Ciekawostka: In Miconesia, coins are 12 feet across

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Introduction: Roman Coins across Frontiers. Abstract The Introduction explains how the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire (CHRE) Project offers the opportunity to study the full reach of this form of Roman material culture, noting that to understand what goes on beyond the frontiers one also needs to grasp patterns within. It emphasizes the importance of the extensive spread of Roman coinage and its imitations beyond the Empire for our understanding of the nature of Roman imperialism, the importance of commerce, and the significance of frontiers. It complements the chapters by surveying regions outside the Empire not covered in the rest of the book, drawing attention to the geographical and ch…

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Chapter Six. Bound Feet Across China

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Bound Feet Across China. The final chapter tests the general hypothesis that continued handwork by girls and women was instrumental in the persistence of footbinding. Aggregating quantitative data from our individual village sites across China and using logistic regressions, we show that when girls performed handwork for income, the likelihood that they were footbound was significantly greater than when they did not do handwork for income. Footbinding declined earlier when girls were not involved in commercial handwork. These findings are placed in the context of China’s industrialization, the spread of textile mills, and widespread displacement of girls’ hand labor in cotton textiles. The…

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