Search Results - "The Journal of interdisciplinary history"

Tax Farming in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Institutional Backwardness or the Emergence of Modern Public Finance? by Özbek, Nadir

“…Although tax farming—the delegation of tax collection to private individuals for profit—was common in most European countries prior to the nineteenth century,…”
Get full text

Was Plague an Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries by Curtis, Daniel R

“…Current scholarship reinforces the notion that by the early modern period, plague had become largely an urban concern in northwestern Europe. However, a data…”
Get full text

Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution: England and Wales by Wrigley, E. Anthony

“…In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small country on the periphery of Europe with an economy less advanced than those of several of its continental…”
Get full text

The “Historical Turn” in the Social Sciences by Klein, Herbert S.

“…The first professional societies in the United States, from the 1880s to the 1910s, understood history to be closely associated with the other social sciences…”
Get full text

Failure or Flexibility? Apprenticeship Training in Premodern Europe by Schalk, Ruben, Wallis, Patrick, Crowston, Clare, Lemercier, Claire

“…Pre-industrial apprenticeship is often considered more stable than its nineteenth- and twentieth-century counterparts, apparently because of the more durable…”
Get full text

Height and Climate in Mediterranean Spain, 1850–1949 by Galofré-Vilà, Gregori, Martínez-Carrión, José-Miguel, Puche, Javier

“…Analysis of anthropometric evidence about conscripts born in the region of València (Mediterranean Spain) between 1850 and 1949, in conjunction with…”
Get full text

The Causes of Growth during Belgium’s Industrial Revolution by Buyst, Erik

“…New estimates of per province for the period from 1819 to 1896 show that the Industrial Revolution did not generate radical changes in the hierarchy of rich…”
Get full text

Marital Fertility and the Family in Poland from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century by Liczbińska, Grażyna, Syska, Ewa, Koziarska-Kasperczyk, Renata, Kledzik, Anna

“…Research in the obscure domicile files of Poznań’s Municipal Records reveals that in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Poznań, fertility was…”
Get full text

The Rise and Fall of the Merchant Guilds: Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Premodern Europe by Grafe, Regina, Gelderblom, Oscar

“…Although the importance of merchant guilds for the commercial development of Europe is beyond doubt, scholars do not agree about why they emerged, persisted,…”
Get full text

Introduction: A New Look at the Origins of Economic Growth and Regional Inequality by Martí-Henneberg, Jordi, Tirado-Fabregat, Daniel A.

“…The contributions to this special issue share important themes and methodologies in their quest to explicate economic development and its effects. Nonetheless,…”
Get full text

The Origins of Economic Growth and Regional Income Inequality in Latin Europe, 1870–1950 by Díez-Minguela, Alfonso, Martinez-Galarraga, Julio, Sanchis-Llopis, M. Teresa, Tirado-Fabregat, Daniel A.

“…Regional income inequality in Latin Europe (France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal) showed a distinctive pattern between 1870 and 1950. Data about population on a…”
Get full text

Slavery in Puritan New England by Pleck, Elizabeth

“…Wendy Warren’s deeply researched depends on investigation of handwritten texts rather than the several new databases about slavery and the slave trade. Warren…”
Get full text

Political Institutions and Regimes since 1600: A New Historical Data Set by Rånge, Max, Sandberg, Mikael

“…A new data set provides vital information about the world’s political institutions, from 1789 on a monthly and yearly basis and from 1600 on a yearly basis…”
Get full text

Child Welfare in Victorian Newspapers: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis by Atkinson, Paul, Gregory, Ian N.

“…Corpus linguistics enables the analysis of patterns in large bodies of written material. The use of this approach to trace discourses about infant mortality in…”
Get full text

Style and Substance in Rococo Science by Bycroft, Michael

“…Rococo art and Enlightenment science, both of which flourished in Paris from 1710 to 1740, appear to have embodied two different sets of values. But the…”
Get full text

Human–Bovine Plagues in the Early Middle Ages by Newfield, Timothy P.

“…Two independent molecular clock analyses ( ) reveal that measles ( ) diverged from rinderpest ( ) This evidence, when conjoined with written accounts of…”
Get full text

Bread and Class in Medieval Society: Foodways in Anatolia by Izdebski, Adam, Jaworski, Marcin, Üstündağ, Handan, Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz

“…Bread was a basic food staple as well as a marker of status in medieval societies. A study of Byzantine and Islamic textual sources combined with an…”
Get full text

Introduction: The Quest for Interdisciplinary History

“…Klein and de Vries lament the erosion of the alliance between historians and social scientists that has taken place in recent decades. For Klein, the main…”
Get full text

Expectations and Realities in the Study of Enslavement in Muslim-Majority Societies by Toldedano, Ehud R.

“…The global understanding of enslavement owes a great deal to the efforts of scholars who research its history in non-Atlantic societies, including…”
Get full text

History's Changing Climate: Climate Science, Genomics, and the Emerging Consilient Approach to Interdisciplinary History by McCormick, Michael

“…Consilience refers to the quality of investigations that draw conclusions from forms of evidence that are epistemologically distinct. The term seems…”
Get full text