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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Out of the West: Formation of a Permanent Plague Reservoir in South-Central Germany (1349–1356) and its Implications22
Viewpoint New Approaches to the ‘Plague of Justinian’22
Ghana Must Go: Nativism and the Politics of Expulsion in West Africa, 1969–198515
Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Politics and Protest of Kenyan Resettlement to Tanzania, 1961–196813
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–192510
Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s9
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South8
Enchantment in an Age of Reform: Fortune-Telling Fever in Post-Mao China, 1980s–1990s*7
The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of COVID-19*6
Out of the East (or North or South): A Response to Philip Slavin5
Capitalism In Global History*5
A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930–1975)*5
Heathrow and the Making of Neoliberal Britain5
The New History of Old Inequality5
Mothering in the Archives: Care and the Creation of Family Papers and Photographs in Twentieth-Century Southern England*4
Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution in a Global Context4
The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation*4
Contesting ‘Permit-and-Licence Raj’: Economic Conservatism and the Idea of Democracy in 1950s India*4
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State3
Hidden Spaces of Empire: Italian Colonists in Nineteenth-Century Peru3
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church3
Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England3
A Business Archive of the French Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century3
The Pervasiveness of Lordship (Italy, 1050–1500)3
The Politics of Musical Standardization in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain3
Worry Work: The Supernatural Labours of Living and Dead Mothers in Irish Folklore*3
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–18503
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800*3
Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe2
The Mother Within: Intergenerational Influences Upon Australian Matrescence Since 1945*2
Time Warps During the French Revolution2
Capital Accumulation, Supply Networks and the Composition of the Roman Senate, 14–235 ce2
Globalizing the Second World War2
The Art of Mercato: Buying City-States in Renaissance Tuscany2
A Pathology of Sacral Kingship: Putrefaction in the Body of Charles Xi of Sweden2
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines2
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China: Towards a Global History2
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal2
‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis2
Mass Media and the Colonial Informant: Messaoud Djebari and the French Empire, 1880–19012
Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic2
City States in the Later Medieval Mediterranean World2
Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health1
Accumulation by Attachment: Colonial Benevolence and the Rule of Capital in Nineteenth-Century Panjab1
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–19571
Democracy in Spanish America: The Early Adoption of Universal Male Suffrage, 1810–18531
Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern Venice1
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment1
Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain1
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–17401
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England1
Death in the Archives: Witnessing War in Ireland, 1919–19211
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy1
The Animal Body As Medium: Taxidermy And European Expansion, 1775–18651
The Political Day in London, c .1697–18341
The Bishop as Lawmaker in Late Medieval Europe1
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–18901
Mothering Illegitimate Children in Late Eighteenth-Century England*1
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class1
Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia1
Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c .1474–1504)1
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry1
Forbidden Love in Istanbul: Patterns of Male–Male Sexual Relations in the Early-Modern Mediterranean World1
African Cultures and Creolization on an Eighteenth-Century St Kitts Sugar Plantation1
Mothering Solidarity: Infant-Feeding, Vulnerability and Poverty in West Africa Since the Seventeenth Century*1
A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty1
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean1
Mothering and Labour in the Slaveholding Households of the Antebellum American South1
The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics1
Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan’1
Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia1
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands1
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia1
Care Work and the Family in Catholic Reformation Tuscany1
The Swedish Sonderweg in Question: Democratization and Inequality in Comparative Perspective, c.1750–19201
The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain*1
Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf1
Managing Food Crises: Urban Relief Stocks in Pre-Industrial Holland*1
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–17001
Becoming the ‘Natural’ Mother in Britain and North America: Power, Emotions and the Labour of Childbirth Between 1947 and 1967*1
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 19500
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence0
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion0
Correction to: Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South0
Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–15250
OUP accepted manuscript0
Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–19650
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History0
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya0
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR0
The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain0
Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–14500
A reply to Shami Ghosh0
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893–19050
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–550
The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–19750
‘Fake News’ in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of Le Mercure galant0
The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe0
Hyperbole in Early Modern Missionary Travel Accounts of China0
‘How is She Going to Manage with the Children?’ Organizational Labour, Working and Mothering in Britain, c.1960–1990*0
Adrift in the Andaman Sea: 
Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty0
Intellectual Journeys towards Emotions: A Conversation among Feminist Scholars0
Erratum to: The Animal Body as Medium: Taxidermy and European Expansion, 1775–18650
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c.1250–15700
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession0
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union0
Frauds on Navy Pay and the Men and Women of Maritime London, c.1620–17400
Rhetorical Strategies and the Manipulation of Discourse in Machiavelli’s Writings0
The Driveress and the Nurse: Childcare, Working Children and Other Work Under Caribbean Slavery*0
A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England0
Sir John Elliott0
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley0
A Sea of Households: Ordering Violence and Mobility in the 
Inter-Imperial Caribbean0
Transforming the Urban Space: Catholic Survival Through Spatial Practices in Post-Reformation Utrecht0
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis0
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–17500
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control0
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality0
‘Natural’ disasters, ignorance, and the mirage of Italian settler colonialism in late nineteenth-century Africa0
Correction: Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile (c.1474–1504)0
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the 
Indian Ocean during the Age 
of Revolutions0
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes0
Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–19050
Introduction: Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment0
Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent0
Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c .1860s–19140
Of Maiming and Privilege: Rethinking War Disability through the Case of Francoist Spain, 1936–19890
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England0
Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe0
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–20200
The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America0
Editors’ Introduction0
Feminism, reproductive labour and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 19110
State, crime and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion0
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain0
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–19500
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?0
Peasants, Market Exchange and Economic Agency in North-Western Iberia, c.850–c.10500
Property and the end of Empire in International Zones, 1919–19470
Dynastic Scenario Thinking in the Holy Roman Empire0
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape0
Erratum to: The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France0
Crisis, corruption and state-led development in the making of the Mexican drug trade0
Ottoman and Egyptian Quarantines and European Debates on Plague in the 1830s–1840s0
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto0
The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies0
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean0
Givens, pleasures and imaginings0
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China0
Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World0
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects0
The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France0
Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–19400
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean0
Theorizing and Historicizing Mothering’s Many Labours*0
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–19100
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War0
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–18100
‘A General Insurrection in the Countries with Slaves’: The US Civil War and the Origins of an Atlantic Revolution, 1861–18660
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–16500
Languages of History, Histories of Language0
An Interpolity Legal Regime in the eighteenth century: 
procedural law of prize0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex0
Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–18790
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers0
Peasant Productivity and Welfare in The Middle Ages and Beyond0
Domestic Servants and Master–Servant Regulations in Colonial Calcutta, 1750s–1810s0
‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements0
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–19140
Correction to: ‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
Chris Wickham on ‘The Economic Logic of Medieval Societies’: A Response0
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–19140
A revisionist history of the United Nations0
Career, Family and Emotional Work: Graduate Mothers in 1960s Britain*0
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–19140
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction0
Flows of History0
A Printer’s Odd Plea to Reform Legal Pluralism in Khedival Egypt0
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires0
‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–19200
Servile Migration and Gender in Late Medieval England: The Evidence of Manorial Court Rolls0
Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium0
Index Mothering's Many Labours0
Last Acts of Mothering: Nuptial Counselling in Late Colonial French Soudan (Mali)*0
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs0
Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture0
Seigneurial predation in the late medieval feud0
Rituals of Modernity: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia0
Inventing Free Speech: Politics, Liberty and Print in Eighteenth-Century England0
Clare Morton0
Revolutionary Decolonization and the Formation of the Sacred: The Case of Egypt0
French Imperial Statecraft, Capital, Corporate Taxation, and the Tax Haven that Wasn’t, 1920s–1950s0
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China0
Erratum To: The Pathtopistoia: Urbanhygiene Before the Blackdeath0
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