The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, volatile prices of the nineteenth. Ownership rights provided incentives, and productivity after 1600 exceeded s...

Two kinds of prisons coexisted under the 'Abbasids: the qadi’s prisons and those of military as well as political institutions. But the distinction was largely theoretical. The study of their administration, of their relations with the urban authorities and of their loc...

This paper aims to present all of the currently available literary and archaeological evidence on the sanctuary of Hieron at the mouth of the Black Sea, including the previously unpublished record of its only known excavation. The evidence is analyzed in separate topogr...

The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 was perhaps the single most destructive event in twentieth-century Chinese history. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to how war was experienced in the Nationalist-controlled area ('Free China') under Chiang Kaishe...

From as early as the ninth century onwards, Arabic literature praises the quality of a typical and highly desirable product of Tibet, musk. In Arabic and Persian as well as Tibetan and Hebrew texts musk is discussed in a variety of genres such as geographical, zoologica...

The death of Margaret of Savoy in 1574 created a momentous stir in literary and political circles. This renowned patroness of arts and protector of minorities had extended her protection to the Jews and <em>conversos</em> living in the realm of her husband, Emmanuel Phi...

This article addresses the historiographical neglect of tory women in the early Victorian period. The existence of a vibrant culture of female conservative letters, combined with the widespread participation of women in ultra-Protestant pressure-group politics, is sugge...

Accounts of the history of British imperialism that talk of imperial ideology as the product of the beliefs of a class of 'gentlemanly' administrators and capitalists often fail to engage fully with the changed character of colonial policies after 1940. Most notable is ...