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https://read.qxmd.com/read/21222347/energy-availability-from-livestock-and-agricultural-productivity-in-europe-1815%C3%A2-1913-a-new-comparison
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Astrid Kander, Paul Warde
This article explores the proposition that a reason for high agricultural productivity in the early nineteenth century was relatively high energy availability from draught animals. The article is based on the collection of extensive new data indicating different trends in draught power availability and the efficiency of its use in different countries of Europe. This article shows that the proposition does not hold, and demonstrates that, although towards the end of the nineteenth century England had relatively high numbers of draught animals per agricultural worker, it also had low number of workers and animals per hectare, indicating the high efficiency of muscle power, rather than an abundance of such power...
2011: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21140549/gold-credit-and-mortality-distinguishing-deflationary-pressures-on-the-late-medieval-english-economy
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Pamela Nightingale
This article uses national and local records of debt and evidence from coins, prices, and wages to discuss the economic effects of the gold coinage that was introduced into England in 1344. It distinguishes between the deflationary effects of gold and those of the falling population on prices and credit, and shows that a coinage dominated by gold reduced the volume of credit and transactions far more than the mortality rate and the total circulation of coin would indicate was likely. It relates these findings to the economic and social changes of the fifteenth century...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21140548/famine-as-agricultural-catastrophe-the-crisis-of-1622-4-in-east-lancashire
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R W Hoyle
This article argues that historians have paid insufficient attention to the agrarian roots of early modern English famines. While not dismissing the insights arising from entitlements theory, the article takes issue with recent writings that have explained the famine of 1622–3 in north-west England as an entitlements crisis. It offers new empirical evidence from an estate in east Lancashire to demonstrate the scale of the crisis in the early 1620s, using estate accounts to produce new price data and estimates of productivity...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20939134/parish-apprenticeship-and-the-old-poor-law-in-london
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Alysa Levene
This article offers an examination of the patterns and motivations behind parish apprenticeship in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London. It stresses continuity in outlook from parish officials binding children, which involved placements in both the traditional and industrializing sectors of the economy. Evidence on the ages, employment types, and locations of 3,285 pauper apprentices bound from different parts of London between 1767 and 1833 indicates a variety of local patterns. The analysis reveals a pattern of youthful age at binding, a range of employment experiences, and parish-specific links to particular trades and manufactures...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20939133/occupational-classification-in-the-south-african-census-before-isco-58
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A J Christopher
The population census is one of the major statistics gathering exercises undertaken by the state, when information on a wide range of personal attributes is demanded. None is more problematic than occupation, which, for clarity, requires the subsequent simplification and classification of the myriad of self-descriptions collected. Nowhere is this more evident than in South Africa before 1958. Conflict between British imperial directives and local peculiarities, notably the issue of race, resulted in the adoption of widely fluctuating classification schemes...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20617585/pre-colonial-culture-post-colonial-economic-success-the-tswana-and-the-african-economic-miracle
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Jonas Hjort
Cultural explanations of economic phenomena have recently enjoyed a renaissance among economists. This article provides further evidence for the salience of culture through an in-depth case study of one of the fastest-growing economies in the world during the last 50 years-Botswana. The unique culture that developed among the Tswana before and during the early days of colonialism, which shared many features with those of western nation-states, appears to have contributed significantly to the factors widely seen as determinants of Botswana's post-colonial economic success: state legitimacy, good governance and democracy, commercial traditions, well-established property rights, and inter-ethnic unity...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20617583/retail-growth-and-consumer-changes-in-a-declining-urban-economy-antwerp-1650-1750
#27
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Bruno Blondé, Ilja van Damme
This article examines the interplay between retail changes and transformations in the material culture of Antwerp, a provincial town in the southern Netherlands. We argue that major changes in the eighteenth-century material culture and retail sector were not significantly linked to preconditions of economic growth and urbanization. The Antwerp 'retail paradox' is that of a shrinking economic horizon running parallel to material culture and retail transformations, usually connected to expanding urban economies and societies...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20617582/stuart-london-s-standard-of-living-re-examining-the-settlement-of-tithes-of-1638-for-rents-income-and-poverty
#28
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William C Baer
The Settlement of Tithes of 1638 can be tested for biases in its London rents. Even so, it proves to be a relatively good source for seventeenth-century London, and for calculating associated median and mean rents, as well as a Gini coefficient of inequality for the distribution of resources. Through other evidence in the Settlement, rent/income ratios for London can be approximated, and from them estimates made of London's median income. Median rents and income also allow estimates of the percentage of Londoners in poverty...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20617581/the-economics-of-abundance-coal-and-cotton-in-lancashire-and-the-world
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Theo Balderston
As a subterranean, highly elastic energy source, coal played a vital role in the cotton industry revolution. Coal was also vital to Lancashire's primacy in this revolution, because it was necessary both to the original accumulation of agglomeration economies before the steam age and to their reinforcement during the steam age. In no other part of the world was the cotton industry situated on a coalfield, and the response of other parts of the world cotton industry to Lancashire's agglomeration advantages was dispersal in search of cheap water and/or labour power...
2010: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20098665/stillbirth-registration-and-perceptions-of-infant-death-1900-60-the-scottish-case-in-national-context
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Gayle Davis
The history of vital registration has attracted substantial attention from both social historians and historical demographers. While much of that research has touched upon issues of fertility and mortality, the contentious issue of the stillborn child-which falls somewhere between the two-has been largely neglected. Although civil birth and death registration was introduced to Scotland in 1855, stillbirth registration did not begin until 1939. Using a range of legal, medical, and statistical evidence, this article explores the history of stillbirth registration in Scotland from a social history perspective...
August 2009: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18030704/the-rural-labour-market-in-the-early-nineteenth-century-women-s-and-children-s-employment-family-income-and-the-1834-poor-law-report
#31
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Nicola Verdon
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2002: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18030703/english-rural-societies-and-geographical-marital-endogamy-1700-1837
#32
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K D Snell
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2002: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18972667/the-economics-of-marriage-in-late-medieval-england-the-marriage-of-heiresses
#33
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S J Payling
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18630387/the-costs-of-coercion-african-agency-in-the-pre-modern-atlantic-world
#34
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S D Behrendt, D Eltis, D Richardson
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18610508/farm-wages-and-living-standards-in-the-industrial-revolution-england-1670-1869
#35
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G Clark
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18604895/did-smallpox-reduce-height-a-final-comment
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P Razzell, T Leunig, H J Voth
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18509952/market-solutions-for-social-problems-working-class-housing-in-nineteenth-century-london
#37
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S Morris
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18468006/infant-mortality-in-victorian-britain-the-mother-as-medium
#38
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R Millward, F Bell
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18246640/women-s-work-in-census-and-survey-1911-1931
#39
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T J Hatton, R E Bailey
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2001: Economic History Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/16841411/a-population-history-of-north-america-review-of-haines-m-r-and-steckel-r-h-ed-a-population-history-of-north-america-new-york-cambridge-u-pr-2000
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