Search Results - subject:"History"

The commerce of comfort : exploring retail trade and consumer patterns in late 18th-century Courland

Baumgartl, Matthias; Kruk, Oliver - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 112 (2025) 1, pp. 59-96

While several studies have shed light on the emergence of consumer society in Western Europe and the Atlantic world, our knowledge on the spread of new consumption patterns in regions beyond the core areas of European economic development is still limited. To gain insights into patterns of...

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Globalization or empire? : revolution, the state, and the geopolitics of Chinese debt : 1895-1914

Fitzpatrick, Matt - In: Enterprise & society : the international journal of … 26 (2025) 3, pp. 769-795

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Longer, broader, deeper, and more personal : the renewal of labour history in the Nordic countries

Andersen, Nina Trige; Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir; … - In: Scandinavian economic history review 72 (2024) 2, pp. 109-125

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The German Cliometrics database

Jopp, Tobias Alexander; Spoerer, Mark - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 2, pp. 209-219

(2024) who trace cliometric research on German history. This newly constructed database of every publication that (1 …

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Business history as institutional history

Langlois, Richard N. - 2025 - Third draft

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Bridging the empire : construction projects of the Gutehoffnungshütte in the colonial state of Cameroon (1909-1914)

Kleinöder, Nina - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 112 (2025) 2, pp. 158-183

This article proposes to take a fresh look at Germany’s colonial past and its key players in order to trace the particular influence of economy in colonial contexts. It presents the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) as a colonial actor outside the sectors typically explored in the context of the...

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Text analysis methods for historical letters, the case of Michelangelo Buonarrotti

Gatti, Fabio; Huesler, Joel - 2025

The correspondence of historical personalities serves as a rich source of psychological, social, and economic information. Letters were indeed used as means of communication within the family circles but also a primary method for exchanging information with colleagues, subordinates, and...

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Upgrading traditional industries in interwar Japan : from cotton tabi to Bridgestone Tyres

Learmouth, Tom - 2025

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Management thought and practice in 1920s China

Hamilton, Peter E. - In: Business history 67 (2025) 7, pp. 1822-1842

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Histories that matter : the case for applied economic history

Colvin, Christopher L.; Fourie, Johan - 2026

We define applied economic history as the systematic use of historical reasoning to address economic policy problems …. Building on work in applied history, we argue that economic history contributes to policy not by offering ready-made lessons … history, which begins with a past episode and asks explanatory questions, an applied approach starts from a current problem …

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