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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

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Bret/BRAT

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
wiley   +1 more source

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Floristic inventory of the main markets of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Antonio-Joaquín MG   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

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