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Volume 63, month 11, 2010

The imposed gift of Versailles: the fiscal effects of restricting the size of Germany's armed forces, 1924–9 pp. 849-864

Max Hantke and Mark Spoerer

Regulation, rent‐seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy pp. 865-890

Nuala Zahedieh

Occupational classification in the South African census before ISCO‐58 pp. 891-914

A. J. Christopher

Parish apprenticeship and the old poor law in London pp. 915-941

Alysa Levene

Is it still helpful to talk about proto‐industrialization? Some suggestions from a Catalan case study pp. 942-973

Julie Marfany

Famine as agricultural catastrophe: the crisis of 1622–4 in east Lancashire pp. 974-1002

R. W. Hoyle

‘The rules of the game’: London finance, Australia, and Canada, c.1900–14 pp. 1003-1031

Andrew Dilley

Errors expected: the culture of credit in rural New England, 1750–1800 pp. 1032-1057

Daniel Vickers

The allocation of merchant capital in early Tudor London pp. 1058-1080

John Oldland

Gold, credit, and mortality: distinguishing deflationary pressures on the late medieval English economy pp. 1081-1104

Pamela Nightingale

Advertising, promotion, and the competitive advantage of interwar British department stores pp. 1105-1128

Peter Scott and James Walker

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2009 pp. 1129-1164

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

Markets, trade and economic development in England and Europe, 1050–1550 – By Richard H. Britnell pp. 1165-1166

James Davis

A commonwealth of the people: popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066–1649 – By David Rollison pp. 1166-1167

Ronald Hutton

A common agricultural heritage? Revising French and British rural divergence – Edited by John Broad pp. 1167-1168

George Grantham

William Petty and the ambitions of political arithmetic – By Ted McCormick pp. 1169-1170

Edward Higgs

The origins of the English financial markets: investment and speculation before the South Sea Bubble – By Anne L. Murphy pp. 1170-1171

Ranald Michie

The Derby philosophers: science and culture in British urban society, 1700–1850 – By Paul A. Elliott pp. 1171-1172

P. M. Jones

British immigration to the United States, 1776–1914, Vols. I: Building a nation, 1776–1828; II: The age of Jackson, 1829–47; III: The developing nation, 1848–59; IV: Civil war and industry, 1860–1914 – Edited by William E. Van Vugt pp. 1172-1173

Eric Richards

The twilight of the East India Company: the evolution of Anglo‐Asian commerce and politics, 1790–1860 – By Anthony Webster pp. 1173-1175

B. R. Tomlinson

Regulated lives: life insurance and British society, 1800–1914 – By Timothy Alborn pp. 1175-1176

Michael Moss

The making of the Irish poor law, 1815–43 – By Peter Gray pp. 1176-1177

Maria Luddy

Murder and morality in Victorian Britain: the story of Madeleine Smith – By Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair pp. 1177-1178

Kathryn Gleadle

On the far western front: Britain's First World War in South America – By Phillip A. Dehne pp. 1179-1179

Raul García‐heras

Poverty, philanthropy and the state: charities and the working classes in London, 1918–79 – By Katharine Bradley pp. 1180-1181

Bernard Aspinwall

The British insurance industry since 1900: the era of transformation – By Robert L. Carter and Peter Falush pp. 1181-1182

Robin Pearson

Business in Britain in the twentieth century: decline and renaissance? – Edited by Richard Coopey and Peter Lyth pp. 1182-1183

Scott Newton

Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems – Edited by Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson pp. 1183-1184

Neville Morley

Trade and industry in early modern Italy – By Domenico Sella pp. 1185-1186

Maria Fusaro

The political economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder: decline of the German model? – By Jeremy Leaman pp. 1186-1187

Mathieu Denis

The idea of work in Europe from antiquity to modern times – Edited by Josef Ehmer and Catharina Lis pp. 1187-1188

Deborah Simonton

The fiscal‐military state in eighteenth‐century Europe: essays in honour of P. G. M. Dickson – Edited by Christopher Storrs pp. 1188-1189

Michael Braddick

Supervision and authority in industry: western European experiences, 1830–1939 – Edited by Patricia van den Eeckhout pp. 1189-1190

Andrew Perchard

Europe at the seaside: the economic history of mass tourism in the Mediterranean – Edited by Luciano Segreto, Carles Manera, and Manfred Pohl pp. 1191-1192

Laurent Tissot

Relentless change: a casebook for the study of Canadian business history – By Joe Martin pp. 1192-1193

Graham D. Taylor

Towards modern public finance: the American war with Mexico, 1846–1848 – By James W. Cummings pp. 1193-1194

Howard Bodenhorn

Politics, markets and Mexico's ‘London debt’, 1823–1887 – By Richard J. Salvucci pp. 1194-1195

Norbert Gaillard

Development and growth in the Mexican economy: a historical perspective – By Juan Carlos Moreno‐Brid and Jaime Ros pp. 1195-1197

Jeffrey Bortz

Livestock, sugar and slavery: contested terrain in colonial Jamaica – By Verene A. Shepherd pp. 1197-1198

Christer Petley

The new Oxford history of New Zealand – Edited by Giselle Byrnes pp. 1198-1199

Malcolm McKinnon

Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history – By Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast pp. 1199-1201

Knick Harley

The Palgrave encyclopedia of world economic history since 1750 – By Graham Bannock and Ron Baxter pp. 1201-1202

Richard A. Hawkins

This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly – By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff pp. 1202-1203

Paolo Di Martino

The great interwar crisis and the collapse of globalisation – By Robert Boyce pp. 1203-1204

Tim Rooth

A history of entrepreneurship – By Robert F. Hébert and Albert N. Link pp. 1205-1206

Mark Casson

Intellectual property rights and the life science industries: past, present and future – By Graham Dutfield pp. 1206-1207

Alessandro Nuvolari

The creation and destruction of value: the globalization cycle – By Harold James pp. 1207-1208

Olivier Accominotti

Volume 63, month 08, 2010

The economics of abundance: coal and cotton in Lancashire and the world pp. 569-590

Theo Balderston

The role of mercantilism in Anglo‐Dutch political relations, 1650–74 pp. 591-611

Gijs Rommelse

Stuart London's standard of living: re‐examining the Settlement of Tithes of 1638 for rents, income, and poverty pp. 612-637

William C. Baer

Retail growth and consumer changes in a declining urban economy: Antwerp (1650–1750) pp. 638-663

Bruno Blondé and Ilja van Damme

Political fragmentation, competition, and investment decisions: the medieval grinding industry in Ponthieu, France, 1150–1250 pp. 664-687

Karine van der Beek

Pre‐colonial culture, post‐colonial economic success? The Tswana and the African economic miracle pp. 688-709

Jonas Hjort

The limits of globalization in the early modern world pp. 710-733

Jan de Vries

Yorkshire and Lancashire ascendant: England's textile exports to New York and Philadelphia, 1750–1805 pp. 734-768

Peter Maw

Energy as an indicator of modernization in Latin America, 1890–1925 pp. 769-804

Maria del Mar Rubio Varas, Cesar Yañez, Mauricio Folchi and Albert Carreras

Farming to halves: the hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times – By Elizabeth Griffiths and Mark Overton pp. 805-806

Michael Turner

Medieval domesticity: home, housing and household in medieval England – Edited by Maryanne Kowaleski and Jeremy Goldberg pp. 806-808

Peter Coss

The world of the medieval shipmaster: law, business and the sea, c.1350–1450 – By Robin Ward pp. 808-809

Evan Jones

Medieval parks of Hertfordshire – By Anne Rowe pp. 809-810

Robert Liddiard

Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. XXV: 16–20 Henry VI (1437–1442) – Edited by Claire Noble Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. XXVI: 21–25 Henry VI (1442–1447) – Edited by Matthew L. Holford pp. 810-811

Benjamin Linley Wild

The Bristol and Gloucestershire lay subsidy of 1523–1527 – By Michael A. Faraday pp. 811-812

Pamela Nightingale

The locksmith craft in early modern Edinburgh – By Aaron M. Allen pp. 812-814

James R. Farr

Women, crime and justice in England since 1660 – By Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson pp. 814-815

John Carter Wood

A lost frontier revealed: regional separation in the east midlands – By Alan Fox pp. 815-816

Diana Newton

The Guernsey merchants and their world in the Georgian era – By Gregory Stevens Cox pp. 816-818

David J. Starkey

The world's first railway system: enterprise, competition and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain – By Mark Casson pp. 818-819

Terry Gourvish

Wealth and life: essays on the intellectual history of political economy in Britain, 1848–1914 – By Donald Winch pp. 819-820

Keith Tribe

The Irish establishment, 1879–1914 – By Fergus Campbell pp. 820-821

D. A. J. Macpherson

100 years of state pension: learning from the past – By Tony Slater, Andrew Bryans, Colin Redman, and Martin Hewitt pp. 822-822

Bernard Harris

British conservatism and trade unionism, 1945–1964 – By Peter Dorey pp. 823-823

Chris Wrigley

An economic and social history of later medieval Europe, 1000–1500 – By Steven A. Epstein pp. 823-825

Richard W. Unger

Migrants and urban change – By Anne Winter pp. 825-826

Leslie Page Moch

A small nation in the turmoil of the Second World War: money, finance and occupation (Belgium, its enemies, its friends, 1939–1945) – By Herman van der Wee and Monique Verbreyt pp. 826-827

Dirk Luyten

The statistical mind in modern society: the Netherlands, 1850–1940. Vol. I: Official statistics, social progress and modern enterprise; Vol. II: Statistics and scientific work – Edited by Jacques G. S. J. van Maarseveen, Paul M. M. Klep, and Ida H. Stamhuis pp. 827-828

Frits Bos

Impossible engineering: technology and territoriality on the Canal du Midi – By Chandra Mukerji pp. 829-830

Sophus A. Reinert

Common land, wine and the French Revolution: rural society and economy in southern France, c.1789–1820 – By Noelle Plack pp. 830-831

William Doyle

La République des inventeurs: propriété et organisation de l'innovation en France (1791–1922) – By Gabriel Galvez‐Behar pp. 831-832

Liliane Pérez

Commercial agreements and social dynamics in medieval Genoa – By Quentin van Doosselaere pp. 832-834

Richard Lachmann

Fathers and godfathers: spiritual kinship in early‐modern Italy – By Guido Alfani pp. 834-835

Tom Ericsson

Central European crossroads: social democracy and national revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867–1921 – By Pieter C. van Duin pp. 835-836

Angela Harre

From coffee to tea cultivation in Ceylon, 1880–1900: an economic and social history – By Roland Wenzlhuemer pp. 836-837

Bishnupriya Gupta

Government and the American economy: a new history – By Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary D. Libecap, John Joseph Wallis, Stanley L. Engerman, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Sumner J. La Croix, Robert A. Margo, Robert A. McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E. C. Pasour, Jr., Randal R. Rucker, and Werner Troesken pp. 837-839

Avner Offer

Nation, state and the industrial revolution: the visible hand – By Lars Magnusson pp. 839-840

Gregory Clark

The race between education and technology – By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz pp. 840-841

Michelle Connolly

The Routledge companion to accounting history – Edited by John Richard Edwards and Stephen P. Walker pp. 841-842

Derek Matthews

Bridging the early modern Atlantic world: people, products, and practices on the move – By Caroline A. Williams pp. 842-844

Kenneth Morgan

Empires and colonies – By Jonathan Hart pp. 844-845

Stephen Howe

Communications under the seas: the evolving cable network and its implications – Edited by Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang pp. 845-846

Martin Chick

The hesitant hand: taming self‐interest in the history of economic ideas – By Steven G. Medema pp. 846-847

Peter Groenewegen

Volume 63, month 05, 2010

Nature as historical protagonist: environment and society in pre‐industrial England pp. 281-314

Bruce M. S. Campbell

Explaining stunting in nineteenth‐century France pp. 315-334

Gilles Postel‐vinay and David Sahn

Illegitimacy, paternal financial responsibility, and the 1834 Poor Law Commission Report: the myth of the old poor law and the making of the new pp. 335-361

Thomas Nutt

South Carolina indigo, European textiles, and the British Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century pp. 362-392

R. C. Nash

Urban population in late medieval England: the evidence of the lay subsidies pp. 393-417

Stephen H. Rigby

The colonial roots of land inequality: geography, factor endowments, or institutions? pp. 418-451

Ewout Frankema

New evidence and new methods to measure human capital inequality before and during the industrial revolution: France and the US in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries pp. 452-478

Dorothee Crayen and Joerg Baten

The changing distribution of earnings in Ireland, 1937 to 1968 pp. 479-499

Anthony Atkinson and Brian Nolan

Does hedonic price indexing change our interpretation of economic history? Evidence from Swedish electrification pp. 500-523

Harald Edquist

The world before Domesday: the English aristocracy, 900–1066 – By Ann Williams pp. 524-525

John S. Moore

Lords and lordship in the British Isles in the late middle ages – By Rees R. Davies pp. 525-526

Richard Britnell

Land and people in late medieval England – By Bruce M. S. Campbell pp. 526-527

Brendan Smith

Agriculture and rural society after the Black Death: common themes and regional variations – Edited by Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell pp. 527-529

Christine M. Newman

Parks in medieval England – By Stephen A. Mileson pp. 529-530

Mark Page

The world of the Stonors: a gentry society – By Elizabeth Noble pp. 530-531

Christopher Dyer

Plenti and grase: food and drink in a sixteenth‐century household – By Mark Dawson pp. 531-532

C. M. Woolgar

Bristol's trade with Ireland and the Continent, 1503–1601: the evidence of the exchequer customs accounts – Edited by Susan Flavin and Evan T. Jones pp. 532-533

Stuart Jenks

West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783–1807 – By David Beck Ryden pp. 533-534

B. W. Higman

Slavery and the British empire: from Africa to America – By Kenneth Morgan pp. 535-536

Kirsty Reid

Replenishing the earth: the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo‐world, 1783–1939 – By James Belich pp. 536-537

Tim Rooth

King cotton: a tribute to Douglas A. Farnie – Edited by John F. Wilson pp. 537-538

Pat Hudson

Enterprising women and shipping in the nineteenth century – By Helen Doe pp. 539-540

Alison C. Kay

The big house in the north of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960 – By Olwen Purdue pp. 540-541

D. A. J. Macpherson

Black 1919: riots, racism and resistance in imperial Britain – By Jacqueline Jenkinson pp. 541-542

Carlton E. Wilson

The evolution of the British welfare state – By Derek Fraser pp. 543-544

Martin Earley

Consumerism and the co‐operative movement in modern British history – By Lawrence Black and Nicole Robertson pp. 544-545

Peter Gurney

The unexplored Keynes and other essays: a socio‐economic miscellany – By Anand Chandavarkar pp. 545-546

G. C. Peden

Facilitating the future? US aid, European integration and Irish industrial viability, 1948–73 – By Peter Murray pp. 546-548

Graham Brownlow

NGOs in contemporary Britain: non‐state actors in society and politics since 1945 – Edited by Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton, and James McKay pp. 548-549

Lucy Robinson

The international economy in the ‘age of the discoveries’, 1470–1570: Antwerp and the English merchants' world – By Ian Blanchard pp. 549-550

Herman van der Wee

Sans‐culottes: an eighteenth‐century emblem in the French Revolution – By Michael Sonenscher pp. 551-552

Keith Tribe

German industry in the Nazi period – Edited by Christoph Buchheim pp. 552-553

Peter Morris

The familiarity of strangers: the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross‐cultural trade in the early modern period – By Francesca Trivellato pp. 553-554

Yadira González de Lara

Leadership in world shipping: Greek family firms in international business – By Ioannis Theotokas and Gelina Harlaftis pp. 554-555

Stig Tenold

The Ottoman economy and its institutions – By Şevket Pamuk pp. 555-556

Roger Owen

Markets versus hierarchies: a political economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008 – By Ekaterina Brancato pp. 557-558

Vincent Barnett

Shanghai's Bund and beyond: British banks, banknote issuance, and monetary policy in China, 1842–1937 – By Niv Horesh pp. 558-559

Wenkai He

Credit and debt in Indonesia, 860–1930: from peonage to pawnshop, from Kongsi to cooperative – Edited by David Henley and Peter Boomgard pp. 559-560

Pierre van der Eng

Children bound to labor: the pauper apprentice system in early America – By Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray pp. 560-562

Katrina Honeyman

The invisible hook: the hidden economics of pirates – By Peter T. Leeson pp. 562-563

Arne Bialuschewski

The origin and development of financial markets and institutions from the seventeenth century to the present – Edited by Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal pp. 563-564

Paolo Di Martino

Famine: a short history – By Cormac Ó Gráda pp. 564-565

Richard Sheldon

Exploring environmental history: selected essays – By T. C. Smout pp. 565-567

Chris Pearson

Creative urban milieus: historical perspectives on culture, economy, and the city – Edited by Martina Heßler and Clemens Zimmermann pp. 567-568

Gerben Bakker

Volume 63, month 02, 2010

Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period1 pp. 1-33

Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany1 pp. 34-55

Germà Bel

Profitability trends in Hollywood, 1929 to 1999: somebody must know something1 pp. 56-84

Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick

Waiting for her ship to come in? The female investor in nineteenth‐century sailing vessels pp. 85-106

Helen Doe

Fixed‐price contracts, learning, and outsourcing: explaining the continuous growth of output and labour productivity in the German aircraft industry during the Second World War1 pp. 107-136

Lutz Budrass, Jonas Scherner and Jochen Streb

Companies' insolvency and ‘the nature of the firm’ in Italy, 1920s–70s1 pp. 137-164

Paolo Di Martino and Michelangelo Vasta

Market wage or discrimination? The remuneration of male and female wool spinners in the seventeenth‐century Dutch Republic1 pp. 165-186

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

Review of periodical literature published in 2008 pp. 187-234

David Pratt, P. R. Schofield, Jonathan Healey, Peter Kirby, Kate Bradley, James Taylor and Graham Brownlow

The book of privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296–1483 – Edited by Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser‐Fuchs pp. 235-236

Pamela Nightingale

Credit and village society in fourteenth‐century England – By Chris Briggs pp. 236-237

Jane Whittle

Law, politics, and society in early modern England – By Christopher W. Brooks pp. 237-238

H. R. French

The establishment of the hearth tax, 1662–66 – By Elizabeth Parkinson pp. 239-240

Adrian Green

The genesis of macroeconomics: new ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton – By Antoin E. Murphy pp. 240-241

Renee Prendergast

Buying for the home: shopping for the domestic from the seventeenth century to the present – Edited by David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby pp. 241-242

Ann Smart Martin

The British industrial revolution in global perspective – By Robert C. Allen pp. 242-245

Pat Hudson

Money, power and print: interdisciplinary studies on the financial revolution in the British Isles – Edited by Charles Ivar McGrath and Chris Fauske pp. 245-246

D'Maris Coffman

The history of the company: the development of the business corporation, 1700–1914, part I: 1700–1850; part II: 1850–1914 – Edited by Robin Pearson with Mark Freeman and James Taylor pp. 246-248

Peter Wardley

Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850 – By Deborah Wilson pp. 248-249

Neal Garnham

Industrial enlightenment: science, technology and culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760–1820 – By Peter M. Jones pp. 249-250

Christine Macleod

British trade with Spanish America, 1763–1808 – By Adrian J. Pearce pp. 250-251

John McCusker

Chatham dockyard, 1815–1865: the industrial transformation – Edited by Philip MacDougall pp. 252-253

Hugh Murphy

Victorian investments: new perspectives on finance and culture – Edited by Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt pp. 253-254

R. J. Morris

Credit and community: working‐class debt in the UK since 1880 – By Sean O'Connell pp. 254-255

Avram Taylor

Popular opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain – By Daniel M. Jackson pp. 255-256

D. A. J. Macpherson

A history of heterodox economics: challenging the mainstream in the twentieth century – By Frederic Lee pp. 257-258

Roger Backhouse

The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain – By Guy Ortolano pp. 258-259

John Toye

The empire in one city? Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past – Edited by Sheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster, and Nicholas J. White pp. 259-260

Stephen Constantine

The information master: Jean‐Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system – By Jacob Soll pp. 261-262

Sophus A. Reinert

The Annales School: an intellectual history – By André Burguière pp. 262-263

H. S. Jones

European cities and towns, 400–2000 – By Peter Clark pp. 263-264

Paul M. Hohenberg

The economy of Renaissance Florence – By Richard A. Goldthwaite pp. 264-266

Matthew Vester

Robbing the Jews: the confiscation of Jewish property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945 – By Martin Dean pp. 266-267

Tim Cole

The Euro: the politics of the new global currency – By David Marsh pp. 267-268

Larry Neal

The revenue imperative – By Jane Flaherty pp. 268-269

Mark R. Wilson

Mass migration under sail: European immigration to the antebellum United States – By Raymond L. Cohn pp. 270-271

Chris Minns

Scientists and swindlers: consulting on coal and oil in America, 1820–1890 – By Paul Lucier pp. 271-272

Hugh Torrens

The Marshall Plan: lessons learned for the 21st century – Edited by Eliot Sorel and Pier Carol Padoan pp. 272-273

Scott Newton

Che Guevara: the economics of revolution – By Helen Yaffe pp. 273-274

Richard J. Salvucci

Stages of capital: law, culture and market governance in late colonial India – By Ritu Birla pp. 274-276

Tirthankar Roy

Roots and routes of development in China and India: highlights of fifty years of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (1957–2007) – Edited by Jos Gommans and Harriet Zurndorfer pp. 276-277

Scott C. Levi

China during the great depression: market, state, and the world economy, 1929–1937 – By Tomoko Shiroyama pp. 277-278

Elisabeth Köll

Tracks across continents, paths through history: the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge – By Douglas J. Puffert pp. 278-280

Terry Gourvish

Institutions and economic performance – Edited by Elhanan Helpman pp. 280-280

Robert Bates