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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Why do African migrants with a tertiary education do menial jobs in Cape Town? [PDF]
, 2008 Includes bibliographical references ( leaves 86-91).This research considers the reasons for the position of African migrants with a tertiary education in menial jobs in Cape Town. Until recently, mainstream migration literature on South Africa has tended
Bamanayi, Mbikayi Alexis
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Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2016 Juckes, Tim. 2012. The Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Elizabeth in Košice - Town, Court, and Architecture in Late Medieval Hungary (Architectura Medii Aevi 6). Turnhout: Brepols. XII+292 pp. 224 figs.
Marianne Sághy
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman +1 more
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Innovation and the great divergence
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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An exploration of how non-governmental organisations market their skills training programmes to marginalised youth living in Cape Town [PDF]
, 2013 Includes bibliographical references.The high levels of poverty among marginalised youth in South Africa are a source of grave concern. Studies have shown that one of the main contributions to this phenomenon is unemployment, largely resulting from low ...
Mulenga, Mary
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A tenuous middle ground : conflicting rationalities and the lived negotiation of low income housing in Cape Town [PDF]
, 2010 Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-166).This thesis explores debates surrounding the social production and interaction of divergent housing rationalities through qualitative research in a low income housing development called Stock Road and in ...
Schermbrucker, Noah
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Governing Urban Space through Sound
Collegium MedievaleThis article investigates the role of sound within the textual and legal contexts of town regulations in medieval Norway. Specifically, it examines how town governance in medieval Norway necessitated the incorporation of sound in the described processes ...
Miriam Tveit
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Un site urbain façonné par l’industrie : Thiers, ville coutelière
In Situ, 2012 The evolution of the town of Thiers is strongly marked by the intense industrial activity of the locality, specialised in cutlery production for nearly seven centuries. This impact of industry is particularly visible in the Durolle gorge, where there are
Anne Henry
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Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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