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Volume 72, issue 03, 2012

Was the Glorious Revolution a Constitutional Watershed? pp. 567-600

Gary W. Cox

Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World? pp. 601-633

Philip T. Hoffman

Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective pp. 634-670

Michael Kopsidis and Nikolaus Wolf

The Integration of Grain Markets in the Eighteenth Century: Early Rise of Globalization in the West pp. 671-707

Rafael Dobado-González, Alfredo Garcia-Hiernaux and David E. Guerrero

How Much Trade Liberalization Was There in the World Before and After Cobden-Chevalier? pp. 708-740

Antonio Tena-Junguito, Markus Lampe and Felipe Tâmega Fernandes

The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics pp. 741-770

Lee J. Alston, Edwyna Harris and Bernardo Mueller

Pork-Barrel Politics in Semi-Democracies: The Spanish “Parliamentary Roads,” 1880–1914 pp. 771-796

Marta Curto-Grau, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Albert Solé-Ollé

Working-Class Household Consumption Smoothing in Interwar Britain pp. 797-825

Peter M. Scott and James Walker

The Early English Censuses. By E. A. Wrigley. (British Academy Records of Social and Economic History, New Series 46). New York: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2011. Pp. xviii, 322. $99.00, cloth pp. 826-827

Andrew Hinde

Medieval Capital Markets: Markets for Renten, State Formation, and Private Investment in Holland (1300–1550). By C. Jaco Zuijderduijn. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xii, 317. $ 149.00, hardcover pp. 827-829

David Chilosi

Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650–1800. By Regina Grafe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. xx, 291. $39.50, cloth; $39.50, eBook pp. 829-831

David Ringrose

The Agrarian History of Sweden: From 400BC to AD2000. Edited by Janken Myrdal and Mats Morell. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011. Pp. 336. $54.95, hardcover pp. 831-833

Lennart Schön

The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution: The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000–1800. By Jan Luiten van Zanden. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xiii, 342. $149.00, hardcover pp. 833-835

Noel D. Johnson

Philanthropy in America: A History. By Olivier Zunz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 381. $29.95, cloth pp. 835-836

John E. Murray

Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990. By Jennifer Delton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. vi, 313. $25.99, paper pp. 837-839

William A. Sundstrom

The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States. By Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 234. $39.50, hardcover pp. 839-841

Dean Lueck

Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present. Edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 622, x. $35.00, hardcover pp. 841-844

Richard Sutch

The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. By Marc Levinson. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011. Pp. v, 358. $27.00, hardcover pp. 844-845

Todd Neumann

American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own. By Stuart Banner. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. 355. $29.95, cloth pp. 845-847

Gary D. Libecap

Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region. Edited by Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. vii, 470. $49.95, hardcover pp. 848-849

Carol E. Heim

The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in Britain, Ireland, and America, 1688–1815. Edited by Daniel Carey and Christopher J. Finlay. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2011. $74.95, hardcover pp. 850-851

Larry Neal

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. By Prasannan Parthasrathi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 365. $90.00, hardcover pp. 851-853

Tirthankar Roy

Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan. By Ethan Isaac Segal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. Pp. xvi, 258. $39.95, cloth pp. 853-854

Philip C. Brown

The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837–1952. By Raouf Abbas and Assem El-Dessouky Translated by Amer Mohsen and Mona Zikri. Edited by Peter Gran. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Pp. xix, 293. $29.95, hardcover pp. 854-856

Mohamed Saleh

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time. Edited by Paul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. xx + 461. $60.00, cloth pp. 856-858

Philip R. P. Coelho

Creating Wine: The Emergences of a World Industry, 1840–1914. By James Simpson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxvii, 318. $39.50, hardcover pp. 859-860

James Lapsley

The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Edited by Stephan Palmie and Francisco A. Scarano. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. 624. $95.00, cloth pp. 860-862

Stanley L. Engerman

Volume 72, issue 02, 2012

Economic History and Economic Policy pp. 289-307

Barry Julian Eichengreen

Inequality of Wealth in the Ottoman Empire: War, Weather, and Long-Term Trends in Eighteenth-Century Kastamonu pp. 308-331

Metin Cosgel and Boğaç A. Ergene

Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth, and Politics in New York, 1791–1826 pp. 332-363

Eric Hilt and Jacqueline Valentine

Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth pp. 364-392

Gregory Clark, Joseph Cummins and Brock Smith

Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil pp. 393-422

Joana Naritomi, Rodrigo Reis Soares and Juliano J. Assunção

The Market for Paintings in Italy During the Seventeenth Century pp. 423-447

Federico Etro and Laura Pagani

Crisis and Bankruptcy: The Mediating Role of State Law, 1920–1932 pp. 448-468

Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Bradley A. Hansen

The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Edited by Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxxii, 768. $185.00, hardcover pp. 538-539

Walter D. Kamphoefner

La banque supèrieure: La banque de France de 1800 à 1914. By Yves Leclercq. Paris: Éditions Classique Garnier: Bibliothèque de l'Economiste, 2010. Pp. 349, index, bibliography. EUR 49 pp. 539-542

Pierre Cyrille Hautcoeur

Food, Energy, and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780. By Craig Muldrew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. vii, 355. $99.00, cloth pp. 542-543

Trevon D. Logan

The Roman Monetary System: The Eastern Provinces from the First to the Third Century AD. By Constantina Katsari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x, 304. $99.00, hardcover pp. 544-546

Angela Redish

Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000–1800. By Sheilagh Ogilvie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. vi, 493. $99.00 cloth; $37.99 paper pp. 546-548

Thomas Max Safley

Consumption, Trade, and Innovation: Exploring the Botanical Remains from the Roman and Islamic Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt. Edited by Marijke van der Veen. Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 6. Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna Verlag, 2011. Pp. xiv, 313. EUR 69.80, hardcover pp. 548-550

James L. Boone

The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom. By Tracy Dennison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $99.00, hardcover pp. 550-551

Paul Gregory

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System. By Barry Eichengreen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. iii, 215. $27.95, cloth pp. 551-555

Michael D. Bordo

Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe. By Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 276. $45.00, hardcover pp. 555-558

James Z. Lee

Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. By Robert C. Allen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 170. $11.95, paper pp. 558-560

David Mitch

The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History. By Francesco Boldizzoni. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 216. $39.50, hardcover pp. 560-562

George Grantham

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700. By Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, and Sok Chul Hong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and NBER, 2011. Pp. xxvi, 431. $90.00, hardcover pp. 562-564

Lionel Kesztenbaum

A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. By Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 262. $35.00, hardcover pp. 564-566

James Woodward

Volume 72, issue 01, 2012

London Merchant Banks, the Central European Panic, and the Sterling Crisis of 1931 pp. 1-43

Olivier Accominotti

More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers? pp. 44-74

James Bessen

The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies: The Politics of State Participation in the Sheppard-Towner Program pp. 75-103

Carolyn M. Moehling and Melissa A. Thomasson

The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective pp. 104-132

Marianne Ward and John Devereux

Household Debt in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories pp. 134-167

Sheilagh Ogilvie, Markus Küpker and Janine Maegraith

Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from South Carolina pp. 168-196

Marianne Hinds Wanamaker

Law and Peace: Contracts and the Success of the Danish Dairy Cooperatives pp. 197-224

Ingrid Henriksen, Morten Hviid and Paul Richard Sharp

Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s pp. 225-251

Carola Frydman and Raven Molloy

Editors' Notes pp. 252-260

Price Vanmeter Fishback

Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy. By Roger Congleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $41.29, paper pp. 261-263

John Wallis

Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. ix, 387. $45.00, hardcover pp. 263-265

Jason E. Taylor

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia). By Sharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 395. $65.00, hardcover pp. 265-267

Richard Sutch

Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression. By David George Surdam. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Pp. xxv, 417. $45.00, hardcover pp. 268-269

Kenneth Winter

Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. By David E. Bernstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 194. $45.00, hardcover pp. 269-271

James W. Ely

Hinterland Dreams: The Political Economy of a Midwestern City. By Eric J. Morser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 266. $55.00, hardcover pp. 271-272

Michael Haupert

Has Latin America Always Been Unequal? A Comparative Study of Asset and Income Inequality in the Long Twentieth Century., Global Economic History Series, Volume 3. By Ewout Frankema. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2009. Pp. 291. $144.00, hardcover pp. 272-274

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750–2000. Edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, John H. Coatsworth, Amílcar Challú. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 350. $29.95, paper pp. 275-276

Leticia Arroyo Abad

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru. By Kathryn Burns. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xv, 247. $22.95, paper pp. 276-278

Regina Grafe

Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. 261. $29.95, hardcover pp. 278-280

Joel Mokyr

Reconceiving the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, Merritt Roe Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. vii, 356. $24.00, paper pp. 280-282

Ross Thomson

How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity. By Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 256. $35.00, cloth pp. 282-283

Isabelle Sin

States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. By David Stasavage. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series. Pp. 224. $39.95, hardcover pp. 284-286

Mark Dincecco

How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp.xxxiv, 489. $188.00, hardcover pp. 286-287

Anand V. Swamy