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Volume 60, month 11, 2007

‘Whatever is, is right’? Economic institutions in pre‐industrial Europe pp. 649-684

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Calculating credibility: print culture, trust and economic figures in early eighteenth‐century England pp. 685-711

Natasha Glaisyer

An ‘art’, not a ‘science’? Central bank management in Portugal under the gold standard, 1863–87 pp. 712-741

Jaime Reis

Financial market analysis can go mad (in the search for irrational behaviour during the South Sea Bubble) pp. 742-765

Gary Shea

Pitfalls in the quest for South Sea rationality pp. 766-772

Richard Dale, Johnnie E. V. Johnson and Leilei Tang

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2006 pp. 773-826

Matthew Hale, Richard Hawkins and Catherine Wright

England on the Eve of the Black Death: an atlas of lay lordship, land and wealth, 1300–49 – By Bruce M. S. Campbell and Ken Bartley pp. 827-828

Peter Coss

Medieval villages in an English landscape: beginnings and ends – By Richard Jones and Mark Page pp. 828-830

P. d. a. Harvey

Victoria county history: a history of the county of Chester, vol. V, 2, The city of Chester: culture, buildings and institutions – Edited by Christopher P. Lewis and Alan T. Thacker Victoria county history: a history of the county of Durham, vol. IV, Darlington – Edited by Gillian Cookson Victoria county history: a history of the County of Oxford, vol. XV, Carterton, Minster Lovell, and environs (Bampton Hundred part three) – Edited by S. Townley pp. 830-832

Nigel Goose

Gender, taste and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830 – Edited by John Styles and Amanda Vickery pp. 832-834

Richard Sheldon

Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700–1920 – Edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt, and Samantha Williams pp. 834-835

Leonard Schwarz

Creating capitalism: joint‐stock enterprise in British politics and culture, 1800–1870 – By James Taylor pp. 835-837

Robin Pearson

Rethinking nineteenth‐century liberalism: Richard Cobden bicentenary essays – Edited by Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan pp. 837-838

Peter Cain

‘We might be trusted’: women, welfare and local politics, 1880–1920 – By Steven King pp. 838-840

Marjorie Levine‐clark

The English countryside between the wars: regeneration or decline? – Edited by Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt, and Lynne Thompson pp. 840-842

E. j. t. Collins

Unemployment, poverty and health in interwar south Wales – By Steven Thomson pp. 842-843

Bernard Harris

The front line of freedom: British farming in the Second World War – Edited by Brian Short, Charles Watkins, and John Martin pp. 843-844

Erin Gill

Dennis Robertson: essays on his life and work – By Gordon A. Fletcher pp. 845-846

Susan Howson

The slow failure: population decline and independent Ireland, 1922–73 – By Mary E. Daly pp. 846-847

Enda Delaney

Work and pay in twentieth‐century Britain – Edited by Nicholas Crafts, Ian Gazeley, and Andrew Newell pp. 847-848

Nicholas Woodward

The politics of free markets: the rise of neoliberal economic policies in Britain, France, Germany and the United States – By Monica Prasad pp. 848-850

Neil Rollings

From physick to pharmacology: five hundred years of British drug retailing – Edited by Louise Hill Curth pp. 850-851

Elaine Leong

Le commerce du Nord: les échanges commerciaux entre la France et l'Europe septentrionale au XVIIIe siècle – By Pierrick Pourchasse pp. 851-853

Silvia Marzagalli

La fonction consulaire à l'époque moderne: l'affirmation d'une institution économique et politique, 1500–1700 – Edited by Jörg Ulbert and Gérard Le Bouëdec pp. 853-855

Xavier Labat Saint Vincent

At the centre of the old world: trade and manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian mainland, 1400–1800 – Edited by Paola Lanaro pp. 855-856

Maria Fusaro

Networking Europe: transnational infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850–2000 – Edited by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser pp. 856-858

Thomas J. Misa

Modernization in Russia since 1900 – Edited by Markku Kangaspuro and Jeremy Smith pp. 858-859

Vincent Barnett

The economic history of India, 1857–1947 – By Tirthankar Roy pp. 859-860

Bishnupriya Gupta

Networked machinists: high‐technology industries in Antebellum America – By David R. Meyer pp. 860-862

Ralf Richter

Selling the race: culture, community and black Chicago, 1940–1955 – By Adam Green pp. 862-864

Rachel Roseman

America transformed: sixty years of revolutionary change, 1941–2001 – By Richard M. Abrams pp. 864-865

Howell John Harris

From silver to cocaine: Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500–2000 – Edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank pp. 865-866

Marshall C. Eakin

The ambivalent consumer: questioning consumption in East Asia and the West – Edited by Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan pp. 866-868

Peter N. Stearns

The revolution that bit its own tail: how economic history changed our ideas on economic growth – By J.W. Drukker pp. 868-869

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Inside the economist's mind: conversations with eminent economists – Edited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett pp. 869-871

Roger Middleton

Capitals of capital: a history of international financial centres, 1780–2005 – By Youssef Cassis pp. 871-872

Ranald Michie

Emerging markets and financial globalization: sovereign bond spreads in 1870–1913 and today – By Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh pp. 872-874

Marc Flandreau

Monetary theory and Bretton Woods: the construction of an international monetary order – By Filippo Cesarano pp. 874-875

Forrest Capie

Gunpowder, explosives and the state: a technological history – Edited by Brenda J. Buchanan pp. 876-877

John F. Guilmartin

Volume 60, month 08, 2007

After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late‐medieval western Europe pp. 457-485

Samuel Cohn

Downhill from devaluation: The battle for sterling, 1968–721 pp. 486-512

Michael J. Oliver and Arran Hamilton

Serfdom and social capital in Bohemia and Russia1 pp. 513-544

T. K. Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie

The changing role of fairs in the long eighteenth century: evidence from the north midlands1 pp. 545-573

Ian Mitchell

Regions and time in the European fertility transition: problems in the Princeton Project’s statistical methodology1 pp. 574-595

John C. Brown and Timothy Guinnane

Charters and custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089–1216 – Edited by Neil E. Stacy pp. 596-597

Edmund King

Children remembered: responses to untimely death in the past – By Robert Woods pp. 597-598

Colin Heywood

Industry, trade and people in Ireland, 1650–1950: essays in honour of W. H. Crawford – Edited by Brenda Collins, Philip Ollersenshaw, and Trevor Parkhill pp. 598-599

S. j Connolly

The British–Atlantic trading community, 1760–1810: men, women and the distribution of goods – By Sheryllynne Haggerty pp. 600-602

David Hancock

Financing medicine: the British experience since 1750 – Edited by Martin Gorsky and Sally Sheard pp. 602-603

John Stewart

The business of women: female enterprise and urban development in Northern England, 1760–1830 – By Hannah Barker pp. 603-604

Christine Wiskin

Landlords, tenants, famine: the business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s – By Desmond Norton pp. 604-606

Gerald J. Lyne

From the corn laws to free trade: interests, ideas and institutions in historical perspective – By Cheryl Schonhardt‐Bailey pp. 606-607

Boyd Hilton

Clara Collet, 1860–1948: an educated working woman – By Deborah McDonald pp. 607-609

Hester Barron

Alfred Herbert Ltd and the British machine tool industry, 1887–1983 – By Roger Lloyd‐Jones and M. J. Lewis pp. 609-610

Geoffrey Tweedale

Jewish Ireland in the age of Joyce: a socioeconomic history – By Cormac Ó Gráda pp. 610-612

Todd M. Endelman

Psychological subjects: identity, culture and health in twentieth‐century Britain – By Matthew Thomson pp. 612-613

Joseph Melling

The Cambridge companion to Keynes – Edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley Bateman pp. 613-615

Mauro Boianovsky

Visual culture and decolonisation in Britain – Edited by Simon Faulkner and Anandi Ramamurthy pp. 615-617

Stephen Howe

Using history, making British policy: the Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950–76 – By Peter J. Beck pp. 617-618

Hugh Pemberton

The Chancellors' tales: managing the British economy – Edited by Howard Davies pp. 619-620

Nicholas Woodward

Britain's pension crisis: history and policy – Edited by Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane, and Noel Whiteside pp. 620-621

Paul Bridgen

Liverpool 800: culture, character and history – Edited by John Belchem pp. 621-623

John K. Walton

Institutions and the path to the modern economy: lessons from medieval trade – By Avner Greif pp. 623-624

Karl Gunnar Persson

The rise of the Amsterdam market and information exchange: merchants, commercial expansion and change in the spatial economy of the Low Countries, c.1550–1630 – By Clé Lesger pp. 624-625

Wantje Fritschy

The city, the duke and their banker: the Rapondi family and the formation of the Burgundian state (1384–1430) – By Bart Lambert pp. 626-627

Graeme Small

The political economy of virtue: luxury, patriotism and the origins of the French Revolution – By John Shovlin pp. 627-628

William Doyle

Planning ahead and falling behind: the East German economy in comparison with West Germany, 1936–2002 – By Jaap Sleifer pp. 628-630

Mathieu Denis

Civil society, associations and urban places: class, nation and culture in nineteenth‐century Europe – Edited by Graeme Morton, Boudien de Vries, and Robert J. Morris pp. 630-631

Philip Nord

The economy of east central Europe, 1815–1989 – By David Turnock pp. 632-633

Max‐stephan Schulze

The road to prosperity: an economic history of Finland – Edited by Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta, and Jukka Jalava pp. 633-634

Ola Grytten

A history of Russian economic thought – By Vincent Barnett pp. 635-636

Yuri Tulupenko

Historical statistics of the United States – Edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright pp. 636-638

Kenneth Morgan

The world's newest profession: management consulting in the twentieth century – By Christopher D. McKenna pp. 638-639

M. w. Kirby

Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: capital and control in a colonial economy – By Barry W. Higman pp. 639-640

Gad Heuman

The role of tradition in Japan's industrialization: another path to industrialization – Edited by Masayuki Tanimoto pp. 641-642

Alan Booth

Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950 – By Jeffrey G. Williamson pp. 642-643

Edward Anderson

Eli Heckscher, international trade and economic history – Edited by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G. H. Henriksson, Håkan Lindgren, and Mats Lundahl pp. 644-645

John McCusker

Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods – By Barry Eichengreen pp. 645-646

Bernard J. Foley

Global labour history: a state of the art – Edited by Jan Lucassen pp. 646-648

Chris Wrigley

Volume 60, month 05, 2007

Night watchman, extractive, or developmental states? Some evidence from late colonial south‐east Asia1 pp. 241-266

Anne Booth

China and the world financial markets 1870–1939: Modern lessons from historical globalization1 pp. 267-312

William Goetzmann, Andrey D. Ukhov and Ning Zhu

The organization of the grain trade in the early Roman Empire pp. 313-332

David Kessler and Peter Temin

Where there’s muck, there’s brass:1 the market for manure in the industrial revolution2 pp. 333-372

Liam Brunt

Ancient and early modern mortality: experience and understanding1 pp. 373-399

Robert Woods

Food in medieval England: diet and nutrition – Edited by Christopher M. Woolgar, Dale Serjeantson, and Tony Waldron pp. 400-401

John Langdon

The business of everyday life: gender, practice and social politics in England, c.1600–1900 – By Beverly Lemire pp. 401-402

Lynn Abrams

Slavery, family and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic: the world of the Lascelles, 1648–1834 – By Simon D. Smith pp. 403-404

William J. Ashworth

A foot in the past: consumers, producers and footwear in the long eighteenth century – By Giorgio Riello pp. 405-406

Nancy Cox

China trade and empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the origins of British rule in Hong Kong, 1827–1843 – Edited by Alain Le Pichon pp. 406-407

Paul A. Van Dyke

The English rural poor, 1850–1914 – Edited by Mark Freeman pp. 407-409

Steven King

Charles Knight: educator, publisher, writer – By Valerie Gray pp. 409-411

James Thompson

Writers, readers and reputations: literary life in Britain, 1870–1918 – By Philip J. Waller pp. 411-412

James Thompson

The debate on the rise of the British empire – By Anthony Webster pp. 412-414

Stephen Howe

The Labour governments, 1964–1970 – Edited by Peter Dorey pp. 414-415

Jim Tomlinson

Age discrimination: an historical and contemporary discussion – By John Macnicol pp. 415-417

Robin Blackburn

Craft guilds in the early modern Low Countries: work, power and representation – Edited by Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen, and Hugo Soly pp. 417-419

James R. Farr

The emergence of modern business enterprise in France, 1800–1930 – By Michael Stephan Smith pp. 419-421

Peter Wardley

The wages of destruction: the making and breaking of the Nazi economy – By Adam Tooze pp. 421-422

Ray Stokes

Überholen ohne einzuholen: Die DDR‐Wirtschaft als Fußnote der deutschen Geschichte? – Edited by André Steiner pp. 422-424

Jeremy Leaman

Evolution of Italian enterprises in the 20th century – Edited by Renato Gianetti and Michelangelo Vasta pp. 424-425

Paolo Di Martino

An anatomy of trade in medieval writing: value, consent and community – By Lianna Farber pp. 425-427

James Davis

Cultures of selling: perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 – Edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini pp. 427-428

Lesley Whitworth

An economic history of Europe: from expansion to development – Edited by Antonio Di Vittorio pp. 429-430

Herman Van Der Wee

Monetary circulation in Central Europe at the beginning of the early modern period: attempts to establish a shared currency as an aspect of the political culture of the 16th century (1524–1573) – By Petr Vorel pp. 430-432

Ian Blanchard

The Palestinian peasant economy under the Mandate: a story of colonial bungling – By Amos Nadan pp. 432-434

Jacob Metzer

Chinese medicine men: consumer culture in China and Southeast Asia – By Sherman Cochran pp. 434-435

Matthew Hilton

Technology gatekeepers for war and peace: the British ship revolution and Japanese industrialization – By Miwao Matsumoto pp. 435-437

Janet Hunter

Lever of empire: the international gold standard and the crisis of liberalism in prewar Japan – By Mark Metzler pp. 437-438

Arturo Giraldez

Japan, China, and the growth of the Asian international economy, 1850–1949 – Edited by Kaoru Sugihara pp. 438-440

Pierre van der Eng

Barbed wire: an ecology of modernity – By Reviel Netz pp. 440-441

Avner Offer

Creating the twentieth century: technical innovations of 1867–1914 and their lasting impact – By Vaclav Smil Transforming the twentieth century: technical innovations and their consequences – By Vaclav Smil pp. 441-443

Richard Lipsey

The role of government in the history of economic thought – Edited by Steven Medema and Peter Boettke pp. 444-445

Michael J. Oliver

Global migration and the world economy: two centuries of policy and performance – By Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson pp. 445-446

Dudley Baines

Historicizing lifestyle: mediating taste, consumption and identity from the 1900s to the 1970s – Edited by David Bell, and Joanne Hollows pp. 446-448

Sean Nixon

The expert consumer: associations and professionals in consumer society – Edited by Alain Chatriot, Marie‐Emanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton pp. 448-449

Stefan Schwarzkopf

The social sources of financial power: domestic legitimacy and international financial orders – By Leonard Seabrooke pp. 449-450

Margaret Levi

The global economy in the 1990s: a long run perspective – Edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo pp. 451-452

Mary O'Mahony

The bourgeois virtues: ethics for an age of commerce – By Deirdre N. McCloskey pp. 452-453

Jere Cohen

Announcing web‐based submission process: Manuscript Central pp. 454-455

Jane Humphries

Erratum: English county populations in the later eighteenth century pp. 456-456

E. A. Wrigley

Volume 60, month 02, 2007

Towards a new Bradshaw? Economic statistics and the British state in the 1950s and 1960s pp. 1-34

Glen O’hara

English county populations in the later eighteenth century1 pp. 35-69

E. A. Wrigley

The causes and consequences of rent‐seeking in Northern Ireland, 1945–721 pp. 70-96

Graham Brownlow

The long march of history: Farm wages, population, and economic growth, England 1209–18691 pp. 97-135

Gregory Clark

Trade and economic developments, 1450–1550: the experience of Kent, Surrey and Sussex – Mavis E. Mate pp. 190-191

R. w. Hoyle

Immigrants and the industries of London, 1500–1700 – Lien Bich Luu pp. 191-192

Andrew Spicer

The social life of money in the English past – Deborah Valenze pp. 192-193

Julian Hoppit

County Durham hearth tax assessment Lady Day 1666 – Edited by Adrian Green, Elizabeth Parkinson and Margaret Spufford pp. 193-195

Tom Arkell

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dynasty: the critical years, 1806–1816 – Herbert H. Kaplan pp. 195-196

Stanley Chapman

The popularization of Malthus in early nineteenth century England: Martineau, Cobbett and the pauper press – James P. Huzel pp. 196-197

John Pullen

Imagined orphans: poor families, child welfare and contested citizenship in London – Lydia Murdoch pp. 197-199

Harry Hendrick

Rebel girls: their fight for the vote – Jill Liddington pp. 199-201

Harold L. Smith

A history of auditing: the changing audit process in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present day – Derek Matthews pp. 201-202

Christopher J. Napier

The re‐emergence of global finance – Gary Burn pp. 202-204

Catherine R. Schenk

The making of modern management: British management in historical perspective – John F. Wilson and Andrew Thomson pp. 204-205

M. w. Kirby

A history of leisure – Peter Borsay pp. 205-207

Brad Beaven

W. Arthur Lewis and the birth of development economics – Robert L. Tignor pp. 207-208

Jim Tomlinson

The official history of Britain and the Channel Tunnel – Terry Gourvish pp. 208-209

Richard S. Grayson

The challenge of affluence: self‐control and well‐being in the United States and Britain since 1950 – Avner Offer pp. 210-211

M. j. Daunton

Les banques du grand Sud‐Ouest, Système bancaire et gestion des risques (des années 1900 à nos jours) – Hubert Bonin and Christophe Lastacouères pp. 212-213

Jean‐pierre Dormois

Gilding the market: luxury and fashion in fourteenth‐century Italy – Susan Mosher Stuard pp. 214-215

Sharon Farmer

Trade, diplomacy and cultural exchange: continuity and change in the North Sea area and the Baltic, c.1350–1750 – Edited by Hanno Brand pp. 215-216

Herman Van Der Wee

The grammar of profit: the price revolution in intellectual context – Andrea Finkelstein pp. 216-217

Ian Blanchard

The justice of Venice: authorities and liberties in the urban economy – James E. Shaw pp. 217-219

Liz Horodowich

The soul of commerce: credit, property and politics in Leipzig, 1750–1840 – Robert Beachy pp. 219-220

Victoria Harris

Sozial‐ und Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Arbeitsgebiete–Probleme–Perspektiven – Edited by Günther Schulz, Christoph Buchheim, Gerhard Fouquet, Rainer Gömmel, Friedrich‐Wilhelm Henning, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold and Hans Pohl pp. 220-222

Carsten Burhop

Momente deutsch‐deutscher Wirtschafts‐ und Sozialgeschichte 1945 bis 1990: Eine Analyse auf gleicher Augenhöhe – Jörg Roesler pp. 222-224

Gareth Dale

Norwegian catch‐up: development and globalization before Word War II – Jonathon W. Moses pp. 224-225

Jan Tore Klovland

Consuming cultures: global perspectives, historical trajectories, transnational exchanges – Edited by John Brewer and Frank Trentmann pp. 225-226

Richard Sheldon

An economic history of twentieth‐century Europe: economic regimes from laissez‐faire to globalization – Ivan T. Berend pp. 227-228

Bernard J. Foley

Corruption and reform: lessons from America’s economic history – Edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin pp. 228-229

Susan Rose‐ackerman

The Canton trade: life and enterprise on the China coast, 1700‐1845 – Paul A. Van Dyke pp. 230-231

H. v. Bowen

China and capitalism: a history of business enterprise in modern China – David Faure pp. 231-232

Catherine R. Schenk

Rural economic development in Japan: from the nineteenth century to the Pacific war – Penelope Francks pp. 232-233

Richard J. Smethurst

Taste, trade and technology: the development of the international meat industry since 1840 – Richard Perren pp. 234-235

P. j. Atkins

Global capitalism: its fall and rise in the twentieth century – Jeffrey Frieden pp. 235-236

Scott Newton

International economic integration in historical perspective – Dennis M. P. McCarthy pp. 236-237

Pilar Nogués Marco

The economics of World War I – Edited by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison pp. 238-239

Theo Balderston

The ‘vanity of the philosopher’: from equality to hierarchy in postclassical economics – Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy pp. 239-240

Roger Backhouse

Volume 60, month 01, 2007

Review of periodical literature published in 2005 pp. 136-189

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