Interpreting the Body in Early Modern Italy: Pregnancy, Abortion and Adulthood
Quelle: http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/223/1/41?rss=1
Archiv für April 2014
Travel Agents on Trial: Policing Mobility in East Central Europe, 1889-1989
Quelle: http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/223/1/161?rss=1
Global Entomologies: Insects, Empires, and the ‚Synthetic Age‘ in World History
Quelle: http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/223/1/233?rss=1
Mittelweg 36 | 2/2014
Von Walden Pond nach Waikiki Beach
Syn og Segn | 1/2014
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/synogsegn/issue/2014-04-17.html
Vine-growing in Catalonia: the main agricultural change underlying the earliest industrialization in Mediterranean Europe (1720-1939)
We present a model of vine-growing specialization that explains the key agricultural change carried out before and throughout the Catalan industrialization. The results confirm the role played by a „Smithian“ market-pull force exerted from the Atlanti…
The roots of economic failure: what explains East Germany’s falling behind between 1945 and 1950?
The relative decline of the East German economy after 1945 has eluded researchers, as several large shocks appeared to have hit it at the same time. In this paper, we revisit the immediate post-war period in both parts of Germany to obtain a more comp…
Von Thunen south of the Alps: access to markets and interwar Italian agriculture
This paper sheds new light on the agricultural side of the Italian regional divide from an economic geography perspective, following a Von Thünen approach. The central hypothesis is that the development of the nonagricultural economy in the North…
Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights
We analyze the proximate determinants of the biological standard of living from a global perspective, namely high-quality nutrition and the disease environment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Until the mid-twentieth century, the local a…
Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast: a quantitative estimate of African laborers‘ welfare ratios
This paper is an attempt to estimate living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast (in current-day Ghana) quantitatively, looking at the welfare ratios of indigenous laborers – in particular canoemen – working for the British Royal Afric…