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Australian Economic History Review, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 105-121, March 2020., 2020 During their occupation of Sri Lanka (1640–1796) and following Sinhalese and Portuguese practices, the Dutch created an elaborate registration of people, estates, and labour services. The administrative records known as the thombos are incomparable in their level of detail, yet they have hardly been used for the purposes of demographic or economic ...
Jan Kok
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The government–robber comparison: A long‐standing tradition beyond avowed libertarianism
Economic Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 41-58, February 2026.Abstract A government differs from a robber, but they share the common feature of initiating coercion. This similarity has been noticed by libertarians as well as within a distinct scholarly tradition and as a recurring theme throughout Western philosophy.
Brian Mandeville
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 157-176, June 2025.Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
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A study of the coinage of Chios in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. [PDF]
, 1998 The central part of the thesis consists of the chronological arrangement and discussion of the coin series struck by the Chian mint from the beginning of the Hellenistic period (c 332 BC) down to its demise during the late Roman Imperial period (c 270 AD)
Lagos, Constantinos, Lagos, C.
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Anglophone Literature in Bangladesh and Malaysia: Challenges and Prospects
Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2025.ABSTRACT This article focuses on the historical trajectory and development of Anglophone literature in Bangladesh and Malaysia—two predominantly Muslim countries and previously British colonies categorised as “Outer Circle” countries in Braj Kachru's model of English‐speaking communities.
Mohammad A. Quayum
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Family matters in Roman Asia Minor : elite identity, community dynamics and competition in the honorific inscriptions of imperial Aphrodisias [PDF]
, 2014 textIn the city centers of Roman Asia Minor, honorific monuments, which consisted of a portrait sculpture and biographical inscription, filled the agoras, aedicular facades, and colonnaded avenues.
Morgan, Ann Marie, active 2014
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Assessing Ancient Inequalities: Hellenistic Delos
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 71, Issue 2, May 2025.ABSTRACT This paper presents a new data set that measures inequality levels in the city‐state of Delos at two different points in time during the period of its independence (314–167 BCE). We propose a new approach for quantifying ancient inequality and its evolution by relying on inscriptions that indicate property data and artisanal remunerations.
Filippo Battistoni, Marco Martinez
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Was Hannah Twynnoy Killed by a Tiger in England in 1703? A Historical Sociological Approach
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 480-496, September 2024.Abstract This paper approaches globalization through the lens of folk lore, myth, and John Law's hopeful monsters, focusing on Hannah Twynnoy, a woman allegedly killed by a tiger in Malmesbury (England) in 1703. Hannah's death was taken up three hundred years later as a metaphor for globalization when local factory jobs were relocated to a ‘tiger ...
Matthew David
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Divine and Imperial power: A comparative analysis of Paul and Josephus [PDF]
, 2009 The overall purpose of this study is to investigate Paul's construal of divine and imperial power in order to analyse to what extent he may be judged pro-Roman, anti-Roman or in some alternative relationship with Roman power.
Pinter, Dean L, Pinter, Dean L
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Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 519-543, July 2024.Abstract This article explores the social and gender history of ‘tropical whites’ – all‐white men's suits worn with pith helmets in tropical societies colonised by European powers – between c.1900 and 1939. Focusing on two northern Australian ports with multiple connections to Asia, the article shows that tropical whites helped to sustain inequities of
Melissa Bellanta, Lorinda Cramer
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