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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Languages of History, Histories of Language20
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex19
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney13
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control10
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia10
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession8
The New History of Old Inequality6
Adrift in the Andaman Sea: 
Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty6
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment5
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States4
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England4
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects4
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–17003
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers3
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion3
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean3
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines3
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 19113
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality3
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain3
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry2
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century2
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–19502
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–16502
Givens, pleasures and imaginings2
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–17402
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument2
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction2
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–18502
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–19472
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs2
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England2
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era2
Erratum to: The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France2
Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans2
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South2
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church1
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
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China1
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–19101
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–18901
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–19141
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State1
Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope1
Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia1
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China1
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History1
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union1
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon1
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires1
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?1
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR1
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–19231
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto1
Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene1
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–19571
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 19501
Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern Venice1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–551
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.19731
The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–19831
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis1
Secularizing Strategies in the Early Middle Ages and the History of Pre-Modern Religion1
A revisionist history of the United Nations1
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape1
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)1
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–19141
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean1
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion1
The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 18300
Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome0
Peasant Productivity and Welfare in The Middle Ages and Beyond0
‘Fake News’ in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of Le Mercure galant0
Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions0
Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe0
Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan’0
Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent0
Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health0
Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c .1860s–19140
Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work0
Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections0
Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–19400
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–17500
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England0
Religious Tension and Ethnic Consciousness in the Later Russian Empire0
Correction: Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile (c.1474–1504)0
Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon0
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism0
Intellectual Journeys towards Emotions: A Conversation among Feminist Scholars0
Clare Morton0
Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium0
Correction to: ‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies0
French Imperial Statecraft, Capital, Corporate Taxation, and the Tax Haven that Wasn’t, 1920s–1950s0
‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements0
A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty0
Flows of History0
Of Maiming and Privilege: Rethinking War Disability through the Case of Francoist Spain, 1936–19890
Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–19650
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii0
Inventing Free Speech: Politics, Liberty and Print in Eighteenth-Century England0
Correction to: Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South0
Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion0
A Sea of Households: Ordering Violence and Mobility in the 
Inter-Imperial Caribbean0
Correction to: Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*0
Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century0
Out of the East (or North or South): A Response to Philip Slavin0
Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c .1474–1504)0
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c.1250–15700
Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–14500
Rituals of Modernity: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia0
Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain0
An Interpolity Legal Regime in the eighteenth century: 
procedural law of prize0
Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World0
Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 19000
The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America0
The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain0
The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe0
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy0
Rhetorical Strategies and the Manipulation of Discourse in Machiavelli’s Writings0
The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–19750
The Colonial Metamorphosis of Egyptian Capital Punishment, 1884–19030
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
Servile Migration and Gender in Late Medieval England: The Evidence of Manorial Court Rolls0
Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 18600
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence0
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean0
Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia0
Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c .1700–17600
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–18100
A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England0
Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture0
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–15980
Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China0
National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War0
Forbidden Love in Istanbul: Patterns of Male–Male Sexual Relations in the Early-Modern Mediterranean World0
Sir John Elliott0
‘Natural’ disasters, ignorance, and the mirage of Italian settler colonialism in late nineteenth-century Africa0
Seigneurial predation in the late medieval feud0
The Jewish Refugee Family and Concerns Over Intermarriage in Australia After 19450
Ghana Must Go: Nativism and the Politics of Expulsion in West Africa, 1969–19850
The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics0
Correction to: Immobility0
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–19200
The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law0
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–20200
Property and the end of Empire in International Zones, 1919–19470
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes0
Introduction: Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment0
Chris Wickham on ‘The Economic Logic of Medieval Societies’: A Response0
Immobility0
Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–19050
Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–18790
A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis0
Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning0
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–19140
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal0
Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic0
Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe0
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–19280
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the 
Indian Ocean during the Age 
of Revolutions0
Crisis, corruption and state-led development in the making of the Mexican drug trade0
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History0
‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis0
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893–19050
TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA0
A reply to Shami Ghosh0
Hyperbole in Early Modern Missionary Travel Accounts of China0
Globalizing the Second World War0
Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England0
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