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November 2019, Volume 72, Issue 4
- 1286-1311 Squeezing the bears: cornering risk and limits on arbitrage during the ‘British bicycle mania’, 1896–8
by William Quinn - 1312-1334 Military casualties and exchange rates during the First World War: did the Eastern Front matter?
by Pablo Duarte & Marcel Freidinger & Andreas Hoffmann - 1335-1362 Price shocks in regional markets: Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
by Janet Hunter & Kota Ogasawara - 1363-1383 Losing autonomy: the Norwegian central bank during the Second World War
by Einar Lie - 1384-1408 Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: the historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942–86
by Margarita Vilar‐Rodríguez & Jerònia Pons‐Pons - 1409-1438 Africa's clientelist budget policies revisited: public expenditure and employment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960–2010
by Rebecca Simson - 1439-1446 What can we learn from a race with one runner? A comment on Foreman‐Peck and Zhou, ‘Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England’
by Jeremy Edwards & Sheilagh Ogilvie - 1447-1450 Response to Edwards and Ogilvie
by James Foreman‐Peck & Peng Zhou - 1451-1507 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2018
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1508-1509 Rory Naismith, Citadel of the Saxons. The rise of early medieval London (London: I.B. Taurus, 2019. Pp. xvii + 268. 28 figs. 5 maps. ISBN 9781788312226 Hbk. £20.00)
by J. L. Bolton - 1509-1510 Phillipp R. Schofield, Peasants and historians: debating the medieval English peasantry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 280. ISBN 9780719053788 Pbk. £19.99)
by Spike Gibbs - 1510-1511 W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert, and Jonathan Mackman, Immigrant England, 1300–1550 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. xi+300. 5 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781526109149 Pbk. £19.99)
by Ian Forrest - 1512-1513 John S. Lee, The medieval clothier (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xx+365. 11 figs. 6 maps. 20 plates. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781783273171 Hbk. £25)
by Jordan Claridge - 1513-1514 Evan T. Jones and Richard Stone, eds., The world of the Newport medieval ship: trade, politics and shipping in the mid‐fifteenth century (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018. Pp. xx+276. 33 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781786831439 Hbk. £85; 9781786832634 Pbk. £29.99)
by Helen Doe - 1514-1515 Anne L. Murphy, ed., The worlds of the Jeake family of Rye 1640–1736 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix+342. ISBN 9780197266366 Hbk. £70.00)
by Gillian Draper - 1515-1517 George R. Boyer, The winding road to the welfare test: economic insecurity & social welfare policy in Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. v+346. 12 figs. 60 tabs. ISBN 9780691178738 Hbk. £35)
by Kate Bradley - 1517-1518 William A. Allen, The Bank of England and the government debt: operations in the gilt‐edged market, 1928–1972 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+260. 23 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781108499835 Hbk. £85)
by John Singleton - 1518-1519 Jim Tomlinson, Managing the economy, managing the people: narratives of economic life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii+273. 6 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780198786092 Hbk. £60)
by Laura Beers - 1519-1521 Jan de Vries, The price of bread: regulating the market in the Dutch Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xix+515. 39 figs. 100 tabs. ISBN 9781108476386 Hbk. £34.99)
by Christiaan Van Bochove - 1521-1522 Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden, The origins of globalization: world trade in the making of the global economy, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+338. 34 figs. 15 tabs. 9 maps. ISBN 9781108426992 Hbk. £64.99; ISBN 9781108447133 Pbk. £21.99)
by Tirthankar Roy - 1522-1523 Joel Mokyr, A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+403. ISBN 9780691168883 Hbk. £27.95/$35)
by Sean Bottomley - 1523-1525 Tirthankar Roy and Giorgio Riello, eds., Global economic history (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. vii+370. 21 tabs. 25 figs. ISBN 9781472588432 Pbk. $47.69)
by Pim De Zwart - 1525-1526 Korinna Schönhärl, ed., Decision taking, confidence and risk management in banks from early modernity to the 20th century (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx+342. 6 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9783319420752 Hbk. £75)
by Emily C. Nacol - 1526-1528 Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis, eds., Organizations, civil society, and the roots of development (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 380. 30 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780226426365 Hbk. $130; ISBN 9780226426532 E‐book. $130)
by Gregory Mark - 1528-1529 Heinrich Hartmann, The body populace: military statistics and demography in Europe before the First World War, trans. Ellen Yutzy Glebe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. vii+256. 18 figs. ISBN 9780262536325 Pbk. £30)
by Björn Quanjer - 1529-1530 Hassan Malik, Bankers and Bolsheviks: international finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xi+296. 18 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9780691170169 Hbk. $35/£27)
by Nikita Lychakov - 1530-1531 Roberto Cortés Conde and Gerardo Della Paolera, eds., Nueva historia económica de la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República de Argentina, 2018. Pp. 9+342. 4 tabs. 4 figs. ISBN 9789876284981 Pbk. Ar.$495)
by Peter Sims - 1532-1533 Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin, From Wall Street to Bay Street: the origins and evolution of American and Canadian finance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781442648210 Hbk. $67.50)
by Mark Billings - 1533-1534 Grietjie Verhoef, The power of your life: the Sanlam century of insurance empowerment, 1918–2018 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxv+409. 13 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198817758 Hbk. £65)
by Robin Pearson - 1534-1536 Mike Mason, Turbulent empires: a history of global capitalism since 1945 (Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. x+329. ISBN 9781786831439 Hbk. £32.03; ISBN 9781786832634 Pbk. £20.21)
by Alexander Green
August 2019, Volume 72, Issue 3
- 803-827 Falling behind and catching up: India's transition from a colonial economy
by Bishnupriya Gupta - 828-847 The price of the poor's words: social relations and the economics of deposing for one's ‘betters’ in early modern England
by Hillary Taylor - 848-868 Investing in early public works: financial risks and returns in English and Welsh turnpikes, 1820–82
by Dan Bogart - 869-896 Adopting a new technology: potatoes and population growth in the periphery
by Thor Berger - 897-924 Elites and the expansion of education in nineteenth‐century Sweden
by Jens Andersson & Thor Berger - 925-952 Toddlers, teenagers, and terminal heights: the importance of puberty for male adult stature, Flanders, 1800–76
by Ewout Depauw & Deborah Oxley - 953-978 Why did the industrial diet triumph? The massification of dairy consumption in Spain, 1965–90
by Fernando Collantes - 979-1007 Religious minorities and firm ownership in early twentieth‐century Egypt
by Cihan Artunç - 1008-1027 An efficient market? Going public in London, 1891–1911
by Sturla Fjesme & Neal Galpin & Lyndon Moore - 1028-1047 Loans of the revolution: how Mexico borrowed as the state collapsed in 1912–13
by Leonardo Weller - 1048-1072 Price formation on clandestine markets: the case of the Paris gold market during the Second World War
by Georges Gallais‐Hamonno & Thi‐Hong‐Van Hoang & Kim Oosterlinck - 1073-1098 Inequality in turbulent times: income distribution in Germany and Britain, 1900–50
by María Gómez León & Herman J. De Jong - 1099-1100 Peter Edwards, Horses and the aristocratic lifestyle in early modern England: William Cavendish, First Earl of Devonshire (1551–1626) and his horses (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+256. 7 graphs. 6 plates. 21 tables. ISBN 9781783272884 Hbk. £75)
by Jordan Claridge - 1100-1101 Julian Hoppit, Britain's political economies: Parliament and economic life, 1660–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii+391. 18 figs. 3 maps. 47 tabs. ISBN 9781107015258 Hbk. £69.99; ISBN 9781316649909 Pbk. £22.99)
by Kara Dimitruk - 1101-1103 K. J. Saville‐Smith, Provincial society and empire: the Cumbrian counties and the East Indies, 1680–1829 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+296. 8 figs. 1 map. 6 plates. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783272815 Hbk. £65)
by Michael Aldous - 1103-1104 Peter Scott, The market makers: creating mass markets for consumer durables in inter‐war Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+367. 35 figs. 49 tabs. ISBN 9780198783817 Hbk. £75)
by David Clayton - 1104-1106 Catherine Flinn, Rebuilding Britain's blitzed cities: hopeful dreams, stark realities (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. v+243. 30 figs. ISBN 9781350067622 Hbk. £76.50)
by David Adams - 1106-1107 J. G. Manning, The open sea. The economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii+414. 47 figs. 3 maps. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780691151748 Hbk. £27.95/$35)
by Zosia H. Archibald - 1107-1108 Gareth Austin, ed., Economic development and environmental history in the Anthropocene: perspectives on Asia and Africa (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. xii+326. 20 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781474267496 Hbk. £85)
by Yongjing Zhang - 1108-1109 Bert de Munck, Guilds, labour and the urban body politic: fabricating community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300–1800 (New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv+312. 19 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780815372028 Hbk. £115)
by Patrick Wallis - 1110-1111 Arnved Nedkvitne, Norse Greenland: Viking peasants in the Arctic (New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. v+432. 17 figs. ISBN 9780815366294 Hbk. £115)
by Brooks Kaiser - 1111-1112 Marcello Carmagnani, Le connessioni mondiali e l'Atlantico 1450–1850 (Turin: Einaudi, 2018. Pp. ix+224. 26 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9788806233273 Hbk. €22)
by Mattia C. Bertazzini - 1112-1114 Tim Dyson, A population history of India: from the first modern people to the present day (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. v+310. 15 figs. 26 tabs. 3 maps. ISBN 9780198829058 Hbk. £35)
by Bishnupriya Gupta - 1114-1115 Jesse Cromwell, The smuggler's world: illicit trade and Atlantic communities in eighteenth‐century Venezuela (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018. Pp. v+314. 15 illus. 4 maps. ISBN 9781469636887 Hbk. $39.95)
by Jeremy Land - 1115-1116 Mohammed Bashir Salau, Plantation slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: a historical and comparative study (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp. v+236. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781580469388 Hbk. £80)
by Klas Rönnbäck - 1117-1118 Daniel Peart, Lobbyists and the making of US tariff policy, 1816–1861 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. viii+326. 46 tabs. ISBN 9781421426112 Hbk. $69.95)
by Brian D. Varian - 1118-1119 Kym Anderson and Vincente Pinilla, eds., Wine globalization: a new comparative history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxx+546. 115 figs. 74 tabs. ISBN 9781107192928 Hbk. £120)
by Juan Pan‐Montojo - 1119-1121 Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster, and Benedikt Stuchtey, eds., Cooperation and empire: local realities of global processes (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2017. Pp. viii+384. 4 figs. 1 tab. £107/$150)
by Karin Pallaver - 1121-1122 Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds., American capitalism: new histories (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+432. ISBN 9780231185240 Hbk. £31.95/$38)
by Peter Conti‐Brown - 1122-1124 Felix Boecking, No Great Wall: trade, tariffs, and nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. Pp. xx+280. 13 figs. 5 maps. 13 tabs. ISBN 978–0674970601 Hbk. £31.95)
by Mark R. G. Hoskin - 1124-1125 Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado, eds., Latin America since the left turn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. viii+376. 7 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9780812249712 Hbk. £58/$69.95)
by Colin M. Lewis - 1125-1126 Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds., High‐skilled migration to the United States and its economic consequences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. viii+247. ISBN 9780226525525 Hbk. $130)
by Chris Minns
May 2019, Volume 72, Issue 2
- 433-458 Tobacco retail licences and state formation in early modern England and Wales
by Alexander G. Taylor - 459-480 Speed under sail during the early industrial revolution (c. 1750–1830)
by Morgan Kelly & Cormac Ó Gráda - 481-509 Women's work and structural change: occupational structure in eighteenth‐century Spain
by Carmen Sarasua - 510-530 The returns to invention during the British industrial revolution
by Sean Bottomley - 531-567 Modernization and rural imagery at the Paris Salon: an interdisciplinary approach to the economic history of art
by Diana Seave Greenwald - 568-594 Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: dividing up a fast‐growing frontier pie, 1821–71
by Laura Panza & Jeffrey G. Williamson - 595-617 International bimetallism and silver absorption in Singapore, 1840–73
by Atsushi Kobayashi - 618-640 UK shocks and Irish business cycles, 1922–79
by Rebecca Stuart - 641-668 The Hungarian twin crisis of 1931
by Flora Macher - 669-690 The question of land access and the Spanish land reform of 1932
by Juan Carmona & Joan R. Rosés & James Simpson - 691-715 Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid‐century: evidence from local labour markets
by William J. Collins & Gregory T. Niemesh - 716-737 ‘Stop‐go’ policy and the restriction of postwar British house‐building
by Peter M. Scott & James T. Walker - 738-754 Real wages once more: a response to Judy Stephenson
by Robert C. Allen - 755-769 Mistaken wages: the cost of labour in the early modern English economy, a reply to Robert C. Allen
by Judy Z. Stephenson - 770-771 John Hare, The Victoria history of Hampshire. Basingstoke: a medieval town, c. 1000–c. 1600 (London: University of London, 2017. Pp. xii + 106. 23 figs. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781909646612 Pbk. £12 + £2 p&p)
by Spike Gibbs - 771-772 Michael Zell and Heather Falvey, eds., Walter Morrell's ‘Manufacture for the new draperie’ (1616) (Hertford: Hertfordshire Record Society, 2018. Pp. xlii + 181. 9 figs. 1 map. ISBN 9780950174105 Hbk. £22.00 + £3.50 p&p)
by John S. Lee - 772-773 Gillian Cookson, The age of machinery. Engineering the industrial revolution, 1770–1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018. Pp. ix + 324. 1 fig. 1 map. 11 plates. ISBN 9781783272761 Pbk. £19.99)
by Jane Humphries - 774-775 Nicholas Crafts, Forging ahead, falling behind and fighting back: British economic growth from the industrial revolution to the financial crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 152. 1 fig. 41 tabs. ISBN 9781108438162 Pbk. £17.99)
by Mark Koyama - 775-776 Robbie Shilliam, Race and the undeserving poor (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiv+209. ISBN 9781788210386 Pbk. £18.99)
by Eric Melander - 777-778 Andrew Wilson and Alan Bowman, eds., Trade, commerce, and the state in the Roman world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii+656. 94 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780198790662 Hbk. £110)
by Taco Terpstra - 778-779 William Caferro, Petrarch's war: Florence and the Black Death in context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+228. 5 figs. 3 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781108424011 Hbk. £75)
by Francesco Ammannati - 779-781 Colin Heywood, Childhood in modern Europe (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2018. Pp. x+286. 22 figs. ISBN 9780521866231 Hbk. £74.99; ISBN 9780521685252 Pbk. £21.99)
by Eleanor Murray - 781-782 David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, and David Richardson, eds., The Cambridge world history of slavery: volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii+705. 9 figs. 3 maps. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780521840669 Hbk. £129/$150)
by Rebecca Shumway - 782-783 Gregor Benton and Hong Liu, Dear China: emigrant letters and remittances, 1820–1980 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+286. ISBN 9780520298415 Hbk. £66; ISBN 9780520298439 Pbk. £27)
by Sumiyo Nishizaki - 783-785 Philip Thai, China's war on smuggling: law, economic life, and the making of the modern state, 1842–1965 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi+380. 8 figs. 5 maps. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780231185844 Hbk. £47/$59.99)
by Linda Grove - 785-786 Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein, An economic and demographic history of São Paulo, 1850–1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii+ 448. 49 figs. 11 maps. 99 tabs. ISBN 9780503602007 Hbk. £62/$75)
by André Luiz Lanza - 786-787 Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt, Botswana—a modern economic history: an African diamond in the rough (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xv+235. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783319731438. €119.59)
by Mariusz Lukasiewicz - 787-789 Brian James Leech, The city that ate itself: Butte, Montana and its expanding Berkeley Pit (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. Pp. x+414. 25 figs. ISBN 9781943859429 Hbk. £39.95/$39.95)
by William M. Boal - 789-790 Tariq Omar Ali, A local history of global capital: jute & peasant life in the Bengal Delta (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+244. 1 fig. 3 maps. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780691170237 Hbk. £30/$39.95)
by Jim Tomlinson - 790-791 David M. Higgins, Brands, geographical origin, and the global economy: a history from the nineteenth century to the present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+334. 9 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781107032675 Hbk. £90)
by Martin Purvis - 791-792 Getnet Bekele, Ploughing new ground: food, farming & environmental change in Ethiopia (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xvi+207. 3 maps. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781847011749 Hbk. £50)
by Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye - 792-794 Nathan Marcus, Austrian reconstruction and the collapse of global finance, 1921–1931 (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+546. 20 figs. 40 graphs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780674088924 Hbk. £35.95/$49.95/€45)
by Stefano Ungaro - 794-795 Barry Naughton, The Chinese economy: adaptation and growth (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2018. 2nd edn., first pub. 2007. Pp. viii+594. 81 figs. 36 tabs. ISBN 9780262534796 Pbk. £30/$40)
by Sijie Hu - 795-796 Simone Selva, Before the neoliberal turn: the rise of energy finance and the limits to US foreign policy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx+423. 5 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781137574428 Hbk. £120)
by Jonas Ljungberg - 796-798 Marc Buggeln, Martin Daunton, and Alexander Nützenadel, eds., The political economy of public finance. Taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+313. 26 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107140127 Hbk. £64.99)
by Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland - 798-799 Kate Philip, Markets on the margins: mineworkers, job creation and enterprise development (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2018. Pp. xvi+222. 22 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781847011763 Hbk. £60)
by Martine Mariotti - 799-800 Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnemacher, Institutional and organizational analysis: concepts and applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. vii+393. 19 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 978110708637 Hbk. £71.99; ISBN 9781107451254 Pbk. £24.99)
by John Wallis
February 2019, Volume 72, Issue 1
- 3-31 The age of mass migration in Latin America
by Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso - 32-56 The ‘light touch’ of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an urban trick?
by Joris Roosen & Daniel R. Curtis - 57-87 Forced loans in the Spanish Empire: the first requisition of American treasures in 1523
by Sergio Sardone - 88-125 Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: lessons from England's social tables, 1688–1867
by Robert C. Allen - 126-155 Spinning the industrial revolution
by Jane Humphries & Benjamin Schneider - 156-181 Extralegal payments to state officials in Russia, 1750s–1830s: assessing the burden of corruption
by Elena Korchmina & Igor Fedyukin - 182-208 Technology transfer via foreign patents in Germany, 1843–77
by Alexander Donges & Felix Selgert - 209-232 African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth century
by Klas Rönnbäck & Dimitrios Theodoridis - 233-259 The contribution of infrastructure investment to Britain's urban mortality decline, 1861–1900
by Jonathan Chapman - 260-285 International banking and transmission of the 1931 financial crisis
by Olivier Accominotti - 286-316 Causes and consequences of the Great Vietnam Famine, 1944–5
by Gregg Huff - 317-345 Why did socialist economies fail? The role of factor inputs reconsidered
by Tamás Vonyó & Alexander Klein - 397-398 Susan Rose, The wealth of England: the medieval wool trade and its political importance 1100–1600 (Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2018. pp. xviii+219. 55 figs. 2 maps. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781785707360 Hbk. £40)
by Hannah Robb - 398-399 Helen Fulton and Michele Campopiano, eds., Anglo‐Italian cultural relations in the later middle ages (York: York Medieval Press, 2018. pp. xii+212. 2 figs. ISBN 9781903153697 Hbk. £60)
by James E. Shaw - 399-400 Clive Burgess, The right ordering of souls: the parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the eve of the Reformation. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xxii+463. 5 illus. ISBN 9781783273096 Hbk. £60)
by Heather Falvey - 401-402 Koji Yamamoto, Taming capitalism before its triumph: public service, distrust, & ‘projecting’ in early modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. xviii+336. 5 figs. 7 illus. ISBN 9780198739173 Hbk. £65)
by Aaron Graham - 402-403 Todd Gray, ed., Devon parish taxpayers 1500–1650; vol. 1: Abbotskerswell to Beer & Seaton; vol. 2: Bere Ferrers to Chudleigh (Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2016. Vol. 1: pp. x+358. 40 figs. ISBN 9780901853585 Pbk. £20. Vol. 2: pp. x+395. 50 figs. ISBN 9780901853592 Pbk. £20)
by Catherine Ferguson - 403-405 Leslie Tomory, The history of the London water industry, 1580–1820. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017. pp. 314. 52 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781421422046 Hbk $54.95)
by Leona J. Skelton - 405-406 Erika Rappaport, A thirst for empire: how tea shaped the modern world (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. pp. xvi+549. 53 figs. 3 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780691167114 Hbk. £32.95/$39.50)
by Andrew B. Liu - 406-407 Tom Williamson, Gerry Barnes, and Toby Pillatt, Trees in England: management and disease since 1600 (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017. Pp. x+229. 61 figs. ISBN 9781909291966, Pbk. £16.99)
by Jan Woudstra - 407-408 Richard Olney, Farming and society in north Lincolnshire: the Dixons of Holton‐le‐Moor, 1741–1906 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xvii+214. 2 maps. 16 plates. ISBN 9781910653050 Hbk. £30)
by Nicola Verdon - 409-410 Robert J. Bennett, ed., Documents of the first Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland 1767–1839 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+715. 2 figs. 7 plates. ISBN 9780197266243 Hbk. £120)
by Perry Gauci - 410-411 Paul Kosmetatos, The 1772–73 British credit crisis (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. pp. xxiv+334. 43 figs. 40 tabs. ISBN 9783319709079 Hbk. £99.99)
by Chenzi Xu - 411-412 William Deringer, Calculated values: finance, politics, and the quantitative age (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. pp. xxiv+413. 30 figs. ISBN 9780674971875 Hbk. £32.95/$45)
by Raffaele Danna - 412-413 James Kelly, Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the ‘moral economy’ and the Irish crowd (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. pp. 272. 4 figs. 6 maps. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781846826399 Hbk. €45)
by Brenda Collins - 413-415 Penelope Ismay, Trust among strangers: friendly societies in modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 217. 6 figs. 2 maps. 21 tab. ISBN 9781108472524 Hbk. £75)
by Daniel Weinbren - 415-416 Jane Whittle, ed., Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. pp. xiv+271. 19 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 9781783272396 Pbk. £19.99)
by Jonas Lindström - 416-417 Joan Abela, Hospitaller Malta and the Mediterranean economy in the sixteenth century (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xxviii+263. 3 charts. 10 figs. 2 maps. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781783272112 Hbk. £75)
by Carmel Cassar - 418-419 Dagmar Schäfer, Giorgio Riello, and Luca Molà, eds., Threads of global desire: silk in the pre‐modern world (Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xviii+412. 2 figs. 50 illus. 6 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781783272938 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Serena Dyer - 419-420 Mark Dincecco and Massimiliano G. Onorato, From warfare to wealth: the military origins of urban prosperity in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 196. 22 figs. 33 tabs. ISBN 9781316612590 Pbk. £23.99)
by Cyril Milhaud - 420-421 Tirthankar Roy, A business history of India: enterprise and the emergence of capitalism from 1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. xiv+298. 29 figs. 3 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781107186927 Hbk. £59.99; ISBN 9781316637487 Pbk. £24.99)
by Arvind Ashta - 422-423 Sandra Kuntz‐Ficker, ed., The first export era revisited: reassessing its contribution to Latin American economics (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. pp. xviii+348. 52 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9783319623399 Hbk. £95.50)
by Thales Augusto Zamberlan Pereira - 423-424 George Robb, Ladies of the ticker: women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2017. pp. xii+248. 11 figs. ISBN 9780252041174 Hbk. £82/$95; ISBN 9780252082719 Pbk. £20.99/$24.95)
by Peter Knight - 424-425 Geoffrey Jones, Profits and sustainability: a history of green entrepreneurship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+442. 2 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780198706977 Hbk. £30)
by Paul Warde - 426-427 Frederick L. McKitrick, From craftsmen to capitalists: German artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939–1953 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2016. pp. xx+286. 2 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781785332487 Hbk. £85/$120)
by Armin Grünbacher - 427-428 Jonathan A. Grant, Between depression and disarmament: the international armaments business, 1919–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x+228. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781108428354 Hbk. £75)
by Talbot Imlay - 428-429 Steve Slavin, The great American economy: how inefficiency broke it and what we can do to fix it (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017. pp. 414. 9 figs. ISBN 9781633883055 Hbk. £21.99/$25)
by Gavin Benke
November 2018, Volume 71, Issue 4
- 1029-1047 Towards an explanation of inequality in premodern societies: the role of colonies, urbanization, and high population density
by Branko Milanovic - 1048-1072 The Great Famine in the county of Flanders (1315–17): the complex interaction between weather, warfare, and property rights
by Sam Geens - 1073-1099 Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England
by James Foreman‐Peck & Peng Zhou - 1100-1117 Refinancing short‐term debt with a fixed monthly interest rate into funded juros under Philip II: an asiento with the Maluenda brothers
by Carlos Álvarez‐Nogal & Christophe Chamley - 1118-1146 The global interests of London's commercial community, 1599–1625: investment in the East India Company
by Edmond Smith - 1147-1172 The alchemy of gold: interest rates, money stock, and credit in eighteenth‐century Lisbon
by Leonor Freire Costa & Maria Manuela Rocha & Paulo B. Brito - 1173-1198 An old poor law on the Continent? Agrarian capitalism, poor taxes, and village conflict in eighteenth‐century coastal Flanders
by Thijs Lambrecht & Anne Winter - 1199-1226 The amelioration of British West Indian slavery: anthropometric evidence
by J. R. Ward - 1227-1248 The Taiwan tea boom—a financial glut
by Kelly B. Olds - 1249-1269 Monetary aggregates for Ireland, 1840–1921
by Seán Kenny & Jason Lennard - 1270-1290 Retail markets in northern and midland England, 1870–1914: civic icon, municipal white elephant, or consumer paradise?
by Ian Mitchell - 1291-1321 Social mobility among Christian Africans: evidence from Anglican marriage registers in Uganda, 1895–2011
by Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Marco H. D. van Leeuwen & Jacob L. Weisdorf - 1322-1348 Land reform and conflict before the Civil War: landowner response to tenancy reform in 1930s Catalonia
by Jordi Domenech & Francisco Herreros - 1349-1356 The London Stock Exchange, 1869–1929: new statistics for old?
by Leslie Hannah - 1357-1359 Revising ‘Bloody foreigners!’
by Richard S. Grossman - 1360-1411 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2017
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1412-1413 Buchanan Sharp, Famine and scarcity in late medieval and early modern England: the regulation of grain marketing, 1256–1631 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+264. ISBN 9781107121829 Hbk. £64.99)
by Richard Sheldon - 1413-1414 Christopher Thornton, Jennifer Ward, and Neil Wiffen, eds., The fighting Essex soldier: recruitment, war and society in the fourteenth century (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017. Pp. xii+178. 23 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781909291881 Pbk. £18.99/$37.95)
by Aleksandr Lobanov - 1414-1415 David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: their lives and their marks (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. xxii+702. 151 figs. ISBN 9181783272389 Hbk. £125)
by Patrick Wallis - 1415-1416 Natalie Roxburgh, Representing public credit: credible commitment, fiction, and the rise of the financial subject (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. x+206. 3 figs. ISBN 9781138182547 Hbk. £110)
by Helen Paul - 1417-1418 Steve Poole and Nicholas Rogers, Bristol from below: law, authority and protest in a Georgian city (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. xii+387. 15 figs. ISBN 9781783272440 Hbk. £70)
by Adrian Randall - 1418-1419 Katerina Galani, British shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars: the untold story of a successful adaptation (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. xvi+278. 43 figs. 5 maps. 18 tabs. ISBN 9789004343276 Hbk. £111.72/€127)
by Giada Pizzoni - 1419-1420 Samantha A. Shave, Pauper palaces: poor law practice in England, 1780–1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+300. 14 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780719089633 Hbk. £75)
by Malcolm Chase - 1420-1421 Charles W. Munn, Minister of money: Henry Duncan, founder of the savings bank movement (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2017. Pp. xvi+240. 2 maps. 12 plates. ISBN 9781910900147 Hbk. £25)
by Leslie Hannah - 1421-1422 Martin Gibson, Britain's quest for oil: the First World War and the peace conferences (Solihull: Helion & Company, 2017. Pp. xx+208. 3 maps. 28 tabs. ISBN 9781911512073 Hbk. £29.95)
by Katayoun Shafiee - 1422-1424 Chris Swinson, Regulation of the London Stock Exchange: share trading, fraud and reform 1914–45 (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv+241. 4 charts. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781138040212 Hbk. £105)
by James Taylor - 1424-1424 Aled Davies, The City of London and social democracy: the political economy of finance in Britain, 1959–1979 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+248. 6 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780198804116 Hbk. £60)
by Duncan M. Ross - 1425-1426 Alice Rio, Slavery after Rome, 500–1100 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp xii+285. ISBN 9780198704058 Hbk. £65)
by Judith Spicksley - 1426-1427 Corey Tazzara, The free port of Livorno and the transformation of the Mediterranean world 1574–1790 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+346. 33 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780198791584 Hbk. £75)
by David Chilosi - 1427-1428 Wantje Fritschy, Public finance of the Dutch Republic in comparative perspective: the viability of an early modern federal state (1570s–1795) (Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. xvi+429. 41 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 97804641272 Hbk. €135)
by Julian Hoppit - 1428-1429 Arild Sæther, Natural law and political economy: Samuel Pufendorf and the history of economics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xii+296. 1 illus. ISBN 9781138670907 Hbk. £105)
by Ben Holland - 1430-1431 Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe, eds., Cameralism in practice: state administration and economy in early modern Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. xii+315. 2 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783272280 Pbk. £25)
by Sophus A. Reinert - 1431-1432 Ulrich Theobald and Cao Jin, eds., Southwest China in a regional and global perspective (c. 1600–1911): metals, transport, trade and society (Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xviii+456. 51 figs. 16 maps. 24 tabs. ISBN 9789004353633 Hbk. €165/$190)
by Song‐Chuan Chen - 1432-1433 A. Gonzalez Enciso, War, power and the economy: mercantilism and state formation in 18th‐century Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xviii+284 11 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781138855694 Hbk. £110)
by Patrick O'brien - 1433-1435 Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen, Alexander Hamilton on finance, credit, and debt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+346. ISBN 9780231184564 Hbk. £24.99/$29.95)
by Nadia Matringe - 1435-1436 Cassandra Mark‐Thiesen, Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital: mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast colony, 1879–1909 (Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp. xii+217. 6 figs. 3 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781580469180 Hbk. £90)
by Kristin Ranestad - 1436-1438 Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley, eds., Money in the German‐speaking lands (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. Pp. x+317. 20 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781785335884 Hbk. £107)
by Ousmène Jacques Mandeng - 1438-1439 Kevin R. Brine and Mary Poovey, Finance in America: an unfinished story (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. x+499. 3 figs. ISBN 9780226502045 Hbk. $110)
by Sean H. Vanatta - 1439-1440 Jonas Scherner and Eugene White, eds., Paying for Hitler's war: the consequences of Nazi hegemony for Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 475. ISBN 9781107279131 Hbk. £74.99)
by Ray Stokes - 1441-1442 Neil Monnery, Architect of prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the making of Hong Kong (London: London Publishing Partnership, 2017. Pp. vi+337. 43 figs. ISBN 9781907994692 Hbk. £24.50)
by Peter Cunich - 1442-1444 Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard, eds., The deindustrialized world: confronting ruination in postindustrial places (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Pp. x+375. 23 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9780774834940 Pbk. £28.99/$34.95)
by Ben Curtis - 1444-1445 Alex Millmow, A history of Australian economic thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii+250. ISBN 9781138861008 Hbk. £95)
by Stuart Macintyre - 1445-1446 Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe, eds., The contradictions of capital in the twenty‐first century: the Piketty opportunity (Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne: Agenda, 2016. Pp. xii+300. 21 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 978191116103 Hbk. £65/$90)
by Phillip W. Magness
August 2018, Volume 71, Issue 3
- 707-726 Road transport productivity in the sixteenth‐century Low Countries: the case of Brabant, 1450–1650
by Bart Ballaux & Bruno Blondé - 727-746 Illegal quays: Elizabethan customs reforms and suppression of the coastal trade of Christchurch, Hampshire
by Stephen Gadd - 747-771 Modelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration to late eighteenth‐century London†
by Adam Crymble & Adam Dennett & Tim Hitchcock - 772-794 Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1750–1900
by Erik Bengtsson & Anna Missiaia & Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson - 795-822 A monetary plethora and what to do with it: the Bank of Portugal during the Second World War and the postwar period (1931–60)
by Luciano Amaral - 823-852 The liquidity of the London capital markets, 1825–70†
by Gareth Campbell & John D. Turner & Qing Ye - 853-886 Infant mortality decline in rural and urban Bavaria: fertility, economic transformation, infant care, and inequality in Bavaria and Munich, 1825–1910
by John C. Brown & Timothy W. Guinnane - 887-908 The Public Works Loan Board and the growth of the state in nineteenth‐century England
by Ian Webster - 909-937 The futures premium and rice market efficiency in prewar Japan
by Mikio Ito & Kiyotaka Maeda & Akihiko Noda - 938-964 Colonization and education: exploring the legacy of local elites in Korea
by Ji Yeon Hong & Christopher Paik - 965-994 Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of parish register data
by Michiel De Haas & Ewout Frankema - 995-996 Jacqueline B. Geater, ed., Birmingham wills and inventories, 1512–1603 (Stratford‐upon‐Avon: Dugdale Society, 2016. Pp. x+454. 1 map. 9 plates. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780852201015 Hbk. £30+p&p)
by Heather Falvey - 996-997 Margaret Spufford and Susan Mee, The clothing of the common sort 1570–1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+332. 2 figs. 14 plates. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780198807049 Hbk. £75)
by Jane Huggett - 997-998 William J Ashworth, The industrial revolution: the state, knowledge and global trade (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781474286466 Pbk. £21.99)
by Aaron Graham - 999-1000 Tom Crook and Mike Esbester, eds., Governing risks in modern Britain: danger, safety and accidents, c. 1800–2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+315. 7 figs. ISBN 9781137467447 Hbk. £63)
by Barry M. Doyle - 1000-1001 Peter J. Atkins, A history of uncertainty: bovine tuberculosis in Britain, 1850 to the present (Winchester: Winchester University Press, 2016. Pp. xxv+422. 16 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781906113179 Pbk. £30)
by John Martin - 1001-1003 Christopher Hood and Rozana Himaz, A century of fiscal squeeze politics: 100 years of austerity, politics and bureaucracy in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+248. 3 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780198779612 Hbk. £55)
by Roger Middleton - 1003-1004 Rory Naismith, Medieval European coinage with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, vol. 8: Britain and Ireland c. 400–1066 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii+901. 15 figs. 9 maps. 114 plates. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780521260169 Hbk. £150)
by N. J. Mayhew - 1004-1005 Martin Allen and Nicholas Mayhew, eds., Money and its use in medieval Europe: three decades on. Essays in honour of Professor Peter Spufford (London: Royal Numismatic Society, 2017. 41 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 0901405698 Hbk. £45)
by Murray Andrews