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Volume 66, month 11, 2013

Machine tools and mass production in the armaments boom: Germany and the United States, 1929–44 pp. 953-974

Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Adam Tooze

Second World War spending and local economic activity in US counties, 1939–58 pp. 975-992

Price Fishback and Joseph A. Cullen

Gregory King and the economic structure of early modern England: an input–output table for 1688 pp. 993-1016

John Dodgson

The cost of railroad regulation: the disintegration of American agricultural markets in the interwar period pp. 1017-1038

Giovanni Federico and Paul Sharp

The impact of female employment on male salaries and careers: evidence from the English banking industry, 1890–1941 pp. 1039-1062

Andrew Seltzer

War, food rationing, and socioeconomic inequality in Germany during the First World War pp. 1063-1083

Matthias Blum

Party politics, political economy, and economic development in early eighteenth-century Britain pp. 1084-1100

Christopher Dudley

New annual estimates of Swedish GDP, 1800–2010 pp. 1101-1126

Rodney Edvinsson

The two sterling crises of 1964: a reply to Oliver pp. 1127-1133

Scott Newton

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2012 pp. 1134-1186

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

Harold S. A. Fox, Dartmoor's alluring uplands: transhumance and pastoral management in the middle ages ( Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 291. ISBN 9780859898645 Pbk. £30) pp. 1187-1188

Nicola Whyte

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Popular protest in late medieval English towns ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 375. 2 maps. ISBN 9781107027800 Hbk. £60) pp. 1188-1189

Stephen H. Rigby

Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths, Consumption and gender in the early seventeenth-century household: the world of Alice Le Strange ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 266. 16 figs. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780199233533 Hbk. £60) pp. 1189-1190

Felicity Heal

Jayne E. E. Boys, London's news press and the Thirty Years War ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 336. 4 figs. 6 plates. ISBN 978843836773 Hbk. £60) pp. 1190-1192

Paul Arblaster

Judith M. Spicksley, ed., The business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys: spinster of Hereford 1638–1648 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 413. 3 figs. 1 illus. 2 maps. 8 plates. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780197264324 Hbk. £90) pp. 1192-1193

Amy Froide

W. B. Stephens, The seventeenth-century customs service surveyed: William Culliford's investigation of the Western Ports, 1682–84 ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xx + 233. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781409438373 Hbk. £65) pp. 1193-1194

Richard Stone

H. V. Bowen, ed., Wales and the British overseas empire: interactions and influences, 1650–1830 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 200. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780719086205 Hbk. £60) pp. 1194-1195

Aled Jones

Jane McDermid, The schooling of girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800–1900 ( Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. ISBN 9780415181969 Hbk. £80) pp. 1195-1196

Ruth Watts

Carl J. Griffin, The rural war: Captain Swing and the politics of protest ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 360. 7 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9780719086267 Hbk. £70) pp. 1197-1198

Richard Sheldon

Tanja Bueltmann, David T. Gleeson, and Don MacRaild, eds., Locating the English diaspora, 1500–2010 ( Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 246. 2 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781846318191 Hbk. £65) pp. 1198-1199

Emily Buchnea

Richard Huzzey, Freedom burning: anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain ( Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 303. 17 figs. ISBN 9780801451089 Hbk. £18.50) pp. 1199-1200

Helen Julia Paul

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, The British textile trade in South America in the nineteenth century ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 403. 38 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781107021297 Hbk. £60) pp. 1200-1201

Peter Sims

John Benson, Keith Gildart, James Jaffe, and Quentin Outram, eds., Coal in Victorian Britain parts I and II: vols. 1–6 ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. Vol. 1, pp. xxxiv + 495; vol. 2, pp. xiv + 485; vol. 3, pp. xix + 476. ISBN 9781848930605 Hbk. £275.Vol. 4, pp. xix + 330; vol. 5, pp. xxxv + 461; vol. 6 and index, pp. xli + 577. ISBN 9781848930612 Hbk. £275) pp. 1202-1203

Peter Kirby

Nicholas Lambert, Planning Armageddon: British economic warfare and the First World War ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 651. ISBN 9780674061491 Hbk. £33.95) pp. 1203-1204

Hugh Rockoff

Forrest H. Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood, Money over two centuries: selected topics in British monetary history ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 367. 43 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780199655120 Hbk. £65) pp. 1204-1205

Roger Middleton

Nicholas Wapshott, Keynes Hayek: the clash that defined modern economics ( New York: Norton, 2011. Pp. xiv + 382. ISBN 9780393077483 Hbk. £19.99) pp. 1205-1207

Jim Tomlinson

Anabel Thomas, Garrisoning the borderlands of medieval Siena: Sant'Angelo in Colle: frontier castle under the government of the Nine (1287–1355) ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xix + 422. 20 illus. 8 plates. 18 tabs. ISBN 9781409426035 Hbk. £58.50) pp. 1207-1208

Caterina Bruschi

Jacques le Goff, Money and the middle ages: an essay in historical anthropology ( Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. Pp. vi + 178. ISBN 9780745652993 Pbk. £15.99) pp. 1208-1209

N. J. Mayhew

Francesco Ammannati, ed., Religion and religious institutions in the European economy 1000–1800 ( Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 862. ISBN 9788866551232 Pbk. €65.00) pp. 1209-1211

R. N. Swanson

Tirthankar Roy, India in the world economy: from antiquity to the present ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 288. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781107401471 Pbk. £18.99) pp. 1211-1212

Ghulam A. Nadri

Robert Lee, ed., Commerce and culture: nineteenth-century business elites ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 343. 22 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780754663980 Hbk. £70) pp. 1212-1213

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Alasdair Roberts, America's first great depression: economic crisis and political disorder after the panic of 1837 ( Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. 255. ISBN 9780801450334 Hbk. £15.95) pp. 1213-1214

Adam Costanzo

Tilmann J. Röder, From industrial to legal standardization, 1871–1914: transnational insurance law and the Great San Francisco Earthquake ( Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012. Pp. xviii + 350. 14 tabs. ISBN 9789004212374 Hbk. $136) pp. 1214-1216

Aashish Velkar

Beatrice Moring, ed., Female economic strategies in the modern world ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. Pp. xiii + 201. 39 tabs. ISBN 9781848933507 Hbk. £60) pp. 1216-1217

Jennifer Aston

John A. Consiglio, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva, and Gabriel Tortella (with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser ), eds., Banking and finance in the Mediterranean: a historical perspective ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xv + 336. 16 figs. 32 tabs. ISBN 9781409429845 Hbk. £65) pp. 1217-1218

Gelina Harlaftis

Kenneth D. Garbade, Birth of a market: the US treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression ( Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 393. ISBN 9780262016377 Hbk. £34.95) pp. 1219-1220

Matthew Jaremski

Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds., The rise of the modern firm ( Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012. Pp. xiii + 701. ISBN 9781848447813 Hbk. £235) pp. 1220-1220

Paolo Di Martino

Peter Borscheid and Niels Viggo Haueter, eds., World insurance: the evolution of a global risk network ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 729. ISBN 9780199657964 Hbk. £95) pp. 1221-1222

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Heinz D. Kurz, Tamotsu Nishizawa, and Keith Tribe, eds., The dissemination of economic ideas ( Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011. Pp. vi + 367. 2 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780857935571 Hbk. £83.70) pp. 1222-1223

Mauro Boianovsky

Hugh Rockoff, America's economic way of war: war and the US economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 357. 4 boxes. 29 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780521676731 Pbk. £50) pp. 1223-1224

Avner Offer

David George, The rhetoric of the right: language change and the spread of the market ( Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xxiii + 175. 83 tabs. ISBN 9780415679978 Hbk. £80) pp. 1224-1225

Roger Middleton

Harold James, Making the European Monetary Union: the role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the origins of the European Central Bank ( Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 567. 18 figs. ISBN 9780674066830 Hbk. £25) pp. 1225-1227

Geoffrey Wood

Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, and Paul Thomes, eds., Technological innovation in retail finance: international historical perspectives ( London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xvi + 319. 15 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780415880671 Hbk. £85) pp. 1227-1228

Anthony Gandy

Amanda Kay McVety, Enlightened aid: US development as foreign policy in Ethiopia ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 297. ISBN 9780199796915 Hbk. £45) pp. 1228-1229

Tobias Hagmann

Volume 66, month 08, 2013

The lure of aggregates and the pitfalls of the patriarchal perspective: a critique of the high wage economy interpretation of the British industrial revolution pp. 693-714

Jane Humphries

Contract enforcement in Russian serf society, 1750–1860 pp. 715-732

Tracy Dennison

Real inequality in the early modern Low Countries: the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1500–1660 pp. 733-756

Jord Hanus

Nutrition in the English agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century pp. 757-784

Ian Gazeley and Sara Horrell

Hand looms, power looms, and changing production organizations: the case of the Kiryū weaving district in early twentieth-century Japan pp. 785-804

Tomoko Hashino and Keijiro Otsuka

Colonies, copper, and the market for inventive activity in England and Wales, 1680–1730 pp. 805-825

Nuala Zahedieh

Competition in the Rhine delta: waterways, railways and ports, 1870–1913 pp. 826-847

Hein A. M. Klemann and Joep Schenk

Geographies of wealth: real estate and personal property ownership in England and Wales, 1870–1902 pp. 848-872

David r. Green and Alastair Owens

The first income tax, political arithmetic, and the measurement of economic growth pp. 873-894

S. J. Thompson

Measuring business cycles in the Russian Empire pp. 895-916

Thomas C. Owen

Nicholas Orme and Jon Cannon, Westbury-on-Trym: monastery, minster and college ( Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2010. Pp. xii + 276. 14 figs. 16 plates. ISBN 9780901538314 Hbk. £15) pp. 917-918

Philip Slavin

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Poor relief in England 1350–1600 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 352. ISBN 9781107015081 Hbk. £60) pp. 918-919

Richard Smith

Helen Bradley, The views of the hosts of alien merchants 1440–1444 ( Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2012. Pp. lviii + 337. ISBN 9780900952500 Hbk. £25) pp. 920-921

Catherine Casson

John Bohstedt, The politics of provisions: food riots, moral economy, and market transition in England, c. 1550–1850 ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 312. 7 figs. 5 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780754665816 Hbk. £65) pp. 921-922

Richard Sheldon

Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor, Shareholder democracies? Corporate governance in Britain & Ireland before 1850 ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 339. 18 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9780226261874 Hbk. £42) pp. 922-923

Janette Rutterford

Samantha Williams, Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law: 1760–1834 ( Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011. Pp. xiii + 190. 18 figs. 1 map. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780861933143 Hbk. £50) pp. 924-925

Marjorie Levine-Clark

Virginia Bainbridge, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Wiltshire, vol. XVIII. Cricklade and environs ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010. Pp. xvi + 313. 51 figs. 22 maps. ISBN 9781904356189 Hbk. £95/$180) Christopher C. Thornton and Herbert Eiden, eds., The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Essex, vol. XI. Clacton, Walton and Frinton: north-east Essex seaside resorts ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012. Pp. xx + 373. 117 figs. 17 colour plates. ISBN 9781904356394 Hbk. £95/$180) pp. 925-927

Jon Stobart

Martin Cohen, The eclipse of ‘elegant economy’: the impact of the Second World War on attitudes to personal finance in Britain ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xx + 235. ISBN 9781409439721 Hbk. £65) pp. 927-928

Nicole Robertson

Matthias Matthijs, Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945–2005) ( London: Routledge, 2011. Pp. xiv + 258. 15 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780415579445 Hbk. £95) pp. 928-929

Jim Tomlinson

Roger Middleton, ed., Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the diary of an ‘irregular’, 1964–6 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press/The British Academy, 2012. Pp. xxi + 229. 8 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780197265000 Hbk. £50) pp. 929-930

Glen O'Hara

Mark Häberlein, The Fuggers of Augsburg: pursuing wealth and honor in Renaissance Germany ( Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 286. ISBN 9780813932446 Hbk. £34.50) pp. 931-932

Matthew Vester

Georg Christ, Trading conflicts: Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in late medieval Alexandria ( Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xviii + 365. 16 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9789004221994 Hbk. US$ 212) pp. 932-933

Adam Sabra

David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., The Cambridge world history of slavery. Volume 3. AD 1420–AD 1804 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 762. 5 figs. 4 maps. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780521840682 Hbk. £110/$180) pp. 933-934

Kenneth Morgan

Thomas Buchner and Philip R. Hoffmann-Rehnitz, eds., Shadow economies and irregular work in urban Europe: 16th to early 20th centuries ( Vienna and Münster: LIT, 2011. Pp. 219. 3 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9783825806880 Hbk. €29.90) pp. 934-936

Eleonora Canepari

Fabio López Lázaro, The misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: the true adventures of a Spanish-American with 17th-century pirates ( Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 240. ISBN 9780292726314 Hbk. $55) pp. 936-937

Arne Bialuschewski

Gary B. McCollim, Louis XIV's assault on privilege: Nicolas Desmaretz and the tax on wealth ( Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 317. 2 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781580464147 Hbk. £65) pp. 937-938

Helen Paul

Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Economic development in the Americas since 1500: endowments and institutions ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxv + 417. 3 figs. 58 tabs. ISBN 9780521251372 Pbk. £22.99) pp. 938-939

Kenneth Lipartito

Alessandro Stanziani, Rules of exchange: French capitalism in comparative perspective, eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 313. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781107003866 Hbk. ₤55/$90) pp. 939-940

George Grantham

Birsen Bulmuş, Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 195. ISBN 9780748646593 Hbk. £65/$105) pp. 940-942

A. M. White

Robin Law, ed., Dahomey and the ending of the trans-Atlantic slave trade: the journals and correspondence of Vice-Consul Louis Fraser, 1851–1852 ( London: The British Academy, 2012. Pp. 287. 2 maps. ISBN 9780197265215 Hbk. £55) pp. 942-943

Malcolm Dick

Michael Schiltz, The money doctors from Japan: finance, imperialism, and the building of the yen bloc, 1895–1937 ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 290. 1 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780674062498 Hbk. £29.95/$39.95) pp. 943-944

Jonathan Kirshner

José Luis Malo de Molina and Pablo Martín-Aceña, eds., The Spanish financial system: growth and development since 1900 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xviii + 444. 1 fig. 49 tabs. 74 illus. 6 maps. ISBN 9780230350045 Hbk. £70) pp. 944-946

J. Carles Maixé-Altés

Anders Ögren and Lars Fredrik Øksendal, eds., The gold standard peripheries: monetary policy, adjustment and flexibility in a global setting ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xviii + 265. 58 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780230343171 Hbk. £65/$110) pp. 946-947

Duncan Needham

Yann Decorzant, La Société des Nations et la naissance d'une conception de la régulation économique internationale ( Brussels: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 467. ISBN 9789052017518 Pbk. £46) pp. 947-948

Marta Stachurska-Kounta

Herausgegeben von Christoph Buchheim and Marcel Boldorf, Europäische Volkswirtschaften unter deutscher Hegemonie 1938–1945 ( Munich: Oldenbourg Akademie Verlag, 2012. Pp. viii + 270. ISBN 9783486709506 Hbk. €54.80) pp. 948-949

Armin Grünbacher

William M. McClenahan, Jr., and William H. Becker, Eisenhower and the Cold War economy ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 304. ISBN 9781421402659 Hbk. £28.50) pp. 949-950

Armin Grünbacher

Elizabeth Heineman, Before porn was legal: the erotic empire of Beate Uhse ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. 225. ISBN 0226325210. Hbk. £22.50/$35) pp. 951-952

Josie McLellan

Volume 66, month 05, 2013

Childhood and child labour in the British industrial revolution pp. 395-418

Jane Humphries

The remarkable wealth of the Dutch Cape Colony: measurements from eighteenth-century probate inventories pp. 419-448

Johan Fourie

Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: rural F rance, 1750–1850 pp. 449-476

Neil Cummins

Alien finance and the development of the English economy, 1285–1311 pp. 477-496

Pamela Nightingale

‘Armament in depth’ or ‘armament in breadth’? German investment pattern and rearmament during the Nazi period pp. 497-517

Jonas Scherner

The productivity of peasant agriculture: Oakington, Cambridgeshire, 1360–99 pp. 518-544

Alexandra Sapoznik

Portuguese living standards, 1720–1980, in European comparison: heights, income, and human capital pp. 545-578

Yvonne Stolz, Joerg Baten and Jaime Reis

The market in freehold land, 1300–1509: the evidence of feet of fines pp. 579-600

Margaret Yates

Making sense of immigration policy: A rgentina, 1870–1930 pp. 601-627

Blanca Sanchez-Alonso

Royal paternalism and the moral economy in the reign of E dward II: the response to the G reat F amine pp. 628-647

Buchanan Sharp

Neil Christie and Paul Stamper, eds., Medieval rural settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 ( Oxford: Windgather Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 369. 113 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781905119424 Hbk. £30) pp. 648-649

Mark Page

Ben Dodds and Christian D. Liddy, eds., Commercial activity, markets and entrepreneurs in the middle age: essays in honour of Richard Britnell ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 256. 7 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781843836841 Hbk. £55) pp. 649-650

Chris Briggs

Philip Slavin, Bread and ale for the brethren: the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory 1260–1536 ( Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 220. 18 figs. 45 tabs. ISBN 9781907396632 Pbk. £18.99/$37.95) pp. 650-651

Christopher Dyer

Sam Turner and Bob Silvester, eds., Life in medieval landscapes. People and places in the middle ages: papers in memory of H. S. A. Fox ( Oxford: Windgather Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 296. ISBN 9781905119400 Pbk. £30) pp. 652-653

Richard Britnell

Michael Hicks, ed., The fifteenth-century inquisitions post mortem: a companion ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. Pp. xviii + 253. 31 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781843837121 Hbk. £50) pp. 653-654

Nigel Saul

Joseph M. Fewster, The keelmen of Tyneside: labour organisation and conflict in the north-east coal industry, 1600–1830 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. x + 222. 4 illus. ISBN 9781843836322 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 654-655

Malcolm Chase

Carl Wennerlind, Casualties of credit: the English financial revolution, 1620–1720 ( Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 348. ISBN 9780674047389 Hbk. £29.95) pp. 655-656

Helen Julia Paul

Jonathan Harlow, ed., The Ledger of Thomas Speed, 1681–1690 ( Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2011. Pp. lii + 553. ISBN 9780901538321 Hbk. £15) pp. 656-657

S. D. Smith

Hugh Gault, The quirky Dr Fay: a remarkable life ( Cambridge: Gretton Books, 2011. Pp. x + 244. 3 illus. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780956204158 Pbk. £11.99) pp. 657-659

Pat Hudson

T. M. Devine, To the ends of the Earth: Scotland's global diaspora 1750–2010 ( London: Penguin Group, 2011. Pp. xiii + 397. 36 illus. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780713997446 Hbk. £25) pp. 659-660

Eric Richards

Thomas Cate, ed., Keynes's general theory seventy-five years later ( Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. Pp. x + 346. ISBN 9781845424114 Hbk. £95) pp. 660-661

G. C. Peden

Susan Howson, Lionel Robbins ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 1161. 30 illus. ISBN 9781107002449 Hbk. £90/$135) pp. 661-662

Chris Godden

Andrew Thompson, Britain's experience of empire in the twentieth century ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 356. ISBN 9780199236589 Hbk. £35) pp. 663-664

Neville Kirk

Jessica Dijkman, Shaping medieval markets: the organisation of commodity markets in Holland c. 1200–c.1450 ( Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. xvi + 447. 15 illus. 10 tabs. ISBN 9789004201484 Hbk. €129/$183) pp. 664-665

Job Weststrate

Frank Trentmann, ed., The Oxford handbook of the history of consumption ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 695. 15 figs. ISBN 9780199561216 Hbk. £95) pp. 665-666

Matthew Anderson

Bjørn Poulsen and Søren Michael Sindbæk, eds., Settlement and lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia ( Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2011. Pp. xvii + 337. 18 figs. 2 illus. 16 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9782503531311 Hbk. £95) pp. 667-668

John Hines

Tom Scott, The city-state in Europe, 1000–1600 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 382. 14 maps. ISBN 9780199274604 Hbk. £35) pp. 668-669

Luca Zavagno

Francois Gipouloux, The Asian Mediterranean: port cities and trading networks in China, Japan and southeast Asia, 13th–21st century ( Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. Pp. x + 407. ISBN 9780857934260 Hbk. £95) pp. 669-670

Derek Heng

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) pp. 670-671

Emmet O'Connor

José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo and Michael Limberger, eds., Taxation and debt in the early modern city ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. Pp. xvi + 272. 8 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781848931855 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 672-673

Laura Cruz

Tijl Vanneste, Global trade and commercial networks: eighteenth-century diamond merchants ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011. Pp. 181 + 86. 3 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781848930872 Hbk. £60) pp. 673-674

Edgar Samuel

Natacha Coquery, Tenir boutique à Paris au XVIII-super-e siècle: luxe et demi-luxe ( Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2011. Pp. 401. ISBN 9782735507337 Pbk. €28) pp. 674-675

Claire Lemercier

G. Balachandran, Globalizing labour? Indian seafarers and world shipping, c. 1870–1945 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 318. 22 figs. ISBN 9780198078845 Hbk. £30) pp. 675-676

Helen Doe

Raouf Abbas and Assem El-Dessouky, The large landowning class and the peasantry in Egypt, 1837–1952 ( Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 293. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780815632870 Hbk. $29.95) pp. 676-678

Aaron G. Jakes

Joseph V. Femia and Alasdair J. Marshall, eds., Vilfredo Pareto: beyond disciplinary boundaries ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. Pp. xi + 201. 3 figs. ISBN 9780754679950 Hbk. £55) pp. 678-679

Fabrizio Bientinesi

Marcel P. Timmer, Robert Inklaar, Mary O'Mahony, and Bart van Ark, Economic growth in Europe: a comparative industry perspective ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 292. 40 figs. 59 tabs. ISBN 9780521098875 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 679-680

Roger Middleton

Luciano Segreto, I Feltrinelli: Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854–1942) ( Italy: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore Milano, 2011. Pp. 487. ISBN 9788807111150 Pbk. €28.00/£23.40) pp. 680-681

Alberto Rinaldi

Laurent Warlouzet, Le choix de la CEE par la France: l'Europe économique en débat de Mendès France à de Gaulle (1955–1969) ( Paris: Comité pour I'histoire économique et financière de la France, 2010. Pp. ix + 569. ISBN 9782110975171 Pbk. €40) pp. 682-683

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

Eric Jabbari, Pierre Laroque and the welfare state in postwar France ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 188. ISBN 9780199289639 Hbk. £60) pp. 683-684

Alain Chatriot

William Lazonick and David J. Teece, eds., Management innovation: essays in the spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 378. 15 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780199695683 Hbk. £55) pp. 684-685

Leslie Hannah

Richard Vahrenkamp, The logistic revolution: the rise of logistics in the mass consumption society ( Brandsberg: Josef Eul Verlag GmbH, 2012. Pp. vii + 281. ISBN 9783844101188 Pbk. £48.99/€59) pp. 685-686

Jonathan Winkler

Kent Deng, China's political economy in modern times: changes and economic consequences, 1800–2000 ( London and New York: Routledge, 2011. Pp. xxi + 296. 11 figs. 65 tabs. ISBN 9780415674058 Hbk. £85) pp. 687-688

George Bryan Souza

Harold James, Krupp: a history of the legendary firm ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. 360. ISBN 9780691153407 Hbk. £24.95) pp. 688-689

Armin Grünbacher

Richard A. Hawkins, A Pacific industry: the history of pineapple canning in Hawaii ( London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. xiii + 273. 21 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781848855960 Hbk. £56.50) pp. 689-690

Sumner La Croix

Mark Jackson, ed., The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 672. 4 illus. 1 tab. ISBN 9780199546497 Hbk. £95/$150) pp. 690-691

Jonathan Reinarz

Volume 66, month 02, 2013

The rise and fall of Spain (1270–1850) pp. 1-37

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal and Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Spending, saving, or investing? Risk management in sixteenth-century Dutch households pp. 38-56

Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tine De Moor

Through the magnifying glass: provincial aspects of industrial growth in post-Unification Italy pp. 57-85

Carlo Ciccarelli and Stefano Fenoaltea

Rural labour markets and rural conflict in Spain before the Civil War (1931–6) pp. 86-108

Jordi Domenech

Big business and small states: Unilever and Norway in the interwar years pp. 109-131

Pål Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli

Contingent capital and bank risk-taking among British banks before the First World War pp. 132-155

Richard Grossman and Masami Imai

The Great Deflation of 1929–33: it (almost) had to happen pp. 156-177

Sandeep Mazumder and John H. Wood

Demanding ‘credible commitment’: public reactions to the failures of the early financial revolution pp. 178-197

Anne L. Murphy

The English monetary economy, c. 973–1100: the contribution of single-finds pp. 198-225

Rory Naismith

Credit, reputation, and masculinity in British urban commerce: Edinburgh, c. 1710–70 pp. 226-248

K. Tawny Paul

Domestic service, gender, and wages in rural England, c.1700–1860 pp. 249-272

Jacob F. Field

Matchmaking and moneymaking in a patronage society: the first duke and duchess of Chandos, c. 1712–35 pp. 273-296

Rosemary O'Day

Review of periodical literature published in 2011 pp. 297-349

Rosamond Faith, James Davis, Helen Paul, Anne L. Murphy, Tom Crook, Aashish Velkar and Chris Godden

D. Hey, L. Liddy and D. Luscombe, eds., A monastic community in local society: the Beauchief Abbey Cartulary ( Camden Society, 5th ser., vol. 40, 2011. Pp. viii + 304. 1 illus. 2 maps. ISBN 9781107016460 Hbk. £45/$80) pp. 350-350

John S. Moore

Catherine A. M. Clarke, Mapping the medieval city: space, place and identity in Chester c. 1200–1600 ( Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 244. 10 figs. ISBN 9780708323922 Hbk. £48) pp. 351-352

Stephen H. Rigby

Nicholas R. Amor, Late medieval Ipswich: trade and industry ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 300. 4 figs. 6 maps. 6 plates. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781843836735 Hbk. £50/$90) David Rollison, Commune, country and commonwealth: the people of Cirencester, 1117–1643 ( Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 283. 2 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781843836711 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 352-354

Richard Britnell

John Hare, A prospering society: Wiltshire in the later middle ages ( Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 240. 7 figs. 15 plates. 33 tabs. ISBN 9781902806853 Pbk. £35/$88) pp. 354-355

James Davis

Richard W. Hoyle, ed., Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. x + 317. 10 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781409400523 Hbk. £65) pp. 355-356

Peter Edwards

Alan Rogers, ed., The act book of St Katherine's gild, Stamford, 1480–1534 ( Bury St Edmunds: Abramis Academic Publishing and Stamford Survey Group, 2011. Pp. iv + 299. 2 plates. ISBN 9781845495091 Pbk. £19.95) Constance M. Fraser, ed., The court rolls of the manor of Wakefield from October 1433 to September 1436. Vol. 15 of the Wakefield court rolls series of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society ( Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2011. Pp. xix + 248. 1 map. ISBN 9781903564615 Pbk. £15) pp. 356-358

Mark Bailey

T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald, eds., The Oxford handbook of modern Scottish history ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+ 707. 13 tabs. 34 figs. ISBN 9780199563692 Hbk. £95) pp. 358-359

Alexander Murdoch

Catherine Pickett, Bibliography of the East India Company: books, pamphlets and other materials printed between 1600 and 1785 ( London: British Library, 2011. Pp. 301. ISBN 9780712658446 Hbk. £50/$75) pp. 359-360

Anthony Webster

Douglas W. Allen, The institutional revolution: measurement and the economic emergence of the modern world ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press: 2012. Pp xiv + 267. 2 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780226014746 Hbk. $30.00) pp. 360-361

Graham Brownlow

Kathryn J. Cooper, Exodus from Cardiganshire: rural–urban migration in Victorian Britain ( Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 249. 28 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780708323991 Pbk. £24.99) pp. 361-362

Colin G. Pooley

Donnacha Seán Lucey, Land, popular politics and agrarian violence in Ireland: the case of County Kerry, 1872–86 ( Dublin: University College Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 270. 3 illus. 2 maps. ISBN 9781906359669 Pbk. €28) Emmet O'Connor, A Labour history of Ireland 1824–2000 ( Dublin: University College Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 329. 13 plates. ISBN 9781906359560 Pbk. €28) pp. 362-364

D. A. J. Macpherson

Ann Oakley, A critical woman: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century ( London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. Pp. xix + 426. 31 plates. ISBN 9781849664684 Hbk. £30) pp. 364-365

Jim Tomlinson

Robert J. Bennett, Local business voice: the history of chambers of commerce in Britain, Ireland, and revolutionary America 1760–2011 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 936. ISBN 9780199584734 Hbk. £95) pp. 365-367

Pete Bounous

Deirdre McCloskey, Bourgeois dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 571. ISBN 9780226556741 Pbk. £14.50) pp. 367-368

Michael Best and Jane Humphries

Robert C. Allen, Global economic history: a very short introduction ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 170. 20 illus. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780199596652 Pbk. £7.99/$11.95) pp. 368-369

Pat Hudson

David Graeber, Debt: the first 5,000 years ( Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2011. Pp. 534. ISBN 9781933633862 Hbk. £55/US $32) pp. 369-371

Judith Spicksley

Norbert Gaillard, A century of sovereign ratings ( New York and London: Springer, 2011. Pp. x + 196. 25 figs. 112 tabs. ISBN 9781461405221 Hbk. £81/$119) pp. 371-372

Rui Esteves

Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Richard Rodger, eds., Environmental and social justice in the city. Historical perspectives ( Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 286. 20 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781874267614 Hbk. £65.00/US$90.00/€75.00) pp. 372-373

R. J. Morris

Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison, Economic origins of Roman Christianity ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 269. 1 fig. 5 tabs. ISBN 9780226200026 Hbk. £29/$45) pp. 373-374

Neville Morley

James Graham-Campbell, Søren M. Sindbæk, and Gareth Williams, eds., Silver economies, monetisation and society in Scandinavia AD 800–1100 ( Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2011. Pp. 380. 62 illus. ISBN 9788779345850 Hbk. £40.00) pp. 374-375

Rory Naismith

Susan Rose, The wine trade in medieval Europe 1000–1500 ( London and New York: Continuum, 2011. Pp. xviii + 197. 12 illus. 3 maps. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780826425843 Hbk. £65/$120) pp. 375-376

Evan Jones

Leonor Freire, Pedro Lains, and Susana Miranda, História económica de Portugal 1143–2010 ( Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros, 2011, Pp. 516. 10 figs. 54 tabs. ISBN 9789896263461 Pbk. €26) pp. 376-377

Rui Esteves

John Tutino, Making a new world: founding capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America ( Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 698. 19 illus. 9 maps. ISBN 9780822349891 Pbk. £19.99; Hbk. £75) pp. 377-379

William Schell

Nelly Hanna, Artisan entrepreneurs in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600–1800) ( Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 244. ISBN 9780815632795 Hbk. £30.50/$34.95) pp. 379-380

Sevket Pamuk

Paul A. van Dyke, Merchants of Canton and Macao: politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade ( Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxii + 545. 7 tabs. ISBN 9789888028917 Hbk. £69.50/$80) pp. 380-381

John D. Wong

Rebecca Shumway, The Fante and the transatlantic slave trade ( Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 232. 15 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781580463911 Hbk. £40/$85) pp. 381-382

John K. Thornton

Jaap R. Bruijn, Commanders of Dutch East India ships in the eighteenth century ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 336. 36 illus. 2 maps. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781843836223 Hbk. £75/$130) pp. 382-384

Leonard Blussé

Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter, The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850–2000 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xiii + 329. 40 figs. 1 map. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780230273665 Hbk. £67.50) pp. 384-385

Giorgio Riello

Stefano Fenoaltea, The reinterpretation of Italian economic history. From unification to the Great War ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi + 296. 25 figs. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780521192385 Hbk. £50/$85) pp. 385-386

Paolo Di Martino

James Simpson, Creating wine: the emergence of a world wine industry, 1840–1914 ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxvii + 318. 30 figs. 13 maps. 53 tabs. ISBN 9780691136035 Hbk. £27.95/$39.50) pp. 386-387

Ian M. Taplin

Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Youssef Cassis, eds., Financial centres and international capital flows in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 269. 29 figs. 37 tabs. ISBN 9780199603503 Hbk. £60/$110) pp. 388-389

Geoffrey Jones

Douglas A. Irwin, Trade policy disaster: lessons from the 1930s ( Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 195. 23 figs. 4 illus. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780262016711 Hbk. £17.95/$25.00) pp. 389-390

Peter Fearon

James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield, eds., John Kenneth Galbraith ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xi + 251. ISBN 9780230242685 Hbk. £65/$100) pp. 390-391

Scott Newton

Gail D. Triner, Mining and the state in Brazilian development ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. xviii + 253. 21 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781848930681 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 391-392

Aldo Musacchio

Richard Pomfret, The age of equality: the twentieth century in economic perspective ( Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011. Pp. xi + 283. 3 figs. 2 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780674062177 Hbk. $28.95/£21.95) pp. 393-393

Martin Chick