleter, Paula Hooper
The dominance of capital cities (urban primacy) is an enduring characteristic of Australian states. There has been limited empirical research examining the drivers of primacy in states despite some being extreme examples of the phenomenon, both in magnitude and scale. In light of institutional theories of settlement patterns, we developed a profile of Australian urbanization using a century of time-series
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Historical Diversity in Credit Intermediation: Cosignatory Lending Institutions in Europe and North America, 1700s–1960s Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Amaury de Vicq, Christiaan van Bochove
Through a close reading of scattered, disparate, and largely unconnected secondary sources, supplemented with the analysis of primary sources, and backed by economic theory, this paper explores the origins, development, and socio-economic impact of so-called cosignatory lending institutions. These historical institutions were designed to issue small loans to small businesses and households and shared
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Equivocal Challenges: Tactical Ambiguity and Deferral of Claim-Making in the 1948 Bogotazo Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Matthieu de Castelbajac
This article rethinks the dynamics of collective contention by emphasizing the role of tactical ambiguity. In the face of high political uncertainty, contentious mobilizations work best when they avoid explicit claim-making and engage instead in what I call equivocal challenges—i.e. provocative actions whose meaning will be defined by the response they elicit from specific targets. I provide detailed
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Situating Politics: Spatial Heterogeneity and the Study of Political History Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Adam Slez
While quantitative methods are routinely used to examine historical materials, critics take issue with the use of global regression models that attach a single parameter to each predictor, thereby ignoring the effects of time and space, which together define the context in which historical events unfold. This problem can be addressed by allowing for parameter heterogeneity, as highlighted by the proliferation
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Gender, intimate partner homicide, and rurality in early-twentieth-century New South Wales Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Carolyn Strange, Collin Payne, Fiona Fraser
Rural criminological literature on lethal domestic violence and feminist historical research on the patriarchal judgment of women accused of killing male intimate partners (IPs) have developed a dystopic image of the past for nonurban women. This paper questions that impression by asking whether women were more likely than men to be convicted of IP murder, and whether rural women were treated more
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Wealth mobility in the United States: 1860–1870 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Brandon Dupont, Joshua L. Rosenbloom
We offer new evidence on the dynamics of wealth holding in the United States over the Civil War decade based on a hand-linked random sample of wealth holders drawn from the 1860 census. Despite the wealth shock caused by emancipation, we find that patterns of wealth mobility were broadly similar for northern and southern residents in 1860. Looking at the determinants of individual wealth holding in
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Young Lads and Old Tars: Changing Age Structure of the Nordic Sailors, 1750s–1930s Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta, Jaakko Pehkonen, Anu Ojala
This article analyzes the changing age structure of Swedish and Finnish sailors for almost 200 years. We show that the proportion of the youngest men increased during the age of sail (i.e., the older technology). The average age increased significantly during the early twentieth century as steam (i.e., the newer technology) replaced sail in Nordic shipping. Thus, a technological revolution did not
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The Last Nationwide Smallpox Epidemic in the Netherlands: Infectious Disease and Social Inequalities in Amsterdam, 1870–1872 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Sanne Muurling, Tim Riswick, Katalin Buzasi
The complex relationship between the history of infectious diseases and social inequalities has recently attracted renewed attention. Smallpox has so far largely escaped this revived scholarly scrutiny, despite its century-long status as one of the deadliest and widespread of all infectious diseases. Literature has demonstrated important differences between rural and urban communities, and between
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The Southern Farmers’ Alliance, Populists, and lynching Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Adam Chamberlain, Alixandra B. Yanus
The lynching literature often considers how the Populist Party affected lynching, yet the Southern Farmers’ Alliance—a short-lived but influential voluntary association that mobilized large numbers of white farmers—is overlooked. We argue that this is a critical oversight, as the Alliance was the origin of populism in the South. Specifically, we hypothesize that where the Alliance had more local organizations
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Attaining Autonomy in the Empire: French Governors between 1860 and 1960 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Scott Viallet-Thévenin, Cédric Chambru
This article presents a study of the careers of French colonial governors between 1830 and 1960. We consider empires as the by-product of social entities structuring themselves. Specifically, we analyze the process of the emergence of this professional group with respect to other professional groups within the imperial space and the French metropolitan space, building on the concept of linked ecologies
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1751 and Thereabout: A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Notarial Records Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Claire Lemercier, Francesca Trivellato
This article asks a simple question that nevertheless has broad implications for historians of premodern continental Europe: What did notaries do? It answers it by applying descriptive statistics, principal component analysis, and clustering techniques to the typological distribution of all deeds preserved in the notarial collections of six French and Italian cities—Paris, Toulouse, Mende, Turin, Florence
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The “Glorious” Revolution’s Inglorious Religious Commitment: Why Parliamentary Rule Failed to Secure Religious Liberty Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Parashar Kulkarni, Steven Pfaff
Many scholars contend that the “Glorious” Revolution of 1688 restrained governmental abuses in Britain by preventing the Crown from engaging in irresponsible behavior. However, the question of whether it imposed similar restraints on Parliament has received limited scrutiny. This oversight applies in particular to the religious sphere and outside of England. Rather than create the general conditions
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Determinants of Nutritional Differences in Mediterranean Rural Spain, 1840–1965 Birth Cohorts: A Comparison between Irrigated and Dry Farming Agriculture Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 María-Isabel Ayuda, Javier Puche, José Miguel Martínez-Carrión
Anthropometric studies have given much attention to the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the biological standards of living of urban populations. Instead, we know less about the evolution of height and the disparities within the rural world and how they have changed during the modern economic growth process. This article analyzes the evolution and the determining factors that would explain
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Electoral Strategy or Historical Legacy? The CDU’s Reactions to Far-Right Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964–1990 Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Anna Berg
This article investigates how established political parties react to the emergence of a far-right party. Prevailing approaches explain established parties’ reactions either as based on a spatial model of politics or as determined by historical trajectory and political culture. Neither approach sufficiently accounts for how party leaders choose between these competing motives for actions or how their
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Protestant Missionary Education and the Diffusion of Women’s Education in Ottoman Turkey: A Historical GIS Analysis – CORRIGENDUM Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Emre Amasyali
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Denominational Conflicts and Party Breakthrough: The Negative Case of the All-German People’s Party Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Matthias Dilling
National party breakthrough has often been attributed to new or previously minor parties seizing favorable political opportunities. The role of their strategic choices in response to political opportunities, however, has been underexplored because less attention has been paid to relevant negative cases, that is instances when parties encounter favorable conditions without breaking through. This article
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Pitting the Working Class against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Larry W. Isaac, Rachel G. McKane, Anna W. Jacobs
It is axiomatic that high-risk activism requires solidarity if social movements are to have success in struggles against powerful adversaries. However, there is little research that attempts to gauge the impact of various types, limits, or breakdown of solidarity directly and systematically. Drawing from historical political economy, cultures of class formation, and social movement outcome literatures
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The Power of Religious Activism in Tocqueville’s America: The Second Great Awakening and the Rise of Temperance and Abolitionism in New York State Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Ryan K. Masters, Michael P. Young
This study investigates the religious origins of the American temperance and antislavery movements in New York State. We introduce new county-level longitudinal data between 1828 and 1838 to document the onset and growth of New York temperance and antislavery societies during the movements’ early stages. Data are compiled from numerous historical sources and document counts of temperance societies
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“You’re Not from around Here”: Regional Naming and Life Outcomes Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Alex Beaudin, Elizabeth Kristian, John Robert Warren, Jonas Helgertz
We examine the socioeconomic consequences of discrimination against people of Southern origins during the US Great Migration of the first half of the twentieth century. We ask whether people living in the American North and Midwest in 1940 fared worse with respect to education, occupation, and income if they were perceived to be of Southern origins. We also assess variation in these effects across
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Minutes of History: Talk and Its Written Incarnations Social Science History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 David R. Gibson
Meeting minutes (and similar records) provide a cherished window into the internal workings of important bodies, but scholars usually have little option but to trust their veridicality. However, the production of a record of talk as it happens is a difficult task, especially when talk is animated and turn-taking unregimented. I compare recordings of four National Security Council meetings secretly