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Testing the Bonds: Franco‐Russian Alliance and the First Sino‐Japanese War
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The conclusion of the Franco‐Russian Alliance was one of the major turning points in the history of international relations before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. However, the alliance was put under its first severe test only months after its ratification in 1894.
Julius Lucas Becker
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Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music
Area, EarlyView.Abstract Attention has emerged as an important issue in the social sciences and humanities in recent years. Much influential work characterises our era as one in which our attention is increasingly placed under stress, seeking to unpack the consequences of such a state of affairs for our capacities to think.
George Burdon
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No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We draw upon an extensive database of investors in colonial Australian mining, during the 1850s–80s, to provide the first historical analysis of the nature of women's share investing in Australia. Women were a minority of investors by number and value of holdings and faced a series of obstacles, yet their presence grew throughout the period ...
Grant Fleming +3 more
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Your Two Weeks of Fame and Your Grandmother's [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Did celebrity last longer in 1929, 1992 or 2009? We investigate the phenomenon of fame by mining a collection of news articles that spans the twentieth century, and also perform a side study on a collection of blog posts from the last 10 years. By analyzing mentions of personal names, we measure each person's time in the spotlight, using two simple ...
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Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were ...
James Foreman‐Peck, Leslie Hannah
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study advances a new approach to investigating the resilience of regional banking systems by reconstructing the co‐evolving branch and interbank networks in post‐Confederation Canada (1879–1900). By digitizing annual banking registers, this study employed a microgeographic approach to constructing a novel longitudinal dataset on city ...
Alena V. Pivavarava
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
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Determination of the direction of atmospheric disturbances or static in radio telegraphy [PDF]
, 1921 L.W. Austin
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Previous work on legitimacy has conceptualized its multi‐level nature, encompassing individual‐level propriety and collective‐level validity. Recently, scholars have introduced the construct of consensus, the degree to which evaluators agree in terms of their propriety beliefs.
Patrick Haack +2 more
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