Early Modern economic and social history

Re-evaluating the role of voluntary organisations: merchant networks, the Baltic and the expansion of European long-distance trade

by Esther Sahle

Expertises et tribunaux de commerce. Procédures et réputation à Livourne au 17ème siècle

by Guillaume Calafat

Published in 'Hypotheses', 2010.

Expertises and commercial courts. Procedure and reputation in Livorno in the 17th century. Expertises and commercial courts. Procedure and reputation in Livorno in the 17th century.

El coto y casa de Oíns y Dodro en los siglos XVII y XVIII

by Fernando Suárez Golán

Sociabilidad campesina y cultura religiosa en el interior de la diócesis de Santiago (siglos XVI-XIX)

by Fernando Suárez Golán

Entre la realidad y la apariencia. La dimensión material de los arzobispos de Santiago en la época de la Ilustración

by Fernando Suárez Golán

Niveles de enseñanza y estudiantes en la Galicia central del Antiguo al Nuevo Régimen

by Fernando Suárez Golán

Famiglie aristocratiche ed élite economiche nell'Italia moderna

by Matteo Troilo

Published on «Clio», XLV, n. 1, 2009, pp. 5-30.

Social Networks of Milanese Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Castile

by J. B. (Jack) Owens

In Networks in the First Global Age, edited by Rila Mukherjee. Indian Council of Historical Research in association with Primus Books, Delhi, 2011.

This chapter focuses on the social networks of Milanese Merchants whose commercial activities centered on the... more This chapter focuses on the social networks of Milanese Merchants whose commercial activities centered on the Castilian city of Cuenca in the period 1550 to 1570.

Cr. Luca, «Greek and Aromanian merchants, protagonists of the trade relations between Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia and the Northern Italian Peninsula (second half of the 17th–first half of the 18th century)», Transylvanian Review, XIX, Supplement no. 5, 2010, p. 313–336

by Cristian Luca

Widening the Sukkah: the Occupy Wall Street Movement and Shared Monetary Governance

by ShiraDestinie Jones

Published in Gathering the Jews as part of series on Jewish Occupy DC for the Occupy K Street pre-teach-in seminar.

Occupy Wall street has the potential to fill some gaps in the access to both economic and political decision-making... more Occupy Wall street has the potential to fill some gaps in the access to both economic and political decision-making processes.  Shared Monetary Governance (SMG) may be a tool to help fill one half of those gaps, via the Participator Decision-making Umbrella...

The Economic History of the MIlls of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (text in Dutch)

by Ton Kappelhof

Investigating responses to theft in early modern Wales: communities, thieves and the courts

by Sharon Howard

Continuity and Change, 2004

“The role of the monasteries in the development of medieval milling”

by Adam Lucas

in Steven A. Walton (ed.), Wind and Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance University of Arizona Press, 2006, pp. 89-128.

Reformation and the Distrust of the Projector in the Hartlib Circle (pre-proof vers; follow the link below to see the final version)

by Koji Yamamoto

Historical Journal, 55 (June 2012), 375-397.

Uploaded here is the draft submitted in June 2011. For the final published version, please drop me a line or click the link below, 'View on journals.cambridge.org'.

Case-studies of the circle of Samuel Hartlib, one of the most prolific groups of reformers in post-Reformation Europe,... more Case-studies of the circle of Samuel Hartlib, one of the most prolific groups of reformers in post-Reformation Europe, are flourishing. The uncovering of rich details has, however, made it difficult to draw a meaningful generalization about the circle's bewilderingly wide range of activities. Focusing on the circle's promotion of ‘useful knowledge’, this article offers an analytical framework for building a new synthesis. The eclectic and seemingly chaotic pursuit of useful knowledge emerged, it will be shown, as differing responses to, and interpretations of, pervasive distrust and the pursuit of reformation. The article thus explores how loosely-shared experience shaped the circle's ambivalent practices of collaboration and exclusion. The study thereby contributes not only to studies of the Hartlib circle, but also to the historiography of post-Reformation culture and burgeoning studies of trust and credibility in the history of science and technology.

A maritime society: Friendship, animosity and group formation on the ships of the Dutch East-India Company

by Michaël Deinema

Student paper 2003 for the bachelor course "European ships in tropical waters" in Economic and Social History at the University of Amsterdam.

Trade, Money, and the Grievances of the Commonwealth: economic debates in the English public sphere during the commercial crisis of the early 1620's

by Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

Published in the Cedeplar working papers series.

The turbulent, crisis-ridden first half of the 1620’s was a rich period for economic pamphleteering in England, as has... more The turbulent, crisis-ridden first half of the 1620’s was a rich period for economic pamphleteering in England, as has been long recognized in the specialist literature. What is less commonly appreciated is that economic reasoning was not, at that time, exclusively confined to the musings of merchants who sought to influence the course of public policy according to their own practical wisdom or corporate interests. In fact, economic distress was then a central topic for public debate throughout English society at large; it figured prominently both in parliament and at court, thus mobilizing most of the kingdom’s economic and political groups. Using a wide array of primary sources – parliamentary debates, Privy Council records, papers and correspondence by public officials – this paper aims to uncover the place occupied by economic reasoning and discourse within the English public sphere during the early 17th century. When seen against this background, it becomes apparent that the pamphlet literature actually came about as a response to a debate which was already well under way – a rather late chapter of which was the famous controversy among Malynes, Misselden and Mun, played out simultaneously in the political arena and in London’s printing houses.

FEMALE AUTHORITY IN THE PIETAS NOBILITA: HABSBURG ALLEGIANCE DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT

by Mirella Marini

published in Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 34, issue 1 (2010), 5-24.

Understanding the impact of nonlinear dynamics on the processes of human systems

by J. B. (Jack) Owens

Submitted: 20 September 2010
Published: January 2011
This paper was written as a response to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s “SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences” program. All of the abstracts and most of the papers, including this one, are available for download. There is also a full explanation of the program and the way that the SBE Directorate hopes to shape future research in these fields.
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/index.cfm

The global economic collapse of the fall of 2008 underlined in a powerful way the degree to which nonlinear dynamics... more The global economic collapse of the fall of 2008 underlined in a powerful way the degree to which nonlinear dynamics influence processes in human systems. As a way of understanding these influences, this paper proposes Geographically-Integrated History (GIH) as an interdisciplinary research strategy. GIH asserts that (1) the understanding of historical processes requires an integration of the natural, social, and cultural environments on the basis of place, space, and time and (2) accomplishing this integration poses a challenge that can be met with modern computational tools, especially dynamic forms of geographic information systems and social network analysis, and visualization techniques. The paper explains how GIH demands the integration of a broad range of disciplinary approaches and provides opportunities for generating truly new, transformative scientific ideas.

The Role of Experts in the Public Assessment of England's Trade Crisis of the Early 1620's

by Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

Published in the Cedeplar working papers series.

Economic pamphleteering in England during the early 17th century has often been described as an attempt to influence... more Economic pamphleteering in England during the early 17th century has often been described as an attempt to influence the course of public policy with the aim of either protecting vested interests or else promoting in earnest the adoption of a few mercantilist doctrines. However, these judgments pass over a more basic question: to what extent, if any, could members of the English business community influence public opinion and the policy decision-making process? Special consultations over pressing economic issues offered an opportunity for their voices to be heard, but the growing financial difficulties which the English crown faced at that time opened the main path available for their active engagement with public administration. Lionel Cranfield was by far the most successful of such cases during the period at hand, playing a leading role throughout the public debates which surrounded the trade crisis of the early 1620’s – over which the pamphlet literature, in contrast, seems to have exerted a much more limited impact.

"Sirote Kudeljnice" i Baštinice: dva tipa hrišćanskih udovičkih domaćinstava u Osmanskom carstvu

by Tatjana Katić

"Indigent hemp-spinners" and baştina-owners: two types of the christian widow's households in the Ottoman... more "Indigent hemp-spinners" and baştina-owners: two types of the christian widow's households in the Ottoman Empire - study case of Prizren sandjak in the XVI century.

Official recording of the Christian widow as taxpayer, paying the decreased ispençe by 6 akçe, the so-called widow's tax (resm-i bive), represents a custom having already existed in the earliest dated registers of the Ottoman European provinices