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Private Property in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Land of Nicolas Sursock et Frères in the Jezreel Valley

Kristen Alff

Producing Luxury Fashion, Skilled Workers, and Good Housewives: The Girls' Institutes and the Histories of Labor and Consumption in Turkey

Rustem Ertug Altinay

Between the city and the countryside: The economic strategies of the rural elites in the kingdom of Valencia during the14th and 15th centuries

Frederic Aparisi Romero

'The Dust Was Long in Settling': Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl

Vellore Arthi

From St Helena to Bencoolen: The British East India Company’s Practices of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century

Tiraana Bains

Planning for Chaos or Progress? Rethinking the Exchange of Ideas about Indian Development Planning

Aditya Balasubramanian

"They all belong to the school of Adam Smith": The dissemination of Adam Smith's ideas in Calcutta in the nineteenth century

Mou Banerjee

Common Lands and Agricultural Productivity in Early 20th Century Spain

Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia

The Regional Roots of Mexican Neoliberalism: Northern Business Elites and the Rise of Market Values

Derek Bentley

Risky Credit: The Commercial World of the Bay of Bengal from 1800 to 1940

Debjani Bhattacharyya

Information and News in 19th Century America: The Role of the Telegraph

Levi Boxell

Constructing Credit, Expanding Commerce: US Branch Banking in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century

Mary Bridges

Quebec, Bengal, and the Rise of Authoritarian Legal Pluralism

Christian R. Burset

Hungarian Bank and Colonial Projects during the First World War

James Callaway

Generating a New South: Hydroelectricity and the Making of Modern Georgia, 1900-1930

Casey Cater

Muleteers as Bandits and Mutineers: Global Capital and Social Transformation in the Ottoman Countryside

Joan Chaker

Evolving State Capitalism: Federalism in the Indian Coal Industry

Rohit Chandra

Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration in British Malaya

Sandra Chang

The contribution of infrastructure investment to Britain’s urban mortality decline 1861–1900

Jonathan Chapman

The Business of Life: South Asia in the Age of Global Capital

Meghna Chaudhuri

Fossil Fuel Communism: The Druzhba Oil Pipeline and the Making of the Eastern Bloc, 1948-1994

Tom J. Cinq-Mars

Indian Trust Funds and the Routes of American Capitalism, 1795-1865

Emilie Connolly

War, Blockades, and Hunger: Nutritional Deprivation of German Children 1914 - 1924

Mary Cox

Britain's Empire of Oil: The History of Its Exploration and Exploitation and Its Impact on the Global Middle East

Guillemette Crouzet

Gens sans maîtres: les communes des Antilles et la production du commerce sous le régime colonial

Isaac Curtis

 


Pauperism and the poverty line: Pauper household incomes in the 1850s

Lewis Darwen

Commodification, Slavery, Credit, and the Law in the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1780-1830

Elbra David

The London Metal Exchange: Origins and Impact on Global Trade through the First World War

Nathan Delaney

Beyond the Nation: Anti-colonialism, Citizenship and Rights in Twentieth-century India

Hardeep Dhillon

Foligno County (Umbria, Central Italy) in the long 12th century (1070s - 1200s): An outline of the economic transition

Nikita Dmitriev

Gold, Access and Contemporary Conceptions of Antebellum Poverty

Andrew Edwards

The Latin American Development Experience: social sciences and policy-making, 1939-1973

Margarita Fajardo-Hernandez

Meaningful Monies: Cash, Credit and Mutual Obligation in the Dutch and German Countryside, 1650-1850

Sebastian Felten

Steel and Sovereignty: Brazilian Debt and Steel in the 1930s, in a Global Mirror

Ted Fertik

Persistent Effects of Private Versus Colonial Rule: Evidence from 19th Century Indonesia

Thiemo Fetzer and Priya Mukherjee

Building a Ruin: The International Political-Economy or Soviet Economic Reform 1956-1990

Yakov Feygin

Forging Loyalty in the Iberian Pacific World: Manila and the Moro War, 1750 to 1780

Kristie Flannery

The Poor Always With You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1879

Christopher Florio

Crowning the Pyramid: The Egyptian Beer Industry’s 'Mature' Period (1940–1952)

Omar Foda

The Age of Lead: Metropolitan Development, Environmental Health, and Inner City Underdevelopment

Leif Fredrickson

 


Weaving the first Global Age. The Ruiz, a network of textile merchants (1566-1600)

Gabriele Galli

State Taxes, Wealth, and Public Debt after the American Revolution, 1783-1815

Frank Garmon

The economic incentives of assimilation - Name changers in the early 20th century Hungary

Atilla Gáspár and Rita Petö

Bushfalling to No Man’s Land: The U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery in Cameroon

Carly Goodman

Skin in the Game: Liability Insurance, Extended Liability, and Financial Stability

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Minority Economic Landscapes in Post-Independence Peripheral Bulgarian Cities: The Cases of Kardzhali, Razgrad and Smolyan

Cengiz Haksöz

George Smith and the Chinese tea trade

Jessica Hanser

Trading Across Boundaries: Sixteenth-century Commercial Letters of Safe Passage and the Challenge of Cross-cultural Trade

Ian Hathaway

The Restoration of French Colonial Slavery, 1802-1848

Joseph la Hausse de LaLouviere

‘History in the garb of a novel’: Nationalism and Fiction in J. Victor von Scheffel’s Ekkehard

Carla Heelan

The Experience of Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic World, 1660-1754

Benjamin A. Hicklin

Electric Revolution: Energy, Environment, and the State in Post-Porfirian Northern Mexico

Jonathan Hill, Jr.

Indian Labour Migration to Ceylon, Malaya and Burma: A Study of Kangani and Maistry System in Global Perspective (c. 1880-1940)

Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal

Growth Industry: Unearthing the Origins of Fertilizer-Fueled Agriculture in America, 1865-1950

Timothy Johnson

 


Adoption of the French Commercial Code of 1807 in the Duchy of Warsaw as a Significant Factor in the Development of Commercial Law in the Polish Territories

Anna Klimaszewska

The Evolution of Public Health Policies in Cameroon from 1960 to 2014

Luc Fongang Kontcheu

Many Regimes of Apprenticeship: Skilling Artisans and Mechanics

Arun Kumar

Social Mapping the History of Economists at Cambridge, 1903-1950

Ian Kumekawa

Economic developments and the growth of colour prejudice in the French empire, c.1635-1767

Melanie Lamotte

The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance

Adrian Leonard

“Indian title,” Regime Change, and the Origins of the Cotton Kingdom: Land Tenure in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1830

Julia Lewandoski

The Historical Legacy of Colonial Medicine Campaigns in Central and West Africa

Sara Lowes

The Making of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1887-1899

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

 


The energy challenges of the French-American relations from 1969 to 1974

Pierre Manenti

Colonial Labour in Perspective: Towards a Global History of the Maritime Labour Market

Naina Manjrekar

The Economic Reforms of the Viceroy of Peru and the 1687 Earthquake of Lima

Judith Mansilla

Mestizos and the Spanish Imperial Race for Reconstruction: Habilitation Payments, Crown Fundraising, and the Armada, 1588-1594

Adrian Masters

Electrical Palestine: Jewish and Arab Technopolitics under British Rule

Fredrik Meiton

Democratic Planning: University Planning Forums and India's Second Five-Year Plan, 1956-1961

Nikhil Menon

Saltwater Empire: The Caribs and the Politics of Smuggling, Insurgency, and the Slave Trade in the Circum-Caribbean, 1763-1833

Ernesto Mercado-Montero

Mikhail Gorbachev's Agricultural Reforms and the Politics of Perestroika

Chris Miller

Patriotic Pepper: The Economics of Revolution in Colonial Mahé

Greg Mole

The Impact of the French Revolutionary Period on Communication Patterns Among Mercantile Networks in the British and French Atlantic World, c.1763-1804

Francesco Morriello

Connecting indenture across oceans: letter-writing between India and three Guianas

Louise Moschetta

Business Management Expertise in the U.S. Defense Establishment, 1950-1990

AJ Murphy

Building States through International Assistance: The United Nations between Trusteeship and Self-Determination, 1945 to 1965

Eva-Maria Muschik

Explaining the Socio-Economic Demographics of Victorian Naval Medicine

Christopher Myers

Land contracts and land conflicts. Land politics in Central Highlands of Vietnam. History of the Bahnar in Kontum, Central Highlands of Vietnam, 1850-1945

Anh Minh Nguyen Dang

 


Poor Politics: Historical Origins of Contemporary Conceptions of the Poor

Aditya Pai

Anglo-Portuguese Trade and Monetary Transmission During the Eighteenth Century

Nuno Palma

Sinking Pisa: The Decline of a Commercial Empire in the Thirteenth Century

Matthew Parker

The social history of creative writing

Charles Petersen

Race, Risk, and Financial Capitalism in the United States, 1880-1940

Daniel Platt

The economic life in Russia in the light of the Domostroi (1550-1800)

Eugène Priadko

Standing Room Only: Debating Population Control, Religion, and the Family in Pakistan, 1950-71

Amna Qayyum

Damming the Cauvery: Water, Development, and the Remaking of Agrarian Territory in Colonial and Postcolonial South India

Aditya Ramesh

UNRRA and the Humanitarian Foundations of Economic Aid: Relief and Rehabilitation in Europe, 1943-1947

Emily Riley

Negotiating Authority over Copyright in the American Theatre: 1856-1951

Brent Salter

The Long Life of Yazoo: Land Speculation, Finance, and Dispossession in the Post-Revolutionary South, 1789-1840

Franklin Sammons

The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 1866

Sabine Schneider

Making Jesus Springs: How Economic Change Stoked the Culture Wars

William Schultz

Framing the Colonial Economy in Nineteenth Century India

Sukhalata Sen

Trade, politics and the English Mayor's Court: Law and trading practices in the 18th century Bay of Bengal

Santanu Sengupta

From Commercial Custom to International Laws: the Shrinking Business of Ottoman Captivity, 1730s to 1870s

Will Smiley

Slaves, "Prisoners of War," and Inter-Imperial Law in the Ottoman Empire, 1699-1856

Will Smiley

Book Markets and Popular Learning in Nineteenth-Century Lima and Bogotá

Gracia Solis

Wheat, Bread and the Role of the State in South Africa: 1937-1997

Benjamin Stanwix

Law and Trade: Legal and Economic Institutions Regulating the Trade of Ottoman Subjects with Venice between 1573 and 1645

Tommaso Stefini

Agriculture and development in an age of empire: policy, practice, and agricultural change in colonial Korea, 1910-1945

Holly Stephens

Everyday Afterlives: Tracing Diasporic Lives through India's Imperial Archives

Julia Stephens

Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Rangoon, 1894-1960

Michael Sugarman

Credit and Property Rights: Analysing Institutional Development in Colonial Punjab (1900-47)

Atiyab Sultan

 


Le modèle économique des Comores dans la période précoloniale

Tabibou Ali Tabibou

From Wartime Experimentation to New-Era Normalcy: U.S. Mobilization for WWI and the Political Economy of the 1920s

Jesse Tarbert

Corporatism in the South Atlantic: Development, Social Welfare, and Constitutionalism in Portugal and Brazil, 1922-1945

Melissa Teixeira

Revolutionary Internationalism: Mexico and the Creation of the Postwar Multilateral System, 1919-1948

Christy Thornton

Coerced Labor Recruitment in the English Atlantic: The Impressment of Soldiers, 1585-1660

Sonia Tycko

Constituting Credit Capitalism: The Political Economy of Bank Credit cards in Postwar America

Sean Vanatta

Plantation Geographies: Race, Science and Agriculture in the South Carolina Lowcountry

Levi Van Sant

Credibility and Imperial Orders in the Second Half of the 19th century

Paula Vedoveli

Masters of Law: Legal Culture and the Law of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina and the British Atlantic World, 1669-1783

Lee B Wilson

The politics of taxation in the French Empire: the case of Indochina (1897-1939)

Madeline Woker

Water Quality, Morbidity, and Mortality in London, 1906-1926

Anthony Wray

The Impact of Banking Crises on Trade: Case of the 1866 Overend & Gurney Failure

Chenzi Xu

Nourishing Shanxi: State, Industrial Entrepreneurship, and the Making of Chinese State Capitalism, 1898-2004

Zhaojin Zeng

The Closing of the Gold Window and the History of Dollar Hegemony

Josh Zoffer
 

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