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November 2013, Volume 66, Issue 4
- 1197-1198 Carl J. Griffin , The rural war: Captain Swing and the politics of protest ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 360. 7 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9780719086267 Hbk. £70)
by Richard Sheldon - 1198-1199 Tanja Bueltmann , David T. Gleeson , and Don MacRaild , eds., Locating the English diaspora, 1500–2010 ( Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2012 . Pp. x + 246. 2 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781846318191 Hbk. £65)
by Emily Buchnea - 1199-1200 Richard Huzzey , Freedom burning: anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 303. 17 figs. ISBN 9780801451089 Hbk. £18.50)
by Helen Julia Paul - 1200-1201 Manuel Llorca-Jaña , The British textile trade in South America in the nineteenth century ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. 403. 38 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781107021297 Hbk. £60)
by Peter Sims - 1202-1203 John Benson , Keith Gildart , James Jaffe , and Quentin Outram , eds., Coal in Victorian Britain parts I and II: vols. 1–6 ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2012 . Vol. 1, pp. xxxiv + 495; vol. 2, pp. xiv + 485; vol. 3, pp. xix + 476. ISBN 9781848930605 Hbk. £275.Vol. 4, pp. xix + 330; vol. 5, pp. xxxv + 461; vol. 6 and index, pp. xli + 577. ISBN 9781848930612 Hbk. £275)
by Peter Kirby - 1203-1204 Nicholas Lambert , Planning Armageddon: British economic warfare and the First World War ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 . Pp. viii + 651. ISBN 9780674061491 Hbk. £33.95)
by Hugh Rockoff - 1204-1205 Forrest H. Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood , Money over two centuries: selected topics in British monetary history ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. x + 367. 43 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780199655120 Hbk. £65)
by Roger Middleton - 1205-1207 Nicholas Wapshott , Keynes Hayek: the clash that defined modern economics ( New York : Norton , 2011 . Pp. xiv + 382. ISBN 9780393077483 Hbk. £19.99)
by Jim Tomlinson - 1207-1208 Anabel Thomas , Garrisoning the borderlands of medieval Siena: Sant'Angelo in Colle: frontier castle under the government of the Nine (1287–1355) ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2011 . Pp. xix + 422. 20 illus. 8 plates. 18 tabs. ISBN 9781409426035 Hbk. £58.50)
by Caterina Bruschi - 1208-1209 Jacques le Goff , Money and the middle ages: an essay in historical anthropology ( Cambridge : Polity Press , 2012 . Pp. vi + 178. ISBN 9780745652993 Pbk. £15.99)
by N. J. Mayhew - 1209-1211 Francesco Ammannati , ed., Religion and religious institutions in the European economy 1000–1800 ( Firenze : Firenze University Press , 2012 . Pp. ix + 862. ISBN 9788866551232 Pbk. €65.00)
by R. N. Swanson - 1211-1212 Tirthankar Roy , India in the world economy: from antiquity to the present ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 288. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781107401471 Pbk. £18.99)
by Ghulam A. Nadri - 1212-1213 Robert Lee , ed., Commerce and culture: nineteenth-century business elites ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2011 . Pp. 343. 22 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780754663980 Hbk. £70)
by Sheryllynne Haggerty - 1213-1214 Alasdair Roberts , America's first great depression: economic crisis and political disorder after the panic of 1837 ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 2012 . Pp. 255. ISBN 9780801450334 Hbk. £15.95)
by Adam Costanzo - 1214-1216 Tilmann J. Röder , From industrial to legal standardization, 1871–1914: transnational insurance law and the Great San Francisco Earthquake ( Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 350. 14 tabs. ISBN 9789004212374 Hbk. $136)
by Aashish Velkar - 1216-1217 Beatrice Moring , ed., Female economic strategies in the modern world ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 201. 39 tabs. ISBN 9781848933507 Hbk. £60)
by Jennifer Aston - 1217-1218 John A. Consiglio , Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva , and Gabriel Tortella (with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser ), eds., Banking and finance in the Mediterranean: a historical perspective ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2012 . Pp. xv + 336. 16 figs. 32 tabs. ISBN 9781409429845 Hbk. £65)
by Gelina Harlaftis - 1219-1220 Kenneth D. Garbade , Birth of a market: the US treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2012 . Pp. viii + 393. ISBN 9780262016377 Hbk. £34.95)
by Matthew Jaremski - 1220-1220 Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman , eds., The rise of the modern firm ( Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 701. ISBN 9781848447813 Hbk. £235)
by Paolo Di Martino - 1221-1222 Peter Borscheid and Niels Viggo Haueter , eds., World insurance: the evolution of a global risk network ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 729. ISBN 9780199657964 Hbk. £95)
by Manuel Llorca Jaña - 1222-1223 Heinz D. Kurz , Tamotsu Nishizawa , and Keith Tribe , eds., The dissemination of economic ideas ( Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2011 . Pp. vi + 367. 2 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780857935571 Hbk. £83.70)
by Mauro Boianovsky - 1223-1224 Hugh Rockoff , America's economic way of war: war and the US economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 357. 4 boxes. 29 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780521676731 Pbk. £50)
by Avner Offer - 1224-1225 David George , The rhetoric of the right: language change and the spread of the market ( Abingdon : Routledge , 2013 . Pp. xxiii + 175. 83 tabs. ISBN 9780415679978 Hbk. £80)
by Roger Middleton - 1225-1227 Harold James , Making the European Monetary Union: the role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the origins of the European Central Bank ( Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiv + 567. 18 figs. ISBN 9780674066830 Hbk. £25)
by Geoffrey Wood - 1227-1228 Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo , J. Carles Maixé-Altés , and Paul Thomes , eds., Technological innovation in retail finance: international historical perspectives ( London : Routledge , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 319. 15 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780415880671 Hbk. £85)
by Anthony Gandy - 1228-1229 Amanda Kay McVety , Enlightened aid: US development as foreign policy in Ethiopia ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. x + 297. ISBN 9780199796915 Hbk. £45)
by Tobias Hagmann
August 2013, Volume 66, Issue 3
- 693-714 The lure of aggregates and the pitfalls of the patriarchal perspective: a critique of the high wage economy interpretation of the British industrial revolution
by Jane Humphries - 715-732 Contract enforcement in Russian serf society, 1750–1860
by Tracy Dennison - 733-756 Real inequality in the early modern Low Countries: the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1500–1660
by Jord Hanus - 757-784 Nutrition in the English agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century
by Ian Gazeley & Sara Horrell - 785-804 Hand looms, power looms, and changing production organizations: the case of the Kiryū weaving district in early twentieth-century Japan
by Tomoko Hashino & Keijiro Otsuka - 805-825 Colonies, copper, and the market for inventive activity in England and Wales, 1680–1730
by Nuala Zahedieh - 826-847 Competition in the Rhine delta: waterways, railways and ports, 1870–1913
by Hein A. M. Klemann & Joep Schenk - 848-872 Geographies of wealth: real estate and personal property ownership in England and Wales, 1870–1902
by David r. Green & Alastair Owens - 873-894 The first income tax, political arithmetic, and the measurement of economic growth
by S. J. Thompson - 895-916 Measuring business cycles in the Russian Empire
by Thomas C. Owen - 917-918 Nicholas Orme and Jon Cannon , Westbury-on-Trym: monastery, minster and college ( Bristol : Bristol Record Society , 2010 . Pp. xii + 276. 14 figs. 16 plates. ISBN 9780901538314 Hbk. £15)
by Philip Slavin - 918-919 Marjorie Keniston McIntosh , Poor relief in England 1350–1600 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 352. ISBN 9781107015081 Hbk. £60)
by Richard Smith - 920-921 Helen Bradley , The views of the hosts of alien merchants 1440–1444 ( Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer , 2012 . Pp. lviii + 337. ISBN 9780900952500 Hbk. £25)
by Catherine Casson - 921-922 John Bohstedt , The politics of provisions: food riots, moral economy, and market transition in England, c. 1550–1850 ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2010 . Pp. 312. 7 figs. 5 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780754665816 Hbk. £65)
by Richard Sheldon - 922-923 Mark Freeman , Robin Pearson , and James Taylor , Shareholder democracies? Corporate governance in Britain & Ireland before 1850 ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . Pp. ix + 339. 18 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9780226261874 Hbk. £42)
by Janette Rutterford - 924-925 Samantha Williams , Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law: 1760–1834 ( Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 190. 18 figs. 1 map. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780861933143 Hbk. £50)
by Marjorie Levine-Clark - 925-927 Virginia Bainbridge , ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Wiltshire, vol. XVIII. Cricklade and environs ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2010 . Pp. xvi + 313. 51 figs. 22 maps. ISBN 9781904356189 Hbk. £95/$180) Christopher C. Thornton and Herbert Eiden , eds., The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Essex, vol. XI. Clacton, Walton and Frinton: north-east Essex seaside resorts ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2012 . Pp. xx + 373. 117 figs. 17 colour plates. ISBN 9781904356394 Hbk. £95/$180)
by Jon Stobart - 927-928 Martin Cohen , The eclipse of ‘elegant economy’: the impact of the Second World War on attitudes to personal finance in Britain ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2012 . Pp. xx + 235. ISBN 9781409439721 Hbk. £65)
by Nicole Robertson - 928-929 Matthias Matthijs , Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945–2005) ( London : Routledge , 2011 . Pp. xiv + 258. 15 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780415579445 Hbk. £95)
by Jim Tomlinson - 929-930 Roger Middleton , ed., Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the diary of an ‘irregular’, 1964–6 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press/The British Academy , 2012 . Pp. xxi + 229. 8 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780197265000 Hbk. £50)
by Glen O'Hara - 931-932 Mark Häberlein , The Fuggers of Augsburg: pursuing wealth and honor in Renaissance Germany ( Charlottesville and London : University of Virginia Press , 2012. Pp. ix + 286. ISBN 9780813932446 Hbk. £34.50)
by Matthew Vester - 932-933 Georg Christ , Trading conflicts: Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in late medieval Alexandria ( Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 365. 16 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9789004221994 Hbk. US$ 212)
by Adam Sabra - 933-934 David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman , eds., The Cambridge world history of slavery. Volume 3. AD 1420–AD 1804 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 762. 5 figs. 4 maps. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780521840682 Hbk. £110/$180)
by Kenneth Morgan - 934-936 Thomas Buchner and Philip R. Hoffmann-Rehnitz , eds., Shadow economies and irregular work in urban Europe: 16th to early 20th centuries ( Vienna and Münster : LIT , 2011 . Pp. 219. 3 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9783825806880 Hbk. €29.90)
by Eleonora Canepari - 936-937 Fabio López Lázaro , The misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: the true adventures of a Spanish-American with 17th-century pirates ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . Pp. xii + 240. ISBN 9780292726314 Hbk. $55)
by Arne Bialuschewski - 937-938 Gary B. McCollim , Louis XIV's assault on privilege: Nicolas Desmaretz and the tax on wealth ( Rochester : University of Rochester Press , 2012 . Pp. xi + 317. 2 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781580464147 Hbk. £65)
by Helen Paul - 938-939 Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff , Economic development in the Americas since 1500: endowments and institutions ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxv + 417. 3 figs. 58 tabs. ISBN 9780521251372 Pbk. £22.99)
by Kenneth Lipartito - 939-940 Alessandro Stanziani , Rules of exchange: French capitalism in comparative perspective, eighteenth to early twentieth centuries . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. ix + 313. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781107003866 Hbk. ₤55/$90)
by George Grantham - 940-942 Birsen Bulmuş , Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2012 . Pp. vii + 195. ISBN 9780748646593 Hbk. £65/$105)
by A. M. White - 942-943 Robin Law , ed., Dahomey and the ending of the trans-Atlantic slave trade: the journals and correspondence of Vice-Consul Louis Fraser, 1851–1852 ( London : The British Academy , 2012 . Pp. 287. 2 maps. ISBN 9780197265215 Hbk. £55)
by Malcolm Dick - 943-944 Michael Schiltz , The money doctors from Japan: finance, imperialism, and the building of the yen bloc, 1895–1937 ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 . Pp. 290. 1 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780674062498 Hbk. £29.95/$39.95)
by Jonathan Kirshner - 944-946 José Luis Malo de Molina and Pablo Martín-Aceña , eds., The Spanish financial system: growth and development since 1900 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 444. 1 fig. 49 tabs. 74 illus. 6 maps. ISBN 9780230350045 Hbk. £70)
by J. C. Maixé-Altés - 946-947 Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal , eds., The gold standard peripheries: monetary policy, adjustment and flexibility in a global setting ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 265. 58 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780230343171 Hbk. £65/$110)
by Duncan Needham - 947-948 Yann Decorzant , La Société des Nations et la naissance d'une conception de la régulation économique internationale ( Brussels : Peter Lang , 2011 . Pp. 467. ISBN 9789052017518 Pbk. £46)
by Marta Stachurska-Kounta - 948-949 Herausgegeben von Christoph Buchheim and Marcel Boldorf , Europäische Volkswirtschaften unter deutscher Hegemonie 1938–1945 ( Munich : Oldenbourg Akademie Verlag , 2012 . Pp. viii + 270. ISBN 9783486709506 Hbk. €54.80)
by Armin Grünbacher - 949-950 William M. McClenahan , Jr. , and William H. Becker , Eisenhower and the Cold War economy ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011 . Pp. xv + 304. ISBN 9781421402659 Hbk. £28.50)
by Armin Grünbacher - 951-952 Elizabeth Heineman , Before porn was legal: the erotic empire of Beate Uhse ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . Pp. 225. ISBN 0226325210. Hbk. £22.50/$35)
by Josie McLellan
May 2013, Volume 66, Issue 2
- 395-418 Childhood and child labour in the British industrial revolution
by Jane Humphries - 419-448 The remarkable wealth of the Dutch Cape Colony: measurements from eighteenth-century probate inventories
by Johan Fourie - 449-476 Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: rural F rance, 1750–1850
by Neil Cummins - 477-496 Alien finance and the development of the English economy, 1285–1311
by Pamela Nightingale - 497-517 ‘Armament in depth’ or ‘armament in breadth’? German investment pattern and rearmament during the Nazi period
by Jonas Scherner - 518-544 The productivity of peasant agriculture: Oakington, Cambridgeshire, 1360–99
by Alexandra Sapoznik - 545-578 Portuguese living standards, 1720–1980, in European comparison: heights, income, and human capital
by Yvonne Stolz & Joerg Baten & Jaime Reis - 579-600 The market in freehold land, 1300–1509: the evidence of feet of fines
by Margaret Yates - 601-627 Making sense of immigration policy: A rgentina, 1870–1930
by Blanca Sánchez-Alonso - 628-647 Royal paternalism and the moral economy in the reign of E dward II : the response to the G reat F amine
by Buchanan Sharp - 648-649 Neil Christie and Paul Stamper , eds., Medieval rural settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 ( Oxford : Windgather Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 369. 113 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781905119424 Hbk. £30)
by Mark Page - 649-650 Ben Dodds and Christian D. Liddy , eds., Commercial activity, markets and entrepreneurs in the middle age: essays in honour of Richard Britnell ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2011 . Pp. xv + 256. 7 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781843836841 Hbk. £55)
by Chris Briggs - 650-651 Philip Slavin , Bread and ale for the brethren: the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory 1260–1536 ( Hertfordshire : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2012 . Pp. xvii + 220. 18 figs. 45 tabs. ISBN 9781907396632 Pbk. £18.99/$37.95)
by Christopher Dyer - 652-653 Sam Turner and Bob Silvester , eds., Life in medieval landscapes. People and places in the middle ages: papers in memory of H. S. A. Fox ( Oxford : Windgather Press , 2012 . Pp. vii + 296. ISBN 9781905119400 Pbk. £30)
by Richard Britnell - 653-654 Michael Hicks , ed., The fifteenth-century inquisitions post mortem: a companion ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2012 . Pp. xviii + 253. 31 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781843837121 Hbk. £50)
by Nigel Saul - 654-655 Joseph M. Fewster , The keelmen of Tyneside: labour organisation and conflict in the north-east coal industry, 1600–1830 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2011 . Pp. x + 222. 4 illus. ISBN 9781843836322 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Malcolm Chase - 655-656 Carl Wennerlind , Casualties of credit: the English financial revolution, 1620–1720 ( Cambridge, MA and London : Harvard University Press , 2011 . Pp. ix + 348. ISBN 9780674047389 Hbk. £29.95)
by Helen Julia Paul - 656-657 Jonathan Harlow , ed., The Ledger of Thomas Speed, 1681–1690 ( Bristol : Bristol Record Society , 2011 . Pp. lii + 553. ISBN 9780901538321 Hbk. £15)
by S. D. Smith - 657-659 Hugh Gault , The quirky Dr Fay: a remarkable life ( Cambridge : Gretton Books , 2011 . Pp. x + 244. 3 illus. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780956204158 Pbk. £11.99)
by Pat Hudson - 659-660 T. M. Devine , To the ends of the Earth: Scotland's global diaspora 1750–2010 ( London : Penguin Group , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 397. 36 illus. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780713997446 Hbk. £25)
by Eric Richards - 660-661 Thomas Cate , ed., Keynes's general theory seventy-five years later ( Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing , 2012 . Pp. x + 346. ISBN 9781845424114 Hbk. £95)
by G. C. Peden - 661-662 Susan Howson , Lionel Robbins ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 1161. 30 illus. ISBN 9781107002449 Hbk. £90/$135)
by Chris Godden - 663-664 Andrew Thompson , Britain's experience of empire in the twentieth century ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 356. ISBN 9780199236589 Hbk. £35)
by Neville Kirk - 664-665 Jessica Dijkman , Shaping medieval markets: the organisation of commodity markets in Holland c. 1200–c.1450 ( Leiden : Brill , 2011 . Pp. xvi + 447. 15 illus. 10 tabs. ISBN 9789004201484 Hbk. €129/$183)
by Job Weststrate - 665-666 Frank Trentmann , ed., The Oxford handbook of the history of consumption ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xvii + 695. 15 figs. ISBN 9780199561216 Hbk. £95)
by Matthew Anderson - 667-668 Bjørn Poulsen and Søren Michael Sindbæk , eds., Settlement and lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia ( Turnhout : Brepols Publishers , 2011 . Pp. xvii + 337. 18 figs. 2 illus. 16 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9782503531311 Hbk. £95)
by John Hines - 668-669 Tom Scott , The city-state in Europe, 1000–1600 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xi + 382. 14 maps. ISBN 9780199274604 Hbk. £35)
by Luca Zavagno - 669-670 Francois Gipouloux , The Asian Mediterranean: port cities and trading networks in China, Japan and southeast Asia, 13th–21st century ( Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing , 2011 . Pp. x + 407. ISBN 9780857934260 Hbk. £95)
by Derek Heng - 670-671 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)
by Emmet O'Connor - 672-673 José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo and Michael Limberger , eds., Taxation and debt in the early modern city ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2012 . Pp. xvi + 272. 8 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781848931855 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Laura Cruz - 673-674 Tijl Vanneste , Global trade and commercial networks: eighteenth-century diamond merchants ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2011 . Pp. 181 + 86. 3 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781848930872 Hbk. £60)
by Edgar Samuel - 674-675 Natacha Coquery , Tenir boutique à Paris au XVIII-super-e siècle: luxe et demi-luxe ( Paris : Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques , 2011 . Pp. 401. ISBN 9782735507337 Pbk. €28)
by Claire Lemercier - 675-676 G. Balachandran , Globalizing labour? Indian seafarers and world shipping, c. 1870–1945 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 318. 22 figs. ISBN 9780198078845 Hbk. £30)
by Helen Doe - 676-678 Raouf Abbas and Assem El-Dessouky , The large landowning class and the peasantry in Egypt, 1837–1952 ( Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2011 . Pp. xvii + 293. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780815632870 Hbk. $29.95)
by Aaron G. Jakes - 678-679 Joseph V. Femia and Alasdair J. Marshall , eds., Vilfredo Pareto: beyond disciplinary boundaries ( Farnham : Ashgate Publishing , 2012 . Pp. xi + 201. 3 figs. ISBN 9780754679950 Hbk. £55)
by Fabrizio Bientinesi - 679-680 Marcel P. Timmer , Robert Inklaar , Mary O'Mahony , and Bart van Ark , Economic growth in Europe: a comparative industry perspective ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Pp. xvii + 292. 40 figs. 59 tabs. ISBN 9780521098875 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Roger Middleton - 680-681 Luciano Segreto , I Feltrinelli: Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854–1942) ( Italy : Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore Milano , 2011 . Pp. 487. ISBN 9788807111150 Pbk. €28.00/£23.40)
by Alberto Rinaldi - 682-683 Laurent Warlouzet , Le choix de la CEE par la France: l'Europe économique en débat de Mendès France à de Gaulle (1955–1969) ( Paris : Comité pour I'histoire économique et financière de la France , 2010 . Pp. ix + 569. ISBN 9782110975171 Pbk. €40)
by Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol - 683-684 Eric Jabbari , Pierre Laroque and the welfare state in postwar France ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. 188. ISBN 9780199289639 Hbk. £60)
by Alain Chatriot - 684-685 William Lazonick and David J. Teece , eds., Management innovation: essays in the spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xii + 378. 15 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780199695683 Hbk. £55)
by Leslie Hannah - 685-686 Richard Vahrenkamp , The logistic revolution: the rise of logistics in the mass consumption society ( Brandsberg : Josef Eul Verlag GmbH , 2012 . Pp. vii + 281. ISBN 9783844101188 Pbk. £48.99/€59)
by Jonathan Winkler - 687-688 Kent Deng , China's political economy in modern times: changes and economic consequences, 1800–2000 ( London and New York : Routledge , 2011 . Pp. xxi + 296. 11 figs. 65 tabs. ISBN 9780415674058 Hbk. £85)
by George Bryan Souza - 688-689 Harold James , Krupp: a history of the legendary firm ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2012 . Pp. 360. ISBN 9780691153407 Hbk. £24.95)
by Armin Grünbacher - 689-690 Richard A. Hawkins , A Pacific industry: the history of pineapple canning in Hawaii ( London and New York : I. B. Tauris , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 273. 21 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781848855960 Hbk. £56.50)
by Sumner La Croix - 690-691 Mark Jackson , ed., The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 672. 4 illus. 1 tab. ISBN 9780199546497 Hbk. £95/$150)
by Jonathan Reinarz
February 2013, Volume 66, Issue 1
- 1-37 The rise and fall of Spain (1270–1850)
by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal & Leandro Prados De La Escosura - 38-56 Spending, saving, or investing? Risk management in sixteenth-century Dutch households
by Jaco Zuijderduijn & Tine De Moor - 57-85 Through the magnifying glass: provincial aspects of industrial growth in post-Unification Italy
by Carlo Ciccarelli & Stefano Fenoaltea - 86-108 Rural labour markets and rural conflict in Spain before the Civil War (1931–6)
by Jordi Domenech - 109-131 Big business and small states: Unilever and Norway in the interwar years
by Pål Thonstad Sandvik & Espen Storli - 132-155 Contingent capital and bank risk-taking among British banks before the First World War
by Richard S. Grossman & Masami Imai - 156-177 The Great Deflation of 1929–33: it (almost) had to happen
by Sandeep Mazumder & John H. Wood - 178-197 Demanding ‘credible commitment’: public reactions to the failures of the early financial revolution
by Anne L. Murphy - 198-225 The English monetary economy, c. 973–1100: the contribution of single-finds
by Rory Naismith - 226-248 Credit, reputation, and masculinity in British urban commerce: Edinburgh, c. 1710–70
by K. Tawny Paul - 249-272 Domestic service, gender, and wages in rural England, c.1700–1860
by Jacob F. Field - 273-296 Matchmaking and moneymaking in a patronage society: the first duke and duchess of Chandos, c. 1712–35
by Rosemary O'Day - 297-349 Review of periodical literature published in 2011
by Rosamond Faith & James Davis & Helen Paul & Anne L. Murphy & Tom Crook & Aashish Velkar & Chris Godden - 350-350 D. Hey , L. Liddy and D. Luscombe , eds., A monastic community in local society: the Beauchief Abbey Cartulary ( Camden Society , 5th ser., vol. 40 , 2011 . Pp. viii + 304. 1 illus. 2 maps. ISBN 9781107016460 Hbk. £45/$80)
by John S. Moore - 351-352 Catherine A. M. Clarke , Mapping the medieval city: space, place and identity in Chester c. 1200–1600 ( Cardiff : University of Wales Press , 2011 . Pp. xvi + 244. 10 figs. ISBN 9780708323922 Hbk. £48)
by Stephen H. Rigby - 352-354 Nicholas R. Amor , Late medieval Ipswich: trade and industry ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2011 . Pp. xi + 300. 4 figs. 6 maps. 6 plates. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781843836735 Hbk. £50/$90) David Rollison , Commune, country and commonwealth: the people of Cirencester, 1117–1643 ( Woodbridge and Rochester, NY : Boydell Press , 2011 . Pp. xi + 283. 2 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781843836711 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Richard Britnell - 354-355 John Hare , A prospering society: Wiltshire in the later middle ages ( Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2011 . Pp. xvi + 240. 7 figs. 15 plates. 33 tabs. ISBN 9781902806853 Pbk. £35/$88)
by James Davis - 355-356 Richard W. Hoyle , ed., Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2011 . Pp. x + 317. 10 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781409400523 Hbk. £65)
by Peter Edwards - 356-358 Alan Rogers , ed., The act book of St Katherine's gild, Stamford, 1480–1534 ( Bury St Edmunds : Abramis Academic Publishing and Stamford Survey Group , 2011 . Pp. iv + 299. 2 plates. ISBN 9781845495091 Pbk. £19.95) Constance M. Fraser , ed., The court rolls of the manor of Wakefield from October 1433 to September 1436. Vol. 15 of the Wakefield court rolls series of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society ( Leeds : Yorkshire Archaeological Society , 2011 . Pp. xix + 248. 1 map. ISBN 9781903564615 Pbk. £15)
by Mark Bailey - 358-359 T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald , eds., The Oxford handbook of modern Scottish history ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xi+ 707. 13 tabs. 34 figs. ISBN 9780199563692 Hbk. £95)
by Alexander Murdoch - 359-360 Catherine Pickett , Bibliography of the East India Company: books, pamphlets and other materials printed between 1600 and 1785 ( London : British Library , 2011 . Pp. 301. ISBN 9780712658446 Hbk. £50/$75)
by Anthony Webster - 360-361 Douglas W. Allen , The institutional revolution: measurement and the economic emergence of the modern world ( Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press : 2012 . Pp xiv + 267. 2 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780226014746 Hbk. $30.00)
by Graham Brownlow - 361-362 Kathryn J. Cooper , Exodus from Cardiganshire: rural–urban migration in Victorian Britain ( Cardiff : University of Wales Press , 2011 . Pp. xvi + 249. 28 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780708323991 Pbk. £24.99)
by Colin G. Pooley - 362-364 Donnacha Seán Lucey , Land, popular politics and agrarian violence in Ireland: the case of County Kerry, 1872–86 ( Dublin : University College Press , 2011 . Pp. xii + 270. 3 illus. 2 maps. ISBN 9781906359669 Pbk. €28) Emmet O'Connor , A Labour history of Ireland 1824–2000 ( Dublin : University College Press , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 329. 13 plates. ISBN 9781906359560 Pbk. €28)
by D. A. J. Macpherson - 364-365 Ann Oakley , A critical woman: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century ( London and New York : Bloomsbury , 2011 . Pp. xix + 426. 31 plates. ISBN 9781849664684 Hbk. £30)
by Jim Tomlinson - 365-367 Robert J. Bennett , Local business voice: the history of chambers of commerce in Britain, Ireland, and revolutionary America 1760–2011 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. 936. ISBN 9780199584734 Hbk. £95)
by Pete Bounous - 367-368 Deirdre McCloskey , Bourgeois dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 . Pp. xvi + 571. ISBN 9780226556741 Pbk. £14.50)
by Michael H. Best & Jane Humphries - 368-369 Robert C. Allen , Global economic history: a very short introduction ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xv + 170. 20 illus. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780199596652 Pbk. £7.99/$11.95)
by Pat Hudson - 369-371 David Graeber , Debt: the first 5,000 years ( Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing , 2011 . Pp. 534. ISBN 9781933633862 Hbk. £55/US $32)
by Judith Spicksley - 371-372 Norbert Gaillard , A century of sovereign ratings ( New York and London : Springer , 2011 . Pp. x + 196. 25 figs. 112 tabs. ISBN 9781461405221 Hbk. £81/$119)
by Rui Pedro Esteves - 372-373 Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Richard Rodger , eds., Environmental and social justice in the city. Historical perspectives ( Cambridge : White Horse Press , 2011 . Pp. xiv + 286. 20 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781874267614 Hbk. £65.00/US$90.00/€75.00)
by R. J. Morris - 373-374 Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison , Economic origins of Roman Christianity ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 269. 1 fig. 5 tabs. ISBN 9780226200026 Hbk. £29/$45)
by Neville Morley - 374-375 James Graham-Campbell , Søren M. Sindbæk , and Gareth Williams , eds., Silver economies, monetisation and society in Scandinavia AD 800–1100 ( Aarhus : Aarhus University Press , 2011 . Pp. 380. 62 illus. ISBN 9788779345850 Hbk. £40.00)
by Rory Naismith - 375-376 Susan Rose , The wine trade in medieval Europe 1000–1500 ( London and New York : Continuum , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 197. 12 illus. 3 maps. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780826425843 Hbk. £65/$120)
by Evan Jones - 376-377 Leonor Freire , Pedro Lains , and Susana Miranda , História económica de Portugal 1143–2010 ( Lisbon : Esfera dos Livros , 2011 , Pp. 516. 10 figs. 54 tabs. ISBN 9789896263461 Pbk. €26)
by Rui Pedro Esteves - 377-379 John Tutino , Making a new world: founding capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America ( Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2011 . Pp. x + 698. 19 illus. 9 maps. ISBN 9780822349891 Pbk. £19.99; Hbk. £75)
by William Schell Jr. - 379-380 Nelly Hanna , Artisan entrepreneurs in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600–1800) ( Syracuse NY : Syracuse University Press , 2011 . Pp. ix + 244. ISBN 9780815632795 Hbk. £30.50/$34.95)
by Sevket Pamuk - 380-381 Paul A. van Dyke , Merchants of Canton and Macao: politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade ( Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2011 . Pp. xxxii + 545. 7 tabs. ISBN 9789888028917 Hbk. £69.50/$80)
by John D. Wong - 381-382 Rebecca Shumway , The Fante and the transatlantic slave trade ( Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2011 . Pp. xii + 232. 15 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781580463911 Hbk. £40/$85)
by John K. Thornton - 382-384 Jaap R. Bruijn , Commanders of Dutch East India ships in the eighteenth century ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 336. 36 illus. 2 maps. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781843836223 Hbk. £75/$130)
by Leonard Blussé - 384-385 Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter , The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850–2000 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 329. 40 figs. 1 map. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780230273665 Hbk. £67.50)
by Giorgio Riello - 385-386 Stefano Fenoaltea , The reinterpretation of Italian economic history. From unification to the Great War ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Pp. xxi + 296. 25 figs. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780521192385 Hbk. £50/$85)
by Paolo Di Martino - 386-387 James Simpson , Creating wine: the emergence of a world wine industry, 1840–1914 ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2011 . Pp. xxxvii + 318. 30 figs. 13 maps. 53 tabs. ISBN 9780691136035 Hbk. £27.95/$39.50)
by Ian M. Taplin - 388-389 Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Youssef Cassis , eds., Financial centres and international capital flows in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 269. 29 figs. 37 tabs. ISBN 9780199603503 Hbk. £60/$110)
by Geoffrey Jones - 389-390 Douglas A. Irwin , Trade policy disaster: lessons from the 1930s ( Cambridge, MA and London : MIT Press , 2012 . Pp. xv + 195. 23 figs. 4 illus. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780262016711 Hbk. £17.95/$25.00)
by Peter Fearon - 390-391 James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield , eds., John Kenneth Galbraith ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . Pp. xi + 251. ISBN 9780230242685 Hbk. £65/$100)
by Scott Newton - 391-392 Gail D. Triner , Mining and the state in Brazilian development ( London : Pickering & Chatto , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 253. 21 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781848930681 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Aldo Musacchio - 393-393 Richard Pomfret , The age of equality: the twentieth century in economic perspective ( Cambridge, MA, and London : Belknap Press of Harvard University , 2011 . Pp. xi + 283. 3 figs. 2 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780674062177 Hbk. $28.95/£21.95)
by Martin Chick
November 2012, Volume 65, Issue 4
- 1217-1238 Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914-super-1
by James Foreman-Peck & Leslie Hannah - 1239-1266 The Great Bovine Pestilence and its economic and environmental consequences in England and Wales, 1318–50
by Philip Slavin - 1267-1279 Social class and the fertility transition: a critical comment on the statistical results reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860–1940
by Geoffrey A. Barnes & Timothy W. Guinnane - 1280-1302 The biological standard of living in early nineteenth-century West Africa: new anthropometric evidence for northern Ghana and Burkina Faso
by Gareth Austin & Joerg Baten & Bas Van Leeuwen - 1303-1325 The determinants of competitive success in the interwar British radio industry
by Peter Scott - 1326-1353 The Paris financial market in the nineteenth century: complementarities and competition in microstructures
by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur & Angelo Riva - 1354-1379 Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution
by Sara Horrell & Deborah Oxley - 1380-1402 Royal finance under King Henry III, 1216–72: the wardrobe evidence
by Benjamin L. Wild - 1403-1427 International shipping and national economic growth: shipping earnings and the Greek economy in the nineteenth century
by Gelina Harlaftis & George Kostelenos - 1428-1449 The failure of ‘nationalization by attraction’: Britain's cross-class alliance against earnings-related pensions in the 1950s
by Hugh Pemberton - 1450-1474 Smoking for taxes: the triumph of fiscal policy over health in postwar West Germany, 1945–55
by Rosemary Elliot - 1475-1494 Explaining the short stature of the poor: chronic childhood disease and growth in nineteenth-century England
by Pamela Sharpe - 1495-1523 Canals, rivers, and the industrial city: Manchester's industrial waterfront, 1790–1850
by Peter Maw & Terry Wyke & Alan Kidd - 1524-1568 List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2011
by Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright - 1569-1570 Paul Cullen , Richard Jones , and David N. Parsons , Thorps in a changing landscape , Explorations in Local and Regional History ser. vol. 4, ser. eds. Nigel Goose and Christopher Dyer ( Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 224. 47 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781902806822 Pbk. £14.99/$29.95)
by Mark Gardiner - 1570-1571 C. M. Woolgar , ed., Testamentary records of the English and Welsh Episcopate 1200–1413: wills, executors' accounts and inventories, and the probate process ( Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer , 2011 . Pp. lvii + 360. ISBN 9780907239741 £25)
by Alisdair Dobie - 1571-1572 Simon Walker , ed., with supplementary material by Julian Munby, Building accounts of All Souls College Oxford 1438–1443 ( Oxford : Oxford Historical Society , new ser., vol. 42/Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010 . Pp. xxxii + 396. 3 figs. 4 plates. ISBN 9780904107234 Hbk. £35.00)
by John Langdon - 1572-1574 Christopher Dyer , Andrew Hopper , Evelyn Lord , and Nigel Tringham , eds., New directions in local history since Hoskins ( Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press , 2011 . Pp. xix + 276. 46 figs. 12 plates. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781907396120 Pbk. £16.99/$32.95)
by Kate Tiller - 1574-1575 Craig Muldrew , Food, energy and the creation of industriousness: work and material culture in agrarian England, 1550–1780 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Pp. xvii + 355. 3 figs. 68 tabs. ISBN 9780521881852 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Roderick Floud - 1575-1576 Patrick Wallis , ed., London inhabitants outside the walls 1695 ( Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer/London Record Society , 2011 . Pp. xvi + 359. 1 map. ISBN 9780900952456 Hbk. £25/$45)
by Gill Newton - 1577-1578 Rosalin Barker , The rise of an early modern shipping industry: Whitby's golden fleet, 1600–1750 ( Woodbridge : Boydell Press , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 189. 21 figs. 3 maps. 20 plates. 22 tabs. ISBN 9781843836315 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Helen Doe - 1578-1579 Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay , eds., The empire of credit: the financial revolution in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688–1815 ( Portland, OR, and Dublin : Irish Academic Press , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 302. 5 tabs. ISBN 9780716534150 Hbk. £45/$74.95/€49.50)
by Helen Julia Paul - 1579-1580 Michael Brown , Performing medicine: medical culture and identity in provincial England, c. 1760–1850 ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2011 . Pp. 272. 3 figs. ISBN 9780719077975 Hbk. £60)
by Jonathan Reinarz - 1581-1582 E. A. Wrigley , The early English censuses ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xviii + 322. 5 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9780197264799 Hbk. £55/$99)
by Edward Higgs - 1582-1583 James E. Thomas , Social disorder in Britain, 1750–1850: the power of the gentry, radicalism and religion in Wales ( London and New York : I. B. Tauris , 2011 . Pp. ix + 266. ISBN 9781848855038 Hbk. £59.50/$99)
by Chris Williams - 1583-1584 Leonore Davidoff , Thicker than water: siblings and their relations, 1780–1920 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xiii + 449 4 illus. 6 charts. ISBN 9780199546480 Hbk. £35)
by Ellen Filor - 1584-1586 Edward Higgs , Identifying the English: a history of personal identification 1500 to the present ( London and New York : Continuum Books , 2011 . Pp. vii + 286. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781441182036 Hbk. £25/$44.95)
by Tom Crook - 1586-1587 Oded Galor , Unified growth theory ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 . Pp. xvii + 325. 74 illus. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780691130026 Hbk. £41.95/$59.50)
by Peter Foldvari & Bas van Leeuwen - 1588-1589 Nicholas Orme , The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Cornwall , vol. II: Religious history to 1560 ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2010 . Pp. xvi + 335. 63 figs. ISBN 9781904356127 Hbk. £90/$180) A. R. J. Juřica , The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Gloucester , vol. XII: Newent and May Hill ( Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2010 . Pp. xx + 369. 78 figs. 18 maps. ISBN 9781904356363 Hbk. £90/$180)
by Jon Stobart - 1590-1591 C. A. Bayly , Vijayendra Rao , Simon Szreter , and Michael Woolcock , eds., History, historians and development policy: a necessary dialogue ( Manchester University Press , 2011 . Pp. xii + 276. 4 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780719085765 Pbk. £15.19)
by James Fenske - 1591-1592 David Stasavage , States of credit: size, power and the development of European politics ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 . Pp. xi + 192. 9 figs. 1 map. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780691140575 Hbk. £27.95/$39.95)
by Eric Chaney - 1592-1594 Janken Myrdal and Mats Morell , eds., The agrarian history of Sweden: from 4000 BC to AD 2000 ( Lund : Nordic Academic Press , 2011 . Pp. 336. 37 figs. 17 tabs. 1 map. ISBN 9789185509560 Hbk. £34.95/$56) Hans Antonson and Ulf Jansson , eds., Agriculture and forestry in Sweden since 1900: geographical and historical studies , transl. Roger Tanner and Charlotte Merton ( Stockholm : Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry , 2011 . Pp. 542. 203 figs. 10 illus. 13 tabs. ISBN 9789186573119 Hbk. £45/$70)
by Rodney Edvinsson - 1594-1595 Philip Beale , Adrian Almond , and Mike Scott Archer , The Corsini letters ( Stroud : Amberley Publishing , 2011 . Pp. 224. 128 illus. ISBN 9781445600857 Hbk. £40/$64.95)
by Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli - 1595-1596 Karl Ittmann , Dennis D. Cordell , and Gregory H. Maddox , The demographics of empire: the colonial order and the creation of knowledge ( Athens, OH : Ohio University Press , 2010 . Pp. ix + 292. 4 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780821419335 Pbk. £25.95/$28.95)
by James Hevia - 1597-1598 Tracy Dennison , The institutional framework of Russian serfdom ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Pp. xix + 254. 1 fig. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780521194488 Hbk. £60/$99)
by Stefan Nafziger - 1598-1599 Ayşe Çelikkol , Romances of free trade: British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. x + 189. ISBN 9780199769001 Hbk. £45/$74)
by Timothy Alborn - 1600-1601 Debin Ma and Jan Luiten van Zanden , Law and long-term economic change: a Eurasian perspective ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xiv + 358. 7 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780804772760 Hbk. £56.50/$65) Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr , eds., The birth of modern Europe: culture and economy, 1400–1800: essays in honour of Jan de Vries ( Leiden : Brill , 2011 . Pp. xvi + 254. 13 figs. 5 maps. 38 tabs. ISBN 9789004189348 Hbk. £125/€99$141)
by Giovanni Federico - 1601-1603 Zhongping Chen , Modern China's network revolution: chambers of commerce and sociopolitical change in the early twentieth century ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xxi + 289. 1 map. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780804774093 Hbk. £47.95/$55)
by Georgia Abigail Mickey - 1603-1604 Donald Harman Akenson , Ireland, Sweden and the great European migration, 1815–1914 ( Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2011 . Pp. viii + 293. 8 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781846316616 Hbk. £65)
by David Fitzpatrick - 1604-1605 Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta , Forms of enterprise in 20th century Italy: boundaries, structures and strategies ( Cheltenham and Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar , 2011 . Pp. xii + 327. 29 figs. 63 tabs. ISBN 9781847203830 Hbk. £75/$145)
by Paolo di Martino - 1605-1607 Farley Grubb , German immigration and servitude in America, 1709–1920 ( London and New York : Routledge , 2011 . Pp. xxvi + 433. 28 figs. 70 tabs. ISBN 9780415610612 Hbk. £110/$180)
by Mark Häberlein - 1607-1608 Fernando Collantes and Vicente Pinilla , Peaceful surrender: the depopulation of rural Spain in the twentieth century ( Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2011 . Pp. xiii + 202. 9 figs. 6 maps. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781443828383 Hbk. £39.99/$59.99)
by Susana Martinez-Rodriguez