Osobennosti vybora institucional'nogo puti razvitija v Vostochnoj Evrope XVI—XVII vekov: Moskovskoe gosudarstvo i Rech' Pospolitaja [The features of choosing an institutional development trajectory in Eastern Europe in the 16th—17th centuries: Moscovy and the Polish — Lithuanian Commonwealth] [PDF]
Recent decades have witnessed an increase in the number of works dedicated to the analysis of effects of historical events on the choice of institutions and further economic and social development of regions.
Vdovin Mikhail
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Leibeigenschaft und Grundherrschaft im mittelalterlichen Mitteleuropa
Serfdom and Lordship in Medieval Central Europe The following seminar-paper is about the prime importance of serfdom and lordship in medieval times. It will examine the close bonds between the lords of the manor and their bondmen, without idealising ...
Magdalena Pernold
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«Аннибаловская клятва» А. И. Герцена и И. С. Тургенева: миф и реальность
This paper examines the circumstances and motives under which Herzen and Turgenev, in their youth, swore an oath that contributed to the emancipation of the serfs and to which they remained faithful to the end of their lives.
Valentina Loukina
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This review of Chris Wickham's Framing the Early Middle Ages situates the book within the context of his earlier writings on the transition to feudalism, and contrasts his explanation for and dating of the process with those of the two main opposing ...
Davidson, Neil
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Australia and the Path Not Taken: The Declining Independence and Influence of Middle Powers
ABSTRACT Australian foreign policy has famously been distinguished by the search for ‘great and powerful friends’. However, Australia's relationship with its current notional protector and key ally—the United States—has generally had more costs than benefits and, I argue, has consequently not been in Australia's much‐invoked ‘national interest ...
Mark Beeson
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The proclamation of the abolition of serfdom in Russia in March 1861 was rather modestly reported in French daily press. After the return to peace, French diplomats had been back in Russia from the summer of 1856, which allowed them to inform their ...
Grégoire Eldin
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Simion Bărnuţiu and His Socio-Political Ideas [PDF]
Simion Bărnuţiu (July 21, 1808 - May 24, 1864) was a Romanian politician and scholar who followed the tradition of the Transylvanian School (Şcoala ardeleană) and the German Rationalism. He is considered to be the ideologist and the political leader of
Sorinel Cosma , Daniel Lipară
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A Suppressor of Tension or Judge or Official: The Peace Arbitrator in a Post-Serfdom Village
The article examines how the modern position of the peace arbitrator, the idea of which was borrowed from the ‘court of arbitration’ functioning in the Western world, emerged and was used in the governance structure of the Russian Empire. It reveals the
Tamara Bairašauskaitė
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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
ABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Daniel P. Longman, Colin N. Shaw
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