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All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States 所有坚固的东西都会迸发出火焰：十九世纪美国的资本主义与火灾

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-03-09 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad019

Daniel Immerwahr

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From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century 从测量到监视：漫长十九世纪的海洋制图学与海军（自我）追踪

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad023

Sara Caputo

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Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent 塔什干的东京亚非作家协会与日本冷战时期的异议人士

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad027

Christopher L Hill

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Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality 古代晚期的面纱和头饰：介于意识形态、美学和实用性之间

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad017

Grace Stafford

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The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–1975 英国房地产开发行业的全球崛起，1945-1975 年

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad018

Alistair Kefford

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Peasant Productivity and Welfare in the Middle Ages and Beyond 中世纪及其后的农民生产力和福利

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad022

John Hatcher

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The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–2020 西班牙 "传统 "杂耍的消亡与 "锅碗瓢盆 "的发明，约 1960-2020 年

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad016

Matthew Kerry

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Languages of History, Histories of Language 历史语言，语言历史

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2023-08-26 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad015

John Gallagher, Purba Hossain

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Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–55 天堂是民主吗?作为政治范例的天堂之城(约1145 - 155年

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad014

Peter Jones

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The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics Chiromancy的魅力：从手相学到遗传学解读现代手

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Past & Present Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtad011

Alison Bashford

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