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Migration and the Making of the English Middle Class

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When do people identify with their class? A long line of thinking from Marx and Engels to Acemoglu and Robinson assumes the answer is “always.” Nowhere was this more apparent than...

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Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

The French Revolution was a watershed moment in world history. In just a few years it dismantled a centuries-old political order, recast citizenship and sovereignty, and propelled ideas about rights and representation across Europe. Althoug...

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When State-Building Disrupts Rather Than Stabilizes: French Rebellion in the Run-Up to the Revolution

The French countryside simmered with discontent in the century prior to the French Revolution. As the monarchy sought to assert greater authority and control across its territory, building its informational and infrastructural capacity to l...

5 months ago
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History LLMs: Giving the Past a Voice with Large Language Models

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Not long ago, history and machine learning seemed like fundamentally different worlds. Today, these worlds are merging in ways that would have seemed quite unlikely until recently, and thus a...

5 months ago
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Legacies of Repression: How Europe’s Violent 20th Century Still Shapes Its Politics

Across Europe, the first half of the 20th century brought civil wars, fascist takeovers, foreign occupations, genocidal violence, and entrenched authoritarian rule. The effects of this violence and repression outlasted the end of regimes,...

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