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Volume 67, month 11, 2014

Introduction: The renaissance of African economic history pp. 893-906

Gareth Austin and Stephen Broadberry

Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010 pp. 907-931

Ewout Frankema and Morten Jerven

Settler skills and colonial development: the Huguenot wine-makers in eighteenth-century Dutch South Africa pp. 932-963

Johan Fourie and Dieter Fintel

A West African experiment: constructing a GDP series for colonial Ghana, 1891–1950 pp. 964-992

Morten Jerven

What explains slow sub-Saharan African growth? Revisiting oil boom-era investment and productivity in Nigeria's national accounts, 1976–85 pp. 993-1011

Hanaan Marwah

The battle for rubber in Benin pp. 1012-1034

James Fenske

Vent for surplus or productivity breakthrough? The Ghanaian cocoa take-off, c. 1890–1936 pp. 1035-1064

Gareth Austin

Climate, conflicts, and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple crops pp. 1065-1088

Klas Rönnbäck

The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943 pp. 1089-1112

Leigh Gardner

Elizabeth Gemmill, The nobility and ecclesiastical patronage in thirteenth-century England ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 240. ISBN 9781843838128 Hbk. £60) pp. 1155-1156

R. N. Swanson

Brendan Smith, Crisis and survival in late medieval Ireland: the English of Louth and their neighbours, 1330–1450 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 260. 6 maps. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780199594757 Hbk. £65) pp. 1156-1157

Sparky Booker

Jane Whittle, ed., Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440–1660 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 240. 7 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781843838500 Pbk. £17.99) pp. 1157-1159

James P. Bowen

Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollernshaw, Ulster since 1600: politics, economy and society ( Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 355. ISBN 9780199583119 Hbk. £37) pp. 1159-1160

Robert S. Rock

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth, Prometheus shackled: goldsmith banks and England's financial revolution after 1700 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 214. ISBN 9780199944279 Hbk. £27.50) pp. 1160-1161

Julian Hoppit

Ian Mitchell, Tradition and innovation in English retailing, 1700 to 1850: narratives of consumption ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Pp. xvi + 223. 2 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781409443209 Hbk. £70) pp. 1161-1162

Lucy A. Bailey

Peter Kirby, Child workers and industrial health in Britain 1780–1850 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 212. 8 tabs. 6 figs. ISBN 9781843838845 Pbk. £17.99) pp. 1162-1164

Alysa Levene

Susan B. Egenolf, Claudia Nelson, and Julie-Marie Strange, eds., British family life, 1780–1914, 5 vols. ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Vol. I, pp. xxxiv + 364. Vol. II, pp. xxiii + 408. Vol. III, pp. xxii + 352. Vol. IV, pp. xxxiv + 364. Vol. V, pp. xxii + 391. ISBN 9781848931022 Hbk. £450/$795) pp. 1164-1165

Eleanor Gordon

Laura Ugolini, Civvies: middle-class men on the English home front, 1914–18 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 339. 18 illus. ISBN 9780719086014 Hbk. £75) pp. 1165-1166

Jonathan Boff

Peter Scott, The making of the modern British home: the suburban semi and family life between the wars ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. 39 illus. ISBN 9780199677207 Hbk. £65) pp. 1166-1168

Leif Jerram

Zosia Halina Archibald Ancient economies of the northern Aegean, fifth to first centuries BC ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 416. 40 illus. ISBN 9780199682119 Hbk. £85) pp. 1168-1169

Ben Russell

Charles R. Geisst, Beggar thy neighbor: a history of usury and debt ( Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780812244625 Hbk. £26/$39.95) pp. 1169-1170

Rowena Olegario

Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens, eds., Married women and the law in premodern northwest Europe ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. x + 248, 2 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 97818438333 Hbk. £60) pp. 1170-1172

Catriona M. Macleod

Oscar Gelderblom, Cities of commerce: the institutional foundations of international trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650 ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 293. 13 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780691142883 Hbk. £24.95) pp. 1172-1173

J. L. Bolton

Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, and Paul Warde, Power to the people: energy in Europe over the last five centuries ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 457. 102 figs. 89 tabs. ISBN 9780691143620 Hbk. £27.95/$39.50) pp. 1173-1174

Kate B. Showers

William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, and Timothy G. Young, eds., The great mirror of folly: finance, culture, the crash of 1720 ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 346. 255 illus. ISBN 9780300162462 Hbk. £50/$75) pp. 1175-1176

Koji Yamamoto

Clare Haru Crowston, Credit, fashion, sex: economies of regard in Old Regime France ( Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 424. 26 illus. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780822355281 Pbk. £18.99) pp. 1176-1177

Serena Dyer

Manuel Pérez-García, Vicarious consumers: trans-national meetings between the west and east in the Mediterranean world, 1730–1808 ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xxv + 375. 67 figs. 18 illus. 4 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781409456858 Hbk. £75) pp. 1177-1179

Nadia Fernandez- De-Pinedo

Marina Bonomelli, ed., Quaderni di sicurtà: documents on the history of insurance ( rev. edn., Milan: Mondadori Electa, Fondazione Mansutti, 2011. Pp. 381. 505 plates. CD-ROM. ISBN 978883708587 Pbk. €70.00) pp. 1179-1180

Robin Pearson

Jonathan Curry-Machado, ed., Global histories, imperial commodities, local interactions ( Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781137283597 Hbk. £60) pp. 1180-1181

Roger Knight

Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani, Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean world ( London and Vermont: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 240. ISBN 9781848933781 Hbk. £60) pp. 1181-1183

Christian G. De Vito

Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Economic history of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 710. 117 figs. 43 tabs. ISBN 9780521145602 Pbk. £29.99) pp. 1183-1184

S. D. Smith

Harold James, Peter Borscheid, David Gugerli, and Tobias Straumann, The value of risk: Swiss Re and the history of reinsurance ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 432. 4 tabs. 4 figs. 88 plates. ISBN 9780199689804 Hbk. £40) pp. 1184-1185

Stephan D. Werner

Paul D. Moreno, The American state from the Civil War to the New Deal: the twilight of constitutionalism and the triumph of progressivism ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 349. ISBN 9781107655010 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1186-1187

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Donald K. Stabile and Andrew F. Kozak, Markets, planning and the moral economy: business cycles in the Progressive Era and the New Deal ( Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2012. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781781006764 Hbk. £80) pp. 1187-1188

Alex Millmow

Mark Toma, Monetary policy and the onset of the Great Depression: the myth of Benjamin Strong as decisive leader ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xix + 214. 40 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781137372543 Hbk. £70) pp. 1188-1189

Jonathan Rose

Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon, The Great Depression of the 1930s: lessons for today ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 459. 50 figs. 33 tabs. ISBN 9780199663187 Hbk. £68) pp. 1190-1191

Harold James

Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka, and Dieter Ziegler, eds., Business in the age of extremes: essays in modern German and Austrian economic history ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 249. ISBN 9781107016958 Hbk. US$90) pp. 1191-1192

Werner Bührer

W. Elliot Brownlee, Eisaku Ide, and Yasunori Fukagai, eds., The political economy of transnational tax reform: the Shoup mission to Japan in historical context ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 472. ISBN 9781107033160 Hbk. £75/$110) pp. 1192-1193

Masayoshi Hayashi

Mark Metzler, Capital as will and imagination: Schumpeter's guide to the postwar Japanese miracle ( Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780801451799 Hbk. $49.95) pp. 1193-1195

Tetsuji Okazaki

Jennifer A. Delton, Rethinking the 1950s: how anticommunism and the Cold War made America liberal ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 198. ISBN 9781107620575 Pbk. £18.99/US$27.99) pp. 1195-1196

Jonathan Bell

Carol M. Connell, Reforming the world monetary system: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. Pp. xi + 271. ISBN 9781848933606 Hbk. £60) pp. 1196-1197

Ivo Maes

Peter Gatrell, The making of the modern refugee ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 270. 2 tabs. 9 maps. ISBN 9780199674169 Hbk. £35) pp. 1197-1198

Frank Caestecker

Giovanni Dosi and Louis Galambos, eds., The third industrial revolution in global business ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 343. 12 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107028616 Hbk. £55) pp. 1199-1199

Ray Stokes

Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson, Reimagining business history ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 260. ISBN 9781421408620 Pbk. £13.00/$24.95) pp. 1200-1201

Alfred Reckendrees

Volume 67, month 08, 2014

Prices and real wages in seventeenth-century Madrid pp. 607-626

J. I. Andrés Ucendo and R. Lanza García

The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts pp. 627-651

Jutta Bolt and Jan Luiten Zanden

External debt and commitment mechanisms: Danish borrowing in Holland, 1763–1825 pp. 652-677

Christiaan Bochove

Trust, religion, and cooperation in western agriculture, 1880–1930 pp. 678-698

Eva Fernández

Estate management and institutional constraints in pre-industrial England: the ecclesiastical estates of Durham, c. 1400–1640 pp. 699-719

A. T. Brown

Rothschilds' strategies in international non-ferrous metals markets, 1830–1940 pp. 720-749

Miguel A. Lopez-Morell and José M. O'kean

British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid-1970s pp. 750-768

Jim Tomlinson

Greasing the wheels of rural transformation? Margarine and the competition for the British butter market pp. 769-792

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

Trademarks and British dominance in consumer goods, 1876–1914 pp. 793-817

Teresa Silva Lopes and Paulo Guimaraes

The development of stage coaching and the impact of turnpike roads, 1653–1840 pp. 818-845

Dorian Gerhold

T. C. Smout and Mairi Stewart, The Firth of Forth. An environmental history ( Edinburgh: Birlinn Books, 2012. Pp. 240. 77 figs. 5 tabs. 156 plates. ISBN 9781780270647 Pbk. £14.99) pp. 846-847

Ian Whyte

Tom Williamson, Robert Liddiard, and Tracey Partida, Champion. The making and unmaking of the English midland landscape ( Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 252. 11 figs. 68 colour plates. ISBN 9780859898683 Hbk. £70) pp. 847-848

Christopher Dyer

Susan Oosthuizen, Tradition and transformation in Anglo-Saxon England: archaeology, common rights and landscape ( London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. xii + 251. 12 figs. ISBN 9781472507273 Hbk. £55) pp. 848-850

Michael D. Costen

David Bates and Robert Liddiard, eds., East Anglia and its North Sea world in the middle ages ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 349. 10 figs. 9 maps. 66 plates. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781843838463 Hbk. £60) pp. 850-851

Mark Bailey

Sarah Rees Jones, York: the making of a city 1068–1350 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxii + 373. 8 tabs. 3 figs. 18 maps. ISBN 9780198201946 Hbk. £75) pp. 851-852

Catherine Casson

Nigel J. Tringham, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the County of Stafford (vol. XI) ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer Press, 2013. Pp. xxi + 297. 49 illus. 24 maps. 7 plates. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781904356417 Hbk. £95) pp. 852-853

John Benson

Christiane Eisenberg, The rise of market society in England, 1066–1800 ( New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. Pp. ix + 165. 5 tabs. 12 figs. ISBN 9781782382584 Hbk. £43) pp. 853-854

Stephen H. Rigby

Valerie G. Hall, Women at work 1860–1939: how different industries shaped women's experiences ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 202. 22 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781843838708 Hbk. £60) pp. 855-856

Karen Sayer

Brad Beaven, Visions of empire: patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939 ( Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 234. 5 illus. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780719078569 Hbk. £70) pp. 856-857

A. Martin Wainwright

Brian Rutishauser, Athens & the Cyclades: economic strategies 540–314 BC ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 304. 5 maps. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780199646357 Hbk. £65) pp. 857-858

Takeshi Amemiya

Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, eds., The fifteenth century XII: society in an age of plague ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 223. ISBN 9781843838753 Hbk. £60) pp. 858-860

Ann G. Carmichael

Toby Green, ed., Brokers of change: Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa ( Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012. Pp. xiv + 415. 12 figs. 1 map. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780197265208 Hbk. £85) pp. 860-861

Kenneth Morgan

Guy Rowlands, The financial decline of a great power. ( Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 267. ISBN 9780199585076 Hbk. £65) pp. 861-862

Joel Felix

D'Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, and Larry Neal, eds., Questioning credible commitment: perspectives on the rise of financial capitalism ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 298. ISBN 9781107039018 Hbk. £65) pp. 863-864

Helen Julia Paul

Paul M. Pressly, On the rim of the Caribbean: colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world ( Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 354. ISBN 9780820345031 Pbk. £24.95) pp. 864-865

Catherine Armstrong

Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson, eds., The French Revolution in global perspective ( Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. 236. ISBN 9780801478680 Pbk. £24.95) pp. 865-867

Paul R. Hanson

Paul A. Gilje, Free trade and sailors' rights in the war of 1812 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 425. ISBN 9781107607828 Pbk. $29.99/£19.99) pp. 867-868

Andrew Lambert

Joshua D. Rothman, Flush times and fever dreams: a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson ( Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 391. 6 maps. ISBN 9780820333267 Hbk. $29.95) pp. 868-869

Robert Gudmestad

Timothy Alborn and Sharon Ann Murphy, eds., Anglo-American life insurance, 1800–1914, 3 vols. ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. Vol. 1, pp. xxiii + 394; Vol. 2, pp. xx + 432; Vol. 3, pp. xxvi + 436. ISBN 9781848933521 Hbk. £295/$520) pp. 869-871

Grietjie Verhoef

Leigh A. Gardner, Taxing colonial Africa: the political economy of British imperialism ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 271. 32 figs. 3 maps. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780199661527 Hbk. £60) pp. 871-872

Nicholas J. White

Caroline Fohlin, Mobilizing money: how the world's richest nations financed industrial growth ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 263. 8 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780521810210 Hbk. £65/$99) pp. 872-874

Robin Pearson

Akira Iriye, The new Cambridge history of American foreign relations: the globalizing of America, 1913–1945, vol. 3 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 253. 3 maps. ISBN 9780521763288 Hbk. £35) pp. 874-875

Mark Timpson

Patricia Clavin, Securing the world economy: the reinvention of the League of Nations 1920–1946 ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 400. ISBN 9780199577934 Hbk. £65) pp. 875-876

John Keiger

Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden, How the New Deal safeguarded home ownership: well worth saving ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 173. ISBN 9780226082448 Hbk. £24.50) pp. 876-877

Peter Fearon

Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, and Leen Van Molle, eds., War, agriculture, and food: rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s ( New York and London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xviii + 268. 13 figs. 21 maps. ISBN 9780415522168 Hbk. £80) pp. 878-879

Kiran Klaus Patel

Janice Traflet, A nation of small shareholders: marketing Wall Street after World War II ( Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Pp. xi + 242. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781421409023 Hbk. £23.50) pp. 879-880

Janette Rutterford

David Koistinen, Confronting decline: the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England ( Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. xii + 331. ISBN 9780813049076 Hbk. $74.95) pp. 880-881

David R. Meyer

B. R. Tomlinson, The economy of modern India from 1860 to the twenty-first century ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 250. 6 figs. 13 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781107605473 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 882-883

Tirthankar Roy

Kenneth Bertrams, Nicolas Coupain, and Ernst Homburg, Solvay: history of a multinational family firm ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 630. 46 figs. 5 illus. 45 tabs. ISBN 9781107024809 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 883-884

Christina Lubinski

Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Colli, eds., The endurance of family businesses: a global overview ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 288. 10 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781107037755 Hbk. £60) pp. 884-885

Mansel G. Blackford

Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig, eds., The business of black power: community development, capitalism and corporate America ( Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 343. 15 illus. 1 tab. ISBN 9781580464406 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 886-887

Michael J. French

William G. Martin, South Africa and the world economy: remaking race, state and region ( Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013. Pp. x + 271. 10 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781580464314 Hbk. £50) pp. 887-888

Leigh Gardner

Richard S. Grossman, Wrong: nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 265. ISBN 9780199322190 Hbk. £18.99) pp. 888-889

Nicholas Crafts

John Bonnett, Emergence and empire of history ( Montreal and Kingston, London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 371. ISBN 9780773542037 Pbk. £22.99) pp. 889-890

Robin Neill

David Greasley and Les Oxley, eds., Economics and history: surveys in cliometrics ( Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781444337808 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 890-891

Tamás Vonyó

Volume 67, month 05, 2014

Poor relief in Elizabethan English communities: an analysis of Collectors' accounts pp. 331-357

Marjorie K. McIntosh

Living standards and mortality since the middle ages pp. 358-381

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

Yeast or mushrooms? Productivity patterns across Swedish manufacturing industries, 1869–1912 pp. 382-408

Svante Prado

A mirror of history: China's bond market, 1921–42 pp. 409-434

Chun-Yu Ho and Dan Li

The impact of drought in early fourteenth-century England pp. 435-462

David Stone

Mechanization and the spatial distribution of industries in the German Empire, 1875 to 1907 pp. 463-491

Theresa Gutberlet

Raiffeisenism abroad: why did German cooperative banking fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands? pp. 492-516

Christopher Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin

The selection bias in court records: settlement and trial in eighteenth-century Ottoman Kastamonu pp. 517-534

Metin Cosgel and Boğaç A. Ergene

A ‘blank cheque'? Portuguese Second World War sterling balances, 1940–73 pp. 535-555

Marcelo Paiva Abreu

‘Such unjustificable practices’?: Irish trade, settlement, and society in France, 1688–1715 pp. 556-577

Siobhan Talbott

Alan Rogers, Noble merchant: William Browne (c.1410–1489) and Stamford in the fifteenth century ( Bury St Edmunds: Arima Publishing, 2012. Pp. 362. 8 figs. ISBN 9781845495503 Pbk. £19.95) pp. 578-579

John A. McEwan

Christopher Dyer, A country merchant, 1495–1520: trading and farming at the end of the middle ages ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp xiii + 256. 24 tabs. 23 figs. ISBN 9780199214242 Hbk. £65) pp. 579-580

James Davis

John Broad, ed., Bishop Wake's summary of visitation returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706–1715, part 1: Lincolnshire ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xliii + 471. ISBN 9780197265185 Hbk. £95) John Broad, ed., Bishop Wake's summary of visitation returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706–1715, part 2: outside Lincolnshire (Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire) ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 520. ISBN 9780197265192 Hbk. £95) pp. 580-581

J. V. Beckett

Shinsuke Satsuma, Britain and colonial maritime war in the early eighteenth century. Silver, seapower and the Atlantic ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 284. 5 illus. ISBN 9781843838623 Hbk. £65) pp. 582-582

Nuala Zahedieh

Matthew Kadane, The watchful clothier: the life of an eighteenth-century Protestant capitalist ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 302. ISBN 9780300169614 Hbk. £35) pp. 583-584

Giorgio Riello

Jon Stobart, Sugar and spice: grocers and groceries in provincial England, 1650–1830 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp xiii + 303. 8 figs. 48 tabs. ISBN 9780199577927 Hbk. £65) pp. 584-585

Ian Mitchell

David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby, The single homemaker and material culture in the long eighteenth century ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. x + 236. 10 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781409418153 Hbk. £65) pp. 585-586

Katie Barclay

James Taylor, Boardroom scandal: the criminalization of company fraud in nineteenth-century Britain ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 300. 10 illus. ISBN 9780199695799 Hbk. £60) pp. 586-587

John Turner

Trevor Griffiths, The cinema and cinema-going in Scotland, 1896–1950 ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. v + 354. ISBN 9780748638284 Hbk. £60) pp. 588-589

Annmarie Hughes

Mark Roodhouse, Black market Britain 1939–1955 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 276. 12 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780199588459 Hbk. £65) pp. 589-590

Rebecca Searle

Graham Hacche and Christopher Taylor, eds., Inside the Bank of England: memoirs of Christopher Dow, chief economist 1973–84 ( London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xi + 302. 15 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781137032300 Hbk. £70) pp. 590-592

Roger Middleton

Matthew Hilton, Nicholas J. Crowson, Jean-François Mouhot, and James McKay, A historical guide to NGOs in Britain: charities, civil society and the voluntary sector since 1945 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 399. 332 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780230304444 Hbk. £80) Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson, and Jean-François Mouhot, The politics of expertise: how NGOs shaped modern Britain ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 317. 22 figs. 2 tab. 5 illus. ISBN 9780199691876 Hbk. £35) pp. 592-593

Emily Baughan

Walter Scheidel, ed., The Cambridge companion to the Roman economy ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp xii + 443. 6 figs. ISBN 9780521726887 Pbk. £60/US$99) pp. 593-595

Candace M. Rice

Guido Guerzoni, Apollo & Vulcan: the art markets in Italy 1400–1700 ( East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. Pp. xxxix + 276. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781611860061 Hbk. $54.95) pp. 595-596

Thomas M. Bayer and John R. Page

Germano Maifreda, From oikonomia to political economy: constructing economic knowledge from the Renaissance to the scientific revolution ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. vii + 304. ISBN 9781409433019 Hbk. £70) pp. 596-597

Alessandro Roncaglia

Piet van Cruyningen and Erik Thoen, eds., Food supply, demand and trade: aspects of the economic relationship between town and countryside (middle ages–19th century) ( Turnhout: Brepols, 2012 ). Pp. x + 245. 48 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9782503512839 Pbk. €69) pp. 597-598

Daniel R. Curtis

Miguel A. López-Morell, The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812–1941 ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xviii + 449. 44 figs. 23 illus. 27 tabs. ISBN 9780754668008 Hbk. £75) pp. 599-600

José L. García-Ruiz

Gelina Harlaftis, Stig Tenold, and Jesús M. Valdaliso, eds., The world's key industry: history and economics of international shipping ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xiv + 305. 14 tabs. 13 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780230369146 Hbk. £65) pp. 600-601

Richard Sicotte

Douglas E. Haynes, Small town capitalism in western India: artisans, merchants and the making of the informal economy, 1870–1960 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 344. 17 illus. 2 maps. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780521193337 Hbk. £65/US$99) pp. 601-602

Bishnupriya Gupta

Martijn Konings, The development of American finance ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 199. ISBN 9780521195256 Hbk. £55/US$90) pp. 602-604

Christopher Kobrak

Hartmut Berghoff, Philip Scranton, and Uwe Spiekermann, eds., The rise of marketing and market research ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 312. 10 figs. ISBN 9780230341067 Hbk. £55) pp. 604-605

D. G. Brian Jones

A. Gandy, The early computer industry: limitations of scale and scope ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xvii + 348. 28 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9780230389106 Hbk. £70) pp. 605-606

Jeffrey Yost

Volume 67, month 02, 2014

Where have all the brides gone? Son preference and marriage in India over the twentieth century pp. 1-24

Bishnupriya Gupta

Wool and cloth production in late medieval and early Tudor England pp. 25-47

John Oldland

Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry pp. 48-65

Maria Stanfors, Tim Leunig, Björn Eriksson and Tobias Karlsson

Prices and production: agricultural supply response in fourteenth-century England pp. 66-91

Eric Schneider

Taking firms to the stock market: IPOs and the importance of large banks in imperial Germany, 1896–1913 pp. 92-122

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

The credit relationship between Henry III and merchants of Douai and Ypres, 1247–70 pp. 123-145

Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Tony K. Moore

De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the Middle East: reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and in the Izmir region pp. 146-169

Laura Panza

Transatlantic steerage fares, British and Irish migration, and return migration, 1815–60 pp. 170-191

John Killick

Debt policy under constraints: Philip II, the Cortes, and Genoese bankers pp. 192-213

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal and Christophe Chamley

Wars are becoming less frequent: a response to Harrison and Wolf pp. 214-230

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Steve Pickering

The frequency of wars: reply to Gleditsch and Pickering pp. 231-239

Mark Harrison and Nikolaus Wolf

Review of periodical literature published in 2012 pp. 240-293

Michael Costen, James Davis, Helen Paul, Patrick Walsh, Tom Crook, Aashish Velkar and Christopher Godden

Matthew Davies and James A. Galloway, eds., London and beyond: essays in honour of Derek Keene ( London: London Institute of Historical Research, 2012. Pp. xviii + 373. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781905165704 Hbk. £40) pp. 294-295

D. M. Palliser

Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward, London: a social and cultural history, 1550–1750 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 367. 53 figs. 4 maps. ISBN 9780521896528 Hbk. £16.99/$27.99) pp. 295-296

Jacob F. Field

Julian Hoppit, ed., Nehemiah Grew and England's economic development: the means of a most ample increase of the wealth and strength of England, 1706–7 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 114. ISBN 9780197264959 Hbk. £40) pp. 296-297

Adrian Williamson

Larry Neal, ‘I am not master of events’: the speculation of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 214. ISBN 9780300153163 Hbk. £35) pp. 297-298

Helen Julia Paul

Alysa Levene, The childhood of the poor: welfare in eighteenth-century London ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xii + 250. 6 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780230354807 Hbk. £55) pp. 298-300

Samantha Williams

Graeme Morton, Ourselves and others: Scotland 1832–1914 ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 312. 16 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780748620494 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 300-301

Alexander Murdoch

L. M. Cullen, Economy, trade and Irish merchants at home and abroad, 1600–1988 ( Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781846823190 Hbk. £50.00) pp. 301-302

Emmet O'Connor

Aashish Velkar, Markets and measurements in nineteenth-century Britain ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 362. 14 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781107023338 Hbk. £60) pp. 302-304

Alessandro Nuvolari

Ben Jones, The working class in mid twentieth-century England: community, identity and social memory ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+262. 14 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780719084737 Hbk. £65) pp. 304-305

Jim Phillips

Andrew Perchard, Aluminiumville: government, global business and the Scottish Highlands ( Lancaster: Crucible Books, 2012. Pp. xvi + 416. 7 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781905472154 Pbk. £14.99) pp. 305-306

Martin Chick

Claire Holleran, Shopping in ancient Rome: the retail trade in the late Republic and the Principate ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 304. 23 figs. 3 maps. ISBN 978019969219 Hbk. £65) pp. 306-307

Neville Morley

Sophus A. Reinert, Translating empire: emulation and the origins of political economy ( Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 438. 20 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9780674061514 Hbk. £40.95) Sophus A. Reinert, ed., Antonio Serra, A short treatise on the wealth and poverty of nations (1613), trans. Jonathan Hunt ( London: Anthem Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 260. 1 illus. ISBN 9780857289735 Hbk. £60) pp. 308-310

Keith Tribe

Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla and Patrick K. O'Brien with Francisco Comín Comín, eds., The rise of fiscal states: a global history, 1500–1914 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi + 471. 41 figs. 51 tabs. ISBN 9781107013513 Hbk. £65) pp. 310-311

Tuan-Hwee Sng

Tirthankar Roy, Natural disasters and Indian history ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 165. 3 figs. 1 map. ISBN 9780198075370 Pbk. £6.99) pp. 311-312

B. R. Tomlinson

Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not: global divergence, 1600–1850 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 365. 7 figs. 4 maps. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781107000308 Hbk. £55/$90) pp. 312-314

Neeraj Hatekar

Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell, eds., Africa, empire and globalization: essays in honour of A. G. Hopkins ( Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. Pp. xxiv + 657. 8 illus. 1 map. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781594609152 Hbk. £56.50/$80) pp. 314-315

William G. Clarence-Smith

Moramay López-Alonso, Measuring up: a history of living standards in Mexico, 1850–1950 ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 276. 19 figs. 12 photos. 31 tabs. ISBN 9780804773164 Hbk. £54.95) pp. 315-316

Colin M. Lewis

Gabriel Tortella and Gloria Quiroga, Entrepreneurship and growth: an international historical perspective ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xvi + 248. 62 tabs. ISBN 9781137033345 Hbk. £65) pp. 316-317

Niall G. Mackenzie

Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald Michie, eds., The origins of international banking in Asia: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 251. 20 figs. 52 tabs. ISBN 9780199646326 Hbk. £55) pp. 317-319

C. Edoardo Altamura

Gijsbert Oonk, Settled strangers: Asian business elites in East Africa (1800–2000) ( New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013. Pp. xix + 270. 6 figs. 3 photos. 4 tabs. ISBN 9788132110545 Hbk. £40) pp. 319-320

Sumita Mukherjee

Robert P. Wolensky and William A. Hastie, Anthracite labor wars: tenancy, Italians and organized crime in the northern coalfield of northeastern Pennsylvania, 1897–1959 ( Easton, PA: Canal History and Technology Press, 2013. Pp. 445. ISBN 9780930973421 Pbk. £15.55) pp. 320-321

Joseph Melling

Christian Fleck, A transatlantic history of the social sciences: robber barons, the Third Reich and the invention of empirical social research ( London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. Pp. ix + 406. 12 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 9781849662932 Hbk. £40) pp. 321-322

Keith Tribe

Michael B. Miller, Europe and the maritime world: a twentieth-century history ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 435. 11 figs. 4 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781107024557 Hbk. £65) pp. 322-323

Hugh Murphy

Louis Hyman, Debtor nation: the history of America in red ink ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 376. 10 illus. ISBN 9780691140681 Hbk. £24.95/$35) pp. 323-324

Michael French

Hein Klemann and Sergei Kudryashov, Occupied economies: an economic history of Nazi-occupied Europe, 1939–1945 ( Oxford: Berg, 2012. Pp. xii + 490. 13 figs. 11 plates. 39 tabs. ISBN 9781845208233 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 324-325

Richard Overy

Don Mitchell, They saved the crops: labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California ( Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 529. 5 maps. ISBN 9780820341767 Pbk. $26.95) pp. 326-327

R. Douglas Hurt

Lucia Coppolaro, The making of a world trading power: the European Economic Community (EEC) in the GATT Kennedy round negotiations (1963–67) ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Pp. xii + 237. 3 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781409433750 Hbk. £65) pp. 327-328

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

M. Bordo and R. MacDonald, eds., Credibility and the International Monetary Regime; a historical perspective ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 240. 39 figs. 47 tabs. ISBN 9780521811330 Hbk. £62) pp. 328-329

Catherine R. Schenk