Browsing Institutt for moderne samfunnshistorie by Document Types "Peer reviewed"
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Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article uncovers the existence of discriminatory practices in pre-industrial Spain by examining the fate of twins. The analysis of the complete parish registers of a small rural area (17 villages) shows that female ... -
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)To improve the safety of healthcare systems, it is necessary to understand harm-related events that occur in these systems. In mental health services, particular attention is paid to harm arising from the actions of patients ... -
‘Correct German Conduct?’ German Requisition Practices and their Impact on Norwegian Society during World War II
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract The article analyses the German requisition and quartering practices in Norway in the light of international law and traces their impact on everyday relations between the enemies. With an average of 350,000 soldiers ... -
Creating global capitalism: An introduction to commodity trading companies and the first global economy
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Da djevelen var løs i Rendalen - en av de siste trolldomsprosessene i Norge
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Death, sex, and fertility: female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750–1950
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Relying on longitudinal micro data from rural Spain between 1750 and 1950, this article evidences that families mortally neglected a significant fraction of their female babies. Firstly, baptism records exhibited exceptionally ... -
«den feberagtige, halvt utilregnelige Forfatning, hvori fødselen hensætter» – barnedrap, tilregnelighet og ugifte mødre i straffeloven av 1902
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Den norske straffeloven av 1902 etablerte milde strafferammer for barnedrap begått av ugifte mødre, noe som ble begrunnet ved bruk av begreper om psykiske svekkelser. I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hvordan barnedrapsparagrafen ... -
Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900–1930
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Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although recent findings suggest that gender-discriminatory practices unduly increased female mortality rates during infancy and childhood in historical Europe, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe, there is little ... -
Fangenskap og tvangsarbeid i det tyskokkuperte Norge 1940–1945. En historiografisk gjennomgang
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Til tross for at det norske bokmarkedet vitnet om en konstant sterk interesse for temaet Norge under den andre verdenskrig, var faghistorikeres bidrag til historiografien heller fåtallige. Og slik fortsatte det til inn på ... -
«Farlig for sine omgivelser» Forståelser av kvinnelige pasienters farlighet ved Rotvoll asyl i årene 1930–1954
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Artikkelen diskuterer forståelser av kvinnelige pasienters farlighet ved Rotvoll asyl i årene 1930–1954. I artikkelen undersøkes det hvordan og hvorfor farlighetsbegrepet ble brukt om kvinnelige pasienter i psykiatrien, i ... -
Grini fangeleir og Holocaust i Norge: Grinis funksjon i forfølgelsene av norske jøder 1941–1945
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Den største nazistiske fangeleiren i Norge var Polizeihäftlingslager Grini, som var underlagt Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei (BdS). Blant leirens like under 20 000 fanger var 215 norske jøder. Jeg har utviklet en ... -
Incompetence or Ingenuity? Why Did Nazi Germany Not Seek Closer Wartime Economic Cooperation with Italy?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article sheds light on why there was, and why Nazi Germany pursued, only comparatively little economic cooperation between the two most important axis partners, Italy and Germany, during the Second World War. In ... -
Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia
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Infant company protection in the German semi-synthetic fibre industry: market power, technology, the Nazi government and the post-1945 world market
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In the 1920 and early 1930s, the German semi-synthetic fibre industry was dominated by a duopoly of two big players. The incumbent firms were not willing to expand their staple fibre capacities to the extent demanded by ... -
Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The topic of “missing girls” in historical Europe has not only been mostly neglected, but previous research addressing this issue usually took the available information too lightly, either rejecting or accepting the claims ... -
Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial societies: evidence from Valencia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article analyses the relationship between institutions and human capital formation. We use literacy rates in 1860 at the municipal level in Valencia where the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609 was followed by the ... -
Marine minerals' role in future holistic mineral resource management
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Mellom vrak og strand: Vrakberging og liminalitet ved Hitra og Frøya på 1700- og 1800-tallet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Ever since Arnold van Gennep introduced the concept of liminality in 1909, it has been used in a huge variety of different contexts and on different subjects. The beach has particularly been related to the idea of a liminal ... -
Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)By relying on the number of (surviving) boys per hundred girls observed in the population censuses as a cumulative measure of differential mortality during birth, infancy, and childhood, this paper shows that average Italian ...