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Bimetallism as a policy for the British Empire

, 1882
JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY
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Lynn Festa , Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eignteenth-Century Britain and France , Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 300 p.

, 2009
Pierre Dubois
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CLAIMING SOCIAL HOUSING FUTURES: Value, Risk and the Temporal Politics of Income Strip Financing in London

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
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Invasive Species, Health, and Global History Afterword: The Disavowal of Human Agency. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci
Clarke S.
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

, 2012
Stacey L. Kikendall
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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A long-time dataset of climate related events on Cyprus Island (1174-1913). [PDF]

Data Brief
Eliot E, Grivaud G, Beauvalet V, Krummeich R, Couillet A, Charalambidou I, Reulier R, Gücel S, Rey-Coreyhourcq S, Georgiou K, Nehme C.   +10 more
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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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