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The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
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Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the distributive effects of personal income taxation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. We estimate the evolution of marginal and average effective tax rates across the income distribution and calculate the corresponding indices of progressivity and ...
Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland, Oriol Sabaté
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Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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Irish regional GDP since independence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi, Stefan O. Houpt, Miguel Artola Blanco   +2 more
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Boleros and Flamenco Dancing in the Early Silent Films. Narratives and Archetypes of Spanishness in the Early Twentieth Century

, 2016
El artículo localiza y cataloga 37 filmaciones del periodo 1894-1910 que conforman un corpus de cine primitivo sobre bailes españoles, boleros y flamencos. Estas películas mudas fueron registradas en exposiciones universales o como resultado de dramatizaciones teatrales, parodias e historias de ficción y están contenidas en los archivos The Library of ...
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Hegel and Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Vaninskaya
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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
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