Title:War, Diplomacy and Social Mobility: The Casali family in the service of Henry VIII
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By employing Gregorio Casali as his permanent representative at the curia from 1525, King Henry VIII of England acquired a diplomatic structure not uncommon in sixteenthcentury Europe: the family consortium. This article ...
Title:Was Industrialization An Escape From the Commodity Lottery? Evidence From Italy, 1861-1939
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; VASTA, MichelangeloDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The specialization in exporting primary products is frequently deemed harmful for long-run development, because it increases volatility of terms of trade and thus the number and frequency of macroeconomic shocks. One would ...
Title:Women's Paid Work in an Urban Developing Economy. Barcelona in 1930
Author(s):DOMENECH, Jordi; ELU-TERÁN, AlexanderDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we explore the determinants of women's work using data from Barcelona in 1930. Although participation rates were much lower in Barcelona than in cities in the UK or the US at roughly the same time, our estimates ...
Title:Year One in Petrograd
Author(s):SMITH, Stephen AnthonyDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Steve Smith on Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks in Power. The tumultuous first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd, meticulously rendered by a major revisionist historian.