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  1. Between “Self-Murder” and “Suicide”: The Modern Etymology of Self-Killing
  2. Andreas Bähr
  3. pp. 620-632
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  1. Saving Self-Murderers: Lifesaving Programs and the Treatment of Suicides in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe
  2. Alexander Kästner
  3. pp. 633-650
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  1. Mapping Civilization: The Cultural Geography of Suicide Statistics in Russia
  2. Susan K. Morrissey
  3. pp. 651-667
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  1. Low Morals at a High Latitude?: Suicide in Nineteenth-century Scandinavia
  2. Evelyne Luef
  3. pp. 668-683
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  1. Sociology’s “One Law”: Moral Statistics, Modernity, Religion, and German Nationalism in the Suicide Studies of Adolf Wagner and Alexander von Oettingen
  2. David Lederer
  3. pp. 684-699
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  1. “The Fatal Tendency of Civilized Society”: Enrico Morselli’s Suicide, Moral Statistics, and Positivism in Italy
  2. Maria Teresa Brancaccio
  3. pp. 700-715
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  1. From Statistics to Diagnostics: Medical Certificates, Melancholia, and “Suicidal Propensities” in Victorian Psychiatry
  2. Åsa Jansson
  3. pp. 716-731
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  1. “A Peculiar Species of Felony”: Suicide, Medicine, and the Law in Victorian Britain and Ireland
  2. Georgina Laragy
  3. pp. 732-743
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  1. The Uses of History in the Unmaking of Modern Suicide
  2. Ian Marsh
  3. pp. 744-756
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  1. Austerity, Neo-Liberal Economics, and Youth Suicide: The Case of New Zealand, 1980–2000
  2. John Weaver, Doug Munro
  3. pp. 757-783
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  1. Homesickness: An American History by Susan J. Matt (review)
  2. Gary Cross
  3. pp. 784-785
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  1. Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic by Nancy Beadie (review)
  2. Michael B. Katz
  3. pp. 785-788
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  1. The Demographics of Empire: the Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge ed. by Karl Ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell, Gregory H. Maddox (review)
  2. Jane Hooper
  3. pp. 788-790
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  1. Industrious in Their Station: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720–1810 by Sharon Braslaw Sundue (review)
  2. Steven Mintz
  3. pp. 790-791
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  1. Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present by Leon Fink (review)
  2. Kenyon Zimmer
  3. pp. 791-793
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  1. Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790–1870 by David R. Green (review)
  2. Nancy LoPatin-Lummis
  3. pp. 793-795
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  1. Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860 by Richard Graham (review)
  2. Jeffrey M. Pilcher
  3. pp. 795-797
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  1. Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations: The Long-Term Implications of the Abolition of the Slave Trade ed. by Marcel van der Linden (review)
  2. Seymour Drescher
  3. pp. 797-799
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  1. Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland by Malgorzata Fidelis (review)
  2. Małgorzata Mazurek
  3. pp. 800-801
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  1. Le Choix des aliments: Informations et pratiques alimentaires de la fin du Moyen Âge à nos jours ed. by Martin Bruegel, Marilyn Nicoud, Eva Barlösius (review)
  2. Sydney Watts
  3. pp. 802-804
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  1. How Cancer Crossed the Color Line by Keith Wailoo (review)
  2. Joel Howell
  3. pp. 804-805
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  1. Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 1780–1900 by Joan Sherwood (review)
  2. Christine Adams
  3. pp. 806-808
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  1. Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France by Brian Sandberg (review)
  2. Donna Bohanan
  3. pp. 808-809
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  1. Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack (review)
  2. Michelle A. Laughran
  3. pp. 809-811
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  1. Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel (review)
  2. Joseph A. Amato
  3. pp. 811-814
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  1. Napoleon’s Other War. Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions by Michael Broers (review)
  2. Katherine B. Aaslestad
  3. pp. 814-816
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  1. The Politics of Suicide: Historical Perspectives on Suicidology before Durkheim. An Introduction
  2. Maria Teresa Brancaccio, Eric J. Engstrom, David Lederer
  3. pp. 607-619
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