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Volume 78, month 11, 2025

Missing women in colonial India pp. 997-1038

James Fenske, Bishnupriya Gupta and Cora Neumann

Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74 pp. 1039-1067

Leo Dolan

The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century pp. 1068-1087

Juan José Rivas Moreno

Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth‐century rural community pp. 1088-1117

Daniel R. Curtis and Bram van Besouw

Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98 pp. 1118-1150

Andrew Primmer

Central bank cooperation 1930–2: A reappraisal pp. 1151-1179

Juan Flores Zendejas and Gianandrea Nodari

Financial crisis of 1931? British banking stability and the role of open‐market operations pp. 1180-1201

Matthias Römer

Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic pp. 1202-1230

Gustavo S. Cortes and Gertjan Verdickt

Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81 pp. 1231-1254

James Foreman‐Peck and Leslie Hannah

The political economy of minimum wage setting: The Factories and Shops Act of Victoria (Australia), 1896–1913 pp. 1255-1284

Andrew J. Seltzer

The formation and cross‐border connectivity of bank branch networks across the Canadian provinces: regional internationalization via interbank networks and foreign trade (1879–1900) pp. 1285-1345

Alena V. Pivavarava

Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Spike Gibbs, (Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781009311830. HbK £85) pp. 1346-1348

J. Lane

The Overseas Trade of Boston, 1279–1548. Stephen H. Rigby and Robert C. Nash, (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2023. Pp. 135. ISBN 9783412526580. Pbk €32/$35) pp. 1349-1350

Justin Colson

Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400: Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. Milan Pajic, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781108489201. HbK £100) pp. 1351-1352

James Davis

A Millennial View of Spain's Development. Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Springer, 2024. Pp. 375. ISBN 9783031607912. HbK £44,99) pp. 1353-1355

Albert Carreras

The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939). Luciano Segreto, (Springer, 2024. Pp. 134. ISBN 9783031691294. Hbk £109) pp. 1356-1357

Niklas Jensen‐Eriksen

The Age of Paper: The Bank Note, Communal Currency and British Society, 1790s–1830s.Hiroki Shin, (Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 332. ISBN 9781009503273. HbK £90) pp. 1358-1359

Forrest Capie

Capital in Banking, The Role of Capital in Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: The United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland. Simon Amrein, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 225. ISBN 9781009276894. HbK £85) pp. 1360-1362

Mark Billings

No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975. Michael O'Sullivan, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780674271906. Hbk £43.95) pp. 1363-1364

Chinmay Tumbe

One from the Many, The Global Economy Since 1850. Christopher M. Meissner, (Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780199924462. PbK $32) pp. 1365-1367

Jeff Chan

Commercial Banking in Kenya A History from Colonisation to Digital Age. Christian Velasco, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781032658605. Hbk £104) pp. 1368-1369

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950. Fernando Collantes, (Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350401549. HbK £85) pp. 1370-1371

Pablo Delgado

Volume 78, month 08, 2025

A U‐shaped curve of female entrepreneurs? The development of women's entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1899–2020 pp. 693-720

Selin Dilli and Corinne Boter

Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology pp. 721-748

Ann M. Carlos, Erik Green, Calumet Links and Angela Redish

Overseas trade and taxation in England and Wales, c. 1680–1790 pp. 749-775

Spike Sweeting

Banking on railroads: The effect of market access on banking provision during the Gilded Age pp. 776-801

Jeff Chan

Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s pp. 802-824

Jonatan Andersson

Stationary steam power in the United Kingdom, 1800–70: An empirical reassessment pp. 825-848

Sean Bottomley

The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–81 pp. 849-876

Graeme Acheson, Eoin McLaughlin, Gill Newton and Linda Perriton

Irish GDP since independence pp. 877-906

Seán Kenny

No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining pp. 907-932

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

Red gold: Copper and the U.S. mobilization campaign, 1950–3 pp. 933-951

Glenn J. Dorn

The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean pp. 952-974

Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck and Stefania Galli

Soldiers, Wages and the Hellenistic Economies. Charlotte van Regenmortel, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781009408981. Hbk. £85) pp. 975-976

Sitta von Reden

Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth‐Century Persian Gulf. Norifumi Daito, (Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN: 9781350399211. Hbk $115) pp. 977-978

Karolina Hutková

The Laissez‐Faire Experiment. Why Britain Embraced and Then Abandoned Small Government, 1800–1914. W. Walker Hanlon, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 504. ISBN 9780691213415. Hbk £42) pp. 979-981

Martin Daunton

Pax Economica: Left‐Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. Marc‐William Palen, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 309. ISBN 9780691199320. Hbk £30) pp. 982-983

Marvin Suesse

Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas. Gérard Béaur and Francesco Chiapparino (Eds.), (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 294. ISBN 9780367615505. Hbk £100) pp. 984-986

Mark B. Tauger

Finding a Path for China's Rise. The Socialist State and the World Economy, 1970–1978. Philippe Lionnet, (Transcript, 2023. Pp. 468. ISBN 9783837664225. PbK €55) pp. 987-988

Stefan Messingschlager

Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform. Yakov Feygin, (Harvard University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780674240995. Hbk £34) pp. 989-990

Isaac McKean Scarborough

Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. Daniel Waldenström, (Polity Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781509557783. Hbk £25) pp. 991-992

Neil Cummins

Volume 78, month 05, 2025

Back to the future: How economic history can gain more relevance by abandoning modernization thinking pp. 401-423

Bas J.P. Van Bavel

Breaking free? The evolution of intra‐Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795–1839) pp. 424-451

Alejandro Ayuso‐Diaz

Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853–1913 pp. 452-473

Timothy Hatton

Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–1940 pp. 474-498

Federico Tadei, Nektarios Aslanidis and Oscar Martinez

The emergence of double entry bookkeeping pp. 499-528

Alan Sangster

The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–1400 pp. 529-552

Mark Bailey

The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–1830 pp. 553-582

Louis Henderson

UK fiscal policy and external balance under Bretton Woods: Twin deficits or distant relatives? pp. 583-612

Joshua J. Banerjee

Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–1860 pp. 613-645

Jane Humphries

From the little divergence to the little divide: Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540‒1850) pp. 646-672

Tancredi Buscemi

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) pp. 673-674

Luis Almenar Fernández

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) pp. 675-676

N. B. Harte

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) pp. 677-678

Tomas Cvrcek

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) pp. 679-680

Sharon Ann Murphy

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) pp. 681-682

Sarah Wilson

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) pp. 683-684

Julie Bower

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) pp. 685-686

Lloyd Maphosa

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) pp. 687-688

Peter Scott

Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy. Tim Lankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99) pp. 689-690

Jim Tomlinson

Volume 78, month 02, 2025

Three centuries of corporate governance in the United Kingdom pp. 3-29

John Turner

Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–74 pp. 30-61

Sam Jones and Peter Gibbon

Firm survival and the rise of the factory pp. 62-86

Thor Berger and Vinzent Ostermeyer

How not to measure the standard of living: Male wages, non‐market production and household income in nineteenth‐century Europe pp. 87-112

Joyce Burnette

Modifying the success story of Sweden: Revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869–1950 pp. 113-151

Jesper Hamark and Svante Prado

Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis pp. 152-178

Stein Berre and Paul Kosmetatos

Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England pp. 179-206

Meredith Paker, Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis

Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late‐developing economy: Serbia, 1863–1910 pp. 207-234

Stefan Nikolić

Finance capitalism in industrializing autocracies: Evidence from corporate balance sheets in imperial Germany and Russia pp. 235-265

Caroline Fohlin and Amanda Gregg

It's not about the money: New evidence on U.S. reconstruction aid in Italy, 1947–68 pp. 266-294

Marco Martinez

African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? pp. 295-332

Edward Kerby, Alexander Moradi and Hanjo Odendaal

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) pp. 333-334

Tine De Moor

Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice. Eds Anna Bellavitis and Valentina Sapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125) pp. 335-336

Patrick Wallis

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) pp. 337-338

Emily Buchnea

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, (Polity Press, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781509552689, Hbk £25) pp. 339-340

Cameron Bowman

Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo‐German Business Relations. Christina Lubinski, (Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781316511282. Hbk. £75) pp. 341-342

Marie Huber

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) pp. 343-344

John Turner

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (i) 400–1100 pp. 345-351

Máirín MacCarron

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–1500 pp. 352-360

Stephanie Emma Brown

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iii) 1500–1700 pp. 361-370

Charmian Mansell

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iv) 1700–1850 pp. 371-377

Karolina Hutková

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850–1945 pp. 378-386

Tehreem Husain

Review of periodical literature for 2023: (vi) 1945 to present pp. 387-397

Meredith Paker