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Volume 78, month 02, 2025

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

John D. 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 Z. 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

Volume 77, month 11, 2024

Putting women back into the early modern economy: Work, occupations, and economic development pp. 1125-1153

Jane Whittle

The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East pp. 1154-1196

Robert C. Allen

The 1929 crash of the New York stock exchange as a liquidity crisis pp. 1197-1221

Jean‐Laurent Cadorel

The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368 pp. 1222-1250

Hanhui Guan, Nuno Palma and Meng Wu

Gender and justice: The status of women in Ottoman courts pp. 1251-1281

Metin Cosgel, Hamdi Genç, Emre Özer and Sadullah Yıldırım

Neo‐Confucianism and the rise of science and technology in Medieval China pp. 1282-1313

Baomin Dong and Bowen Cheng

What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911–52 pp. 1314-1335

Emiliano Travieso and Tom Westland

Swedish income inequality in 1613 pp. 1336-1361

Martin Andersson and Jakob Molinder

Art in times of crisis pp. 1362-1413

Géraldine David, Yuexin Li, Kim Oosterlinck and Luc Renneboog

Bonds for the long run? The rate of return on corporate bonds in Belgium, 1838–1939 pp. 1414-1441

Kevin Van Mencxel, Jan Annaert and Marc Deloof

Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy pp. 1442-1476

Marco Molteni

Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi‐occupied Netherlands pp. 1477-1508

Philip T. Fliers, Abe de Jong and Bert S. van Stiphout‐Kramer

The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective pp. 1509-1534

Dan Bogart, Latika Chaudhary and Alfonso Herranz‐Loncán

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) pp. 1535-1536

Jordan Claridge

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) pp. 1537-1538

Claire E. F. Wright

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) pp. 1539-1540

Roy Church

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) pp. 1541-1543

Hiroki Shin

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) pp. 1544-1546

Yoram Gorlizki

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) pp. 1547-1548

Ewan Gibbs

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) pp. 1549-1550

Bernardo Bátiz‐Lazo

Volume 77, month 08, 2024

From circular to permanent: The economic assimilation of migrants during Spain's rural exodus, 1955–73 pp. 765-795

José Antonio García‐Barrero

Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development pp. 796-822

Matthew Lowenstein

Was there a ‘consumer revolution’ in the Ottoman Empire? pp. 823-848

Pınar Ceylan

Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders pp. 849-872

Stef Espeel

The making of paper money in early modern Japan pp. 873-894

John D'Amico

The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth‐century Egypt pp. 895-927

Cihan Artunç and Mohamed Saleh

‘A new way by her invented’: Women inventors and technological innovation in Britain, 1800–1930 pp. 928-952

B. Zorina Khan

Aesthetics for a polite society: Language and the marketing of second‐hand goods in eighteenth‐century London pp. 953-974

Bruno Blondé, Alessandra de Mulder and Jon Stobart

Income inequality and export‐oriented commercialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries pp. 975-1004

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt, Michiel de Haas and Federico Tadei

Shipping in the London coal trade, 1700‒1860 pp. 1005-1034

Peter M. Solar, Oliver Buxton Dunn and Aidan Kane

Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–1930 pp. 1035-1056

Amílcar E. Challú, Israel García Solares and Aurora Gómez‐Galvarriato

The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies pp. 1057-1085

Pim de Zwart, Markus Lampe and Kevin O'Rourke

Should history change the way we think about populism? pp. 1086-1109

Alan de Bromhead and Kevin O'Rourke

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) pp. 1110-1111

Pierre‐Yves Donzé

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, (Princeton University Press, 2023. pp. 304. ISBN: 9780691247014, Hbk £35) pp. 1112-1113

Graham Brownlow

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) pp. 1114-1115

Anna Missiaia

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) pp. 1116-1117

Jared Rubin

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) pp. 1118-1119

Gilles Bransbourg

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) pp. 1120-1121

Helen Thompson

Volume 77, month 05, 2024

Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–1940 pp. 391-415

Björn Quanjer

Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800) pp. 416-443

Mattia Viale

Female relatives and domestic service in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: Female kin servants revisited pp. 444-471

Xuesheng You

Hot money inflows and bank risk‐taking: Germany from the 1920s to the Great Depression pp. 472-502

Natacha Postel‐Vinay and Stéphanie Collet

Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries) pp. 503-522

María del Carmen Pérez‐Artés

International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War pp. 523-553

Marc Deloof and Ine Paeleman

The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS pp. 554-583

Bernard Harris and Rosemary Cresswell

From a common empire to colonial rule: Commodity market disintegration in the Near East pp. 584-611

Laura Panza

‘The same contract that is suitable for your Excellency’: Immigration and emulation in the adoption of sharecropping‐cum‐debt arrangements in Brazil (1835‒80) pp. 612-643

Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza

Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth in a long run perspective, 1885–2019 pp. 644-674

Leonard Kukić

Credibility building in the sovereign debt market: Evidence from prewar China pp. 675-702

Chun‐Yu Ho and Dan Li

Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China pp. 703-727

Shuo Chen, Yaohui Peng and Danli Wang

Goodbye, Mr. Portugal: Fiscal crisis, constitutional revolution, and the independence of Brazil (1808–22) pp. 728-749

Rafael Cariello and Thales Zamberlan Pereira

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) pp. 750-751

Jeroen Puttevils

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) pp. 752-753

Tyson Leuchter

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) pp. 754-755

Lloyd Maphosa

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) pp. 756-757

Marvin Suesse

An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992 Alain Naef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110) pp. 758-759

Wilfried Kisling

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) pp. 760-761

Frank Trentmann

Volume 77, month 02, 2024

Legal origins of corporate governance: Choice of law in Egypt, 1887–1914 pp. 3-40

Cihan Artunç

Household structure, labour participation, and economic inequality in Britain, 1937–61 pp. 41-59

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

State of forgiveness: Cooperation, conciliation, and state formation in Mughal South Asia (1556–1707) pp. 60-89

Safya Morshed

Fiscal policy under constraints: Fiscal capacity and austerity during the Great Depression pp. 90-118

Andrea Papadia

The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting pp. 119-136

David Edgerton

The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States pp. 137-159

Mark Stelzner and Sven Beckert

The anatomy of a bubble company: The London Assurance in 1720 pp. 160-184

Graeme Acheson, Michael Aldous and William Quinn

Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921 pp. 185-211

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Gabriele Cappelli

A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–1714 pp. 212-243

Víctor M. Gómez‐Blanco

Between voluntarism and compulsion: Membership in mutual health insurance societies in Swedish manufacturing, c. 1900 pp. 244-267

Maria Stanfors, Tobias Karlsson, Lars‐Fredrik Andersson and Liselotte Eriksson

‘No commercial activity leaves greater benefit’: The profitability of the Cuban‐based slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century pp. 268-287

Jose Miguel Sanjuan‐Marroquin and Martin Rodrigo‐Alharilla

Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India pp. 288-316

Jordi Caum‐Julio

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) pp. 317-318

Mark Koyama

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) pp. 319-320

Pamfili M. Antipa

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) pp. 321-322

Patrick Luck

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) pp. 323-324

Jane Humphries

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) pp. 325-326

Jeanne Cilliers

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 pp. 327-328

Georgina M. Gomez

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–1100 pp. 329-334

Máirín MacCarron

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (ii) 1100–1500 pp. 335-346

Spike Gibbs

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (iii) 1500–1700 pp. 347-354

Charmian Mansell

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (iv) 1700–1850 pp. 355-363

Karolina Hutková

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (v) 1850–1945 pp. 364-375

Tehreem Husain

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (vi) post‐1945 pp. 376-387

Meredith Paker