Title:The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Author(s):BAKKER, GerbenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:LSE Economic History Working PapersAbstract:This paper investigates the role of consumption in the emergence of the motion picture industry in Britain France and the US. A time-lag of at least twelve years between the invention of cinema and the film industry’s ...
Title:Fears and Hope in Numbers: Financial Data and the Writing of History
Author(s):MARCUS, NathanDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper puts forward the methodological view that certain data produced by financial markets can be used without the need to look into how they were compiled. It argues that when trying to understand the causes of the ...
Title:Financial Transformation and Social Citizenship in the EU
Author(s):GRAHL, JohnDate:2002Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:1. The transformation of financial relations in the EU has been accelerated by monetary union.
2. The transformation has serious implications for both industrial relations and social protection.
3. The current social ...
Title:The first European grain invasion: a study in the integration of the European market 1750-1870
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:This paper argues that market integration should be measured as σ-convergence over
the largest possible sample of markets. It test this claim with an empirical analysis of the
European market for wheat, rye and candles ...
Title:Funeral Oratory at the Medici Court: the Representation of the First Grand Dukes
Author(s):MENCHINI, CarmenDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Over 420 works on the Grand Dukes of the Medici family were written in the two
centuries during which they ruled Florence and later all of Tuscany (1532-1737).
Funeral orations and biographies can be considered the main ...
Title:Gender in the Production of History
Author(s):PASSERINI, Luisa; VOGLIS, PolymerisDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HEC
Title:A Global History of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1600-1850
Author(s):GEKAS, AthanasiosDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper arises from the project on "Cotton textiles as a global industry, 1200-1800",
carried out at the LSE and as part of the Global Economic History Network. The paper
revisits and situates the historiography of ...