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Névtani Értesítő, 2012 Japanese surnames The structure of today’s Japanese personal names is straightforward: they consist of a surname and a given name. By contrast, to read a surname or to choose the appropriate kanji to record a surname is extremely complicated ...
Kazumi Uchikawa
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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson +2 more
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О возможности использования украинских фамилий для оценки уровня инбридинга
Фактори експериментальної еволюції організмів, 2014 Aims. To investigate the possibility of using Ukrainian surnames to estimate inbreeding in the population of Ukraine. Methods. 30320 persons were analysed in Valkovsky area (4154 surnames) and 7930 persons in Kolomak area (1084 surnames). Calculation of
Л. А. Атраментова +1 more
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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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Elite persistence in family: The role of adoption in prewar Japan
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Why do elite families often maintain their social and economic status across generations? This paper examines the role of adoption in sustaining elite persistence in prewar Japan. Under the Japanese inheritance system, families without a biological son could adopt an heir to continue the family lineage and transfer assets and social status ...
Hiroshi Kumanomido, Yutaro Takayasu
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In the Name of the Mother: Exploring the Experiences of Individuals with Matrilineal Surnames
In the Euro-American cultural context, surnaming norms for children are explicitly gendered: children born to opposite-sex parents typically receive a patrilineal surname, otherwise known as their father’s surname, and matrilineal surnames, or a surname ...
Herbert, Morgan
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Innovation and the great divergence
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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Langues & CulturesNous nous sommes consacrés dans le cadre de cette étude à l’analyse des patronymes en Algérie, plus précisément les patronymes de la Wilaya de Jijel. Notre objectif en mettant l’accent sur le processus de construction de la patronymie en Algérie est d ...
Widad BOUARIOUA
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The cultural, ethnic and linguistic classification of populations and neighbourhoods using personal names [PDF]
, 2007 There are growing needs to understand the nature and detailed composition of ethnicgroups in today?s increasingly multicultural societies. Ethnicity classifications areoften hotly contested, but still greater problems arise from the quality and ...
Mateos, P, Webber, R, Longley, PA
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