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The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/past
On advance access: "Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia" by Guanmian Xu (Peking University) and Shohei Okubo (Ryukoku University) doi.org/10.1093/past...
Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia*
Abstract. In the early modern period, while slavery became firmly entrenched in the Atlantic’s sugar economies, Southeast Asia witnessed the rise of distin
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It's nice to see P&P promoting my article as we approach the anniversary of the 1976 IMF Crisis, when unilateral protectionism was furiously debated within the bowels of the British state. It's open access and free to read via the link below.
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · yesterdayOn advance access "The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983" by @colmpm.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
On advance access "The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983" by @colmpm.bsky.social (@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Fantastic article by Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on “Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England” in Past & Present. It’s open access and can be read now thanks to @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social offering early access to it! academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England*
Abstract. This article explores the practice of ‘reckoning’, a means of reciprocal accounting that becomes prominent in late-medieval England. Despite its
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New on advance access: "Unruly Singing and Shouting: Listening to Labourers’ Work Songs in Modern Shanghai" by Lingyan Liu (University of Tennessee) doi.org/10.1093/past...
Unruly Singing and Shouting: Listening to Labourers’ Work Songs in Modern Shanghai*
Abstract. As early as the third century bce, references to labourers’ work songs appeared in the Chinese court-sponsored compendium Lushi Chunqiu, and, for
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From the current issue: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism*
Abstract. This article shows how the European Community sought to become a global climate leader during the 1980s and 1990s, only to fail to make progress
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From the current issue: "Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China" by Toby Lincoln #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China*
Abstract. AbstractThis article argues that the late 1940s in China should be studied through the lens of post-war reconstruction, rather than as a precurso
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Got my print copy today! Thank you @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social and @hsmurphy.bsky.social Read it in print or online here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
From the current issue: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923" by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon) doi.org/10.1093/past...
From the current issue: "The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830" by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social and Erik de Lange (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830*
Abstract. There is a world of imperial connections and consequences of the revolutions of 1830 that historians hardly ever mention. The relationship betwee
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I was very fortunate to take a historiography course with Professor Greble during the brief period she taught at @ccnyhistory.bsky.social. It was the most valuable class I took in college, and it’s a joy to stumble upon her work on here.
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 4w agoNew on advance access: "Displaced women, law and competing patriarchies in late Ottoman Serbia" by Emily Greble (@vanderbilt.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
From the current issue: "Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Karolina Hutková (@ox.ac.uk/LSE), Ernesto Dal Bó (UC, Berkeley, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain*
Abstract. The significance of the state’s fiscal system for military capacity, colonization, trade, and economic development is a long-studied topic. Much
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From the current issue: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (@camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*
Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod
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From the current issue: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England" by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (@corpuscambridge.bsky.social, @department-asnc.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...
Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England*
Abstract. Bede and other authors describe a destructive wave of plague sweeping across Britain and Ireland in the period 664–87. In the decades around and
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On advance access: "Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England" by @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social / @orieloxford.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England*
Abstract. This article explores the practice of ‘reckoning’, a means of reciprocal accounting that becomes prominent in late-medieval England. Despite its
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From the current issue: Viewpoint "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion" ft. Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
"The unemployment of hand spinners is a cautionary tale for the future of employment"
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the latest post for our blog from an original research we've published @benmschneider.bsky.social (@camunicampop.bsky.social) reflects upon "A Historical Episode of Job-Destroying Technology: Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution" pastandpresent.org.uk/a-historical...
In the latest post for our blog from an original research we've published @benmschneider.bsky.social (@camunicampop.bsky.social) reflects upon "A Historical Episode of Job-Destroying Technology: Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution" pastandpresent.org.uk/a-historical...
A Historical Episode of Job-Destroying Technology: Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution - Past and Present
by Dr. Ben Schneider (University of Cambridge) The fear that new technologies will cause mass unemployment appears during every wave of transformative innovation. Despite the recurrence of these discu...
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On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii" by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii*
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
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New on advance access: "Institutionalization and Market Integration in the Archaic Greek Economy: Modelling Overseas Trade from the Distribution Pattern of Samian Transport Amphoras" by Michael Loy (@durhamclassics.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
New on advance access: "Displaced women, law and competing patriarchies in late Ottoman Serbia" by Emily Greble (@vanderbilt.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Displaced women, law and competing patriarchies in late Ottoman Serbia*
Abstract. Focusing on women who were displaced, unclaimed, or left without protection in the shifting legal order of early nineteenth-century Ottoman Serbi
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From the current issue: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
From the current issue "Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China" by Toby Lincoln #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
On advance access: "Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents" by Caroline Goodson (@camhistory.bsky.social) and Benjamin Savill (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
We were delighted to learn that Past & Present author @gianamar97.bsky.social has won the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026 for his research published in Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) pastandpresent.org.uk/past-present...
Past & Present AuthorGianamar Giovannetti-Singh Wins 2026 RHS Early Career Article Prize - Past and Present
by the Past & Present editorial team We were delighted to learn that Dr. Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Amsterdam) has won the Royal Historical Society’s Early Career Article Prize 2026 for...
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On advance access: "Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934" by @roy1987.bsky.social (@uomhistdept.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934∗
Abstract. It is a historiographical convention to view interwar debates over the protection of vulnerable populations through the prism of ‘minority rights
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This represents the first account of the Toshakhana or Treasure House, a colonial institution appropriated from earlier Indian and Persian practice. I argue that instead of solidifying regard it produced indifference to the gift & giver. A dream come true to publish in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · last mo.On advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
