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Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the relationship between national politics, sovereign default, credit rationing, and their effects on fiscal revenues and exports in nineteenth‐century Colombia. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, it challenges existing narratives on Colombia's lack of sustained nineteenth‐century export‐led development, showing
Andrew Primmer
wiley   +1 more source

Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite significant advances in the quantitative study of African history, the Portuguese colonial empire remains an underexplored topic. This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of worker living standards in Angola and Mozambique, contextualized within a broader comparison of colonial African empires.
Leo Dolan
wiley   +1 more source

Sri Lanka

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Angelique Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Probing the past: historical case study analysis to inform more just and sustainable global health partnerships in education. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health
Vorobej L   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Let U.S. Prey: Mark Twain and Hubert Harrison on Religion and Empire

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2009
Adrian Gaskins
doaj   +1 more source

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