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February 2022, Volume 75, Issue 1
- 111-137 Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy
by Brian A'Hearn & Alexia Delfino & Alessandro Nuvolari - 138-156 Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe
by Paul Slack - 157-180 Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750†
by Erik Bengtsson & Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson - 181-202 Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019
by Ola Honningdal Grytten - 203-234 Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden†
by Lars Fredrik Andersson & Liselotte Eriksson & Paul Nystedt - 235-240 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–1100
by Jane Kershaw - 240-249 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (ii) 1100–1500
by Spike Gibbs - 249-255 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iii) 1500–1700
by Charmian Mansell - 256-263 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iv) 1700–1850
by Karolina Hutková - 263-275 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (v) 1850–1945
by Brian D. Varian - 275-287 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 1945
by Ewan Gibbs - 288-289 Ben Marsh, Unravelled dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World 1500–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+500. ISBN 9781108418287 Hbk. £29.99)
by Manuela Martini - 289-290 Henning Hillmann, The corsairs of Saint‐Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Régime (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xii+322. 35 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9780231180382 Hbk. £108; ISBN 9780231180399 Pbk. £28)
by Pierre Gervais - 290-291 W. G. Miller, British traders in the East Indies 1770–1820 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Pp. i+222. ISBN 9781783275533 Hbk. £75.00)
by Michael Aldous - 292-293 Rebecca Earle, Feeding the people: The politics of the potato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, Pp. xiv+306. 24 figs. ISBN 9781108484060 Hbk. £17.99)
by Vicente Pinilla - 293-294 Stephen L. Morgan, The Chinese economy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021. Pp. xvii+316. 35 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781788210805 Hbk. £60.00; ISBN 9781788210812 Pbk. £16.99)
by Meng Wu
November 2021, Volume 74, Issue 4
- 871-872 Introduction to the symposium on money
by John D. Turner - 873-891 ‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century
by Jim Bolton & Francesco Guidi‐Bruscoli - 892-921 The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization
by Olivier Accominotti & Delio Lucena‐Piquero & Stefano Ugolini - 922-945 Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes
by James L. Butkiewicz & Scott Ohlmacher - 946-975 Augmented human development in the age of globalization
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura - 976-1005 Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−14
by Tetsuji Okazaki - 1006-1030 Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12
by Peter Anderson - 1031-1061 Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556
by Mattia Fochesato - 1062-1086 Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3
by Juan Flores Zendejas - 1087-1095 Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport
by Simon Szreter & Graham Mooney - 1096-1110 Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney
by Romola J. Davenport - 1111-1112 Susan Kilby, Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: A study of three communities (Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. Pp. 256. ISBN 978‐10912260‐21‐8 Pbk. £18.99)
by Philip Slavin - 1112-1113 John C. Appleby, Fur, fashion and transatlantic trade during the seventeenth century: Chesapeake Bay Native hunters, colonial rivalries and London merchants (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. x+294. 2 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783275793 Hbk. £75.00)
by Frank J. Tough - 1113-1115 Jin Xu, Empire of silver: A new monetary history of China, translated by Stacy Mosher (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 374. ISBN 978030025004‐6 Hbk. $30.00)
by Richard Von Glahn - 1115-1116 B. Zorina Khan, Inventing ideas. Patents, prizes and the knowledge economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+462. 46 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9780190936075 Hbk. £64; ISBN 9780190936082 Pbk. £19.99)
by Alessandro Nuvolari - 1116-1117 Selina Todd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)
by Santiago Pérez - 1117-1119 Victoria Bateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95)
by Jane Humphries - 1119-1120 Charlie Whitham, Corporate conservatives go to war: How the National Association of Manufacturers planned to restore free enterprise, 1939–1948 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi+400. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐43907‐1 Hbk. €103.99; ISBN 978‐3‐030‐43910‐1 Pbk. €72.79)
by Taylor Jaworski - 1120-1122 Mitsuhiko Kimura, The economics of colonialism in Korea: Rethinking Japanese rule and aftermath (Tokyo: Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2021. Pp. 233. 1 fig. 38 tabs. ISBN 9784866581248 Hbk. ¥2,500)
by Myung Soo Cha - 1122-1123 Harold James, Making a modern central bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. i+525. ISBN 9781108799492 Pbk. £29.99)
by David Chambers
August 2021, Volume 74, Issue 3
- 581-583 Introduction to the symposium on inequality
by Giovanni Federico - 584-610 Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico
by Ingrid Bleynat & Amílcar E. Challú & Paul Segal - 611-638 Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800
by Alexandra de Pleijt & Jan Luiten van Zanden - 639-665 The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population
by Peter Scott - 666-690 Historical social stratification and mobility in Costa Rica, 1840–2006
by Daniel Diaz Vidal - 691-720 Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)†
by Mario García‐Zúñiga & Ernesto LóPEZ LOSA - 721-753 Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948
by Javier D. Donna & José‐Antonio Espín‐Sánchez - 754-783 Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset
by Gabriele Cappelli & Gloria Quiroga Valle - 784-808 Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism
by Nuala Zahedieh - 809-830 War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913
by Lars Karlsson & Peter Hedberg - 831-855 Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–39†
by Grant Fleming & Zhangxin (Frank) Liu & David Merrett & Simon Ville - 856-857 Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor, and Sarah Carmichael, Capital women: the European Marriage Pattern, female empowerment, and economic development in western Europe, 1300–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+278. 27 figs. 41 tabs. ISBN 9780190847883 Hbk. £47.99)
by Kathryn E. Gary - 857-858 John Henderson, Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+363. 39 plates. 4 maps. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780300196344 Hbk. £30.00)
by Patrick Wallis - 859-860 A. G. Hopkins, An economic history of West Africa (London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. v+399. 17 maps. 6 figs. ISBN 978036700243 Hbk. £120.00)
by Jutta Bolt - 860-861 Michael Schiltz, Accounting for the fall of silver: hedging currency risk in long‐distance trade with Asia, 1870–1913 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v+224. 48 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198865025 Hbk. $85.00)
by Juan Flores Zendejas - 862-863 Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis, and Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the modern world: the moral economy of famine relief (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+310. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781108493529 Hbk. £75.00)
by Charles Read - 863-864 Bas van Leeuwen, Robert C. M. Philips, and Erik Buyst, eds., An economic history of regional industrialization (London: Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 2021. Pp. v+300. 60 illus. ISBN 9780367197520 Hbk. £120.00)
by Kerstin Enflo - 864-865 Christy Thornton, Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economy (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. v+302. ISBN 9780520297166 Pbk. £25.00)
by David Escamilla‐Guerrero - 865-867 Gregg Huff, World War II and Southeast Asia: economy and society under Japanese occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+524. ISBN 9781107099333 Hbk. £90.00)
by Anne Booth
May 2021, Volume 74, Issue 2
- 309-338 Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution
by Nicholas Crafts - 339-340 Symposium
by Patrick Wallis - 341-371 The growth pattern of British children, 1850–1975
by Pei Gao & Eric B. Schneider - 372-399 The pox in Boswell's London: an estimate of the extent of syphilis infection in the metropolis in the 1770s
by Simon Szreter & Kevin Siena - 400-423 Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona
by Gregori Galofré‐Vilà & Bernard Harris - 424-448 The real urban wage in an agricultural economy without landless farmers: Serbia, 1862–1910
by Boško Mijatović & Branko Milanović - 449-470 Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas
by Mauro Rota & Jacob Weisdorf - 471-495 Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922
by Graeme G. Acheson & Gareth Campbell & Áine Gallagher & John D. Turner - 496-521 Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900
by Shima Amini & Steven Toms - 522-545 Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60
by Thales Zamberlan Pereira - 546-567 Paesani versus paisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration
by Leticia Arroyo Abad & Noel Maurer & Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso - 568-569 Jane Kershaw and Gareth Williams, eds., Silver, butter, cloth: monetary and social economies in the Viking Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. v+306. 69 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198827986 Hbk. £75.00)
by Alex Woolf - 569-570 Bronwen Everill, Not made by slaves: ethical capitalism in the age of abolition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 318. ISBN 9780674240988 Hbk. $39.95/£31.95)
by Frank Trentmann - 570-571 Kathleen Monteith, Plantation coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. Pp. xv+250. ISBN 9789766407261 Pbk. $60.00)
by Aaron Graham - 571-573 Xavier Lafrance, The making of capitalism in France: class structures, economic development, the state and the formation of the French working class, 1750–1914 (Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐27632‐1 Hbk. €118)
by Oisín Gilmore - 573-574 Aaron G. Jakes, Egypt's occupation: colonial economism and the crises of capitalism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+352. 1 tab. ISBN 9781503607194 Hbk. $90.00; ISBN 9781503612617 Pbk. $30.00)
by Klas Rönnbäck - 574-575 Craig VanGrasstek, Trade and American leadership: the paradoxes of power and wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxviii+475. 20 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781108476959 Hbk. £30.99)
by Jeremy Land - 576-577 David Mitch and Gabriele Cappelli, eds., Globalization and the rise of mass education (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xx+338. 40 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783030254179 e‐Book. £79.50; ISBN 9783030254162 Hbk. £99.99; ISBN 9783030254193 Pbk. £69.99)
by Tomáš Cvrček
February 2021, Volume 74, Issue 1
- 3-5 Introduction
by Giovanni Federico - 6-33 House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne
by Gürer Karagedikli & Ali Coşkun Tunçer - 34-59 Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c. 1850s–1940s
by Amos Nadan - 60-86 Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit
by Laura Panza & Ulaş Karakoç - 87-114 Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail
by Dan Bogart & Oliver Dunn & Eduard J. Alvarez‐Palau & Leigh Shaw‐Taylor - 115-137 Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831
by Stefania Galli & Klas Rönnbäck - 138-163 Land, ladies, and the law: a case study on women's land rights and welfare in Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century
by Thanyaporn Chankrajang & Jessica Vechbanyongratana - 164-180 Baumol, Engel, and beyond: accounting for a century of structural transformation in Japan, 1885–1985
by Kyoji Fukao & Saumik Paul - 181-203 The Polish interbella puzzle: the biological standard of living in the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39 †
by Michał Kopczyński & Mateusz Rodak - 204-222 The German bank–growth nexus revisited: savings banks and economic growth in Prussia
by Sibylle Lehmann‐Hasemeyer & Fabian Wahl - 223-250 Flight‐to‐safety and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crises in France during the Great Depression
by Patrice Baubeau & Eric Monnet & Angelo Riva & Stefano Ungaro - 295-296 Davies, John E., The changing fortunes of an aristocratic family, 1689–1976: the Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh estates (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. ix+343. 12 figs. ISBN 978‐1‐78327‐434‐5 Hbk. £85.00)
by Mark Rothery - 296-297 Jim Phillips, Scottish coal miners in the twentieth century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. iv+316. 8 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781474452311 Hbk. £85.00)
by Jörg Arnold - 297-299 Julian Hoppit, Duncan Needham, and Adrian Leonard, eds., Money and markets: essays in honour of Martin Daunton (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. v+294. 17 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781783274451 Pbk. £19.99)
by D'Maris Coffman - 299-300 Andrea Caracausi, Matthew Davies, and Luca Mocarelli, eds., Between regulation and freedom: work and manufactures in European cities 14th–18th centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiii+146. ISBN 1‐5275‐0638‐X Hbk. £58.99)
by Patrick Wallis - 301-302 Sebastian Edwards, American default: the untold story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the battle over gold (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxxiii + 252. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 9780691161884 Hbk. £24/$29.95; 9780691196046 Pbk. £16.99/$19.95)
by David James Gill - 302-303 Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Badley A. Hansen, Bankrupt in America. A history of debtors, their creditors and the law in the twentieth century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020. Pp. v+222. 18 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780226679564 Hbk. $55.00)
by Rowena Olegario - 303-305 Simon Mee, Central bank independence and the legacy of the German past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. 13 illus. 3 tabs. ISBN 978110849978 Hbk. £75.00)
by Albrecht Ritschl - 305-306 Jan L. Logemann, Engineered to sell. European emigrés and the making of consumer capitalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. v+371. 22 images. ISBN 9780226660158 Pbk. $35.00)
by Vicki Howard
November 2020, Volume 73, Issue 4
- 885-913 Mites and merchants: the crisis of English wool and textile trade revisited, c. 1275–1330
by Philip Slavin - 914-939 Taxation, fiscal capacity, and credible commitment in eighteenth‐century China: the effects of the formalization and centralization of informal surtaxes
by Yu Hao & Kevin Zhengcheng Liu - 940-963 Patents and invention in Jamaica and the British Atlantic before 1857
by Aaron Graham - 964-990 The rise of coffee in the Brazilian south‐east: tariffs and foreign market potential, 1827–40
by Christopher David Absell - 991-1022 Infant and child mortality by socio‐economic status in early nineteenth‐century England
by Hannaliis Jaadla & Ellen Potter & Sebastian Keibek & Romola Davenport - 1023-1049 Unequal access to food during the nutritional transition: evidence from Mediterranean Spain
by Francisco J. Medina‐Albaladejo & Salvador Calatayud - 1050-1073 Living standards and the life cycle: reconstructing household income and consumption in the early twentieth‐century Netherlands
by Corinne Boter - 1074-1096 Officer retention and military spending: the rise of the military‐industrial complex during the Second World War
by Ahmed S. Rahman - 1097-1127 Origins of regional divergence: economic growth in socialist Yugoslavia
by Leonard Kukić - 1128-1136 Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider
by Robert C. Allen - 1137-1152 Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen
by Jane Humphries & Benjamin Schneider - 1153-1202 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2019
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1203-1204 John Hatcher and Judy Z. Stephenson, eds., Seven centuries of unreal wages. The unreliable data, sources and methods that have been used for measuring standards of living in the past (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xiv + 317. 32 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 978‐3‐319‐96961‐9 Hbk. £109.99)
by Jane Humphries - 1204-1206 David Stone, ed., The accounts of the manor of Esher in the Winchester Pipe Rolls, 1235–1376 (Woking: Surrey Record Society, vol. xlvi, 2017. Pp. lxxvii + 438. 11 figs. 9 tabs. 7 plates. ISBN 9780902978218. £30)
by James Davis - 1206-1207 Giada Pizzoni, British Catholic merchants in the commercial age, 1670–1714 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xiii + 214. 5 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781783274383 Hbk. £70)
by Eleanor Russell - 1207-1208 Jairus Banaji, A brief history of commercial capitalism (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. Pp. 197. ISBN 978‐1‐6459‐132‐3 Hbk. £15.67)
by Lord Desai - 1208-1210 Ron Harris, Going the distance: Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400–1700 (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 465. 28 b/w illus. 20 tabs. 14 maps. ISBN 9780691150772 Hbk. £34)
by Karolina Hutková - 1210-1212 James Livesey, Provincializing global history: money, ideas, and things in the Languedoc, 1660–1830 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. x+214. ISBN 9780300237160 Hbk. £35)
by David Todd - 1212-1213 Alan Forrest, The death of the French Atlantic. Trade, war, and slavery in the age of revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v + 352. 6 maps. ISBN 9780199568956. Hbk. £35)
by Aaron Graham - 1213-1214 Ellen Hillbom and Erik Green, An economic history of development in sub‐Saharan Africa: economic transformations and political changes (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xvii + 286. 15 tabs. ISBN 9783030140076 Pbk. £39.99)
by Mariusz Lukasiewicz - 1214-1215 Gelina Harlaftis, Creating global shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the business of shipping, c. 1820–1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 375. 46 figs. 5 maps. 46 tabs. ISBN 9781108475396 Hbk. £90)
by C. Knick Harley - 1216-1217 Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna, Modern Brazil: a social history (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 419. 3 maps. 88 graphs. 95 tabs. ISBN 9781108489027 Hbk. £79.99; ISBN 9781108733298 Pbk. £26.99)
by Gail Triner
August 2020, Volume 73, Issue 3
- 1-19 An introduction to the history of infectious diseases, epidemics and the early phases of the long‐run decline in mortality
by Leigh Shaw‐Taylor - 623-643 Mentality, motivation, and economic decision‐making in Ancient Rome: Cicero and Tullia's shrine
by Marta García Morcillo - 644-667 Poverty or prosperity in northern India? New evidence on real wages, 1590s–1870s
by Pim de Zwart & Jan Lucassen - 668-702 Integration in European coal markets, 1833–1913
by John E. Murray & Javier Silvestre - 703-729 A leader in an emerging new international market: the determinants of French wine exports, 1848–1938
by María‐Isabel Ayuda & Hugo Ferrer‐Pérez & Vicente Pinilla - 730-757 Sanitary infrastructures and the decline of mortality in Germany, 1877–1913
by Daniel Gallardo‐Albarrán - 758-784 Factor endowments on the ‘frontier’: Algerian settler agriculture at the beginning of the 1900s
by Laura Maravall - 785-814 UK investment trust portfolio strategies before the First World War
by Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos & Janette Rutterford & Carolyn Keber - 815-843 Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years
by Alejandro Ayuso‐Díaz & Antonio Tena‐Junguito - 844-867 Uncertainty and the Great Slump
by Jason Lennard - 868-869 Linda Levy Peck, Women of fortune: money, marriage, and murder in early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+335. 14 figs. 16 colour plates. ISBN 9781107034020 Hbk. £26.99)
by Janette Rutterford - 869-870 Pat How and Jane Harris, eds., Wills, inventories and probate accounts from Saint Albans 1600–1615 (Hertford: Hertfordshire Records Society, 2019. Pp. xlii+436. 5 illus. ISBN 9780956511171 Hbk. £22 + p&p to non‐members)
by Ken Sneath - 870-872 David Fitzpatrick, The Americanisation of Ireland: migration and settlement, 1841–1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+254. 2 charts. 10 maps. 47 tabs. ISBN 9781108486491 Hbk. £22.99)
by Raymond L. Cohn - 872-873 Richard Mackenney, Venice as the polity of mercy: guilds, confraternities, and the social order, c. 1250–c. 1650 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. vii+471. 66 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781442649682 Hbk. $67.50)
by Andrea Caracausi - 873-874 Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis, eds., Apprenticeship in early modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+322. 21 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781108496926 Hbk. £52.81)
by Karel Davids - 874-876 Emma Hart, Trading spaces: the colonial marketplace and the foundations of American capitalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 1+274. 10 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780226659817 Hbk. $45)
by Farley Grubb - 876-877 Kazuo Kobayashi, Indian cotton textiles in West Africa. African agency, consumer demand and the making of the global economy, 1750–1850 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Imperial and Post‐Colonial Studies Series, 2019. Pp. vii+258. 15 figs. 6 images. 5 tabs. 4 maps. ISBN 9783030186746 Hbk. £59.99; ISBN 9783030186753 eBook. £47.99)
by Alka Raman - 877-878 Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, eds., Fiscal capacity and the colonial state in Asia and Africa, c. 1850–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Economic History, 2020. Pp. v+303. 54 figs. 3 maps. 42 tabs. ISBN 9781108494267 Hbk. £75)
by Yannick Dupraz - 878-880 Anne Fleming, City of debtors. A century of fringe finance (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 367. ISBN 9780674976238 Hbk. $46.50/£37.95)
by Simone Selva - 880-881 A. G. Hopkins, American empire: a global history (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xx+980. 8 figs. 8 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780691177052 Hbk. £32.95/$39.95)
by Noel Maurer
May 2020, Volume 73, Issue 2
- 353-383 Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited
by Gavin Wright - 384-408 Intoxicants and the invention of ‘consumption’
by Phil Withington - 409-430 Working days in a London construction team in the eighteenth century: evidence from St Paul's Cathedral
by Judy Z. Stephenson - 431-454 Between Malthus and the industrial take‐off: regional inequality in Sweden, 1571–1850
by Kerstin Enflo & Anna Missiaia - 455-485 Urbanization and mortality in Britain, c. 1800–50
by Romola J. Davenport - 486-512 The limiting factor: energy, growth, and divergence, 1820–1913
by Paolo Malanima - 513-539 A silver transformation: Chinese monetary integration in times of political disintegration, 1898–1933
by Debin Ma & Liuyan Zhao - 540-564 Commodity option pricing efficiency before Black, Scholes, and Merton
by David Chambers & Rasheed Saleuddin - 565-594 For a fistful of pesetas? The political economy of the army in a nonconsolidated democracy: the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931–9)
by Álvaro La Parra‐Pérez - 595-596 Richard Goddard and Teresa Phipps, eds., Town courts and urban society in late medieval England, 1250–1500 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xi+263. 5 maps. 7 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781783274253 Hbk. £60)
by A. T. Brown - 596-597 Peter Maunder, Tiverton cloth: the story of the town's woollen trade, 1475–1815 (Exeter: Short Run Press, 2018. Pp. v+450. 3 maps. 21 tabs. 66 figs. ISBN 9781527231740 Hbk. £20)
by John S. Lee - 597-599 David Thackeray, Forging a British world of trade: culture, ethnicity, and market in the Empire‐Commonwealth, 1880–1975 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xv+230. 14 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780198816713 Hbk. £60)
by Nicholas J. White - 599-600 Seth Bernard, Building Mid‐Republican Rome. Labor, architecture and the urban economy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xv+315. 38 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9780190878788 Hbk. 9780190878801 E‐pub. £55)
by Miko Flohr - 600-601 Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio, The lion's share: inequality and the rise of the fiscal state in preindustrial Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. v+232. 29 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781108476218 Hbk. £31.99)
by Johannes Lindvall - 601-602 Paul Cheney, Cul de Sac: patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint‐Domingue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. vii+264. 3 maps. 4 graphs. 7 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780226679259 Pbk $32.00)
by Aaron Graham - 603-604 Toby Green, A fistful of shells. West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019. Pp. ix+614. 6 maps. 62 figs. ISBN 9780226644578 Hbk. $40)
by Karin Pallaver - 604-605 Karolina Hutkova, The English East India Company's silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xv+259. 20 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9781783273942 Hbk. $120)
by Beverly Lemire - 605-607 Peer Vries, Averting a Great Divergence. State and economy in Japan, 1868–1937 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 1+310. 104 tabs. 11 figs. ISBN 9781350121676 Hbk. £63)
by Jean‐Pascal Bassino - 607-608 Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc. An intimate history of corporate imperialism (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018. Pp. ix+333. 35 figs. ISBN 9780226533315 Pbk. $25)
by Leslie Hannah - 608-609 Bettina Liverant, Buying happiness: the emergence of consumer consciousness in English Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Pp. 304. 11 illus. ISBN 9780774835145 Pbk. $34.95)
by Shinobu Majima - 609-610 Jason E. Taylor, Deconstructing the monolith: the microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. vii+206. 25 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780226603308 Hbk. $55)
by Carl T. Kitchens - 611-612 Tobias Straumann, 1931: debt, crisis, and the rise of Hitler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. v+234. 2 maps. 7 figs. 16 illustrations. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780198816188 Pbk. £16.99)
by Stefanie Middendorf - 612-613 Ulbe Bosma, The making of the periphery: how island Southeast Asia became a mass exporter of labour (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xii+304. 7 tabs. 1 fig. 5 maps. ISBN 97802311 88524 Hbk. 9780231547901 E‐book)
by Anne Booth - 613-615 Éric Monnet, Controlling credit: central banking and the planned economy in postwar France, 1948–1973 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii+327. 30 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781108415019 Hbk. £85)
by Oliver Bush - 615-616 Amy C. Offner, Sorting out the mixed economy. The rise and fall of welfare and developmental states in the Americas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+381. 4 maps. 22 figs. ISBN 9780691190938 Hbk. £34)
by Martin Andersson - 616-618 Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert, eds., General labour history of Africa: workers, employers and governments, 20th–21st centuries (International Labour Organization: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Pp. v+761. 3 maps. 4 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781847012180 Hbk. £95)
by Michiel De Haas - 618-619 Christopher D. Gore, Electricity in Africa: the politics of transformation in Uganda (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xiv+186. 7 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781847011695 Hbk. £60)
by David Ockwell - 619-620 Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and Jean‐Paul Chavas, eds., The economics of poverty traps, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. x+413. 51 figs. 33 tabs. ISBN 9780226574301 Hbk. $130; 9780226574448 E‐book $130)
by Ewout Frankema
February 2020, Volume 73, Issue 1
- 3-32 The gender division of labour in early modern England
by Jane Whittle & Mark Hailwood - 33-58 Institutions for the taking: property rights and the settlement of the Cape Colony, 1652–1750
by Alan Dye & Sumner La Croix - 59-77 What explains the missing girls in nineteenth‐century Spain?
by Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Domingo Gallego‐Martínez - 78-105 Inadequate supply and increasing demand for textiles and clothing: second‐hand trade at auctions as an alternative source of consumer goods in Sweden, 1830–1900
by Kristina Lilja & Pernilla Jonsson - 106-133 Women's labour force participation in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 census enumerators’ books
by Xuesheng You - 134-158 A policy of credit disruption: the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900
by Latika Chaudhary & Anand V. Swamy - 159-184 Can school centralization foster human capital accumulation? A quasi‐experiment from early twentieth‐century Italy
by Gabriele Cappelli & Michelangelo Vasta - 185-208 Asia's ‘little divergence’ in the twentieth century: evidence from PPP‐based direct estimates of GDP per capita, 1913–69
by Jean‐Pascal Bassino & Pierre van der Eng - 209-232 Agglomeration externalities and productivity growth: US cities, 1880–1930
by Alexander Klein & Nicholas Crafts - 233-257 Currency devaluations and beggar‐my‐neighbour penalties: evidence from the 1930s
by Thilo N. H. Albers - 258-280 ‘The capital market is dead’: the difficult birth of index‐linked gilts in the UK
by Michael J. Oliver & Janette Rutterford - 325-326 Susan Oosthuizen, The Anglo‐Saxon Fenland (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. Pp. xx+156. 55 figs. ISBN 9781911188087 Pbk. £29.95)
by David Bates - 326-327 Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie, eds., Economy and culture in north‐east England, 1500–1800 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi+293. 9 figs. 7 maps. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781783271832 Hbk. £65)
by Benjamin Schneider - 327-328 Adrian James Webb, Handlist of Somerset probate inventories and administrators' accounts, 1482–1924. (Taunton: Somerset Record Society, 2019. Pp. vi+282. ISBN 9780901732460 Hbk. £16)
by Heather Falvey - 328-330 Amy M. Froide, Silent partners: women as public investors during Britain's financial revolution, 1690–1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 225. 13 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198767985 Hbk £60)
by Amanda L. Capern - 330-331 Brenda King, The Wardle family and its circle: textile production in the Arts and Crafts era (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xix+218. 14 plates. 15 figures. ISBN 9781783273959 Hbk. £29.95)
by Alka Raman - 331-332 Michael Anderson, with mapping by Corinne Roughley, Scotland's populations from the 1850s to today (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi+458. 85 figs. 13 maps. 94 tabs. ISBN 9780198805830 Hbk. £85)
by Malcolm Noble - 332-333 Taco Terpstra, Trade in the ancient Mediterranean: private order and public institutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. v+277. photos 14 figs. ISBN 9780691172088 Hbk. £30.00)
by Richard Saller - 334-335 Sumner La Croix, Hawai'i: eight hundred years of political and economic change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix+389. 31 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780226592091 Hbk. $60.00)
by Justin R. Bucciferro - 335-336 Masayuki Tanimoto and R. Bin Wong (eds.), Public goods provision in the early modern economy: comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. v+331. 11 figs. 4 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780520303652 Pbk. $34.95)
by Melanie Meng Xue - 336-337 Francesca Trivellato, The promise and peril of credit: what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the making of European commercial society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 405. 20 figs. 5 apps. ISBN 9780691178592 Hbk. $45.00/£35.00)
by Thomas Max Safley - 338-339 Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel‐Vinay, and Jean‐Laurent Rosenthal, Dark matter credit: the development of peer‐to‐peer lending and banking in France (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+303. 28 tabs. 35 figs. ISBN 9780691182179 Hbk. £30)
by Pamfili Antipa - 339-340 Anne G. Hanley, The public good and the Brazilian state: municipal finance and public services in São Paulo, 1822–1930 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+290. 4 figs. 1 map. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780226535074 Hbk. £45/$60)
by Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza - 341-342 Şevket Pamuk, Uneven centuries: economic development of Turkey since 1820 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. v+352. 1 map. 17 tabs. 48 figs. ISBN 9780691166377 Hbk. £27)
by Ali‐Coşkun Tunçer - 342-343 Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler, Swiss monetary history since the early 19th century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+244. 51 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781107199309 Hbk. £85)
by Jakob Schneebacher - 343-345 Graham D. Taylor, Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian oil industry from 1880 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019. Pp. v+368. 6 maps, 31 figs. ISBN 9781773850351 Pbk. $39.99)
by Joe Martin - 345-346 Mary E. Cox, Hunger in war & peace: women & children in Germany, 1914–1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+383. 75 figs. 34 plates. 25 tabs. ISBN 9780198820116 Hbk. £70.00)
by Roderick Floud - 346-347 Aaron Hale‐Dorrell, Corn crusade: Khrushchev's farming revolution in the post‐Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. v+328. 11 figs. ISBN 9780190644673 Hbk. £47.99)
by Mark Harrison - 348-348 Niv Haresh and Kean Fan Kim, An East Asian challenge to western neoliberalism (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. Pp. 142+ref. ISBN 9281138926745 Hbk. £110; ISBN 9780367189945 Pbk. £36.99)
by Yi‐Chong Xu - 349-350 Mark H. Rose, Market rules: bankers, presidents, and the origins of the Great Recession (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. vii+253. ISBN 9780812251029 Hbk. £33.00)
by Anselm Küsters
November 2019, Volume 72, Issue 4
- 1129-1151 Uneven centuries: Turkey's experience with economic development since 1820
by Şevket Pamuk - 1152-1174 Bees in the medieval economy: religious observance and the production, trade, and consumption of wax in England, c. 1300–1555
by Alexandra Sapoznik - 1175-1201 Plague and long‐term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities
by Guido Alfani & Marco Percoco - 1202-1228 Institutional choice in the governance of the early Atlantic sugar trade: diasporas, markets, and courts
by Daniel Strum - 1229-1250 Beyond the personal–anonymous divide: agency relations in powers of attorney in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
by Fabien Eloire & Claire Lemercier & Veronica Aoki Santarosa - 1251-1285 Religion and development in post‐Famine Ireland
by Stuart Henderson