This paper studies the distribution of U.S. household income and wealth over the past seven decades. We introduce a newly compiled household-level dataset based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Complementing recent work on top income and wealth...

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and...

Prologue -- Listening to the Silenced -- Part I: Introduction to Olympian Political Economy -- Property -- In Praise of the Homo Faber -- Interlude -- Olympianism and Democracy -- Unity in Democratic Action -- Part II: Olympian Culture System -- Ecumenism, Conviviality, and the Modality of...

Introduction : the color line and the assembly line -- Ford goes to the world, the world comes to Ford -- From the melting pot to the boiling pot : fascism and the factory-state at the River Rouge plant in the 1920s -- Out of the melting pot and into the fire : African Americans and the uneven...

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS. 1. The Petrine Vision and Its Fate -- PART TWO: CULTURAL TRANSFER, INTEREST GROUPS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. 2. From Aufklärung to Romantic Idealism -- 3. The Biogenetic Model and the Slavophil Entrepreneurs -- 4. The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group -- 5. The Engineers -- 6....

Talking tax -- We, the taxpayers -- Canada's conservative tax structure -- Resistance in the interwar years -- Taxation at the edges of citizenship -- Honour, confidence, and federalism during the depression -- Warfare, welfare, and the mass income tax payer -- New publics and the taxman in the...

The trumpet soundeth for equality : the enlightenment and the American Revolution -- The fortress : the defense of inequality, 1750-1820 -- The duel begins -- Equality, manners, and civility -- Education and religion -- Politics and equality : democracy as curse -- American inequalities --...

1. Introduction: The Farmworker, Past and Present -- Part I. The Victorian And Edwardian Farmworker; 2. The Farm Servant -- 3 The Agricultural Labourer -- 4 The Casual and Seasonal Workforce -- Part II. The Farmworker in the Century After 1914; 5. Farm Labour during the First World War -- 6. The...

Introduction -- The costs and benefits of running away: late medieval Florentine plague mortality and behavior -- When economic theory meets medieval contracts: calculating the Monte Comune interest rate -- The chances of getting rich in Renaissance Florence: the wool industry occupational...

Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos -- Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues -- Alternative uses of land and...

"On ne peut penser la Première Guerre mondiale en ignorant ce qui fut une conséquence fondamentale de celle-ci : l'essor considérable du syndicalisme dans le monde, son rôle accru dans les rapports sociaux ou les décisions des états. Vient, dès la deuxième moitié de la guerre, le temps...