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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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The King Must Protect the Difference: The Juridical Foundations of Tantric Knowledge
Religions, 2018 Drawing upon inscriptional, art historical, as well as largely unstudied and unpublished textual evidence, this paper examines the conceptualization of religious diversity in the Medieval Deccan prior to the Islamic invasions.
Jason Schwartz
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses Karl Polanyi's understanding of the crisis inherent in liberal economics to analyse a contemporary crisis—Trump's global tariff agenda. It argues that Trump's tariff agenda conforms to Polanyi's interpretation of how the crisis of liberal economics can disintegrate into more malignant forces.
ROWAN ALCOCK
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Systematic review of the changing land to people relationship and co-evolution of land administration. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Adam AG.
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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The discussion about the development of the Byzantine city (M. Syuzyumov – A. Kazhdan)
RUDN Journal of World History, 2013 The article is about the fait of the Byzantine cities during the «dark ages». Two major Russian Byzantine scientists spent years discussing on the continuity of the Byzantine city. M.
M Cmilyanich
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L'Atelier du CRHNobility, Seigneurie, and Land Tenure : A State of the Question (Northern France, 16th–18th Centuries) - French historiography on seigneuries and fiefs in the early modern period has long been shaped by a legal framework elaborated during the Ancien ...
Elie Haddad
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