Ming Gao, Qiankun Gu, Shijun He & Dongmin Kong identify the long-term impact of more centralised bureaucracy south of the Great Wall after 1449, with advantages for city building, judicial enforcement, administrative quality and levels of economic activity. New in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
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19th century abolitionism disrupted some American Protestant denominations more than others because of differences in centralized authority & capacity to suppress dissent, rather than theological variation, according to Kristin George in the most recent Social Science History. Open access https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.1
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