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Early Modern Capitalism: Trade, Risk and Profit
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Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934
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In this post, Georgia Davison of the University of Cambridge writes about how the Economic History Society’s Research Fund...
Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire
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