• Sir Michael Moissey Postan FBA (24 September 1899 – 12 December 1981) was a British historian. He was known informally as Munia Postan. Postan was born...
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    in the 1930s, including Marc Bloch, Henri Pirenne, Wilhelm Abel, and Michael Postan. Referring to the crisis in Italy as the "Crisis of the 14th Century"...
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    Eileen Power (redirect from Eileen Postan)
    1937. In 1937, Power married her pupil and colleague, the historian Michael Postan, Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, having...
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  • and Olympic sport shooter Mendel Portugali, An Hashomer founder Sir Michael Postan, historian Anton Rubinstein, pianist Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick...
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    the normal processes of government after the revolt; as the historian Michael Postan describes, the uprising was in many ways a "passing episode". On 30...
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    history. Academic International Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780875690643. Michael Postan (1987) [1952]. The Cambridge economic history of Europe: 2. Trade and...
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    founder of demography centered the Malthusian model of economic history. Michael Postan – prominent scholar of the Malthusian model of medieval demographics...
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  • capitalism, and were foundational to so-called "Political Marxism". In 1978, Michael Postan and John Hatcher characterised the debate as attempting to determine...
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    2020. Postan 1952, p. 1. Postan 1952, pp. 1–2, 6–7. Collier 2004, p. 21. Postan 1952, pp. 9, 27–29. Postan 1952, pp. 29–30. Postan 1952, p. 73. Postan 1952...
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  • Lady Cynthia Rosalie Postan (née Keppel; 25 June 1918 – 12 November 2017) was a British debutante, secretary for MI5, translator and editor, horticulturalist...
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    they advanced in Germany." According to the civil official historian, Michael Postan, Operation Pluto was "strategically important, tactically adventurous...
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    but the exact parameters remain a subject of historical debate. Sir Michael Postan, for instance, contends that these may not represent all rural households...
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  • Rosalie Keppel (25 June 1918 – 12 November 2017), married Professor Sir Michael Postan (d. 1981) and has issue Hon. Richard Edward Harry Keppel (3 November...
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    London School of Economics. There he met Eileen Power, R. H. Tawney and Michael Postan, among others. While in London, he was asked to write a section of the...
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    university's faculty for that subject – Herbert Butterfield, David Knowles, Michael Postan and Denis Brogan. In the 1980s Peterhouse acquired an association with...
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    the history tripos. He attended lectures by economic historians like Michael Postan, which would influence his later archaeological approach to the economies...
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    dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director Sir Michael Postan FBA (1899 in Bendery – 1981 in Cambridge), a British historian Yosef...
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    First Sea Lord had been indiscreet to Professor Michael Postan of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Postan said that he believed he had been told officially...
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    Pollock, 3rd Baronet (Trinity) Roy Porter (Christ's/Churchill) Sir Michael Postan (Peterhouse) Eileen Power (Girton) Sir George Prothero (King's) Andrew...
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    was a large amount; to put these figures into a contemporary context, Michael Postan has estimated the daily wages of those in skilled trades—carpenters...
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    Age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors, 1547-1603 p. 300. Michael Postan, "Revisions in Economic History. IX.—The Fifteenth Century." Economic...
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    the older Victorian tradition in the subject. Power died in 1940, but Michael Postan, who had previously been her student but later became her husband, brought...
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  • Cleansing of Palestine and professor at The University of Exeter Sir Michael Postan, historian Cecil Roth, historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica...
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    for the historian Zachary N. Brooke, and Postan in Sylvester Road (1939), for the historians Michael Postan and Eileen Power, now part of Robinson College...
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    where he attended the lectures of David Knowles, Geoffrey Elton, and Michael Postan. In 1961 he was awarded a Henry Fellowship to Yale University. But it...
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    disturbance. It was not a particularly profitable office, notes the economist Michael Postan, and indeed was "as likely to be a source of loss as gain" for the appointee...
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  • Mitchell, actor, comedian and writer A. L. Morton, Marxist historian Michael Postan, historian William Ridgeway, classical scholar and Disney Professor...
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  • Richard Titmuss, 1950 (transcribed HTML copy) British War Production, Michael Postan, 1952 (transcribed HTML copy) General Series Coal, W. B. Court, 1951...
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  • Jewish and East European history George Posener, French Egyptologist Michael Postan, British historian (Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188) Joshua Prawer, Israeli...
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    Trade and industry in the Middle Ages by Edward Miller, Michael Moïssey Postan, Cynthia Postan p.822 Groschen Groat (coin) Kuruş Venetian grosso v t e...
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