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May 2015, Volume 68, Issue 2
- 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 - 748-750 Joel Kaye , A history of balance, 1250–1375: the emergence of a new model of equilibrium and its impact on thought ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Pp. ix+519. 6 plates. ISBN 9781107028456 Hbk. £65)
by Joseph Canning - 750-751 Guido Alfani , Calamities and the economy in Renaissance Italy: the grand tour of the horsemen of the apocalypse ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Pp. xii+257. 19 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781137289766 Hbk. £63)
by Jane Stevens Crawshaw - 751-752 William Hogeland , Founding finance: how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2012 . Pp. vii+274. 16 illus. ISBN 9780292743618 Hbk. $20)
by Richard Sylla - 752-753 Lars Maischak , German merchants in the nineteenth-century Atlantic ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. xxii+295. 7 figs. 3 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781107017290 Hbk. £60)
by Esther Sahle - 754-755 Larry Haeg , Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street's great railroad war ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Pp. xvi+375. ISBN 9780816683642 Hbk. £22.50)
by Andrew Odlyzko - 755-756 Drew Keeling , The business of transatlantic migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914 ( Zurich : Chronos Verlag , 2012 . Pp. xx+345. ISBN 9783034011525 Hbk. $44)
by David Fitzpatrick - 756-758 Michael R. Yogg , Passion for reality: the extraordinary life of the investing pioneer Paul Cabot ( New York and Chichester, Sussex : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxiii+296. 7 tabs. 11 illus. ISBN 9780231167468 Hbk. £19.95)
by Janice Traflet - 758-759 Geoffrey C. Gunn , Rice wars in colonial Vietnam: the great famine and the Viet Minh road to power ( Lanham, MD, and Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield , 2014 . Pp. xix+323. 2 figs. 3 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781442223028 Hbk. £54.95/$89)
by Gregg Huff - 759-760 Jean-Christian Vinel , The employee: a political history ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . Pp. 293. ISBN 9780812245240 Hbk. £31)
by Andrew J. Seltzer - 761-762 Hartmut Berghoff and Uta Andrea Balbier , eds., The East German economy, 1945–2010. Falling behind or catching up? ( Washington, DC : Publications of the German Historical Institute, Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Pp. 249. ISBN 9781107030138 Hbk. $90)
by Mathieu Denis - 762-763 Matthew T. Huber , Lifeblood: oil, freedom, and the forces of capital ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Pp. xxi+253. 27 illus. ISBN 9780816677856 Pbk. £25)
by Christopher F. Jones - 763-764 Michael F. Lofchie , The political economy of Tanzania: decline and recovery ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . Pp. xii+265. ISBN 9780812245905 Hbk. £39)
by Ellen Hillbom - 764-766 Morten Jerven , Economic growth and measurement reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, 1965–1995 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xii+215. 12 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9780199689910 Hbk. £55)
by Jutta Bolt - 766-767 Stijn Claessens , M. Ayhan Kose , Luc Laeven , and Fabián Valencia , eds., Financial crises: causes, consequences and policy response ( Washington, DC : International Monetary Fund , 2014 . Pp. xxxii+635. ISBN 9781475543407 Hbk. $40)
by Christopher L. Colvin
February 2015, Volume 68, Issue 1
- 1-22 The high wage economy and the industrial revolution: a restatement
by Robert C. Allen - 23-47 Unskilled wage gaps within the Japanese Empire
by Myung Soo Cha - 48-78 The making of a fiscal state in Song China, 960–1279
by William Guanglin Liu - 79-100 Did Muhammad Ali foster industrialization in early nineteenth-century Egypt?
by Laura Panza & Jeffrey G. Williamson - 101-122 Urban working-class food consumption and nutrition in Britain in 1904
by Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell - 123-144 Regional GDP in the UK, 1861–1911: new estimates
by Frank Geary & Tom Stark - 145-166 Is there anything real about real wages? A history of the official British cost of living index, 1914–62
by Rebecca Searle - 167-190 The sixteenth-century price rise: new evidence from Scotland, 1500–85
by Amy Blakeway - 191-217 Coping with regional inequality in Sweden: structural change, migrations, and policy, 1860–2000
by Kerstin Enflo & Joan Ramón Rosés - 218-243 Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or …)?
by Michael D. Bordo & Angela Redish & Hugh Rockoff - 244-263 The compulsory public pension and the demand for life insurance: the case of Sweden, 1884–1914
by Lars-Fredrik Andersson & Liselotte Eriksson - 264-285 Riding a wave: the Company's role in the South Sea Bubble
by Richard A. Kleer - 286-353 Review of periodical literature published in 2013
by Michael Costen & Philip Slavin & Helen Paul & Patrick Walsh & Tom Crook & Aashish Velkar & Christopher Godden - 354-355 D. M. Palliser , Medieval York, 600–1540 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xxii + 332. 8 maps. 19 illus. ISBN 9780199255849 Hbk. £45)
by Robert Braid - 355-356 Emilie Amt , ed., The Latin cartulary of Godstow Abbey ( London : British Academy by Oxford University Press , 2014 . Pp. xliii + 503. ISBN 9780197265581 Hbk. £100.00)
by Steven Biddlecombe - 356-357 Alan Rogers , ed., The wardens: managing a late medieval hospital. Browne's Hospital, Stamford, 1495–1518 ( Bury St Edmunds : Stamford and District Local History Society , 2013 . Pp. 367. 4 illus. ISBN 9781845495992 . Pbk. £25)
by Carole Rawcliffe - 357-359 Carole Rawcliffe , Urban bodies: communal health in late medieval English towns and cities ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xiii + 431. 28 illus. 4 maps. ISBN 9781843838364 Hbk. £60)
by Anne M. Scott - 359-359 Marjorie Keniston McIntosh , Poor relief and community in Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1547–1600 ( Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 187. 5 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9781907396922 Pbk. £18.99; Hbk. £35)
by David Hitchcock - 360-361 Steve Hindle , Alexandra Shepard , and John Walter , eds., Remaking English society: social relations and social change in early modern England ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2013 . Pp. xvii + 371. 9 figs. 1 illus. 6 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781843837961 Hbk. £60)
by Mark Hailwood - 361-362 A. W. Ager , Crime and poverty in 19th-century England: the economy of makeshifts ( London : Bloomsbury , 2014 . Pp. 197. 5 figs. ISBN 9781441155085 Hbk. £65)
by David J. Cox - 363-364 Leslie Rosenthal , The river pollution dilemma in Victorian England: nuisance law versus economic efficiency ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2014 . Pp. xiv + 253. 10 maps. ISBN 9781409441823 Hbk. £75)
by Christopher Hamlin - 364-365 Peter Bysouth , Small but flourishing: towns of north-east Hertfordshire's extra-urban matrix ( Cambridge : EAH Press , 2013 . ISBN 9780956038456 Pbk. £15)
by Friedrich Newman - 365-366 Mark C. Nolan , Keynes in Dublin: exploring the 1933 Finlay Lecture ( Cork : Maurice Sweeney Editorial and Publishing Services , 2013 . Pp. i + 210. ISBN 9781908378187 Hbk. £25)
by Mel Farrell - 366-367 Jan Toporowski , Michal Kalecki: an intellectual biography: volume I: rendezvous in Cambridge 1899–1939 ( Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Pp. 200. ISBN 9780230211865 Hbk. £60)
by Susan Howson - 367-369 Caitríona Beaumont , Housewives and citizens. Domesticity and the women's movement in England, 1928–64 ( Manchester & New York : Manchester University Press , 2013 . Pp. xii + 244. ISBN 978071908607 Hbk. £65)
by Lucy Delap - 369-370 Andy Bielenberg and Raymond Ryan , An economic history of Ireland since independence ( London and New York : Routledge , 2013 . Pp. xxii + 282. 59 tabs. ISBN 9780415566940 Hbk. £85.00)
by Charles Read - 370-371 James Hinton , The Mass Observers: a history, 1937–1949 . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 401. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780199671045 Hbk. £31)
by Hester Barron - 372-373 Leonie V. Hicks and Elma Brenner , eds., Society and culture in medieval Rouen, 911–1300 ( Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2013 . Pp. xiv + 400. 23 figs. 11 maps. 1 tabs. ISBN 9782503536651 Hbk. €100/$124)
by Constance B. Bouchard - 373-374 Gérard Béaur , Phillipp R. Schofield , Jean-Michel Chevet , and María Teresa Pérez Picazo , eds., Property rights, land markets and economic growth in the European countryside ( Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2013 . Pp. 535. 46 figs. 62 tabs. ISBN 9782503529554 Pbk. £74.65)
by Guido Alfani - 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