Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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Geelhaar, Tim; Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Perreaux, Nicolas; Schiel, Juliane; Schürch, Isabelle
Historical Semantics – A Vade Mecum Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 18-47, 2023.
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Köstlbauer, Josef
Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 150-174, 2023.
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Tammisto, Peeter
Runaway Serfs in 17th-Century Estland and Livland Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 615-634, 2023.
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Østhus, Hanne
The Case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in 18th-Century Norway Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 635-655, 2023.
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Valentin, Emilie Luther
How to Be(come) the Perfect Inmate? Working the System in the Prison Workhouse at Christianshavn, 1769–1789 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 679-698, 2023.
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Heinsen, Johan
Carceral Chains: Pathways through a Convict Labour Institution, 1690–1830 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 656-678 , 2023.
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Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
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Heinsen, Johan; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Østhus, Hanne
Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: Connections, Ambiguities, Practices Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 551-571, 2023.
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Yılmaz, Gülay
Janissaries in the Making: Coerced Labor and Chivalric Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 3, pp. 238-255, 2023.
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Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
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Uppenberg, Carolina
Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, 2023.
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Marcon, Gabriele
Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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Heinsen, Johan
Escape and Reform in the Early-Modern Danish Prison System Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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Ressel, Magnus
Accounting Practices and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Business Prospectus of an Eighteenth-Century European Slave Trader Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Gunnlaugsson, Emil
Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia Book Chapter
In: Kate Ekama,; Hellman, Lisa; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850, 2022.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
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abstract = {This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
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Heinsen, Johan
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour: Trajectories and Transitions in Early Modern Europe Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 66, iss. 1, pp. 111-133, 2021.
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2024
Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, italy, mining, wage labour
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2023
Geelhaar, Tim; Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Perreaux, Nicolas; Schiel, Juliane; Schürch, Isabelle
Historical Semantics – A Vade Mecum Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 18-47, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, methodology
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Köstlbauer, Josef
Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 150-174, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, historical semantics, slavery
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issue = {2},
pages = {150-174},
abstract = {This contribution uses a set of documents dealing with the case of a fugitive slave named Samuel Johannes in Upper Lusatia in 1754 to demonstrate the merits of a historical semantics–inspired approach. Not only does the studied case present evidence of the extension of colonial slaveries into the Holy Roman Empire, it also provides a snapshot of the language of subservience spoken in mid-eighteenth-century Germany. By revealing a striking indifference towards defining and explaining ategorisations of dependency, the sources analysed here defy simple juxtapositions like ‘enslaved’ versus ‘free’. Labels like ‘slave’, ‘serf ’, or ‘Moor’ were employed to enforce and legitimise authority and proprietorial claims over Samuel Johannes. But these labels had to be constantly translated into actual practices and filled with meaning, as they did not readily convert into established, closely circumscribed positions or categories of status.},
keywords = {early modern history, europe, germany, historical semantics, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Tammisto, Peeter
Runaway Serfs in 17th-Century Estland and Livland Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 615-634, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: baltic states, early modern history, estonia, runaways, serfdom
@article{nokey,
title = {Runaway Serfs in 17th-Century Estland and Livland},
author = {Peeter Tammisto},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-09-12},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {615-634},
abstract = {Adscripti glebae is a condition where peasants legally belong to a particular landholding. Its purpose was to maintain a stable labour force at the disposal of the landholder. Peasants who did not abide by this immobility requirement were termed runaways. Runaways have been episodically mentioned in medieval and early modern social history, particularly in demographic history, urban history, and histories of serfdom. Yet they have rarely been the central focus of historical studies. This paper examines the runaway on the background of the particular conditions of serfdom in the provinces of Estland and Livland. The paper describes how serfdom was practiced in these provinces, proceeds to peasant agency by considering the numerous diverse reasons for running away and outlines the reasoning behind the efforts of both nobility and government aimed at maintaining the status quo. The court records of a few extradition cases are highlighted to illustrate aspects of the issue of keeping serfs bound to the land.},
keywords = {baltic states, early modern history, estonia, runaways, serfdom},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Østhus, Hanne
The Case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in 18th-Century Norway Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 635-655, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, norway, scandinavia, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {The Case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in 18th-Century Norway},
author = {Hanne Østhus},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-07-11},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {635-655},
abstract = {The article explores the life of Adam Jacobsen, an enslaved man who was trafficked from the Danish West Indies to the small town of Arendal in southern Norway sometime around 1780. By using the micro-spatial perspective the article aims to investigate how Jacobsen and others who were trafficked from America, Africa and Asia to Europe were understood within the broader processes of marketization and racialization that occurred with the development of the Atlantic slave trade. The article examines how these processes were given a localized expression through investigations of different ‘sites’: the geographical places of St. Croix and, primarily, Arendal, and the institutional sites of the household and the interrogation room. In St. Croix, Jacobsen lived in a society constructed around plantation slavery. In Arendal, he was a working member of his owner’s household residing with local servants and a local family, but he was also singled out and often racialized. Jacobsen’s life story, then, demonstrates how colonial slavery extended into Europe in a way that not only concerned capital and goods but also trafficking of people.},
keywords = {early modern history, norway, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Valentin, Emilie Luther
How to Be(come) the Perfect Inmate? Working the System in the Prison Workhouse at Christianshavn, 1769–1789 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 679-698, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, denmar, early modern history, emotional labour, europe, punishment, scandinavia
@article{nokey,
title = {How to Be(come) the Perfect Inmate? Working the System in the Prison Workhouse at Christianshavn, 1769–1789},
author = {Emilie Luther Valentin},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-07-04},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {679-698},
abstract = {Between 1769 and 1789, the warden of the prison workhouse at Christianshavn wrote around 300 statements to accompany petitions made for inmates’ release. Drawing on the theories of Arlie Russell Hochschild, this article argues that the statements detail the feeling rules of the prison workhouse and provide evidence that the inmates ‘worked the system’ by performing emotional labour in accordance with said feeling rules. Thus, the article uncovers and connects practices and tactics of coercion and autonomy in the prison workhouse, examining how inmates navigated the authorities’ expectations as a tactic of escape from imprisonment and labour coercion.},
keywords = {convict labour, denmar, early modern history, emotional labour, europe, punishment, scandinavia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Heinsen, Johan
Carceral Chains: Pathways through a Convict Labour Institution, 1690–1830 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 656-678 , 2023.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, denmark, early modern history, europe, punishment, scandinavia
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title = {Carceral Chains: Pathways through a Convict Labour Institution, 1690–1830},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-18},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {656-678 },
abstract = {This article examines early modern convicts’ experiences of extramural penal labour institutions – known in their time as slaveries. It centres on Denmark’s main slaveries in Copenhagen and analyses data collected from the books keeping track of the inmates. On this basis, the article examines their experiences at connected moments: before entry, at entry, in the extraction of labour, and at exit. The article describes how these moments linked together to form patterns. Crucially, experiences during and at the termination of stays in these prisons were often predicated on former experiences in the labour market, how punitive labour was linked to forms of corporal violence, and the question of honour.},
keywords = {convict labour, denmark, early modern history, europe, punishment, scandinavia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery
@book{nokey,
title = { The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History },
editor = {Damian Alan Pargas and Juliane Schiel},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-15},
abstract = {This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery – why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that existed in not only the Americas but also ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African, Near Eastern, and Asian societies. Connecting civilisations through migration, warfare, trade routes and economic expansion, the practice of slavery integrated countries and regions through power-based relationships, whilst simultaneously dividing societies by class, race, ethnicity and cultural group. Uncovering slavery as a globalising phenomenon, the authors highlight the slave-trading routes that crisscrossed Africa, helped integrate the Mediterranean world, connected Indian Ocean societies and fused the Atlantic world. Split into five parts, the handbook portrays the evolution of slavery from antiquity to the contemporary era and encourages readers to realise similarities and differences between various manifestations of slavery throughout history. Providing a truly global coverage of slavery, and including thematic injections within each chronological part, this handbook is a comprehensive and transnational resource for all researchers interested in slavery, the history of labour, and anthropology.},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
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Heinsen, Johan; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Østhus, Hanne
Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: Connections, Ambiguities, Practices Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 551-571, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, europe, scandinavia
@article{nokey,
title = {Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: Connections, Ambiguities, Practices},
author = {Johan Heinsen and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson and Hanne Østhus},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-07},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {551-571},
abstract = {This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international literature has worked to re-conceptualize histories of labour coercion. Current trends in global labour history have emphasized the interrelational nature of labour regimes, eschewing traditional boundaries of free and unfree labour, productive and unproductive labour, wage labour and unpaid labour, and focused rather on the entangled history of labour and coercion in its various guises. Based on a critical discussion of the teleological frameworks and essentialized analytical categories that have largely characterized the historiography of labour in many of the Nordic countries, we argue for shifting the focus of attention to study the actual practices of labour and coercion in order to establish a more inclusive, contextual and historicized historiography of Nordic labour.},
keywords = {early modern history, europe, scandinavia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Yılmaz, Gülay
Janissaries in the Making: Coerced Labor and Chivalric Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 3, pp. 238-255, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, gender, military, ottoman empire, war
@article{nokey,
title = {Janissaries in the Making: Coerced Labor and Chivalric Masculinity in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire},
author = {Gülay Yılmaz},
editor = {Julia Heinemann and Christine de Matos and Fia Sundevall and Anders Ahlbäck},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-01},
issuetitle = {Gender, War and Coerced Labor},
journal = {Labor History},
volume = {64},
issue = {3},
pages = {238-255},
abstract = {Until the late sixteenth century, the devşirme system was the main method of manning the janissary army. This was no simple conscription. It required an intense process of identity formation that transformed adolescent Christian boys into Muslim warriors fighting for Islam and the sultan. The training that the boys and young men received was composed of several aspects, including coerced labor, disciplined and harsh physical training, the learning of Turkish and Islamic practices, and a mental formation that would give them a certain perception of their manhood. This article examines these prominent components of janissary training. First, it investigates the function of coerced labor in the boys’ transformation, followed by a discussion of the centrality of structured and intensive training with weapons to become professional warriors. Second, it examines the masculine identity formed by the communal way of life in the barracks as soldiers and by notions of military prowess, brotherhood, and comrade solidarity that were strengthened through Bektashism. These dynamics are investigated through an examination of archival sources, chronicles, travelers’ writings, and poems by janissary poets.},
keywords = {early modern history, gender, military, ottoman empire, war},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time
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title = {Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850},
author = { },
editor = {Thjis Lambrecht and Jane Whittle},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-05-01},
urldate = {2023-05-01},
abstract = {Many economic historians have assumed that labour in Western Europe was 'free' after the end of serfdom in the fifteenth century. These assumptions are increasingly being questioned and labour laws have been identified as creating significant restrictions on workers' freedom. This collection is the first book to look at labour laws across Western Europe from a longer-term perspective. It is interdisciplinary in nature bringing together studies in social, political, economic and legal history.
Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time},
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Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.
Uppenberg, Carolina
Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, europe, gender, household, scandinavia, service, sweden
@article{nokey,
title = {Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-04-30},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
abstract = {In the early modern rural setting, labour was organized with varying degrees of coercion depending on landowning, social standing, and gender. This article analyses the crofter institution, characterized by corvée labour (obligatory work as payment), from the perspective of gender and coercion. The purpose is to answer the question of how the crofter institution was created, shaped, enabled and questioned. The right to establish a croft made the position as head of household available for men but it also increased social stratification. While crofters were masters of their households in contract signing, their position was ambiguous when it came to the organization of labour. Regarding physical integrity, crofters could be forced by physical violence and were subject to rules not connected to work, such as subservience. I argue that this was made acceptable through marriage and allowing the position as head of household to landless men. Crofters held an intermediate position, caught between the market logic of leasehold of land and the coercive logic of labour extraction, and this continued to colour the crofter institution until its final dissolution in 1943.},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, europe, gender, household, scandinavia, service, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Marcon, Gabriele
Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: early modern history, europe, italy, migration and mobility, mining
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title = {Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany},
author = {Gabriele Marcon},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities},
keywords = {early modern history, europe, italy, migration and mobility, mining},
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Heinsen, Johan
Escape and Reform in the Early-Modern Danish Prison System Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: convict labour, denmark, early modern history, europe, migration and mobility, punishment, runaways, scandinavia
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title = {Escape and Reform in the Early-Modern Danish Prison System},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
urldate = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities},
keywords = {convict labour, denmark, early modern history, europe, migration and mobility, punishment, runaways, scandinavia},
pubstate = {published},
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Ressel, Magnus
Accounting Practices and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Business Prospectus of an Eighteenth-Century European Slave Trader Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: atlantic, business history, early modern history, slavery
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title = {Accounting Practices and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Business Prospectus of an Eighteenth-Century European Slave Trader},
author = {Magnus Ressel},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities},
keywords = {atlantic, business history, early modern history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Gunnlaugsson, Emil
Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, europe, iceland, labour law, migration and mobility, scandinavia
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title = {Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s},
author = {Vilhelm Vilhelmsson and Emil Gunnlaugsson},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities},
keywords = {19th century, early modern history, europe, iceland, labour law, migration and mobility, scandinavia},
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2022
Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery
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title = {Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851},
author = {Christian De Vito},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
issuetitle = {Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {7},
issue = {1-2},
pages = {48-72},
abstract = {This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of “protection.” The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.
},
keywords = {19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia Book Chapter
In: Kate Ekama,; Hellman, Lisa; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850, 2022.
Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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title = {Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Kate Ekama, and Lisa Hellman and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850},
keywords = {china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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title = {Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Slavery & Abolition},
volume = {43},
issue = {3},
pages = {460-481 },
abstract = {This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
},
keywords = {china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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2021
Heinsen, Johan
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour: Trajectories and Transitions in Early Modern Europe Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 66, iss. 1, pp. 111-133, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, europe, punishment
@article{nokey,
title = {Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour: Trajectories and Transitions in Early Modern Europe},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {66},
issue = {1},
pages = {111-133},
abstract = {New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taking a view of Europe's own penal history from which the focus is less on origins and more on how the landscape of punishment evolved through a continuous and largely contingent process of assemblage. In this process, a few key elements – labour, displacement, pain, and confinement – were combined and mixed to different effects in specific contexts. Along with that approach comes the need to historicize the process by relating it to other practices of labour coercion, both within the penal field and outside it.
},
keywords = {convict labour, early modern history, europe, punishment},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, indian ocean, slavery
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editor = {Matthias van Rossum and Alexander Geelen and Bram van den Hout and Merve Tosun},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and 'enslavebility'. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of slavery were shaped.
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Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour
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title = {Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness]},
author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Astrid Windus et al. },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Arbeit – Macht – Kapital},
pages = {51-60},
keywords = {19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour},
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Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery
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title = {Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography},
author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Josef Köstlbauer and Sarah Lentz },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850},
keywords = {atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Heinsen, Johan
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 3, pp. 343–368, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery
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title = {Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {6},
issue = {3},
pages = {343–368},
abstract = {In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.
},
keywords = {convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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2020
Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, early modern history, historical semantics, new history of work, service, sweden
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past},
author = {Maria Ågren},
editor = {Jeannine Bischoff},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications},
abstract = {This article explores a dataset of verb-phrases culled from early modern Swedish sources, all of which describe work in vague terms. The analysis shows that vaguely described work (e.g. ‘to work’, ‘to serve’) often appeared together with information on for whom, where and under what conditions the work in question had taken place. In other words, work was neither described as a concrete task nor as an occupation; instead, it was the labour relation that people tended to describe.
},
keywords = {dependency, early modern history, historical semantics, new history of work, service, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
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de Barros, Maria Filomena Lopes
Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century] Journal Article
In: 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery
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title = {Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century]},
author = {Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This article explores, in part, the coercive work of Moorish slaves in Setúnal (Portugal) in the 16th century and how that work is reproduced after freedom.
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keywords = {early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery
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title = {From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century},
author = {Preben Kaarsholm},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Atlantic Studies},
volume = {17},
issue = {3},
pages = {348-374},
abstract = {The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
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keywords = {19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro; Carvalhal, Hélder
Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women’s work and labour relations in mid-eighteenth century Portugal Journal Article
In: Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, vol. 38, iss. 1, pp. 45–77, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, economic development, gender, portugal
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title = {Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women’s work and labour relations in mid-eighteenth century Portugal},
author = {Filipa Ribeiro da Silva and Hélder Carvalhal},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History},
volume = {38},
issue = {1},
pages = {45–77},
abstract = {Challenging current ideas in mainstream scholarship on differences between female labour force participation in southern and north-western Europe and their impact on economic development, this article shows that in Portugal, neither marriage nor widowhood prevented women from participating in the labour market of mid-eighteenth-century. Our research demonstrates that marriage provided women with the resources they needed to work in various capacities in all economic sectors.
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keywords = {early modern history, economic development, gender, portugal},
pubstate = {published},
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Seppel, Marten
The Semiotics of Serfdom: How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561–1806 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 45, iss. 1, pp. 48-70, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, scandinavia, serfdom, sweden
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title = {The Semiotics of Serfdom: How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561–1806},
author = {Marten Seppel},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {45},
issue = {1},
pages = {48-70},
abstract = {While serfdom did not exist in Sweden and Finland, it was accepted in the Baltic and German provinces. The main aim of the paper is to explore how the institution of serfdom was understood and interpreted in Stockholm. It will argue that there were clichés, stereotypes, and prejudices that have shaped the discourse on serfdom.
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keywords = {early modern history, scandinavia, serfdom, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Weber, Klaus; Voss, Karsten
Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715) Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 204-237, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715)},
author = {Klaus Weber and Karsten Voss},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {5},
issue = {2},
pages = {204-237},
abstract = {From 1698, colonial officers and investors from France forged a conglomerate of companies for transforming Saint-Domingue into a sugar colony, thus augmenting incomes of tax farmers and of the crown. Capital was also captured from enemy colonies and generated through trade with Spanish possessions. The most important capital were slaves, both as laborers and mortgageable property—crucial during the War of Spanish Succession, which brought price volatility and speculation in land and sugar. In order to secure the colony’s development, authorities restricted rights of owners over their slaves, preventing their sale or abuse. Only around 1715 was such protection of slaves suppressed.
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keywords = {caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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Rydén, Göran; Evans, Chris
Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Weiss, Holger (Ed.): Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, pp. 117-146, 2020.
Tags: atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery
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title = {Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century},
author = {Göran Rydén and Chris Evans},
editor = {Holger Weiss},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century},
pages = {117-146},
keywords = {atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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2019
Brgles, Branimir
Ljudi, prostor i mijene. Susedgradsko i donjostubičko vlastelinstvo 1450.–1700. Prilog istraživanju ranonovovjekovnih ruralnih društava [People, space and time. Susedgrad and Donja Stubica manorial estate 1450-1700. Contribution to the research of early modern rural societies]. Book
2019.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, medieval history
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title = {Ljudi, prostor i mijene. Susedgradsko i donjostubičko vlastelinstvo 1450.–1700. Prilog istraživanju ranonovovjekovnih ruralnih društava [People, space and time. Susedgrad and Donja Stubica manorial estate 1450-1700. Contribution to the research of early modern rural societies].},
author = {Branimir Brgles},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, medieval history},
pubstate = {published},
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Caracausi, Andrea
Fashion, Capitalism and Ribbon-Making in Early Modern Europe Book Chapter
In: Safley, Thomas Max (Ed.): Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism, pp. 48-69, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, early modern history, europe, textile industry
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title = {Fashion, Capitalism and Ribbon-Making in Early Modern Europe},
author = {Andrea Caracausi},
editor = {Thomas Max Safley},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism},
pages = {48-69},
abstract = {This book-chapter shows the nexus between consumer-surplus and worker-surplus in the early-modern garment industry, the growing exploitation of female and child labour in low-skilled and export-oriented manufacturing and how labour and labour regimes were strongly embedded in social structures and power relations within respective communities.
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keywords = {capitalism, early modern history, europe, textile industry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Heinsen, Johan
Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672-1687 Book Chapter
In: Rediker, Marcus; Chakrabort, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, pp. 40.57, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, convict labour, denmark, early modern history, forced labour, punishment, runaways, scandinavia
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672-1687},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
editor = {Marcus Rediker and Titas Chakrabort and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism},
pages = {40.57},
abstract = {An examination of the ways in which convicts in the Danish colony of St. Thomas challenged colonial order and exploitation through practices of escape. Through a close study of a particular group of convict runaways, the article unearths the minutiae of antagonisms in a system of coerced displacement and punishment.
},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Mocarelli, Luca; Ongaro, Giulio
Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, italy, mediterranean
@book{nokey,
title = {Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800},
author = {Luca Mocarelli and Giulio Ongaro},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
abstract = {The book considers the whole Italian peninsula as one geographical unit of analysis, encompassing all of the features that characterize labour cultures during the early modern period. It details the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacture and the role of labour as an economic, social and cultural factor in the evolution of the Italian area.
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Ongaro, Giulio
Il lavoro militare nella prima età moderna (xvi-xvii sec.): soldati, guastatori e galeotti tra subordinazione e agency Journal Article
In: MEFRIM: Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines, vol. 131, iss. 1, pp. 15-27, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, military
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title = {Il lavoro militare nella prima età moderna (xvi-xvii sec.): soldati, guastatori e galeotti tra subordinazione e agency},
author = {Giulio Ongaro },
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
issuetitle = {L’empreinte domestique du travail},
journal = {MEFRIM: Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines},
volume = {131},
issue = {1},
pages = {15-27},
abstract = {The article aims at demonstrating that “domesticity” remained a fundamental element in the enrollment of men and, broadly, in the functioning of the military structure in spite of a supposed process of “nationalisation” of the armied between the early modern and the contemporary period. In this context, it also focuses on the agency of the soldiers, analysing different practices that affected the military structure and, broadly, the social context in which soldiers were placed.
},
keywords = {early modern history, military},
pubstate = {published},
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Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin
From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th-17th Centuries) Journal Article
In: Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, vol. 17, iss. 2-3, pp. 257-280, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery
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title = {From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th-17th Centuries)},
author = {Hayri Gökşin Özkoray},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World},
volume = {17},
issue = {2-3},
pages = { 257-280},
abstract = {This article deals with offences and crimes against female slaves, and those committed by female slaves, in Ottoman Istanbul (sixteenth-seventeeth centuries). Its main sources are imperial legislation and court records of the imperial capital, Istanbul, and its suburbs. Judicial archives remain the chief sources of early modern Ottoman historiography on gender. This contribution tackles slavery’s specificities regarding women, without ignoring the parallels with their male counterparts in the Ottoman Empire. By considering women as both objects and agents of legal violations and acts of violence, I simultaneously deal with the rights of slaveholders and slaves. Violations of these rights varied depending on the identity and juridical status of their authors, and were handled accordingly by the justice system. Thus, I consider violations committed by owners against their slaves, by slaves against their owners, and by third parties against the slaves of others. The rights and mutual obligations of masters and slaves were strictly defined in Ottoman law, although the judicial authorities upheld the preservation of private property above all. They dedicated themselves to fighting against the slightest doubt over masters’ quasi-absolute authority over their human possessions, whose unconditional obedience was required. Female slaves, in order to affirm their rights, had to provide irrefutable written proof or trustworthy verbal testimonies at the kadi courts.
},
keywords = {early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Sarti, Raffaella
Can Historians Speak? A Few Thoughts and Proposals on a Possible Global History of Domestic Service/Work Book Chapter
In: Sinha, Nitin; Varma, Nitin (Ed.): Servants Pasts. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. South Asia, vol. 1., 2019.
Abstract | Tags: domestic service, early modern history, gender, historical semantics, household
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title = {Can Historians Speak? A Few Thoughts and Proposals on a Possible Global History of Domestic Service/Work},
author = {Raffaella Sarti},
editor = {Nitin Sinha and Nitin Varma},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Servants Pasts. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. South Asia, vol. 1.},
abstract = {The title of this contribution echoes the influential and controversial article by Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak “Can the Subaltern Speak?” – an inspiring question. However, I will not discuss her argument. Rather, it will highlight a common problem that historians have to face, namely the vocabulary they use. Such a problem seems particularly important in the study of domestic service/work, and even more so if they want to develop a comparative perspective and/or contribute to a possible global history of domestic service/work. The chapter examines the problem and suggests some possible strategies to overcome it and move toward a global history of domestic service/work.
},
keywords = {domestic service, early modern history, gender, historical semantics, household},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Ulrich, Nicole
“Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 Book Chapter
In: Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility and Capitalism, 1600-1850, pp. 115-134, 2019.
Tags: africa, early modern history, runaways, South Africa
@inbook{nokey,
title = {“Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795},
author = {Nicole Ulrich},
editor = {Marcus Rediker and Titas Chakraborty and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility and Capitalism, 1600-1850},
pages = {115-134},
keywords = {africa, early modern history, runaways, South Africa},
pubstate = {published},
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Viitaniemi, Ella
Muurarimestari Kustaa Stenman ja katumaton maailma. Pietismi, kirjoittaminen ja kokemuksen siirtäminen länsisuomalaisella maaseudulla 1700-jälkipuoliskolla [Master mason Kustaa Stenman and the unrepentant world. Piestism, Literacy and the Transition of Experience in the Western Finland] Book Chapter
In: Annola, Johanna; Kivimäki, Ville; Malinen, Antti (Ed.): pp. 75–112, 2019.
Tags: early modern history, finland, religion
@inbook{nokey,
title = { Muurarimestari Kustaa Stenman ja katumaton maailma. Pietismi, kirjoittaminen ja kokemuksen siirtäminen länsisuomalaisella maaseudulla 1700-jälkipuoliskolla [Master mason Kustaa Stenman and the unrepentant world. Piestism, Literacy and the Transition of Experience in the Western Finland]},
author = {Ella Viitaniemi},
editor = {Johanna Annola and Ville Kivimäki and Antti Malinen},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
pages = {75–112},
keywords = {early modern history, finland, religion},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Hotson, Howard; Wallnig, Thomas (Ed.)
Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship Bachelor Thesis
2019.
Abstract | Tags: digital humanities, early modern history, historical semantics
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title = {Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship},
editor = {Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
abstract = {The book documents the efforts of COST Action IS1310 (2014-18) in bringing together a community of digital scholars interested in early modern correspondence and intellectual culture at large. It outlines the dimensions of the digital approach – from tech to discourse -, and it celebrates the benefits of collaborative work encouraged by the COST program.
},
keywords = {digital humanities, early modern history, historical semantics},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {bachelorthesis}
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Zammit, William
The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530-1798 Book Chapter
In: Morton, Nicholas (Ed.): The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property, pp. 160-171, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, early modern history, malta, muslims, religion
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title = {The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530-1798},
author = {William Zammit},
editor = {Nicholas Morton},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property},
pages = {160-171},
abstract = {A study upon the motivations and mechanisms of Muslim conversion to Catholicism in Hospitaller Malta. Both Muslim slaves but also free Muslims periodically opted for conversion in Malta. The paper provides statistical data of such conversions from untapped primary sources.
},
keywords = {christianity, early modern history, malta, muslims, religion},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.)
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850 Collection
2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, capitalism, early modern history, global labour history, migration and mobility, runaways
@collection{nokey,
title = {A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850},
editor = {Marcus Rediker and Titas Chakraborty and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
abstract = {During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. "A Global History of Runaways" compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
},
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2018
Brgles, Branimir
Tko se buni pod Susedgradom i Stubicom? Prilog proučavanju društvenih nemira 1565.–1573. [Who is rebelling at Susedgrad and Stubica? Contribution to the research of the 1565–1573 peasant revolts] Journal Article
In: Povijesni priloz, vol. 55, pp. 139-204, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, croatia, early modern history, revolt and revolution
@article{nokey,
title = {Tko se buni pod Susedgradom i Stubicom? Prilog proučavanju društvenih nemira 1565.–1573. [Who is rebelling at Susedgrad and Stubica? Contribution to the research of the 1565–1573 peasant revolts]},
author = {Branimir Brgles},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Povijesni priloz},
volume = {55},
pages = {139-204},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, croatia, early modern history, revolt and revolution},
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Brgles, Branimir
Second Serfdom in Croatia and Slavonia 1500-1700 Workshop
EAST. The Eastern European Economic History Initiative. The Origins and Legacies of the Little Divergence in Central and Eastern Europe. Weast Worskhop., Vienna, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, croatia, early modern history, serfdom
@workshop{nokey,
title = {Second Serfdom in Croatia and Slavonia 1500-1700},
author = {Branimir Brgles},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {EAST. The Eastern European Economic History Initiative. The Origins and Legacies of the Little Divergence in Central and Eastern Europe. Weast Worskhop.},
address = {Vienna},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, croatia, early modern history, serfdom},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workshop}
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Caracausi, Andrea
Woollen Manufacturing in the Early Modern Mediterranean (1550–1630): Changing Labour Relations in a Commodity Chain Book Chapter
In: Vito, Christian De; Geritsen, Anne (Ed.): Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, pp. 147-169, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: commodity chains, early modern history, mediterranean, micro-spatial history, textile industry
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title = {Woollen Manufacturing in the Early Modern Mediterranean (1550–1630): Changing Labour Relations in a Commodity Chain},
author = {Andrea Caracausi },
editor = {Christian De Vito and Anne Geritsen},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour},
pages = {147-169},
abstract = {This book chapter is a first attempt to combine a micro-historical analysis centred on a consumer product manufacture (woollen cloth) with the heuristic tool of the commodity chain approach. It shows how categories as space and labour relations, as well as time-framing and historical periodization, can be identified better as a result of the singularity of the place under investigation.
},
keywords = {commodity chains, early modern history, mediterranean, micro-spatial history, textile industry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Heinsen, Johan
The Scandinavian Empires in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Book Chapter
In: C, lare Anderson (Ed.): A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies, pp. 97-122, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, punishment, scandinavia
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Scandinavian Empires in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
editor = {C,lare Anderson},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies},
pages = {97-122},
abstract = {This article provides an overview of the uses of convicts as labourers in the Scandinavian overseas empires of the early modern period.
},
keywords = {convict labour, early modern history, punishment, scandinavia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Lambrecht, Thijs
Harvest Work and Labor Market Regulation in Old Regime Northern France Journal Article
In: pp. 113-131, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, france, labour markets
@article{nokey,
title = {Harvest Work and Labor Market Regulation in Old Regime Northern France},
author = {Thijs Lambrecht},
editor = {Thomas Max Safley },
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism},
pages = {113-131},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, france, labour markets},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Lambrecht, Thijs; Winter, Anne
An Old Poor Law on the Continent? Agrarian Capitalism, Poor Taxes, and Village Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Flanders Journal Article
In: Economic History Review, vol. 71, iss. 4, pp. 1173-1198, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, flanders
@article{nokey,
title = {An Old Poor Law on the Continent? Agrarian Capitalism, Poor Taxes, and Village Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Flanders},
author = {Thijs Lambrecht and Anne Winter},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Economic History Review},
volume = {71},
issue = {4},
pages = {1173-1198},
abstract = {Poor relief provisions in early modern Europe are often considered to have been characterized by a divide between a uniform, compulsory, tax‐based, and relatively secure and generous poor law ‘system’ in England, and the more haphazard, voluntary, relatively parsimonious, insecure, and predominantly urban relief practices on the Continent. In this article we challenge these assumptions by arguing that the spread of agrarian capitalism in coastal Flanders fostered a reorganization of poor relief that displayed many features considered unique to the English old poor law, including the levying of poor taxes. By exploring the introduction, diffusion, and effects of poor taxes in the rural district of Furnes in the second half of the eighteenth century, we demonstrate that poor taxes were not unique to England, and sharpen our comparative understanding of the causes, implications, and conflicts associated with this particular way of raising revenue for the poor. This supports our more general contention that the influence of the normative framework should not be overstated: more than differences in legislation, similarities in socio‐economic development can explain variations in relief practices in preindustrial Europe.
},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, flanders},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Østhus, Hanne
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbeiderhistorie, vol. 22, pp. 33-47, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, denmark, domestic service, early modern history, norway, service, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = { Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet},
author = {Hanne Østhus},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = { Arbeiderhistorie},
volume = {22},
pages = {33-47},
abstract = {The article examines the situation of slaves and former slaves who were brought, presumably by force, from Africa, Asia and America to the European part of Denmark-Norway during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to work as domestic servants in households. Based on source material from servant reward societies, censuses, newspapers and court cases, it is argued that state and society utilised a number of strategies to classify and categorise slaves and former slaves.
},
keywords = {19th century, denmark, domestic service, early modern history, norway, service, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Uppenberg, Carolina
I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860] PhD Thesis
2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, labour markets, service, sweden
@phdthesis{nokey,
title = {I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860]},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
institution = {University of Gothenburg},
abstract = {In my doctoral thesis I studied the institution of rural servants from a labour market and a gender perspective. Pre-industrial servants were subject to compulsory service, but at the same time part of a labour market where they could choose their employer freely. I the thesis I examined the laws shaping the institution, the handling of the laws in court, and the discourse of free and unfree labour relations surrounding servants and masters.},
keywords = {19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, labour markets, service, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {phdthesis}
}
Viitaniemi, Ella
Hyödyn aikakauden talouspolitiikka, vuokraviljely ja tilattomuuden kasvu [Utilitarian economic policy, tenant farming and growth of landless people] Book Chapter
In: Miettinen, Riikka; Viitaniemi, Ella (Ed.): Reunamailla. Tilattomat Länsi-Suomen maaseudulla 1600–1800 [On the Fringes. The Landless in Rural Western Finland 1600–1800], pp. 380–417, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, economic development, finland
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Hyödyn aikakauden talouspolitiikka, vuokraviljely ja tilattomuuden kasvu [Utilitarian economic policy, tenant farming and growth of landless people]},
author = {Ella Viitaniemi },
editor = {Riikka Miettinen and Ella Viitaniemi},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = { Reunamailla. Tilattomat Länsi-Suomen maaseudulla 1600–1800 [On the Fringes. The Landless in Rural Western Finland 1600–1800]},
pages = {380–417},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, economic development, finland},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Viitaniemi, Ella
Urban seasonal workers and rural church constructions in eighteenth-century Finland Book Chapter
In: Ojala-Fulwood, Maija (Ed.): Migration and Multi-ethnic Communities. Mobile People from the Late Middle-Ages to the Present, pp. 147–168, 2018.
Tags: early modern history, finland, wage labour
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Urban seasonal workers and rural church constructions in eighteenth-century Finland},
author = {Ella Viitaniemi},
editor = {Maija Ojala-Fulwood},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Migration and Multi-ethnic Communities. Mobile People from the Late Middle-Ages to the Present},
pages = {147–168},
keywords = {early modern history, finland, wage labour},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Evans, Chris; Rydén, Göran
‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact Journal Article
In: Past & Present, vol. 239, iss. 1, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, atlanic, commodity chains, early modern history, slavery, sweden
@article{nokey,
title = {‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact},
author = {Chris Evans and Göran Rydén},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Past & Present},
volume = {239},
issue = {1},
abstract = {An array of goods was traded to Africa in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Many were eye-catching consumer goods; others were far more mundane, including ‘voyage iron’, a metal forged in northern Europe, bars of which acted as a currency along the West African coast. This article examines the geography of voyage iron production, showing that it originated in places – primarily Sweden – that are not often thought of as being connected to Atlantic commerce. It then considers the impact that European iron had on West Africa, where iron smelting was very well-established locally. The vibrancy of African metallurgy has led some distinguished Africanists to dismiss voyage iron as marginal to African needs. By contrast, it is contended here that European iron underpinned an agro-environmental transformation of the coastal forests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played a major role in the spread of New World crops in West Africa. Voyage iron was a superficially unremarkable producer good but it contributed to a profound reshaping of the economic geography of West Africa.
},
keywords = {19th century, africa, atlanic, commodity chains, early modern history, slavery, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2017
Caracausi, Andrea
A Reassessment of the Role of Guild Courts in Disputes over Apprenticeship Contracts: A Case Study from Early Modern Italy Journal Article
In: Continuity and Change, vol. 32, iss. 1, pp. 85-114, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: apprenticeship, early modern history, italy, quantitative research, work contracts
@article{nokey,
title = {A Reassessment of the Role of Guild Courts in Disputes over Apprenticeship Contracts: A Case Study from Early Modern Italy},
author = {Andrea Caracausi},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-09-01},
journal = {Continuity and Change},
volume = {32},
issue = {1},
pages = {85-114},
abstract = {This article analyses the mechanisms of conflict resolution in apprenticeship contracts using a large database of disputes from early modern Italy. It investigates topics like recruitment, enforcement, violence, coercion, exit, and power relations within manufactures.
},
keywords = {apprenticeship, early modern history, italy, quantitative research, work contracts},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Lambrecht, Thijs
The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in Rural Europe: 1400-1900, pp. 37-55, 2017.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, flanders, service
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective},
author = {Thijs Lambrecht},
editor = {Jane Whittle},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Servants in Rural Europe: 1400-1900},
pages = {37-55},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, flanders, service},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Østhus, Hanne
Servants in Rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800 Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in Rural Europe, ca. 1400-1900, pp. 113-130, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, norway, service
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Servants in Rural Norway, ca. 1650-1800},
author = {Hanne Østhus },
editor = {Jane Whittle},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Servants in Rural Europe, ca. 1400-1900},
pages = {113-130},
abstract = {The chapter investigates the servant institution in pre-industrial rural Norway, particularly underscoring the many local and regional differences, also when it comes to the number of male or female servants. These differences, it is argued, demonstrate the flexibility of the servant institution, which adapted to a range of farm sizes, economic differences, and changing times.
},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, norway, service},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Østhus, Hanne
Tvunget til tjeneste? Tjenesteplikten i Danmark-Norge på 1700-tallet og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbetarhistoria, iss. 3-4, pp. 26-31, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: denmark, early modern history, household, norway, service
@article{nokey,
title = {Tvunget til tjeneste? Tjenesteplikten i Danmark-Norge på 1700-tallet og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet},
author = {Hanne Østhus},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Arbetarhistoria},
issue = {3-4},
pages = {26-31},
abstract = {In the article, I look at the legal obligation to work as household servants in Denmark-Norway during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Large parts of the population were subject to this legislation, but the enforcement of the law varied considerably.
},
keywords = {denmark, early modern history, household, norway, service},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin
L’esclavage dans l’Empire ottoman (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Fondements juridiques, structures socio-économiques, représentations Book
2017.
Tags: early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery
@book{nokey,
title = {L’esclavage dans l’Empire ottoman (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Fondements juridiques, structures socio-économiques, représentations},
author = {Hayri Gökşin Özkoray},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
keywords = {early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
Seppel, Marten
Cameralist population policy and the problem of serfdom, 1680-1720 Book Chapter
In: Seppel, Marten; Tribe, Keith (Ed.): Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe, pp. 91-110, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, early modern history, economic and social policy, serfdom
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Cameralist population policy and the problem of serfdom, 1680-1720},
author = {Marten Seppel},
editor = {Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe},
pages = {91-110},
abstract = {The chapter argues that the demands to abolish serfdom in Central and Eastern Europe did not come up on the agenda only in the second half of the 18th century when the principles of enlightenment, liberalism and rationalism brought a new understanding of social order. The institution of serfdom became a problem for the absolutist states as early as the 1680s.
},
keywords = {central and eastern europe, early modern history, economic and social policy, serfdom},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Uppenberg, Carolina
The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900, pp. 167–182, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, service, sweden, work contracts
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
editor = {Jane Whittle},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900},
pages = {167–182},
abstract = {This article develops the gendered aspects of the various dimensions of the servant institution. It is shown that male and female servants had different levels of freedom in their labour contracts, and this is related to the later development of a feminized servant position.
},
keywords = {19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, service, sweden, work contracts},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Sjálfstætt fólk: Vistarband og íslenskt samfélag á 19. öld Book
2017.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, iceland, scand, service, wage labour
@book{nokey,
title = {Sjálfstætt fólk: Vistarband og íslenskt samfélag á 19. öld},
author = {Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
abstract = {This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis. It is a study of the dominant labour regime of compulsory service in nineteenth century Iceland, focusing particularly on non-compliance with coercive labour legislation and acts of everyday resistance by servants and illegal day labourers, using regional court archives and arbitration court proceedings to analyse everyday practices. It also discusses in detail the cultural role of life-cycle service and the master-servant relationship as well as dominant ideas of household discipline and social order in early modern Iceland.
},
keywords = {early modern history, iceland, scand, service, wage labour},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Ett normalt undantag? Tillfälligt arbete i lag och praktik i 1800-talets Island Journal Article
In: Arbetarhistoria , vol. 41, iss. 3-4, pp. 32-40, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, iceland, scandinavia, wage labour
@article{nokey,
title = {Ett normalt undantag? Tillfälligt arbete i lag och praktik i 1800-talets Island},
author = {Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Arbetarhistoria },
volume = {41},
issue = {3-4},
pages = {32-40},
abstract = {This article discusses the ambiguous status and role of casual day labourers in nineteenth century Iceland and argues that masterless casual day labour was a “normal exception” in many localities, accepted as an economic necessity and cultural norm despite being illegal and frowned upon in public discourse. The article highlights the important distinction between normative prescription and everyday practice.},
keywords = {early modern history, iceland, scandinavia, wage labour},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Lindström, Jonas; Fiebranz, Rosemarie; Rydén, Göran
The Diversity of Work: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society Book Chapter
In: Ågren, Maria (Ed.): Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society, pp. 24-56, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, europe, gender, historical semantics
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Diversity of Work: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society},
author = {Jonas Lindström and Rosemarie Fiebranz and Göran Rydén
},
editor = {Maria Ågren },
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society},
pages = {24-56},
abstract = {This chapter has three purposes. First, it provides a backdrop for the chapters to come by giving a concise account of Sweden approximately 1550 to 1800. Here, the main messages are diversity, regional and otherwise, and change over time. Second, the chapter focuses on the paradox that, while everybody in early modern society worked, it is surprisingly difficult to establish exactly what they did. Combining quantitative and qualitative evidence, the chapter endeavors to solve this problem. Third, it claims that multiple employment—that people performed many types of work at the same time—was widespread, that much work was unpaid, and that contrary to previous assumptions, both women’s and men’s work was intermittent, casual, and nonspecific. Apart from military tasks, women and men appeared in all categories of work.
},
keywords = {early modern history, europe, gender, historical semantics},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
2016
Lindberg, Erik; Jacobsson, Benny; Ling, Sofia
The “Dark Side” of the Ubiquity of Work: Vulnerability and Destitution among the Elderly Book Chapter
In: Maria Ågren, (Ed.): Making a Living, Making a Difference. Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society,, pp. 159-176, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: care, early modern history, gender, service, sweden
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The “Dark Side” of the Ubiquity of Work: Vulnerability and Destitution among the Elderly},
author = {Erik Lindberg and Benny Jacobsson and Sofia Ling },
editor = {Maria Ågren,},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Making a Living, Making a Difference. Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society,},
pages = {159-176},
abstract = {This article explores the possibilities for old people to contract for care. The findings in the article suggest that family and wider kin could offer a safety net, but only when there was something to share. It further suggests that people were only obliged to take care of their close relatives when there was a written contract specifying who was to provide care and on what terms. Poverty, ability to work, and age constrained the options for groups vulnerable to economic stress. Those with property or movables were in a much better bargaining position than those without, but even the smallest amount of wealth was used to contract for care. The situation for the landless poor, whether old or young, was difficult. The compulsory service statutes restricted their time-use and forced them to work under one-year contracts, with a ceiling on their wages. Although the implementation of these statutes probably varied between regions and from one period to another, they reduced the agency of the poor and their ability to manage their resources according to their own preferences.
},
keywords = {care, early modern history, gender, service, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin (Ed.)
Ma’cûncızâde Mustafa Efendi: Le Captif de Malte. Récit autobiographique d’un cadi ottoman Book
2016.
Tags: early modern history, ottoman empire
@book{nokey,
title = {Ma’cûncızâde Mustafa Efendi: Le Captif de Malte. Récit autobiographique d’un cadi ottoman},
editor = {Hayri Gökşin Özkoray},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
keywords = {early modern history, ottoman empire},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
van Rossum, Matthias; Kamp, Jeannette (Ed.)
Desertion in the Early Modern World: A Comparative History Collection
2016.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, globalisation, runaways, slavery, social control
@collection{nokey,
title = {Desertion in the Early Modern World: A Comparative History},
editor = {Matthias van Rossum and Jeannette Kamp},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
abstract = {Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial to globalization but were also confronted with the process of globalization themselves. They were often migrants who worked, directly or indirectly, for trading companies, merchants and producers that tried to discipline and control their labour force.
},
keywords = {early modern history, globalisation, runaways, slavery, social control},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
}
Weber, Klaus; Steffen, Anka
Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia Book Chapter
In: Brahm, Felix; Rosenhaft, Eve (Ed.): Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850, pp. 87-107, 2016.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, proto-industry, slavery, textile industry
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia},
author = {Klaus Weber and Anka Steffen},
editor = {Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft },
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850},
pages = {87-107},
keywords = {atlanic, early modern history, germany, proto-industry, slavery, textile industry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Zammit, William
Kissing the Gallows: A Cultural History of Crime, Torture and Punishment in Malta Book
2016.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, malta, punishment
@book{nokey,
title = {Kissing the Gallows: A Cultural History of Crime, Torture and Punishment in Malta},
author = {William Zammit},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
abstract = {The first-ever in-depth academic study of crime and retribution in Malta during the early modern period discusses the primary sources available on the subject, the nature of crime, the judicial system and the ritual of public punishment in the context of current European practices. The book also records hundreds of crime cases of various types and that were reported to Rome by the Inquisitors of Malta, this given their spectacular nature. The publication was the result of ten years research in the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano and a variety of other archives in Malta and abroad.
},
keywords = {early modern history, malta, punishment},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
2015
Spicksley, Judith
Contested enslavement: the Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800 Journal Article
In: Itinerario , vol. 39, iss. 2, pp. 247-275, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: africa, angola, atlanic, debt, early modern history, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Contested enslavement: the Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800},
author = {Judith Spicksley},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-02},
urldate = {2015-01-02},
journal = {Itinerario },
volume = {39},
issue = {2},
pages = {247-275},
abstract = {This article explores the contested legitimacy of enslavement for debt in the context of the transatlantic slave trade.
},
keywords = {africa, angola, atlanic, debt, early modern history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2014
Guzowski, Piotr
The Role of Enforced Labour in the Economic Development of Church and Royal Estates in 15th and 16th-century Poland Book Chapter
In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta (Ed.): Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th-18th centuries, pp. 216-234, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, economic development, medieval history, poland, serfdom
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Role of Enforced Labour in the Economic Development of Church and Royal Estates in 15th and 16th-century Poland},
author = {Piotr Guzowski},
editor = {Simonetta Cavaciocchi},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th-18th centuries},
pages = {216-234},
abstract = {The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of unfree labour, its origins and spreading, as an important element of Polish manorial economy, both at the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period, that is prior to and after large scale exportation of Polish grain via Baltic ports began.},
keywords = {early modern history, economic development, medieval history, poland, serfdom},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Schiel, Juliane; Hanß, Stefan (Ed.)
Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800). Neue Perspektiven auf mediterrane Sklaverei (500–1800) Collection
2014.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, mediterranean, slavery
@collection{nokey,
title = {Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800). Neue Perspektiven auf mediterrane Sklaverei (500–1800)},
editor = {Juliane Schiel and Stefan Hanß},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
abstract = {This volume consists of 22 contributions own English, French, German or Italian language addressing the history of Mediterranean slavery from the medieval to the early modern period. The first section contains papers on the semantics, representations and depictions of slavery; the second section focuses on practices of slaving while the third section brings together papers with a transcultural or interdisciplinary approach.},
keywords = {early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, mediterranean, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
}
2013
Guzowski, Piotr
The Peasant Land Market in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Book Chapter
In: Béaur, Gerard (Ed.): Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th–20th Centuries), pp. 219–237, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, medieval history, poland, property relations
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Peasant Land Market in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries},
author = {Piotr Guzowski},
editor = {Gerard Béaur et al.},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
urldate = {2013-01-01},
booktitle = {Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th–20th Centuries)},
pages = {219–237},
abstract = {The aim of this paper is to answer the question whether there was peasant land market in Poland in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period, how well developed it was, and what was its role in the peasant economy. The paper looks for evidence in the oldest Polish village court rolls.
},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, medieval history, poland, property relations},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Spicksley, Judith
Pawns on the Gold Coast: the rise of Asante and shifts in security for debt, 1680-1750 Journal Article
In: Journal of African History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 147-175, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: africa, debt, early modern history, gold coast
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {Journal of African History},
volume = {54},
issue = {2},
pages = {147-175},
abstract = {This article examines the shifting demand for gold among the Asante and the rise in the use of human pawns on the Gold Coast.},
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Acting As Master and Bondservant: Considerations on Status, Identities and the Nature of “Bond-Servitude” in Late Ming China Book Chapter
In: Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.): 2013.
Tags: bonded labour, china, early modern history, service
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
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series = {Studies in Global Social History},
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2011
Guzowski, Piotr
The influence of exports on grain production on Polish royal demesne farms in the second half of the sixteenth century Journal Article
In: Agricultural History Review, vol. 59, pp. 312-327, 2011.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, economic development, poland
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title = {The influence of exports on grain production on Polish royal demesne farms in the second half of the sixteenth century},
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year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
urldate = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Agricultural History Review},
volume = {59},
pages = {312-327},
abstract = {The paper explores a survey of royal lands produced in 1564 and 1565. This contains data from over 500 royal demesnes situated throughout the Kingdom of Poland, and provides detailed information about types of cereals grown, their yields and prices, animal husbandry, the system of land division, weights and measures, and the system of agricultural management.
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Seppel, Marten
Landlords’ Medical Care for their Serfs in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire Journal Article
In: Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 89, iss. 2, pp. 201-223, 2011.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, baltic states, early modern history, russia, serfdom
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title = {Landlords’ Medical Care for their Serfs in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire},
author = {Marten Seppel},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Slavonic and East European Review},
volume = {89},
issue = {2},
pages = {201-223},
abstract = {The article looks at the opportunities of serfs to get medical care in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire. It argues that although at the beginning of the nineteenth century the manors still played the main role as providers and mediators of medical aid to the peasantry, pressure to improve serfs’ health standards had started to come from the state and the authors of popular enlightenment from the 1760s.
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2008
Weber, Klaus; Meissner, Jochen; Mücke, Ulrich
Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei [Black America. A History of Slavery] Book
2008.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, latin america, slavery, united states
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date = {2008-01-01},
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