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Law and economic performance in the Roman world Ghent University
Population, technology, and economic growth in the Roman world Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Economic growth in the Roman Mediterranean world: an early good-bye to Malthus? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
What does history teach us about the future of Belgium's institutions Ghent University
Analysis of the course of the linguistic and community conflict in the last one and a half centuries shows which solutions worked and which ones failed. It shows the actors, their interests, political strategies and their outcome. It does not result in ready-made answers about how Belgium should proceed, but it does guard against oversimplifications and naivety. Herman Van Goethem (Universiteit Antwerpen) outlines a history of the ...
Towards a history of e-ducation? Exploring the possibilities of digital humanities for the history of education KU Leuven
n the past few years, worries about decreasing jobs or even the possible disappearance of the history of education as a field of study have frequently surfaced. Hence, the question arises as to whether the history of education, as a field of study, has a future – or is it, as many authors have remarked, in danger? This article starts from the idea that our field of study is definitely not alone in its struggle: many branches of the humanities ...
Roman isotopes and economic meaning: millets, manure, mobility, marine signals, and Malthus Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Over the past decades, the disciplinary boundaries between Roman history and archaeology have begun to fade, as archaeological proxy data started playing an important role in studying socioeconomic processes and phenomena. This is especially true for several key debates such as those on Roman economic performance, diet and nutrition, and migration and mobility. More recently, archaeological sciences, such as stable isotope studies, have ...
Economic inequality in the rural Southern Low Countries during the fifteenth century : sources, data and reflections Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Political Economy of Guild-Based Textile Industries: Power Relations and Economic Strategies of Merchants and Master Artisans in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Governing economic interests : interwar road construction in Belgian Congo = La gouvernance des intérêts économiques : la construction de routes coloniales pendant l’entre-deux-guerres au Congo belge Ghent University
Contrary to the well-recognised relation between railroad infrastructure and emerging cities in the Belgian colony, the development of the Congolese road network was more closely connected to accessing the colonial hinterland and the expanding the rural economy. This latter link remains underresearched in both Congo’s and Africa’s transportation history, even if the colonial government equally considered road infrastructure a tool of empire. ...