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The emergence of double entry bookkeeping
The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 499-528, May 2025.Abstract Double entry account books of medieval Italian merchants and bankers have been extensively used as primary sources by historians of several disciplines interested in business, trade, commodities, markets, sources, prices, interest rates, exchange rates, tariffs, taxes, wages, rents, agents, networks, and many other related topics.
Alan Sangster
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 659-671, May 2025.ABSTRACT Clear communication between government administrations and citizens is a challenge in democratic societies. Public administration texts often contain technical legal terms, essential to convey specialized knowledge with precision but often impenetrable to non‐experts.
Sabela Fernández‐Silva +1 more
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The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 152-178, February 2025.Abstract We examine the Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 financial crisis using the British experience in the same episode as comparative context. We conclude that, notwithstanding some direct exposures by Amsterdam institutions to the principals of the London crisis, the main linkage between the two outbreaks was the requirement for cash margin on loans ...
Stein Berre, Paul Kosmetatos
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(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
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Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–1930
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 1035-1056, August 2024.Abstract This article traces trends of income inequality in Mexico City from 1770 to 1930 by measuring the gaps between urban real estate rents and unskilled wages. The article presents the first long‐term series of real estate values and rental income for Mexico.
Amílcar E. Challú +2 more
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Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham
History, Volume 109, Issue 384-385, Page 34-58, April 2024.Abstract Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third.
A.T. Brown
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The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt
History, Volume 109, Issue 384-385, Page 59-91, April 2024.Abstract A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic.
CHRISTOPHER JOBY
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Havana's Transnational Gentrification: Highest and Best Use from Elsewhere
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Volume 115, Issue 1, Page 142-154, February 2024.Havana case‐study offers a new perspective on transnational gentrification from a city in‐between Global East and South. Focusing on transnational and diasporic Airbnb’s owners appreciation of the rent‐gap, this article underlines how transnational circulations affect the market making and evaluation of the highest and best use of property in Cuba and ...
Violaine Jolivet
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Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer's disease by offering advance care planning-a prospective double-arm intervention study. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2022 Baisch S +19 more
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Review of periodical literature for 2022: (ii) 1100–1500
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 335-346, February 2024.
Spike Gibbs
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