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From the Habsburg to the Karađorđević Dynasty. The Position of Croatian and Slavonian Nobility in the Yugoslav State

Acta Histriae, 2022
The article compares the position of nobility in Slovenia, Croatia and Slavonia before and after the Great War. The focus is on the transition to the Yugoslav state. The new regime treated the nobility as adversaries in political, social and national respect ; noble titles were abolished and landed estates diminished by the land reform.
Iveljić, Iskra, Preinfalk, Miha
openaire   +2 more sources

‘A child who implores your clemency from his mother's womb’: emotion, inclusion and the unborn Condé child (1656)

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 104-122, February 2025.
Abstract In the Fronde's aftermath, the treason and flight of the ‘Grand’ Prince of Condé Louis II de Bourbon raised pointed questions about belonging and community in Louis XIV's France, and news of his wife's 1656 pregnancy while in exile in Flanders further complicated those issues.
Jim Coons
wiley   +1 more source

The Tragic End of Bona Sforza and Roxelana

Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2020
This is an attempt to compare events related to the tragic end of the life of Queen Bona Sforza d’Aragona and Hürrem Sultan (also known as Roxelana). The main portion of the story is preceded by a section relating Bona’s journey from Poland to Italy and ...
Marco Jačov
doaj   +1 more source

The historical regions of Europe: civilizational backgrounds and multiple routes to modernity [PDF]

, 2012
A systematic typology or comparative analysis of European historical regions does not exist and there is relatively little literature on the topic. The argument in this paper is that a six-fold classification is needed to capture the diversity of Europe ...
Delanty, Gerard
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History's Masters The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance

Econometrica, Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 95-128, January 2025.
We create a novel reign‐level data set for European monarchs, covering all major European states between the 10th and 18th centuries. We first document a strong positive relationship between rulers' cognitive ability and state performance. To address endogeneity issues, we exploit the facts that (i) rulers were appointed according to hereditary ...
Sebastian Ottinger, Nico Voigtländer
wiley   +1 more source

Sultan, dynasty & state in the Ottoman Empire: political institutions in the 16th century [PDF]

, 2003
From its inception around 1300, 'the House of Osman' maintained the ancient Eurasian steppe tradition which kept the system of suc cession open. At a sultan's death, the throne went to the best candidate to emerge in a contest.
Kunt, Metin
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Historical Self‐Governance and Norms of Cooperation

Econometrica, Volume 92, Issue 5, Page 1473-1502, September 2024.
Does self‐governance, a hallmark of democratic societies, foster norms of generalized cooperation? Does this effect persist, and if so, why? I investigate these questions using a natural experiment in Switzerland. In the Middle Ages, the absence of an heir resulted in the extinction of a prominent noble dynasty.
Devesh Rustagi
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise of Fiscal Capacity: Administration and State Consolidation in the Holy Roman Empire

Econometrica, Volume 92, Issue 5, Page 1439-1472, September 2024.
This paper studies the role of fiscal capacity in European state consolidation. Our analysis is organized around novel data on the territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period. Territories implementing an early fiscal reform were more likely to survive, increased in size, and achieved a more compact extent.
Davide Cantoni, Cathrin Mohr, Matthias Weigand   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Record keeping and status performance in the early modern Low Countries [PDF]

, 2016
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Buylaert, Frederik, Haemers, Jelle
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To make a figure in the world: Identity and material literacy in the 1770s coach consumption of British ambassador, Lord Grantham

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 386-407, July 2024.
Abstract Using archival research on the correspondence of diplomat Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, this article examines how Grantham used his material knowledge of carriage design to negotiate the often‐conflicting pushes and pulls on elite office‐holding men's identities and material cultures.
Ben Jackson
wiley   +1 more source