Results 161 to 170 of about 411,069 (344)

Sovereign Risk, Credibility and the Gold Standard: 1870-1913 versus 1925-31 [PDF]

What determines sovereign risk? We study the London bond market from the 1870s to the 1930s. Our findings support conventional wisdom concerning the low credibility of the interwar gold standard.
), Alan M. Taylor, Maurice Obstfeld
core  

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

, 2010
Gary D. Libecap, Dean Lueck, Trevor O’Grady   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Multiproxy stable isotope analysis provides insights into diet, animal management, and residential mobility in Old Bara, a metropolitan suburb of the Oyo Empire, West Africa. [PDF]

PLoS One
Akogun MO, Szpak P, Oelze VM, Leishman K, Hilsden J, Speller C, Janz L, Aleru JO, Ogundiran A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Protestant Menace: Catholic Missionary Anti‐Protestantism during and after the First World War (1918–1922)*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Anaemia in Women: A Historical Example of Intersectionality in Health Care. [PDF]

BJOG
Jauniaux E, Paul C.
europepmc   +1 more source

British Empire Cancer Campaign

, 1926
B. Moynihan
openalex   +2 more sources