2010

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• Adjustment of Age-Related Height Shrinkage in Archival Data for Chinese: A Post Hoc Longitudinal Survey AI翻译
  作者：University of Nottingham
• Personal Savings in Nineteenth-Century America AI翻译
  作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste AI翻译
  作者：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• The German Elections in the 1870s: Why Germany Turned from Liberalism to Protectionism AI翻译
  作者：Lehmann, Sibylle H.
  摘要：In 1878 the liberal parties lost enough votes to lose the majority in the parliament which they had defended in the general election just one year before. In this article, the questions of where the voters came from and why the voting changed so crucially within one year are reexamined. The analysis uses a new set of data and makes use of King's algorithm, a tool provided by modem political science. The main finding of this article is that the change towards protectionism was not caused by new...
• Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Accounting for the Traffic in Africans: Transport Costs on Slaving Voyages AI翻译
  作者：Emory University; Queens University - Canada
  摘要：Relying mainly on the manuscript records of the Royal African Company, we explore the factors that contributed to the large gap between slave prices in Africa and the Caribbean. Twenty-two voyages from the mid-1680s are analyzed. These were conducted with hired ships and the payments to the shipowners and captains were recorded. In addition to transport costs, mortality and morbidity had a big effect on slave prices; while the earnings from the trade in gold and ivory had a moderating influenc...
• Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914 AI翻译
  作者：Bogazici University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：The early modern era witnessed the formation across Europe of centralized states that captured increasing shares of resources as taxes. These states not only enjoyed greater capacity to deal with domestic and external challenges, they were also able to shield their economies better against wars. This article examines the Ottoman experience with fiscal centralization using recently compiled evidence from budgets. It shows that due to high shares of intermediaries, Ottoman revenues lagged behind...
• Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France: Franche-Comte and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715 AI翻译
  作者：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
• The Decline in Infant Death Rates, 1878-1913: The Role of Early Sickness Insurance Programs AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Miami University
• Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University