This research examines the relationship between droughts, city-level conflict, and local governance in Europe from 900 to 1800 C.E. I use data on local drought intensity recorded at an annual frequency, combined with information on city-level conflict, to show that droughts are robustly...

General introduction : in search of the meaning of liberalism in a China confronting crisis / Gilles Campagnolo -- History of thought : contributions to the reception and adoption/adaption of western thought -- The reception of Kant in China / Bo Xu -- Yan Fu and Kaiping Mines : the meaning of...