Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside by Deringer, William

“…In the 1610s and 1620s, a new computational technology took hold in England: printed mathematical tables for compound interest and discounting (“present value”) problems. Historians of finance and accounting have long recognized these paper tools as predecessors of essential modern techniques like “discounted cash flow.” …”
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'The burglar's mate'? How London's probation officers persuaded magistrates in Social Enquiry Reports, 1958-72 by Lunan, J

The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…In The Whole Picture , art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. …”
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Nature for the nation: locating the natural world in Meiji discourses on nation-building by Lew, Jean Zhi Jun

“…Current historiography on the natural world in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) primarily focuses on exploring reconfigurations to the broad concept of “nature,” and demonstrating how these reconfigurations occurred in the sociopolitical context of nation-building of the time. Yet, in doing so, historians often neglected material conceptions of nature and how these conceptions were also renegotiated throughout the Meiji period. …”
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…The heroic claims of twentieth-century architects notwithstanding, modern American architecture was built by general contractors. …”
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Nicknames in early medieval England: a socio-onomastic study of agnomina before the twelfth century by Alphey, TK

“…</p> <br> <p>If the corpus of early medieval English <em>agnomina</em> is not as complete as we might hope, nor as easily interpretable as comparable modern onomastic data, it is nonetheless a crucial tool for the social historian.…”

Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the cultural Cold War: geopolitics of regional art exhibitions (1940s-1980s) by Ditzig Kathleen Elizabeth Li-Ying

“…The construction of Southeast Asia as a regional identity involves a more complicated history that includes agents other than diplomats and politicians towards whom historians have traditionally turned in writing a history of the region. …”
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The soma question: interrogating the history of psychedelics with Sanskrit mantras by Moore Gerety, FM

“…72F 2 is a perennial question for historians of psychedelics as they investigate this mysterious psychoactive sacrament of early India. …”

Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Codicological specialists are in particular directed to the chapter on, "General information on the volumes", as well as to the specific codicological notes accompanying each volume of the catalogue. Art historians are directed to "The Legacy of Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu", along with the, "Tables of Miniatures", the, "Detailed descriptions of miniatures", and the, "Gallery of Photographs".…”