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Origins of capitalism I
No full textThis chapter explores the medieval world trade system focusing on pepper and the Eastern Mediterranean and showing how some of the primary sources and methods outlined in the previous sections can be applied to a specific research problem. It suggests this means that scholars have to step out of their narrower professional speciality, e.g. in certain types of text, and consider a wider array of sources and methods in an interdisciplinary manner. The chapter provides a brief summary of the pepper trade following in the wake of pepper travelling from the Indian Malabar coast to England, on the way discussing the various sources informing us about it. Pepper exists in many varieties, and it is important for the economic historian to know what they are actually dealing with. The chapter discusses problems of interpreting these sources between qualitative and quantitative approaches
How to Read Economic History Sources Qualitatively:Source Analysis
No full textThis chapter provides a short overview of qualitative analytical methods. Starting with a short overview of the development of historical source criticism, it discusses the art of identifying and selecting sources (hermeneutics), formal-diplomatic analysis, traditional historical source analysis (‘source criticism’) based on the so-called W-questions and then discusses alternative, post-structural approaches and the appraisal and interpretation of sources. It proposes a pragmatic and selective approach and that it is good practice to apply qualitative source analysis judiciously also to (samples of) serial data in order to enhance quantitative analysis
History and Economic Life:Transcultural Trade or Pepper Travelling from India to England
No full textChrist On the Cross
No full textMedium: engravingsigned and dated."Christ On the Cross" [1959.3564.000.000], Pencz, GeorgArtist and Role: Pencz, Georg,Extent: image (sheet trimmed to image
Diasporas and Diasporic Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean:An Analytical Framework
No full textDiasporas and Diasporic Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean:An Analytical Framework
No full textDiasporas and Diasporic Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean:An Analytical Framework
No full textIntroduction:Why and How Do We Read Economic History Sources?
No full textThis chapter provides an overview of types of sources and methods, encouraging the reader to adopt a combined approach, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. While cultural historians increasingly abstained from using quantitative sources, economists tended to shun qualitative in-depth source analysis. A wide gap thus separates economics and history as emphasised in what remains a magisterial introduction to economic history: Tra due culture by Carlo Cipolla. The spheres of the economic and the cultural cannot be meaningfully separated: Everything cultural or human is manifestly economic whilst every economic fact, structure and stricture invariably has cultural traits. The economy is embedded within a wider context – ‘culture’ – which in return is conditioned and structured by economic conditions. New Institutional Economics, for instance, do acknowledge the importance of belief systems, rules of law and systems of regulation in the performance of markets and economies over time. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book
Everything is on the move : the Mamluk Empire as a node in (trans-)regional networks : with 19 figures / Stephan Conermann (ed.)
No full text"Authors: Thomas Bauer, Georg Christ, Stephan Conermann [und 11 weitere]" (Seite [349]-353)Literaturangaben"Publications of Bonn Univbersity Press are published by V&R unipress GmbH." (Seite [4])Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte
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