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Banking as an emerging technology: Hoare's Bank, 1702-1742 [PDF]
London’s financial market underwent dramatic change after 1700. More limited than Paris or Amsterdam in the seventeenth century, London became the leading financial centre in Europe in the eighteenth century.
Joachim Voth, Peter Temin
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The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt +3 more
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The 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
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Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition. [PDF]
Hist Philos Life Sci, 2020 van den Berg H.
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. [PDF]
Ber WissAraújo AM.
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Circular visualisation of historical migration in England in the long eighteenth-century. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Gietel-Basten S.
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Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Vaninskaya
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.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
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Little lives-reading between the lines: insights from the Northampton Infirmary Eighteenth Century Child Admission Database. [PDF]
Med HistMant M +8 more
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