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May 2025, Volume 78, Issue 2
- 401-423 Back to the future: How economic history can gain more relevance by abandoning modernization thinking
by Bas van Bavel - 424-451 Breaking free? The evolution of intra‐Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795–1839)
by Alejandro Ayuso‐Diaz - 452-473 Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853–1913
by Timothy J. Hatton - 474-498 Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–1940
by Federico Tadei & Nektarios Aslanidis & Oscar Martinez - 499-528 The emergence of double entry bookkeeping
by Alan Sangster - 529-552 The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–1400
by Mark Bailey - 553-582 The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–1830
by Louis Henderson - 583-612 UK fiscal policy and external balance under Bretton Woods: Twin deficits or distant relatives?
by Joshua J. Banerjee - 613-645 Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–1860
by Jane Humphries - 646-672 From the little divergence to the little divide: Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540‒1850)
by Tancredi Buscemi - 673-674 The Material Culture of English Rural Households C. 1250–1600. Ben Jervis, Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski, and Matthew Tompkins, (Cardiff University Press, 2023. Pp. 520. 56 figs, 68 tabs. ISBN 9781911653448. Hbk £64.99)
by Luis Almenar Fernández - 675-676 Clothiers and Merchants in Spanish Cloth, 1627–1665: The Ashe Family of Somerset, Wiltshire, and London, and their Account Books. John Gaisford ed., (Somerset Record Society, 2023. Pp. Xvi + 531. ISBN 9780901732514. £48)
by N. B. Harte - 677-678 Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. Bogdan Popescu, (Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. 40 figs, 29 tabs. ISBN 9781009365161. Hbk £85)
by Tomas Cvrcek - 679-680 The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed With Paper Money. Farley Grubb, (The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 296. 29 figs, 27 tables. ISBN 9780226826035. Hbk $65)
by Sharon Ann Murphy - 681-682 Systems of Deceit: Financial Fraud and Scandal in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010. Steven Toms, (World Scientific, 2024. Pp. 320. 46 figs, 7 tabs. ISBN 9789811281006. Hbk £120)
by Sarah Wilson - 683-684 The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939. David W. Gutzke, (Routledge, 2024. Pp. 270. 13 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 9781032589800. HbK £135)
by Julie Bower - 685-686 Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View From the Stock Exchange. Mariusz Lukasiewicz, (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024. Pp. 242. 11 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9783031519468. Hbk £109.99)
by Lloyd Maphosa - 687-688 How did Britain Come to This? A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance. Gwyn Bevan, (LSE Press, 2023. Pp. 326. 56 figs. ISBN 9781911712107. Pbk £26)
by Peter Scott - 689-690 Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy. Tim Lankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99)
by Jim Tomlinson
February 2025, Volume 78, Issue 1
- 3-29 Three centuries of corporate governance in the United Kingdom
by John D. Turner - 30-61 Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–74
by Sam Jones & Peter Gibbon - 62-86 Firm survival and the rise of the factory
by Thor Berger & Vinzent Ostermeyer - 87-112 How not to measure the standard of living: Male wages, non‐market production and household income in nineteenth‐century Europe
by Joyce Burnette - 113-151 Modifying the success story of Sweden: Revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869–1950
by Jesper Hamark & Svante Prado - 152-178 Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis
by Stein Berre & Paul Kosmetatos - 179-206 Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
by Meredith M. Paker & Judy Z. Stephenson & Patrick Wallis - 207-234 Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late‐developing economy: Serbia, 1863–1910
by Stefan Nikolić - 235-265 Finance capitalism in industrializing autocracies: Evidence from corporate balance sheets in imperial Germany and Russia
by Caroline Fohlin & Amanda Gregg - 266-294 It's not about the money: New evidence on U.S. reconstruction aid in Italy, 1947–68
by Marco Martinez - 295-332 African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?
by Edward Kerby & Alexander Moradi & Hanjo Odendaal - 333-334 Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Angus J. L. Winchester, (Boydell & Brewer, 2024. Pp. 330. 46 B/W illustrations, 19 maps. ISBN 9781837651320, Pbk £25.99)
by Tine De Moor - 335-336 Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice. Eds Anna Bellavitis and Valentina Sapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125)
by Patrick Wallis - 337-338 Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol‐West India Sugar Trade, 1783–1802. Peter Buckles, (Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 232. 17 fig 3. ISBN 981802078831, Hbk. £95)
by Emily Buchnea - 339-340 Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, (Polity Press, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781509552689, Hbk £25)
by Cameron Bowman - 341-342 Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo‐German Business Relations. Christina Lubinski, (Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781316511282. Hbk. £75)
by Marie Huber - 343-344 Understanding the Private‐Public Divide: Markets, Governments and Time Horizons. Avner Offer, (Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 200. 18 figures, 4 tables. ISBN 9781108791663, Pbk. £23.99)
by John Turner - 345-351 Review of periodical literature for 2023: (i) 400–1100
by Máirín MacCarron - 352-360 Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–1500
by Stephanie Emma Brown - 361-370 Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iii) 1500–1700
by Charmian Mansell - 371-377 Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iv) 1700–1850
by Karolina Hutková - 378-386 Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850–1945
by Tehreem Husain - 387-397 Review of periodical literature for 2023: (vi) 1945 to present
by Meredith M. Paker
November 2024, Volume 77, Issue 4
- 1125-1153 Putting women back into the early modern economy: Work, occupations, and economic development
by Jane Whittle - 1154-1196 The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East
by Robert C. Allen - 1197-1221 The 1929 crash of the New York stock exchange as a liquidity crisis
by Jean‐Laurent Cadorel - 1222-1250 The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
by Hanhui Guan & Nuno Palma & Meng Wu - 1251-1281 Gender and justice: The status of women in Ottoman courts
by Metin M. Coşgel & Hamdi Genç & Emre Özer & Sadullah Yıldırım - 1282-1313 Neo‐Confucianism and the rise of science and technology in Medieval China
by Baomin Dong & Bowen Cheng - 1314-1335 What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911–52
by Emiliano Travieso & Tom Westland - 1336-1361 Swedish income inequality in 1613
by Martin Andersson & Jakob Molinder - 1362-1413 Art in times of crisis
by Géraldine David & Yuexin Li & Kim Oosterlinck & Luc Renneboog - 1414-1441 Bonds for the long run? The rate of return on corporate bonds in Belgium, 1838–1939
by Kevin Van Mencxel & Jan Annaert & Marc Deloof - 1442-1476 Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy
by Marco Molteni - 1477-1508 Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi‐occupied Netherlands
by Philip T. Fliers & Abe de Jong & Bert S. van Stiphout‐Kramer - 1509-1534 The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective
by Dan Bogart & Latika Chaudhary & Alfonso Herranz‐Loncán - 1535-1536 Peasants making history: Living in an English region 1200–1540 Christopher Dyer, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. 396. 55 figs and tabs. ISBN: 9780198847212, Hbk. £81)
by Jordan Claridge - 1537-1538 Virtue capitalists: The rise and fall of the professional class in the Anglophone world, 1870–2008 Hannah Forsyth, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 317. 12 figs. ISBN: 9781009206488, Hbk $110)
by Claire E. F. Wright - 1539-1540 Silas Burroughs, the man who made Wellcome: American ambition and global enterprise. Julia Sheppard, (Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2022, pp. 344. 35 images. ISBN: 9780718895990, Pbk. £20)
by Roy Church - 1541-1543 Carbon technocracy: Energy regimes in modern East Asia. Victor Seow, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. pp. 376. 25 figs. ISBN: 9780226826554. Pbk. $27.50)
by Hiroki Shin - 1544-1546 Secret leviathan: Secrecy and state capacity under Soviet Communism. Mark Harrison, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. pp. 372. 9 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN: 9781503628892 $65)
by Yoram Gorlizki - 1547-1548 20th century Britain: Economic, cultural and social change, third edition. Nicole Robertson, John Singleton, and Avram Taylor (eds.), (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. pp. 402. 70B/W illustrations ISBN 9780367426569, Pbk. £33.99)
by Ewan Gibbs - 1549-1550 Cellular: An economic and business history of the international mobile‐phone industry. Daniel D. Garcia‐Swartz and Martin Campbell‐Kelly, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. pp. 400. 75 figs. ISBN 9780262543927, Pbk $45)
by Bernardo Bátiz‐Lazo
August 2024, Volume 77, Issue 3
- 765-795 From circular to permanent: The economic assimilation of migrants during Spain's rural exodus, 1955–73
by José Antonio García‐Barrero - 796-822 Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development
by Matthew Lowenstein - 823-848 Was there a ‘consumer revolution’ in the Ottoman Empire?
by Pınar Ceylan - 849-872 Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders
by Stef Espeel - 873-894 The making of paper money in early modern Japan
by John D'Amico - 895-927 The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth‐century Egypt
by Cihan Artunç & Mohamed Saleh - 928-952 ‘A new way by her invented’: Women inventors and technological innovation in Britain, 1800–1930
by B. Zorina Khan - 953-974 Aesthetics for a polite society: Language and the marketing of second‐hand goods in eighteenth‐century London
by Bruno Blondé & Alessandra de Mulder & Jon Stobart - 975-1004 Income inequality and export‐oriented commercialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries
by Ellen Hillbom & Jutta Bolt & Michiel de Haas & Federico Tadei - 1005-1034 Shipping in the London coal trade, 1700‒1860
by Peter M. Solar & Oliver Buxton Dunn & Aidan Kane - 1035-1056 Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–1930
by Amílcar E. Challú & Israel García Solares & Aurora Gómez‐Galvarriato - 1057-1085 The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
by Pim de Zwart & Markus Lampe & Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke - 1086-1109 Should history change the way we think about populism?
by Alan de Bromhead & Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke - 1110-1111 The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930. Alun Davies, (Routledge, 2024. pp. 414. 21 B/W images. ISBN 9781032131351, Pbk £39.99)
by Pierre‐Yves Donzé - 1112-1113 The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, (Princeton University Press, 2023. pp. 304. ISBN: 9780691247014, Hbk £35)
by Graham Brownlow - 1114-1115 The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 211. 29 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781009235310, Pbk. £22.99)
by Anna Missiaia - 1116-1117 Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China. Wenkai He, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 320. ISBN 9781009334556. Pbk. £25.99)
by Jared Rubin - 1118-1119 The Financial Markets of Roman Egypt: Risk and Return. Paul V. Kelly, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. pp. vii + 221. 36 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN: 9781802078336, Hbk £76)
by Gilles Bransbourg - 1120-1121 The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe 1964–1971. Oscar Sanchez‐Sibony, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 290. 8 figs. ISBN 9781108834544 Hardback £85)
by Helen Thompson
May 2024, Volume 77, Issue 2
- 391-415 Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–1940
by Björn Quanjer - 416-443 Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)
by Mattia Viale - 444-471 Female relatives and domestic service in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: Female kin servants revisited
by Xuesheng You - 472-502 Hot money inflows and bank risk‐taking: Germany from the 1920s to the Great Depression
by Natacha Postel‐Vinay & Stéphanie Collet - 503-522 Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)
by María del Carmen Pérez‐Artés - 523-553 International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War
by Marc Deloof & Ine Paeleman - 554-583 The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS
by Bernard Harris & Rosemary Cresswell - 584-611 From a common empire to colonial rule: Commodity market disintegration in the Near East
by Laura Panza - 612-643 ‘The same contract that is suitable for your Excellency’: Immigration and emulation in the adoption of sharecropping‐cum‐debt arrangements in Brazil (1835‒80)
by Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza - 644-674 Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth in a long run perspective, 1885–2019
by Leonard Kukić - 675-702 Credibility building in the sovereign debt market: Evidence from prewar China
by Chun‐Yu Ho & Dan Li - 703-727 Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China
by Shuo Chen & Yaohui Peng & Danli Wang - 728-749 Goodbye, Mr. Portugal: Fiscal crisis, constitutional revolution, and the independence of Brazil (1808–22)
by Rafael Cariello & Thales Zamberlan Pereira - 750-751 Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800 Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 280. ISBN 9780691229874. Hbk £30)
by Jeroen Puttevils - 752-753 The Making of a Fiscal‐Military State in Post‐Revolutionary France Jerome Greenfield, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. ix+325. 14 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781108839679. Hbk. £75)
by Tyson Leuchter - 754-755 Sovereignty Without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 By Leigh Gardner, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 230. 61 figs. 21 tables ISBN 9781009181105. Hbk £75)
by Lloyd Maphosa - 756-757 An Economic History of the First German Unification: State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective. Ulrich Pfister & Nikolaus Wolf (eds.), (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. pp. 390. 50 figs. ISBN 9781032254838. Hbk £120)
by Marvin Suesse - 758-759 An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992 Alain Naef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)
by Wilfried Kisling - 760-761 Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change By Stephen G. Gross, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023: pp. 408. ISBN: 9780197667712, Hbk £35)
by Frank Trentmann
February 2024, Volume 77, Issue 1
- 3-40 Legal origins of corporate governance: Choice of law in Egypt, 1887–1914
by Cihan Artunç - 41-59 Household structure, labour participation, and economic inequality in Britain, 1937–61
by Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Hector Rufrancos - 60-89 State of forgiveness: Cooperation, conciliation, and state formation in Mughal South Asia (1556–1707)
by Safya Morshed - 90-118 Fiscal policy under constraints: Fiscal capacity and austerity during the Great Depression
by Andrea Papadia - 119-136 The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting
by David Edgerton - 137-159 The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States
by Mark Stelzner & Sven Beckert - 160-184 The anatomy of a bubble company: The London Assurance in 1720
by Graeme Acheson & Michael Aldous & William Quinn - 185-211 Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921
by Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Gabriele Cappelli - 212-243 A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–1714
by Víctor M. Gómez‐Blanco - 244-267 Between voluntarism and compulsion: Membership in mutual health insurance societies in Swedish manufacturing, c. 1900
by Maria Stanfors & Tobias Karlsson & Lars‐Fredrik Andersson & Liselotte Eriksson - 268-287 ‘No commercial activity leaves greater benefit’: The profitability of the Cuban‐based slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century
by Jose Miguel Sanjuan‐Marroquin & Martin Rodrigo‐Alharilla - 288-316 Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India
by Jordi Caum‐Julio - 317-318 The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World: Vol. I & II.Stephen Broadberry & Kyoji Fukao (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. 512 (vol. I) 572 (vol. II). ISBN 9781107159457 (vol. I) 9781107159488 (vol. II). Hbk £120 (vol. I) £120 (vol. II)
by Mark Koyama - 319-320 Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830 By Trevor Jackson, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. xii + 310. 5 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN Hbk. 9781316516287£75)
by Pamfili M. Antipa - 321-322 Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States By Sharon Ann Murphy, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. pp. 432. 18 figs. 8 tables. ISBN 9780226825137. Pbk $35)
by Patrick Luck - 323-324 Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 By Fabrice Bensimon, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. pp. 304. 60 figs. 13 tabs. 8 maps. ISBN 978019883584‐4 Hbk. £83)
by Jane Humphries - 325-326 Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop By Lachlan McNamee, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. pp. 256. 30 figs. ISBN 9780691237817. bk £30)
by Jeanne Cilliers - 327-328 A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960–2017 By Timothy Kehoe and Juan Pablo Nicolini (eds), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. pp. xvii + 569. ISBN Hbk. 9781517911980 Pbk. 9781517911362, pbk $80.00, cloth; $20.00
by Georgina M. Gomez - 329-334 Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–1100
by Máirín MacCarron - 335-346 Review of periodical literature for 2022: (ii) 1100–1500
by Spike Gibbs - 347-354 Review of periodical literature for 2022: (iii) 1500–1700
by Charmian Mansell - 355-363 Review of periodical literature for 2022: (iv) 1700–1850
by Karolina Hutková - 364-375 Review of periodical literature for 2022: (v) 1850–1945
by Tehreem Husain - 376-387 Review of periodical literature for 2022: (vi) post‐1945
by Meredith M. Paker
November 2023, Volume 76, Issue 4
- 999-1022 Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–9
by Tetsuji Okazaki - 1023-1050 Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869
by Sara Horrell - 1051-1073 Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–1938
by Antonio Tena‐Junguito & Maria Isabel Restrepo‐Estrada - 1074-1109 Supervision without regulation: Discount limits at the Austro–Hungarian Bank, 1909–13
by Clemens Jobst & Kilian Rieder - 1110-1140 From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–2019
by Cecilia Lara & Svante Prado - 1141-1162 Dating business cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010
by Stephen Broadberry & Jagjit S. Chadha & Jason Lennard & Ryland Thomas - 1163-1190 The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 1948
by Alexander J. Field - 1191-1230 Status and mortality: Is there a Whitehall effect in the United States?
by Tom Nicholas - 1231-1258 The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt
by Yuzuru Kumon & Mohamed Saleh - 1259-1280 Autarky in Franco's Spain: The costs of a closed economy
by Rodolfo G. Campos & Iliana Reggio & Jacopo Timini - 1281-1304 The price of poverty: The association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947–2015
by Gabriel Brea‐Martinez & Martin Dribe & Maria Stanfors - 1305-1332 Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 1913
by Güneş Aşık & Ulaş Karakoç & Şevket Pamuk - 1333-1356 Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s
by Kersti Lust & Martin Klesment & Hannaliis Jaadla - 1357-1359 Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660–1800. By Esther Sahle, (Ed.), Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. pp. vi+206. 10 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN Pbk. 9781783275861 £24.99
by Jeremy Land - 1360-1361 The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History By Thomas M. Truxes, London: Yale University Press, 2021. pp. 464. 35 figs. ISBN 9780300159882. Hbk $37.49
by Chris Nierstrasz - 1362-1363 The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present By Marvin Suesse, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. viii + 422. ISBN 9781108917087. £30)
by Martin Daunton - 1364-1365 Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919. By Ghassan Moazzin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 352. ISBN 9781009037891. Hbk £75
by Yitong Qiu - 1366-1367 The Roman Stock Exchange Between the 19th and 20th Centuries: A History of the Italian Stock Market By Donatella Strangio (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. pp. Xxvi + 259. 42 figs. 28 tables. Hbk £69.99)
by Paolo Di Martino - 1368-1369 Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds By Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul, and James Taylor, (eds.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. pp. 368. 15 figs. ISBN 9780226821009. Pbk $30
by Janette Rutterford - 1370-1372 Making Social Spending Work By Peter H. Lindert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. v+422. Hbk. ISBN: 9781108478168Hbk. £25.00
by Price Fishback
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