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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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On the Specificity of “Obligatory Relations” of the Kalmyks

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The article is devoted to social interactions research, particularly to dependency relations in the Kalmyk society of the 17th–19th centuries in the context of a discussion about social structure of nomadic people.
Aleksandr N. Komandzhaev, Natalya P. Matsakova, Evgeniy A. Komandzhaev   +2 more
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Holocene Land‐Use and Climate Forcing of Ombrotrophic Peatland Dynamics in Northwest Estonia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract We present a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy record from Mustjärve bog, northwest Estonia, covering the past ∼2,500 years. By integrating paleoecological, historical, and climate data, we evaluate how climate and land use shaped peatland hydrology, vegetation, and carbon dynamics.
Harry Roberts, Luke Andrews, Michał Słowiński, Katarzyna Marcisz, Piotr Kołaczek, Leeli Amon, Siim Veski, Normunds Stivrins, Atko Heinsalu, Mariusz Lamentowicz   +9 more
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“Russian people” in the literature and documents of the 19th century: an experience of linguistic portraiture

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2020
The article describes the ideologeme “Russian people” and its use in the texts of fiction and documentary literature of the 19th century. The authors explored both the socio-political concept “'Russian people” and its verbalization in Russian.
Sahakyan L. N , Severskaya O. I.
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The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry

Development and Change, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 1228-1257, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Confronting statism within the university, this article argues that statism is colonialism. By recognizing statism as the foundational structure of colonialism, the author illuminates the immediate technologies and evolving structures of socio‐ecological subjugation across various cultural, historical and political contexts.
Alexander Dunlap
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Pouvoir colonial, idéologie raciale et violence structurelle en Ankole (Ouganda) : la prétendue abolition du servage des Bairu en 1907

Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est
In Ankole, a district of colonial Uganda, the British colonizers conceived local societies through a racialized dichotomy between two categories. The Bahima were perceived as “Hamitic” herdsmen, who migrated from Ethiopia before submitting a race of ...
Mathias Gerecht
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Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Labor [PDF]

, 2005
We present an economic framework to revisit and reframe some important debates over the nature of free versus unfree labor and the economic consequences of emancipation.
Alain De Janvry, Alan Knight, Alan V Deardorff, Arnold J Bauer, Avishay Braverman, Bengt Holmstrom, Claudia Goldin, David Northrup, David W Galenson, Douglass North, Eric Edmonds, Garance Genicot, George A Akerlof, Hans P Binswanger, Herman Nieboer, Jean Baland, Jonathan Conning, Jonathan Conning, Jonathan H. Conning, Kaushik Basu, Kenneth Sokoloff, Kevin Bales, M L Bush, Magnus Morner, Mats Lundahl, Michael Kevane, Michihiro Kandori, Paul A David, Paul Krugman, Peter Kolchin, Peter Kolchin, Pranab Bardhan, Robert Brenner, Robert Fogel, Roger L Ransom, Stanley L Engerman, Stephen De Castro, Steven N Durlauf, T H Aston, Terence J Byres, V O Kliuchevsky, Yujiro Hayami   +41 more
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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Portrayal of Emperor Alexander II’s Liberal Reforms in School Education in Late 19^th - Early 20^th Centuries

Научный диалог, 2019
The article is devoted to the study of the system of ideas about the liberal reforms of 1860-1870 in Russia, formed in the framework of teaching history in primary and secondary schools.
A. M. Subbotina
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1848: European revolutions [PDF]

, 2012
Discusses the various ways in which the European revolutions of 1848-9 contributed to the shaping of modern democratic ideas and practices.
Rapport, M.
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