History Trends from August 2020

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This section – powered by Altmetrics – shows the top 50 papers (out of 3240 papers) published in August 2020 in the category ‘History’ with their respective Altmetric Attention Scores max. 14 days after their publication.

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‘Funk Money’: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event*

Past & Present | History 2020-08-23

Land, ladies, and the law: a case study on women's land rights and welfare in Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century†

Economic History Review | History 2020-08-04

More-Than-Human Histories

Environmental History | History 2020-08-22

The Kuznets Curve In Brazil, 1850-2010

Revista de Historia Economica | History 2020-08-26

The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War

Journal of Cold War Studies | Political Science History 2020-08-15

Through the Gate of the Media Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal Status in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

Hispanic American Historical Review | History 2020-08-10

Baumol, Engel, and beyond: accounting for a century of structural transformation in Japan, 1885–1985 †

Economic History Review | History 2020-08-28

‘my Training Is Deeply Christian And I Am Against Violence’: Jason Sendwe, The Balubakat, And The Katangese Secession, 1957–64

Journal of African History | History 2020-08-13

White Medicine, White Ethics: On the Historical Formation of Racism in Australian Healthcare

Journal of Australian Studies | History Area Studies 2020-08-19

The Cold War and the Communist Party of Saudi Arabia, 1975–1991

Journal of Cold War Studies | Political Science History 2020-08-15

Immigrant Declarants and Loyal American Women: How Suffragists Helped Redefine the Rights of Citizens

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era | History 2020-08-04

Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831 †

Economic History Review | History 2020-08-01

Inventing the Woman Voter: Suffrage, Ability, and Patents

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era | History 2020-08-07

Pacifism, Infection, And ‘somatic Citizenship’ In Wartime Britain, 1940–1943

Historical Journal | History 2020-08-25

A Right to Ourselves: Women's Suffrage and the Birth Control Movement

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era | History 2020-08-03

‘Extremely valuable work’: British intelligence and the interrogation of refugees in London, 1941–45

Intelligence and National Security | Political Science History 2020-08-19

La batalla por la opinión pública: Radiodifusión y política comunicacional en la vía chilena al socialismo

Hispanic American Historical Review | History 2020-08-10

Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail †

Economic History Review | History 2020-08-05

Erasing Las Yaguas: Shantytown Networks and Social Reform in the Cuban Revolution, 1944–1963

Hispanic American Historical Review | History 2020-08-10

“Cartographic Aggression”: Media Politics, Propaganda, and the Sino-Indian Border Dispute

Journal of Cold War Studies | Political Science History 2020-08-15

Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia

South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-19

Finance Beyond the Bounds of the Fiscal-Military State: Debt, Speculation and the Renovation of Nineteenth-Century French Financial Capitalism

French History | History 2020-08-05

Nikolay Dolgopolov: the storyteller of Soviet intelligence history

Intelligence and National Security | Political Science History 2020-08-14

What it means to be a “true American”: Ethnonationalism and voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Nations and Nationalism | Political Science Sociology History 2020-08-03

Law, politics and intelligence: a life of Robert Hope

Intelligence and National Security | Political Science History 2020-08-13

An Imagined Community in Sport: The San Antonio ‘Spurs Family’

International Journal of the History of Sport | History 2020-08-03

Source Note: The Textual Record of Climate Change at Sea

Environmental History | History 2020-08-22

Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’

South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-06

Why was nationalism European? Political ethnicity in Asia and Europe 1400–1850

Journal of Global History | History 2020-08-14

Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c . 1850s–1940s †

Economic History Review | History 2020-08-05

Traversing the Inner Seas: Contacts and Continuity in and around Scotland, the Hebrides, and the North of Ireland

English Historical Review | History 2020-08-22

The Sanctuary and the Glacis: France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Nuclear Weapons in the 1980s (Part 1)

Journal of Cold War Studies | Political Science History 2020-08-15

Turning a Blind Eye: Infanticide and Missing Babies in Seventeenth-Century Geneva

Law and History Review | Law History 2020-08-24

English Misadventures in the Red Sea and the Tangled Web of Jurisdiction, Sovereignty and Commerce in the Early Seventeenth Century

Britain and the World | History 2020-08-18

Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit†

Economic History Review | History 2020-08-20

Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru

Hispanic American Historical Review | History 2020-08-10

“Why Don’t You Go to the Mosque?” Epistemic Deference and Everyday Religious Practices in Hui Muslim Communities

Nationalities Papers | Political Science History Area Studies 2020-08-18

Silvia Salvatici, A History of Humanitarianism, 1755–1989: In the Name of Others

Journal of Contemporary History | History 2020-08-19

The irrational terrorist & other persistent terrorism myths

Intelligence and National Security | Political Science History 2020-08-02

The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire, by Ronald C. Po

English Historical Review | History 2020-08-03

Book Reviews

Journal of Modern History | History 2020-08-25

Re-Examining the Nexus between Madrasa Education and Politics in Bangladesh

South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-03

Unsettling truths: modernity, (de-)coloniality and Indigenous futures

Postcolonial Studies | History 2020-08-24

Musical performance informed by history and vice versa: how philosophy could help music and history learn from each other

Rethinking History | History 2020-08-19

Nationalism and Sport: A Review of the Field

Nationalities Papers | Political Science History Area Studies 2020-08-25

Multiculturalism and nationalism: Models of belonging to diverse political community

Nations and Nationalism | Political Science Sociology History 2020-08-12

Rex Ingamells and Ted Strehlow: Correspondences and Contradictions in Australian Settler Nationalism

Journal of Australian Studies | History Area Studies 2020-08-19

November 1918: The German Revolution

German History | History 2020-08-07

Apprenticeship and product quality: empirical analysis on the sake brewing industry

Management & Organizational History | History 2020-08-25

“Completely Forgotten and Totally Ignored”: Czechoslovak Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Transitions of 1918-1919

Nationalities Papers | Political Science History Area Studies 2020-08-06