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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf30
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex16
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney13
Languages of History, Histories of Language12
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800*12
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment9
The New History of Old Inequality9
The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France7
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control7
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia7
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession5
Adrift in the Andaman Sea: 
Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty4
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England4
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion3
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects3
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–19253
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers3
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States3
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality3
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 19113
A Business Archive of the French Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century3
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–17002
Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Politics and Protest of Kenyan Resettlement to Tanzania, 1961–19682
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction2
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines2
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry2
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era2
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument2
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean2
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain2
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England2
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–19101
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires1
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–18901
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South1
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs1
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–17401
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–16501
A revisionist history of the United Nations1
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya1
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley1
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State1
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century1
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto1
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–19471
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?1
Erratum to: The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France1
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–19231
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR1
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
‘A General Insurrection in the Countries with Slaves’: The US Civil War and the Origins of an Atlantic Revolution, 1861–18661
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–19141
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape1
Givens, pleasures and imaginings1
Hidden Spaces of Empire: Italian Colonists in Nineteenth-Century Peru1
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–18501
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–19501
Domestic Servants and Master–Servant Regulations in Colonial Calcutta, 1750s–1810s1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–551
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon1
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union1
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China0
Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 18600
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean0
The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies0
Out of the East (or North or South): A Response to Philip Slavin0
Intellectual Journeys towards Emotions: A Conversation among Feminist Scholars0
Servile Migration and Gender in Late Medieval England: The Evidence of Manorial Court Rolls0
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion0
Accumulation by Attachment: Colonial Benevolence and the Rule of Capital in Nineteenth-Century Panjab0
Religious Tension and Ethnic Consciousness in the Later Russian Empire0
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 19500
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China: Towards a Global History0
Peasants, Market Exchange and Economic Agency in North-Western Iberia, c.850–c.10500
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–19200
Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–19400
National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War0
Rhetorical Strategies and the Manipulation of Discourse in Machiavelli’s Writings0
Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan’0
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class0
Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic0
Ottoman and Egyptian Quarantines and European Debates on Plague in the 1830s–1840s0
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England0
Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture0
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence0
Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 19000
Chris Wickham on ‘The Economic Logic of Medieval Societies’: A Response0
The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–19750
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the 
Indian Ocean during the Age 
of Revolutions0
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii0
Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–15250
The Political Day in London, c .1697–18340
Of Maiming and Privilege: Rethinking War Disability through the Case of Francoist Spain, 1936–19890
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–19570
Democracy in Spanish America: The Early Adoption of Universal Male Suffrage, 1810–18530
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–19140
Forbidden Love in Istanbul: Patterns of Male–Male Sexual Relations in the Early-Modern Mediterranean World0
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–15980
Transforming the Urban Space: Catholic Survival Through Spatial Practices in Post-Reformation Utrecht0
Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c .1474–1504)0
Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene0
Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c .1860s–19140
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893–19050
Peasant Productivity and Welfare in The Middle Ages and Beyond0
Crisis, corruption and state-led development in the making of the Mexican drug trade0
The Art of Mercato: Buying City-States in Renaissance Tuscany0
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China0
Ghana Must Go: Nativism and the Politics of Expulsion in West Africa, 1969–19850
‘Fake News’ in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of Le Mercure galant0
Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia0
Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent0
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–20200
Capital Accumulation, Supply Networks and the Composition of the Roman Senate, 14–235 ce0
Revolutionary Decolonization and the Formation of the Sacred: The Case of Egypt0
Correction to: ‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
Correction: Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile (c.1474–1504)0
Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World0
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal0
A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis0
The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics0
A Sea of Households: Ordering Violence and Mobility in the 
Inter-Imperial Caribbean0
Frauds on Navy Pay and the Men and Women of Maritime London, c.1620–17400
Property and the end of Empire in International Zones, 1919–19470
Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain0
Inventing Free Speech: Politics, Liberty and Print in Eighteenth-Century England0
Erratum to: The Animal Body as Medium: Taxidermy and European Expansion, 1775–18650
Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections0
Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–18790
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History0
‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements0
An Interpolity Legal Regime in the eighteenth century: 
procedural law of prize0
Correction to: Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South0
Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning0
Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic0
Hyperbole in Early Modern Missionary Travel Accounts of China0
A reply to Shami Ghosh0
Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s0
Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–19650
Dynastic Scenario Thinking in the Holy Roman Empire0
The Pervasiveness of Lordship (Italy, 1050–1500)0
City States in the Later Medieval Mediterranean World0
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church0
‘Natural’ disasters, ignorance, and the mirage of Italian settler colonialism in late nineteenth-century Africa0
Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome0
Viewpoint New Approaches to the ‘Plague of Justinian’0
A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty0
Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe0
Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern Venice0
Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe0
The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain0
Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia0
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c.1250–15700
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–17500
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean0
Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium0
Seigneurial predation in the late medieval feud0
Clare Morton0
Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–14500
Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution in a Global Context0
Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England0
Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health0
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes0
Flows of History0
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism0
The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe0
The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America0
A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England0
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–18100
Introduction: Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment0
‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands0
Correction to: Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*0
Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–19050
Rituals of Modernity: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia0
Sir John Elliott0
‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis0
Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England0
Globalizing the Second World War0
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy0
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History0
French Imperial Statecraft, Capital, Corporate Taxation, and the Tax Haven that Wasn’t, 1920s–1950s0
Mass Media and the Colonial Informant: Messaoud Djebari and the French Empire, 1880–19010
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