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A re-evaluation of ideas, interests and politics in repeal: the case of the Belgian Corn Laws, 1834-1873. [PDF]

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Economic interests, the influence of economic ideas and politics have been put forward in the literature as explanations for the British Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.
Truyts, Tom, Van Dijck, Maarten
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Explaining Nineteenth-Century Bilateralism: Economic and Political Determinants of the Cobden-Chevalier Network [PDF]

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This study investigates the empirical determinants of the treaty network of the 1860s and 1870s. It makes use of three central theories about the determinants of PTA formation, considering economic fundamentals from neoclassical and ‘new’ trade theory ...
Markus Lampe
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The Antebellum Political Background of the Fourteenth Amendment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Epps presents information concerning the historical context of the Fourteenth Amendment. Among other implications, the Amendment should be viewed as an effort to defend the national government from control by transient majorities or undemocratic factions
Epps, Garrett
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Allegiance and betrayal: British residents in Russia during the Crimean War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article reveals an unsuspected instance of a problem that has troubled most states: the transposition of 'resident aliens' into 'enemy aliens'. Acknowledging that many British residents in Russia remained undisturbed during the Crimean War, the ...
Dixon, S
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Up to Their Elbows in Blood: The Crimean War and the Professionalization of Medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dr. Heather McCreaFought in the mid-1850s, many scholars regard the Crimean War as largely insignificant. However in reality, the historical contributions of the war are important – particularly those contributions pertaining to medicine. This seemingly “
Eaves, Tyler W.
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