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February 2015, Volume 68, Issue 1
- 374-375 Andea Caracausi and Christof Jeggle , eds., Commercial networks and European cities, 1400–1800 . ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 306. 33 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781848934504 Hbk. £60)
by Claudio Marsilio - 375-377 Adam Clulow , The Company and the Shogun, the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Pp. 352. 9 illus. 2 maps. ISBN 9780231164283 Hbk. £38/$55)
by Leonard Blussé - 377-378 Ulrich Theobald , War finance and logistics in late Imperial China, a study of the second Jinchuan campaign (1771–1776) ( Leiden : Brill , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 268. 9 illus. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004253100 Hbk. €103)
by Kent G. Deng - 378-380 Göran Rydén , ed., Sweden in the eighteenth-century world: provincial cosmopolitans ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 355. ISBN 9781409465881 Hbk. £67.50)
by Patrik Winton - 380-381 Margaret C. Jacob , The first knowledge economy: human capital and the European economy, 1750–1850 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. ix + 257. 11 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9781107619838 Pbk. £19.99; Hbk. £55)
by Emma Griffin - 381-382 Andrew B. Arnold , Fueling the Gilded Age: railroads, miners and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country ( New York : New York University Press , 2014 . Pp. x + 288. ISBN 9780814764985 Hbk. £33)
by Paul A. Shackel - 382-383 Robert MacDougall , The people's network: the political economy of the telephone in the gilded age ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . Pp. 344. 11 figs. ISBN 9780812245691 Hbk. £36/$55)
by Claude S. Fischer - 383-384 Walter A. Friedman , Fortune tellers. The story of America's first economic forecasters ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2014 . Pp. ix + 273. ISBN 9780691159119 Hbk. £19.95)
by John D. Turner - 385-386 Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara , eds., Labour-intensive industrialization in global history ( London and New York : Routledge , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 310. 15 figs. 1 map. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780415455527 Hbk. £80/$150)
by C. Knick Harley - 386-387 Robert E. Wright , Corporation nation ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . Pp. 317. 6 illus. ISBN 9780812245646 Hbk. £45.50)
by James Taylor - 387-388 Raymond Dumett , Imperialism, economic development and social change in West Africa ( Durham : Carolina Academic Press , 2013 . Pp. xvii + 538. 14 figs. ISBN 9781594609763 Pbk. US$65)
by Ruth Rempel - 388-389 Ralph Jessen and Lydia Langer , eds., Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 ( Aldershot : Ashgate , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 234. 6 tabs. 17 figs. ISBN 97814094244444 Hbk. £65.00)
by Jan-Otmar Hesse - 389-391 Judith Devlin and Hendrick Müller , eds., War of words: culture and the mass media in the making of the Cold War in Europe ( University College Dublin Press : Dublin , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 226. ISBN 9781906359379 Hbk. £60)
by Tony Shaw - 391-392 W. R. Garside , Japan's great stagnation: forging ahead, falling behind ( Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing , 2012 . pp. viii + 219. 8 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781783475070 Pbk. £25)
by Roger Middleton - 392-393 Claudia Kedar , The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: the Argentine puzzle in context ( Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2013 . Pp. xi + 251. ISBN 9781439909096 Hbk. $74.50)
by Colin M. Lewis - 393-395 Ruslan Dzarasov , The conundrum of Russian capitalism ( London : PlutoPress , 2014 . Pp. x + 294. ISBN 9780745332789 Pbk. $145.00)
by Anders Åslund - 395-396 Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting , ed., Natural disaster and reconstruction in Asian economies ( New York and Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 222. 3 figs. 13 illus. ISBN 9781137374936 Hbk. £69)
by Hyungguen Park - 396-397 Arvid Lukauskas , Robert Stern , and Gianni Zanini , eds., Handbook of trade policy for development ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xxxi + 986. 67 tabs. 114 figs. ISBN 9780199680405 Hbk. £125)
by Lucia Coppolaro - 397-398 Floris Heukelom , Behavioral economics: a history ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii + 233. ISBN 9781107039346 Hbk. £55/$90)
by Helen Julia Paul
November 2014, Volume 67, Issue 4
- 893-906 Introduction: The renaissance of African economic history
by Gareth Austin & Stephen Broadberry - 907-931 Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010
by Ewout Frankema & Morten Jerven - 932-963 Settler skills and colonial development: the Huguenot wine-makers in eighteenth-century Dutch South Africa
by Johan Fourie & Dieter Fintel - 964-992 A West African experiment: constructing a GDP series for colonial Ghana, 1891–1950
by Morten Jerven - 993-1011 What explains slow sub-Saharan African growth? Revisiting oil boom-era investment and productivity in Nigeria's national accounts, 1976–85
by Hanaan Marwah - 1012-1034 The battle for rubber in Benin
by James Fenske - 1035-1064 Vent for surplus or productivity breakthrough? The Ghanaian cocoa take-off, c. 1890–1936
by Gareth Austin - 1065-1088 Climate, conflicts, and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple crops
by Klas Rönnbäck - 1089-1112 The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943
by Leigh A. Gardner - 1155-1156 Elizabeth Gemmill , The nobility and ecclesiastical patronage in thirteenth-century England ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 240. ISBN 9781843838128 Hbk. £60)
by R. N. Swanson - 1156-1157 Brendan Smith , Crisis and survival in late medieval Ireland: the English of Louth and their neighbours, 1330–1450 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvii + 260. 6 maps. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780199594757 Hbk. £65)
by Sparky Booker - 1157-1159 Jane Whittle , ed., Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440–1660 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xv + 240. 7 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781843838500 Pbk. £17.99)
by James P. Bowen - 1159-1160 Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollernshaw , Ulster since 1600: politics, economy and society ( Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 355. ISBN 9780199583119 Hbk. £37)
by Robert S. Rock - 1160-1161 Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth , Prometheus shackled: goldsmith banks and England's financial revolution after 1700 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. ix + 214. ISBN 9780199944279 Hbk. £27.50)
by Julian Hoppit - 1161-1162 Ian Mitchell , Tradition and innovation in English retailing, 1700 to 1850: narratives of consumption ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2014 . Pp. xvi + 223. 2 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781409443209 Hbk. £70)
by Lucy A. Bailey - 1162-1164 Peter Kirby , Child workers and industrial health in Britain 1780–1850 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xi + 212. 8 tabs. 6 figs. ISBN 9781843838845 Pbk. £17.99)
by Alysa Levene - 1164-1165 Susan B. Egenolf , Claudia Nelson , and Julie-Marie Strange , eds., British family life, 1780–1914 , 5 vols. ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2013 . Vol. I, pp. xxxiv + 364. Vol. II, pp. xxiii + 408. Vol. III, pp. xxii + 352. Vol. IV, pp. xxxiv + 364. Vol. V, pp. xxii + 391. ISBN 9781848931022 Hbk. £450/$795)
by Eleanor Gordon - 1165-1166 Laura Ugolini , Civvies: middle-class men on the English home front, 1914–18 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2013 . Pp. viii + 339. 18 illus. ISBN 9780719086014 Hbk. £75)
by Jonathan Boff - 1166-1168 Peter Scott , The making of the modern British home: the suburban semi and family life between the wars ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. 288. 39 illus. ISBN 9780199677207 Hbk. £65)
by Leif Jerram - 1168-1169 Zosia Halina Archibald Ancient economies of the northern Aegean, fifth to first centuries BC ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. 416. 40 illus. ISBN 9780199682119 Hbk. £85)
by Ben Russell - 1169-1170 Charles R. Geisst , Beggar thy neighbor: a history of usury and debt ( Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . Pp. 400. ISBN 9780812244625 Hbk. £26/$39.95)
by Rowena Olegario - 1170-1172 Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens , eds., Married women and the law in premodern northwest Europe ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 248, 2 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 97818438333 Hbk. £60)
by Catriona M. Macleod - 1172-1173 Oscar Gelderblom , Cities of commerce: the institutional foundations of international trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650 ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 293. 13 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780691142883 Hbk. £24.95)
by J. L. Bolton - 1173-1174 Astrid Kander , Paolo Malanima , and Paul Warde , Power to the people: energy in Europe over the last five centuries ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 457. 102 figs. 89 tabs. ISBN 9780691143620 Hbk. £27.95/$39.50)
by Kate B. Showers - 1175-1176 William N. Goetzmann , Catherine Labio , K. Geert Rouwenhorst , and Timothy G. Young , eds., The great mirror of folly: finance, culture, the crash of 1720 ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 346. 255 illus. ISBN 9780300162462 Hbk. £50/$75)
by Koji Yamamoto - 1176-1177 Clare Haru Crowston, Credit, fashion, sex: economies of regard in Old Regime France ( Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvii + 424. 26 illus. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780822355281 Pbk. £18.99)
by Serena Dyer - 1177-1179 Manuel Pérez-García , Vicarious consumers: trans-national meetings between the west and east in the Mediterranean world, 1730–1808 ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xxv + 375. 67 figs. 18 illus. 4 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781409456858 Hbk. £75)
by Nadia Fernandez-De-Pinedo - 1179-1180 Marina Bonomelli , ed., Quaderni di sicurtà: documents on the history of insurance ( rev. edn. , Milan : Mondadori Electa, Fondazione Mansutti , 2011 . Pp. 381. 505 plates. CD-ROM. ISBN 978883708587 Pbk. €70.00)
by Robin Pearson - 1180-1181 Jonathan Curry-Machado , ed., Global histories, imperial commodities, local interactions ( Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan , 2013 . Pp. 304. ISBN 9781137283597 Hbk. £60)
by Roger Knight - 1181-1183 Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani , Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean world ( London and Vermont : Pickering and Chatto , 2013 . Pp. xiii + 240. ISBN 9781848933781 Hbk. £60)
by Christian G. De Vito - 1183-1184 Victor Bulmer-Thomas , Economic history of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xxii + 710. 117 figs. 43 tabs. ISBN 9780521145602 Pbk. £29.99)
by S. D. Smith - 1184-1185 Harold James , Peter Borscheid , David Gugerli , and Tobias Straumann , The value of risk: Swiss Re and the history of reinsurance ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xv + 432. 4 tabs. 4 figs. 88 plates. ISBN 9780199689804 Hbk. £40)
by Stephan D. Werner - 1186-1187 Paul D. Moreno , The American state from the Civil War to the New Deal: the twilight of constitutionalism and the triumph of progressivism ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 349. ISBN 9781107655010 Pbk. £19.99)
by Laura Phillips Sawyer - 1187-1188 Donald K. Stabile and Andrew F. Kozak , Markets, planning and the moral economy: business cycles in the Progressive Era and the New Deal ( Edward Elgar : Cheltenham , 2012 . Pp. 296. ISBN 9781781006764 Hbk. £80)
by Alex Millmow - 1188-1189 Mark Toma , Monetary policy and the onset of the Great Depression: the myth of Benjamin Strong as decisive leader ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Pp. xix + 214. 40 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781137372543 Hbk. £70)
by Jonathan Rose - 1190-1191 Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon , The Great Depression of the 1930s: lessons for today ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xix + 459. 50 figs. 33 tabs. ISBN 9780199663187 Hbk. £68)
by Harold James - 1191-1192 Hartmut Berghoff , Jürgen Kocka , and Dieter Ziegler , eds., Business in the age of extremes: essays in modern German and Austrian economic history ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. ix + 249. ISBN 9781107016958 Hbk. US$90)
by Werner Bührer - 1192-1193 W. Elliot Brownlee , Eisaku Ide , and Yasunori Fukagai , eds., The political economy of transnational tax reform: the Shoup mission to Japan in historical context ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xi + 472. ISBN 9781107033160 Hbk. £75/$110)
by Masayoshi Hayashi - 1193-1195 Mark Metzler , Capital as will and imagination: Schumpeter's guide to the postwar Japanese miracle ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2013 . Pp. 312. ISBN 9780801451799 Hbk. $49.95)
by Tetsuji Okazaki - 1195-1196 Jennifer A. Delton , Rethinking the 1950s: how anticommunism and the Cold War made America liberal ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. 198. ISBN 9781107620575 Pbk. £18.99/US$27.99)
by Jonathan Bell - 1196-1197 Carol M. Connell , Reforming the world monetary system: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2012 . Pp. xi + 271. ISBN 9781848933606 Hbk. £60)
by Ivo Maes - 1197-1198 Peter Gatrell , The making of the modern refugee ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 270. 2 tabs. 9 maps. ISBN 9780199674169 Hbk. £35)
by Frank Caestecker - 1199-1199 Giovanni Dosi and Louis Galambos , eds., The third industrial revolution in global business ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 343. 12 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107028616 Hbk. £55)
by Ray Stokes - 1200-1201 Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson , Reimagining business history ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 260. ISBN 9781421408620 Pbk. £13.00/$24.95)
by Alfred Reckendrees
August 2014, Volume 67, Issue 3
- 607-626 Prices and real wages in seventeenth-century Madrid
by J. I. Andrés Ucendo & R. Lanza García - 627-651 The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts
by Jutta Bolt & Jan Luiten Zanden - 652-677 External debt and commitment mechanisms: Danish borrowing in Holland, 1763–1825
by Christiaan Bochove - 678-698 Trust, religion, and cooperation in western agriculture, 1880–1930
by Eva Fernández - 699-719 Estate management and institutional constraints in pre-industrial England: the ecclesiastical estates of Durham, c. 1400–1640
by A. T. Brown - 720-749 Rothschilds' strategies in international non-ferrous metals markets, 1830–1940
by Miguel Á. López-Morell & José M. O'kean - 750-768 British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid-1970s
by Jim Tomlinson - 769-792 Greasing the wheels of rural transformation? Margarine and the competition for the British butter market
by Markus Lampe & Paul Sharp - 793-817 Trademarks and British dominance in consumer goods, 1876–1914
by Teresa Silva Lopes & Paulo Guimaraes - 818-845 The development of stage coaching and the impact of turnpike roads, 1653–1840
by Dorian Gerhold - 846-847 T. C. Smout and Mairi Stewart , The Firth of Forth. An environmental history ( Edinburgh : Birlinn Books , 2012 . Pp. 240. 77 figs. 5 tabs. 156 plates. ISBN 9781780270647 Pbk. £14.99)
by Ian Whyte - 847-848 Tom Williamson , Robert Liddiard , and Tracey Partida , Champion. The making and unmaking of the English midland landscape ( Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 252. 11 figs. 68 colour plates. ISBN 9780859898683 Hbk. £70)
by Christopher Dyer - 848-850 Susan Oosthuizen , Tradition and transformation in Anglo-Saxon England: archaeology, common rights and landscape ( London and New York : Bloomsbury , 2013 . Pp. xii + 251. 12 figs. ISBN 9781472507273 Hbk. £55)
by Michael D. Costen - 850-851 David Bates and Robert Liddiard , eds., East Anglia and its North Sea world in the middle ages ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 349. 10 figs. 9 maps. 66 plates. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781843838463 Hbk. £60)
by Mark Bailey - 851-852 Sarah Rees Jones , York: the making of a city 1068–1350 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xxxii + 373. 8 tabs. 3 figs. 18 maps. ISBN 9780198201946 Hbk. £75)
by Catherine Casson - 852-853 Nigel J. Tringham , ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the County of Stafford (vol. XI) ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer Press , 2013 . Pp. xxi + 297. 49 illus. 24 maps. 7 plates. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781904356417 Hbk. £95)
by John Benson - 853-854 Christiane Eisenberg , The rise of market society in England, 1066–1800 ( New York and Oxford : Berghahn Books , 2013 . Pp. ix + 165. 5 tabs. 12 figs. ISBN 9781782382584 Hbk. £43)
by Stephen H. Rigby - 855-856 Valerie G. Hall , Women at work 1860–1939: how different industries shaped women's experiences ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. ix + 202. 22 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781843838708 Hbk. £60)
by Karen Sayer - 856-857 Brad Beaven , Visions of empire: patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939 ( Manchester and New York : Manchester University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 234. 5 illus. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780719078569 Hbk. £70)
by A. Martin Wainwright - 857-858 Brian Rutishauser , Athens & the Cyclades: economic strategies 540–314 BC ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 304. 5 maps. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780199646357 Hbk. £65)
by Takeshi Amemiya - 858-860 Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe , eds., The fifteenth century XII: society in an age of plague ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. viii + 223. ISBN 9781843838753 Hbk. £60)
by Ann G. Carmichael - 860-861 Toby Green , ed., Brokers of change: Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa ( Oxford : Oxford University Press 2012 . Pp. xiv + 415. 12 figs. 1 map. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780197265208 Hbk. £85)
by Kenneth Morgan - 861-862 Guy Rowlands , The financial decline of a great power. ( Oxford , Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvii + 267. ISBN 9780199585076 Hbk. £65)
by Joel Felix - 863-864 D'Maris Coffman , Adrian Leonard , and Larry Neal , eds., Questioning credible commitment: perspectives on the rise of financial capitalism ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. 298. ISBN 9781107039018 Hbk. £65)
by Helen Julia Paul - 864-865 Paul M. Pressly , On the rim of the Caribbean: colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world ( Georgia : University of Georgia Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 354. ISBN 9780820345031 Pbk. £24.95)
by Catherine Armstrong - 865-867 Suzanne Desan , Lynn Hunt , and William Max Nelson , eds., The French Revolution in global perspective ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 2013 . Pp. 236. ISBN 9780801478680 Pbk. £24.95)
by Paul R. Hanson - 867-868 Paul A. Gilje , Free trade and sailors' rights in the war of 1812 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 425. ISBN 9781107607828 Pbk. $29.99/£19.99)
by Andrew Lambert - 868-869 Joshua D. Rothman , Flush times and fever dreams: a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson ( Georgia : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 391. 6 maps. ISBN 9780820333267 Hbk. $29.95)
by Robert Gudmestad - 869-871 Timothy Alborn and Sharon Ann Murphy , eds., Anglo-American life insurance, 1800–1914 , 3 vols. ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2012 . Vol. 1 , pp. xxiii + 394; Vol. 2, pp. xx + 432; Vol. 3, pp. xxvi + 436. ISBN 9781848933521 Hbk. £295/$520)
by Grietjie Verhoef - 871-872 Leigh A. Gardner , Taxing colonial Africa: the political economy of British imperialism ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 271. 32 figs. 3 maps. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780199661527 Hbk. £60)
by Nicholas J. White - 872-874 Caroline Fohlin , Mobilizing money: how the world's richest nations financed industrial growth ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 263. 8 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780521810210 Hbk. £65/$99)
by Robin Pearson - 874-875 Akira Iriye , The new Cambridge history of American foreign relations: the globalizing of America, 1913–1945 , vol. 3 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 253. 3 maps. ISBN 9780521763288 Hbk. £35)
by Mark Timpson - 875-876 Patricia Clavin , Securing the world economy: the reinvention of the League of Nations 1920–1946 ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 400. ISBN 9780199577934 Hbk. £65)
by John Keiger - 876-877 Price Fishback , Jonathan Rose , and Kenneth Snowden , How the New Deal safeguarded home ownership: well worth saving ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 173. ISBN 9780226082448 Hbk. £24.50)
by Peter Fearon - 878-879 Paul Brassley , Yves Segers , and Leen Van Molle , eds., War, agriculture, and food: rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s ( New York and London : Routledge , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 268. 13 figs. 21 maps. ISBN 9780415522168 Hbk. £80)
by Kiran Klaus Patel - 879-880 Janice Traflet , A nation of small shareholders: marketing Wall Street after World War II ( Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press . Pp. xi + 242. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781421409023 Hbk. £23.50)
by Janette Rutterford - 880-881 David Koistinen , Confronting decline: the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . Pp. xii + 331. ISBN 9780813049076 Hbk. $74.95)
by David R. Meyer - 882-883 B. R. Tomlinson , The economy of modern India from 1860 to the twenty-first century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 250. 6 figs. 13 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781107605473 Pbk. £19.99)
by Tirthankar Roy - 883-884 Kenneth Bertrams , Nicolas Coupain , and Ernst Homburg , Solvay: history of a multinational family firm ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvii + 630. 46 figs. 5 illus. 45 tabs. ISBN 9781107024809 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Christina Lubinski - 884-885 Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Colli , eds., The endurance of family businesses: a global overview ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvii + 288. 10 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781107037755 Hbk. £60)
by Mansel G. Blackford - 886-887 Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig , eds., The business of black power: community development, capitalism and corporate America ( Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2012 . Pp. viii + 343. 15 illus. 1 tab. ISBN 9781580464406 Pbk. £19.99)
by Michael J. French - 887-888 William G. Martin , South Africa and the world economy: remaking race, state and region ( Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 271. 10 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781580464314 Hbk. £50)
by Leigh Gardner - 888-889 Richard S. Grossman , Wrong: nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 265. ISBN 9780199322190 Hbk. £18.99)
by Nicholas Crafts - 889-890 John Bonnett , Emergence and empire of history ( Montreal and Kingston, London : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2013 . Pp. ix + 371. ISBN 9780773542037 Pbk. £22.99)
by Robin Neill - 890-891 David Greasley and Les Oxley , eds., Economics and history: surveys in cliometrics ( Oxford , Wiley-Blackwell , 2012 . Pp. 304. ISBN 9781444337808 Pbk. £19.99)
by Tamás Vonyó
May 2014, Volume 67, Issue 2
- 331-357 Poor relief in Elizabethan English communities: an analysis of Collectors' accounts
by Marjorie K. McIntosh - 358-381 Living standards and mortality since the middle ages
by Morgan Kelly & Cormac Ó Gráda - 382-408 Yeast or mushrooms? Productivity patterns across Swedish manufacturing industries, 1869–1912
by Svante Prado - 409-434 A mirror of history: China's bond market, 1921–42
by Chun-Yu Ho & Dan Li - 435-462 The impact of drought in early fourteenth-century England
by David Stone - 463-491 Mechanization and the spatial distribution of industries in the German Empire, 1875 to 1907
by Theresa Gutberlet - 492-516 Raiffeisenism abroad: why did German cooperative banking fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
by Christopher L. Colvin & Eoin McLaughlin - 517-534 The selection bias in court records: settlement and trial in eighteenth-century Ottoman Kastamonu
by Metin M. Coşgel & Boğaç A. Ergene - 535-555 A ‘blank cheque'? Portuguese Second World War sterling balances, 1940–73
by Marcelo Paiva Abreu - 556-577 ‘Such unjustificable practices’?: Irish trade, settlement, and society in France, 1688–1715
by Siobhan Talbott - 578-579 Alan Rogers , Noble merchant: William Browne (c.1410–1489) and Stamford in the fifteenth century ( Bury St Edmunds : Arima Publishing , 2012 . Pp. 362. 8 figs. ISBN 9781845495503 Pbk. £19.95)
by John A. McEwan - 579-580 Christopher Dyer , A country merchant, 1495–1520: trading and farming at the end of the middle ages ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp xiii + 256. 24 tabs. 23 figs. ISBN 9780199214242 Hbk. £65)
by James Davis - 580-581 John Broad , ed., Bishop Wake's summary of visitation returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706–1715, part 1: Lincolnshire ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xliii + 471. ISBN 9780197265185 Hbk. £95) John Broad , ed., Bishop Wake's summary of visitation returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706–1715, part 2: outside Lincolnshire (Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire) ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. 520. ISBN 9780197265192 Hbk. £95)
by J. V. Beckett - 582-582 Shinsuke Satsuma , Britain and colonial maritime war in the early eighteenth century. Silver, seapower and the Atlantic ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 284. 5 illus. ISBN 9781843838623 Hbk. £65)
by Nuala Zahedieh - 583-584 Matthew Kadane , The watchful clothier: the life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist ( New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2013 . Pp. vii + 302. ISBN 9780300169614 Hbk. £35)
by Giorgio Riello - 584-585 Jon Stobart , Sugar and spice: grocers and groceries in provincial England, 1650–1830 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp xiii + 303. 8 figs. 48 tabs. ISBN 9780199577927 Hbk. £65)
by Ian Mitchell - 585-586 David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby , The single homemaker and material culture in the long eighteenth century ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2012 . Pp. x + 236. 10 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781409418153 Hbk. £65)
by Katie Barclay - 586-587 James Taylor , Boardroom scandal: the criminalization of company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 300. 10 illus. ISBN 9780199695799 Hbk. £60)
by John D. Turner - 588-589 Trevor Griffiths , The cinema and cinema-going in Scotland, 1896–1950 ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2012 . Pp. v + 354. ISBN 9780748638284 Hbk. £60)
by Annmarie Hughes - 589-590 Mark Roodhouse , Black market Britain 1939–1955 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 276. 12 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780199588459 Hbk. £65)
by Rebecca Searle - 590-592 Graham Hacche and Christopher Taylor , eds., Inside the Bank of England: memoirs of Christopher Dow, chief economist 1973–84 ( London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Pp. xi + 302. 15 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781137032300 Hbk. £70)
by Roger Middleton - 592-593 Matthew Hilton , Nicholas J. Crowson , Jean-François Mouhot , and James McKay , A historical guide to NGOs in Britain: charities, civil society and the voluntary sector since 1945 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xxviii + 399. 332 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780230304444 Hbk. £80) Matthew Hilton , James McKay , Nicholas Crowson , and Jean-François Mouhot , The politics of expertise: how NGOs shaped modern Britain ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 317. 22 figs. 2 tab. 5 illus. ISBN 9780199691876 Hbk. £35)
by Emily Baughan - 593-595 Walter Scheidel , ed., The Cambridge companion to the Roman economy ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp xii + 443. 6 figs. ISBN 9780521726887 Pbk. £60/US$99)
by Candace M. Rice - 595-596 Guido Guerzoni , Apollo & Vulcan: the art markets in Italy 1400–1700 ( East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxxix + 276. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781611860061 Hbk. $54.95)
by Thomas M. Bayer & John R. Page - 596-597 Germano Maifreda , From oikonomia to political economy: constructing economic knowledge from the Renaissance to the scientific revolution ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2012 . Pp. vii + 304. ISBN 9781409433019 Hbk. £70)
by Alessandro Roncaglia - 597-598 Piet van Cruyningen and Erik Thoen , eds., Food supply, demand and trade: aspects of the economic relationship between town and countryside (middle ages–19th century) ( Turnhout : Brepols , 2012 ). Pp. x + 245. 48 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9782503512839 Pbk. €69)
by Daniel R. Curtis - 599-600 Miguel A. López-Morell , The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812–1941 ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . Pp. xviii + 449. 44 figs. 23 illus. 27 tabs. ISBN 9780754668008 Hbk. £75)
by José L. García-Ruiz - 600-601 Gelina Harlaftis , Stig Tenold , and Jesús M. Valdaliso , eds., The world's key industry: history and economics of international shipping ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 305. 14 tabs. 13 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780230369146 Hbk. £65)
by Richard Sicotte - 601-602 Douglas E. Haynes , Small town capitalism in western India: artisans, merchants and the making of the informal economy, 1870–1960 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xv + 344. 17 illus. 2 maps. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780521193337 Hbk. £65/US$99)
by Bishnupriya Gupta - 602-604 Martijn Konings , The development of American finance ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. viii + 199. ISBN 9780521195256 Hbk. £55/US$90)
by Christopher Kobrak - 604-605 Hartmut Berghoff , Philip Scranton , and Uwe Spiekermann , eds., The rise of marketing and market research ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. 312. 10 figs. ISBN 9780230341067 Hbk. £55)
by D. G. Brian Jones - 605-606 A. Gandy , The early computer industry: limitations of scale and scope ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xvii + 348. 28 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9780230389106 Hbk. £70)
by Jeffrey Yost
February 2014, Volume 67, Issue 1
- 1-24 Where have all the brides gone? Son preference and marriage in India over the twentieth century
by Bishnupriya Gupta - 25-47 Wool and cloth production in late medieval and early Tudor England
by John Oldland - 48-65 Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry
by Maria Stanfors & Tim Leunig & Björn Eriksson & Tobias Karlsson - 66-91 Prices and production: agricultural supply response in fourteenth-century England
by Eric B. Schneider - 92-122 Taking firms to the stock market: IPOs and the importance of large banks in imperial Germany, 1896–1913
by Sibylle H. Lehmann - 123-145 The credit relationship between Henry III and merchants of Douai and Ypres, 1247–70
by Adrian R. Bell & Chris Brooks & Tony K. Moore - 146-169 De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the Middle East: reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and in the Izmir region
by Laura Panza - 170-191 Transatlantic steerage fares, British and Irish migration, and return migration, 1815–60
by John Killick - 192-213 Debt policy under constraints: Philip II, the Cortes, and Genoese bankers
by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal & Christophe Chamley - 214-230 Wars are becoming less frequent: a response to Harrison and Wolf
by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Steve Pickering - 231-239 The frequency of wars: reply to Gleditsch and Pickering
by Mark Harrison & Nikolaus Wolf - 240-293 Review of periodical literature published in 2012
by Michael Costen & James Davis & Helen Paul & Patrick Walsh & Tom Crook & Aashish Velkar & Christopher Godden - 294-295 Matthew Davies and James A. Galloway , eds., London and beyond: essays in honour of Derek Keene ( London : London Institute of Historical Research , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 373. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781905165704 Hbk. £40)
by D. M. Palliser - 295-296 Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward , London: a social and cultural history, 1550–1750 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 367. 53 figs. 4 maps. ISBN 9780521896528 Hbk. £16.99/$27.99)
by Jacob F. Field - 296-297 Julian Hoppit , ed., Nehemiah Grew and England's economic development: the means of a most ample increase of the wealth and strength of England, 1706–7 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 114. ISBN 9780197264959 Hbk. £40)
by Adrian Williamson - 297-298 Larry Neal , ‘I am not master of events’: the speculation of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles ( New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 214. ISBN 9780300153163 Hbk. £35)
by Helen Julia Paul - 298-300 Alysa Levene , The childhood of the poor: welfare in eighteenth-century London ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xii + 250. 6 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780230354807 Hbk. £55)
by Samantha Williams - 300-301 Graeme Morton , Ourselves and others: Scotland 1832–1914 ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2012 . Pp. vii + 312. 16 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780748620494 Pbk. £19.99)
by Alexander Murdoch - 301-302 L. M. Cullen , Economy, trade and Irish merchants at home and abroad, 1600–1988 ( Dublin : Four Courts Press , 2012 . Pp. 320. ISBN 9781846823190 Hbk. £50.00)
by Emmet O'Connor - 302-304 Aashish Velkar , Markets and measurements in nineteenth-century Britain ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xv + 362. 14 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781107023338 Hbk. £60)
by Alessandro Nuvolari - 304-305 Ben Jones , The working class in mid twentieth-century England: community, identity and social memory ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvi+262. 14 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780719084737 Hbk. £65)
by Jim Phillips - 305-306 Andrew Perchard , Aluminiumville: government, global business and the Scottish Highlands ( Lancaster : Crucible Books , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 416. 7 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781905472154 Pbk. £14.99)
by Martin Chick - 306-307 Claire Holleran , Shopping in ancient Rome: the retail trade in the late Republic and the Principate ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 304. 23 figs. 3 maps. ISBN 978019969219 Hbk. £65)
by Neville Morley - 308-310 Sophus A. Reinert , Translating empire: emulation and the origins of political economy ( Cambridge MA : Harvard University Press , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 438. 20 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9780674061514 Hbk. £40.95) Sophus A. Reinert , ed., Antonio Serra , A short treatise on the wealth and poverty of nations (1613) , trans. Jonathan Hunt ( London : Anthem Press , 2011 . Pp. viii + 260. 1 illus. ISBN 9780857289735 Hbk. £60)
by Keith Tribe - 310-311 Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla and Patrick K. O'Brien with Francisco Comín Comín, eds., The rise of fiscal states: a global history, 1500–1914 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxi + 471. 41 figs. 51 tabs. ISBN 9781107013513 Hbk. £65)
by Tuan-Hwee Sng - 311-312 Tirthankar Roy , Natural disasters and Indian history ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 165. 3 figs. 1 map. ISBN 9780198075370 Pbk. £6.99)
by B. R. Tomlinson - 312-314 Prasannan Parthasarathi , Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not: global divergence, 1600–1850 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 365. 7 figs. 4 maps. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781107000308 Hbk. £55/$90)
by Neeraj Hatekar - 314-315 Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell , eds., Africa, empire and globalization: essays in honour of A. G. Hopkins ( Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press , 2011 . Pp. xxiv + 657. 8 illus. 1 map. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781594609152 Hbk. £56.50/$80)
by William G. Clarence-Smith - 315-316 Moramay López-Alonso , Measuring up: a history of living standards in Mexico, 1850–1950 ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvii + 276. 19 figs. 12 photos. 31 tabs. ISBN 9780804773164 Hbk. £54.95)
by Colin M. Lewis - 316-317 Gabriel Tortella and Gloria Quiroga , Entrepreneurship and growth: an international historical perspective ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Pp. xvi + 248. 62 tabs. ISBN 9781137033345 Hbk. £65)
by Niall G. Mackenzie - 317-319 Shizuya Nishimura , Toshio Suzuki , and Ranald Michie , eds., The origins of international banking in Asia: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. 251. 20 figs. 52 tabs. ISBN 9780199646326 Hbk. £55)
by C. Edoardo Altamura - 319-320 Gijsbert Oonk , Settled strangers: Asian business elites in East Africa (1800–2000) ( New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2013 . Pp. xix + 270. 6 figs. 3 photos. 4 tabs. ISBN 9788132110545 Hbk. £40)
by Sumita Mukherjee - 320-321 Robert P. Wolensky and William A. Hastie , Anthracite labor wars: tenancy, Italians and organized crime in the northern coalfield of northeastern Pennsylvania, 1897–1959 ( Easton, PA : Canal History and Technology Press , 2013 . Pp. 445. ISBN 9780930973421 Pbk. £15.55)
by Joseph Melling - 321-322 Christian Fleck , A transatlantic history of the social sciences: robber barons, the Third Reich and the invention of empirical social research ( London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2011 . Pp. ix + 406. 12 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 9781849662932 Hbk. £40)
by Keith Tribe - 322-323 Michael B. Miller , Europe and the maritime world: a twentieth-century history ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 435. 11 figs. 4 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781107024557 Hbk. £65)
by Hugh Murphy - 323-324 Louis Hyman , Debtor nation: the history of America in red ink ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 . Pp. ix + 376. 10 illus. ISBN 9780691140681 Hbk. £24.95/$35)
by Michael French - 324-325 Hein Klemann and Sergei Kudryashov , Occupied economies: an economic history of Nazi-occupied Europe, 1939–1945 ( Oxford : Berg , 2012 . Pp. xii + 490. 13 figs. 11 plates. 39 tabs. ISBN 9781845208233 Pbk. £19.99)
by Richard Overy - 326-327 Don Mitchell , They saved the crops: labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 529. 5 maps. ISBN 9780820341767 Pbk. $26.95)
by R. Douglas Hurt - 327-328 Lucia Coppolaro , The making of a world trading power: the European Economic Community (EEC) in the GATT Kennedy round negotiations (1963–67) ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2013 . Pp. xii + 237. 3 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781409433750 Hbk. £65)
by Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol - 328-329 M. Bordo and R. MacDonald , eds., Credibility and the International Monetary Regime; a historical perspective ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 240. 39 figs. 47 tabs. ISBN 9780521811330 Hbk. £62)
by Catherine R. Schenk
November 2013, Volume 66, Issue 4
- 953-974 Machine tools and mass production in the armaments boom: Germany and the United States, 1929–44
by Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia & Adam Tooze - 975-992 Second World War spending and local economic activity in US counties, 1939–58
by Price Fishback & Joseph A. Cullen - 993-1016 Gregory King and the economic structure of early modern England: an input–output table for 1688
by John Dodgson - 1017-1038 The cost of railroad regulation: the disintegration of American agricultural markets in the interwar period
by Giovanni Federico & Paul Sharp - 1039-1062 The impact of female employment on male salaries and careers: evidence from the English banking industry, 1890–1941
by Andrew Seltzer - 1063-1083 War, food rationing, and socioeconomic inequality in Germany during the First World War
by Matthias Blum - 1084-1100 Party politics, political economy, and economic development in early eighteenth-century Britain
by Christopher Dudley - 1101-1126 New annual estimates of Swedish GDP, 1800–2010
by Rodney Edvinsson - 1127-1133 The two sterling crises of 1964: a reply to Oliver
by Scott Newton - 1134-1186 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2012
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1187-1188 Harold S. A. Fox , Dartmoor's alluring uplands: transhumance and pastoral management in the middle ages ( Exeter : University of Exeter Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 291. ISBN 9780859898645 Pbk. £30)
by Nicola Whyte - 1188-1189 Samuel K. Cohn , Jr. , Popular protest in late medieval English towns ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 375. 2 maps. ISBN 9781107027800 Hbk. £60)
by Stephen H. Rigby - 1189-1190 Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths , Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household: the world of Alice Le Strange ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 266. 16 figs. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780199233533 Hbk. £60)
by Felicity Heal - 1190-1192 Jayne E. E. Boys , London's news press and the Thirty Years War ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer Press , 2011 . Pp. viii + 336. 4 figs. 6 plates. ISBN 978843836773 Hbk. £60)
by Paul Arblaster - 1192-1193 Judith M. Spicksley , ed., The business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys: spinster of Hereford 1638–1648 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxviii + 413. 3 figs. 1 illus. 2 maps. 8 plates. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780197264324 Hbk. £90)
by Amy Froide - 1193-1194 W. B. Stephens , The seventeenth-century customs service surveyed: William Culliford's investigation of the Western Ports, 1682–84 ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2012 . Pp. xx + 233. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781409438373 Hbk. £65)
by Richard Stone - 1194-1195 H. V. Bowen , ed., Wales and the British overseas empire: interactions and influences, 1650–1830 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2011 . Pp. xiv + 200. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780719086205 Hbk. £60)
by Aled Jones - 1195-1196 Jane McDermid , The schooling of girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800–1900 ( Abingdon : Routledge , 2012 . ISBN 9780415181969 Hbk. £80)
by Ruth Watts