Juli 25, 2014, 10:35 a.m.,
Cadoc D. A. Leighton,
Allgemein.
The article offers description of the Marianism of the English Catholic Church — in particular as manifested in the celebration of the definition of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in 1854 and the solemn consecration of England to the Virgin in 1893 — in order to comment on the community's (and more particularly, its leadership's) changing perception of its identity and situation over the course of the later nineteenth century. In doing so, it places particular emphasis on the presence of apocalyptic belief, reflective and supportive of a profound alienation from contemporary English society, which was fundamental in shaping the Catholic body's modern history.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12121
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Juli 25, 2014, 10:32 a.m.,
Victoria Lamb Drover,
Allgemein.
In 1907, the government of the recently formed Province of Saskatchewan set down legislation designed to guide the creation of a provincial university in this newly settled western region. Within this provincial act, female students were granted equal educational opportunities to their male peers, but equal opportunity does not necessarily translate into co-education or wide-scale acceptance within a university culture. Walter Murray, the university's first president, chose to interpret this clause of the 1907 University Act in its broadest terms, and what resulted was a university administration that did not discriminate against students, staff, or faculty on the basis of sex or marital status. This article will discuss Murray's commitment to co-education and gender parity, and will examine how his personal background and religious convictions as a Maritime Presbyterian related to this progressivism.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12111
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Juli 25, 2014, 10:32 a.m.,
Anthony J. Christopher,
Allgemein.
Questions on “religion” in national censuses have had a long and complex history. In this article, the experiences of the British colonies and the subsequent Commonwealth countries in the conduct of census enquiries into religion are explored. Although the British government issued general instructions for the guidance of population censuses in the colonial empire, little clear advice was offered on the issue. The result was essentially a pragmatic approach, with each census commissioner responsible for the decision to include a religious question and the form and content of the published tables. Decisions taken by early census commissioners tended to be followed subsequently for the sake of maintaining continuity. In most cases smooth bureaucratic transitions at independence resulted in colonial practices being retained, unless there were pressing reasons for change. Nevertheless, the form of the question and particularly the classification scheme were susceptible to modification reflecting changing national priorities. Computerisation of the census has resulted in the widespread abandonment of open-ended questions and the presentation of a restricted list of options, unique to each country. Commonwealth countries thus exhibit a highly flexible and diverse range of responses to recording religion.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12107
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:56 p.m.,
Federico, G., Tena-Junguito, A.,
Allgemein.
The conventional wisdom about the early stages of modern economic growth in Italy is still heavily influenced by Cafagna in his book Dualismo e sviluppo nella storia d'Italia (Padova: Marsilio 1989). He argued that the exports of primary products to industrializing North-Western countries were the main source of growth and that exports of silk stimulated the industrialization of the North-West (the "industrial triangle"). However, the benefits did not extend to the rest of the country. In this paper, we argue that this view is not supported by the trade data. Italian exports grew slowly relative to European and world trade, and exports from the North grew less than the total. This view tallies well with some recent estimates of GDP per capita, which show no increase before the Unification of Italy (1861).
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/349?rss=1
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:56 p.m.,
Klovland, J. T.,
Allgemein.
This paper reviews some methodological and practical problems encountered in the construction of historical price indices. The underlying data sets in such studies are often characterized by heterogenous and incomplete price series. It is shown that by using the repeat sales method for constructing the subindices for individual commodity groups, some of the main problems can be overcome. The procedures are illustrated by material from the construction of monthly price indices for Norway from the year 1777 to 1920. The price indices shed new light on two great wartime inflationary episodes in Norway: 1807–17 and 1913–20. In spite of a 61-fold increase in the price level in the first period and a four-fold increase in the second, it is found that, after inflation had been brought under control, prices reverted to a level consistent with the purchasing power parity principle.
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/277?rss=1
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:56 p.m.,
Lindmark, M., Acar, S.,
Allgemein.
The dynamics of environmental problems is among other things affected by knowledge and economic growth and the perception of welfare. In this article, we present a method for aggregating historically relevant environmental pressure indicators, thereby acknowledging that the complexity of environmental problems calls for multi-indicator approaches. Secondly, we use the aggregate for exploring the long-run dynamics between the environment and economic growth, using a methodology used in the study of the so-called environmental Kuznets curve. We find evidence for a right tilted-S form dynamic relationship. The dynamics is analyzed in a framework stressing that new knowledge of environmental problems is an important driver for the changing relationship, here called "the Pasteur effect".
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/306?rss=1
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:56 p.m.,
Grossman, R. S., Lyons, R. C., O'rourke, K. H., Ursu, M. A.,
G12 - Asset Pricing; Trading volume; Bond Interest Rates, N23 - Europe: Pre-1913, N24 - Europe: 1913-, E30 - General.
This paper constructs new monthly Irish stock market price indices for 1864–1930. In addition to a total market index covering 118 equity securities issued by ninety-four companies, sectoral indices are presented for railways, financial services companies, and "other" companies. Nominal equity prices doubled between 1864 and 1898. Between the turn of the century and 1914, prices fell by 25 percent, in contrast to the price increases experienced on the London exchange. Overall, the average annual gain in equity prices over the period was just 0.9 percent. We speculate about the respective roles of Irish politics and international shocks in driving these trends.
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/248?rss=1
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:56 p.m.,
Roy, T.,
Allgemein.
Explaining regional inequality in the nineteenth-century world forms a major preoccupation of global history. A big country like India, being composed of regions that differed in geographical and political characteristics, raises a parallel set of issues to those debated in global economic history. With a new dataset, the paper attempts to tackle these issues, and finds evidence to suggest that regional differences, and divergence, were significantly influenced by geographical conditions.
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/324?rss=1
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:56 p.m.,
Ristuccia, C. A., Solomou, S.,
Allgemein.
Does the concept of general purpose technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in economies? This paper develops a new comparative dataset on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many existing GPT models. Using the case of the diffusion of electrical power in the early twentieth century, this paper shows that there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion. The productivity gains from this GPT varied widely across economies and industries, suggesting that the power of GPTs to predict aggregate or sectoral growth is limited.
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/3/227?rss=1
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Juli 24, 2014, 5:12 p.m.,
Oosterhuis, H.,
Allgemein.
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