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On English pygmies and giants : the physical stature of English youth in the late-18th and early-19th centuries
Komlos, John - 2005
North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today's US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …
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Intergenerational mobility in the 19th century : micro-level evidence from the city of Zurich
Favre, Giacomin; Floris, Joël; Woitek, Ulrich - 2018
We analyze social mobility of decennial citizenry cohorts of Zurich born between 1780 and 1870. We categorize individuals according to their occupations and use different measures to show the level, change, and components of intergenerational mobility. Mobility was imperfect and weakly...
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"Tall and lithe" - the wage-height premium in the Victorian and Edwardian British railway industry
Anderson, Peter - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 67 (2018), pp. 152-162
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The heights of French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish and English populations in Quebec, 1813 to 1847
Morin, Alex Arsenault; Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2016
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The spinning jenny and the industrial revolution : a reappraisal
Gragnolati, Ugo; Moschella, Daniele; Pugliese, Emanuele - 2010
Was the adoption of the spinning jenny profitable only in England? No. The present work finds that the jenny was profitable also in France. Such result contrasts recent findings on the topic by revising basic computations on the profitability of the spinning jenny. -- Industrial Revolution ;...
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Financial Services is Not a Profession
Lee, Steven James - 2019
This article serves as a meta-analysis to uncover different factors comprising the definition of “profession” from multiple disciplines including medicine, business, and law. Within the literature, four major themes arise that form the basis for what constitutes a profession: knowledge;...
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Histories of Bank Supervision
Vanatta, Sean - 2021
In this essay, I make the case for the historical study of bank supervision—both that historical methods are necessary to understanding the shape and structure of supervision in the present and that the study of supervision will contribute to active and important historiographical debates....
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Historical Statistics and British Economic History : The British Historical Statistics Project (BHSP)
Middleton, Roger - 2011
The project now underway to produce a new, multi-volume print and online edition of Mitchell’s celebrated British Historical Statistics (BHS) is an opportunity to examine the history of BHS. An account of its conception, reception and evolution provides a window through which to examine a...
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Life and Work of John Richard Nicholas Stone 1913-1991
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Harcourt, G. C. - 2000
Sir Richard Stone, knighted 1978 and 1984 Nobel Laureate in Economics, was one of the pioneers of national income and social accounts, and one of the few economists of his generation to have faced the challenge of economics as a science by combining theory and measurement within a cohesive...
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Lagaan : Once Upon a Time in India: The Portrayal of British Colonialism in India Cinema
Imran, Mohd - 2022
In this blog, I examine the depiction of British involvement in agrarian policies in Lagaan. I argue that to generate greater revenue and extend their control over newer territories, the British codified laws, created military alliances, and set up courts. Priority was given to laws relating to...
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