Showing papers in "Journal of Interdisciplinary History in 1990"
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TL;DR: Tracy as discussed by the authors discusses structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350-1750 Herman van der Wee 2.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Introduction James D. Tracy 1. Structural changes in European long-distance trade, and particularly in the re-export trade from south to north, 1350-1750 Herman van der Wee 2. The growth and composition of trade in the Iberian empires, 1450-1740 Carla Rahn Phillips 3. The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch republic before 1750 Niels Ateensgaard 4. France, the Antilles, and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: renewals of trade Paul Butel 5. Productivity, profitability and costs of private and corporate Dutch shipping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Jaap R. Bruijn 6. The Dutch and English East India Companies compared: evidence from the stock and foreign exchange markets Larry Neal 7. World bullion flows, 1450-1800 Ward Barrett 8. Merchant communities (1350-1750) Frederic Mauro 9. Economic aspects of the eighteenth century Atlantic slave trade Herbert S. Klein 10. Marginalisation, stagnation, and growth: the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the era of European expansion, 1500-1800 Ralph A. Austen 11. The 'decline' of the central Asian caravan trade Morris Rossabi 12. Merchant communities in pre-colonial India Irfan Habib 13. Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities Wang Gungwu.
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TL;DR: A Concise Economic History of the World as discussed by the authors offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present, and examines the ongoing effects of globalization on both past civilizations and our current global economy.
Abstract: A Concise Economic History of the World offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present. Comprehensive and now even more global in scope, the fifth edition examines the ongoing effects of globalization on both past civilizations and our current global economy. With illustrations, maps, charts, and a fully updated annotated bibliography, this unique work remains an invaluable, lively, and accessible text for both undergraduate and graduate students of general economic history, the history of globalization, and world development.
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TL;DR: The recovery of meaning historical archaeology in the eastern united states as the reading material as discussed by the authors was used to break the boredom in reading is one that we will refer to as the book and time of reading.
Abstract: Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing recovery of meaning historical archaeology in the eastern united states as the reading material.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times, such as: How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future - in particular, what does the history of medical science and public health tell us about our ability to control the epidemic and eventually to cure the disease?
Abstract: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future - in particular, what does the history of medical science and public health tell us about our ability to control the epidemic and eventually to cure the disease? Historical methods of inquiry change, and people who use these methods often disagree on theory and practice. Indeed, the contributors to this volume hold a variety of opinions on controversial historiographic issues. But they share three important principles: cautious adherence to the 'social constructionist' view of past and present; profound skepticism about historicism's idea of progress; and wariness about 'presentism', the distortion of the past by seeing it only from the point of view of the present. Each of the twelve essays addresses an aspect of the burdens of history during the AIDS epidemic. By 'burdens' is meant the inescapable significance of events in the past for the present. All of these events are related in some way to the current epidemic and can help clarify the complex social and cultural responses to the crisis of AIDS. This collection illuminates present concerns directly and forcefully without sacrificing attention to historical detail and to the differences between past and present situations. It reminds us that many of the issues now being debated - quarantine, exclusion, public needs and private rights - have their parallels in the past. This will be an important book for social historians and general readers as well as for historians of medicine.
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TL;DR: In this article, a serie d'essais sur le developpement des systemes techniques dans les villes americaines et europeennes du milieu du dix-neuvieme siecle jusqu'a la seconde guerre mondiale.
Abstract: Ce volume contient une serie d'essais sur le developpement des systemes techniques dans les villes americaines et europeennes du milieu du dix-neuvieme siecle jusqu'a la seconde guerre mondiale. Il represente le premier ouvrage a analyser l'histoire des reseaux urbains a la fois en Europe et en Amerique.
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TL;DR: The authors make a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness, reaching back centuries, and make a clear connection between politics and economics, showing that while economics may limit the freedom of action of political players, it does not determine political outcomes.
Abstract: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest of the world except for that unique part of the West which has given us a false model of what was "normal", Eastern Europe developed slowly. The weight of established class relations, geography, lack of technological innovation, and wars kept the area from growing richer. In the nineteenth century the West exerted a powerful influence, but it was political more than economic. Nationalism and the creation of newly independent aspiring nation-states then began to shape national economies, often in unfavorable ways. One of this book's most important lessons is that while economics may limit the freedom of action of political players, it does not determine political outcomes. The authors offer no simple explanations but rather a theoretically complex synthesis that demonstrates the interaction of politics and economics.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the effect of the evolution of royal government in England and France between c.1290 to c.1360 and compare developments in the two countries in four related areas: the economic and political costs of war; the development of royal justice; the crown's attempt to control private violence; and the relationship between public opinion and government action.
Abstract: This is a study of two topics of central importance in late medieval history: the impact of war, and the control of disorder. Making war and making law were the twin goals of the state, and the author examines the effect of the evolution of royal government in England and France. Ranging broadly between 1000 and 1400, he focuses principally on the period c.1290 to c.1360, and compares developments in the two countries in four related areas: the economic and political costs of war; the development of royal justice; the crown's attempt to control private violence; and the relationship between public opinion and government action. He argues that as France suffered near breakdown under repeated English invasions, the authority of the crown became more acceptable to the internal warring factions; whereas the English monarchy, unable to meet the expectations for internal order which arose partly from its own ambitious claims to be 'keeper of the peace', had to devolve much of its judicial powers. In these linked problems of war, justice, and public order may lie the origins of English 'constitutionalism' and French 'absolutism'.
TL;DR: Using human stature as a proxy for well-being, the authors analyzed changes in the standard of living by class in eighteenth-century Germany and found a strong relationship between height and socioeconomic status and provided additional support for the hypothesis that the nutritional status of lower classes declined during the early stages of the industrial revolution.
Abstract: Using human stature as a proxy for well-being the author analyzes changes in the standard of living by class in eighteenth-century Germany. The data concern boys attending the Carlschule in Stuttgart between 1771 and 1793. The results show a strong relationship between height and socioeconomic status and provide additional support for the hypothesis that the nutritional status of the lower classes declined during the early stages of the industrial revolution. (ANNOTATION)
TL;DR: In this paper, Genteel Disintegration in the West and its consequences in Russia are discussed, as well as the role of women in the process of cultural history, history of ideas.
Abstract: Preface Acknowledgements Part I Genteel Disintegration in the West Part II Genteel Disintegration in Russia Part III Genteel Integration in Revolutionary Russia Part IV Plastic Unity Part V Afterward Notes Bibliography Index Students of cultural history, history of ideas.
TL;DR: The results show that overall fertility levels cannot be explained by the degree of American assimilation and it is found that second-generation women experienced strikingly low overall fertility relative to both foreign- born women and native-born women of native parentage.
Abstract: The basis for nineteenth-century fears of race suicide in the United States is examined namely "the differential fertility of immigrant women native-born women of foreign parentage and native-born women of native parentage. The analysis is based on the 1900 Public Use Sample a national random sample of households drawn from the federal census which includes information on the fertility of over 22000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. Our study reports fertility differentials at the turn of the century and explores the determinants of contrasting levels of childbearing. The results show that overall fertility levels cannot be explained by the degree of American assimilation. We found that second-generation women experienced strikingly low overall fertility relative to both foreign-born women and native-born women of native parentage. Moreover the data indicate that the ethnic population had lower fertility than the third-generation native-born population." (EXCERPT)
TL;DR: The authors reviewed American history museums and found exhibit form and content, social and political contexts, and suggested improvements, and noted the need for more information about the history of the United States.
Abstract: Fifteen scholars and museum staffers critically review American history museums. They note exhibit form and content, social and political contexts, and suggest improvements. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
TL;DR: The character of the good republic: justice, stability, and the constitution as discussed by the authors, and the perils of popular government are discussed in detail in Section 5.2.1.
Abstract: List of illustrations Preface Prologue 1. The character of the good statesman 2. The character of the good republic: justice, stability, and the constitution 3. Retrospect and prospect: Congress and the perils of popular government 4. Memory and meaning: nullification and the lost world of the founding 5. The republic transformed: population, economy, and society 6. Accommodation: the old dominion 7. Despair: the peculiar institution 8. Legacy: the strange career of William Cebell Rives Epilogue Acknowledgements Index.
TL;DR: Transport and industrialization road systems inland waterways the shipping industry the railways the motor vehicle industry as discussed by the authors, the main sources of transportation and industrial development. But they do not consider air traffic control.
Abstract: Transport and industrialization road systems inland waterways the shipping industry the railways the motor vehicle industry.
TL;DR: The main causes of death among French and British military personnel during the nineteenth century in West Africa the West Indies and Southern Asia are compared in this article, where they find that the fall of tropical African death rates was largely a result of declining deaths from malaria and the improvement was concentrated in two periods.
Abstract: The main causes of death among French and British military personnel during the nineteenth century in West Africa the West Indies and Southern Asia are compared. "The present question is: when and to what extent did West Africa ever become a safe place for European newcomers? [He finds that]....the fall of tropical African death rates was largely a result of declining deaths from malaria and the improvement was concentrated in two periods. The first centered on 1839 for Senegal and on 1875 for British West Africa was mainly brought about by the introduction of quinine. The second from 1902 to 1914 followed the discovery of the mosquito as the vector for malaria and improvements stemming from the germ theory of disease." (EXCERPT)
TL;DR: The authors discusses, adjusts, and at times, corrects certain data on wealth and wealth-holding patterns presented in the best recent synthesis of early American economic history: McCusker and Menard's Economy of British America, 1607-1789.
Abstract: Revolution British America's free population was extremely wealthy on the eve of the Revolution. A generation of scholarship has made that fact clear. Moreover, as work on wealth-holding patterns in the early modern period proceeds, it is becoming increasingly apparent that nowhere else in the world did a population of comparable size live so well. Indeed, as Perkins has pointed out, the free population of British North America-by all accounts far less wealthy than that in the British West Indiesenjoyed higher incomes and living standards in I774 than roughly 70 percent of the world's inhabitants in the I98os.1 This research note does not purport to contravene these findings. Rather, it attempts to clarify them by discussing, adjusting, and, at times, correcting certain data on wealth and wealth-holding patterns presented in the best recent synthesis of early American economic history: McCusker and Menard's Economy of British America, 1607-1789. In undertaking this task, I intend in no way to diminish the achievement of McCusker and Menard; I have written favorably of their book elsewhere, and the points that I raise, even if accepted in toto, will hardly damage its well-deserved reputation. Nonetheless, in economic history seemingly minor technical questions relating to what Morgenstern called "accuracy and error" matter a great deal.2
TL;DR: In this paper, the slum, the ghetto and the inner city part I, Part II, the slums discovered: 1840-1875 3. The slums defined: 1875-1900 4. From slum to ghetto: 1900-1925 5. Ethnicity and assimilation 6.
Abstract: List of illustrations Preface 1. The slum, the ghetto and the inner city Part I. The Relationships Formulated: 2. The slums discovered: 1840-1875 3. The slums defined: 1875-1900 4. From slum to ghetto: 1900-1925 5. Ethnicity and assimilation 6. Ethnicity and industrialisation Notes Index.