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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 998-1031, May 2026.
Abstract Firms are known to commonly imitate peers' foreign investment location choices. We shed further light on this phenomenon by exploring the role of foreign locations' cultural tightness, which refers to the prevalence of social norms in a location and the tolerance for deviance from them.
Arjen H. L. Slangen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 491-502, April 2026.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley   +1 more source

Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Migration Network and Identity Reconfiguration: A Case of Gwangju Koryoin Village in Korea

open access: yesPacific Focus, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 3-17, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study employs network theory to examine how advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) reshape migration flows, identity formation, and interactions between migrant and host communities, focusing on Gwangju Koryoin Village.
Seongjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Beauty and Translation: The Analytical Purchase of Diaspora for the Study of the Venezuelan Migration Crisis

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 131-140, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
wiley   +1 more source

The Italian community in Canada: Past and present migration in film, 1960–present

open access: yesCanadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Volume 70, Issue 2, Summer / été 2026.
Abstract From the end of the 19th century until the 1970s, Italian immigration to Canada was one of the most significant in Italy's history. Many documentaries and docu‐films were created to bear witness to the history of the Italian community in Canada, which mainly settled in large urban areas like Toronto and Montreal.
Giovanni Mauro, Capucine Coustere
wiley   +1 more source

A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 72-82, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
wiley   +1 more source

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