In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

The literature on commodity market integration has boomed in the last 15 years, and a sort
of consensus is slowly emerging, at least with regard to trends in the last two centuries. This …

Migration is one of the foremost social issues of our times. European countries are now as
multicultural as the United States, Australia or other migrant-settler societies. Refugee …

This study explores how heirlooms, usually regarded as objects of family identity and
stability, can also become objects of evolving personal identities and change. Our approach …

We develop a model where:(i) banks take deposits and make investments;(ii) their liabilities
facilitate third-party transactions. Other models have (i) or (ii), not both, although we argue …

Historic textile, and especially costume, collections often contain weighted silks. The fabrics
are generally in poor condition as a result of the weighting agents that were added, and …

During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile
industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of …

In this book David Wittner situates Japan's Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and
industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how …

This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal
industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed …

In this paper, we estimate series of the skill premium for Italy during the early stages of the
industrialization with a refined version of the regression approach originally introduced by …