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August 2017, Volume 70, Issue 3
- 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 - 682-683 Ghulam A. Nadri , The political economy of indigo in India, 1580–1930: a global perspective ( Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2016 . Pp. xviii+246 . 18 figs. 2 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004311541 Hbk. €109/$141)
by Prakash Kumar - 684-685 Gergely Baics , Feeding Gotham: the political economy and geography of food in New York, 1790–1860 ( Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. xviii+347 . 19 figs. 16 maps. 7 plates. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780691168791 Hbk. £29.95/$39.95)
by Susan Parham - 685-686 Naiem A. Sherbiny and Omaima M. Hatem , State and entrepreneurs in Egypt: economic development since 1805 ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2015 . Pp. xix+195 . ISBN 9781137567536 Hbk. £70)
by Mohamed Saleh - 686-688 Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula , eds., Swedish taxation: developments since 1862 ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. 334 . ISBN 9781137478146 Hbk. £75)
by Jari Ojala - 688-689 Robert Fitzgerald , The rise of the global company: multinationals and the making of the modern world ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp xii+622 . 39 tabs. ISBN 9780521614962 Pbk. £19.99/$29.99)
by Andrea Colli - 689-690 Matt Bera , Lobbying Hitler: industrial associations between democracy and dictatorship ( New York and Oxford : Berghahn Books , 2016 . Pp. x + 250 . ISBN 9781785330650 Hbk. £75)
by Armin Grünbacher - 690-692 Lee J. Alston , Marcus André Melo , Bernardo Mueller , and Carlos Pereira , Brazil in transition: beliefs, leadership, and institutional change ( Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. xx+259 . 21 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780691162911 Hbk. £29.95/$39.50)
by Gail D. Triner - 692-693 Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama , eds., Corporate forms and organisational choice in international insurance ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. 330 . ISBN 9780198739005 Hbk. £60)
by Adrian Leonard - 693-695 Youssef Cassis , Richard S. Grossman , and Catherine R. Schenk , eds., The Oxford handbook of banking and financial history ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xviii+537 . 9 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780199658626 Hbk. £95)
by Sabine Schneider - 695-696 Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson , eds., Diverse development paths and structural transformation in the escape from poverty ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xvi+284 . 16 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780198737407 Hbk. £60)
by Gloria Quiroga - 697-698 Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg , The Nobel factor: the prize in economics, social democracy and the market turn ( Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. xx+323 . 23 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780691166032 Hbk. £24.95/$35)
by Benny Carlson
February 2017, Volume 70, Issue 1
- 3-29 Children's growth in an adaptive framework: explaining the growth patterns of American slaves and other historical populations
by Eric B. Schneider - 30-51 The great divergence and the economics of printing
by Luis Angeles - 52-78 Extracting economics from Roman marble quarries
by Leah E. Long - 79-100 The first Sterling Area
by Martin Allen - 101-121 Migrants’ self-selection in the early stages of modern economic growth, Spain (1880–1930)
by Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Santiago Miguel Salanova - 122-142 Product quality or market regulation? Explaining the slow growth of Europe's wine cooperatives, 1880–1980
by Eva Fernández & James Simpson - 143-170 Building an alternative economic network? Consumer cooperation in Scotland from the 1870s to the 1960s
by D. C. H. Watts - 171-186 Conditional crisis? Ecological challenges and conditions of growth during the agricultural revolution in southern Sweden, c. 1700–1900
by Magnus Bohman - 187-223 Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century
by Matthias Blum & Christopher L. Colvin & Laura McAtackney & Eoin McLaughlin - 224-247 How the German crisis of 1931 swept across Europe: a comparative view from Stockholm
by Tobias Straumann & Peter Kugler & Florian Weber - 248-274 War and socialism: why eastern Europe fell behind between 1950 and 1989
by Tamás Vonyó - 323-324 Alisdair Dobie , Accounting at Durham Cathedral Priory: management and control of a major ecclesiastical corporation 1083–1539 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xii+341 . 32 tabs. ISBN 9781137479778 Hbk. £80)
by Harmony Dewez - 324-325 C. M. Woolgar , The culture of food in England, 1200–1500 ( New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+341 . 8 figs. 32 illus. ISBN 9780300181913 Hbk. £30/$45)
by Iona McCleery - 325-327 J. P. Bowen and A. T. Brown , eds., Custom and commercialization in English rural society: revisiting Tawney and Postan ( Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2016 . Pp. xvi+310 . 23 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781909291454 Hbk. £35/$79.95; 9781909291447 Pbk. £18.99/$37.95)
by H. R. French - 327-328 Ronan O'Donnell , Assembling enclosure: transformations in the rural landscape of post-medieval north-east England ( Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2015 . Pp. xi +152 . ISBN 9781909291430 Pbk. £14.99)
by John Broad - 328-329 Dwight Codr , Raving at usurers: anti-finance and the ethics of uncertainty in England, 1690–1750 ( Charlottesville, Va., and London : University of Virginia Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+242 . 1 fig. ISBN 9780813937809 Hbk. £37.50/$39.50)
by Lina Weber - 329-330 Janet E. Mullin , A sixpence at whist: gaming and the English middle classes, 1680–1830 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2015 . Pp. 240 . 8 illus. ISBN 9781783270477 Hbk. £45)
by Jessica Richard - 331-332 Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker , London lives: poverty, crime and the making of a modern city, 1690–1800 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xvi+461 . 47 figs. ISBN 9781107025721 Hbk. £55/$85; 9781107639942 Pbk. £21.99/$32.99)
by James Sharpe - 332-333 Peter Razzell , Mortality, marriage and population growth in England, 1550–1850 ( London : Caliban Books , 2016 . Pp. 135 . 53 tabs. ISBN 9780904573190 Pbk. £10)
by Andrew Hinde - 333-334 Nigel Goose , Helen Caffrey , and Anne Langley , eds., The British almshouse: new perspectives on philanthropyca 1400–1914 ( Milton Keynes : FACHRS Publications , 2016 . Pp vii+407 . 4 figs. 78 illus. 4 maps. 14 plates. 35 tabs. ISBN 9780954818029 Pbk. £12)
by Beatrice Moring - 335-336 E. A. Wrigley , The path to sustained growth: England's transition from an organic economy to an industrial revolution ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii+219 . 3 figs. 31 tabs. ISBN 9781316504284 Pbk. £18.99/$29.99)
by Yasir Nawaz - 336-337 Kate Smith , Material goods, moving hands: perceiving production in England, 1700– 1830 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2014 . Pp. x +181 . 15 figs. ISBN 9780719090677 Hbk. £70)
by Stana Nenadic - 337-339 Marc W. Steinberg , England's great transformation: law, labour, and the industrial revolution ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . Pp. xvi+233 . 21 tabs. ISBN 9780226329956 Pbk. £24.50/$35)
by Victoria N. Bateman - 339-340 Daniel Harrison , The Thames Iron Works 1837–1912: a major shipbuilder on the Thames ( London : Museum of London Archaeology , 2015 . Pp. xiv+114 . 103 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781907586347 Pbk. £10)
by Helen Doe - 340-341 Simone Fari , Victorian telegraphy before nationalization ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. vii+235 . ISBN 9781137406514 Hbk. £63)
by Nigel Linge - 342-343 Lewis Mates , The great labour unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+311 . 6 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9780719090684 Hbk. £70)
by Ralph Darlington - 343-344 Andrew Wilson and Miko Flohr , eds., Urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xviii+408 . 74 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198748489 Hbk. £80)
by J. W. Hanson - 344-346 Kent Deng , Mapping China's growth and development in the long run: 221 BC to 2020 ( Singapore and London : World Scientific Publishing , 2016 . Pp. x+250 . 34 figs. 74 tabs. ISBN 9789814667555 Hbk. £58)
by Richard Von Glahn - 346-347 John Drendel , ed., Crisis in the later middle ages: beyond the Postan–Duby paradigm ( Turnhout : Brepols , 2015 . Pp. viii+363 . ISBN 9782503547428 Hbk. €90)
by Philip Slavin - 347-349 Roman Zaoral , ed., Money and finance in central Europe during the later middle ages ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xviii+269 . 11 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9781137460226 Hbk. £75)
by Peter Spufford - 349-350 Shireen Moosvi , The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595. A statistical study (2nd edn. New Delhi : Oxford University Press : 2015 . Pp. xii + 476 . ISBN 9780199450541 Pbk. £37.99)
by Tirthankar Roy - 350-351 Jeroen Puttevils , Merchants and trading in the sixteenth century: the golden age of Antwerp ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2015 . Pp. xiii+312 . 2 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781848935761 Hbk. £95)
by Siobhan Talbott - 352-353 Denjian Jin , The great knowledge transcendence: The rise of western science and technology reframed ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xii+312 . ISBN 9781137527936 Hbk. £63/$100)
by P. M. Jones - 353-354 Felicia Gottmann , Global trade, smuggling, and the making of economic liberalism: Asian textiles in France 1680–1760 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xiv+256 . 5 figs. 18 plates. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781137444875 Hbk. £55)
by R. C. Nash - 354-355 Frank Trentmann , Empire of things: how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first ( London : Allen Lane , 2016 . Pp. xviii+862 . 36 figs. 72 illus. ISBN 9780713999624 Hbk. £30)
by Ilja I. B. Van Damme - 356-357 Michael D. Thompson , Working on the dock of the bay: labor and enterprise in an antebellum southern port ( Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2015 . Pp. x+284 . 5 figs. 11 maps. 90 tabs. ISBN 9781611174748 Hbk. $44.95/£38.95)
by Leonard Carlson - 357-358 Robert J. Gordon , The rise and fall of American growth: the US standard of living since the Civil War ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+762 . 97 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9780691147727Hbk. $39.95/£27.95)
by Simone Selva - 358-359 Emanuele Felice , Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d'Italia Bologna : Il Mulino , 2015 . Pp. 385+50 online appendix. 2 tabs. 8 figs. ISBN 9788815257857 Pbk. €18, e-book €12.99)
by Paolo Di Martino - 360-360 Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn , The cotton kings: capitalism and corruption in turn-of-the-century New York and New Orleans ( Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+214 . 23 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780190211653 Hbk. $29.95/£19.99)
by Matthew Hollow - 361-362 Youssef Cassis and Philip L. Cottrell , Private banking in Europe: rise, retreat and resurgence ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. 305 . ISBN 9780198735755 Hbk. £55)
by Janette Rutterford - 362-363 Gerald D. Feldman , Austrian banks in the period of National Socialism ( Washington and Cambridge : German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. x+581 . ISBN 9781107001657 Hbk. £90/$140)
by Flora Macher - 363-364 Carles Brasó Broggi , Trades and technology networks in the Chinese textile industry: opening up before the reform ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xiv+221 . 3 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781137494047 Hbk. £75)
by Joyman Lee - 364-366 Stuart John Barton , Policy signals and market responses: a 50-year history of Zambia's relationship with foreign capital ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xii+285 . 11 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781137390974 Hbk. £70)
by Grietjie Verhoef - 366-368 Joerg Baten , ed., A history of the global economy: 1500 to the present ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv+369 . 68 figs. 19 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107104709 Hbk. £69.99/$119.99)
by Pedro Lains - 368-369 Francesco Boldizzoni and Pat Hudson , Routledge handbook of global economic history ( London and New York : Routledge , 2016 . Pp. xvi+471 . 4 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781138838031 Hbk. £150)
by Philipp Roessner
November 2016, Volume 69, Issue 4
- 1057-1082 Establishing statistical foundations of a chronology for the great divergence: a survey and critique of the primary sources for the construction of relative wage levels for Ming–Qing China
by Kent Deng & Patrick O'Brien - 1083-1107 London creditors and the fifteenth-century depression
by Matthew Frank Stevens - 1108-1131 Periodic recoinage as a monetary tax: conditions for the rise and fall of the bracteate economy
by Roger Svensson - 1132-1156 Non-legal-tender paper money: the structure and performance of Maryland's bills of credit, 1767–75
by James Celia & Farley Grubb - 1157-1177 The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa
by Nonso Obikili - 1178-1198 Direct finance in the Dutch Golden Age
by Oscar Gelderblom & Joost Jonker & Clemens Kool - 1199-1227 Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain
by Robert J. Bennett - 1228-1254 Inheritance taxation in Sweden, 1885–2004: the role of ideology, family firms, and tax avoidance
by Magnus Henrekson & Daniel Waldenström - 1255-1284 Long-term trends in economic inequality: lessons from colonial Botswana, 1921–74
by Jutta Bolt & Ellen Hillbom - 1285-1308 Tariff-jumping foreign direct investment in protectionist era Ireland
by Frank Barry & Linda Barry & Aisling Menton - 1309-1365 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2015
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1366-1367 David Roffe and K. S. B. Keats-Rohan , eds., Domesday now: new approaches to the inquest and the book ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2016 . Pp. xiv + 338. 20 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781783270880 Hbk. £60)
by Benjamin Pohl - 1367-1368 Frances Willmoth and Susan Oosthuizen , eds., The Ely Coucher book, 1249–50: the Bishop of Ely's manors in the Cambridgeshire fenland ( Cambridge : Cambridgeshire Record Society , 2015 . Pp. x + 252. 1 map. 26 plates. ISBN 9780904323245 Pbk. £37.50)
by Rebecca Oakes - 1368-1369 Elizabeth Griffiths , ed., Her price is above pearls: family and farming records of Alice Le Strange, 1617–1656 ( Norwich : Norfolk Record Society , 2015 . Pp viii + 376. 6 figs. 1 map. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780955635786 Hbk. £18)
by Judith Spicksley - 1370-1371 Chris Nierstrasz , Rivalry for trade in tea and textiles: the English and Dutch East Indian Companies (1700–1800) ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xvi + 219. 5 figs. 22 graphs. 7 plates. 1 tab. ISBN 9781137486523 Hbk. £60)
by Karolina Hutková - 1371-1373 Tyler Beck Goodspeed , Legislating instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the financial crisis of 1772 ( Cambridge, MA, and London : Harvard University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii + 208. 23 figs. ISBN 9780674088887 Hbk. £29.95)
by Paul Kosmetatos - 1373-1374 Ryan Patrick Hanley , ed., Adam Smith: his life, thought and legacy ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. xxvi + 571. 2 figs. ISBN 9780691154053 Hbk. $45/£34.95)
by Anton Howes - 1374-1376 Peter Maw , Transport and the industrial city: Manchester and the canal age, 1750–1850 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2013 . Pp. 320 . 13 maps. ISBN 9780719083600 Hbk. £75)
by Dan Bogart - 1376-1377 Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann , eds., The country house: material culture and consumption ( Swindon : Historic England , 2016 . Pp. x + 214. 114 figs. ISBN 9781848022331 Hbk. £70)
by Madge Dresser - 1377-1379 Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan , eds., with the assistance of Gordon Bannerman, The letters of Richard Cobden, vol. 4: 1860–1863 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. lxii + 672. 13 illus. ISBN 9780199211982 Hbk. £140)
by Antony Taylor - 1379-1380 Kathryn A. Morrison , Woolworth's: 100 years on the High Street ( Swindon : Historic England , 2016 . Pp. viii + 232. ISBN 9781848022461 Hbk. £50)
by Tom Buckley - 1380-1381 Kiyoshi Hirowatari , Britain and European monetary cooperation, 1964–1979 ( London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xiii + 276. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781137491411 Hbk. £75)
by Roger Middleton - 1382-1384 Alain Bresson , trans. by Steve Rendall , The making of the ancient Greek economy: institutions, markets and growth in the city-states ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. 648 . ISBN 9780691144702 Hbk. £34.95)
by Darel Tai Engen - 1384-1385 Paul Erdkamp , Koenraad Verboven , and Arjan Zuiderhoek , Ownership and exploitation of land and natural resources in the Roman world ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xiv + 407. 34 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198728924 Hbk. £90)
by Penelope J. Goodman - 1385-1386 Lawrin Armstrong , The idea of a moral economy: Gerard of Siena on usury, restitution and prescription ( Toronto, Buffalo, and London : University of Toronto Press , 2016 . pp. xii + 331. ISBN 9781442643222 Hbk. $75/£50.19)
by Stephen H. Rigby - 1386-1388 Linda Clark , ed., The fifteenth century XIV: essays presented to Michael Hicks ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2015 . Pp. xvii + 249. 9 tabs. 8 maps. ISBN 9781783270484 Hbk. £60)
by Jordan Claridge - 1388-1389 Karel Davids and Bert de Munck , eds., Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. 438 . ISBN 9781472439871 Hbk. £90)
by Patrick Wallis - 1389-1390 Pepijn Brandon , War, capital and the Dutch state (1588–1795) ( Leiden : Brill , 2015 . Pp. xiii + 447. 10 figs. 28 tabs. ISBN 9789004228146 Pbk. €135)
by Aaron Graham - 1390-1392 A. B. Leonard , ed., Marine insurance: origins and institutions, 1300–1850 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xiv + 325. 3 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781137411372 Hbk. £75)
by Robin Pearson - 1392-1393 Peter M. Jones , Agricultural enlightenment: knowledge, technology, and nature, 1750–1840 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii + 268. 9 figs. ISBN 9780198716075 Hbk. £60)
by John Chapman - 1393-1394 G. Roger Knight , Trade and empire in early nineteenth century southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and his business network ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2015 . Pp. ix + 193. 2 maps. ISBN 9781783270699 Hbk. £65)
by François Gipouloux - 1394-1395 Tine de Moor , The dilemma of the commoners: understanding the use of common-pool resources in long-term perspective ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xviii + 204. 12 figs. 5 tabs ISBN 9781107022164 Hbk. £65/$99)
by Susan Oosthuizen - 1396-1397 Philip T. Hoffman , Why did Europe conquer the world? ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Pp. 288. 18 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780691139708 Hbk. $29.95/£19.95)
by Guillaume Daudin - 1397-1398 Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb , eds., Making news: the political economy of journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the internet ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. x + 263. 97 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9780199676187 Hbk. £50)
by Richard K. Popp - 1398-1399 Youssef Cassis , Giuseppe de Luca , and Massimo Florio , eds., Infrastructure finance in Europe: insights into the history of water, transport, and telecommunications ( Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Pp. xxi + 358. 30 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780198713418 Hbk. £75)
by Eduard J. Alvarez-Palau - 1400-1401 William N. Goetzmann , Money changes everything: how finance made civilization possible ( Princeton, NJ, and Woodstock : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Pp. x + 584. 60 figs. ISBN 9780691143781 Hbk. $35/£24.95)
by John D. Turner - 1401-1402 Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing , Investment: a history ( New York and Chichester : Columbia University Press , 2016 . Pp. xii + 436. 8 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780231169523 Hbk. $35/£24)
by Graeme Acheson - 1402-1404 Stephen Gross , Export empire: German soft power in southeastern Europe, 1890–1945 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xv + 384. 5 figs. 1 map. 32 tabs. ISBN 9781107112254 Hbk. £64.99)
by A. Coşkun Tunçer - 1404-1405 Andre Schlueter , Institutions and small settler economies: a comparative study of New Zealand and Uruguay, 1870–2008 ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 290. ISBN 9781137448286 Hbk. $89)
by Carl Bridge - 1405-1406 Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch , eds., The impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile: business enterprises and entrepreneurship ( Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2015 . Pp. x + 290. 3 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781783473632 Hbk. £80)
by Colin M. Lewis - 1407-1408 Philip J. Havik , Alexander Keese , and Maciel Santos , Administration and taxation in former Portuguese Africa 1900–1945 ( Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2015 . Pp. xiv + 256. 11 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9781443870108 Hbk. £47.99)
by Martine Mariotti - 1408-1409 Jeanne Marie Penvenne , Women, migration and the cashew economy in southern Mozambique 1945–1975 ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2015 . Pp. xx + 281. 14 figs. 4 maps. ISBN 9781847011282 Hbk. £45)
by Kleoniki Alexopoulou - 1409-1410 Eva Bertram , The workfare state: public assistance politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats ( Philadelphia : University of Philadelphia Press , 2015 . Pp. 328. ISBN 9780812247077 Hbk. £49/$75)
by Jason Scott Smith - 1410-1412 Iris Claus and Les Oxley , eds., China's economy: a collection of surveys ( Chichester : Wiley Blackwell , 2015 . Pp. 201. 31 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9781118982471 Pbk. £19.99)
by Tao Liu - 1412-1413 Johan A. Lybeck , The future of financial regulation: who should pay for the failure of American and European banks? ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Pp. xxxvi + 560. 40 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781107106857 Hbk. £74.99)
by Rasheed Saleuddin
August 2016, Volume 69, Issue 3
- 747-772 Decomposing income inequality in a backward pre-industrial economy: Old Castile (Spain) in the middle of the eighteenth century
by Esteban A. Nicolini & Fernando Ramos Palencia - 773-800 Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia
by Steven Nafziger - 801-822 Pestilence, poverty, and provision: re-evaluating the role of the popolani in early modern Venice
by Ioanna Iordanou - 823-843 Interlopers and disorderly brethren at the Stade Mart: commercial regulations and practices amongst the Merchant Adventurers of England in the late Elizabethan period
by Thomas Leng - 844-869 The Danish agricultural revolution in an energy perspective: a case of development with few domestic energy sources
by Sofia Teives Henriques & Paul Sharp - 870-892 The decline of an aristocratic stud: the stud of Edward Lord Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, at Welbeck (Nottinghamshire), 1717–29
by Peter Edwards - 893-914 South Africa in the Australian mirror: per capita real GDP in the Cape Colony, Natal, Victoria, and New South Wales, 1861–1909
by Gary B. Magee & Lorraine Greyling & Grietjie Verhoef - 915-944 Can public policies lower religiosity? Evidence from school choice in France, 1878–1902
by Raphaël Franck & Noel D. Johnson - 945-971 The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1790–1834
by Samantha Williams - 972-998 After us, the deluge: German miners’ experience with pay-as-you-go pensions and the intergenerational contract before the great inflation
by Tobias A. Jopp - 999-1006 Duplication without constraints: Álvarez-Nogal and Chamley's analysis of debt policy under Philip II
by Mauricio Drelichman & Hans-Joachim Voth - 1007-1013 Response to ‘Duplications’ by Drelichman and Voth
by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal & Christophe P. Chamley - 1014-1015 Isla Fay , Health and the city: disease, environment and government in Norwich, 1200–1575 ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2015 . Pp. xxvi+246 . 19 figs. 9 maps. ISBN 9781903153604 Hbk. £50)
by Leona J. Skelton - 1016-1017 Michael Hicks , ed., English inland trade 1430–1540: Southampton and its region ( Oxford and Philadelphia : Oxbow Books , 2015 . Pp. xvi+216 . 154 figs. 41 maps. ISBN 9781782978244 Hbk. £45)
by Justin Colson - 1017-1018 Christine Desan , Making money. Coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxi+478 . 11 figs. ISBN 9780198709572 Hbk. £50)
by Paolo Di Martino - 1018-1019 Paul Slack , The invention of improvement: information and material progress in seventeenth-century England ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. 336 . 5 figs. ISBN 9780199645916 Hbk. £35)
by Edmond Smith - 1019-1020 Aaron Graham , Corruption, party, and government in Britain, 1702–1713 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xvi+305 . ISBN 9780198738787 Hbk. £65)
by Helen Julia Paul - 1020-1021 Sheila White and Philip Sheail , eds. and trans., Lord Fordwich's Grand Tour, 1756–60 ( Hertford : Hertfordshire Record Publications , 2015 . Pp. viii+401 . 15 figs. 6 maps. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780956511140 Hbk. £22)
by Timothy Wilks - 1022-1023 Anthony Cooke , A history of drinking: the Scottish pub since 1700 ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii+268 . 23 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781474400121 Hbk. £80; ISBN 9781474407625 Pbk. £19.99)
by David Beckingham - 1023-1024 Victoria E. M. Gardner , The business of news in England, 1760–1820 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. x+270 . 9 figs. 4 maps. 1 tab. ISBN 9781137336385 Hbk. £63)
by Will Slauter - 1024-1025 Graham Mooney , Intrusive interventions: public health, domestic space, and infectious disease surveillance in England, 1840–1914 ( Rochester, NY and Woodbridge : University of Rochester Press , 2015 . Pp. xiv+278 . 25 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781580465274 Hbk. £80)
by Keir Waddington - 1025-1027 Julie-Marie Strange , Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865–1914 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. ix+234 . ISBN 9781107446861 Hbk. £65.00)
by Jane Humphries - 1027-1028 Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale , eds., Mental health nursing: the working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2015 . Pp. xvi+268 . ISBN 9780719096938 Hbk. £70)
by John Hopton - 1028-1030 Matthew Hollow , Rogue banking: a history of financial fraud in interwar Britain ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. vii+105 . ISBN 9781137360533 Hbk. £45.00)
by Mark Billings - 1030-1031 Jotham Parsons , Making money in sixteenth-century France: currency, culture and the state ( New York : Cornell University Press , 2015 . Pp. x+324 . ISBN 9780801451591 Hbk. $59.95)
by Guy Rowlands - 1031-1033 Bert de Munck and Dries Lyna , eds., Concepts of value in European material culture, 1500–1900 ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2015 . Pp. xiv+290 . 21 figs. ISBN 9781471451965 Hbk. £75)
by Kate Smith - 1033-1034 Peter Borschberg , ed., Journal, memorials and letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: security, diplomacy and commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia ( Singapore : NUS Press , 2015 . Pp. xl+657 . 49 figs. 20 maps. ISBN 9789971697983 Pbk. $42)
by Pepijn Brandon - 1034-1035 Marie Ménard-Jacob , La Première Compagnie des Indes: apprentissages, échecs et héritage, 1664–1704 ( Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes , 2016 . Pp. vi+316 . 19 figs. ISBN 9782753543515 Pbk. €21)
by Blake Smith - 1035-1037 Maxine Berg , ed., with Felicia Gottman, Hanna Hodacs, and Chris Nierstrasz, Goods from the east, 1600–1800: trading Eurasia ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xvi+369 . 18 figs. 1 map. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781137403933 Hbk. £68)
by Elise Nederveen Meerkerk - 1037-1038 Jan Hein Furnée and Clé Lesger , eds., The landscape of consumption: shopping streets and cultures in western Europe, 1600–1900 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xiii+246 . 26 figs. 14 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780230355644 Hbk. £60.00)
by Anne Montenach - 1038-1039 Roman Studer , The great divergence reconsidered: Europe, India and the rise to global economic power ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii+231 . 38 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781107020542 Hbk. £65.00)
by Bishnupriya Gupta - 1040-1041 Anthony Webster , Ulbe Bosma , and Jaime de Melo , eds., Commodities, ports and maritime trade in Asia after 1750 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xv+318 . ISBN 9781137463913 Hbk. £63)
by Nandini Chatterjee - 1041-1042 Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat , eds., Local subversions of colonial cultures: commodities and anti-commodities in global history ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. xii+213 . 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781137381095 Hbk. £58)
by Christopher Minton - 1042-1044 James L. Huston , The British gentry, the southern planter and the northern family farmer ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana University State Press , 2015 . Pp. xviii+345 . 31 tabs. ISBN 9780807159187 Hbk. $47.50)
by Philip Mills Herrington - 1044-1045 Clive Dewey , Steamboats on the Indus: the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia ( New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xvii+297 . 13 figs. 3 maps. 59 plates. 13 tabs. ISBN 9780198092193 Hbk. £76.00)
by Chandrika Kaul - 1045-1046 Howard Bodenhorn , The color factor: the economics of African-American well-being in the nineteenth-century South ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xvi+320 . 27 figs. 60 tabs. ISBN 9780199383092 Hbk. £25.99)
by Trevon D. Logan - 1046-1048 Waltraud Ernst , ed., Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2016 . Pp. xiii+378 . 20 figs. ISBN 9780719097690 Hbk. £75)
by Pamela Dale - 1048-1049 Shellen Xiao Wu , Empires of coal: fueling China’s entry into the modern world order, 1860–1920 ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii+266 . 12 figs. ISBN 9780804792844 Hbk. $45.00)
by Philip Thai - 1049-1050 Sarah Dietz , British entrepreneurship in Poland: a case study of Bradford Mills at Marki near Warsaw, 1883–1939 ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2015 . Pp. xiv+296 . 17 figs. ISBN 9781472441386 Hbk. £75)
by Falk Flade - 1050-1052 Premilla Nadasen , Household workers unite: the untold story of African American women who built a movement ( Boston : Beacon Press , 2015 . Pp. 240 . ISBN 9780807014509 Hbk. $27.95)
by Keona K. Ervin - 1052-1053 Pierluigi Ciocca , Stabilising capitalism: a greater role for central banks ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 . Pp. viii+105 . 15 figs. ISBN 9781137555502 Hbk. £70)
by Linda Arch - 1053-1054 Carroll Pursell , From playgrounds to Playstation: the interaction of technology and play ( Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii+200 . 15 figs. ISBN 9781421416502 Pbk. £18.50)
by Alex Layne
May 2016, Volume 69, Issue 2
- 411-434 Laissez-faire, the Irish famine, and British financial crisis
by Charles Read - 435-468 Economic freedom in the long run: evidence from OECD countries (1850–2007)
by Leandro Prados De La Escosura - 469-492 The mother of all sudden stops: capital flows and reversals in Europe, 1919–32
by Olivier Accominotti & Barry Eichengreen - 493-521 Occupational structure in the Czech lands under the second serfdom
by Alexander Klein & Sheilagh Ogilvie - 522-547 Wedding trousseaus and cloth consumption in Catalonia around 1300
by Lluís To Figueras - 548-574 Wages, prices, and technology in early Catalan industrialization
by Julio Martínez-Galarraga & Marc Prat - 575-599 Location, location, location? Analysing property rents in medieval Gloucester
by Catherine Casson & Mark Casson - 600-626 The last visitation of the plague in Sweden: the case of Bräkne-Hoby in 1710–11
by Roger Schofield - 627-652 Standards, learning, and growth in Britain, 1901–2009
by Christopher Spencer & Paul Temple - 653-678 Going multilateral? Financial markets' access and the League of Nations loans, 1923–8
by Juan H. Flores Zendejas & Yann Decorzant - 679-704 Ready to stop: socioeconomic status and the fertility transition in Stockholm, 1878–1926
by Joseph Molitoris & Martin Dribe - 705-706 John Sabapathy , Officers and accountability in medieval England 1170–1300 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xvi+312 . ISBN 9780199645909 Hbk. £60)
by James Davis