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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf	30
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex	16
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney	13
Languages of History, Histories of Language	12
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800*	12
The New History of Old Inequality	9
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment	9
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia	7
The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France	7
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control	7
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession	5
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England	4
Adrift in the Andaman Sea:  Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty	4
A Business Archive of the French Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century	3
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion	3
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects	3
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–1925	3
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers	3
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States	3
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality	3
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 1911	3
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–1700	2
Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Politics and Protest of Kenyan Resettlement to Tanzania, 1961–1968	2
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction	2
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines	2

Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry	2
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era	2
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument	2
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean	2
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain	2
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England	2
Domestic Servants and Master–Servant Regulations in Colonial Calcutta, 1750s–1810s	1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–55	1
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon	1
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union	1
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910	1
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires	1
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–1890	1
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South	1
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs	1
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–1740	1
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–1650	1
A revisionist history of the United Nations	1
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya	1
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley	1
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis	1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State	1
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century	1
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto	1
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947	1
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?	1
Erratum to: The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France	1
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923	1
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR	1
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–1914	1
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain	1
‘A General Insurrection in the Countries with Slaves’: The US Civil War and the Origins of an Atlantic Revolution, 1861–1866	1
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914	1
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape	1
Givens, pleasures and imaginings	1
Hidden Spaces of Empire: Italian Colonists in Nineteenth-Century Peru	1
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–1850	1
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–1950	1