This paper introduces a new approach to explore the information capacity of the Chinese Maritime Customs from 1864 to 1938. It employs a mirror analysis by comparing Chinese Maritime Customs' interna...

While often overlooked, slavery persisted throughout the Middle Ages, shaping economies, societies, and cross-cultural trade in ways that challenge traditional historical narratives.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Latin America became a perfect place for exiles from Europe to find shelter, not only Jews fleeing persecution during the war, but for Nazis escaping prosecution as war cri...

Many studies of historical persistence find that modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However they…

Income Mobility before Industrialization: Evidence from South Africa’s Cape Colony

Expression chosen after public vote describes impact of endless scrolling of mind-numbing content “Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content. More…

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.275849dc.contributor.author: Sir William Beveridgedc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-29T20:09:35Zdc.date.available:...

This paper presents a new dataset of average years of schooling (AYS) in Brazil between 1925 and 2015, using demographic censuses and household surveys as benchmarks. The dataset is also broken dow...

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