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Mortality rate in Metković municipality from 1850 to 1918, based on the register of deaths [PDF]
The paper is based on the research and analysis of the registers of deaths in Metković municipality, i.e. registers of deaths of parishes Metković, Dobranje, Vidonje and Slivno Ravno from 1850 to 1918.
Žarko Dugandžić
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The early cartography of Renfrewshire to 1864 [PDF]
With their detail of past geographical distributions, early maps can be valuable documents in assisting many fields of local study. Much of Scotland's distinctive cartography was channelled into the brief period between the publication of the Blaeu atlas
Moore, J.N.
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80
Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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The significance of a ‘correct and uniform system of accounts’ to the administration of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 [PDF]
Care, Verna
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The English Old Poor Law, which before 1834 provided welfare to the elderly, children, the improvident, and the unfortunate, was a bête noire of the new discipline of Political Economy. Smith, Bentham, Malthus and Ricardo all demanded its abolition.
Gregory Clark, Marianne Page
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Abstract Ecotourism can contribute to the conservation of environmental values, as well as to the development of positive synergies between agents in the tourism sector, tourists and the local population. The growing interest in tourism offers with low environmental impact, which support the local economy, translates into a competitive advantage for ...
Luís Quinta‐Nova, Dora Ferreira
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The Community of the Orthodox Parish Church: Space, Place, and the Formative Factors of the Parish Community with Moscow as an Example [PDF]
This article presents the results of a sociological study conducted in the years 2010-2011, which attempted to study some contemporary problems relating to the parish community of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Ivan Zabaev, Elena Prutskova
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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