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Volume 61, month 11, 2008

Is it simply getting worse? Agriculture and Swedish greenhouse gas emissions over 200 years1 pp. 773-797

Astrid Kander

Cottage industry, migration, and marriage in nineteenth‐century England pp. 798-819

Nigel Goose

What happened to Irish industry after the British industrial revolution? Some evidence from the first UK Census of Production in 19071 pp. 820-841

A. Bielenberg

Were British railway companies well managed in the early twentieth century?1 pp. 842-866

Nicholas Crafts, Tim Leunig and Abay Mulatu

The beginnings of Nazi autarky policy: the ‘National Pulp Programme’ and the origin of regional staple fibre plants1 pp. 867-895

Jonas Scherner

Benchmarking medieval economic development: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, c.12901 pp. 896-945

Bruce M. S. Campbell

Corrigendum: Benchmarking medieval economic development: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, c.1290 pp. 946-948

Bruce M. S. Campbell

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2007 pp. 949-995

Matthew Hale, Richard Hawkins and Catherine Wright

Waterways and canal‐building in medieval England – Edited by John Blair pp. 996-997

Richard Holt

Medieval Suffolk: an economic and social history, 1200–1500 – By Mark Bailey pp. 997-998

James Davis

Population and disease: transforming English society, 1550–1850 – By Peter Razzell pp. 998-1000

Robert Woods

Yorkshire West Riding hearth tax assessment, Lady Day 1672 – Edited by David Hey, Colum Giles, Margaret Spufford, and Andrew Wareham pp. 1000-1001

Adrian Green

Adam Smith's moral philosophy: a historical and contemporary perspective on markets, law, ethics and culture – By Jerry Evensky pp. 1001-1002

Keith Tribe

Making scientific instruments in the industrial revolution – By Alison D. Morrison‐Low pp. 1002-1004

Gillian Cookson

Estates, enterprise and investment at the dawn of the industrial revolution: estate management and accounting in the north‐east of England, c.1700–1780 – By David Oldroyd pp. 1004-1004

J. v. Beckett

The East India Company and the provinces in the eighteenth century, vol. II: Captains, agents, and servants: a gallery of East India Company portraits – By James H. Thomas pp. 1005-1005

H. v. Bowen

The richest East India merchant: the life and business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767–1836 – By Anthony Webster pp. 1006-1007

Maria Misra

David Hume's political economy – Edited by Carl Wennerlind and Margaret Schabas pp. 1007-1008

Sophus A. Reinert

Female labour power: women workers' influences on business practices in the British and American cotton industries, 1780–1860 – By Janet Greenlees pp. 1008-1009

Katrina Honeyman

Social capital, trust and the industrial revolution, 1780–1880 – By David Sunderland pp. 1009-1011

John F. Wilson

Irish, Catholic and Scouse: the history of the Liverpool Irish, 1800–1939 – By John Belchem pp. 1011-1012

D. a. j. Macpherson

Mental illness and learning disability since 1850: finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom – Edited by Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling pp. 1012-1013

Mathew Thomson

The Victorian studies reader – Edited by Kelly Boyd and Rohan McWilliam pp. 1013-1015

James Thompson

Hertfordshire children in war and peace, 1914–1939 – By David Parker pp. 1015-1016

Alysa Levene

Representations of British motoring – By David Jeremiah pp. 1016-1017

Sean O'connell

Equality and the British Left: a study in progressive political thought, 1900–64 – By Ben Jackson pp. 1017-1019

Jim Tomlinson

Market services and the productivity race, 1850–2000: British performance in international perspective – By Stephen Broadberry pp. 1019-1021

Peter Wardley

The Cambridge economic history of the Greco‐Roman world – Edited by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller pp. 1021-1022

Alain Bresson

From the Athenian tetradrachm to the euro: studies in European monetary integration – Edited by Philip L. Cottrell, Gérassimos Notaras, and Gabriel Tortella pp. 1022-1024

Angela Redish

Introduction to early medieval western Europe, 300–900: the sword, the plough and the book – By Matthew Innes pp. 1024-1025

David Pratt

The European economy in an American mirror – Edited by Barry Eichengreen, Michael Landesmann, and Dieter Stiefel pp. 1025-1027

Alan Booth

Finance capitalism and Germany's rise to industrial power – By Caroline Fohlin pp. 1027-1028

Gerhard Kling

The currency of socialism: money and political culture in East Germany – By Jonathan R. Zatlin pp. 1028-1029

Jeremy Leaman

Anarchism, revolution and reaction: Catalan labour and the crisis of the Spanish state, 1898–1923 – By Ángel Smith pp. 1029-1031

Michael Richards

Days on the family farm: from the golden age through the great depression – By Carrie A. Meyer pp. 1031-1032

David Danbom

When Washington shut down Wall Street: the great financial crisis of 1914 and the origins of America's monetary supremacy – By William L. Silber pp. 1032-1033

Hugh Rockoff

Gendering the fertility decline in the western world – Edited by Angelique Janssens pp. 1033-1035

Simon Szreter

Chinese economic performance in the long run, second edition, revised and updated, 960–2030 AD – By Angus Maddison pp. 1035-1036

Kent G. Deng

Profits, politics and panics: Hong Kong's banks and the making of a miracle economy, 1935–1985 – By Leo F. Goodstadt pp. 1036-1037

Tony Latter

Hunger: a modern history – By James Vernon pp. 1037-1039

Richard Sheldon

The new comparative economic history: essays in honour of Jeffrey G. Williamson – Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor pp. 1039-1040

Stephen Broadberry

The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger – By Marc Levinson pp. 1041-1042

Peter Wardley

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology: essays in honour of Paul A. David – Edited by Christiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Brownyn H. Hall, and W. Edward Steinmueller pp. 1042-1044

Nikolaus Wolf

Volume 61, month 08, 2008

Feeding the masses: plenty, want and the distribution of food and drink in historical perspective Editors' introduction pp. 1-4

Steve Hindle and Jane Humphries

The ripple that drowns? Twentieth‐century famines in China and India as economic history1 pp. 5-37

Cormac Ó Gráda

The social economy of the medieval village in the early fourteenth century1 pp. 38-63

Phillipp R. Schofield

Dearth and the English revolution: the harvest crisis of 1647–50 pp. 64-98

Steve Hindle

The structure, development, and politics of the Kent grain trade, 1552–16471 pp. 99-139

Stephen Hipkin

Feeding the British: convergence and market efficiency in the nineteenth‐century grain trade pp. 140-171

Mette Ejrnæs, Karl Gunnar Persson and Søren Rich

Poor consumers as global consumers: the diffusion of tea and coffee drinking in the eighteenth century1 pp. 172-200

E. C. McCANTS Anne

Private borrowing during the financial revolution: Hoare's Bank and its customers, 1702–241 pp. 541-564

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth

The emergence of a private clientele for banks in the early eighteenth century: Hoare's Bank and some women customers1 pp. 565-586

Anne Laurence

Resources, techniques, and strategies south of the Sahara: revising the factor endowments perspective on African economic development, 1500–20001 pp. 587-624

Gareth Austin

Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth‐century Britain1 pp. 625-650

Trevor Griffiths, Philip Hunt and Patrick O’brien

Women's pay in British industry during the Second World War pp. 651-671

Ian Gazeley

The impact of the Second World War on US productivity growth1 pp. 672-694

Alexander Field

Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries1 pp. 695-725

Roy Church

Decoding Domesday – By David Roffe pp. 726-727

John S. Moore

Calendar of fine rolls of the reign of Henry III preserved in the National Archives, 1216–1224 – Edited by David Carpenter, Paul R. Dryburgh, and Beth Hartland pp. 727-728

John S. Moore

The English wool market, c.1230–1327 – By Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, and Paul R. Dryburgh pp. 728-729

John Langdon

The medieval park: new perspectives – Edited by Robert Liddiard pp. 730-731

C. M. Woolgar

Life, love and death in north‐east Lancashire, 1510 to 1537: a translation of the act book of the Ecclesiastical Court of Whalley – Edited by Margaret Lynch, Nigel Tringham, and John Swain pp. 731-732

Ralph Houlbrooke

Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century – By Chris Evans and Göran Rydén pp. 732-733

William J. Ashworth

The dress of the people: everyday fashions in eighteenth‐century England – By John Styles pp. 733-735

Peter D. Jones

Parish and belonging: community, identity and welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950 – By Keith D. M. Snell pp. 735-736

Mark Freeman

Irish migration, networks and ethnic identities since 1750 – Edited by Enda Delaney and Donald M. MacRaild pp. 736-737

Kerby A. Miller

Debating the Highland Clearances – By Eric Richards pp. 738-739

Christopher A. Whatley

Ferranti: a history, vol II: From family firm to multinational company, 1975–87 – By John F. Wilson pp. 739-740

Terry Gourvish

Environment and empire – By William Beinart and Lotte Hughes pp. 740-741

Peder Anker

History of economic thought as an intellectual discipline – By Denis P. O’Brien pp. 741-742

Roger Backhouse

Making social policy work – Edited by John Hills, Julian Le Grand, and David Piachaud pp. 743-744

David Gladstone

Tulipmania: money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age – By Anne Goldgar pp. 744-745

Joost Jonker

Selling modernity: advertising in twentieth‐century Germany – Edited by Pamela E. Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan R. Zatlin pp. 745-746

Josie Mclellan

Centres and peripheries in banking: the historical development of financial markets – Edited by Philip L. Cottrell, Evan Lange, and Ulf Olsson pp. 747-748

Bernard Foley

The economics of Europe and the European Union – By Larry Neal pp. 748-749

James Foreman‐peck

Tankers in trouble: Norwegian shipping and the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s – By Stig Tenold pp. 749-751

Graeme J Milne

Olive cultivation in ancient Greece: seeking the ancient economy – By Lin Foxhall pp. 751-752

Neville Morley

Aspects of independent Romania's economic history with particular reference to transition for EU accession – By David Turnock pp. 752-753

John R Lampe

The horse in the city: living machines in the nineteenth century – By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr pp. 753-755

Marta Knight

How everyday products make people sick: toxins at home and in the workplace – By Paul Blanc pp. 755-756

Joseph Melling

American capitalism: social thought and political economy in the twentieth century – Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein pp. 756-758

Brian Steele

Copper empire: mining and the colonial state in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930–64 – By Larry J. Butler pp. 758-759

Nicholas J White

Jingji Xue: the history of the introduction of western economic ideas into China, 1850–1950 – By Paul B. Trescott pp. 760-761

Kiichiro Yagi

The arc of Japan's economic development – By Arthur Alexander Japanese economic development: markets, norms, structures – By Carl Mosk pp. 761-763

Janet Hunter

Possessing the world: taking the measurements of colonisation from the 18th to the 20th century – By Bouda Etemad pp. 763-764

Pieter Emmer

Global history: interactions between the universal and the local – Edited by Anthony G. Hopkins pp. 764-765

Patrick O’brien

Institutional change and economic development – Edited by Ha‐Joon Chang pp. 765-766

Eric Jones

A history of world agriculture from the neolithic age to the current crisis – By Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart pp. 766-767

Michael Turner

Internationalisation and globalisation of the insurance industry in the 19th and 20th centuries – Edited by Peter Borscheid and Robin Pearson pp. 767-768

Geoffrey Clark

Contours of the world economy, 1–2030 AD: essays in macroeconomic history – By Angus Maddison pp. 769-769

Giovanni Federico

Manifestos for history – Edited by Keith Jenkins, Sue Morgan, and Alun Munslow pp. 770-771

Penelope J Corfield

Volume 61, month 05, 2008

Usury legislation, cash, and credit: the development of the female investor in the late Tudor and Stuart periods1 pp. 277-301

Judith Spicksley

Identifying the poor in the 1870s and 1880s1 pp. 302-325

Alan Gillie

Ticket to trade: Belgian labour and globalization before 19141 pp. 326-359

Michael Huberman

When did Antwerp replace Bruges as the commercial and financial centre of north‐western Europe? The evidence of the Borromei ledger for 14381 pp. 360-379

J. L. Bolton and Francesco Guidi Bruscoli

New estimates of age‐ and sex‐specific earnings and the male–female earnings gap in the British cotton industry, 1833–19061 pp. 380-408

H. M. Boot and J. H. Maindonald

Private transnational governance in the heyday of the nation‐state: the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF)1 pp. 409-431

Neil Rollings and Matthias Kipping

The City of London and slavery: evidence from the first dock companies, 1795–18001 pp. 432-466

N. Draper

Adaptable and sustainable? Male farm service and the agricultural labour force in midland and southern England, c.1850–19251 pp. 467-495

Alun Howkins and Nicola Verdon

Peasants and production in the medieval north‐east: the evidence from tithes, 1270–1536 – By Ben Dodds pp. 496-497

David Stone

The character of English rural society: Earls Colne, 1550–1750 – By Henry R. French and Richard W. Hoyle pp. 497-498

Robert Von Friedeburg

Perceptions of retailing in early modern England – By Nancy Cox and Karin Dannehl pp. 498-499

Jon Stobart

The culture of commerce in England, 1660–1720 – By Natasha Glaisyer pp. 500-501

David Ormrod

Emporium of the world: the merchants of London, 1660–1800 – By Perry Gauci pp. 501-502

John Smail

Spaces of consumption: leisure and shopping in the English town, c.1680–1830 – By Jon Stobart, Andrew Hann, and Victoria Morgan pp. 502-503

Laura Ugolini

War, wine and taxes: the political economy of Anglo‐French trade, 1689–1900 – By John V. C. Nye pp. 503-504

Anthony Howe

The experience of urban poverty, 1723–82: poverty, charity and credit – By Alannah Tomkins pp. 505-506

Leonard Schwarz

A life of John Julius Angerstein, 1735–1823: widening circles in finance, philanthropy, and the arts in eighteenth‐century London – By Anthony Twist pp. 506-507

Stanley Chapman

Women's work in industrial England: regional and local perspectives – Edited by Nigel Goose pp. 507-508

Katrina Honeyman

Public health and municipal policy making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940 – By Marjaana Niemi pp. 508-509

John Stewart

Managing British colonial and post‐colonial development: the Crown Agents, 1914–1974 – By David Sunderland pp. 509-510

Nicholas J. White

The development of monetary economics: a modern perspective on monetary controversies – By Denis P. O'Brien pp. 511-512

Forrest Capie

Keynes and his battles – By Gilles Dostaler pp. 512-513

G. c. Peden

The early information society: information management in Britain before the computer – By Alistair Black, Dave Muddiman, and Helen Plant pp. 513-514

Edward Higgs

Miners' lung: a history of dust disease in British coal mining – By Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston pp. 514-515

Joseph Melling

Having it so good: Britain in the fifties – By Peter Hennessy Never had it so good: a history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles – By Dominic Sandbrook pp. 515-517

Jim Tomlinson

From dreams to disillusionment: economic and social planning in 1960s Britain – By Glen O'Hara pp. 517-518

Neil Rollings

A spirited exchange: the wine and brandy trade between France and the Dutch Republic in its Atlantic framework, 1600–1650 – By Henriette de Bruyn Kops pp. 518-519

Donald J. Harreld

Before the deluge: public debt, inequality and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution – By Michael Sonenscher pp. 519-521

Keith Tribe

Papal banking in renaissance Rome: Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534–1549 – By Francesco Guidi Bruscoli pp. 521-522

Matthew Vester

Economic policy and microeconomic performance in interwar Europe: the case of Austria, 1918–1939 – By Jens‐Wilhelm Wessels pp. 522-523

Theo Balderston

Testimonies of the city: identity, community and change in a contemporary urban world – Edited by Richard Rodger and Joanna Herbert pp. 523-524

Natasha Vall

The political economy of sentiment: paper credit and the Scottish enlightenment in early republic Boston, 1780–1820 – By Jose R. Torre pp. 524-525

Howard Bodenhorn

Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present – Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff pp. 525-527

B. zorina Khan

Household accounts: working‐class family economies in the interwar United States – By Susan Porter Benson pp. 527-528

Peter Fearon

The economics of the great depression: a twenty‐first century look back at the economics of the interwar era – By Randall E. Parker pp. 528-529

Robert Dimand

The United States since 1980 – By Dean Baker pp. 530-531

Monica Prasad

The making of an Indian metropolis: colonial governance and public culture in Bombay, 1890–1920 – By Prashant Kidambi pp. 531-532

Kaushik Bhaumik

Production organizations in Japanese economic development – Edited by Tetsuji Okazaki pp. 532-533

Janet Hunter

The shock of the old: technology and global history since 1900 – By David Edgerton pp. 533-534

Christine Macleod

Economic disasters of the twentieth century – Edited by Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft pp. 535-536

Peter Howlett

Time and the shape of history – By Penelope J. Corfield pp. 536-537

Simon Gunn

Farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world – By Gregory Clark pp. 537-539

Knick Harley

Volume 61, month 02, 2008

Labour market adjustment a hundred years ago: the case of the Catalan textile industry, 1880–19131 pp. 1-25

Jordi Domenech

Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early‐modern London pp. 26-53

Patrick Wallis

Successful workers or exploited labour? Golf professionals and professional golfers in Britain 1888–19141 pp. 54-79

Wray Vamplew

Charcoal ironmaking in nineteenth‐century Shropshire pp. 80-98

Richard Hayman

Did owner‐occupation lead to smaller families for interwar working‐class households?1 pp. 99-124

Peter Scott

Blonde and blue‐eyed? Globalizing beauty, c.1945–c.19801 pp. 125-154

Geoffrey Jones

Craft guilds in the pre‐modern economy: a discussion pp. 155-174

S. R. Epstein

Rehabilitating the guilds: a reply pp. 175-182

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Review of periodical literature published in 2006 pp. 183-230

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

The medieval antecedents of English agricultural progress – By Bruce M. S. Campbell pp. 231-232

John S. Moore

A social history of England, 1200–1500 – Edited by Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod pp. 232-233

Phillipp R. Schofield

Records of Feckenham Forest, Worcestershire, c.1236–1377 – Edited by Jean Birrell pp. 234-235

James A. Galloway

The self‐contained village?: the social history of rural communities, 1250–1900 – Edited by Christopher Dyer pp. 235-236

Brian Short

The senses in late medieval England – By Christopher M. Woolgar pp. 236-237

Paul Freedman

Food in early modern England: phases, fads, fashions, 1500–1760 – By Joan Thirsk pp. 237-238

Christopher Dyer

Trade, empire and British foreign policy, 1689–1815: the politics of a commercial state – By Jeremy Black pp. 239-239

Simon Smith

Riotous assemblies: popular protest in Hanoverian England – By Adrian Randall pp. 239-240

Robert B. Shoemaker

Ireland's great famine: interdisciplinary perspectives – By Cormac Ó Gráda pp. 240-241

David Dickson

A south‐Asian history of Britain: four centuries of people from the Indian sub‐continent – By Michael H. Fisher, Shompa Lahiri, and Shinder Thandi pp. 242-243

Francis Robinson

The origin of the welfare state in England and Germany, 1850–1914: social policies compared – By Peter Hennock pp. 243-244

Noel Whiteside

Arms, economics and British strategy: from dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs – By George C. Peden pp. 244-245

Till Geiger

Triumph of the south: a regional economic history of early twentieth century Britain – By Peter Scott pp. 245-246

David Higgins

Psychological socialism: the Labour Party and qualities of mind and character, 1931 to the present – By Jeremy Nuttall pp. 247-248

Laura Beers

Mutualism and health care: British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century – By Martin Gorsky and John Mohan with Tim Willis pp. 248-249

John Stewart

Cities in decline?: a comparative history of Malmö and Newcastle after 1945 – By Natasha Vall pp. 249-251

Stuart Howard

Twentieth century Britain: economic, cultural and social change – Edited by Francesca Carnevali and Julie‐Marie Strange pp. 251-252

Alan Booth

Guilds and association in Europe, 900–1900 – Edited by Ian A. Gadd and Patrick Wallis pp. 252-253

James Shaw

The rural history of medieval European societies: trends and perspectives – Edited by Isabel Alfonso pp. 253-254

Ben Dodds

Money, markets and trade in late medieval Europe: essays in honour of John H. A. Munro – Edited by Lawrin Armstrong, Ivana Elbl, and Martin M. Elbl pp. 254-255

Pamela Nightingale

Matters of exchange: commerce, medicine and science in the Dutch golden age – By Harold J. Cook pp. 255-257

Herman Van Der Wee

The power of entrepreneurs: politics and economy in contemporary Spain – By Mercedes Cabrera and Fernando del Rey pp. 257-258

Joseph Harrison

The European economy since 1945: coordinated capitalism and beyond – By Barry J. Eichengreen pp. 258-259

Andrea Boltho

Breaking away from Russia: economic stabilization in Estonia, 1918–1924 – By Jaak Valge pp. 259-260

John Hiden

Aden and the Indian Ocean trade: 150 years in the life of a medieval Arabian port – By Roxani Eleni Margariti pp. 261-262

Ghulam A. Nadri

The business of Civil War: military mobilization and the state, 1861–1865 – By Mark R. Wilson pp. 262-263

Walter Licht

The machine in America: a social history of technology – By Carroll W. Pursell pp. 263-265

Nathan Ensmenger

Staples and beyond: selected writings of Mel Watkins – Edited by Hugh Grant and David Wolfe pp. 265-266

Robin Neill

Fighting famine in north China – By Lillian M. Li pp. 266-268

Cormac Ó Gráda

Age of enterprise: rediscovering the New Zealand entrepreneur, 1880–1910 – By Ian Hunter pp. 268-269

G. r. Hawke

Kin: a collective biography of a New Zealand family – By Melanie Nolan pp. 269-271

Kerry Taylor

The moral consequences of economic growth – By Benjamin M. Friedman pp. 271-272

Avner Offer

Prophet of innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction – By Thomas K. McCraw pp. 272-274

David Reisman

Pricing theory, financing of international organisations and monetary history – By Lawrence H. Officer pp. 274-275

Mark E. Duckenfield

The global securities market: a history – By Ranald C. Michie pp. 275-276

Larry Neal