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...

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...

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...

This volume looks at the social history of oil workers to investigate how labor relations and experiences have shaped the emergence of this global extractive industry. Three inter-related themes are investigated by scholars: the political life of labor, the productive life of labor, and the...

Eine leidenschaftliche Antithese zum üblichen Kulturpessimismus und ein engagierter Widerspruch zu dem weitverbreiteten Gefühl, dass die Moderne dem Untergang geweiht ist. Hass, Populismus und Unvernunft regieren die Welt, Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit macht sich breit, Wahrheit gibt es nicht...

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 Kurds, the Kurdish question in Turkey, and economic development in ESA : an exploration of the central theoretical debates and outline of the methodological resources -- The formation of Ottoman Kurdistan : social, economic and political developments in Ottoman Kurdistan before 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...

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...