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The destruction by fire of Copenhagen's historic Børsen is truly shocking. It seems unthinkable. But large urban conflagrations used to be ubiquitous. If you haven't already, read this brilliant new piece on fire and American capitalism in Past and Present
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From the current issue: “Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( C .1474–1504)”
by Yanay Israeli (Michigan Research)
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New on advance access: 'Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–1810'
by Emiliano Travieso (@ic3jm)
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From the current issue: “Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965”
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by Su Lin Lewis (@UoBrisHistory)
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New on advance access: 'Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections'
by Du Fei CornellHistory
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On advance access: 'Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–1905'
by Will Sack (Harvard History)
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On advance access: 'Rituals of Modernity: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia'
by Ellie Schainker (Emory History)
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From the current issue: “Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, C.1860S–1914”
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by Adewumi Damilola Adebayo (York History)
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On advance access: 'Crisis, corruption and state-led development in the making of the Mexican drug trade'
by Nathaniel Morris (@UCLHistory)
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On advance access 'National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War'
by Pierre Asselin (San Diego State University)
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Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent Past and Present
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On advance access: 'Property and the End of Empire in International Zones, 1919–1947'
by Anna Ross (@WarwickHistory, Warwick Global History and Culture Centre)
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In 'The Germs of Doubt'
A blog post stemming from his article published in our Feb 2024 issue (No. 262)
Will Pooley (Historians @ Bristol now on Mastodon too) considers the theoretical underpinnings of his article 'Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940'
pastandpresent.org.uk/germs-of-doubt/
On advance access: 'All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States'
by Daniel Immerwahr (@NorthwesternU)
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On advance access: 'From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century'
by Dr Sara Caputo (@magdalenealumni
Cambridge History CRASSH, Cambridge)
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From the current issue: “The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–1650”
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by Jessica O’Leary (The Gender and Women’s History Research Centre ACU Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences)
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From the current issue: “Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940”
#OpenAccess
by William Pooley (Historians @ Bristol now on Mastodon too)
doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…
From the current issue: “Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940”
#OpenAccess
by William Pooley (Historians @ Bristol now on Mastodon too)
doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…
From the current issue: Viewpoint: “Peasant Productivity and Welfare in The Middle Ages and Beyond”
by John Hatcher (Corpus Christi Cambridge History CRASSH, Cambridge)
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From the current issue: “The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs”
by Ronny Regev (@HebrewU)
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