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August 2023, Volume 76, Issue 3
- 701-727 Updated estimates of UK GDP from the income side, 1841–1920
by Solomos Solomou & Ryland Thomas - 728-758 Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)
by Michail Raftakis - 759-782 Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century
by Rosa Congost & Ricard Garcia‐Orallo & Enric Saguer - 783-806 Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia
by Timur Natkhov & Natalia Vasilenok - 807-826 The great margin call: The role of leverage in the 1929 Wall Street crash
by Karol Jan Borowiecki & Michał Dzieliński & Alexander Tepper - 827-843 British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 1902
by Brian D. Varian - 844-870 Measuring inflation expectations in interwar Britain
by Jason Lennard & Finn Meinecke & Solomos Solomou - 871-891 Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–83
by Leonor Freire Costa & Susana Münch Miranda - 892-916 Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth‐century Netherlands
by Oscar Gelderblom & Joost Jonker & Ruben Peeters & Amaury de Vicq - 917-940 The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600–1850)
by Cédric Chambru & Paul Maneuvrier‐Hervieu - 941-978 What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia
by Ewout Frankema & Marlous van Waijenburg - 979-981 Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the course of human history By Kyle Harper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.00
by Eric B. Schneider - 982-984 Poverty and wealth in East Africa: A conceptual history By Rhiannon Stephens, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. pp. 312. 9 figs. ISBN 9781478018827. Pbk $27.95
by Rebecca Simson - 985-986 Railways’ Economic Impact on Uttar Pradesh and Colonial North India (1860–1914): The Iron Raj By Ian D. Derbyshire, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. pp. 615. ISBN 9781527586901. Hbk £79.99
by Latika Chaudhary - 987-988 The Economic weapon: The rise of sanctions as a tool of modern war By Nicholas Mulder, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. pp. xiv + 434 pages. ISBN 9780300259360 Hbk £25.00
by Mark Harrison - 989-990 The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume II By Richard von Glahn and Debin Ma (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 864. 29 figs. ISBN 9781108348485. Hbk £120
by Melanie Meng Xue - 991-992 Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the present By Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 330. ISBN 9781108708586. Pbk £22.99
by Daniel Gallardo‐Albarrán - 993-994 The Spanish fiscal transition: Tax reform and inequality in the late twentieth century By Sara Torregrosa Hetland, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 238. 29 figs. 18 tables. ISBN 9783030795405. Hbk £89.99
by Xabier García‐Fuente
May 2023, Volume 76, Issue 2
- 391-412 Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 2022
by Harold James - 413-414 Introduction to the symposium on banking and currency
by John D. Turner - 415-444 Sterling's farewell symphony: The end of the Sterling Area revisited
by Alan de Bromhead & David Jordan & Francis Kennedy & Jack Seddon - 445-476 ‘Los von London’: A comparative, empirical analysis of German and British global foreign banking and trade development, 1881–1913
by Wilfried Kisling - 477-497 One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 1983
by Asa Malmstrom Rognes & Catherine R. Schenk - 498-524 Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
by Emiliano Travieso - 525-550 The settlers’ fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic
by Johan Fourie & Frank Garmon - 551-574 Consumer revolution in north‐western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto‐industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
by Henning Bovenkerk & Christine Fertig - 575-598 Assessing female accountability in the long eighteenth century through debt imprisonment
by Alexander Wakelam - 599-623 Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution
by Ravshonbek Otojanov & Roger Fouquet & Brigitte Granville - 624-660 New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–1909
by Toke S. Aidt & Romola J. Davenport & Felix Gray - 661-692 Individual investors and social ownership structures in the UK before the 1930s: Joint holdings and trustee investment
by Janette Rutterford & Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos & Carry van Lieshout - 693-694 The Blacketts: A northern dynasty's rise, crisis and redemption By Greg Finch, Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne Bridge Publishing. 2021. pp. viii + 367. 28 plates. ISBN Hbk. 9781838280956 Pbk. 9781838280994 Hbk. £20 Pbk. £14.99
by Andy Burn - 694-695 Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance By Didac Queralt, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. p. 368. 43 figs. 19 tables. ISBN 9780691231525. Hbk
by Tehreem Husain - 696-697 British imperialism and globalization, c. 1650–1960 Joseph E. Inikori (ed.), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022. p. 325. ISBN 9781783276462. Hbk £70.00
by Bronwen Everill
February 2023, Volume 76, Issue 1
- 3-30 The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 1934
by Ali Kabiri & Harold James & John Landon‐Lane & David Tuckett & Rickard Nyman - 31-59 The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya
by Mattia C. Bertazzini - 60-86 Demographic trends in late‐slavery Jamaica, 1817–32
by J. R. Ward - 87-117 Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
by Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar - 118-144 Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–1604
by Charles Udale - 145-168 Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’
by Jakob Molinder & Christopher Pihl - 169-198 Industrialisation in a small grain economy during the First Globalisation: Bulgaria c. 1870–1910
by Martin Ivanov & Michael Kopsidis - 199-220 Serbia on the path to modern economic growth
by Boško Mijatović & Milan Zavadjil - 221-256 Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–1850
by Wouter Ryckbosch & Wout Saelens - 257-282 Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society
by Jeanne Cilliers & Erik Green & Robert Ross - 283-304 An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–1913
by Seán Kenny & Jason Lennard & Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke - 305-329 Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844
by Patrick K. O'Brien & Nuno Palma - 330-331 Youssef Cassis and Catherine R. Schenk (eds.), Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. pp. xiii +213. 7 figs. ISBN 9780198870906. Hbk £65.00
by Rui Esteves - 331-332 John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Steven Toms, Anna Tilba, Emily Buchnea, and Nicholas Wong, Business History: A Research Overview. London & New York: Routledge, 2022. pp. ix+ 137. ISBN 9781138326989 £35.99
by Leslie Hannah - 333-335 Jeppe Mulich, In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. pp. xxii+204. ISBN 9781108489720. Hbk £75.00Tessa Murphy, The Creole Archipelago. Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. 352. 16 figs. ISBN 9780812253382. Hbk £36.00
by Aaron Graham - 335-336 Robin Fleming, The Material Fall of Roman Britain 300–525 CE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. xii + 303. 22 figs. ISBN 978‐0‐8122‐5244‐6. $45/£37
by Rory Naismith - 337-342 Review of periodical literature for 2021: (i) 400–1100
by Máirín MacCarron - 342-353 Review of periodical literature for 2021: (ii) 1100–1500
by Spike Gibbs - 353-361 Review of periodical literature for 2021: (iii) 1500–1700
by Charmian Mansell - 361-367 Review of periodical literature for 2021: (iv) 1700–1850
by Karolina Hutková - 367-378 Review of periodical literature for 2021: (v) 1850–1945
by Brian D. Varian - 378-387 Review of periodical literature for 2021: (vi) Post 1945
by Ewan Gibbs
November 2022, Volume 75, Issue 4
- 995-996 Introduction to the symposium on demographic shocks
by Giovanni Federico - 997-1025 Short‐ and medium‐run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil
by Amanda Guimbeau & Nidhiya Menon & Aldo Musacchio - 1026-1053 Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy
by Richard Franke - 1054-1082 Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
by Kota Ogasawara - 1083-1119 Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83
by Marc Flandreau & Geoffroy Legentilhomme - 1120-1150 Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666
by D'Maris Coffman & Judy Z. Stephenson & Nathan Sussman - 1151-1181 Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth‐century city
by Richard Rodger - 1182-1213 Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages
by Matt Raven - 1214-1241 Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements: Evidence from New Zealand's Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act of 1903
by Brian D. Varian - 1242-1269 New evidence on wine in French international trade (1848–1913): Import discrimination as export quality promotion
by Stéphane Becuwe & Bertrand Blancheton & Samuel Maveyraud - 1270-1313 A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub‐sector pattern, and region
by Cheng Yang - 1314-1348 Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)
by Guido Alfani & Hector García Montero - 1349-1378 Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861
by David Chilosi & Carlo Ciccarelli - 1379-1380 Mark Koyama & Jared Rubin, How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022. pp. 240. ISBN 9781509540235. Pbk £17.99
by Johan Fourie - 1381-1382 David Cox (ed.), Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40. Worcester: Worcester Archive and Archaeology Service, 2021. pp. 229. ISSN 01414577
by Nick Peyton - 1382-1383 Erin Woodruff Stone, Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. 235. 3 maps. 3 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780812253108. Hbk $49.95
by Trevor Burnard - 1384-1385 William D. Adler, Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development 1787–1860. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp 232. 5 figs, 4 maps, 11 tabs. ISBN Hbk. 9780812253481 Hbk. $75 eBook. $75)
by Carl Kitchens - 1385-1386 Stana Nenadic, Craftworkers in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. pp. 1–256. 14 figs. ISBN 9781474490307. Hbk £85
by Anthony Lewis - 1387-1388 Tirthankar Roy, Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate. London: The MIT Press, 2022. pp. 230. ISBN 9780262543583. Pbk $30.00
by James Fenske - 1388-1390 Morten Jerven, The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 198. ISBN 9781108341080. Pbk £19.99
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura - 1390-1391 Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. pp. 272. 14 tables. 4 figs. ISBN 9780226799001. Hbk $45.00
by Maanik Nath
August 2022, Volume 75, Issue 3
- 643-666 Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have?
by Bas van Bavel - 667-702 The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016
by Neil Cummins - 703-738 Human capital transfer of German‐speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s
by Matthias Blum & Karl‐Peter Krauss & Dmytro Myeshkov - 739-778 Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth‐century Lyon
by Nadia Matringe - 779-800 Peer pressure: The puzzle of aristocrats’ tax compliance in early nineteenth‐century Moscow
by Elena Korchmina - 801-829 Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia
by Marina Chuchko - 830-856 Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census
by Leslie Hannah & Robert Bennett - 857-880 Wiring China: The impact of telegraph construction on grain market integration in late imperial China, 1870–1911
by Yu Hao & Yuanzhe Li & John V. C. Nye - 881-902 Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: The case of Cambridgeshire
by Mingjie Xu - 903-931 Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland
by Eoin McLaughlin & Rowena Pecchenino - 932-959 English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
by Liam Brunt & Edmund Cannon - 960-971 Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations
by Joerg Baten & Giacomo Benati & Sarah Ferber - 972-980 Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber
by Brian A'Hearn & Alexia Delfino & Alessandro Nuvolari - 981-982 Steven Press, Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. v+336. 10 photos. 3 maps. Hbk. ISBN 9780674916494 Hbk. £28.95
by Thaddeus Sunseri - 982-984 Mircea Raianu, Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism Boston Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 291. Hardcover £31.95. ISBN 9780674984516
by Tirthankar Roy - 984-985 Andy Cook, The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK: Britain's Other D‐Day Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Pp. 225. ISBN: 9781527576964
by Duncan Needham - 986-988 Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. Hbk. 9780691182155 Hbk. £25.00/$29.95
by Julia G Young - 988-989 Dael A. Norwood, Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 270. 9 figs. ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐81558‐9 Hbk. $45.00
by Peter A. Coclanis - 989-991 Jan Lucassen, The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii+524, 27 plates. 6 maps. 3 figs. ISBN Hbk. 978‐0‐300‐25679‐6 Hbk £25.00
by Alka Raman - 991-992 David Freeman, A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+226. ISBN 9781108417495 Ebk. 9781108281164 Hbk. £75 Ebk. $80
by Joris van den Tol
May 2022, Volume 75, Issue 2
- 297-335 History as heresy: Unlearning the lessons of economic orthodoxy
by Mary A. O'Sullivan - 336-370 The Irish economy during the century after partition
by Cormac Ó Gráda & Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke - 371-373 Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India
by Tirthankar Roy - 374-395 Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective
by Klas Rönnbäck & Dimitrios Theodoridis - 396-420 Credit risk in colonial India
by Maanik Nath - 421-446 Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers
by Neha Hui & Uma S. Kambhampati - 447-474 Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
by Alka Raman - 475-502 Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967
by Martin Dribe & Omar Karlsson - 503-529 Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s
by Miikka Voutilainen - 530-560 Beyond the male breadwinner: Life‐cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–1850
by Sara Horrell & Jane Humphries & Jacob Weisdorf - 561-578 Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade?
by Federico Tadei - 579-600 The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 1866
by Sabine Schneider - 601-632 Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction
by Carolyn Sissoko - 633-634 Johan Fourie, Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom. Lessons from 100 000 Years of History Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021. pp. 255. ISBN 9780624091615
by Felix Meier zu Selhausen - 634-635 William Quinn and John D. Turner, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. pp. viii+288. 25 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN Hbk. 9781108421256
by Jason Lennard - 636-638 Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode, Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2019. pp. vii+381. 131 tabs. 10 figs. Hbk. ISBN 9780226633114 Hbk. $65.00
by Stephen Broadberry - 638-640 Claudia Goldin Career and Family: Women's Century‐Long Journey toward Equity Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 344. ISBN 9780691201788 Hbk £22.00
by Jane Humphries
February 2022, Volume 75, Issue 1
- 3-21 The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes
by Lawrence H. White - 22-55 After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780–1835
by Peter Maw & Peter Solar & Aidan Kane & John S. Lyons - 56-79 Making the municipal capital market in nineteenth‐century England
by Ian Webster - 80-110 How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?
by Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Hector Rufrancos - 111-137 Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy
by Brian A'Hearn & Alexia Delfino & Alessandro Nuvolari - 138-156 Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe
by Paul Slack - 157-180 Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750†
by Erik Bengtsson & Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson - 181-202 Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019
by Ola Honningdal Grytten - 203-234 Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden†
by Lars Fredrik Andersson & Liselotte Eriksson & Paul Nystedt - 235-240 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–1100
by Jane Kershaw - 240-249 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (ii) 1100–1500
by Spike Gibbs - 249-255 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iii) 1500–1700
by Charmian Mansell - 256-263 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iv) 1700–1850
by Karolina Hutková - 263-275 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (v) 1850–1945
by Brian D. Varian - 275-287 Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 1945
by Ewan Gibbs - 288-289 Ben Marsh, Unravelled dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World 1500–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+500. ISBN 9781108418287 Hbk. £29.99)
by Manuela Martini - 289-290 Henning Hillmann, The corsairs of Saint‐Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Régime (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xii+322. 35 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9780231180382 Hbk. £108; ISBN 9780231180399 Pbk. £28)
by Pierre Gervais - 290-291 W. G. Miller, British traders in the East Indies 1770–1820 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Pp. i+222. ISBN 9781783275533 Hbk. £75.00)
by Michael Aldous - 292-293 Rebecca Earle, Feeding the people: The politics of the potato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, Pp. xiv+306. 24 figs. ISBN 9781108484060 Hbk. £17.99)
by Vicente Pinilla - 293-294 Stephen L. Morgan, The Chinese economy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021. Pp. xvii+316. 35 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781788210805 Hbk. £60.00; ISBN 9781788210812 Pbk. £16.99)
by Meng Wu
November 2021, Volume 74, Issue 4
- 871-872 Introduction to the symposium on money
by John D. Turner - 873-891 ‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century
by Jim Bolton & Francesco Guidi‐Bruscoli - 892-921 The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization
by Olivier Accominotti & Delio Lucena‐Piquero & Stefano Ugolini - 922-945 Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes
by James L. Butkiewicz & Scott Ohlmacher - 946-975 Augmented human development in the age of globalization
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura - 976-1005 Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−14
by Tetsuji Okazaki - 1006-1030 Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12
by Peter Anderson - 1031-1061 Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556
by Mattia Fochesato - 1062-1086 Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3
by Juan Flores Zendejas - 1087-1095 Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport
by Simon Szreter & Graham Mooney - 1096-1110 Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney
by Romola J. Davenport - 1111-1112 Susan Kilby, Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: A study of three communities (Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. Pp. 256. ISBN 978‐10912260‐21‐8 Pbk. £18.99)
by Philip Slavin - 1112-1113 John C. Appleby, Fur, fashion and transatlantic trade during the seventeenth century: Chesapeake Bay Native hunters, colonial rivalries and London merchants (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. x+294. 2 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783275793 Hbk. £75.00)
by Frank J. Tough - 1113-1115 Jin Xu, Empire of silver: A new monetary history of China, translated by Stacy Mosher (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 374. ISBN 978030025004‐6 Hbk. $30.00)
by Richard Von Glahn - 1115-1116 B. Zorina Khan, Inventing ideas. Patents, prizes and the knowledge economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+462. 46 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9780190936075 Hbk. £64; ISBN 9780190936082 Pbk. £19.99)
by Alessandro Nuvolari - 1116-1117 Selina Todd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)
by Santiago Pérez - 1117-1119 Victoria Bateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95)
by Jane Humphries - 1119-1120 Charlie Whitham, Corporate conservatives go to war: How the National Association of Manufacturers planned to restore free enterprise, 1939–1948 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi+400. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐43907‐1 Hbk. €103.99; ISBN 978‐3‐030‐43910‐1 Pbk. €72.79)
by Taylor Jaworski - 1120-1122 Mitsuhiko Kimura, The economics of colonialism in Korea: Rethinking Japanese rule and aftermath (Tokyo: Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2021. Pp. 233. 1 fig. 38 tabs. ISBN 9784866581248 Hbk. ¥2,500)
by Myung Soo Cha - 1122-1123 Harold James, Making a modern central bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. i+525. ISBN 9781108799492 Pbk. £29.99)
by David Chambers
August 2021, Volume 74, Issue 3
- 581-583 Introduction to the symposium on inequality
by Giovanni Federico - 584-610 Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico
by Ingrid Bleynat & Amílcar E. Challú & Paul Segal - 611-638 Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800
by Alexandra de Pleijt & Jan Luiten van Zanden - 639-665 The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population
by Peter Scott - 666-690 Historical social stratification and mobility in Costa Rica, 1840–2006
by Daniel Diaz Vidal - 691-720 Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)†
by Mario García‐Zúñiga & Ernesto LóPEZ LOSA - 721-753 Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948
by Javier D. Donna & José‐Antonio Espín‐Sánchez - 754-783 Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset
by Gabriele Cappelli & Gloria Quiroga Valle - 784-808 Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism
by Nuala Zahedieh - 809-830 War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913
by Lars Karlsson & Peter Hedberg - 831-855 Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–39†
by Grant Fleming & Zhangxin (Frank) Liu & David Merrett & Simon Ville - 856-857 Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor, and Sarah Carmichael, Capital women: the European Marriage Pattern, female empowerment, and economic development in western Europe, 1300–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+278. 27 figs. 41 tabs. ISBN 9780190847883 Hbk. £47.99)
by Kathryn E. Gary - 857-858 John Henderson, Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+363. 39 plates. 4 maps. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780300196344 Hbk. £30.00)
by Patrick Wallis - 859-860 A. G. Hopkins, An economic history of West Africa (London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. v+399. 17 maps. 6 figs. ISBN 978036700243 Hbk. £120.00)
by Jutta Bolt - 860-861 Michael Schiltz, Accounting for the fall of silver: hedging currency risk in long‐distance trade with Asia, 1870–1913 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v+224. 48 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198865025 Hbk. $85.00)
by Juan Flores Zendejas - 862-863 Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis, and Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the modern world: the moral economy of famine relief (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+310. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781108493529 Hbk. £75.00)
by Charles Read - 863-864 Bas van Leeuwen, Robert C. M. Philips, and Erik Buyst, eds., An economic history of regional industrialization (London: Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 2021. Pp. v+300. 60 illus. ISBN 9780367197520 Hbk. £120.00)
by Kerstin Enflo - 864-865 Christy Thornton, Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economy (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. v+302. ISBN 9780520297166 Pbk. £25.00)
by David Escamilla‐Guerrero - 865-867 Gregg Huff, World War II and Southeast Asia: economy and society under Japanese occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+524. ISBN 9781107099333 Hbk. £90.00)
by Anne Booth
May 2021, Volume 74, Issue 2
- 309-338 Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution
by Nicholas Crafts - 339-340 Symposium
by Patrick Wallis - 341-371 The growth pattern of British children, 1850–1975
by Pei Gao & Eric B. Schneider - 372-399 The pox in Boswell's London: an estimate of the extent of syphilis infection in the metropolis in the 1770s
by Simon Szreter & Kevin Siena - 400-423 Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona
by Gregori Galofré‐Vilà & Bernard Harris - 424-448 The real urban wage in an agricultural economy without landless farmers: Serbia, 1862–1910
by Boško Mijatović & Branko Milanović - 449-470 Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas
by Mauro Rota & Jacob Weisdorf - 471-495 Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922
by Graeme G. Acheson & Gareth Campbell & Áine Gallagher & John D. Turner - 496-521 Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900
by Shima Amini & Steven Toms - 522-545 Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60
by Thales Zamberlan Pereira - 546-567 Paesani versus paisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration
by Leticia Arroyo Abad & Noel Maurer & Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso - 568-569 Jane Kershaw and Gareth Williams, eds., Silver, butter, cloth: monetary and social economies in the Viking Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. v+306. 69 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198827986 Hbk. £75.00)
by Alex Woolf - 569-570 Bronwen Everill, Not made by slaves: ethical capitalism in the age of abolition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 318. ISBN 9780674240988 Hbk. $39.95/£31.95)
by Frank Trentmann - 570-571 Kathleen Monteith, Plantation coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. Pp. xv+250. ISBN 9789766407261 Pbk. $60.00)
by Aaron Graham - 571-573 Xavier Lafrance, The making of capitalism in France: class structures, economic development, the state and the formation of the French working class, 1750–1914 (Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐27632‐1 Hbk. €118)
by Oisín Gilmore - 573-574 Aaron G. Jakes, Egypt's occupation: colonial economism and the crises of capitalism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+352. 1 tab. ISBN 9781503607194 Hbk. $90.00; ISBN 9781503612617 Pbk. $30.00)
by Klas Rönnbäck - 574-575 Craig VanGrasstek, Trade and American leadership: the paradoxes of power and wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxviii+475. 20 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781108476959 Hbk. £30.99)
by Jeremy Land - 576-577 David Mitch and Gabriele Cappelli, eds., Globalization and the rise of mass education (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xx+338. 40 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783030254179 e‐Book. £79.50; ISBN 9783030254162 Hbk. £99.99; ISBN 9783030254193 Pbk. £69.99)
by Tomáš Cvrček
February 2021, Volume 74, Issue 1
- 3-5 Introduction
by Giovanni Federico - 6-33 House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne
by Gürer Karagedikli & Ali Coşkun Tunçer - 34-59 Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c. 1850s–1940s
by Amos Nadan - 60-86 Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit
by Laura Panza & Ulaş Karakoç - 87-114 Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail
by Dan Bogart & Oliver Dunn & Eduard J. Alvarez‐Palau & Leigh Shaw‐Taylor - 115-137 Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831
by Stefania Galli & Klas Rönnbäck - 138-163 Land, ladies, and the law: a case study on women's land rights and welfare in Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century
by Thanyaporn Chankrajang & Jessica Vechbanyongratana - 164-180 Baumol, Engel, and beyond: accounting for a century of structural transformation in Japan, 1885–1985
by Kyoji Fukao & Saumik Paul - 181-203 The Polish interbella puzzle: the biological standard of living in the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39 †
by Michał Kopczyński & Mateusz Rodak