OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Past & Present is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Languages of History, Histories of Language	30
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex	16
Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf	15
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800*	13
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney	13
The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France	12
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia	10
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control	9
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession	8
Adrift in the Andaman Sea:  Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty	7
The New History of Old Inequality	6
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment	6
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States	4
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects	4
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers	4
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–1925	4
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 1911	4
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England	4
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion	4
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality	3
Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Politics and Protest of Kenyan Resettlement to Tanzania, 1961–1968	3
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England	3
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean	3
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry	3
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines	3

Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–1700	3
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain	3
Erratum to: The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France	2
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century	2
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era	2
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South	2
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument	2
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–1950	2
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs	2
Hidden Spaces of Empire: Italian Colonists in Nineteenth-Century Peru	2
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction	2
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–1740	2
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–1650	2
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–1850	2
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950	1
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China	1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–55	1
The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983	1
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis	1
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union	1
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914	1
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto	1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State	1
Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene	1
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean	1
Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia	1
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion	1
Domestic Servants and Master–Servant Regulations in Colonial Calcutta, 1750s–1810s	1
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley	1
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–1914	1
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910	1
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR	1
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?	1
Givens, pleasures and imaginings	1
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923	1
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya	1
Capital Accumulation, Supply Networks and the Composition of the Roman Senate, 14–235 ce	1
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China	1
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History	1
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon	1
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church	1
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires	1
A revisionist history of the United Nations	1
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–1890	1
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape	1
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947	1
‘A General Insurrection in the Countries with Slaves’: The US Civil War and the Origins of an Atlantic Revolution, 1861–1866	1
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain	1