Lecture 9 The Political and Economic History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties in Light of Dunhuang Studies

2013 ◽  
pp. 267-287
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Five Dynasties ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dunhuang Studies

Developing an Economy of Sex

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Manley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This chapter connects the social and economic history of tourism in the Dominican Republic and Haiti with its impact on masculinity, gender identity, and heterosexual performance. Elizabeth Manley's analysis builds on recent research in anthropology that views sex work as contributing substantially to conflicts of gender relations and changing gender norms. Manley analyzes how these relate to the political economy and development.

Prices in Mecca During the Mamluk Period

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Mortel
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Terra Incognita ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mamluk Period ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Source Materials

AbstractThe political, social and economic history of western Arabia during the medieval period still remains terra incognita for the great majority of Islamicists, in spite of the intrinsic importance of the subject and the existence of a corpus of first-rate source materials. The goal of this article is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the economic history of Mecca through a detailed study of the available information regarding the prices of cereal grains and other foodstuffs there during the Mamluk period. So that the maximum advantage may be derived from the discussion, it will be preceeded by a short outline of the political history of Mecca during Mamluk times, as well as the salient features of its economy.

The Economic Impact Of Imperial Germany

1943 ◽  
Vol 3 (S1) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Hans Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Subsequent Formation ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
Initial Effect ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rapid Industrialization

German political empire building had a decisive and powerful influence not only on the making, but also on the writing of economic history. The initial effect upon the history of economic history was negative rather than positive. The so-called “political historians” of the midnineteenth century were inspired by the contemporary struggle for the enhancement of the nation's political power and for constitutional liberty. The subsequent formation of Imperial Germany by “blood and iron,” instead of broadening the historical perspective and social vision of Droysen, Duncker, Häusser, Sybel, Treitschke, and the more docile among their followers, merely knocked out their liberalism and intensified and militarized their nationalism. In the new Reich they felt irritated and annoyed rather than roused and shaken by the grave economic conflicts and social disharmonies which grew out of the rapid industrialization of the German national economy and the narrow social class structure of the Imperial government and its Junker personnel. The hypnotic spell emanating from Bismarck's leadership accounted for the sterility of the political historians' response. Although the work of these academic civil servants greatly improved in technical perfection and thoroughness and extended the boundaries of factual knowledge, including knowledge not always worth knowing, it lost vigor and fertility and deteriorated into staleness and irksome monotony as to fundamental ideas and social ideals.

Die Fundmünzen von Harrān und ihr Verhältnis zur lokalen Geschichte

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-299
Author(s):  
STEFAN HEIDEMANN
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Economic History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Independent Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

During the 1940s and 1950s D. Storm Rice and Seton Lloyd, together with the Turkish Antiquity Authority, undertook archaeological excavations in Harrān. With the exception of two preliminary reports and a few articles, the excavations remain largely unpublished.The 264 coins constitute an independent source on the regional, political and economic history of Harrān. For the Umayyad and early Abbasid period, the coins constitute a source on the pattern of the city's regional integration. Two-thirds of the coins date from the Ayyubid period. The circulation is characterized by a competition of different coinages: first, those which were struck for the political entities to which Harrān belonged; and second, imported coins, i.e. of Byzantine and Rūm-Saljūq origin. Third, copper coins from Northern Syria, despite the fact that the Diyār Mudar and Northern Syria belong to different branches of the Ayyubid dynasty. Two dirhams of the Saljūq prince al-Malik Mas‘ūd, who resided in Mosul between 504/1111 and 511/1118, are historical documents of importance.

The Macroeconomics of Margaret Thatcher

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Backhouse
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quantity Theory ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

The government of Margaret Thatcher forms a revealing case study of how economic ideas become entwined with the political and economic history of any country where attempts are made to apply them. As each of the papers in this symposium points out, Thatcher and her government became inextricably associated with “monetarism.” They were influenced by a range of economists, including Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, but the policies that went under the label of monetarism ended up being very different from what one would expect from reading the academic literature on monetarism. Though it shared important features, Monetarism came to mean something very diferent from, for example, Friedman's quantity theory. More significantly, the meaning of monetarism and the way it was applied changed signi cantly during the government's period in office. Many of these changes were in response to specific economic problems that the government was forced to confront. To understand the way economic ideas developed, and why monetarism was interpreted in the way it was, therefore, it is important to understand the macroeconomic history of the period. That is the purpose of this paper.

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