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Volume 64, month February, 2011

Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815–1913: a new comparison pp. 1-29

Astrid Kander and Paul Warde

Editors’ introduction pp. 1-7

Stephen Broadberry and Steve Hindle

Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India pp. 8-38

Robert Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Debin Ma, Christine Moll‐murata and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Disciplining the ‘black sheep of the Balkans’: financial supervision and sovereignty in Bulgaria, 1902–38 pp. 30-51

Adam Tooze and Martin Ivanov

Prices, the military revolution, and western Europe's comparative advantage in violence pp. 39-59

Philip Hoffman

Poverty in Edwardian Britain pp. 52-71

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

Indigo and law in colonial India pp. 60-75

Tirthankar Roy

New series for agricultural prices in London, 1770–1914 pp. 72-87

Peter M. Solar and Jan Tore Klovland

Wages, unions, and labour productivity: evidence from Indian cotton mills pp. 76-98

Bishnupriya Gupta

‘Children of the city’: juvenile justice, property, and place in England and Scotland, 1945–60 pp. 88-113

Louise A. Jackson and Angela Bartie

Technological leadership and late development: evidence from Meiji Japan, 1868–1912 pp. 99-116

John Tang

Silver production and the money supply in England and Wales, 1086–c.1500 pp. 114-131

Martin Allen

Human capital, migration, and a ‘vent’ for surplus rural labour in 1930s China: the case of the Lower Yangzi pp. 117-141

James Kung, Nansheng Bai and Yiu‐fai Lee

The choice of fuel in the eighteenth‐century iron industry: the Coalbrookdale accounts reconsidered pp. 132-156

Peter King

Height and living standards in North Korea, 1930s–1980s pp. 142-158

Sunyoung Pak, Daniel Schwekendiek and Hee Kyoung Kim

Who comprised the nation of shareholders? Gender and investment in Great Britain, c. 1870–1935 pp. 157-187

Janette Rutterford, David R. Green, Josephine Maltby and Alastair Owens

Ottoman de‐industrialization, 1800–1913: assessing the magnitude, impact, and response pp. 159-184

Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Investor behaviour in a nascent capital market: Scottish bank shareholders in the nineteenth century pp. 188-213

Graeme G. Acheson and John Turner

‘Veritable gold mines before the arrival of railway competition’: but did dividends signal rates of return in the English canal industry? pp. 214-236

A. J. Arnold and S. McCARTNEY

Scrip as private money, monetary monopoly, and the rent‐seeking state in Britain pp. 237-255

Elaine Tan

Review of periodical literature published in 2009 pp. 256-304

Rosamond Faith, P. R. Schofield, Jonathan Healey, Anne L. Murphy, Kate Bradley, James Taylor and Graham Brownlow

Urban assimilation in post‐conquest Wales: ethnicity, gender and economy in Ruthin, 1282–1348 – By Matthew Frank Stevens pp. 305-306

Brendan Smith

Benjamin Worsley (1618–1677): trade, interest and the spirit in revolutionary England – By Thomas Leng pp. 306-307

Nuala Zahedieh

Famine in Scotland: the ‘ill years’ of the 1690s – By Karen J. Cullen pp. 307-308

Cormac Ó Gráda

Behind closed doors: at home in Georgian England – By Amanda Vickery pp. 308-310

Jason M. Kelly

The foundations of female entrepreneurship: enterprise, home and household in London, c. 1800–1870 – By Alison C. Kay pp. 310-311

Jane Hamlett

The feminine public sphere: middle‐class women and civic life in Scotland, c. 1870–1914 – By Megan Smitley pp. 311-312

Moira Martin

Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law – By Peter Atkins pp. 312-313

Jim Phillips

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: a portrait with family and friends – By Lluís Barbé, Mary C. Black, trans pp. 313-315

Peter Groenewegen

Churchill's children: the evacuee experience in wartime Britain – By John Welshman pp. 315-316

Sandra Trudgen Dawson

Redefining British politics: culture, consumerism and participation, 1954–70 – By Lawrence Black pp. 316-317

Richard Toye

The return to Keynes – Edited by Bradley Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo pp. 317-318

G. C. Peden

City and cosmos: the medieval world in urban form – By Keith D. Lilley pp. 319-320

Trevor Dean

Wilhelm Röpke's political economy – By Samuel Gregg pp. 320-321

Jeremy Leaman

The world of private banking – By Youssef Cassis and Philip L. Cottrell, with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser pp. 321-323

John Turner

Monetary policy over fifty years, experiences and lessons – Edited by Heinz Herrmann pp. 323-324

Michael J. Oliver

Notaries in early modern Rome – By Laurie Nussdorfer pp. 324-325

Matthew Vester

The Byzantine economy – By Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrison pp. 325-327

Archibald Dunn

The political economy of Ottoman public debt: insolvency and European financial control in the late nineteenth century – By Murat Birdal pp. 327-328

Metin Cosgel

Recovery and development in the European periphery (1945–1960) – Edited by Andrea Bonoldi and Andrea Leonardi pp. 328-330

Ivan T. Berend

Segregation—integration—assimilation: religious and ethnic groups in the medieval towns of central and eastern Europe – By Derek Keene, Balázs Nagy, and Katalin Szende pp. 330-331

Maria Craciun

Gender and housing in Soviet Russia: private life in a public space – By Lynne Attwood pp. 331-332

Melanie Ilic

Sacred economies: Buddhist monasticism and territoriality in medieval China – By Michael J. Walsh pp. 332-333

Charles B. Jones

Structures of change in the mechanical age: technological innovation in the United States, 1790–1865 – By Ross Thomson pp. 334-335

Paul Israel

Louis D. Brandeis and the making of regulated competition, 1900–1932 – By Gerald Berk pp. 335-336

Melvin I. Urofsky

A history of the Federal Reserve – By Allan H. Meltzer pp. 336-337

Forrest Capie

The future of the dollar – Edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathon Kirshner pp. 338-339

Bernard Foley

Why America is not a new Rome – By Vaclav Smil pp. 339-340

Neville Morley

Death before birth: fetal health and mortality in historical perspective – By Robert Woods pp. 340-341

Bernard Harris

How India clothed the world: the world of south Asian textiles, 1500–1850 – Edited by Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy pp. 341-342

Ghulam Nadri

The spinning world: a global history of cotton textiles, 1200–1850 – By Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi pp. 342-344

R. C. Nash

Permeable walls: historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting – Edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz pp. 344-345

R. A. Houston

Human capital and institutions: a long‐run view – Edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff pp. 345-346

Joan Rosés

The evolution of path dependence – Edited by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson pp. 347-348

Douglas J. Puffert

Greed, lust and gender: a history of economic ideas – By Nancy Folbre pp. 348-349

Julie Nelson

Economists and societies: discipline and profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s – By Marion Fourcade pp. 349-350

Roger Middleton

Corrigendum: Were British railway companies well managed in the early twentieth century? pp. 351-356

Nicholas Crafts, Tim Leunig and Abay Mulatu

Volume 64, month 11, 2011

Did the Glorious Revolution contribute to the transport revolution? Evidence from investment in roads and rivers pp. 1073-1112

Dan Bogart

Sustainability of public debt: evidence from Japan before the Second World War pp. 1113-1143

Masato Shizume

Consumption and material culture in sixteenth‐century Ireland pp. 1144-1174

Susan Flavin

Seebohm Rowntree and secondary poverty, 1899–1954 pp. 1175-1194

Mark Freeman

The earl of Derby and his tenants: sales of Royalist land during the Interregnum revisited pp. 1195-1217

Melanie Harrington

The rate of return on equity across industrial sectors on the British stock market, 1825–70 pp. 1218-1241

Charles R. Hickson, John Turner and Qing Ye

Storage in medieval England: the evidence from purveyance accounts, 1295–1349 pp. 1242-1265

Jordan Claridge and John Langdon

Did the 48‐hour week damage Britain's industrial competitiveness? pp. 1266-1288

Peter Scott and Anna Spadavecchia

The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth‐century London pp. 1289-1314

Romola Davenport, Leonard Schwarz and Jeremy Boulton

The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth‐century London: a commentary pp. 1315-1335

Peter Razzell

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2010 pp. 1336-1381

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

The Dublin region in the middle ages: settlement, land‐use and economy – By Margaret Murphy and Michael Potterton pp. 1382-1383

Brendan Smith

Britain and the sea since 1600 – By Glen O'Hara pp. 1383-1384

Helen Doe

Welfare's forgotten past: a socio‐legal history of the poor law – By Lorie Charlesworth pp. 1384-1385

Simon Szreter

Energy and the English industrial revolution – By E. A. Wrigley pp. 1386-1387

Jan de Vries

Childhood and child labour in the British industrial revolution – By Jane Humphries pp. 1387-1388

Peter Kirby

The East India Company's London workers: management of the warehouse labourers, 1800–1858 – By Margaret Makepeace; The East India Company's maritime service, 1746–1834: masters of the eastern seas – By Jean Sutton pp. 1388-1390

Andrew Popp

The foundations of British maritime ascendancy: resources, logistics and the state, 1755–1815 – By Roger Morriss pp. 1390-1391

Glen O'Hara

The voice of Liverpool business: the first chamber of commerce and the Atlantic economy – By Robert J. Bennett pp. 1392-1393

McDADE Katie

The rise and fall of the Scottish cotton industry, 1778–1914: ‘the secret spring’– By Anthony Cooke pp. 1393-1394

Jim Tomlinson

A history of everyday life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 – Edited by Trevor Griffiths and Graeme Morton pp. 1394-1395

Katie Barclay

The Victorian reinvention of race: new racisms and the problem of grouping in the human sciences – By Edward Beasley pp. 1395-1396

Colin Kidd

G. W. M. Reynolds: nineteenth‐century fiction, politics, and the press – Edited by Anne Humpherys and Louis James pp. 1396-1398

James Thompson

Managing the body: beauty, health and fitness in Britain, 1880–1939 – By Ina Zweiniger‐Bargielowska pp. 1398-1399

John Welshman

No wealth but life: welfare economics and the welfare state in Britain, 1880–1945 – Edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa pp. 1399-1401

John Maloney

Lyndall Urwick, management pioneer: a biography – By Edward Brech, Andrew Thomson, and John F. Wilson pp. 1401-1402

Trevor Boyns

Keynes on the wireless – Edited by Donald E. Moggridge pp. 1402-1403

Roger Middleton

Keynes's general theory after seventy years – Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Robert A. Mundell, and Alessandro Vercelli pp. 1403-1404

G. C. Peden

Rural economy and society in north‐western Europe, 500–2000. Social relations: property and power – Edited by Bas J. P. van Bavel and Richard W. Hoyle, in association with Stefan Brakensiek, Piet van Cruyningen, Chris C. Dyer, Mats Morell, and Nadine Vivier pp. 1405-1406

Stephen H. Rigby

Medieval capital markets: markets for renten, state formation and private investment in Holland (1300–1550) – By C. J. Zuijderduijn pp. 1406-1407

Luciano Pezzolo

German reparations, 1919–1932: a historical survey – By Leonard Gomes pp. 1407-1409

Robert Boyce

Historical monetary and financial statistics for Sweden, vol. 1 – Edited by Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson, and Daniel Waldenstrom pp. 1409-1410

Marc Flandreau

States and statistics in the nineteenth century: Europe by numbers – By Nico Randeraad, translated from the Dutch by Debra Molnar pp. 1410-1411

Edward Higgs

The Atlantic slave trade (new edition) – By Herbert S. Klein pp. 1411-1413

Stephen D. Behrendt

Children in slavery through the ages – Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Josephe C. Miller pp. 1413-1414

Paul E. Lovejoy

Company of kinsmen: enterprise and community in south Asian history 1700–1940 – By Tirthankar Roy pp. 1414-1415

Claude Markovits

Networks of empire, forced migration in the Dutch East India Company – By Kerry Ward pp. 1415-1416

Leonard Blussé

The gold standard at the turn of the twentieth century: rising powers, global money and the age of empire – By Steven Bryan pp. 1416-1417

Mark Metzler

Has Latin America always been unequal? A comparative study of asset and income inequality in the long twentieth century – By Ewout Frankema pp. 1417-1419

Leticia Arroyo Abad

Aboriginal Dreaming paths and trading routes: the colonisation of the Australian economic landscape – By Dale Kerwin pp. 1419-1420

Bill Gammage

The market revolution in America: liberty, ambition and the eclipse of the common good – By John Lauritz Larson pp. 1420-1421

Candice L. Harrison

New deal banking reforms and Keynesian welfare state capitalism – By Ellen D. Russell pp. 1421-1423

Price Fishback

The force of fashion in politics and society: global perspectives from early modern to contemporary times – Edited by Beverly Lemire pp. 1423-1424

Rohan McWilliam

The development of international insurance – Edited by Robin Pearson pp. 1424-1425

Geoffrey Clark

Bourgeois dignity: why economics can't explain the modern world – By Deirdre N. McCloskey pp. 1425-1427

Pat Hudson

Volume 64, month 08, 2011

Macroeconomic policy in Britain between the wars pp. i-xxxi

Roger Middleton

Was there an ‘industrious revolution’ before the industrial revolution? An empirical exercise for England, c. 1300–1830 pp. 715-729

Robert Allen and Jacob Weisdorf

Did children's education matter? Family migration as a mechanism of human capital investment: evidence from nineteenth‐century Bohemia pp. 730-764

Alexander Klein

Plantation accounting and management practices in the US and the British West Indies at the end of their slavery eras pp. 765-797

Richard K. Fleischman, David Oldroyd and Thomas N. Tyson

How good was the profitability of British railways, 1870–1912? pp. 798-831

Brian Mitchell, David Chambers and Nicholas Crafts

The veterinary medicine industry in Britain in the twentieth century pp. 832-854

T. A. B. Corley and Andrew Godley

The role of the Spanish imperial state in the mining‐led growth of Bourbon Mexico's economy pp. 855-884

Rafael Dobado González and Gustavo Marrero

Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth‐century England pp. 885-904

Jon Stobart

Social capital and trade associations in America, c. 1860–1914: a microhistory approach pp. 905-928

Francesca Carnevali

Regional value added in Italy, 1891–2001, and the foundation of a long‐term picture pp. 929-950

Emanuele Felice

Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910–50 pp. 951-972

Timothy Hatton

The supplier network and aircraft production in wartime Japan pp. 973-994

Tetsuji Okazaki

Independent invention during the rise of the corporate economy in Britain and Japan pp. 995-1023

Tom Nicholas

The king's Jews: money, massacre and exodus in medieval England – By Robin R. Mundill pp. 1024-1025

Joseph Shatzmiller

The Pilgrims' complaint: a study of popular thought in the early Tudor north – By Michael Bush pp. 1025-1026

R. W. Hoyle

Society in early modern England: the vernacular origins of some powerful ideas – By Phil Withington pp. 1026-1027

Tim Hitchcock

The capital and the colonies: London and the Atlantic economy, 1660–1700 – By Nuala Zahedieh pp. 1027-1029

Trevor Burnard

The British cotton trade, 1660–1815 – By Beverly Lemire pp. 1029-1030

Pat Hudson

Warwickshire hearth tax returns: Michaelmas 1670, with Coventry Lady Day – Edited by Tom Arkell, with Nat Alcock pp. 1030-1032

Henry French

A history of Doughty's Hospital Norwich, 1687–2009 – By Nigel Goose and Leanne Moden pp. 1032-1033

Martin Gorsky

Datchworth tithe accounts, 1711–1747 – Edited by Jane Walker pp. 1033-1034

Steven Hobbs

Pauper capital: London and the poor law, 1790–1870 – By David R. Green pp. 1035-1036

Samantha A. Shave

The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793–1815: management competence and incompetence – By Janet Macdonald; Sustaining the fleet, 1793–1815: war, the British navy and the Contractor State – By Roger Knight and Martin Wilcox pp. 1036-1038

Ann Coats

Empire and globalisation: networks of people, goods and capital in the British world, c.1850–1914 – By Gary B. Magee and Andrew S. Thompson pp. 1038-1040

Ian Phimister

Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history – By Emma Robertson pp. 1040-1041

Wendy Webster

War and welfare: British prisoner of war families, 1939–45 – By Barbara Hately‐Broad pp. 1041-1042

Penny Summerfield

Voluntary action and illegal drugs: health and society in Britain since the 1960s – By Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge pp. 1042-1043

Mathew Thomson

An economic history of Europe: knowledge, institutions and growth, 600 to the present – By Karl Gunnar Persson pp. 1043-1045

Gregory Clark

Why Europe? The medieval origins of its special path – By Michael Mitterauer pp. 1045-1046

Richard Britnell

The development of leasehold in northwestern Europe, c.1200–1600 – Edited by Bas J. P. van Bavel and Phillipp R. Schofield pp. 1046-1047

Richard Britnell

Money, morality, and culture in late medieval and early modern Europe – Edited by Juliann Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal pp. 1048-1049

Lawrin Armstrong

Trading places: the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice – By Maartje van Gelder pp. 1049-1050

Anastasia Stouraiti

Paying for the liberal state: the rise of public finance in nineteenth‐century Europe – Edited by José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains pp. 1050-1051

Joost Jonker

Exploring the food chain: food production and food processing in western Europe, 1850–1990 – Edited by Yves Segers, Jan Bieleman, and Erik Buyst pp. 1051-1052

Jim Phillips

New World gold: cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain – By Elvira Vilches pp. 1053-1054

Carla Rahn Phillips

Pashmina: the Kashmir shawl and beyond – By Janet Rizvi with Monisha Ahmed pp. 1054-1055

Michelle Maskiell

Trade and trust in the eighteenth‐century Atlantic world: Spanish merchants and their overseas networks – By Xabier Lamikiz pp. 1055-1056

Adrian Pearce

Edge of crisis: war and trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789–1808 – By Barbara H. Stein and Stanley J. Stein pp. 1057-1058

Regina Grafe

Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria: a review of current debates – Edited by John Haldon pp. 1058-1059

Michael G. Morony

Autos and progress: the Brazilian search for modernity – By Joel Wolfe pp. 1060-1061

Aldo Musacchio

The history of black business in America: capitalism, race, entrepreneurship. Vol. I, to 1865 – By Juliet K. Walker pp. 1061-1062

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey

The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650–2000 – Edited by Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra‐Kuperus, and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk pp. 1062-1063

Pat Hudson

Convergence and divergence of national financial systems: evidence from the gold standards, 1817–1971 – Edited by Patrice Baubeau and Anders Ogren pp. 1063-1064

Paolo Di Martino

Intellectual property rights, development, and catch‐up – Edited by Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Goto, Atsushi Sunami, and Richard R. Nelson pp. 1065-1066

Keith Maskus

The living wage: lessons from the history of economic thought – By Donald R. Stabile pp. 1067-1068

James Thompson

Top incomes: a global perspective – Edited by Anthony B. Atkinson and Thomas Piketty pp. 1068-1069

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Capital ideas: the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization – By Jeffrey M. Chwieroth pp. 1069-1071

Marion Fourcade

Volume 64, month 05, 2011

Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution pp. 357-384

Robert Allen

The spread of empire: Clio and the measurement of colonial borrowing costs pp. 385-407

Olivier Accominotti, Marc Flandreau and Riad Rezzik

The nature and historical evolution of an exceptional fiscal state and its possible significance for the precocious commercialization and industrialization of the British economy from Cromwell to Nelson pp. 408-446

Patrick O'Brien

The evolution of markets in early modern Europe, 1350–1800: a study of wheat prices pp. 447-471

Victoria Bateman

Depression dynamics: a new estimate of the Anglo‐American manufacturing productivity gap in the interwar period pp. 472-492

Herman de Jong and Pieter Woltjer

Worth, age, and social status in early modern England pp. 493-530

Alexandra Shepard and Judith Spicksley

Labour migration and economic performance: London and the Randstad, c. 1600–1800 pp. 531-570

Jelle van Lottum

Substitutes for legal protection: corporate governance and dividends in Victorian Britain pp. 571-597

Gareth Campbell and John Turner

The price of improvements: agrarian contracts and agrarian development in nineteenth‐century eastern Spain pp. 598-620

Samuel Garrido and Salvador Calatayud

New, disaggregated, British railway total factor productivity growth estimates, 1875 to 1912 pp. 621-643

John Dodgson

Explaining nineteenth‐century bilateralism: economic and political determinants of the Cobden–Chevalier network pp. 644-668

Markus Lampe

Records, administration and aristocratic society in the Anglo‐Norman realm – Edited by Nicholas Vincent pp. 669-671

John S. Moore

Manors and maps in rural England, from the tenth century to the seventeenth – By Paul D. A. Harvey pp. 669-669

Nigel Saul

Medieval cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland – By G. R. C. Davis; Edited by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith pp. 671-672

John S. Moore

Land and family: trends and local variations in the peasant land market on the Winchester bishopric estates, 1263–1415 – By John Mullan and Richard Britnell pp. 672-673

Mark Page

The foundations of gentry life: the Multons of Frampton and their world, 1270–1370 – By Peter Coss pp. 673-675

Deborah Youngs

Survival and discord in medieval society: essays in honour of Christopher Dyer – Edited by Richard Goddard, John Landon, and Miriam Müller pp. 675-676

Brendan Smith

The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of York: East Riding, vol. VIII: East Buckrose: Sledmere and the Northern Wolds – By David Neave and Susan Neave. The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Sussex, vol. V, pt. 2: Littlehampton and District. Arundel Rape (south‐eastern part) – Edited by C. P. Lewis pp. 676-678

Jon Stobart

Household servants in early modern England – By Roger C. Richardson pp. 678-679

Judith Spicksley

Parents of poor children in England, 1580–1800 – By Patricia Crawford pp. 679-680

Tanya Evans

The diary of Antera Duke: an eighteenth‐century African slave trader – By Stephen D. Behrendt, A. John H. Latham, and David Northrup pp. 680-681

Robin Law

The price of emancipation: slave‐ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery – By Nicholas Draper pp. 681-683

Kenneth Morgan

Ireland and the industrial revolution: the impact of the industrial revolution on Irish industry, 1801–1922 – By Andy Bielenberg pp. 683-684

Philip Ollerenshaw

Regulating health and safety in the British mining industries, 1800–1914 – By Catherine Mills pp. 684-685

Jamie L. Bronstein

Breaking new ground: nineteenth‐century allotments from local sources – Edited by Jeremy Burchardt and Jacqueline Cooper pp. 685-686

Nicola Verdon

Making the market: Victorian origins of corporate capitalism – By Paul Johnson pp. 686-688

Ranald Michie

The tide of democracy: shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 1870–1950 – By Alastair J. Reid pp. 688-689

Hugh Murphy

The Co‐operative movement and communities in Britain, 1914–1960: minding their own business – By Nicole Robertson pp. 689-691

Peter Davis

Youth culture in modern Britain, c.1920–c.1970: from ivory tower to global movement—a new history – By David Fowler pp. 691-692

James Thompson

Money, oil, and empire in the Middle East: sterling and postwar imperialism, 1944–1971 – By Steven G. Galpern pp. 692-693

Scott Newton

The decline of sterling: managing the retreat of an international currency, 1945–1992 – By Catherine R. Schenk pp. 693-694

David James Gill

Revolutionary commerce: globalization and the French monarchy – By Paul Cheney pp. 695-696

William Doyle

In hock: pawning in America from independence through the Great Depression – By Wendy A. Woloson pp. 696-697

Lendol Calder

Labor, industry and regulation during the progressive era – By Daniel E. Saros pp. 697-699

Terrence McDonough

Gone is the ancient glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534–2000 – By James Robertson pp. 699-700

Nuala Zahedieh

Slavery in Brazil – By Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna pp. 700-701

Douglas C. Libby

China and the birth of globalization in the 16th century – By Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez pp. 701-702

Kent G. Deng

The Japanese consumer: an alternative economic history of modern Japan – By Penelope Francks pp. 702-704

Scott O'Bryan

Beauty imagined: a history of the global beauty industry – By Geoffrey Jones pp. 704-705

Johan Söderberg

What objects mean: an introduction to material culture – By Arthur Asa Berger pp. 705-706

Karin Dannehl

Empire, development and colonialism: the past in the present – Edited by Mark Duffield and Vernon Hewitt pp. 707-708

David Nally

Protection for exporters: power and discrimination in transatlantic trade relations, 1930–2010 – By Andreas Dür pp. 708-709

Tim Rooth

A cultural history of finance – By Irene Finel‐Honigman pp. 709-710

Peter James Hudson

The origins of the twenty‐first century: an essay on contemporary social and economic history – By Gabriel Tortella pp. 711-712

Jim Tomlinson

Free riding – By Richard Tuck pp. 712-713

James Thompson

Volume 64, month 02, 2011

Editors’ introduction pp. 1-7

Stephen Broadberry and Steve Hindle

Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India pp. 8-38

Robert Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Debin Ma, Christine Moll-Murata and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Prices, the military revolution, and western Europe's comparative advantage in violence pp. 39-59

Philip Hoffman

Indigo and law in colonial India pp. 60-75

Tirthankar Roy

Wages, unions, and labour productivity: evidence from Indian cotton mills pp. 76-98

Bishnupriya Gupta

Technological leadership and late development: evidence from Meiji Japan, 1868–1912 pp. 99-116

John Tang

Human capital, migration, and a ‘vent’ for surplus rural labour in 1930s China: the case of the Lower Yangzi pp. 117-141

James Kung, Nansheng Bai and Yiu-Fai Lee

Height and living standards in North Korea, 1930s–1980s pp. 142-158

Sunyoung Pak, Daniel Schwekendiek and Hee Kyoung Kim

Ottoman de-industrialization, 1800–1913: assessing the magnitude, impact, and response pp. 159-184

Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson