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Volume 78, month 11, 2025

Missing women in colonial India pp. 997-1038 Downloads
James Fenske, Bishnupriya Gupta and Cora Neumann
Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74 pp. 1039-1067 Downloads
Leo Dolan
The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century pp. 1068-1087 Downloads
Juan José Rivas Moreno
Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth‐century rural community pp. 1088-1117 Downloads
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 Downloads
Andrew Primmer
Central bank cooperation 1930–2: A reappraisal pp. 1151-1179 Downloads
Juan Flores Zendejas and Gianandrea Nodari
Financial crisis of 1931? British banking stability and the role of open‐market operations pp. 1180-1201 Downloads
Matthias Römer
Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic pp. 1202-1230 Downloads
Gustavo S. Cortes and Gertjan Verdickt
Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81 pp. 1231-1254 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Albert Carreras
The Timber Economy in the Baltic Sea (1600–1939). Luciano Segreto, (Springer, 2024. Pp. 134. ISBN 9783031691294. Hbk £109) pp. 1356-1357 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Selin Dilli and Corinne Boter
Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology pp. 721-748 Downloads
Ann M. Carlos, Erik Green, Calumet Links and Angela Redish
Overseas trade and taxation in England and Wales, c. 1680–1790 pp. 749-775 Downloads
Spike Sweeting
Banking on railroads: The effect of market access on banking provision during the Gilded Age pp. 776-801 Downloads
Jeff Chan
Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s pp. 802-824 Downloads
Jonatan Andersson
Stationary steam power in the United Kingdom, 1800–70: An empirical reassessment pp. 825-848 Downloads
Sean Bottomley
The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–81 pp. 849-876 Downloads
Graeme Acheson, Eoin McLaughlin, Gill Newton and Linda Perriton
Irish GDP since independence pp. 877-906 Downloads
Seán Kenny
No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining pp. 907-932 Downloads
Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville
Red gold: Copper and the U.S. mobilization campaign, 1950–3 pp. 933-951 Downloads
Glenn J. Dorn
The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean pp. 952-974 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Bas J.P. Van Bavel
Breaking free? The evolution of intra‐Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795–1839) pp. 424-451 Downloads
Alejandro Ayuso‐Diaz
Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853–1913 pp. 452-473 Downloads
Timothy Hatton
Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–1940 pp. 474-498 Downloads
Federico Tadei, Nektarios Aslanidis and Oscar Martinez
The emergence of double entry bookkeeping pp. 499-528 Downloads
Alan Sangster
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–1400 pp. 529-552 Downloads
Mark Bailey
The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–1830 pp. 553-582 Downloads
Louis Henderson
UK fiscal policy and external balance under Bretton Woods: Twin deficits or distant relatives? pp. 583-612 Downloads
Joshua J. Banerjee
Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–1860 pp. 613-645 Downloads
Jane Humphries
From the little divergence to the little divide: Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540‒1850) pp. 646-672 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Jim Tomlinson

Volume 78, month 02, 2025

Three centuries of corporate governance in the United Kingdom pp. 3-29 Downloads
John Turner
Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–74 pp. 30-61 Downloads
Sam Jones and Peter Gibbon
Firm survival and the rise of the factory pp. 62-86 Downloads
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 Downloads
Joyce Burnette
Modifying the success story of Sweden: Revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869–1950 pp. 113-151 Downloads
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 Downloads
Stein Berre and Paul Kosmetatos
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England pp. 179-206 Downloads
Meredith Paker, Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis
Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late‐developing economy: Serbia, 1863–1910 pp. 207-234 Downloads
Stefan Nikolić
Finance capitalism in industrializing autocracies: Evidence from corporate balance sheets in imperial Germany and Russia pp. 235-265 Downloads
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 Downloads
Marco Martinez
African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? pp. 295-332 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
John Turner
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (i) 400–1100 pp. 345-351 Downloads
Máirín MacCarron
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–1500 pp. 352-360 Downloads
Stephanie Emma Brown
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iii) 1500–1700 pp. 361-370 Downloads
Charmian Mansell
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iv) 1700–1850 pp. 371-377 Downloads
Karolina Hutková
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850–1945 pp. 378-386 Downloads
Tehreem Husain
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (vi) 1945 to present pp. 387-397 Downloads
Meredith Paker
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