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Was Serfdom Good for the Economy?

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Some recent theories have sought to rehabilitate serfdom, postulating that it could have been economically beneficial because lords used their institutional power to address pre-modern market failures.
Ogilvie Sheilagh
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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani, Mariano Mastrogiorgio, Giuseppe Carignani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Anthem Protests, MAGA, and BLM on NFL Attendance

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the San Francisco 49ers' final preseason game. The protest quickly became league‐wide, and inspired similar actions by players in the WNBA, NWSL, NBA, college football and other professional sports.
Oskar Harmon, Jungbin Hwang
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Settlement, Climate Crisis and Lordship in Early Medieval Scandinavia

Current Swedish Archaeology
This article examines and describes the nature of lordship in Scandinavia during the Early Medieval period (c.400–1000 CE). It counters the assertions of earlier research, which claim that lordship with estates had already developed at the beginning of ...
Jan-Henrik Fallgren
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the accuracy of field‐based versus laboratory methods for determining the age of roe deer

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Accurate age determination in roe deer Capreolus capreolus is essential for selective harvesting and informed population management, yet field‐based methods widely used by hunters remain imprecise. This study compared field‐based and laboratory age determination methods in 204 harvested roe deer, categorized by sex and habitat type (forest versus open ...
Michael Manton, Mantas Sablinka, Darius Hardalau, Gediminas Brazaitis, Ovidiu Ionescu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rich, literate, and powerful

Hamsa
In the late Middle Ages, Iberian Jewish quarters were frequently under the Church’s lordship, as Jewish communities rented property from ecclesiastical institutions.
Beatriz da Silva Felício
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Integration of Micro‐CT and XRF Mapping for Multimodal 3D Analysis of Polychrome Wooden Artifacts

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 5 years, computer applications have become crucial to archeological research. Since the 1990s, the focus has transitioned from data management tools to the development of virtual models. Recently, digital documentation of cultural heritage has gained considerable focus, with 3D modeling of objects.
Josiane E. Cavalcante, Olga Araujo, Alessandra Machado, Roberta M. P. S. Borges, Isis V. N. S. Franzi, Anderson G. de Paula, Roberta Leitão, Marcelino dos Anjos, Renato Freitas, Ricardo T. Lopes, Davi F. Oliveira   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lordship and the State:

At the diet of Worms in 1495, ‘it was weighed and resolved, especially by the Franconians, that they would not let themselves be put on a level with the French nobility, who once were also free’. In this moment of imperial reform, these lords were threatened with two significant extensions of state power – the abrogation of the right to feud and the ...
openaire   +1 more source