Financial Integration in Antebellum America: Strengthening Bodenhorn's Results

Determinants Of Financial Integration In The East Asia- Pacific Region

Pulpit and Press: Denominational Dynamics and the Growth of Religious Magazines in Antebellum America

Religious economies theory, which views religious organizations as akin to single-unit firms competing for adherents in local markets, has three shortcomings that we solve by reconceptualizing religious organizations and developing a new theory of religious mobilization. First, we treat religious organizations as multi-unit entities operating in interdependent markets in a national field. Secon...

”Hydropathic Highway to Health”: women and water-cure in antebellum America

The book tells how Bourke was converted from the commonplace opinion that the "only good Indian was a dead Indian" (p. 59) to a more rounded view and finally to an intimate fellow-feeling with (in particular) the Chiricahuas and the Western Apaches. His admiration was initially roused by the Indians' skill and courage in resisting his own forces in battle, and then heightened by comparison betw...

Sobering up. From temperance to prohibition in antebellum America, 1800–1860

late Victorian intellectuals seized the language and imagery of Darwin's biology with enthusiasm, and hitched them to various continuing movements such as liberalism, individualism and collectivism, debates about heredity, race, and class, and questions of the rationality or irrationality of the human animal. Social Darwinism therefore became ubiquitous, pervading the entire range of social sci...

Financial instability in Latin America 5 Sebastian

In this paper I deal with a number of issues related to financial instability in Latin America. I first discuss, from a macroeconomic research perspective, what I believe are some of the most important policy issues faced by the Latin American nations. These include the effectiveness of controls on capital inflows, the effect of exchange rate depreciation on output, and the international transm...