Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national
citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak …

Abstract The Black Death was the largest demographic shock in European history. We
review the evidence for the origins, spread, and mortality of the disease. We document that it …

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled
ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and …

This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in
Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. By employing a sophisticated …

Although there are many competing explanations for the Industrial Revolution, there has
been no effort to evaluate them econometrically. This paper analyzes how the very different …

Exploiting a genealogy of English individuals living in the 16th to the 19th centuries, this
study shows that lower parental reproductive capacity positively affected the socio-economic …

Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. We present the first
time series of male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800, using a large …

In this paper we survey the study of social networks and their application to economic
history. We take the perspective of the applied researcher and focus on empirical methods …

A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of
merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century following Elizabeth I's rise …

This article uses recently digitized samples of apprentices and masters in London and
Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late seventeenth century …