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May 2016, Volume 69, Issue 2
- 706-707 Brian J. Barber , ed., calendared by Constance M. Fraser, The court roll of the manor of Wakefield 1436–1437 ( Leeds : Yorkshire Archaeological Society , 2014 . Pp. xx+121 . 1 fig. 1 map. 1 plate. ISBN 9781903564271 Pbk. £20)
by Mark Bailey - 707-708 Margaret Murphy and Matthew Stout , eds., Agriculture and settlement in Ireland ( Dublin , Four Courts Press , 2015 . Pp. xxx+226 . ISBN 9781846825071 Hbk. €50.00)
by R. W. Hoyle - 708-710 Marion E. Allen , ed., Wills of the archdeaconry of Suffolk 1627–1628 ( Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer , 2015 . Pp. xxii+179 . 3 plates. ISBN 9781843839729 Hbk. £25.00)
by Alisdair Dobie - 710-711 Matthew Davies , Catherine Ferguson , Vanessa Harding , Elizabeth Parkinson , and Andrew Wareham , eds., London and Middlesex 1666 Hearth Tax—Parts 1 & 2 ( London : British Record Society , 2014 . Pp. xviii+1825 . 2 figs. 22 maps. 41 tabs. ISBN 9780901505606 Hbk. £60 for two-part set)
by J. V. Beckett - 711-713 Alexandra Shepard , Accounting for oneself: worth, status and the social order in early modern England ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xvii+357 . ISBN 9780199600793 Hbk. £65)
by Andy Wood - 713-714 Peter Earle , The Earles of Liverpool: a Georgian merchant dynasty ( Liverpool : University of Liverpool Press , 2015 . Pp. xvi+301 . 12 figs. ISBN 9781781381731 Hbk. £75)
by Robert J. Bennett - 714-715 W. G. Runciman , Very different, but much the same: the evolution of English society since 1714 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. vii+190 . ISBN 9780198712428 Hbk. £30)
by Peter Mandler - 716-716 John A. Hargreaves , ed., The court roll of the manor of Wakefield from October 1812 to September 1813 ( Leeds : Yorkshire Archaeological Society , 2014 . Pp. xlii+260 . 5 tabs. ISBN 9781903564172 Pbk. £20.00)
by Carol Beardmore - 717-718 Richard Oliver , The Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century: maps, money and the growth of government ( London : The Charles Close Society , 2014 . Pp. xxvii+607 . 75 figs. 33 illus. ISBN 9781870598323 Hbk. £45.00)
by Michael Heffernan - 718-719 John Herson , Divergent paths: family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain 1820–1920 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2015 . Pp. xiv+341 . 37 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780719090639 Hbk. £70.00)
by Ciaran O'Neill - 719-721 David Sunderland , ed., British economic development in South-East Asia, 1880–1939, vol. 1: Agriculture, vol. 2: Mining, trade & industry, vol. 3: The building blocks of development: governance, transport and communications, and human and financial capital ( London and Vermont : Pickering & Chatto , 2014 . Vol. 1 , pp. lviii+356 . Vol. 2, pp. vi+486. Vol. 3, pp. vi+468. ISBN 9781848934887 Hbk. £350/$625)
by Nicholas J. White - 721-722 Giles E. M. Gasper and Svein H. Gullbekk , eds., Money and the church in medieval Europe, 1000–1200: practice, morality and thought ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2015 . Pp. xiv+292 . ISBN 9781472420992 Hbk. £70)
by Pamela Nightingale - 723-724 Murat Iyigun , War, peace & prosperity in the name of God: the Ottoman rule in Europe's socioeconomic evolution ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2015 . Pp. xii+395 . 26 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780226388434 Hbk. £38.50)
by Juergen Hagen - 724-725 Maria Fusaro , Bernard Allaire , Richard J. Blakemore , and Tijl Vanneste , eds., Law, labour, and empire: comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500–1800 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. 357 . ISBN 9781137447456 Hbk. £68)
by Adrian Leonard - 726-727 Guy Rowlands , Dangerous and dishonest men: the international bankers of Louis XIV's France ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xvi+265 . 2 maps. ISBN 9781137381781 Hbk. £75)
by Helen Julia Paul - 727-728 Josep M. Benaul Berenguer , Nova manufactura i impuls emprenedor. Els fabricants de teixits de cotó en cru a Sabadell, 1789–1830 ( Fundació Bosch i Cardellach : Sabadell , 2015 . Pp. 104 . ISBN 9788495113344)
by J. K. J. Thomson - 728-729 David Todd , Free trade and its enemies in France, 1815–1851 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. x+275 . ISBN 9781107036932 Hbk. £64.99/$99.99)
by Daisy Gibbs - 730-731 Hubert Bonin , Nuno Valerio , and Kazuhiko Yago , eds., Asian imperial banking history ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2015 . Pp. xv+224 . 20 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781848935518 Hbk. £75)
by Toshio Suzuki - 731-732 Cornelius Torp , The challenges of globalization: economy and politics in Germany, 1860–1914 ( New York and Oxford : Berghahn Books , 2014 . Pp. xii+375 . 12 tabs. 8 figs. ISBN 9781782385028 Hbk. £68/$110)
by Ray Stokes - 732-734 Ali Coskun Tunçer , Sovereign debt and international financial control: the Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xviii+243 . 31 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781137378538 Hbk. £75)
by Matthias Morys - 734-735 Robert Millward , The state and business in the major powers: an economic history 1815–1939 ( Abingdon : Routledge , 2015 . Pp. 294 . 9 figs. 3 maps. 77 tabs. ISBN 9781138904040 Pbk. £34.99)
by David Higgins - 735-736 Yoshiko Nagano , State and finance in the Philippines, 1898–1941: the mismanagement of an American colony ( Singapore : National University of Singapore Press , 2015 . Pp. xiv+248 . 4 figs. 12 illus. 1 map. 23 tabs. ISBN 9789971698416 Pbk. $38.00)
by Theresa Ventura - 737-738 Marcel Boldorf and Tetsuji Okazaki , eds., Economies under occupation: the hegemony of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II ( Abingdon : Routledge , 2015 . Pp. xiv+335 . 38 tabs. ISBN 9780415835336 Hbk. £95)
by Hein A. M. Klemann - 738-739 Vicki Howard , From main street to mall. The rise and fall of the American department store ( Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . Pp. 295 . ISBN 9780812247282 Hbk. £23.00)
by Peter Scott - 739-740 David George Surdam , Century of the leisured masses: entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xviii+305 . 20 tabs. ISBN 9780190211578 Pbk. £22.99)
by Elizabeth Sine - 740-742 Jonathan Coopersmith , Faxed: the rise and fall of the fax machine ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii+308 . 16 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781421415917 Hbk. $54.95/£33.50)
by Andrew L. Russell - 742-743 James Bessen , Learning by doing: the real connection between innovation, wages, and wealth ( New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2015 . Pp. xi+295 . ISBN 9780300195668 Hbk. £25.00)
by Joyce Burnette - 743-744 Dirk Philipsen , The little big number: how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2015 . p. xii+398 . 11 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780691166520 Hbk. $29.95/£19.95)
by Leandro Prados Escosura
February 2016, Volume 69, Issue 1
- 3-34 Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665
by Neil Cummins & Morgan Kelly & Cormac Ó Gráda - 35-53 Health, height, and the household at the turn of the twentieth century
by Roy E. Bailey & Timothy J. Hatton & Kris Inwood - 54-77 American colonial incomes, 1650–1774
by Peter H. Lindert & Jeffrey G. Williamson - 78-103 Energy consumption in England and Italy, 1560–1913. Two pathways toward energy transition
by Paolo Malanima - 104-130 Commerce, clusters, and community: a re-evaluation of the occupational geography of London, c. 1400–c. 1550
by Justin Colson - 131-158 Counter-intelligence in a command economy
by Mark Harrison & Inga Zaksauskienė - 159-187 How important were formalized charity and social spending before the rise of the welfare state? A long-run analysis of selected western European cases, 1400–1850
by Bas Bavel & Auke Rijpma - 188-214 Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox mortality in eighteenth-century cities—a reply to Razzell
by Romola J. Davenport & Jeremy Boulton & Leonard Schwarz - 215-228 What happened to regional inequality in Britain in the twentieth century?
by Frank Geary & Tom Stark - 229-257 A colonial legacy of African gender inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895–2011
by Felix Meier Zu Selhausen & Jacob Weisdorf - 258-287 International competition in the first wave of globalization: new evidence on the margins of trade
by Concepción Betrán & Michael Huberman - 288-313 Theft under Stalin: a property rights analysis
by Yoram Gorlizki - 314-360 Review of periodical literature published in 2014
by Michael Costen & Philip Slavin & Mark Hailwood & Patrick Walsh & Amanda Wilkinson & Peter Cirenza - 361-362 Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith , Anglo-Saxon farms and farming ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xv + 336 . 51 figs. 9 plates. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780199207947 Hbk. £65.00)
by Stephen Rippon - 362-363 Gervase Rosser , The art of solidarity in the middle ages: guilds in England 1250–1550 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. xiv + 235 . 8 illus. ISBN 9780198201571 Hbk. £60)
by Catherine Casson - 363-365 Stephen Broadberry , Bruce M. S. Campbell , Alexander Klein , Mark Overton , and Bas van Leeuwen , British economic growth 1270–1870 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xl + 461 . 45 figs. 96 tabs. ISBN 9781107676497 Pbk. £24.99 ISBN 9781107070783 Hbk. £65)
by Pat Hudson - 365-366 Roger Morriss , Science, utility and maritime power: Samuel Bentham in Russia, 1779–91 ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2015 . Pp. xviii + 274 . 2 maps. ISBN 9781472412676 Hbk. £70)
by Megan Barford - 366-367 Paul Laxton and Richard Rodger , Insanitary city: Henry Littlejohn and the condition of Edinburgh ( Lancaster : Carnegie Publishing , 2014 . Pp. 480 . ISBN 9781859362204 Hbk. £25)
by Deborah Brunton - 367-369 Bill Luckin , Death and survival in urban Britain: disease, pollution and environment, 1800–1950 ( London and New York : I.B. Tauris , 2015 . Pp. xvi + 272 . 4 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781780768663 Hbk. £62)
by David McLean - 369-370 Kim Price , Medical negligence in Victorian Britain: the crisis of care under the English poor law, c. 1834–1900 ( London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2015 . Pp. xii + 235 . 7 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781441125460 Hbk. £65)
by Victoria Bates - 370-371 Gillian Sutherland , In search of the new woman: middle-class women and work in Britain 1870–1914 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii + 187 . 10 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781107092792 Hbk. £55/$90)
by Amanda Wilkinson - 371-373 James Nye , A long time in making: the history of Smiths ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxvi + 375 . 17 figs. 61 plates. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198717256 Hbk. £30)
by Sean F. Johnston - 373-374 Terry Gourvish , Dolphin Square: the history of a unique building ( London : Bloomsbury Publishing , 2014 . Pp. xxi + 392 . 36 illus. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781472911094 Hbk. £40)
by Peter J. Larkham - 374-376 Dennis Romano , Markets and marketplaces in medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1440 ( New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2015 . Pp. viii + 272 . 116 illus. ISBN 9780300169072 Hbk. £35)
by Marie D. Ito - 376-377 Jessica L. Goldberg , Trade and institutions in the medieval Mediterranean: the Geniza merchants and their business world ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxi + 426 . 13 figs. 2 tabs. 22 maps. ISBN 9781107005471 Hbk. £65/$110)
by Jeremy Edwards - 377-379 Francesca Trivellato , Leor Halevi , and Cátia Antunes , eds., Religion and trade. Cross-cultural exchange in world history, 1000–1900 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. 296 . 5 illus. ISBN 9780199379194 Hbk. £68)
by James Tracy - 379-380 Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth , Lending to the borrower from hell: debt, taxes, and default in the age of Philip II ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. xiii + 310 . 36 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9780691151496 Hbk. £24.95)
by Tony K. Moore - 380-381 Laurence Fontaine , The moral economy: poverty, credit and trust in early modern Europe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. vii + 320 . ISBN 9781107603707 Pbk. £21.99)
by Jane Whittle - 381-383 Akira Hayami , Japan’s industrious revolution: economic and social transformations in the early modern period ( Tokyo and London : Springer , 2015 . Pp. xix + 130 . 6 figs. 1 map. 1 tab. ISBN 9784431551416 Hbk. £90)
by Penelope Francks - 383-385 Adrian Leonard and David Pretel , eds., The Caribbean and the Atlantic world economy: circuits of trade, money and knowledge, 1650–1914 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xiv + 319 . 16 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781137432711 Hbk. £68)
by Henrice Altink - 385-386 Pedro Machado , Ocean of trade: South Asian merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750–1850 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. xv + 315 . 2 figs. 8 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781107070264 Hbk. £65)
by George Bryan Souza - 386-387 Avner Greif , Lynne Kiesling , and John V. C. Nye , eds., Institutions, innovation and industrialization: essays in economic history and development ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. viii + 430 . ISBN 9780691157344 Hbk. £34.95)
by C. Knick Harley - 387-388 Rafael Torres Sánchez , Constructing a fiscal-military state in eighteenth century Spain ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xviii + 253 . 38 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781137478658 Hbk. £75)
by Aaron Graham - 388-390 Simon Ville and Glenn Withers , eds., The Cambridge economic history of Australia ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Pp. xxi + 668 . 64 figs. 4 maps 42 tabs. ISBN 9781107029491 Hbk. £120/$180)
by G. R. Hawke - 390-391 Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson , eds., Capitalism by gaslight: illuminating the economy of nineteenth-century America ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . Pp. 328 . 19 illus. ISBN 9780812246896 Hbk. £32.50)
by Stanley Buder - 391-392 South-eastern European monetary and economic statistics from the nineteenth century to World War II ( Athens : Bank of Greece , Sofia: Bulgarian National Bank, Bucharest: National Bank of Romania, Vienna: Oesterreicshische Nationalbank, 2014 . Pp. 405 . 87 figs. 137 tabs. ( www.bankofgreece.gr/Pages/en/Publications/Studies/seemhn.aspx )
by Stefan Nikolić - 392-394 Yanni Kotsonis , States of obligation: taxes and citizenship in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Republic ( Toronto, Buffalo, and London , Toronto University Press , 2014 . Pp. xix + 483 . 6 illus. ISBN 9781442643543 Hbk. $80)
by Lara Cook - 394-395 Ralf Roth and Colin Divall , eds., From rail to road and back again? A century of transport competition and interdependency ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2015 . Pp. xxii + 415 . 38 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781409440468 Hbk. £80)
by Mark Casson - 395-396 Paul Caruana Galizia , Mediterranean labor markets in the first age of globalization: an economic history of real wages and market integration ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xvi + 197 . 24 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781137401083 Hbk. £75)
by Carlo Ciccarelli - 396-398 Brian Phillips Murphy , Building the empire state: political economy in the early republic ( Philadelphia : Pennsylvania University Press , 2015 . Pp. xii + 287 . 7 figs. ISBN 9780812247169 Hbk. £32.50/$49.95)
by Robert E. Wright - 398-399 Ali Kabiri , The Great Crash of 1929: a reconciliation of theory and evidence ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xiv + 236 . 34 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 9781137372888 Hbk. £75)
by Clive Walker - 399-400 Barry J. Eichengreen , Hall of mirrors: the Great Depression, the Great Recession and the uses and misuses of history ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Pp. vi + 512 . ISBN 9780199392001 Hbk. £20)
by Roger Middleton - 400-402 Juliane Czierpka , Kathrin Oerters , and Nora Thorade eds., Regions, industries and heritage: perspectives on economy, society, and culture in modern western Europe ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xviii + 288 . 20 figs. 6 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781137333407 Hbk. £60)
by Ian Donnachie - 402-403 Eugene N. White , Kenneth Snowden , and Price Fishback eds., Housing and mortgage markets in historical perspective ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . Pp. 496 . 50 tabs. ISBN 9780226073842 Hbk. $110)
by Katharina Knoll & Moritz Schularick - 403-404 Michael D. Bordo , Owen F. Humpage , and Anna J. Schwartz , Strained relations: US foreign-exchange operations and monetary policy in the twentieth century ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . Pp. x + 442 . 74 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780226051482 Hbk. £68.50/$97.50)
by Paul Turner - 405-406 Shu Guang Zhang , Beijing’s economic statecraft during the Cold War 1949–1991 ( Washington : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 477 . ISBN 9781421415833 Hbk. £90/$155)
by Xiaobing Wang - 406-407 Bruce Smardon , Asleep at the switch: the political economy of federal research and development policy since 1960 ( Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2015 . Pp. vii + 490 . ISBN 9780773544277 Hbk. $110)
by Taylor Jaworski
November 2015, Volume 68, Issue 4
- 1107-1131 Economic restructuring and demographic growth: demystifying growth and development in Northern Song China, 960–1127
by Kent Deng & Lucy Zheng - 1132-1153 Just add milk: a productivity analysis of the revolutionary changes in nineteenth-century Danish dairying
by Markus Lampe & Paul Sharp - 1154-1176 The shift from sterling to the dollar, 1965–76: evidence from Australia and New Zealand
by John Singleton & Catherine R. Schenk - 1177-1202 Market forces shaping human capital in eighteenth-century London
by Moshe Justman & Karine Beek - 1203-1225 Information asymmetry and the speed of adjustment: debasements in the mid-sixteenth century
by Ling-Fan Li - 1226-1249 Informational efficiency in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1931–40
by Jean-Pascal Bassino & Thomas Lagoarde-Segot - 1250-1276 Strategic colonies and economic development: real wages in Cyprus, Gibraltar, and Malta, 1836–1913
by Paul Caruana-Galizia - 1277-1305 Big push or big grab? Railways, government activism, and export growth in Latin America, 1865–1913
by Vincent Bignon & Rui Esteves & Alfonso Herranz-Loncán - 1306-1338 Modern secondary education and economic performance: the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria
by Alexandra Semrad - 1339-1364 ‘Eating the bread out of their mouth’: Antwerp's export trade and generalized institutions, 1544–5
by Jeroen Puttevils - 1365-1387 Yankee Doodle went to London: Anglo-American breweries and the London securities market, 1888–92
by Mary A. O'Sullivan - 1441-1442 Adam Lucas , Ecclesiastical lordship, seigneurial power and the commercialization of milling in medieval England ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. xxii + 414. ISBN 9781409421962 Hbk. £90)
by Richard Holt - 1442-1443 Mark Brayshay , Land travel and communications in Tudor and Stuart England: achieving a joined-up realm ( Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxiv + 417. 71 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781846319501 Hbk. £80)
by Justin Colson - 1443-1444 Martin Allen and D'Maris Coffman , eds., Money, prices and wages: essays in honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp xiv + 284. 38 figs. 51 tabs. ISBN 9781137394019 Hbk. £75)
by Judy Stephenson - 1445-1446 Chris Briggs , P. M. Kitson , and S. J. Thompson , eds., Population, welfare and economic change in Britain, 1290–1834 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 345. 18 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781843839552 Pbk. £25)
by David Hitchcock - 1446-1448 William A. Pettigrew , Freedom's debt. The Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672–1752 ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Pp. 262. ISBN 9781469611815 Hbk. $45)
by Nuala Zahedieh - 1448-1449 Peter D. Wright , Life on the Tyne: water trades on the lower river Tyne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a reappraisal ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. xviii + 199. 12 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781472426338 Hbk. £70)
by Andy Burn - 1449-1450 Brian Bonnyman , The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: estate management and improvement in Enlightenment Scotland ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2014 . Pp. x + 218. 7 figs. ISBN 9780748642007 Hbk. £45)
by Michael Turner - 1450-1451 Katie Barclay and Deborah Simonton , Women in eighteenth-century Scotland: intimate, intellectual and public lives ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xiii + 288. 3 figs. 19 illus. 1 tab. ISBN 9781409450467 Hbk. £75)
by Nicola Cowmeadow - 1452-1453 Alexander Mercer , Infections, chronic disease, and the epidemiological transition: a new perspective ( Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer , Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2014 . Pp. xiv + 338. 65 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781580465083 Hbk. £80)
by Martin Moore - 1453-1455 Carl Griffin , Protest, politics and work in rural England ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xviii + 228. ISBN 9780230299672 Hbk. £60; Pbk. £20.99)
by Jeremy Burchardt - 1455-1456 Ian Levitt , ed., Treasury control and public expenditure in Scotland, 1885–1979 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xiv + 277. ISBN 9780197265796 Hbk. £60)
by Jim Tomlinson - 1456-1457 Peter Sloman , The Liberal party and the economy, 1929–1964 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xvix + 281. ISBN 9780198723509 Hbk. £65)
by G. C. Peden - 1457-1458 Brian Short , The battle of the fields: rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 468. 42 illus. 49 tabs. ISBN 9781843839378 Hbk. £75)
by Paul Brassley - 1458-1460 William A. Allen , Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951–59 ( Palgrave Macmillan : Basingstoke , 2014 . Pp. xii + 287 30 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781137383815 Hbk. £70)
by Peter Scott - 1460-1461 Richard C. Hoffman , An environmental history of medieval Europe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. xvii + 409. 27 figs. 13 maps. ISBN 9780521876964 Pbk. £19.99)
by William Calvert - 1461-1462 Matteo di Tullio , The wealth of communities: war, resources and cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 217. ISBN 9781472442468 Hbk. £70)
by Matthew Vester - 1463-1464 Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite , Orpheus in the marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the economy of late Renaissance Florence ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 479. 25 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780674724648 Hbk. £36.95)
by Kelley Harness - 1464-1466 Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly , Worthy efforts: attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe ( Leiden : Brill , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 664. ISBN 9789004231436 Hbk. $179/€129)
by Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz - 1466-1467 Jérôme Blanc and Ludovic Desmedt , eds., Les pensées monétaires dans l'histoire: l'Europe, 1517–1776 ( Paris : Classiques Garnier , 2014 . Pp. 1057. 8 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9782812428630 Pbk. €39.00)
by Stefano Ugolini - 1467-1468 Wenkai He , Paths toward the modern fiscal state: England, Japan, and China ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 313. 64 figs. 4 maps. 42 tabs. ISBN 9780674072787 Hbk. £40.95)
by Mark Dincecco - 1468-1469 Gregory O'Malley , Final passages: the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619–1807 ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . Pp. 416. 11 figs. 7 illus. 7 maps. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781469615349 Hbk. $45)
by Charles W. A. Prior - 1469-1471 Michael Kwass , Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the making of a global underground ( Cambridge, MA, and London : Harvard University Press , 2014 . Pp. ix + 457. ISBN 9780674726833 Hbk. £35)
by Evan Jones - 1471-1472 Bethel Saler , The settlers' empire: colonialism and state formation in America's old northwest ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . Pp 392. 10 figs. ISBN 9780812246636 Hbk. $45/£29.50)
by Max M. Edling - 1472-1473 Eric L. Jones , Revealed biodiversity: an economic history of the human impact ( New Jersey : World Scientific , 2014 . Pp. xvii + 257. ISBN 9789814522564 Hbk. £65/$99)
by Catherine Mills - 1473-1475 Volker R. Berghahn , American big business in Britain and Germany: a comparative history of two ‘special relationships’ in the twentieth century ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. 392. ISBN 9780691161099 Hbk. £34.95)
by Ralf Banken - 1475-1476 Eric Helleiner , Forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods: international development and the making of the postwar order ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 2014 . Pp. ix + 304. ISBN 9780801452758 Hbk. $39.95)
by Nathan Marcus - 1477-1478 Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor , Packaged pleasures: how technology & marketing revolutionized desire ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . Pp. 352. ISBN 9780226121277 Hbk. $35/£24.50)
by Susan Bishop - 1478-1479 Per Lundin and Thomas Kaiserfeld , eds., The making of modern European consumption: facing the American challenge ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015 . Pp. xvi + 256. 23 figs. ISBN 9781137374035 Hbk. £60)
by John Benson - 1479-1480 R. G. Stokes , R. Köster , and S. C. Sambrook , The business of waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xiii + 331. ISBN 9781107027213 Hbk. £65)
by Timothy Cooper - 1481-1482 Gregory Clark , The son also rises. Surnames and the history of social mobility ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 364. 132 figs. 42 tabs. ISBN 9780691162546 Hbk. £19.95)
by Ineke Maas - 1482-1483 Francesca Fauri , ed., The history of migration in Europe: perspectives from economics, politics and sociology ( Abingdon and New York : Routledge , 2015 . Pp. xx + 282. 23 figs. 2 plates. 17 tabs. ISBN 9781138777835 Hbk. £90/$155)
by Timothy J. Hatton - 1483-1485 Richard Roberts and David Kynaston , The lion wakes: a modern history of HSBC ( London : Profile Books , 2015 . Pp. xvi + 768. ISBN 9781781250556 Hbk. £30)
by Leslie Hannah - 1485-1486 Christopher Hood , David Heald , and Rozana Himaz , eds., When the party's over: the politics of fiscal squeeze in perspective ( Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy , 2014 . Pp. 277. ISBN 9780197265734 Hbk. £60)
by Geoffrey Wood - 1486-1487 Geoffrey Hosking , Trust: a history ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. viii + 211. ISBN 9780198712381 Hbk. £25)
by Jeff Horn - 1487-1488 Ben Ramalingam , Aid on the edge of chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex world ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. 480. ISBN 9780198728245 Hbk. £25)
by Andrew Jones
August 2015, Volume 68, Issue 3
- 769-805 An irrevocable shift: detailing the dynamics of rural poverty in southern England, 1762–1834: a case study
by Henry French - 806-829 Copper sheathing and the British slave trade
by Peter M. Solar & Klas Rönnbäck - 830-857 Consumption conundrums unravelled
by Sara Horrell & Jane Humphries & Ken Sneath - 858-886 Independent invention in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861–1913
by Alessandro Nuvolari & Michelangelo Vasta - 887-910 Small-scale technologies and European coal mine safety, 1850–1900
by John E. Murray & Javier Silvestre - 911-936 Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain
by Graeme G. Acheson & Gareth Campbell & John D. Turner & Nadia Vanteeva - 937-961 Does history matter? Colonial education investments in India
by Latika Chaudhary & Manuj Garg - 962-984 The diffusion and impact of the corporation in 1910
by James Foreman-Peck & Leslie Hannah - 985-1015 The occupational attainment of migrants and natives in Barcelona, 1930
by Javier Silvestre & María Isabel Ayuda & Vicente Pinilla - 1016-1037 Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8
by David James Gill - 1038-1061 ‘The city has been wronged and abused!’: institutional corruption in the eighteenth century
by Mark Latham - 1062-1063 Sally Harvey , Domesday: Book of Judgement ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxi + 335. 7 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780199669783 Hbk. £35)
by Rory Naismith - 1063-1064 Mark Bailey , The decline of serfdom in late medieval England: from bondage to freedom ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2014 . Pp. ix + 373. 6 figs. 4 maps. 56 tabs. ISBN 9781843838906 Hbk. £60)
by John Langdon - 1064-1065 Patrick Walsh , The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: money, banking and investment, 1690–1721 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 204. 2 figs. 1 plate. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781843839309 Hbk. £60)
by Helen Julia Paul - 1066-1067 Kenneth Quickenden , Sally Baggott , and Malcolm Dick , eds., Matthew Boulton: enterprising industrialist of the Enlightenment ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 294. 26 illus. ISBN 9781409422181 Hbk. £79)
by George Selgin - 1067-1068 Malcolm Chase , 1820: disorder and stability in the United Kingdom ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2013 . Pp. xi + 247. 8 figs. ISBN 9780719087417 Hbk. £70)
by Carl J. Griffin - 1068-1069 John Woodland , Money pits: British mining companies in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the 1850s ( Farham : Ashgate Publishing , 2014 . Pp. xiii + 282. 39 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781471441796 Hbk. £70)
by Roger Burt - 1070-1071 Richard W. Hoyle , ed., The farmer in England 1650–1980 ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 358. 51 figs. 28 tabs. ISBN 9781409439615 Hbk. £80)
by C. V. J. Griffiths - 1071-1072 Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt , Revolutions from Grub Street: a history of magazine publishing in Britain ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 263. ISBN 9780199601639 Hbk. £35)
by Adrian Bingham - 1072-1073 John D. Turner , Banking in crisis: the rise and fall of British banking stability 1800 to the present ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. xi + 253. 10 figs. 40 tabs. ISBN 9781107609860 Pbk. £19.99)
by Mark Billings - 1073-1075 Nicholas H. Dimsdale and Anthony Hotson , eds., British financial crises since 1825 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xiii + 210. 38 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 8780199688661 Hbk. £55)
by Roger Middleton - 1075-1076 Jim Tomlinson , Dundee and the Empire: ‘Juteopolis’ 1850–1939 ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2014 . Pp. ix + 222. 12 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780748686148 Hbk. £70)
by Sally Tuckett - 1076-1077 Robert E. Forrester , British mail steamers to South America, 1851–1965 ( Surrey : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 9781472416612 Hbk. £63)
by Manuel Llorca-Jaña - 1077-1078 Georgina Brewis , A social history of student volunteering: Britain and beyond, 1880–1980 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xiv + 263. 5 figs. ISBN 9781137370136 Hbk. £60)
by Alison Penn - 1079-1080 Benjamin Coombs , British tank production and the war economy, 1939–1945 ( London and New York : Bloomsbury Publishing , 2013 . Pp. x + 198. 6 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781472505040 Hbk. £64.99)
by Niall Barr - 1080-1081 Peter Medway , John Hardcastle , Georgina Brewis , and David Crook , English teachers in a postwar democracy: emerging choice in London schools, 1945–1965 ( London and New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xix + 243. 8 figs. ISBN 99781137005137 Hbk. £55)
by Heather Ellis - 1081-1082 Louise A. Jackson with Angela Bartie , Policing youth: Britain, 1945–70 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2014 . Pp. 240. 5 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780719081781 Hbk. £65)
by John Carter Wood - 1083-1084 Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson , eds., The Cambridge history of capitalism, volume 1, the rise of capitalism: from ancient origins to 1848 ( Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 616. 30 figs. 5 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781107019638 Hbk. £85/$130)
by Howard Brick - 1084-1086 Mark C. Bartusis , Land and privilege in Byzantium: the institution of pronoia ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 697. 9 figs. 5 maps. 22 tabs. 9781107009622 Hbk. £100)
by Peter Frankopan - 1086-1087 Rory Naismith , Martin Allen , and Elina Screen , Early medieval monetary history: studies in memory of Mark Blackburn ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2014 . Pp. xxiv + 646. 104 figs. 10 plates. 54 tabs. ISBN 9781409456681 Hbk. £90)
by N. J. Mayhew - 1087-1088 Daniel R. Curtis , Coping with crisis: the resilience and vulnerability of pre-industrial settlements ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. xx + 381. 48 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9781472420046 Hbk. £80)
by Grenville Astill - 1088-1089 Jeff Flynn-Paul , ed., War, entrepreneurs and the state in Europe and the Mediterranean 1300–1800 ( Leiden : Brill , 2014 . Pp. xii + 356. 4 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004243644 Hbk. €168)
by Patrick K. O'brien - 1089-1091 Pierre Gervais , Yannick Lemarchand , and Dominique Margairaz , eds., Merchants and profit in the age of commerce, 1680–1830 ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 228. 5 figs. 15 tabs. 1 map. ISBN 9781848934825 Hbk. £60)
by Gelina Harlaftis - 1091-1092 Sean Stilwell , Slavery and slaving in African history ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . pp. xvi + 223. 13 figs. ISBN 9780521171885 Pbk. £18.99)
by Klas Rönnbäck - 1092-1093 Justin Roberts , Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . pp. xiv + 351, 31 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781107025851 Hbk. £65/US$99)
by Simon P. Newman - 1093-1095 Manuela Albertone , National identity and the agrarian republic: the transatlantic commerce of ideas between America and France (1750–1830) ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. x + 324. 9781472421364 Hbk. £75)
by Liana Vardi - 1095-1096 Martin Ruef , Between slavery and capitalism: the legacy of emancipation in the American South ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. 285. 27 tabs. 31 illus. ISBN 9780691162775 Hbk. $35/£24.95)
by Peter A. Coclanis - 1096-1098 Ronnie J. Phillips , ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. I: building and loan associations ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2013 . Pp. xxxiii + 267. ISBN 9781848932944a Hbk. £275, vols. 1–3 ) Ronnie J. Phillips , ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. II: provident loan societies ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2013 . Pp. x + 299. ISBN 9781848932944b Hbk. £275, vols. 1–3 ) Ronnie J. Phillips , ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. III: savings banks and Morris Plan financial institutions ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2013 . Pp. x + 319. ISBN 9781848932944c Hbk. £275, vols. 1–3 ) Ronnie J. Phillips , ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. IV: domestic exchanges ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 336. ISBN 9781848932951a Hbk. £275, vols. 4–6 ) Ronnie J. Phillips , ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. V: non-par banking ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2013 . Pp. xix + 364. ISBN 9781848932951b Hbk. £275, vols. 4–6 ) Ronnie J. Phillips , ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. VI: central banking ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2013 . Pp. xix + 364. ISBN 9781848932951c Hbk. £275, vols. 4–6 )
by Natacha Postel-Vinay - 1098-1100 Ajay K. Mehrotra , Making the modern American fiscal state: law, politics, and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877–1929 ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 429. 9 tabs. 2 charts. 8 illus. ISBN 9781107043923 Hbk. £60) Gail Radford , The rise of the public authority: statebuilding and economic development in twentieth-century America ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . Pp. ix + 218. 8 figs. ISBN 9780226037691 Pbk. £19.50)
by Joel Isaac - 1101-1102 Noel Maurer , The empire trap: the rise and fall of US intervention to protect American property overseas, 1893–2013 ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2013 . Pp. 568. ISBN 9780691155821 Pbk. $39.50)
by Marcelo Bucheli - 1102-1103 Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein , The economic and social history of Brazil since 1889 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 439. 163 figs. 5 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107616585 Pbk. £19.99/US$32.99)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas - 1103-1104 Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer , American railroads: Decline and renaissance in the twentieth century ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . Pp. xiii + 506. ISBN 9780674725645 Hbk. £40.95)
by Andrew Odlyzko - 1105-1106 Benjamin C. Waterhouse , Lobbying America: the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. xi + 345. ISBN 9780691149165 Hbk. £27.95)
by Scott H. Ainsworth
May 2015, Volume 68, Issue 2
- 1-17 Editorial: Women in economic and social history: twenty-fifth anniversary of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society
by Helen Paul - 399-419 Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective
by Osamu Saito - 420-440 Dealing with drainage: state regulation of drainage projects in the Dutch Republic, France, and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
by Piet Cruyningen - 441-470 ‘To help keep the home going’: female labour supply in interwar London
by Jessica S. Bean - 471-521 Bloody foreigners! Overseas equity on the London Stock Exchange, 1869–1929
by Richard S. Grossman - 522-547 Urban growth and change in 1940s Southeast Asia
by Gregg Huff & Gillian Huff - 548-573 A global corporate census: publicly traded and close companies in 1910
by Leslie Hannah - 574-599 Share portfolios in the early years of financial capitalism: London, 1690–1730
by Ann M. Carlos & Erin Fletcher & Larry Neal - 600-631 Hunger games: or how the Allied blockade in the First World War deprived German children of nutrition, and Allied food aid subsequently saved them
by Mary Elisabeth Cox - 632-656 Numeracy of Africans, Asians, and Europeans during the early modern period: new evidence from Cape Colony court registers
by Jörg Baten & Johan Fourie - 657-682 British working-class household composition, labour supply, and commercial leisure participation during the 1930s
by Peter Scott & James T. Walker & Peter Miskell - 683-706 The inequality trap. A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1930
by Sergio Espuelas - 707-722 Fertility, social class, gender, and the professional model: statistical explanation and historical significance
by Simon Szreter - 723-724 Richard Britnell , ed., Durham Priory manorial accounts 1277–1310 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2014 . Pp. lxxiv+379. ISBN 9780854440733 Hbk. £50)
by A. T. Brown - 724-725 Peter Coss and Joan C. Lancaster Lewis , eds., Coventry Priory Register ( Bristol : Dugdale Society , 2013 . Pp. 723. ISBN 978085220096 Hbk. £35)
by Miriam Müller - 725-726 Spencer Dimmock , The origin of capitalism in England, 1400–1600 ( Leiden & Boston : Brill , 2014 . Pp. vii+399. ISBN 9789004271098 Hbk. €129/US$167)
by Stephen H. Rigby - 726-727 Kimberly Schutte , Women, rank and marriage in the British aristocracy, 1485–2000. An open elite? ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xi+290. 9 tabs. 9 illus. ISBN 9781137327796 Hbk. £60)
by Jackie Collier - 728-729 Jane A. Lawson , ed., The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges 1559–1603 ( Oxford University Press : British Academy , 2013 . Pp. 739. ISBN 9780197265260 Hbk. £140)
by Judith M. Spicksley - 729-729 Guy Lawton , ed., Church Lawton Manor Court Rolls, 1631–1860 ( Lancaster : Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire , 2013 . Pp. lxii+297. ISBN 9780902593824 Hbk. £30)
by Carol Beardmore - 730-731 Tim Reinke-Williams , Women, work and sociability in early modern London ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. viii+225. ISBN 9781137372093 Hbk. £60)
by Jennifer Evans - 731-732 L. M. Cullen , John Shovlin , and Thomas M. Truxes , eds., The Bordeaux–Dublin letters, 1757: correspondence of an Irish community abroad ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xxvi+330. 5 maps. 12 plates. ISBN 9780197265628 Hbk. £70)
by Patrick Walsh - 732-733 Desmond Shawe-Taylor ed., The first Georgians: art & monarchy 1714–1760 ( London : Royal Collection Trust , 2014 . Pp. 495. ISBN 9781905686797 Hbk. £29.95)
by Sally Holloway - 733-735 Christopher J. Berry , Maria Paganelli , and Craig Smith , eds., The Oxford handbook of Adam Smith ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. 656. ISBN 9780199605064 Hbk. £100)
by Jerry Evensky - 735-736 Nigel Goose and Katrina Honeyman , eds., Childhood and child labour in industrial England: diversity and agency, 1750–1914 ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xii+358. 1 fig. 28 tabs. ISBN 9781409411147 Hbk. £75)
by Carolyn Tuttle - 736-737 Carolyn Steedman , An everyday life of the English working class: work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xii+298. 8 illus. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781107046214 Pbk. £19.99/US$32.99; Hbk. £55/US$90)
by Andrew August - 737-739 John F. Wilson , Anthony Webster , and Rachel Vorberg-Rugh , Building co-operation. A business history of the Co-operative Group, 1863–2013 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xv+440. 131 figs. 26 tabs. 20 plates. ISBN 9780199655113 Hbk. £30)
by Peter Gurney - 739-740 Cathy Hunt , The National Federation of Women Workers, 1906–1921 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. vi+240. ISBN 9781137033536 Hbk. £60)
by Sarah Hellawell - 740-741 Stephanie Ward , Unemployment and the state in Britain: the means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2013 . Pp. xi+292. 2 maps. 3 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780719086809 Hbk. £65)
by Chris Wrigley - 741-742 Joseph R. Cammarosano , John Maynard Keynes: free trader or protectionist? ( Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2014 . Pp. 220. ISBN 9780739189511 Hbk. £51.95)
by Douglas A. Irwin - 742-743 John Belchem , Before the Windrush: race relations in 20th-century Liverpool ( Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxi+298. 16 illus. 1 map. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781781380000 Pbk. £19.99)
by Mick Wilkinson - 743-745 Duncan Needham , UK monetary policy from devaluation to Thatcher, 1967–82 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. xiii+253. ISBN 9781137342249 Hbk. £70)
by Anthony Hotson - 745-746 Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel , eds., Explaining monetary and financial innovation: a historical analysis ( Springer , 2014 . Pp. vi+366. ISBN 9783319061085 Hbk. €121)
by Forrest Capie - 746-747 Niv Horesh , Chinese money in global context: historical junctures between 600CE and 2012 ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii+364. 8 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780804788540 Hbk. $65)
by Wenkai He - 747-748 Patricia Skinner , Medieval Amalfi and its diaspora, c. 800–1250 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xix+280. ISBN 9780199646272 Hbk. £65)
by David Abulafia