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Articles in August, 1998 issue of Past & Present

The further shores of Partition: ethnic cleansing in Rajasthan 1947
by Ian Copland
The rise of juvenile delinquency in England 1780-1840: changing patterns of perception and prosecution
by Peter King
Individualism and the family-land bond: a reassessment of land transfer patterns among the English peasantry c. 1270-1580
by Jane Whittle
The social meanings of swearing: workers and bad language in late imperial and early Soviet Russia
by S.A. Smith
Gossip and resistance among the medieval peasantry
by Chris Wickham
Labour, leisure and economic thought before the nineteenth century
by John Hatcher

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