... pandemic but was approximately 10-fold greater than that of the 2009 pandemic. The impact of the pandemic on mortality was delayed in several countries, pointing to a window of opportunity for vaccination in a future pandemic. mortality rates pandemic influenza historical studies vital statistics...

... debt historical studies of sovereign debt eurobonds E62 E65 N20 The articles in this issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy are the second part of a double issue of the journal on the topic of sovereign debt. The contributions to these two issues explore a wide range of questions...

... of sovereign debt historical studies of sovereign debt eurobonds E62 E65 N20 The last 5 years have seen turbulence return to the world’s sovereign bond markets, particularly among states on the periphery of the eurozone. In the period from the late 1990s to 2008, the bonds issued by large European states...

...This article focuses on the trajectory of Methodist historical studies since the middle of the twentieth century. Since the 1970s, the scholarship on the rise of Methodism in the British Isles and the United States has made considerable progress in viewing Methodism as an international movement...

... to link the past with the current needs of the party-state. Proponents of the revolution questioned historians' preoccupation with purely academic research and called for their adaptation of historical studies to present-day political realities. After a temporary retreat in the early 1960s when the Great...

..., and the potential biases. Several historical studies are also provided. References Acemoglu, D. , Johnson, S. , and Robinson, J. A.   2001 . The colonial origins of comparative development.   American Economic Review , 91: 1369–401. 10.1257/aer.91.5.1369 Achen, C.   1986...

... of the GLAE in antiquity and beyond, as a means of placing the discussion in the book within a broader context of value and influence. The introduction further discusses methodological perspectives employed in the book, including those developed in literary studies, cultural-historical studies...

...This article comments on some of the evolving intellectual patterns about the relationship between postcolonial theory and historical studies. It considers misunderstandings and antagonisms surrounding postcolonialism as well as cultural and literary studies and historical writing on empires...

.... It begins with a discussion of two major categories of historical sociology: comparative historical analysis, characterized by historical sociologists and political scientists who seek an explanation for large-scale processes, and the focus on institutionalism and networks in historical studies...

... Israel Ba'al Shem Tov hasidim historical studies historiography One of the most frequently treated subjects in the historiography of Jews in Poland is hasidism. ¹ Within this field of research the formative period of the movement, c.1740‒1815, has until recently...

... for anti-Communist polemic, Marxism made its final exit from the field of ancient historical studies in the 1960s, when new Marxist and Marxist-inspired historiography came to the fore. This chapter discusses the changing role of Marxism in Italian history-writing. It focuses on the historians who claim...

...Glanmor Williams, by dint of intellectual brilliance, far-sighted vision, and exceptional personal charm, achieved towering eminence in the field of Welsh historical studies. Few Welsh scholars in the modern era have served their profession, university, and country as admirably as him...

...This chapter discusses the need for a philosophy of hydrodynamics and the lessons that can be learned from the historical development of fluid mechanics. It explains that hydrodynamics has been not given attention by philosophers of physics because of a lack of detailed historical studies...

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... Ruskin and the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, and it found expression in a key art-historical publication, Historical Studies of Church Building in the Middle Ages. The moral and spiritual concepts underpinning this text, along with Norton’s writings about Italy, including Notes...

... by presenting newly collected data from families based in different parts of the city. Cork Cork English Irish English Cork English history of settlement historical studies phonology language variation relationship to supraregional varieties data for sociolinguistic investigation Cork City...

... of the history of technology and historical studies, has hampered conversations between digital and traditional scholarship. As historians increasingly work with computers, computers will increasingly exert their influence on the scholarly agenda, and so scholars must understand both the machine’s strengths...

...This summary chapter outlines the three contributions this book makes to the state of scholarship. First, it revises the memory of technology’s relationship with historical studies, which was not a tangential movement but a central force in an evolving profession. Second, it argues that historians...

... contingencies and preoccupations. It discusses how the Enlightenment inspired the movement to reconstruct the past on the basis of the known facts and evidence, with Scots at the forefront of this process. It also touches on the ways in which post-modernism has affected recent historical studies. An overview...