Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America

The Medical Education of James Lloyd in Colonial America **

The speaker is not unmindful of the honor conferred upon him by the Departments of the History of Medicine and Surgery in being asked to give the third Samuel Clark Harvey Lecture. This is not a copiously elegiac age, but it is well to be reminded that Sam Harvey was a rathe and ripe mind, dedicated, as was Osler, to developing in his daily life the historical approach to medicine. As a surgeon...

Homosexuals and the death penalty in colonial America.

This article traces the legislative history of statues prescribing the death penalty for sodomy in 17th-century New England and in the other American colonies. New England and some middle colonies broke with English legal tradition by adopting explicitly biblical language. After the Revolution, Pennsylvania took the lead, in 1786, in dropping the death penalty.

Labour markets and representative institutions: evidence from colonial British America

The literature has identified the quality of political institutions in the transition region as an essential but understudied component of growth, transition and reform. This paper aims to disentangle the determinants of democratic institutions by investigating if high income inequality is always detrimental to the emergence and stability of such regimes, and under what circumstances labour sca...

1 squaring the Circles : the reach of Colonial America

Merchants and ivory

Two African states, Tanzania and Zambia, are seeking to change the ban on trade in ivory at the meeting next month of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Qatar. But the countries face a battle, because other states, such as Kenya and Mali, are strongly opposed to any change and have been lobbying the EU in Brussels this month to support a block to any chan...