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The influence of miasmatic theory on the construction of the Hospital Geral de Santo António in Porto in the nineteenth century. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Palma M.
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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 57-88, February 2026.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
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Present(ed) bodies, absent agency: "patients' perspectives" at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Lafleur A.
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Transitional justice and historiography: challenges, dilemmas and possibilities [PDF]

, 2014
Bevernage, Berber
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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"Covering For Our City Blight": Kudzu and Public Health in Atlanta, 1979-1994. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci
Reilly K.
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Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 89-132, February 2026.
Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
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An Irish Radium Institute: the Royal Dublin Society and the promotion of radioactive therapy in twentieth-century Ireland. [PDF]

Ir J Med Sci
Kirwan A.
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By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 3-30, February 2026.
Abstract Evidence on by‐employment in long‐run economic development is limited in existing literature worldwide. This study constructed a new dataset comprising 74 515 occupational observations with 4890 by‐employed individuals derived from Chinese lineage genealogies.
Ying Dai
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Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 247-280, February 2026.
Abstract This article investigates the impact of local political institutions on inequality in eastern England between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Specifically, it examines the extent to which wealthier individuals controlled local governance structures in the form of manor courts through linking the identities of individuals who served as manorial officials ...
Spike Gibbs
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