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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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COURT TUDOR AUTHORS’ POLEMICS ON KING ARTHUR: POLYDORE VERGIL AND JOHN LELAND
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 The article focuses on the problem of interpretation of the image of king Arthur, the legendary leader of Britons, during the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the debates on this issue of the two court authors - Polydor Vergil and John Leland.
D. Kiryukhin
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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THE GENRE OF “HISTORY” IN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE 19th CENTURY
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 The article discusses the special genre of "history" in the English literature of the 19th century, the originality of which is manifested in the integration of history and literature. Analyzes the "history" W.
E. V. Somova, M. A. Maslova
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The Origins of R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History in his Philosophy of Religion, 1916–1943
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history was deeply rooted in his early philosophy of religion as expounded in Religion and Philosophy (1916). Although scholars have tended to separate Collingwood's early religious ideas from his later writings, this study demonstrates that his theory of history was informed by his ...
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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“TO SEUNAGAN SEEKING HAS SPREAD”: THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION AND HISTORY AS PROPHECY
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore accusations of heterodoxy, as well as rebuttals of these accusations, leveled at Sufi groups in late‐colonial and independent Aceh, the last region of what is today Indonesia to fall under Dutch colonial rule. What has been at stake in debates about the orthodoxy of such groups has not simply, or even primarily, been ...
DANIEL ANDREW BIRCHOK
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