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Volume 76, month 11, 2023

Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–9 pp. 999-1022

Tetsuji Okazaki

Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869 pp. 1023-1050

Sara Horrell

Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–1938 pp. 1051-1073

Antonio Tena‐Junguito and Maria Isabel Restrepo‐Estrada

Supervision without regulation: Discount limits at the Austro–Hungarian Bank, 1909–13 pp. 1074-1109

Clemens Jobst and Kilian Rieder

From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–2019 pp. 1110-1140

Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado

Dating business cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010 pp. 1141-1162

Stephen Broadberry, Jagjit Chadha, Jason Lennard and Ryland Thomas

The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 1948 pp. 1163-1190

Alexander Field

Status and mortality: Is there a Whitehall effect in the United States? pp. 1191-1230

Tom Nicholas

The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt pp. 1231-1258

Yuzuru Kumon and Mohamed Saleh

Autarky in Franco's Spain: The costs of a closed economy pp. 1259-1280

Rodolfo Campos, Iliana Reggio and Jacopo Timini

The price of poverty: The association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947–2015 pp. 1281-1304

Gabriel Brea‐Martinez, Martin Dribe and Maria Stanfors

Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 1913 pp. 1305-1332

Gunes Asik, Ulaş Karakoç and Şevket Pamuk

Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s pp. 1333-1356

Kersti Lust, Martin Klesment and Hannaliis Jaadla

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 pp. 1357-1359

Jeremy Land

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 pp. 1360-1361

Chris Nierstrasz

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) pp. 1362-1363

Martin Daunton

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 pp. 1364-1365

Yitong Qiu

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) pp. 1366-1367

Paolo Di Martino

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 pp. 1368-1369

Janette Rutterford

Making Social Spending Work By Peter H. Lindert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. v+422. Hbk. ISBN: 9781108478168Hbk. £25.00 pp. 1370-1372

Price Fishback

Volume 76, month 08, 2023

Updated estimates of UK GDP from the income side, 1841–1920 pp. 701-727

Solomos Solomou and Ryland Thomas

Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940) pp. 728-758

Michail Raftakis

Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century pp. 759-782

Rosa Congost, Ricard Garcia‐Orallo and Enric Saguer

Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia pp. 783-806

Timur Natkhov and Natalia Vasilenok

The great margin call: The role of leverage in the 1929 Wall Street crash pp. 807-826

Karol Borowiecki, Michał Dzieliński and Alexander Tepper

British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 1902 pp. 827-843

Brian Varian

Measuring inflation expectations in interwar Britain pp. 844-870

Jason Lennard, Finn Meinecke and Solomos Solomou

Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–83 pp. 871-891

Leonor Freire Costa and Susana Münch Miranda

Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth‐century Netherlands pp. 892-916

Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, Ruben Peeters and Amaury de Vicq

The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600–1850) pp. 917-940

Cédric Chambru and Paul Maneuvrier‐Hervieu

What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia pp. 941-978

Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

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 pp. 979-981

Eric Schneider

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 pp. 982-984

Rebecca Simson

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 pp. 985-986

Latika Chaudhary

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 pp. 987-988

Mark Harrison

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 pp. 989-990

Melanie Meng Xue

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 pp. 991-992

Daniel Gallardo‐Albarrán

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 pp. 993-994

Xabier García‐Fuente

Volume 76, month 05, 2023

Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 2022 pp. 391-412

Harold James

Introduction to the symposium on banking and currency pp. 413-414

John Turner

Sterling's farewell symphony: The end of the Sterling Area revisited pp. 415-444

Alan de Bromhead, David Jordan, Francis Kennedy and Jack Seddon

‘Los von London’: A comparative, empirical analysis of German and British global foreign banking and trade development, 1881–1913 pp. 445-476

Wilfried Kisling

One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 1983 pp. 477-497

Asa Malmstrom Rognes and Catherine Schenk

Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913 pp. 498-524

Emiliano Travieso

The settlers’ fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic pp. 525-550

Johan Fourie and Frank Garmon

Consumer revolution in north‐western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto‐industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries pp. 551-574

Henning Bovenkerk and Christine Fertig

Assessing female accountability in the long eighteenth century through debt imprisonment pp. 575-598

Alexander Wakelam

Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution pp. 599-623

Ravshonbek Otojanov, Roger Fouquet and Brigitte Granville

New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–1909 pp. 624-660

Toke S. Aidt, Romola J. Davenport and Felix Gray

Individual investors and social ownership structures in the UK before the 1930s: Joint holdings and trustee investment pp. 661-692

Janette Rutterford, Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos and Carry van Lieshout

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 pp. 693-694

Andy Burn

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 pp. 694-695

Tehreem Husain

British imperialism and globalization, c. 1650–1960 Joseph E. Inikori (ed.), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022. p. 325. ISBN 9781783276462. Hbk £70.00 pp. 696-697

Bronwen Everill

Volume 76, month 02, 2023

The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 1934 pp. 3-30

Ali Kabiri, Harold James, John Landon‐Lane, David Tuckett and Rickard Nyman

The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya pp. 31-59

Mattia C. Bertazzini

Demographic trends in late‐slavery Jamaica, 1817–32 pp. 60-86

J. R. Ward

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions pp. 87-117

Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar

Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–1604 pp. 118-144

Charles Udale

Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’ pp. 145-168

Jakob Molinder and Christopher Pihl

Industrialisation in a small grain economy during the First Globalisation: Bulgaria c. 1870–1910 pp. 169-198

Martin Ivanov and Michael Kopsidis

Serbia on the path to modern economic growth pp. 199-220

Boško Mijatović and Milan Zavadjil

Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–1850 pp. 221-256

Wouter Ryckbosch and Wout Saelens

Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society pp. 257-282

Jeanne Cilliers, Erik Green and Robert Ross

An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–1913 pp. 283-304

Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard and Kevin O'Rourke

Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844 pp. 305-329

Patrick K. O'Brien and Nuno Palma

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 pp. 330-331

Rui Esteves

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 pp. 331-332

Leslie Hannah

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 pp. 333-335

Aaron Graham

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 pp. 335-336

Rory Naismith

Review of periodical literature for 2021: (i) 400–1100 pp. 337-342

Máirín MacCarron

Review of periodical literature for 2021: (ii) 1100–1500 pp. 342-353

Spike Gibbs

Review of periodical literature for 2021: (iii) 1500–1700 pp. 353-361

Charmian Mansell

Review of periodical literature for 2021: (iv) 1700–1850 pp. 361-367

Karolina Hutková

Review of periodical literature for 2021: (v) 1850–1945 pp. 367-378

Brian Varian

Review of periodical literature for 2021: (vi) Post 1945 pp. 378-387

Ewan Gibbs