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Air, Alleys, and Affection: The Politics of the Housing Survey between Basel, Liège, and Berlin This paper traces the emergence, circulation, and transformation of a survey method that gained prominence at the end of the nineteenth century through the interplay between the Belgian tradition of enquê...

Intertextuality and The Wealth of Nations : Contextualizing Adam Smith In 1776 Adam Smith, the by-then famous author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments , published his Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations .

What was the State? Officiating and Litigating in Early Modern England Research into early modern state-building has developed quite a bit over the past decades, lending more depth and complexity to such processes.

Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins?