Title:Market integration and convergence in the world wheat market, 1800-2000
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; PERSSON, Karl GunnarDate:2007Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This paper argues that the conventional view which sees international transport costs reductions as the major force in price convergence cannot be upheld when the period under scrutiny is extended to the last two centuries. ...
Title:Market integration and market efficiency. The case of 19th century Italy
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines market integration in Italy in the 19th century, focusing on wheat. Wheat prices converged well before political Unification (1859–1861) but the process halted during the 1860s only to resume in the ...
Title:Market Power on the Colonial Frontier? Evidence From Sao Paulo 1800-1840
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; PAIXAO, RicardoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Economists often assume that agricultural markets in history were competitive, and all producers received the same price. in contrast, most agricultural historians deem prices to differ among agents, according to their ...
Title:Marseille au temps des troubles : 1559-1596 : morphologie sociale et luttes de factions
Author(s):KAISER, WolfgangDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Au temps des guerres de Religion, les luttes de factions aboutissent à Marseille à l’instauration d’une « dictature populaire » : sous Charles de Casaulx, la ville devient pour cinq ans une « république » quasi indépendante ...
Title:Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia
Author(s):LUTTIKHUS, Bart; MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A recent strand of research in genocide studies emphasizes the intimate connections and the porous boundary between imperial and colonial violence and genocidal practices. So far, the British and German settler colonies ...
Title:Massimalismo e crisi dello stato liberale: Nicola Bombacci, 1879-1924
Author(s):NOIRET, SergeDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Scrive Roberto Vivarelli nella sua presentazione al libro di Noiret che «per comprendere i termini della crisi politica italiana tra la prima guerra mondiale e la marcia su Roma, una piena conoscenza del fenomeno massimilista ...
Title:Massimo MILA. Lettere editoriali
Author(s):MUNARI, TommasoDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Fa così piacere scoprire che, malgrado i tempi siano cambiati e con essi anche l’assetto proprietario della prestigiosa casa editrice torinese, sotto il simbolo dello struzzo compaia una nuova pubblicazione dedicata ...