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grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Habsburg economy before the First World War [PDF]
This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual ...
Schule, Max-Stephan, Wolf, Nikolaus
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Urban history and modernity in Central Europe [PDF]
This historiographical review discusses recent literature on cities in modern Central Europe – mainly on Berlin and Vienna – which reflects the great variety of approaches to urban history and underlines the importance of urban history for the study of ...
Klautke, E.F.
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Anthropologists Against Sovereignty
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Chris Hann
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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Mapire enables one to navigate historical maps of the Habsburg Empire. The name Mapire came from the words Map and Empire, implying the very essence of the portal.
Ivan Majić
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The historical regions of Europe: civilizational backgrounds and multiple routes to modernity [PDF]
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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Going for Broke: Bank Reputation and the Performance of Opaque Securities
ABSTRACT Can banks’ reputational concerns improve the quality of opaque, off‐balance sheet securities, such as mortgage‐backed securities? We study this question in a uniquely parsimonious setting. In the 1760s, Dutch banking partnerships securitized West‐Indian plantation mortgages that were risky and opaque.
ABE DE JONG +2 more
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Ammirazione o rivalità? Silvio Pellico nei “Mémoires d’outre-tombe” [PDF]
In certain chapters of his Mémoires d’outre-tombe, François-René de Chateaubriand extensively refers to Le mie prigioni by Silvio Pellico, where the author recounts his fate as a political prisoner under the Habsburg Empire.
Marguerite Bordry
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Covering defeat or disaster in print required considerable journalistic finesse in the Southern Netherlandish news market, since the primary role of privileged courantiers in the Habsburg empire was to provide accounts of royal successes.
Tiffany Bousard
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This chapter compares the revolutions of 1789, 1848 and 1989 to examine the usefulness of the concepts of 'risk', and 'threat' in the development of revolutionary ...
Rapport, Michael
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