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Pinilla, & H. V. Vilar (Eds.), Iberian Economic History, 700-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

News. A five-year project in the History Faculty, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has just released free resource packs for secondary-school teachers to teach the history

Image. Western Europe’s postwar era was marked by deep social, economic and political transformations, many of which were made possible by rapid economic growth and continued demand for workers. ... The paper will also look at how work was contested

The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric of early modern England.

News. Craig Muldrew, our Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History, was recently on BBC Radio's In Our Time discussing mercantilism.

Engaged Economists. Politics, Profession and Economics in the Left-wing Commitment, 1930s-1960s. ... In economic history, it has revitalized research on real wages and living standards, a well-established, and vibrant field.

Haze, sandstorms, and polluted, smelly groundwater: this is what came to my mind when I thought of China’s impressive economic growth in the 2000s. ... Probably because of these childhood experiences, I have always thought of economic development as a

Economic history and world history. Race and racism in world history. ... This course traces the strategic global conflicts and key economic processes that have tied the Caribbean region to Western Europe, West Africa, and North America.

In common with other advanced economies, the UK has had sluggish economic growth over the past decade. ... altruistic economic behaviour today.” The IPPR prize is now one of the largest prizes in the economics profession after the 9m Swedish krona

News. Economic historian, Dr Charles Read, has been cast in the role of Cassandra by the press coverage of Liz Truss's attempted rescue of her reputation.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. History and Politics BA (Tripos). Explore the Course. Requirements. Overview. Cambridge is uniquely placed to teach History and Politics together. Staff in the Faculty of History

People working in this area at Cambridge include. Economic, social and environmental history. ... Cambridge was one of the pioneers in the growth of economic history early in the 20.

It is, first of all, the economic offspring of privilege – of my position as a lucky ECR, in the first year of a three-year research post when the music stopped

Ellen McArthur Undergraduate Prizes for a dissertation on some aspect of Economic History submitted by a candidate for the examination in Part II of the Historical Tripos, Economics Tripos, History and ... To further the study of Economic History in the

economic and military might and the ‘soft power’ of culture, education, and mass media.

The other three sessions will look at how scholars have addressed important underlying themes in the social, cultural, political and economic history of the Early Modern world.

Ritual and symbolic communication. Economic systems. Saints, Scepticism and Belief. Writing Medieval History.

This seminar does not run in Michaelmas Term. It participates in the Core seminar in economic and social history. ... Johnathan Neil Chapman(University of Bologna). Venue: Room 5. May. 1. Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price

Real estate sections boosted the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities’ roles as economic and information hubs.

And, in addition to military and economic influence, how was US empire constructed culturally?

Two significant publications on the economic histories of African nations will be published this autumn. ... By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, Africonomics moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.

Old conflicts over parliament, the monarchy and religion persisted, alongside the tensions generated by new political, economic and social structures.

Professor Leigh Shaw-Taylor. Project leader and Professor of Economic History at Cambridge’s Faculty of History. ... Image. Professor Leigh Shaw-Taylor. Professor of Economic History..

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Inequalities and Social Change in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. Course Material 2024/25. This Topics paper will be available both to students taking History Part 1B, with 8

The first part of the paper examines the political and economic history of the GDR after 1945 up to its demise in 1989/90. ... such as work, food, mobility, apparel, and entertainment, can help refine the chronology and geography of four centuries of

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1982, and three Joint Economic Committees on women’s work had to evaluate the proposal. ... Once comparable worth was on the agenda, it became drawn into a battle over theories in labour economics at the time.

economic history of London. ... The analysis appeared in this month’s issue of The Economic History Review and is being hailed by The Times as the 'first of its kind.'.

News. Congratulations to Andrew Bailey, the new Governor of the Bank of England, who was a Queen's College History undergraduate and and went on to a PhD in economic history. ... His undergraduate dissertation (from which the PhD topic developed) was

Other articles discussed the economic ramifications of the pandemic on a macroeconomic scale. ... But I was persuaded by my tutor that Economics wasn’t worth reading.

Diversity within the empire and different social orders are examined in the light of daily life, cultural cohesion, economic underpinning of imperial projects, up to and including the Christianisation of the ... To what degree do changes in the

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Faith, Fire and Fury: The British Reformations and their Discontents. Course Material 2024/25. The religious reformations that convulsed the British Isles in the sixteenth century

Reform of the system occurred against a backdrop of profound social and economic transformation across British society. ... The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is gratefully acknowledged.

The paper covers the dynamic and complex relationships between changing forms of political power and religious identities, economic transformations, and social and cultural change in the period from 1757 to 2007.

It draws on established strengths across the Faculty in political thought, political history, economic history, social and cultural history and global history to consider Britain’s modern experience in the light

The epochal shift toward neoliberalism-a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces-that began in

Ultimately, through labour history, historians can learn more about how workers meet others, demand rights, integrate into communities, build relationships, and gain a level of economic empowerment.

Alice Byrne was nominated for the Ellen McArthur prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in economic history for ‘The Industrial Gender Order in Lancashire, c. ... Rachel Imrie was nominated for the Ellen McArthur prize for the best undergraduate

that studies the political and economic connections between the Dutch province of South Holland and slavery.

Palgrave studies in economic history). Navigate. Calming the Storm: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825.

But, like many ‘isms’ it took form in the late nineteenth century as a conceptual definition of a competitive economic organisation of society to counter socialist ideals of cooperative society.

Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor also received a Keynes Fund grant for ‘Lighthouses in Economics Redivivus – Analysis’. ... A Social and Intellectual History of Political Commitment and Heterodox Economics in Europe (1900s-1950s)’.

Monday, 14 March 2022. Sir Tony Wrigley, 1931-2022, Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, 1994-97. ... Four years later he examined my PhD. Tony Wrigley is a colossus in the field of economic and social history, broadly defined.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Conflict, Identity and Social Change: State-Formation in Medieval Britain and Europe. Course Material 2024/25. The implications of the Norman Conquest for the emerging English state

Other articles discussed the economic ramifications of the pandemic on a macroeconomic scale. ... My co-author proposed that we each write a paragraph on the economic outcomes, the governmental changes, and the attitude of the public.

repair muscles, this lack was said to be a cause of bad health and therefore of impending national economic crisis.

China and India boast the largest populations on Earth. Both countries exert increasingly powerful economic, political and social influence across the globe.

Incorporating these female migrants, and their contribution in terms of work, property and social network, into the narrative of migration expands and challenges the way in which we understand the economic

Based on archival research in Germany, Poland, Israel and the US, the thesis examines how Prussian policies towards the Jews related to broader political, economic, and cultural objectives during the early

Research project. Economic, Social and Cultural History. Image. England is the only national population for which we have truly long-demographic data (for the last 500 years), thanks to the work

I had come in 1956 as a Classics scholar to Trinity, having just spent two years in Navy (National Service) and wanted to switch from Classics to Economics. ... But I was persuaded by my tutor that Economics wasn’t worth reading.