Heute vor 100 Jahren begingen europäischen #Sparkassen den 1. #Weltspartag. Dass #Finanzerziehung schon älter ist, zeigt:

▶ @sandramass, Formulare des Ökonomischen in der #Geldpädagogik des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 58/2012, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-58-sandra-mass/

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long time in the making, but now me and co-authors finally have our paper on resistance against slavery on St. Croix out:
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.20.

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Congratulations to Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social‬ for his article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 now out with Historical Methods!

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2431491

Code: https://github.com/Living-with-machines/CensusGeocoder

#OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities #EconHist #hgis

New article out, with co-authors: "Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760-1914"

We study this former slave-colony, and show how these Caribbean islands (current-day US Virgin Islands) were totally dominated by a small elite, controlling virtually all of the wealth on the islands. This elite was remarkably persistent - even when the enslaved population was emancipated.

Full text here:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101636

#histodons #colonialism #slavery #Caribbean #econhist

Peter Ericsson and Patrik Winton's article in the last issue of #AnnalesHSS (https://social.sciences.re/@AnnalesHSS/113521760842829684) is already available in English as well.

➡️ Inequality Challenged and Restored. The Political Economy of War Finance in Sweden, c. 1715–1721
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.12

The authors unveil how the monetary and fiscal reforms, enacted by an ambitious monarch to finance his many wars in the early 18th century, had an impact deep into Swedish society, even shaking its social hierarchies, until reaction brutally set them back.

A refreshing new look at the fiscal-military state of the early modern era.

#AnnalesinEnglish #histodons @histodons #state #fiscalmilitarystate #econhist #histecon #sweden #swedishhistory @uu_university #Uppsala #UppsalaUniversity