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Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law: Imagined Constitutions, Remembered Legalities

, 2011
Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the 'rule of law'.
Duncanson, Ian
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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
wiley   +1 more source

First as a Tragedy, Then as some Other Figure: On Tropology of History and Politics of Literature. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Glavaš Z.
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Tall Tales an True:India Historiography and British Imperial Imaginings

, 2008
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Brittlebank,Kate
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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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The Question of the Narrative in Historiography: Between the Annales School and Hayden White. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Držaić K.
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Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high‐frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources.
Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard
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Yesterday's Patterns, Tomorrow's Possibilities: Historical Methods in Family Medicine. [PDF]

Fam Med
Vorobej L, Whitehead C.
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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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Weaving MAPS: Historiographical Perspectives on Writing Postcolonial Histories of the Modern Hospital. [PDF]

Yale J Biol Med
Joe JAS.
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