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Volume 73, month 11, 2020

Mites and merchants: the crisis of English wool and textile trade revisited, c. 1275–1330 pp. 885-913

Philip Slavin

Taxation, fiscal capacity, and credible commitment in eighteenth‐century China: the effects of the formalization and centralization of informal surtaxes pp. 914-939

Yu Hao and Kevin Liu

Patents and invention in Jamaica and the British Atlantic before 1857 pp. 940-963

Aaron Graham

The rise of coffee in the Brazilian south‐east: tariffs and foreign market potential, 1827–40 pp. 964-990

Christopher David Absell

Infant and child mortality by socio‐economic status in early nineteenth‐century England pp. 991-1022

Hannaliis Jaadla, Ellen Potter, Sebastian Keibek and Romola Davenport

Unequal access to food during the nutritional transition: evidence from Mediterranean Spain pp. 1023-1049

Francisco J. Medina‐Albaladejo and Salvador Calatayud

Living standards and the life cycle: reconstructing household income and consumption in the early twentieth‐century Netherlands pp. 1050-1073

Corinne Boter

Officer retention and military spending: the rise of the military‐industrial complex during the Second World War pp. 1074-1096

Ahmed Rahman

Origins of regional divergence: economic growth in socialist Yugoslavia pp. 1097-1127

Leonard Kukić

Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider pp. 1128-1136

Robert Allen

Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen pp. 1137-1152

Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2019 pp. 1153-1202

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

John Hatcher and Judy Z. Stephenson, eds., Seven centuries of unreal wages. The unreliable data, sources and methods that have been used for measuring standards of living in the past (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xiv + 317. 32 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 978‐3‐319‐96961‐9 Hbk. £109.99) pp. 1203-1204

Jane Humphries

David Stone, ed., The accounts of the manor of Esher in the Winchester Pipe Rolls, 1235–1376 (Woking: Surrey Record Society, vol. xlvi, 2017. Pp. lxxvii + 438. 11 figs. 9 tabs. 7 plates. ISBN 9780902978218. £30) pp. 1204-1206

James Davis

Giada Pizzoni, British Catholic merchants in the commercial age, 1670–1714 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020. Pp. xiii + 214. 5 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781783274383 Hbk. £70) pp. 1206-1207

Eleanor Russell

Jairus Banaji, A brief history of commercial capitalism (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. Pp. 197. ISBN 978‐1‐6459‐132‐3 Hbk. £15.67) pp. 1207-1208

Lord Desai

Ron Harris, Going the distance: Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400–1700 (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 465. 28 b/w illus. 20 tabs. 14 maps. ISBN 9780691150772 Hbk. £34) pp. 1208-1210

Karolina Hutková

James Livesey, Provincializing global history: money, ideas, and things in the Languedoc, 1660–1830 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. x+214. ISBN 9780300237160 Hbk. £35) pp. 1210-1212

David Todd

Alan Forrest, The death of the French Atlantic. Trade, war, and slavery in the age of revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v + 352. 6 maps. ISBN 9780199568956. Hbk. £35) pp. 1212-1213

Aaron Graham

Ellen Hillbom and Erik Green, An economic history of development in sub‐Saharan Africa: economic transformations and political changes (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xvii + 286. 15 tabs. ISBN 9783030140076 Pbk. £39.99) pp. 1213-1214

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

Gelina Harlaftis, Creating global shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the business of shipping, c. 1820–1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 375. 46 figs. 5 maps. 46 tabs. ISBN 9781108475396 Hbk. £90) pp. 1214-1215

Knick Harley

Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna, Modern Brazil: a social history (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 419. 3 maps. 88 graphs. 95 tabs. ISBN 9781108489027 Hbk. £79.99; ISBN 9781108733298 Pbk. £26.99) pp. 1216-1217

Gail Triner

Volume 73, month 08, 2020

An introduction to the history of infectious diseases, epidemics and the early phases of the long‐run decline in mortality pp. E1-E19

Leigh Shaw‐Taylor

Mentality, motivation, and economic decision‐making in Ancient Rome: Cicero and Tullia's shrine pp. 623-643

Marta García Morcillo

Poverty or prosperity in northern India? New evidence on real wages, 1590s–1870s pp. 644-667

Pim de Zwart and Jan Lucassen

Integration in European coal markets, 1833–1913 pp. 668-702

John E. Murray and Javier Silvestre

A leader in an emerging new international market: the determinants of French wine exports, 1848–1938 pp. 703-729

María-Isabel Ayuda, Hugo Ferrer‐Pérez and Vicente Pinilla

Sanitary infrastructures and the decline of mortality in Germany, 1877–1913 pp. 730-757

Daniel Gallardo‐Albarrán

Factor endowments on the ‘frontier’: Algerian settler agriculture at the beginning of the 1900s pp. 758-784

Laura Maravall

UK investment trust portfolio strategies before the First World War pp. 785-814

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Janette Rutterford and Carolyn Keber

Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years pp. 815-843

Alejandro Ayuso‐Díaz and Antonio Tena‐Junguito

Uncertainty and the Great Slump pp. 844-867

Jason Lennard

Linda Levy Peck, Women of fortune: money, marriage, and murder in early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+335. 14 figs. 16 colour plates. ISBN 9781107034020 Hbk. £26.99) pp. 868-869

Janette Rutterford

Pat How and Jane Harris, eds., Wills, inventories and probate accounts from Saint Albans 1600–1615 (Hertford: Hertfordshire Records Society, 2019. Pp. xlii+436. 5 illus. ISBN 9780956511171 Hbk. £22 + p&p to non‐members) pp. 869-870

Ken Sneath

David Fitzpatrick, The Americanisation of Ireland: migration and settlement, 1841–1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+254. 2 charts. 10 maps. 47 tabs. ISBN 9781108486491 Hbk. £22.99) pp. 870-872

Raymond L. Cohn

Richard Mackenney, Venice as the polity of mercy: guilds, confraternities, and the social order, c. 1250–c. 1650 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. vii+471. 66 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781442649682 Hbk. $67.50) pp. 872-873

Andrea Caracausi

Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis, eds., Apprenticeship in early modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+322. 21 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781108496926 Hbk. £52.81) pp. 873-874

Karel Davids

Emma Hart, Trading spaces: the colonial marketplace and the foundations of American capitalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 1+274. 10 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780226659817 Hbk. $45) pp. 874-876

Farley Grubb

Kazuo Kobayashi, Indian cotton textiles in West Africa. African agency, consumer demand and the making of the global economy, 1750–1850 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Imperial and Post‐Colonial Studies Series, 2019. Pp. vii+258. 15 figs. 6 images. 5 tabs. 4 maps. ISBN 9783030186746 Hbk. £59.99; ISBN 9783030186753 eBook. £47.99) pp. 876-877

Alka Raman

Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, eds., Fiscal capacity and the colonial state in Asia and Africa, c. 1850–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Economic History, 2020. Pp. v+303. 54 figs. 3 maps. 42 tabs. ISBN 9781108494267 Hbk. £75) pp. 877-878

Yannick Dupraz

Anne Fleming, City of debtors. A century of fringe finance (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 367. ISBN 9780674976238 Hbk. $46.50/£37.95) pp. 878-880

Simone Selva

A. G. Hopkins, American empire: a global history (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xx+980. 8 figs. 8 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780691177052 Hbk. £32.95/$39.95) pp. 880-881

Noel Maurer

Volume 73, month 05, 2020

Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited pp. 353-383

Gavin Wright

Intoxicants and the invention of ‘consumption’ pp. 384-408

Phil Withington

Working days in a London construction team in the eighteenth century: evidence from St Paul's Cathedral pp. 409-430

Judy Stephenson

Between Malthus and the industrial take‐off: regional inequality in Sweden, 1571–1850 pp. 431-454

Kerstin Enflo and Anna Missiaia

Urbanization and mortality in Britain, c. 1800–50 pp. 455-485

Romola J. Davenport

The limiting factor: energy, growth, and divergence, 1820–1913 pp. 486-512

Paolo Malanima

A silver transformation: Chinese monetary integration in times of political disintegration, 1898–1933 pp. 513-539

Debin Ma and Liuyan Zhao

Commodity option pricing efficiency before Black, Scholes, and Merton pp. 540-564

David Chambers and Rasheed Saleuddin

For a fistful of pesetas? The political economy of the army in a nonconsolidated democracy: the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931–9) pp. 565-594

Álvaro La Parra‐Pérez

Richard Goddard and Teresa Phipps, eds., Town courts and urban society in late medieval England, 1250–1500 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xi+263. 5 maps. 7 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781783274253 Hbk. £60) pp. 595-596

A. T. Brown

Peter Maunder, Tiverton cloth: the story of the town's woollen trade, 1475–1815 (Exeter: Short Run Press, 2018. Pp. v+450. 3 maps. 21 tabs. 66 figs. ISBN 9781527231740 Hbk. £20) pp. 596-597

John S. Lee

David Thackeray, Forging a British world of trade: culture, ethnicity, and market in the Empire‐Commonwealth, 1880–1975 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xv+230. 14 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780198816713 Hbk. £60) pp. 597-599

Nicholas J. White

Seth Bernard, Building Mid‐Republican Rome. Labor, architecture and the urban economy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xv+315. 38 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9780190878788 Hbk. 9780190878801 E‐pub. £55) pp. 599-600

Miko Flohr

Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio, The lion's share: inequality and the rise of the fiscal state in preindustrial Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. v+232. 29 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781108476218 Hbk. £31.99) pp. 600-601

Johannes Lindvall

Paul Cheney, Cul de Sac: patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint‐Domingue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. vii+264. 3 maps. 4 graphs. 7 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780226679259 Pbk $32.00) pp. 601-602

Aaron Graham

Toby Green, A fistful of shells. West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019. Pp. ix+614. 6 maps. 62 figs. ISBN 9780226644578 Hbk. $40) pp. 603-604

Karin Pallaver

Karolina Hutkova, The English East India Company's silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xv+259. 20 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9781783273942 Hbk. $120) pp. 604-605

Beverly Lemire

Peer Vries, Averting a Great Divergence. State and economy in Japan, 1868–1937 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 1+310. 104 tabs. 11 figs. ISBN 9781350121676 Hbk. £63) pp. 605-607

Jean‐Pascal Bassino

Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc. An intimate history of corporate imperialism (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018. Pp. ix+333. 35 figs. ISBN 9780226533315 Pbk. $25) pp. 607-608

Leslie Hannah

Bettina Liverant, Buying happiness: the emergence of consumer consciousness in English Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Pp. 304. 11 illus. ISBN 9780774835145 Pbk. $34.95) pp. 608-609

Shinobu Majima

Jason E. Taylor, Deconstructing the monolith: the microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. vii+206. 25 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780226603308 Hbk. $55) pp. 609-610

Carl Kitchens

Tobias Straumann, 1931: debt, crisis, and the rise of Hitler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. v+234. 2 maps. 7 figs. 16 illustrations. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780198816188 Pbk. £16.99) pp. 611-612

Stefanie Middendorf

Ulbe Bosma, The making of the periphery: how island Southeast Asia became a mass exporter of labour (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xii+304. 7 tabs. 1 fig. 5 maps. ISBN 97802311 88524 Hbk. 9780231547901 E‐book) pp. 612-613

Anne Booth

Éric Monnet, Controlling credit: central banking and the planned economy in postwar France, 1948–1973 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii+327. 30 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781108415019 Hbk. £85) pp. 613-615

Oliver Bush

Amy C. Offner, Sorting out the mixed economy. The rise and fall of welfare and developmental states in the Americas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+381. 4 maps. 22 figs. ISBN 9780691190938 Hbk. £34) pp. 615-616

Martin Andersson

Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert, eds., General labour history of Africa: workers, employers and governments, 20th–21st centuries (International Labour Organization: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Pp. v+761. 3 maps. 4 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781847012180 Hbk. £95) pp. 616-618

Michiel de Haas

Christopher D. Gore, Electricity in Africa: the politics of transformation in Uganda (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xiv+186. 7 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781847011695 Hbk. £60) pp. 618-619

David Ockwell

Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and Jean‐Paul Chavas, eds., The economics of poverty traps, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. x+413. 51 figs. 33 tabs. ISBN 9780226574301 Hbk. $130; 9780226574448 E‐book $130) pp. 619-620

Ewout Frankema

Volume 73, month 02, 2020

The gender division of labour in early modern England pp. 3-32

Jane Whittle and Mark Hailwood

Institutions for the taking: property rights and the settlement of the Cape Colony, 1652–1750 pp. 33-58

Alan Dye and Sumner La Croix

What explains the missing girls in nineteenth‐century Spain? pp. 59-77

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Domingo Gallego

Inadequate supply and increasing demand for textiles and clothing: second‐hand trade at auctions as an alternative source of consumer goods in Sweden, 1830–1900 pp. 78-105

Kristina Lilja and Pernilla Jonsson

Women's labour force participation in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 census enumerators’ books pp. 106-133

Xuesheng You

A policy of credit disruption: the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900 pp. 134-158

Latika Chaudhary and Anand V. Swamy

Can school centralization foster human capital accumulation? A quasi‐experiment from early twentieth‐century Italy pp. 159-184

Gabriele Cappelli and Michelangelo Vasta

Asia's ‘little divergence’ in the twentieth century: evidence from PPP‐based direct estimates of GDP per capita, 1913–69 pp. 185-208

Jean‐Pascal Bassino and Pierre van der Eng

Agglomeration externalities and productivity growth: US cities, 1880–1930 pp. 209-232

Alexander Klein and Nicholas Crafts

Currency devaluations and beggar‐my‐neighbour penalties: evidence from the 1930s pp. 233-257

Thilo Albers

‘The capital market is dead’: the difficult birth of index‐linked gilts in the UK pp. 258-280

Michael J. Oliver and Janette Rutterford

Susan Oosthuizen, The Anglo‐Saxon Fenland (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. Pp. xx+156. 55 figs. ISBN 9781911188087 Pbk. £29.95) pp. 325-326

David Bates

Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie, eds., Economy and culture in north‐east England, 1500–1800 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi+293. 9 figs. 7 maps. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781783271832 Hbk. £65) pp. 326-327

Benjamin Schneider

Adrian James Webb, Handlist of Somerset probate inventories and administrators' accounts, 1482–1924. (Taunton: Somerset Record Society, 2019. Pp. vi+282. ISBN 9780901732460 Hbk. £16) pp. 327-328

Heather Falvey

Amy M. Froide, Silent partners: women as public investors during Britain's financial revolution, 1690–1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 225. 13 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198767985 Hbk £60) pp. 328-330

Amanda L. Capern

Brenda King, The Wardle family and its circle: textile production in the Arts and Crafts era (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xix+218. 14 plates. 15 figures. ISBN 9781783273959 Hbk. £29.95) pp. 330-331

Alka Raman

Michael Anderson, with mapping by Corinne Roughley, Scotland's populations from the 1850s to today (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi+458. 85 figs. 13 maps. 94 tabs. ISBN 9780198805830 Hbk. £85) pp. 331-332

Malcolm Noble

Taco Terpstra, Trade in the ancient Mediterranean: private order and public institutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. v+277. photos 14 figs. ISBN 9780691172088 Hbk. £30.00) pp. 332-333

Richard Saller

Sumner La Croix, Hawai'i: eight hundred years of political and economic change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix+389. 31 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780226592091 Hbk. $60.00) pp. 334-335

Justin R. Bucciferro

Masayuki Tanimoto and R. Bin Wong (eds.), Public goods provision in the early modern economy: comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. v+331. 11 figs. 4 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780520303652 Pbk. $34.95) pp. 335-336

Melanie Meng Xue

Francesca Trivellato, The promise and peril of credit: what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the making of European commercial society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 405. 20 figs. 5 apps. ISBN 9780691178592 Hbk. $45.00/£35.00) pp. 336-337

Thomas Max Safley

Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel‐Vinay, and Jean‐Laurent Rosenthal, Dark matter credit: the development of peer‐to‐peer lending and banking in France (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+303. 28 tabs. 35 figs. ISBN 9780691182179 Hbk. £30) pp. 338-339

Pamfili Antipa

Anne G. Hanley, The public good and the Brazilian state: municipal finance and public services in São Paulo, 1822–1930 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+290. 4 figs. 1 map. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780226535074 Hbk. £45/$60) pp. 339-340

Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza

Şevket Pamuk, Uneven centuries: economic development of Turkey since 1820 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. v+352. 1 map. 17 tabs. 48 figs. ISBN 9780691166377 Hbk. £27) pp. 341-342

Ali‐Coşkun Tunçer

Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler, Swiss monetary history since the early 19th century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+244. 51 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781107199309 Hbk. £85) pp. 342-343

Jakob Schneebacher

Graham D. Taylor, Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian oil industry from 1880 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019. Pp. v+368. 6 maps, 31 figs. ISBN 9781773850351 Pbk. $39.99) pp. 343-345

Joe Martin

Mary E. Cox, Hunger in war & peace: women & children in Germany, 1914–1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+383. 75 figs. 34 plates. 25 tabs. ISBN 9780198820116 Hbk. £70.00) pp. 345-346

Roderick Floud

Aaron Hale‐Dorrell, Corn crusade: Khrushchev's farming revolution in the post‐Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. v+328. 11 figs. ISBN 9780190644673 Hbk. £47.99) pp. 346-347

Mark Harrison

Niv Haresh and Kean Fan Kim, An East Asian challenge to western neoliberalism (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. Pp. 142+ref. ISBN 9281138926745 Hbk. £110; ISBN 9780367189945 Pbk. £36.99) pp. 348-348

Yi‐Chong Xu

Mark H. Rose, Market rules: bankers, presidents, and the origins of the Great Recession (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. vii+253. ISBN 9780812251029 Hbk. £33.00) pp. 349-350

Anselm Küsters