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History and Economic Life:Transcultural Trade or Pepper Travelling from India to England
No full textOrigins 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
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::Military Diasporas and Diasporic Groups as Engines of Empire: An Introductory Research Agenda
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The Cold Winter Campaign of 1511:Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Swiss Military During the Transalpine Campaigns
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