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The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

THEATRE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2014
The paper discusses the relationship between the (Croatian) theatre historiography and the (Croatian) national identity, a topic rarely considered in Croatian theatre studies.
Martina Petranović
doaj  

The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

USING THE PAST IN RESEARCH STRATEGIES: INTERPRETATION EXPERIENCE STATE IDEOLOGY OF SHAH’S IRAN IN 1925-1979

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2017
This paper considers questions related to the use of the past for research strategies in the interpretation the character the state ideology monarchical Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925-1979.
E. B. Boev
doaj   +2 more sources

Christianity of Conscience: Religion Over Politics in the Williams-Cotton Debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This research project examines Roger Williams’s representation of the relationship between church and state as demonstrated in his controversy with the Massachusetts Bay Puritans, specifically in his pamphlet war with Boston minister John Cotton ...
Farthing, Sophie
core   +1 more source

Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
wiley   +1 more source

COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY

open access: yesProblemos, 1998
The article exposes (in brief) the theories of the counterfactuals in analytical philosophy (metalinguistic, ontological and suppositionist) and discusses the conditions of assertability of counterfactuals in historiography.
Zenonas Norkus
doaj   +4 more sources

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