From Immigrant Entrepreneurship – The Business of Migration since 1815
by Drew Keeling, 25 August 2016 Millions of American immigrants, who worked in business or started new businesses of their own, also used businesses in order to reach America in the first place. Before...
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by Judy Stephenson (Wadham College, University of Oxford) and Oscar Gelderblom (University of Utrecht) Business organization is mostly absent from economic history debate about the rise of economic...
View ArticleTransatlantic Slavery and Abolition: a Pan-European Affair
By Felix Brahm (German Historical Institute London) and Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool) Slavery Hinterland. Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680–1850 is published by Boydell Press...
View ArticleBritish perceptions of German post-war industrial relations
By Colin Chamberlain (University of Cambridge) ‘Almost idyllic’ – this was the view of one British commentator on the state of post-war industrial relations in West Germany. No one could say the same...
View ArticleJudges and the death penalty in Nazi Germany: New research evidence on...
Do judicial courts in authoritarian regimes act as puppets for the interests of a repressive state – or do judges act with greater independence? How much do judges draw on their political and...
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by Roger Vicquéry (London School of Economics) Is the euro area sustainable in its current membership form? My research provides new lessons from past examples of monetary integration, looking at the...
View ArticleInequality dynamics in turbulent times
by María Gómez León (Instituto Figuerola/Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and Herman J. de Jong (University of Groningen) Recent influential studies on the historical evolution of inequality and its...
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Sanitary infrastructures and the decline of mortality in Germany, 1877-1913
by Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University) Wellcome Collections. The main drainage of the Metropolis. Available at...
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