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Annexation or Conquest? The Economics of Empire Building [PDF]
This paper develops an economic theory of empire building. This theory addresses the choice among three strategies that empire builders historically have used. We call these strategies Uncoerced Annexation, Coerced Annexation, and Attempted Conquest. The
Herschel I. Grossman, Juan Mendoza
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The Story of the Golden Horde Told by Coins (Japanese): 貨幣が語るジョチ・ウルス
Золотоордынское обозрениеResearch objectives: This article reviews the recent book by Yasuki Shinichiro, published in Japanese under the title of 貨幣が語るジョチ・ウルス in October 2023 by Seifudo Shoten.
Atik K.
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'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo [PDF]
, 2015 This working paper is a reflexive essay that tries to think with and beyond one of the basic assumptions upon which the field of late medieval Syro-Egyptian ‘Mamluk’ studies is built: the idea that all late medieval Syro-Egyptian objects of study are by ...
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Agropastoralism has been a widespread subsistence strategy in Central Asia from prehistory to the present. While significant research has aimed at understanding past agropastoral communities in the region, reconstructing a generalized economic model remains challenging due to the complex topographic and ecological conditions, as well as its ...
G. Brancaleoni +13 more
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversion and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History [PDF]
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
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Politik Islam Mongolia: Mencermati Strategi Ekspansi Timur Lenk [PDF]
, 2011 This paper discusses Timur Lenk who is ambitious to dominate the world through the founding of the great Mongol Empire as a mission ever launched by the grandchildren of Genghis Khan and Hulagu Khan.
Masruri, M. H. (M)
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1235-1253, November 2025.This study presents the gemological analysis of 25 garnets from Hellenistic and Roman jewellery in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki using mobile Raman spectroscopy and micro‐EDXRF. The garnets are classified into three geochemical clusters, with notable differences in distribution between Thessaloniki and Pydna, suggesting distinct trading ...
Maria Nikopoulou +8 more
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Quantitative dynamics of human empires [PDF]
, 2012 Quantitative modeling of social systems shows a large component of automatic drives in the behavior of individual humans and human society. Studies of the formation and breakdown of twenty diverse empires operating over almost three thousand years ...
Ausubel, J.H., Marchetti, C.
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The Place of Sufism in the Spiritual Life of the Golden Horde and Hulaguid Rulers
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2018 : Objective: The disclosure of the nature of the relations of the Turkic-Mongol khans with the Sufi sheikhs and the reason for the establishment of these relations.
N.F. Akhundova
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The amazing synchronicity of the Global Development (the 1300s-1450s). An institutional approach to the globalization of the late Middle Ages [PDF]
, 2010 In a new approach to a long-ranging debate on the causes of the Late Medieval Debasement, we offer an institutional case-study of Russia and the Levant.
Badalian, Lucy, Krivorotov, Victor
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