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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 57-88, February 2026.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
wiley   +1 more source

Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 247-280, February 2026.
Abstract This article investigates the impact of local political institutions on inequality in eastern England between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Specifically, it examines the extent to which wealthier individuals controlled local governance structures in the form of manor courts through linking the identities of individuals who served as manorial officials ...
Spike Gibbs
wiley   +1 more source

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