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The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

Technocracy, Supranationalism and Right‐Wing Populism: The Variegated Sheltering of Western Assets in East Central European Countries

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, European Union (EU) governance has become more tolerant towards national policy adaptation and experimentation. Right‐wing populist governments in East Central Europe (ECE) have used this increased flexibility amongst other things to develop various economically nationalist strategies to reassert ...
Gerhard Schnyder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La notion de bourgeoisie dans l’historiographie de la Turquie contemporaine

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2008
This article presents a case for historiographic discontinuity between the Ottoman and Turkish Republican eras as the principal cause for the failure to develop a sociology of the Turkish bourgeoisie.
David Behar
doaj   +1 more source

The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China Compared [PDF]

open access: yes
In the former socialist redistributive economies, the transition to market economy and the conversion to private ownership followed different trajectories.
Szelenyi, Ivan
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Fashion in Bolivia’s cultural economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article explores the development of Chola Paceña fashions in La Paz, Bolivia. It traces the social and political lineage of the distinctive pollera dress, and its role in traditions that continue to underpin Aymaran social networks and economies ...
Maclean, Kate
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All Roads Lead to China: Argentina's Beef Exports in the Context of a New Subordinate Complementarity

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the recent expansion of Argentina's beef exports in the context of China's emergence as the world's leading beef importer and the principal destination for Argentine exports. It examines shifts in production, export orientation and domestic consumption, and analyses the export‐oriented fractions of meat capital that have ...
Emilia Ormaechea   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marécages, une pollution par essence? Conditions d'une écopoétique des marais et autres zones humides au XXe siècle

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
wiley   +1 more source

Pour une histoire culturelle de la musique.

open access: yesTransposition, 2011
This interview with Karen Painter has provided us with the opportunity of inquiring about her personal trajectory, her views on musicology, and certain key aspects of her work.
Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Elsa Rieu
doaj   +1 more source

Outline for legislative theory workshop [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
An outline for a nine-day workshop in legislative theory, methodology, and techniques in Lao PDR, which aimed at strengthening legislative drafters' ability to write drafting research ...
Seidman, Ann, Seidman, Robert B.
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