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August 2018, Volume 71, Issue 3
- 1005-1007 Matteo Salonia, Genoa's freedom: entrepreneurship, republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic (Lanham, MD and London, 2017. Pp. xxv+186. 2 figs. ISBN 9781498534215 Hbk. £65)
by Céline Dauverd - 1007-1008 Zhihong Shi, Central government Silver Treasury: revenue, expenditure and inventory statistics, ca. 1667–1899 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xxviii+252. 10 figs. 12 illus. 110 tabs. ISBN 9789004307322 Hbk. €129/£167)
by Ulrich Theobald - 1008-1010 Peter Drake, Merchants, bankers, governors: British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786–1920 (Hackensack, NJ and London: World Scientific, 2018. Pp. xii+194. 7 tabs. ISBN 9789813222410 Hbk. £73)
by Tony Webster - 1010-1011 Javier Rodríguez Weber, Desarrollo y desigualdad en Chile (1850–2009): historia de su economía política (Santiago: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2017. Pp. 302. ISBN 9562443841 Hbk.)
by Claudia Sanhueza - 1011-1012 Stuart Banner, Speculation: a history of the fine line between gambling and investment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+335. ISBN 9780190623043 Hbk. £19.99/$29.95)
by Andrew Odlyzko - 1012-1014 Grietjie Verhoef, The history of business in Africa: complex discontinuity to emerging markets (Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. xi+215. 5 tabs. 1 map. ISBN 9783319625669 Hbk. €123)
by Mariusz Lukasiewicz - 1014-1015 Ralph Callebert, On Durban's docks: Zulu workers, rural households, global labor (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+235. 3 maps. ISBN 9781580469074 Hbk. £80/$99)
by Frederick Cooper - 1015-1016 Laurent Warlouzet, Governing Europe in a globalizing world: neoliberalism and its alternatives following the 1973 oil crisis (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv+274. 8 figs.11 tabs. ISBN 9781138729421 Hbk. £105)
by Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez - 1016-1018 Ivano Cardinale, D'Maris Coffman, and Roberto Scazzieri, eds., The political economy of the eurozone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+571. 45 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781107124011 Hbk. £120)
by Geoffrey Wood - 1018-1019 Richard R. John and Kim Phillips‐Fein, eds., Capital gains: business and politics in twentieth‐century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. x+301. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780812248821 Hbk. $55)
by Veronica Binda - 1019-1021 Mark Zachary Taylor, The politics of innovation: why some countries are better than others at science and technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+427. 31 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9780190464127 Hbk. £64)
by Hermione Giffard - 1021-1022 LaDale C. Winling, Building the ivory tower: universities and metropolitan development in the twentieth century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 251. 46 figs. ISBN 9780812249682 Hbk. £33/$39.95)
by Robert Anderson - 1022-1023 John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, and Jan Rüger, eds., History after Hobsbawm: writing the past for the twenty‐first century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+332. 2 maps. 1 tab. 28 plates. ISBN 9780198768784 Hbk. £75)
by Beverley Southgate - 1023-1024 James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park, Hidden interests in credit and finance: power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium (Lanham, MD and London: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. xvi+311. 7 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781498545785 Hbk. £75/$110)
by David Foulk - 1024-1026 Phillip E. Auerswald, The code economy: a forty‐thousand year history (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. vi+298. 18 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780190226763 Hbk. £19.99/$29.95)
by Elena Fell
May 2018, Volume 71, Issue 2
- 373-392 Reconstruction of money supply over the long run: the case of England, 1270–1870
by Nuno Palma - 393-417 Retail revolution and the village shop, c. 1660–1860
by Jon Stobart & Lucy Bailey - 418-436 Quakers, coercion, and pre†modern growth: why Friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early modern trade expansion
by Esther Sahle - 437-463 ‘Because family and friends got easily weary of taking care’: a new perspective on the specialization in the elderly care sector in early modern Holland
by Anita Boele & Tine de Moor - 464-479 Age heaping and numeracy: looking behind the curtain
by Matthias Blum & Karl†Peter Krauss - 480-505 What is a market crash?
by David le Bris - 506-539 Immigration and the path dependence of education: the case of German†speakers in São Paulo, Brazil (1840–1920)
by Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza - 540-566 Multinational business and host countries in times of crisis: Courtaulds, Glanzstoff, and Italy in the interwar period
by Valerio Cerretano - 567-592 Managing financial constraints: undercapitalization and underwriting capacity in Spanish fire insurance
by Pablo Gutiérrez González & Lars†Fredrik Andersson - 593-616 The expanding Empire and spatial distribution of economic activity: the case of Japan's colonization of Korea during the prewar period
by Kentaro Nakajima & Tetsuji Okazaki - 617-638 Shakeout in the early commercial airframe industry
by Taylor Jaworski & Andrew Smyth - 639-664 Clark's Malthus delusion: response to ‘Farming in England 1200–1800’
by Stephen Broadberry & Bruce M. S. Campbell & Alexander Klein & Mark Overton & Bas van Leeuwen - 665-666 Boston, 1086–1225: a medieval boom town – By Stephen H. Rigby
by James Masschaele - 666-667 Food, eating and identity in early medieval England – By Allen J. Frantzen
by Susan Flavin - 667-669 Contesting the city: the politics of citizenship in English towns, 1250–1530 – By Christian D. Liddy
by Stephen H. Rigby - 669-670 Elizabethan inventories and wills of the Exeter Orphans’ Court volumes 1 & 2 – Edited by Jannine Crocker
by Heather Falvey - 670-671 The world of the small farmer: tenure, profit and politics in the early modern Somerset Levels – By Patricia Croot
by Joshua Rhodes - 671-672 An age of risk: politics and economy in early modern Britain – By Emily C. Nacol
by Judy Stephenson - 672-674 A social history of British naval officers 1775–1815 – By Evan Wilson
by Margarette Lincoln - 674-675 Old age in nineteenth†century Ireland: ageing under the Union – By Chris Gilleard
by Tom Heritage - 675-676 British cotton textiles: maturity and decline – Edited by David Higgins and Steven Toms
by John Singleton - 676-678 The first serious optimist: A. C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics – By Ian Kumekawa
by Roger Middleton - 678-679 Hull: culture, history, place – Edited by David J. Starkey, David Atkinson, Briony McDonagh, Sarah McKeon, and Elisabeth Salter
by Graham Fairclough - 679-680 The roots of western finance: power, ethics, and social capital in the ancient world – By Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
by Michael Leese - 681-682 The classical debt: Greek antiquity in an era of austerity – By Johanna Hanink
by Charlotte Van Regenmortel - 682-683 The village world of early medieval northern Spain: local community and the land market – By Robert Portass
by José Carlos SáNchez Pardo - 683-684 Maimonides and the merchants: Jewish law and society in the medieval Islamic world – By Mark R. Cohen
by Maya Shatzmiller - 685-686 Widows in European economy and society, 1600–1920 – By Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall
by Julie Marfany - 686-687 Rethinking east†central Europe: family systems and co†residence in the Polish†Lithuanian Commonwealth. Volume 1: Contexts and analyses. Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography – By Mikolaj Szołtysek
by Christoph Augustynowicz - 687-689 Mutual insurance 1550–2015: from guild welfare and friendly societies to contemporary micro†insurers – By Marco H. D. van Leeuwen
by Guido Rossi - 689-690 Other people's money: how banking worked in the early American republic – By Sharon Ann Murphy
by Farley Grubb - 690-691 Minding her own business: colonial businesswomen in Sydney – By Catherine Bishop
by Kathryn Gleadle - 691-692 Rulers and capital in historical perspective: state formation and financial development in India and the United States – By Abhishek Chatterjee
by Anand V. Swamy - 692-694 A global history of consumer co†operation since 1850: movements and businesses – Edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, and Greg Patmore
by Lawrence Black - 694-695 Managing risk in reinsurance: from city fires to global warming – Edited by Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones
by Thomas J. Gould - 695-696 Corporations and American democracy – Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William J. Novak
by Robert E. Wright - 697-698 Economic history of warfare and state formation – By Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich, and Nikolaus Wolf, eds
by Nathan Marcus - 698-700 Creditworthy: a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America – By Josh Lauer
by Vicki Howard - 700-701 European banks and the rise of international finance: the post†Bretton Woods era – By Carlo Edoardo Altamura
by Simone Selva - 702-703 The currency of confidence: how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with its borrowers – By Stephen C. Nelson
by Korinna Schönhärl - 703-704 People, places and business cultures: essays in honour of Francesca Carnevali – Edited by Paolo di Martino, Andrew Popp, and Peter Scott
by John F. Wilson
February 2018, Volume 71, Issue 1
- 3-30 Italy in the Renaissance: a leading economy in the European context, 1350–1550
by Paolo Malanima - 31-54 Mills, cranes, and the great divergence: the use of immovable capital goods in western Europe and the Middle East, ninth to sixteenth centuries
by Bas Van Bavel & Eltjo Buringh & Jessica Dijkman - 55-81 Growth or stagnation? Farming in England, 1200–1800
by Gregory Clark - 82-105 Cooperating in time of crisis: war, commons, and inequality in Renaissance Lombardy
by Matteo Di Tullio - 106-132 ‘Real’ wages? Contractors, workers, and pay in London building trades, 1650–1800
by Judy Z. Stephenson - 133-156 The rise and demise of gedik markets in Istanbul, 1750–1860
by Seven Ağir - 157-189 What moved share prices in the nineteenth†century London stock market?
by Gareth Campbell & William Quinn & John D. Turner & Qing Ye - 190-212 Anglo†American trade costs during the first era of globalization: the contribution of a bilateral tariff series
by Brian D. Varian - 213-235 Trends in morbidity: national statistics on sickness claims among the working population in Sweden, 1892–1954
by Helene Castenbrandt - 236-266 Geography, policy, or productivity? Regional trade in five South American countries, 1910–50
by Marc Badia†Miró & Anna Carreras†MarÃn & Christopher M. Meissner - 267-289 From the substance to the shadow: the role of the court in Japanese labour markets
by Masaki Nakabayashi - 336-337 Almshouses in early modern England: charitable housing in the mixed economy of welfare 1550–1725 – By Angela Nicholls
by David Hitchcock - 337-338 The East India Company 1600–1858: a short history with documents – By Ian Barrow
by Karolina Hutková - 338-339 The financing of John Wesley's Methodism c. 1740–1800 – By Clive Murray Norris
by Kirsten W. Kininmonth - 340-341 From goblets to gaslights: the Scottish glass industry 1750–2006 – By Jill Turnbull
by Sam McKinstry - 341-342 William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer. A study in mid†19th†century engineering – By Richard Byrom
by Fabian Hiscock - 342-343 George Carr Glyn: railwayman and banker – By David Hodgkins
by Terry Gourvish - 343-345 Child labor in the British Victorian entertainment industry, 1875–1914 – By Dyan Colclough
by Simon Sleight - 345-346 The building society promise: access, risk, and efficiency – By Antoninus Samy
by Sergio Castellanos†Gamboa - 346-347 The Routledge history handbook of gender and the urban experience – Edited by Deborah Simonton
by Jennifer Aston - 348-349 The economics of Ottoman justice: settlement and trial in the Sharia courts – By Metin Coşgel and Boğaç Ergene
by Ulas Karakoc - 349-351 Cul de Sac: patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint Domingue – By Paul Cheney
by Carolyn Fick - 351-352 Merchants of Canton and Macao: success and failure in eighteenth†century Chinese trade – By Paul A. van Dyke
by David Abulafia - 352-354 Japan and the great divergence. A short guide – By Penelope Francks
by Matteo Salonia - 354-355 India, modernity and the great divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) – By Kaveh Yazdani
by Sashi Sivramkrishna - 355-356 ‘Deficient in commercial morality’? Japan in global debates on business ethics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – By Janet Hunter
by Tetsuji Okazaki - 356-357 Cotton and race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900–1920 – By Jonathan E. Robins
by Janet Greenlees - 358-359 The political economy of sugar production in colonial Kenya: the Asian initiative in Central Nyanza – By Godriver Wanga†Odhiambo
by Jutta Bolt - 359-360 The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871 – Edited by Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson
by Christopher W. Miller - 360-362 The international aluminium cartel, 1886–1978: the business and politics of a cooperative industrial institution – By Marco Bertilorenzi
by Birgit Karlsson - 362-363 West German industrialists and the making of the economic miracle: a history of mentality and recovery – By Armin Grünbacher
by Tobias Alexander Jopp - 363-365 The politics and economics of decolonization in Africa: the failed experiment of the Central African Federation – By Andrew Cohen
by Alex Sutton - 365-366 Economic and natural disasters since 1900: a comparative history – By John Singleton
by Vinita Damodaran - 366-367 The Chinese and Indian corporate economies: a comparative history of their search for economic renaissance and globalization – By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
by B. R. Tomlinson - 367-369 The information nexus: global capitalism from the Renaissance to the present – By Steven G. Marks
by Jonathan Levy - 369-370 The great leveler. Violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty†first century – By Walter Scheidel
by Bas Van Bavel
November 2017, Volume 70, Issue 4
- 1051-1071 The market turn: from social democracy to market liberalism
by Avner Offer - 1072-1102 Long‐term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300–1800
by Guido Alfani & Francesco Ammannati - 1103-1130 The economic geography of race in the New World: Brazil, 1500–2000
by Justin R. Bucciferro - 1131-1152 Inter‐communal institutions in medieval trade
by Mika Kallioinen - 1153-1184 Pieces of eight, pieces of eight: seamen's earnings and the venture economy of early modern seafaring
by Richard J. Blakemore - 1185-1218 Integration between the London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1825–1925
by Gareth Campbell & Meeghan Rogers - 1219-1243 Challenging the de‐industrialization thesis: gender and indigenous textile production in Java under Dutch colonial rule, c. 1830–1920
by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk - 1244-1267 Lewis revisited: tropical polities competing on the world market, 1830–1938
by Giovanni Federico & Antonio Tena‐Junguito - 1268-1290 Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850–1910
by Paul Atkinson & Brian Francis & Ian Gregory & Catherine Porter - 1291-1320 Individual investors and local bias in the UK, 1870–1935
by Janette Rutterford & Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos & Carry van Lieshout - 1321-1345 The impact of ‘stop‐go’ demand management policy on Britain's consumer durables industries, 1952–65
by Peter M. Scott & James T. Walker - 1346-1374 Shortages and the informal economy in the Soviet republics, 1965–89
by Byung‐Yeon Kim & Yoshisada Shida - 1375-1438 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2016
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1439-1440 Civic community in late medieval Lincoln: urban society and economy in the age of the Black Death, 1289–1409 – By Alan Kissane
by Stephen H. Rigby - 1440-1442 Rural society and economic change in County Durham. Recession and recovery, c. 1400–1640 – By A. T. Brown
by R. W. Hoyle - 1442-1443 Insurance in Elizabethan England: the London Code – By Guido Rossi
by Giovanni Ceccarelli - 1443-1445 Sleep in early modern England – By Sasha Handley
by Mark Hailwood - 1445-1446 Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650–1750 – By Craig Spence
by Charmian Mansellx - 1446-1447 The court roll of the manor of Wakefield, vol. XIX, 1781–2 – Edited by David Scriven
by Carol Beardmore - 1447-1449 Consumption and the country house – By Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery
by Anne Montenach - 1449-1450 The globalization of merchant banking before 1850: the case of Huth & Co. – By Manuel Llorca‐Jaña
by Matthew Hollow - 1450-1451 Family and business during the industrial revolution – By Hannah Barker
by Andrew Popp - 1451-1452 Transforming the countryside: the electrification of rural Britain – Edited by Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt, and Karen Sayer
by Martin Chick - 1452-1453 From depression to devolution: economy and government in Wales, 1934–2006 – By Leon Gooberman
by Ben Curtis - 1453-1454 British banking: continuity and change from 1694 to the present – By Ranald C. Michie
by Mark Billings - 1455-1456 The economy of Pompeii – Edited by Miko Flohr and Andrew Wilson
by J. W. Hanson - 1456-1457 Merchants and explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and networks of Atlantic exchange 1500–1560 – By Heather Dalton
by Adrian Finucane - 1457-1459 Money, power, and influence in eighteenth‐century Lithuania: the Jews on the Radziwiłł estates – By Adam Teller
by Piotr Koryś - 1459-1460 The trouble with tea: the politics of consumption in the eighteenth‐century global economy – By Jane T. Merritt
by Giada Pizzoni - 1460-1461 National duties: custom houses and the making of the American state – By Gautham Rao
by Aaron Graham - 1461-1463 Slavery's capitalism: a new history of American economic development – Edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rochman
by Paul E. Lovejoy - 1463-1464 A new economic history of colonial India – Edited by Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy, and Anand V. Swamy
by Ghulam A. Nadri - 1464-1465 Why did we choose to industrialize? Montreal, 1819–1849 – By Robert C. H. Sweeny
by Pat Hudson - 1466-1467 Anthropologists in the stock exchange: a financial history of Victorian science – By Marc Flandreau
by Rebecca L. Spang - 1467-1468 Transnational radicalism and the connected lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross – By Neville Kirk
by Marcus Morris - 1468-1470 The quest for stable money: central banking in Austria, 1816–2016 – By Clemens Jobst and Hans Kernbauer
by Matthias Morys - 1470-1471 Munich Re: the company history, 1880–1980 – By Johannes Bähr and Christopher Kopper, trans. Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
by Robin Pearson - 1471-1473 Green capitalism: business and the environment in the twentieth century – Edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome
by Elena Fell
August 2017, Volume 70, Issue 3
- 1-45 Review of periodical literature on continental Europe from 1700 published in 2013
by Eric Schneider & Matthias Morys & Markus Lampe & Kerstin Enflo - 701-729 The timing and pattern of real wage divergence in pre-industrial Europe: evidence from Germany, c. 1500–1850
by Ulrich Pfister - 730-757 From orphan to artisan: apprenticeship careers and contract enforcement in The Netherlands before and after the guild abolition
by Ruben Schalk - 758-778 Power politics and princely debts: why Germany's common currency failed, 1549–56
by Oliver Volckart - 779-809 Farmers at the heart of the ‘human capital revolution’? Decomposing the numeracy increase in early modern Europe
by Franziska Tollnek & Joerg Baten - 810-836 Gender, life cycle, and family ‘strategies’ among the poor: the Barcelona workhouse, 1762–1805
by Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller & Julie Marfany - 837-858 Risk, success, and failure: female entrepreneurship in late Victorian and Edwardian England
by Jennifer Aston & Paolo Martino - 859-892 Innovation and upheaval: early growth in Greek capital market listings and IPOs from 1880 to the Second World War in the Athens Stock Exchange
by Stavros Thomadakis & Dimitrios Gounopoulos & Christos Nounis & Michalis Riginos - 893-918 The demand for residential domestic service in the London of 1901
by Quentin Outram - 919-943 Shareholder rights and share capital: the effect of the 1901 Russian Corporation Reform, 1890–1905
by Amanda G. Gregg - 944-976 Did closures do any good? Labour productivity, mine dynamics, and rationalization in interwar Ruhr coal mining
by Tobias A. Jopp - 977-1003 Sharecropping was sometimes efficient: sharecropping with compensation for improvements in European viticulture
by Samuel Garrido - 1004-1009 Rejoinder to Szreter
by Geoffrey Barnes & Timothy W. Guinnane - 1010-1013 Rebuttal to Barnes and Guinnane
by Simon Szreter - 1014-1015 Michael Hicks , ed., The later medieval inquisitions post mortem: mapping the medieval countryside and rural society ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+226 . 4 figs. 14 illus. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781783270798 Hbk. £60)
by Chris Briggs - 1015-1016 David Butcher , Medieval Lowestoft: the origins and growth of a Suffolk coastal community ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2016 . Pp. xviii+370 . 7 maps. 26 plates. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781783271498 Hbk. £50)
by Ronan O'Donnell - 1016-1017 Thomas Riis , Crail and its fisheries 1550–1600 ( St Andrews : Strathmartine Press , 2016 . Pp. xviii+193 . 26 tabs. ISBN 9780995544109 Pbk. £14.99)
by Poul Holm - 1017-1018 David Neave , Susan Neave , Catherine Ferguson , and Elizabeth Parkinson , eds., Yorkshire East Riding Hearth Tax 1672–3 ( London : British Record Society , 2016 . Pp. xvi+600 . 18 maps. 30 plates. 10 tables. ISBN 9780901505613 Hbk. £30 + £5 p&p [UK], £10 p&p [overseas])
by Heather Falvey - 1018-1019 Gary W. Cox , Marketing sovereign promises: monopoly brokerage and the growth of the English state ( New York and Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+221 . 21 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781316506097 Pbk. £17.99/$26.99)
by Helen Julia Paul - 1019-1021 Aaron Graham and Patrick Walsh , eds., The British fiscal-military states, 1660–c. 1783 ( London and New York : Routledge , 2016 . Pp. xvi+290 . 6 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781472440785 Hbk. £75)
by Christopher Storrs - 1021-1022 Jennifer Aston , Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England: engagement in the urban economy ( London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xviii+257 . 16 charts. 10 figs. 5 graphs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9783319308791 Hbk. £86)
by Catherine Bishop - 1023-1024 Susan Buckham , Peter C. Jupp , and Julie Rugg , eds., Death in modern Scotland, 1855–1955: beliefs, attitudes and practices ( Bern : Peter Lang , 2016 . Pp. xvi+336 . 27 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9783034318211 Pbk. £60.89)
by Helen Frisby - 1024-1025 André Tchernia , The Romans and trade ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xvi+380 . 22 figs. ISBN 9780198723714 Hbk. £85)
by Annalisa Marzano - 1025-1026 Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft , eds., Slavery hinterland: transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+261 . 15 figs. ISBN 9781783271122 Pbk. £17.99)
by Philip Misevich - 1027-1028 Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy , Law and the economy in colonial India ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+240 . 8 figs. 3 maps. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780226387642 Hbk. £31.50/$45)
by B. R. Tomlinson - 1028-1029 John D. Wong , Global trade in the nineteenth century: the House of Houqua and the Canton system ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+247 . 14 figs. ISBN 9781107150669 Hbk. £64.99/$99.99)
by G. Roger Knight - 1029-1030 Fabien Cardoni , ed., Les banques françaises et la Grande Guerre ( Paris : Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France-Igpde, series , 2016 . Pp. 292 . ISBN 9782111293946. €28)
by Hubert Bonin - 1031-1032 Kim Oosterlinck , trans. Anthony Bulger , Hope springs eternal: French bondholders and the repudiation of Russian sovereign debt ( New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2016 . Pp. xvi+244 . 4 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780300190915 Hbk. £55/$85)
by William R. Summerhill - 1032-1033 Chris Miller , The struggle to save the Soviet economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . Pp. xx+244 . 11 charts. 1 tab. ISBN 9781469630175 Hbk. £29.50/$29.95)
by Olga Velikanova - 1033-1034 Youssef Cassis , Andrea Colli , and Harm G. Schröter , eds., The performance of European business in the twentieth century ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+359 . 2 figs. 125 tabs. ISBN 9780198749776 Hbk. £65)
by Rowena Olegario - 1035-1035 Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer , eds., Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xvii+709 . 46 figs. 48 tabs. ISBN 9780199378296 Hbk. £64)
by Hein A. M. Klemann - 1036-1037 Per Hõgselius , Arne Kaijser , and Erik van der Vleuten , Europe's infrastructure transition: economy, war, nature ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xxiv+454 . 77 figs. ISBN 9780230307995 Hbk. £60/$90)
by Robert Millward - 1037-1038 Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller , The social history of agriculture ( Lanham, Md., and London : Rowman & Littlefield , 2017 . Pp. xvi + 387 . 16 figs. 5 maps ISBN 9781442209671 Pbk. £29.95)
by Paul Brassley - 1038-1039 Leonor Freire Costa , Pedro Lains , and Susana Munch , An economic history of Portugal 1143–2010 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+406 . 20 figs. 10 maps. 54 tabs. ISBN 9781107035546 Hbk. £74.99/$120)
by Francisco Henriques - 1039-1040 William O. Coleman , ed., Only in Australia: the history, politics and economics of Australian exceptionalism ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+320 . 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198753254 Hbk. £35)
by Stuart Macintyre - 1041-1042 Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson , Unequal gains: American growth and inequality since 1700 ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. xx+398 . 30 figs. 68 tabs. ISBN 9780691170497 Hbk. $35.00/27.95)
by Suresh Naidu - 1042-1044 Matthias Schmelzer , The hegemony of growth: the OECD and the making of the economic growth paradigm ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+384 . 6 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781107130609 Hbk. £64.99/$99.99)
by Simone Selva - 1044-1045 Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg , eds., The economy of hope ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 . Pp. 198 . 5 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780812248692 Hbk. £32.50/$49.95)
by Sophus A. Reinert - 1045-1046 Roderick Floud , Santhi Hejeebu , and David Mitch , eds., Humanism challenges materialism in economics and economic history ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . Pp. 276 . 8 figs. ISBN 9780226419588 Hbk. $65/£49)
by Mark Koyama - 1046-1048 Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire , eds., Research methods for history ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2016 . Pp. x+278 . 9 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781474408769 Pbk. £26.99)
by Will Pooley
May 2017, Volume 70, Issue 2
- 373-396 Cambium non est mutuum: exchange and interest rates in medieval Europe
by Adrian R. Bell & Chris Brooks & Tony K. Moore - 397-422 Information asymmetries and craft guilds in pre-modern markets: evidence from Italian proto-industry
by Andrea Caracausi - 423-451 Patterns of economic change in the south-west during the fifteenth century: evidence from the reductions to the fifteenths and tenths
by Mark Forrest - 452-482 The unpopularity of the hearth tax and the social geography of London in 1666
by Andrew Wareham - 483-508 The agricultural revolution and the conditions of the rural poor, southern Sweden, 1750–1860
by Martin Dribe & Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson - 509-528 Networks, trust, and risk mitigation during the American Revolutionary War: a case study
by Carolyn Downs - 529-558 Mercantilism and bureaucratic modernization in early eighteenth-century France
by Jean Beuve & Eric Brousseau & Jérôme Sgard - 559-585 Debt dilution in 1920s America: lighting the fuse of a mortgage crisis
by Natacha Postel-Vinay - 586-604 Britain as a debtor: Indian sterling balances, 1940–53
by Marcelo Paiva Abreu - 605-631 Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda's smallholders thrive?
by Michiel Haas - 632-658 Housing affordability during the urban transition in Spain
by Juan Carmona & Markus Lampe & Joan Rosés - 659-660 Martin Allen and Matthew Davies , eds., Medieval merchants and money: essays in honour of James L. Bolton ( London : Institute of Historical Research , 2016 . Pp. xx+363 . 10 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781909646162. £40)
by William Caferro - 660-661 Benjamin Thompson and John Watts , eds., Political society in later medieval England. A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2015 . Pp. 280 . 4 illus. ISBN 9781783270309 Hbk. £60)
by Serena Ferente - 662-663 Nicholas R. Amor , From wool to cloth: the triumph of the Suffolk clothier ( Bungay, Suffolk : RefineCatch Limited , 2016 . Pp. xx+282 . 17 figs. 14 maps. 24 plates. 19 tabs. ISBN 0995508507 Hbk. £20)
by John Oldland - 663-664 Thomas Malcomson , Order and disorder in the British navy, 1793–1815: control, resistance, flogging and hanging ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+304 . 2 maps. ISBN 9781783271191 Hbk. £75)
by Roger Morriss - 664-665 Helen Watt and Anne Hawkins , eds., Letters of seamen in the wars with France, 1793–1815 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2016 . Pp. xx+668 . 6 illus. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781843838968 Hbk. £95)
by Joseph Cozens - 665-667 Charlotte Wildman , Urban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918–1939 ( London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2016 . Pp. xiv+287 . 17 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781474257367 Hbk. £90)
by Barry M. Doyle - 667-669 Richard von Glahn , The economic history of China: from antiquity to the nineteenth century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+461 . ISBN 9781107030565 Pbk. £24.99/$39.99)
by Niv Horesh - 669-670 Larry Neal , Concise history of international finance: from Babylon to Bernanke ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. 376 . ISBN 9781107034174 Hbk. £59.99)
by Marc Weidenmier - 671-672 Bas van Bavel , The invisible hand? How market economies have emerged and declined since AD500 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii + 330 . 2 figs. 3 maps. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780199608133 Hbk. £35)
by Mark Casson - 672-673 Bruce M. S. Campbell , The great transition: climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xvi+463 . 78 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780521195881 Hbk. £69.99/$105; 9780521144438 Pbk. £22.99/$34.99)
by Christopher Dyer - 673-674 Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende , eds., Medieval east central Europe in a comparative perspective: from frontier zones to lands in focus ( London and New York : Routledge , 2016 . Pp. xiv+265 . 34 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781138923478 Pbk. £29.99)
by Karel Davids - 674-675 Donald J. Harreld , ed., A companion to the Hanseatic League ( Leiden : Brill , 2015 . Pp viii + 277 . 9 figs. 2 maps. 6 tabs. ISBN 9789004282889 Hbk. £86)
by Stephen H. Rigby - 676-677 Giampiero Nigro , ed., Le crisi finanziarie: gestione, implicazioni sociali e conseguenze nell'età preindustriale /Financial crises: their management, their social implications and their consequences in pre-industrial times ( Florence : Firenze University Press , 2016 . Pp. viii+555 . 9 figs. 51 graphs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9788866559481 Pbk. €65)
by Jérôme Sgard - 677-678 Silvia Sovič , Pat Thane , and Pier Paolo Viazzo , eds., The history of families and households: comparative European dimensions ( Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2016 . Pp. xii+263 . 13 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9789004307858 €104/$135)
by Mikolaj Szoltysek - 679-680 Pim de Zwart , Globalization and the colonial origins of the great divergence: intercontinental trade and living standards in the Dutch East India Company's commercial empire, c. 1600–1800 ( Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2016 . Pp. x+290 . 40 figs. 6 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9789004299658 Hbk. €109/$141)
by Edmond Smith - 680-681 Rafael Torres Sánchez , Military entrepreneurs & the Spanish contractor state in the eighteenth century ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . pp. xxii+297 . 18 figs. 16 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780198784111 Hbk. £60)
by Aaron Graham - 681-682 Philip Misevich and Kristin Mann , eds., The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world ( Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge : University of Rochester Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+361 . 9 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781580465601 Hbk. £80)
by Mary Wills