Past & Present

Papers
(The median citation count of Past & Present is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Languages of History, Histories of Language24
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex20
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney12
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession11
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control6
The New History of Old Inequality5
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England5
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment5
Adrift in the Andaman Sea: 
Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty5
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–17004
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean4
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 19114
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality4
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States4
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers4
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion4
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects4
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England3
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines3
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain3
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs3
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument3
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era3
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century3
The migration–innovation nexus in the early modern world3
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry3
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction3
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c .1850–19472
Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans2
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)2
Givens, pleasures and imaginings2
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South2
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?2
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR2
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–16502
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto2
Secularizing Strategies in the Early Middle Ages and the History of Pre-Modern Religion2
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–19142
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean1
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China1
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion1
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State1
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis1
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–19101
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–551
Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents1
Correction to: Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents1
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–19571
Rumour, Public Opinion and Print in Istanbul, 1780s–1830s1
CONFISCATION AS GOVERNANCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1750–18391
The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–19831
Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope1
Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c .1860–19111
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union1
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–19231
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya1
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church1
Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health1
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–19201
Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–14501
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 19501
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History1
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–19141
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires1
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.19731
A revisionist history of the United Nations1
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley1
Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene1
Grassroots Officials, Worker Wrongdoings, and Masculinity in the Nantong Municipal Steel Rolling Mill, c. 19701
The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics1
Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion0
Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon0
Rhetorical Strategies and the Manipulation of Discourse in Machiavelli’s Writings0
Correction: Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile (c.1474–1504)0
Peasant Productivity and Welfare in The Middle Ages and Beyond0
Inventing Free Speech: Politics, Liberty and Print in Eighteenth-Century England0
Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic0
The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies0
Correction to: Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*0
Servile Migration and Gender in Late Medieval England: The Evidence of Manorial Court Rolls0
The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law0
Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work0
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–17500
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History0
Correction to: Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South0
Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England0
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean0
Seigneurial predation in the late medieval feud0
Flows of History0
Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c .1700–17600
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–19280
Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture0
Crisis, corruption and state-led development in the making of the Mexican drug trade0
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c.1250–15700
Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China0
Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium0
An Interpolity Legal Regime in the eighteenth century: 
procedural law of prize0
Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning0
The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America0
Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 19000
Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome0
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy0
Property and the end of Empire in International Zones, 1919–19470
Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–19650
Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain0
A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis0
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–20200
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism0
Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia0
Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–19400
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the 
Indian Ocean during the Age 
of Revolutions0
Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c .1474–1504)0
‘Natural’ disasters, ignorance, and the mirage of Italian settler colonialism in late nineteenth-century Africa0
‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements0
‘Fake News’ in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of Le Mercure galant0
Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 18600
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–15980
A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England0
National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War0
Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c .1860s–19140
A Sea of Households: Ordering Violence and Mobility in the 
Inter-Imperial Caribbean0
Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent0
Religious Tension and Ethnic Consciousness in the Later Russian Empire0
A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty0
Rituals of Modernity: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia0
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893–19050
Ghana Must Go: Nativism and the Politics of Expulsion in West Africa, 1969–19850
Introduction: Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment0
Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions0
Chris Wickham on ‘The Economic Logic of Medieval Societies’: A Response0
The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe0
The Unmixing of Populations in Wartime Algeria, 1954–19620
Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–18790
Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–19340
Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–19050
A reply to Shami Ghosh0
Needed But Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c .1490–15250
Frauds on Navy Pay and the Men and Women of Maritime London, c.1620–17400
The Colonial Metamorphosis of Egyptian Capital Punishment, 1884–19030
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence0
Tibetan gift-giving, British indifference, and the erasure of provenance in colonial india0
French Imperial Statecraft, Capital, Corporate Taxation, and the Tax Haven that Wasn’t, 1920s–1950s0
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–18100
Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia0
The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–19750
Hyperbole in Early Modern Missionary Travel Accounts of China0
Immobility0
Intellectual Journeys towards Emotions: A Conversation among Feminist Scholars0
The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 18300
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–19140
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal0
Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe0
Industrial ruination, community arts, and creativity capitalism in late twentieth-century Liverpool0
Correction to: Immobility0
The Jewish Refugee Family and Concerns Over Intermarriage in Australia After 19450
Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World0
The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain0
Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century0
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes0
Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections0
Sir John Elliott0
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England0
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii0
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