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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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.…”

Nature for the nation: locating the natural world in Meiji discourses on nation-building by Lew, Jean Zhi Jun

“…This paper seeks to address this gap by examining the natural world, specifically conceptions of material nature, within discourses on nation-building in Meiji Japan through an analysis of how the natural world was incorporated in the visions of modernity of Meiji ideologues. This paper argues that as Meiji ideologues came face to face with the new realities of the Meiji state, the natural world was employed to articulate as well as shape their visions of modernity, and the relationship between the modern man, the nation, and the natural world to realize said vision. …”
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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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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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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…The gTing skyes edition (also available in a modern photo-offset litho reproduction of the original manuscript from gTing skyes dgon pa byang monastery), is very similar doxographically, (and very often also transmissionally) to the Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu edition presented here. …”

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. …”