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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 57-88, February 2026.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 3-30, February 2026.
Abstract Evidence on by‐employment in long‐run economic development is limited in existing literature worldwide. This study constructed a new dataset comprising 74 515 occupational observations with 4890 by‐employed individuals derived from Chinese lineage genealogies.
Ying Dai
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Andrew Fletcher, Scotland, and London in the eighteenth century [PDF]

, 2013
Murdoch, Alexander
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The Plague of Provence (1720-2) and debates in Britain on the cross-species transmission of disease. [PDF]

Med Hist
Murphy N.
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