Past & Present

Papers
(The median citation count of Past & Present is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Languages of History, Histories of Language30
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex16
Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf15
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800*13
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney13
The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France12
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia10
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control9
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession8
Adrift in the Andaman Sea: 
Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty7
The New History of Old Inequality6
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment6
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States4
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects4
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers4
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–19254
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 19114
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England4
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion4
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–17003
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain3
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality3
Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Politics and Protest of Kenyan Resettlement to Tanzania, 1961–19683
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England3
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean3
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry3
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines3
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–16502
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–18502
Erratum to: The Christian Anti-Torture Movement and the Politics of Conscience in France2
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century2
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era2
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South2
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument2
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c.1700–19502
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs2
Hidden Spaces of Empire: Italian Colonists in Nineteenth-Century Peru2
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction2
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–17402
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape1
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–19471
‘A General Insurrection in the Countries with Slaves’: The US Civil War and the Origins of an Atlantic Revolution, 1861–18661
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain1
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 19501
Criminalization of Abortion in Late Qing and Republican China1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–551
The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–19831
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis1
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union1
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–19141
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State1
Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene1
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean1
Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia1
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion1
Domestic Servants and Master–Servant Regulations in Colonial Calcutta, 1750s–1810s1
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley1
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–19141
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–19101
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR1
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?1
Givens, pleasures and imaginings1
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–19231
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya1
Capital Accumulation, Supply Networks and the Composition of the Roman Senate, 14–235 ce1
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China1
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History1
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon1
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church1
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires1
A revisionist history of the United Nations1
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–18901
The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain’s Imperial Information Strategies0
The purposeful workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law0
Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England0
Of Maiming and Privilege: Rethinking War Disability through the Case of Francoist Spain, 1936–19890
An Interpolity Legal Regime in the eighteenth century: 
procedural law of prize0
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China: Towards a Global History0
Correction to: Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South0
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal0
A Sea of Households: Ordering Violence and Mobility in the 
Inter-Imperial Caribbean0
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence0
Novelty, Disinformation and Discrimination in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (1559) and Sixteenth-Century French News Culture0
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean0
City States in the Later Medieval Mediterranean World0
Ghana Must Go: Nativism and the Politics of Expulsion in West Africa, 1969–19850
Inventing Free Speech: Politics, Liberty and Print in Eighteenth-Century England0
Crisis, corruption and state-led development in the making of the Mexican drug trade0
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–19570
Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 18600
Democracy in Spanish America: The Early Adoption of Universal Male Suffrage, 1810–18530
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–19200
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c.1250–15700
Transforming the Urban Space: Catholic Survival Through Spatial Practices in Post-Reformation Utrecht0
Ottoman and Egyptian Quarantines and European Debates on Plague in the 1830s–1840s0
Rituals of Modernity: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia0
Mass Media and the Colonial Informant: Messaoud Djebari and the French Empire, 1880–19010
Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections0
Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World0
Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic0
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii0
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England0
‘Fake News’ in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of Le Mercure galant0
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–19140
‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
Religious Tension and Ethnic Consciousness in the Later Russian Empire0
Erratum to: The Animal Body as Medium: Taxidermy and European Expansion, 1775–18650
Clare Morton0
Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–18790
Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic0
The Return of the Repressed: Political Deportation in the 
Indian Ocean during the Age 
of Revolutions0
Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe0
French Imperial Statecraft, Capital, Corporate Taxation, and the Tax Haven that Wasn’t, 1920s–1950s0
‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis0
Seigneurial predation in the late medieval feud0
Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution in a Global Context0
Dynastic Scenario Thinking in the Holy Roman Empire0
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands0
Intellectual Journeys towards Emotions: A Conversation among Feminist Scholars0
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–15980
‘Natural’ disasters, ignorance, and the mirage of Italian settler colonialism in late nineteenth-century Africa0
Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–19650
A ‘Fiction of the Mind’: Imagination and Idolatry in Early Modern England0
Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia0
Out of the East (or North or South): A Response to Philip Slavin0
Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning0
Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion0
Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan’0
Accumulation by Attachment: Colonial Benevolence and the Rule of Capital in Nineteenth-Century Panjab0
Sir John Elliott0
Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–14500
Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe0
The Pervasiveness of Lordship (Italy, 1050–1500)0
Property and the end of Empire in International Zones, 1919–19470
Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c .1860s–19140
Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia0
Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes0
Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–15250
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652–17500
Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 19000
The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America0
Peasants, Market Exchange and Economic Agency in North-Western Iberia, c.850–c.10500
Correction: Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile (c.1474–1504)0
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy0
Immobility0
Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–18100
Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c .1474–1504)0
National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War0
A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis0
‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements0
Servile Migration and Gender in Late Medieval England: The Evidence of Manorial Court Rolls0
Peasant Productivity and Welfare in The Middle Ages and Beyond0
Hyperbole in Early Modern Missionary Travel Accounts of China0
Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England0
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class0
Forbidden Love in Istanbul: Patterns of Male–Male Sexual Relations in the Early-Modern Mediterranean World0
Flows of History0
A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty0
The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain0
A reply to Shami Ghosh0
The Global Rise of the British Property Development Sector, 1945–19750
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893–19050
Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern Venice0
Viewpoint New Approaches to the ‘Plague of Justinian’0
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History0
Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome0
The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics0
Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent0
Globalizing the Second World War0
Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health0
Revolutionary Decolonization and the Formation of the Sacred: The Case of Egypt0
Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China0
The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe0
Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–19400
Frauds on Navy Pay and the Men and Women of Maritime London, c.1620–17400
Introduction: Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment0
Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium0
Correction to: ‘Water Has Aroused the Girls’ Hearts’: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in 1950s China0
Ecology and Colonialism in Late Chosŏn Korea: Ullŭngdo, 1882–19050
Chris Wickham on ‘The Economic Logic of Medieval Societies’: A Response0
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–20200
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism0
Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s0
Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain0
Rhetorical Strategies and the Manipulation of Discourse in Machiavelli’s Writings0
Correction to: Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*0
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