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Alessandro Stanziani, Bondage. Labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries [PDF]

, 2015
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Croucher, Richard
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?

International Social Science Journal, Volume 75, Issue 257, Page 507-519, September 2025.
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal, Austin Choi‐Fitzpatrick   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Views of the Baltic German Press on the Traditions: of Other Nationalities in Riga’s Music Life in the 1870s–1880s: The Influence of the Political Context

Musicology Today
The history of German presence in the territory of Latvia began in the thirteenth century, when Germans arrived here as crusaders. From that time until the nineteenth century, they played the dominant role in the economic and political life of the region.
Jaunslaviete Baiba
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Rural Revolution in Bolivia: Landlord Stubbornness, Colonial Intellectuals, and Rural Jacobins (1952–1953)

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 212-224, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peasant revolution that took place in Bolivia between November 1952 and November 1953 and seeks to explain why the peasantry took a revolutionary path. While existing explanations have emphasized the exploitative nature of the hacienda and the influence of external political actors, this article argues that the ...
Arián Laguna Quiroga
wiley   +1 more source

ILO Minimum Estimate of Forced Labour in the World [PDF]

, 2005
Prepared for the ILO by Patrick Belser, Michaelle de Cock, and Farhad Mehran, this is a technical document that provides a detailed account of the methodology used in the ILO’s first minimum estimate of forced labour in the world, prepared in 2005.
Belser, Patrick, de Cock, Michaëlle, International Labour Organization, Mehran, Farhad   +3 more
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The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 952-974, August 2025.
Abstract Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons’ prospects to improve their socio‐economic status like after emancipation? To shed some light on these questions, this paper provides unique empirical evidence on patterns of wealth inequality before and ...
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ilmalikud laulud infoallikate ja haridusvahenditena talurahvavalgustuse ajal

Keel ja Kirjandus
The written and oral culture of the Baltic indigenous peoples underwent gradual changes in the late 18th and 19th centuries. According to Wolfgang Welsch, vision is linked with knowledge and science, while hearing relates to faith and religion (Welsch ...
Māra Grudule
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Police Department in the Kuznetsk, Barnaul, and Biysk Districts (Parishes) in the Second Half of the XIX Century

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2020
The research featured the changes associated with the abolition of serfdom, which affected the law enforcement system of the state and, most of all, the police. In Siberia, police reforms were conducted several years after they had been introduced in the
Yu. N. Moskvitin
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Explaining the Path of the Democratic Transition

Kyklos, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 1142-1157, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The paper explains two centuries of development of the political systems of the west by the underlying economic fundamentals. Democracy indices for the average country have a strong long‐run empirical relation to income that looks like a perfect transition curve. The traditional steady state political system was the three pillars model of king,
Martin Paldam
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Peasant land tenure of Eastern Galicia in the second half of 19th – early 20th centuries

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We consider the problems of development of small land tenure in Eastern Galicia in the second half of 19th – early of 20th century. We show the dynamics of the property stratification of peasant population, the reasons for the households fragmentation ...
A. G. Topilsky
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