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The quality of slave trade investment in eighteenth century France [PDF]

This paper studies the characteristics of investment in slave trade and associated trades in France during the eighteenth century. The study of the accounts of an investor from Nantes, Bertrand de Cœuvre, shows that his investment compared favourably ...
Guillaume Daudin
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

Purity Row, 18th century

, 2011
Purity Row, 18th century row houses which stood on the south side of N. W.

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A methodological approach to estimating the money demand in pre-industrial economies: probate inventories and Spain in the 18th century [PDF]

, 2006
The study of monetary phenomena and the understanding of price determination in Modern Europe are too often limited by the scarcity of good-quality data sets on the evolution across time of variables like money holdings, income, or wealth.
Nicolini Alessi, Esteban Alberto, Nicolini, Esteban, Ramos, Fernando, Nicolini, Esteban A.   +3 more
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem

Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
wiley   +1 more source

“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
wiley   +1 more source

At the roots of the "great divergence": Europe and China in an 18th century debate

, 2014
China and Chinese civilization represented a hotly-debated topic in eighteenth-century European culture, as they summarized one of the most obvious forms of cultural diversity with which the West had ever come into contact.
ABBATTISTA, GUIDO
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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism

Constellations, EarlyView.
Arturo Chang
wiley   +1 more source

Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
wiley   +1 more source