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Volume 62, month 11, 2009

The rise and quick fall of the theory of ancient economic imperialism pp. 785-801

Sviatoslav Dmitriev

Mr Drage, Mr Everyman, and the creation of a mass market for domestic furniture in interwar Britain1 pp. 802-827

Peter Scott

Measles and the spatio‐temporal structure of modern Japan1 pp. 828-856

Akihito Suzuki

Identifying the woes of the cotton textile industry in Bengal: tales of the nineteenth century pp. 857-892

Indrajit Ray

Turning qualitative into quantitative evidence: a well‐used method made explicit1 pp. 893-925

A. W. Carus and Sheilagh Ogilvie

The debts of James VI of Scotland1 pp. 926-952

Julian Goodare

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2008 pp. 953-1002

Matthew Hale, Richard Hawkins and Catherine Wright

Medieval England: a survey of social and economic origins and development – By Anthony R. Bridbury pp. 1003-1004

Richard Britnell

Calendar of fine rolls of the reign of Henry III (1216–1248), preserved in the National Archives, vol. II: 1224–1234 – Edited by Paul Dryburgh and Beth Hartland pp. 1004-1005

John S. Moore

The medieval account books of the mercers of London: an edition and translation – Edited by Lisa Jefferson pp. 1005-1006

Pamela Nightingale

Field systems and farming systems in late medieval England – By Bruce M. S. Campbell pp. 1007-1008

John S. Moore

Agrarian capitalism and poor relief in England, 1500–1860: rethinking the origins of the welfare state – By Larry Patriquin pp. 1008-1009

Joanna Innes

The impact of the first civil war on Hertfordshire, 1642–47 – By Alan Thomson pp. 1009-1010

Michael Braddick

‘Wheare most inclosures be’ East Anglian fields: history, morphology and management – By Edward Martin and Max Satchell pp. 1010-1012

Tom Williamson

Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain – By Joyce Burnette pp. 1012-1013

Katrina Honeyman

Radicalism, reform and national identity in Scotland, 1820–1833 – By Gordon Pentland pp. 1013-1014

Ewen A. Cameron

Free trade nation: commerce, consumption and civil society in modern Britain – By Frank Trentmann pp. 1014-1016

Jose Harris

Vicarious vagrants: incognito social explorers and the homeless in England, 1860–1910 – Edited by Mark Freeman and Gillian Nelson pp. 1016-1017

K. D. M. Snell

Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880–1940 – By Roy Church and Tilli Tansey pp. 1017-1018

Judy Slinn

The maiden tribute of modern Babylon: the report of the secret commission by W. T. Stead – Edited by Anthony E. Simpson pp. 1018-1019

Stefan Slater

British business in the formative years of European integration, 1945–1973 – By Neil Rollings pp. 1019-1021

Scott Newton

Decline to fall: the making of British macro‐economic policy and the 1976 IMF crisis – By Douglas Wass pp. 1021-1022

Catherine R. Schenk

Corporate ownership and control: British business transformed – By Brian R. Cheffins pp. 1022-1024

Ron Weir

Britain's railways, 1997–2005: Labour's strategic experiment – By Terry Gourvish pp. 1024-1025

Gerald Crompton

The self‐perception of early modern capitalists – Edited by Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan pp. 1025-1026

Oscar Gelderblom

The rise and decline of Dutch technological leadership: technology, economy and culture in the Netherlands, 1350–1800 – By Karel Davids pp. 1026-1028

Alessandro Nuvolari

Agriculture and economic development in Europe since 1870 – Edited by Pedro Lains and Vicente Pinilla pp. 1028-1029

Michael Turner

The nature of demography – By Hervé Le Bras pp. 1029-1030

Robert Woods

La defense du travail national? L'incidence du protectionnisme sur l'industrie en Europe (1870–1914) – By Jean‐Pierre Dormois pp. 1030-1032

Olivier Accominotti

Lard, lice and longevity: the standard of living in occupied Denmark and the Netherlands, 1940–1945 – By Ralf Futselaar pp. 1032-1033

Cormac Ó Gráda

The undevelopment of capitalism: sectors and markets in fifteenth‐century Tuscany – By Rebecca Jean Emigh pp. 1033-1034

Samuel Cohn

Means and ends: the idea of capital in the west, 1500–1970 – By Francesco Boldizzoni pp. 1035-1036

William Dixon

The price of rice: market integration in eighteenth‐century China – By Sui‐wai Cheung pp. 1036-1037

William T. Rowe

The origins of the developmental state in Taiwan: science policy and the quest for modernization – By J. Megan Greene pp. 1037-1038

Yongping Wu

The business, life and letters of Frederick Cornes: aspects of the evolution of commerce in modern Japan, 1861–1910 – By Peter N. Davies pp. 1038-1040

S. Sugiyama

From foot soldier to finance minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes – By Richard J. Smethurst pp. 1040-1041

Joyman Lee

Taxation in colonial America – By Alvin Rabushka pp. 1041-1042

John McCusker

Creating abundance: biological innovation and American agricultural development – By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode pp. 1042-1044

R. Douglas Hurt

Chicago made: factory networks in the industrial metropolis – By Robert Lewis pp. 1044-1045

Mark Casson

Finance and modernization: a transnational and transcontinental perspective for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – By Gerald D. Feldman and Peter Hertner pp. 1045-1046

Michael Pammer

Mining tycoons in the age of empire, 1870–1945: entrepreneurship, high finance, politics and territorial expansion – Edited by Raymond E. Dumett pp. 1046-1048

Roger Burt

Prosperity for all: consumer activism in an era of globalization – By Matthew Hilton pp. 1048-1049

Peter N. Stearns

The case for big government – By Jeff Madrick pp. 1049-1050

Gary D. Libecap

Volume 62, month 08, 2009

Editors' introduction pp. 1-7

Jane Humphries and Steve Hindle

Trading options before Black‐Scholes: a study of the market in late seventeenth‐century London1 pp. 8-30

Anne L. Murphy

Gentlemanly capitalism revisited: a case study of the underpricing of initial public offerings on the London Stock Exchange, 1946–861 pp. 31-56

David Chambers

Indian railroading: floating railway companies in the late nineteenth century pp. 57-79

Stuart Sweeney

The Treasury, Britain's postwar reconstruction, and the industrial intervention of the Bank of England, 1921–91 pp. 80-100

Valerio Cerretano

Did governance fail universal banks? Moral hazard, risk taking, and banking crises in interwar Italy1 pp. 101-134

Stefano Battilossi

Returns on investments during the colonial era: the case of the Belgian Congo1 pp. 135-166

Frans Buelens and Stefaan Marysse

Wider share ownership?: investors in English and Welsh Bank shares in the nineteenth century1 pp. 167-192

John Turner

Agricultural productivity and rural incomes in England and the Yangtze Delta, c.1620–c.18201 pp. 525-550

Robert Allen

Gresham on horseback: the monetary roots of Spanish American political fragmentation in the nineteenth century1 pp. 551-575

Alejandra Irigoin

Material progress and the challenge of affluence in seventeenth‐century England pp. 576-603

Paul Slack

Club goods and inefficient institutions: why Danzig and Lübeck failed in the early modern period pp. 604-628

Erik Lindberg

Stillbirth registration and perceptions of infant death, 1900–60: the Scottish case in national context1 pp. 629-654

Gayle Davis

Did Vasco da Gama matter for European markets?1 pp. 655-684

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Technical choice, innovation, and British steam engineering, 1800–501 pp. 685-710

Alessandro Nuvolari and Bart Verspagen

Rickman revisited: the population growth rates of English counties in the early modern period1 pp. 711-735

E. A. Wrigley

A county of small towns: the development of Hertfordshire's urban landscape to 1800 pp. 736-737

Rosemary Sweet

Life in a late medieval city: Chester, 1275–1520 pp. 737-738

Stephen H. Rigby

Lost Londons: change, crime and control in the capital city, 1550–1660 pp. 738-739

Robert B. Shoemaker

Merchants and the military in eighteenth‐century Britain: British army contracts and domestic supply, 1739–1763 pp. 739-741

Martin Wilcox

A pleasing prospect: society and culture in eighteenth‐century Colchester pp. 741-742

Hannah Barker

The diary of Edmund Harrold, wigmaker of Manchester, 1712–15 pp. 742-743

Tim Hitchcock

The Bright‐Meyler papers: a Bristol–West India connection, 1732–1837 pp. 743-744

Evan Jones

Good money: Birmingham button makers, the Royal Mint and the beginnings of modern coinage, 1775–1821 pp. 744-745

Peter Mathias

Heroes of invention: technology, liberalism and British identity, 1750–1914 pp. 745-747

Crosbie Smith

Police in the age of improvement pp. 747-748

Elaine A. Reynolds

Making empire: colonial encounters and the creation of imperial rule in nineteenth‐century Africa pp. 748-749

Rachel Bright

The economics of Karl Marx: analysis and application pp. 749-751

Anthony Brewer

Women and the making of built space in England, 1870–1950 pp. 751-752

Kathy Mezei

Factory of dreams: a history of Meccano Ltd pp. 752-753

Peter Scott

Fiscal systems in the European economy from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries pp. 754-755

Julian Goodare

The German Hanse in past and present Europe: a medieval league as a model for modern interregional cooperation? pp. 755-756

Rainer Postel

The patron's payoff: conspicuous commissions in Italian renaissance art pp. 756-758

Melissa Meriam Bullard

Her day in court: women's property rights in fifteenth‐century Granada pp. 758-759

Leslie P. Peirce

The waning of the Mediterranean 1550–1870: a geohistorical approach pp. 759-761

Jack Goldstone

The industrious revolution: consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present pp. 761-763

Jane Humphries

Beyond varieties of capitalism: conflict, contradictions and complimentarities in the European economy pp. 763-764

Neil Rollings

Economics in Russia: studies in intellectual history pp. 764-765

Michael Ellman

People, taxation and trade in Mughal India pp. 765-766

Santhi Hejeebu

Merchants, traders, entrepreneurs: Indian business in the colonial era pp. 766-768

B. r. Tomlinson

The archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the local institutions in Batavia, Jakarta pp. 768-769

Leonard Blussé

Destination Australia: migration to Australia since 1901 pp. 769-770

James Jupp

Falling behind: explaining the development gap between Latin America and the United States pp. 770-772

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Irons in the fire: the business history of the Tayloe family and Virginia's gentry, 1700–1860 pp. 772-773

A. glenn Crothers

Technology, innovation and southern industrialization: from the antebellum to the computer age pp. 773-774

Steven W. Usselman

Entertainment industrialised: the emergence of the international film industry, 1890–1940 pp. 775-776

John Sedgwick

Reputation and international cooperation: sovereign debt across three centuries pp. 776-777

Marc Flandreau

Orderly change: international monetary relations since Bretton Woods pp. 777-778

Scott Newton

Reflections on the cliometrics revolution: conversations with economic historians pp. 779-781

Pat Hudson

Historical GIS: technologies, methodologies and scholarship pp. 781-782

Jeremy Atack

Information revolutions in the history of the west pp. 782-784

James Sumner

Volume 62, month 05, 2009

Poverty among the elderly in late Victorian England1 pp. 249-278

George R. Boyer and Timothy P. Schmidle

Lancashire, India, and shifting competitive advantage in cotton textiles, 1700–1850: the neglected role of factor prices1 pp. 279-305

Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

Rural Europe reshaped: the economic transformation of upland regions, 1850–20001 pp. 306-323

Fernando Collantes

The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873–19391 pp. 324-349

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Market structure and the coal cartel in early nineteenth‐century England1 pp. 350-365

Elaine Tan

Industrial districts and manufacturing linkages: Chicago's printing industry, 1880–19501 pp. 366-387

Robert Lewis

Sir William Petty, Ireland, and the making of a political economist, 1653–871 pp. 388-404

Adam Fox

Domestic servants and their urban employers: a case study of Lancaster, 1880–19141 pp. 405-429

Siân Pooley

Villeinage in England: a regional case study, c.1250–c.13491 pp. 430-457

Mark Bailey

Cities, market integration, and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth‐century England and Wales1 pp. 458-478

Jane Humphries and Tim Leunig

London and the kingdom: essays in honour of Caroline M. Barron – Edited by Matthew Davies and Andrew Prescott pp. 479-480

Pamela Nightingale

Humphrey Newton (1466–1536): an early Tudor gentleman – By Deborah Youngs pp. 480-481

Christopher Dyer

The culture of giving: informal support and gift‐exchange in early modern England – By Ilana Krausman Ben‐Amos pp. 481-482

Judith Spicksley

Genres of the credit economy: mediating value in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Britain – By Mary Poovey pp. 482-484

Carl Wennerlind

William Roscoe: commerce and culture – By Arline Wilson pp. 484-485

Jane Longmore

Irish agriculture: a price history from the mid‐eighteenth century to the eve of the First World War – By Liam Kennedy and Peter M. Solar pp. 485-486

Frank Geary

The letters of Richard Cobden, vol. 1: 1815–1847 – Edited by Anthony Howe pp. 487-488

Sarah Richardson

State and market in Victorian Britain: war, welfare and capitalism – By Martin Daunton pp. 488-489

William J Ashworth

Heroin: the treatment of addiction in twentieth‐century Britain – By Alex Mold pp. 489-490

Howard Padwa

Harry Johnson: a life in economics – By Donald E. Moggridge pp. 490-492

Roger Middleton

Electricity and energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945 – By Martin Chick pp. 492-493

Judith Clifton

The management of technical change: automation in the UK and USA since 1950 – By Alan Booth pp. 493-494

Jim Tomlinson

The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans – Edited by William V. Harris pp. 494-496

Sitta von Reden

Crime, law and popular culture in Europe, 1500–1900 – Edited by Richard Mc Mahon pp. 496-497

J. Carter Wood

Well‐being in Amsterdam's golden age – By Derek Phillips pp. 497-498

Thera Wijsenbeek

In gold we trust: social capital and economic change in the Italian jewelry towns – By Dario Gaggio pp. 499-500

Andrew Popp

Traders, ties and tensions: the interactions of Lübeckers, Overijsslers and Hollanders in later medieval Bergen – By Justyna Wubs‐Mrozewicz pp. 500-501

Herman van der Wee

East meets west: banking, commerce and investment in the Ottoman Empire – Edited by Philip L. Cottrell pp. 501-502

Edhem Eldem

Bankruptcy of empire: Mexican silver and the wars between Spain, Britain and France, 1760–1810 – By Carlos Marichal pp. 502-503

Richard J Salvucci

Friends of the unrighteous mammon: northern Christians and market capitalism, 1815–1860 – By Stewart Davenport pp. 504-505

Jeff Bremer

The progressive era in the USA, 1890–1921 – Edited by Kristofer Allerfeldt pp. 505-506

Janet Greenlees

Social foundations of limited dictatorship: networks and private protection during Mexico's early industrialization – By Armando Razo pp. 506-508

Aurora Gómez Galvarriato

Politics and trade cooperation in the nineteenth century: the ‘agreeable customs’ of 1815–1914 – By Robert Pahre pp. 508-509

Cheryl Schonhardt‐bailey

Political institutions and financial developments – Edited by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast pp. 509-510

Howard Bodenhorn

Inherited wealth – By Jens Beckert pp. 511-512

Martin Daunton

Meat, modernity and the rise of the slaughterhouse – Edited by Paula Young Lee pp. 512-513

Jim Phillips

The rise of modern business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan and China – By Mansel G. Blackford pp. 513-515

Franco Amatori

Global electrification: multinational enterprise and international finance in the history of light and power, 1878–2007 – Edited by William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins pp. 515-516

Martin Chick

The Oxford handbook of business history – Edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin pp. 516-517

John F Wilson

Appeasing bankers: financial caution on the road to war – By Jonathan Kirshner pp. 517-519

Robert Boyce

Across the borders: financing the world's railways in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Edited by Ralf Roth and Günter Dinhobi pp. 519-520

Ranald Michie

Food and globalization: consumption, markets and politics in the modern world – Edited by Alexander Nutzenadel and Frank Trentmann pp. 520-520

Giovanni Federico

Power and plenty: trade, war and the world economy in the second millennium – By Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke pp. 521-522

Knick Harley

Revisiting Keynes: economic possibilities for our grandchildren – Edited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga pp. 522-523

John Toye

Volume 62, month 02, 2009

Avoiding tragedies: a Flemish common and its commoners under the pressure of social and economic change during the eighteenth century1 pp. 1-22

Tine De Moor

Rent seeking and collusion in the military allocation decisions of Finland, Sweden, and Great Britain, 1920–381 pp. 23-44

Jari Eloranta

Subcontracting and vertical integration in the Spanish cotton industry1 pp. 45-72

Joan Rosés

The two sterling crises of 1964 and the decision not to devalue1 pp. 73-98

Scott Newton

Diffusion of a social norm: tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812–19221 pp. 99-127

Frans W. A. van Poppel, Hendrik van Dalen and Evelien Walhout

Turnpike trusts and property income: new evidence on the effects of transport improvements and legislation in eighteenth‐century England1 pp. 128-152

Dan Bogart

Review of periodical literature published in 2007 pp. 153-202

David Pratt, P. R. Schofield, Henry French, Peter Kirby, Mark Freeman, Julian Greaves and Hugh Pemberton

Rodney Hilton's middle ages: an exploration of historical themes – Edited by Christopher Dyer, Peter Coss, and Chris Wickham pp. 203-205

James Davis

Trade, money, and power in medieval England – By Pamela Nightingale pp. 205-206

John S. Moore

The great roll of the pipe for the seventh year of the reign of King Henry III, Michaelmas 1223 (Pipe Roll 67) – Edited by Adrian Jobson and Cecil F. Slade Dialogus de scaccario (the dialogue of the exchequer) and constitutio domus regis (the disposition of the king's household) – Edited by Emilie Amt and Stephen D. Church pp. 206-208

Benjamin Linley Wild

The 1263 Surrey eyre – Edited by Susan Stewart pp. 208-210

Paul Brand

The life and career of William Paulet (c.1475–1572), Lord Treasurer and first Marquis of Winchester – By David M. Loades pp. 210-211

Sybil M. Jack

Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 – By Hugh Prince pp. 211-212

R. Liddiard

The middle sort of people in provincial England, 1600–1750 – By Henry R. French pp. 212-214

Nigel Goose

The Atlantic slave trade, vols. I: Origins–1600; II: Seventeenth century; III: Eighteenth century; IV: Nineteenth century – Edited by Jeremy Black pp. 214-215

David Richardson

Cassandra Brydges (1670–1735), First Duchess of Chandos: life and letters – By Rosemary O'Day pp. 215-216

Amanda Capern

Scottish trade in the wake of the Union, 1700–1760: the rise of a warehouse economy – By Philipp Robinson Rössner pp. 217-218

Christopher A. Whatley

The dress of the people: everyday fashion in eighteenth‐century England – By John Styles pp. 218-219

Lorena S. Walsh

The British missionary enterprise since 1700 – By Jeffrey Cox pp. 219-220

Robert Penner

Child workers in England, 1780–1820: parish apprentices and the making of the early industrial labour force – By Katrina Honeyman pp. 221-222

Nigel Goose

Victoria county history: a history of the county of Northampton – Edited by Charles Insley, John Beckett, Alan Thacker, Cynthia Brown, Peter Mountfield, and Elizabeth Williamson Victoria county history: a history of the county of Stafford – Edited by Nigel J. Tringham pp. 222-224

Nigel Goose

An agenda for regional history – Edited by Bill Lancaster, Diana Newton, and Natasha Vall pp. 224-225

D. A. J. Macpherson

‘Iron harvests of the field’: the making of farm machinery in Britain since 1800 – By Peter Dewey pp. 225-226

Paul Brassley

Spicing up Britain: the multicultural history of British food – By Panikos Panayi pp. 226-228

Heinrich Versteegen

Uprooted: the shipment of poor children to Canada, 1867–1917 – By Roy Parker pp. 228-229

David Gladstone

Managing the modern workplace: productivity, politics and workplace culture in postwar Britain – Edited by Joseph Melling and Alan Booth pp. 229-230

Ronnie Johnston

Keynes, the Keynesians and monetarism – By Tim Congdon pp. 230-231

Michael J. Oliver

Ireland's economic success: reasons and lessons – By Paul Sweeney pp. 232-233

Graham Brownlow

Une mer pour deux royaumes: la Manche, frontière franco‐anglaise (XVIIe‐XVIIIe siècles) – By Renaud Morieux pp. 233-234

François‐joseph Ruggiu

Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: identities, families and masculinities – By Sandra Cavallo pp. 234-235

Mary E. Fissell

Learning on the shop floor: historical perspectives in apprenticeship – Edited by Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan, and Hugo Soly pp. 235-237

James R. Farr

Food and the city in Europe since 1800 – Edited by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, and Derek J. Oddy pp. 237-238

Marjatta Hietala

Landownership in eastern Germany before the Great War – By Scott M. Eddie pp. 238-239

Michael Kopsidis

India traders of the middle ages: documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India book’) – By Shelomo D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman pp. 239-241

Ghulam A. Nadri

The monetary policy of the Federal Reserve: a history – By Robert L. Hetzel pp. 241-242

Geoffrey Wood

Bankrupting the enemy: the US financial siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor – By Edward S. Miller pp. 242-243

Eugene White

Quantitative economic history: the good of counting – Edited by Joshua L. Rosenbloom pp. 243-244

Nicholas Crafts

Low income, social growth and good health: a history of twelve countries – By James C. Riley pp. 244-245

Bernard Harris

Currency boards in retrospect and prospect – By Holger C. Wolf, Atish R. Ghosh, Helge Berger, and Anne‐Marie Gulde pp. 245-246

Barry Eichengreen

Institutions and market economies: the political economy of growth and development – Edited by William R. Garside pp. 246-248

Stanley L. Engerman