Constructing chronologies of historical events, defining time-periods in which they took place, with their ruptures and crises, identifying lasting patterns, internally distinct and coherent, and interacting according to the logic of their succession, are all tasks essential to the historian’s profession…

Conflicts among shareholders can be highly deleterious to a firm. They are usually generated by the divergent interests of the different categories of shareholders…

Almost by definition, colonial societies entailed huge inequalities in political power and agency, as well as in social and economic opportunities, if only along the racial divide between European and autochthonous populations…