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The Dynastic Imagination

Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History

December 2020

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Edited by Natasha Wheatley, Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events.

Classical Athens as an Epistemic Democracy

Chapter in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy: From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era

Time’s Monster: How History Makes History

October 2020

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For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making.

Being in North Korea

August 2020

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**See our dedicated book page for more information about the book, including praise, reviews, and author commentary.**In 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the...

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

July 2020

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edited by Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the...

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

June 2020

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Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Dylan Connor
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office

June 2020

Author(s): 
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Dylan Connor
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.

Colonialism, slavery and ‘The Great Experiment’: Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope analysis of Le Morne and Bois Marchand cemeteries, Mauritius

June 2020

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Emm Lightfoot, Saša Čaval, Diego Calaon, Jo Appleby, Jonathan Santana, Alessandra Cianciosi, Rosa Fregel, Krish Seetah
Slavery, colonialism and emancipation are important aspects of archaeological research in the Atlantic region, but the lifeways of colonial populations remain understudied in the Indian Ocean World...

Intermediation in Mortgage-Backed Securities: The Plantation Business of F.W. Hudig, 1759-1797

June 2020

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Abe de Jong, Tim Kooijmans, Peter Koudijs
Dutch-Caribbean plantations attracted substantial outside funding in the 1760s. This came to an abrupt end after the 1773 credit crisis.

Limited liability and investment: Evidence from changes in marital property laws in the US South, 1840–1850

April 2020

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Peter Koudijs, Laura Salisbury
We study the impact of marital property legislation passed in the US South in the 1840s on households’ investment in risky, entrepreneurial projects.

Ottoman Early Modern

March 2020

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It would not be wrong to suggest that we have been undergoing a “global turn” in Ottoman studies for some time.

Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?

March 2020

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Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson
Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present.

Roman Seas: A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies

March 2020

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That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has...

Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire

March 2020

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In the Holy Roman Empire 'no prince â can forbid men passage in the common road', wrote the English jurist John Selden.

In Praise of Depth: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hidden

February 2020

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Joshua Landy
In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous.

Text Technologies: A History

February 2020

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Elaine Treharne, Claude Willan
The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication—perhaps as...

The Lusiads Affect: Standing in the Middle of the Sea (Chapter in A Companion to World Literature: 1451 to 1770 The Emergence of Modernity)

December 2019

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In this chapter I begin by discussing the impact that Luís Vaz de Camões's epic masterwork, The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas, 1572), has had on the long epic tradition in Portugal and Brazil.

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

October 2019

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The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history.
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