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Income Mobility before Industrialization: Evidence from South Africa’s Cape Colony 工业化前的收入流动：南非开普殖民地的证据

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.24

Johan Fourie, Erik Green, Auke Rijpma, Dieter von Fintel

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Legal Boundaries, Organizational Fields, and Trade Union Politics: The Development of Railway Unions in the US and the UK 法律边界、组织领域和工会政治：美国和英国铁路工会的发展

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.23

Maya Adereth

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Why so antisocial? Football ultras, crowd modalities, and atmospherics of discontent in public space 为何如此反社会？足球超级杯、人群模式和公共空间的不满氛围

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.28

Max Jack

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The Cold War from the Global South: Maoism and the Future of Liberalism 来自全球南方的冷战：毛泽东思想与自由主义的未来

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.22

Kristin Plys

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Mosaic Database: Consolidation, Innovation, and Challenges in the Comparative Family Demography of Historical Europe 马赛克数据库：欧洲历史上家族人口比较的巩固、创新与挑战

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.18

Mikołaj Szołtysek, Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber, Radosław Poniat

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The Origins of a Fiscal Outlier: The Abandonment of a Federal VAT in the Nixon Presidency 财政异数的起源：尼克松总统时期联邦增值税的废弃

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.16

Seiichiro Mozumi

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A macroscope of English print culture, 1530–1700, applied to the coevolution of ideas on religion, science, and institutions 1530-1700 年英国印刷文化的宏观视角，适用于宗教、科学和制度观念的共同演变

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.17

Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell

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The rise of the Spanish right during the Second Republic (1931–36). Social structures, Catholic associations, and conservative electoral mobilization 第二共和国时期西班牙右翼的崛起（1931-1936 年）。社会结构、天主教社团和保守派选举动员

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.10

Iván Llamazares

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The Swiss Patrician Families between Decline and Persistence: Power Positions and Kinship Ties (1890–1957) 衰落与坚守之间的瑞士贵族家庭：权力地位与亲属关系（1890-1957 年）

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.6

Pierre Benz, Pedro Araujo, Geoffroy Legentilhomme, André Mach, Steven Piguet, Michael A. Strebel, Emilie Widmer

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Turning points in leadership: Ship size in the Portuguese and Dutch merchant empires 领导力的转折点：葡萄牙和荷兰商业帝国的船舶规模

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Social Science History Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2024.7

Claudia Rei

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