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Volume 75, month 11, 2022

Introduction to the symposium on demographic shocks pp. 995-996

Giovanni Federico

Short‐ and medium‐run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil pp. 997-1025

Amanda Guimbeau, Nidhiya Menon and Aldo Musacchio

Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy pp. 1026-1053

Richard Franke

Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 pp. 1054-1082

Kota Ogasawara

Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83 pp. 1083-1119

Marc Flandreau and Geoffroy Legentilhomme

Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666 pp. 1120-1150

D'Maris Coffman, Judy Stephenson and Nathan Sussman

Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth‐century city pp. 1151-1181

Richard Rodger

Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages pp. 1182-1213

Matt Raven

Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements: Evidence from New Zealand's Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act of 1903 pp. 1214-1241

Brian Varian

New evidence on wine in French international trade (1848–1913): Import discrimination as export quality promotion pp. 1242-1269

Stéphane Becuwe, Bertrand Blancheton and Samuel Maveyraud

A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub‐sector pattern, and region pp. 1270-1313

Cheng Yang

Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) pp. 1314-1348

Guido Alfani and Hector García Montero

Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861 pp. 1349-1378

David Chilosi and Carlo Ciccarelli

Mark Koyama & Jared Rubin, How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022. pp. 240. ISBN 9781509540235. Pbk £17.99 pp. 1379-1380

Johan Fourie

David Cox (ed.), Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40. Worcester: Worcester Archive and Archaeology Service, 2021. pp. 229. ISSN 01414577 pp. 1381-1382

Nick Peyton

Erin Woodruff Stone, Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. 235. 3 maps. 3 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780812253108. Hbk $49.95 pp. 1382-1383

Trevor Burnard

William D. Adler, Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development 1787–1860. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp 232. 5 figs, 4 maps, 11 tabs. ISBN Hbk. 9780812253481 Hbk. $75 eBook. $75) pp. 1384-1385

Carl Kitchens

Stana Nenadic, Craftworkers in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. pp. 1–256. 14 figs. ISBN 9781474490307. Hbk £85 pp. 1385-1386

Anthony Lewis

Tirthankar Roy, Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate. London: The MIT Press, 2022. pp. 230. ISBN 9780262543583. Pbk $30.00 pp. 1387-1388

James Fenske

Morten Jerven, The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 198. ISBN 9781108341080. Pbk £19.99 pp. 1388-1390

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. pp. 272. 14 tables. 4 figs. ISBN 9780226799001. Hbk $45.00 pp. 1390-1391

Maanik Nath

Volume 75, month 08, 2022

Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have? pp. 643-666

Bas J.P. Van Bavel

The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016 pp. 667-702

Neil Cummins

Human capital transfer of German‐speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s pp. 703-738

Matthias Blum, Karl‐Peter Krauss and Dmytro Myeshkov

Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth‐century Lyon pp. 739-778

Nadia Matringe

Peer pressure: The puzzle of aristocrats’ tax compliance in early nineteenth‐century Moscow pp. 779-800

Elena Korchmina

Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia pp. 801-829

Marina Chuchko

Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census pp. 830-856

Leslie Hannah and Robert Bennett

Wiring China: The impact of telegraph construction on grain market integration in late imperial China, 1870–1911 pp. 857-880

Yu Hao, Yuanzhe Li and John V. C. Nye

Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: The case of Cambridgeshire pp. 881-902

Mingjie Xu

Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland pp. 903-931

Eoin McLaughlin and Rowena Pecchenino

English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries pp. 932-959

Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon

Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations pp. 960-971

Joerg Baten, Giacomo Benati and Sarah Ferber

Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber pp. 972-980

Brian A'Hearn, Alexia Delfino and Alessandro Nuvolari

Steven Press, Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. v+336. 10 photos. 3 maps. Hbk. ISBN 9780674916494 Hbk. £28.95 pp. 981-982

Thaddeus Sunseri

Mircea Raianu, Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism Boston Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 291. Hardcover £31.95. ISBN 9780674984516 pp. 982-984

Tirthankar Roy

Andy Cook, The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK: Britain's Other D‐Day Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Pp. 225. ISBN: 9781527576964 pp. 984-985

Duncan Needham

Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. Hbk. 9780691182155 Hbk. £25.00/$29.95 pp. 986-988

Julia G Young

Dael A. Norwood, Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 270. 9 figs. ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐81558‐9 Hbk. $45.00 pp. 988-989

Peter A. Coclanis

Jan Lucassen, The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii+524, 27 plates. 6 maps. 3 figs. ISBN Hbk. 978‐0‐300‐25679‐6 Hbk £25.00 pp. 989-991

Alka Raman

David Freeman, A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+226. ISBN 9781108417495 Ebk. 9781108281164 Hbk. £75 Ebk. $80 pp. 991-992

Joris van den Tol

Volume 75, month 05, 2022

History as heresy: Unlearning the lessons of economic orthodoxy pp. 297-335

Mary A. O'Sullivan

The Irish economy during the century after partition pp. 336-370

Cormac Ó Gráda and Kevin O'Rourke

Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India pp. 371-373

Tirthankar Roy

Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective pp. 374-395

Klas Rönnbäck and Dimitrios Theodoridis

Credit risk in colonial India pp. 396-420

Maanik Nath

Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers pp. 421-446

Neha Hui and Uma Kambhampati

Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pp. 447-474

Alka Raman

Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967 pp. 475-502

Martin Dribe and Omar Karlsson

Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s pp. 503-529

Miikka Voutilainen

Beyond the male breadwinner: Life‐cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–1850 pp. 530-560

Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf

Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade? pp. 561-578

Federico Tadei

The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 1866 pp. 579-600

Sabine Schneider

Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction pp. 601-632

Carolyn Sissoko

Johan Fourie, Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom. Lessons from 100 000 Years of History Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021. pp. 255. ISBN 9780624091615 pp. 633-634

Felix Meier zu Selhausen

William Quinn and John D. Turner, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. pp. viii+288. 25 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN Hbk. 9781108421256 pp. 634-635

Jason Lennard

Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode, Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2019. pp. vii+381. 131 tabs. 10 figs. Hbk. ISBN 9780226633114 Hbk. $65.00 pp. 636-638

Stephen Broadberry

Claudia Goldin Career and Family: Women's Century‐Long Journey toward Equity Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 344. ISBN 9780691201788 Hbk £22.00 pp. 638-640

Jane Humphries

Volume 75, month 02, 2022

The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes pp. 3-21

Lawrence White

After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780–1835 pp. 22-55

Peter Maw, Peter Solar, Aidan Kane and John Lyons

Making the municipal capital market in nineteenth‐century England pp. 56-79

Ian Webster

How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain? pp. 80-110

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy pp. 111-137

Brian A'Hearn, Alexia Delfino and Alessandro Nuvolari

Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe pp. 138-156

Paul Slack

Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750† pp. 157-180

Erik Bengtsson, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019 pp. 181-202

Ola Grytten

Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden† pp. 203-234

Lars Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson and Paul Nystedt

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–1100 pp. 235-240

Jane Kershaw

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (ii) 1100–1500 pp. 240-249

Spike Gibbs

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iii) 1500–1700 pp. 249-255

Charmian Mansell

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iv) 1700–1850 pp. 256-263

Karolina Hutková

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (v) 1850–1945 pp. 263-275

Brian Varian

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 1945 pp. 275-287

Ewan Gibbs

Ben Marsh, Unravelled dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World 1500–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+500. ISBN 9781108418287 Hbk. £29.99) pp. 288-289

Manuela Martini

Henning Hillmann, The corsairs of Saint‐Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Régime (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xii+322. 35 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9780231180382 Hbk. £108; ISBN 9780231180399 Pbk. £28) pp. 289-290

Pierre Gervais

W. G. Miller, British traders in the East Indies 1770–1820 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Pp. i+222. ISBN 9781783275533 Hbk. £75.00) pp. 290-291

Michael Aldous

Rebecca Earle, Feeding the people: The politics of the potato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, Pp. xiv+306. 24 figs. ISBN 9781108484060 Hbk. £17.99) pp. 292-293

Vicente Pinilla

Stephen L. Morgan, The Chinese economy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021. Pp. xvii+316. 35 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781788210805 Hbk. £60.00; ISBN 9781788210812 Pbk. £16.99) pp. 293-294

Meng Wu