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‘Revolutionary Advancement’: The science behind food by air

Bryce Evans

Bryce Evans is Associate Professor of History at Liverpool Hope University, UK. This is his fourth book, and he has published extensively on food during the 20th century. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century : The Pan American Ideal

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...Recollections of the food of the ‘golden age’ of flying are often rose-tinted, based around the abundance of food and drink. This promise of abundant consumption was a distinctly American theme, bound up with the cultural, economic...

The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Zhichao Tong

Zhichao Tong

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Democratic Moments : Reading Democratic Texts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...The universality of citizens names the legislature of each state, and the federal constitution, transforming each of these legislatures in their turn into an electoral body, draws the members of the Senate from them. Therefore the senators...

The Transition from Plantation Slave Labour to Free Labour in the Americas

Herbert S. Klein

Herbert S. Klein

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The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...The author would like to thank Laird Bergad and Stanley Engerman for their helpful comments. One of the most fundamental changes in the world economy in the nineteenth century was the transition from slave...

The rise of historical comparison in the later twentieth century

Mikhail Krom

Mikhail Krom is Professor of Comparative Studies in History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of Historical Anthropology (2010) and The Widowed Tsardom: The Political Crisis in Russia in the 1530s and the 1540s (2010). He is also the editor of History and Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century (co-edited with David Sabean and Gadi Algazi, 2006) and The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (co-edited with Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mroziewicz, 2017). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Elizabeth Guyatt

Elizabeth Guyatt has translated from Russian since living and working in Moscow in the 1990s. She chaired the Translating Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists from 2016-2018. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Introduction to Historical Comparison

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...The wave of interest in comparative historical research that arose after the end of the First World War reached a peak at the cusp of the 1920s and 1930s and declined soon afterwards. A new growth in historical comparison began...

The Crew’s perspective: Training, eating and service

Bryce Evans

Bryce Evans is Associate Professor of History at Liverpool Hope University, UK. This is his fourth book, and he has published extensively on food during the 20th century. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century : The Pan American Ideal

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...Nautical glamour: Pan Am’s early employees as sailors As this book has argued, the often-overlooked aspect behind airline food was the sense of entertainment...

Comparison in economic history

Mikhail Krom

Mikhail Krom is Professor of Comparative Studies in History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of Historical Anthropology (2010) and The Widowed Tsardom: The Political Crisis in Russia in the 1530s and the 1540s (2010). He is also the editor of History and Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century (co-edited with David Sabean and Gadi Algazi, 2006) and The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (co-edited with Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mroziewicz, 2017). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Elizabeth Guyatt

Elizabeth Guyatt has translated from Russian since living and working in Moscow in the 1990s. She chaired the Translating Division of the Chartered Institute of Linguists from 2016-2018. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Introduction to Historical Comparison

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...Since its rise in the 1950s, a number of features have characterized comparative research in economic history. First, it is always directly linked to the problems of economic theory itself...

Turmoil in the Cocoa Groves: Slave Revolts in Ocumare de la Costa, Venezuela, 1837 and 1845

Nikita Harwich

Nikita Harwich

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The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...A slave revolt and its aftermath usually entail a logical process of disobedience, uprising and subsequent repression where, almost inevitably, the path that leads to a status quo ante is strewn with a display of violence, together...

Towards a Transnational and Global History of Demographic and Migratory Processes and Discourses

Attila Melegh

Attila Melegh

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The Practice of Global History : European Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Introduction Fifty years ago, due to a focus on national frameworks and national political communities, there were strong arguments against making demography a global science. Alfred Sauvy – the famous French demographer and author...

Introduction

Bryce Evans

Bryce Evans is Associate Professor of History at Liverpool Hope University, UK. This is his fourth book, and he has published extensively on food during the 20th century. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century : The Pan American Ideal

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...This book is about food and aviation. What may seem at first glance like a niche topic is in fact a universal one. Many people have sampled airline food, and many have derided it. But while most people recognize the role of air travel...

Statistics

Mary Elisabeth Cox

Mary Elisabeth Cox is an Assistant Professor at Central European University in Vienna, Austria Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Using Primary Sources

...Introduction “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said...