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Volume 74, month 11, 2021

Introduction to the symposium on money pp. 871-872

John Turner

‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century pp. 873-891

Jim Bolton and Francesco Guidi‐Bruscoli

The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization pp. 892-921

Olivier Accominotti, Delio Lucena‐Piquero and Stefano Ugolini

Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes pp. 922-945

James Butkiewicz and Scott Ohlmacher

Augmented human development in the age of globalization pp. 946-975

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−14 pp. 976-1005

Tetsuji Okazaki

Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12 pp. 1006-1030

Peter Anderson

Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556 pp. 1031-1061

Mattia Fochesato

Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3 pp. 1062-1086

Juan Flores Zendejas

Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport pp. 1087-1095

Simon Szreter and Graham Mooney

Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney pp. 1096-1110

Romola J. Davenport

Susan Kilby, Peasant perspectives on the medieval landscape: A study of three communities (Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020. Pp. 256. ISBN 978‐10912260‐21‐8 Pbk. £18.99) pp. 1111-1112

Philip Slavin

John C. Appleby, Fur, fashion and transatlantic trade during the seventeenth century: Chesapeake Bay Native hunters, colonial rivalries and London merchants (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. x+294. 2 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783275793 Hbk. £75.00) pp. 1112-1113

Frank J. Tough

Jin Xu, Empire of silver: A new monetary history of China, translated by Stacy Mosher (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 374. ISBN 978030025004‐6 Hbk. $30.00) pp. 1113-1115

Richard Von Glahn

B. Zorina Khan, Inventing ideas. Patents, prizes and the knowledge economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+462. 46 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9780190936075 Hbk. £64; ISBN 9780190936082 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1115-1116

Alessandro Nuvolari

Selina Todd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00) pp. 1116-1117

Santiago Perez

Victoria Bateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95) pp. 1117-1119

Jane Humphries

Charlie Whitham, Corporate conservatives go to war: How the National Association of Manufacturers planned to restore free enterprise, 1939–1948 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi+400. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐43907‐1 Hbk. €103.99; ISBN 978‐3‐030‐43910‐1 Pbk. €72.79) pp. 1119-1120

Taylor Jaworski

Mitsuhiko Kimura, The economics of colonialism in Korea: Rethinking Japanese rule and aftermath (Tokyo: Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2021. Pp. 233. 1 fig. 38 tabs. ISBN 9784866581248 Hbk. ¥2,500) pp. 1120-1122

Myung Soo Cha

Harold James, Making a modern central bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. i+525. ISBN 9781108799492 Pbk. £29.99) pp. 1122-1123

David Chambers

Volume 74, month 08, 2021

Introduction to the symposium on inequality pp. 581-583

Giovanni Federico

Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico pp. 584-610

Ingrid Bleynat, Amílcar E. Challú and Paul Segal

Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800 pp. 611-638

Alexandra de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden

The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population pp. 639-665

Peter Scott

Historical social stratification and mobility in Costa Rica, 1840–2006 pp. 666-690

Daniel Diaz Vidal

Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)† pp. 691-720

Mario García‐Zúñiga and Ernesto López Losa

Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948 pp. 721-753

Javier Donna and José‐Antonio Espín‐Sánchez

Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset pp. 754-783

Gabriele Cappelli and Gloria Quiroga Valle

Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism pp. 784-808

Nuala Zahedieh

War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913 pp. 809-830

Lars Karlsson and Peter Hedberg

Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–39† pp. 831-855

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor, and Sarah Carmichael, Capital women: the European Marriage Pattern, female empowerment, and economic development in western Europe, 1300–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+278. 27 figs. 41 tabs. ISBN 9780190847883 Hbk. £47.99) pp. 856-857

Kathryn E. Gary

John Henderson, Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+363. 39 plates. 4 maps. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780300196344 Hbk. £30.00) pp. 857-858

Patrick Wallis

A. G. Hopkins, An economic history of West Africa (London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. v+399. 17 maps. 6 figs. ISBN 978036700243 Hbk. £120.00) pp. 859-860

Jutta Bolt

Michael Schiltz, Accounting for the fall of silver: hedging currency risk in long‐distance trade with Asia, 1870–1913 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v+224. 48 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198865025 Hbk. $85.00) pp. 860-861

Juan Flores Zendejas

Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis, and Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the modern world: the moral economy of famine relief (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+310. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781108493529 Hbk. £75.00) pp. 862-863

Charles Read

Bas van Leeuwen, Robert C. M. Philips, and Erik Buyst, eds., An economic history of regional industrialization (London: Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 2021. Pp. v+300. 60 illus. ISBN 9780367197520 Hbk. £120.00) pp. 863-864

Kerstin Enflo

Christy Thornton, Revolution in development: Mexico and the governance of the global economy (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. v+302. ISBN 9780520297166 Pbk. £25.00) pp. 864-865

David Escamilla‐Guerrero

Gregg Huff, World War II and Southeast Asia: economy and society under Japanese occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+524. ISBN 9781107099333 Hbk. £90.00) pp. 865-867

Anne Booth

Volume 74, month 05, 2021

Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution pp. 309-338

Nicholas Crafts

Symposium pp. 339-340

Patrick Wallis

The growth pattern of British children, 1850–1975 pp. 341-371

Pei Gao and Eric Schneider

The pox in Boswell's London: an estimate of the extent of syphilis infection in the metropolis in the 1770s pp. 372-399

Simon Szreter and Kevin Siena

Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona pp. 400-423

Gregori Galofré‐Vilà and Bernard Harris

The real urban wage in an agricultural economy without landless farmers: Serbia, 1862–1910 pp. 424-448

Boško Mijatović and Branko Milanovic

Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas pp. 449-470

Mauro Rota and Jacob Weisdorf

Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922 pp. 471-495

Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher and John Turner

Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900 pp. 496-521

Shima Amini and Steven Toms

Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60 pp. 522-545

Thales Zamberlan Pereira

Paesani versus paisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration pp. 546-567

Leticia Arroyo Abad, Noel Maurer and Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso

Jane Kershaw and Gareth Williams, eds., Silver, butter, cloth: monetary and social economies in the Viking Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. v+306. 69 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198827986 Hbk. £75.00) pp. 568-569

Alex Woolf

Bronwen Everill, Not made by slaves: ethical capitalism in the age of abolition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 318. ISBN 9780674240988 Hbk. $39.95/£31.95) pp. 569-570

Frank Trentmann

Kathleen Monteith, Plantation coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. Pp. xv+250. ISBN 9789766407261 Pbk. $60.00) pp. 570-571

Aaron Graham

Xavier Lafrance, The making of capitalism in France: class structures, economic development, the state and the formation of the French working class, 1750–1914 (Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐27632‐1 Hbk. €118) pp. 571-573

Oisín Gilmore

Aaron G. Jakes, Egypt's occupation: colonial economism and the crises of capitalism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+352. 1 tab. ISBN 9781503607194 Hbk. $90.00; ISBN 9781503612617 Pbk. $30.00) pp. 573-574

Klas Rönnbäck

Craig VanGrasstek, Trade and American leadership: the paradoxes of power and wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxviii+475. 20 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781108476959 Hbk. £30.99) pp. 574-575

Jeremy Land

David Mitch and Gabriele Cappelli, eds., Globalization and the rise of mass education (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xx+338. 40 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783030254179 e‐Book. £79.50; ISBN 9783030254162 Hbk. £99.99; ISBN 9783030254193 Pbk. £69.99) pp. 576-577

Tomas Cvrcek

Volume 74, month 02, 2021

Introduction pp. 3-5

Giovanni Federico

House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne pp. 6-33

Gürer Karagedikli and Ali Coskun Tuncer

Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c. 1850s–1940s pp. 34-59

Amos Nadan

Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit pp. 60-86

Laura Panza and Ulaş Karakoç

Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail pp. 87-114

Dan Bogart, Oliver Dunn, Eduard J. Alvarez‐Palau and Leigh Shaw‐Taylor

Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831 pp. 115-137

Stefania Galli and Klas Rönnbäck

Land, ladies, and the law: a case study on women's land rights and welfare in Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century pp. 138-163

Thanyaporn Chankrajang and Jessica Vechbanyongratana

Baumol, Engel, and beyond: accounting for a century of structural transformation in Japan, 1885–1985 pp. 164-180

Kyoji Fukao and Saumik Paul

The Polish interbella puzzle: the biological standard of living in the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39 † pp. 181-203

Michał Kopczyński and Mateusz Rodak

The German bank–growth nexus revisited: savings banks and economic growth in Prussia pp. 204-222

Sibylle Lehmann‐Hasemeyer and Fabian Wahl

Flight‐to‐safety and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crises in France during the Great Depression pp. 223-250

Patrice Baubeau, Eric Monnet, Angelo Riva and Stefano Ungaro

Davies, John E., The changing fortunes of an aristocratic family, 1689–1976: the Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh estates (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. ix+343. 12 figs. ISBN 978‐1‐78327‐434‐5 Hbk. £85.00) pp. 295-296

Mark Rothery

Jim Phillips, Scottish coal miners in the twentieth century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. iv+316. 8 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781474452311 Hbk. £85.00) pp. 296-297

Jörg Arnold

Julian Hoppit, Duncan Needham, and Adrian Leonard, eds., Money and markets: essays in honour of Martin Daunton (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. v+294. 17 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781783274451 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 297-299

D'Maris Coffman

Andrea Caracausi, Matthew Davies, and Luca Mocarelli, eds., Between regulation and freedom: work and manufactures in European cities 14th–18th centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiii+146. ISBN 1‐5275‐0638‐X Hbk. £58.99) pp. 299-300

Patrick Wallis

Sebastian Edwards, American default: the untold story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the battle over gold (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxxiii + 252. 33 b/w illus. ISBN 9780691161884 Hbk. £24/$29.95; 9780691196046 Pbk. £16.99/$19.95) pp. 301-302

David James Gill

Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Badley A. Hansen, Bankrupt in America. A history of debtors, their creditors and the law in the twentieth century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020. Pp. v+222. 18 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780226679564 Hbk. $55.00) pp. 302-303

Rowena Olegario

Simon Mee, Central bank independence and the legacy of the German past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. 13 illus. 3 tabs. ISBN 978110849978 Hbk. £75.00) pp. 303-305

Albrecht Ritschl

Jan L. Logemann, Engineered to sell. European emigrés and the making of consumer capitalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. v+371. 22 images. ISBN 9780226660158 Pbk. $35.00) pp. 305-306

Vicki Howard