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22 May, 2018
The frontier of medieval warfare between Christian and Muslim armies in southern Spain provides a surprisingly powerful explanation of...
17 May, 2018
While malaria historically claimed millions of African lives, it did not hold back the continent’s economic development. That is...
15 May, 2018
Industrialised cities in mid-nineteenth century Britain probably suffered from similar levels of air pollution as urban centres in China...
10 May, 2018
by Wessel Vermeulen (Newcastle University), Gunes Gokmen (New Economic School, Moscow), and Pierre-Louis Vézina (King’s College London)   The rise and...
8 May, 2018
by Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark) The purchase price of this book is discounted by 20 per cent...
3 May, 2018
by Andrew Perchard (University of Stirling), Lachlan MacKinnon (St Mary’s University – Nova Scotia), and Steven High (Concordia University...
24 Apr, 2018
by Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)   ‘It’s the economy stupid’, like most clichés, both reveals and conceals important...
19 Apr, 2018
Jordi Domènech (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Francisco Herreros (Institute of Policies and Public Goods, Spanish Higher Scientific...
17 Apr, 2018
by Avni Önder Hanedar (Sakarya University) In the last couple of decades, high debt burden in emerging economies created...
12 Apr, 2018
Felix Meier zu Selhausen (University of Sussex) Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen (Utrecht University) Jacob L. Weisdorf (University of...
10 Apr, 2018
by Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge)    Few aspects of British history have attracted more patriotic enthusiasm than the...
9 Apr, 2018
by Janet Casson (independent scholar)   The HS2 train route between London and Birmingham has been modified in response...
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