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Volume 72, month 11, 2019

Uneven centuries: Turkey's experience with economic development since 1820 pp. 1129-1151

Sevket Pamuk

Bees in the medieval economy: religious observance and the production, trade, and consumption of wax in England, c. 1300–1555 pp. 1152-1174

Alexandra Sapoznik

Plague and long‐term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities pp. 1175-1201

Guido Alfani and Marco Percoco

Institutional choice in the governance of the early Atlantic sugar trade: diasporas, markets, and courts pp. 1202-1228

Daniel Strum

Beyond the personal–anonymous divide: agency relations in powers of attorney in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pp. 1229-1250

Fabien Eloire, Claire Lemercier and Veronica Aoki Santarosa

Religion and development in post‐Famine Ireland pp. 1251-1285

Stuart Henderson

Squeezing the bears: cornering risk and limits on arbitrage during the ‘British bicycle mania’, 1896–8 pp. 1286-1311

William Quinn

Military casualties and exchange rates during the First World War: did the Eastern Front matter? pp. 1312-1334

Pablo Duarte, Marcel Freidinger and Andreas Hoffmann

Price shocks in regional markets: Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 pp. 1335-1362

Janet Hunter and Kota Ogasawara

Losing autonomy: the Norwegian central bank during the Second World War pp. 1363-1383

Einar Lie

Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: the historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942–86 pp. 1384-1408

Margarita Vilar‐Rodríguez and Jerònia Pons‐Pons

Africa's clientelist budget policies revisited: public expenditure and employment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960–2010 pp. 1409-1438

Rebecca Simson

What can we learn from a race with one runner? A comment on Foreman‐Peck and Zhou, ‘Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England’ pp. 1439-1446

Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie

Response to Edwards and Ogilvie pp. 1447-1450

James Foreman‐Peck and Peng Zhou

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2018 pp. 1451-1507

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

Rory Naismith, Citadel of the Saxons. The rise of early medieval London (London: I.B. Taurus, 2019. Pp. xvii + 268. 28 figs. 5 maps. ISBN 9781788312226 Hbk. £20.00) pp. 1508-1509

J. L. Bolton

Phillipp R. Schofield, Peasants and historians: debating the medieval English peasantry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 280. ISBN 9780719053788 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1509-1510

Spike Gibbs

W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert, and Jonathan Mackman, Immigrant England, 1300–1550 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. xi+300. 5 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781526109149 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1510-1511

Ian Forrest

John S. Lee, The medieval clothier (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xx+365. 11 figs. 6 maps. 20 plates. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781783273171 Hbk. £25) pp. 1512-1513

Jordan Claridge

Evan T. Jones and Richard Stone, eds., The world of the Newport medieval ship: trade, politics and shipping in the mid‐fifteenth century (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018. Pp. xx+276. 33 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781786831439 Hbk. £85; 9781786832634 Pbk. £29.99) pp. 1513-1514

Helen Doe

Anne L. Murphy, ed., The worlds of the Jeake family of Rye 1640–1736 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix+342. ISBN 9780197266366 Hbk. £70.00) pp. 1514-1515

Gillian Draper

George R. Boyer, The winding road to the welfare test: economic insecurity & social welfare policy in Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. v+346. 12 figs. 60 tabs. ISBN 9780691178738 Hbk. £35) pp. 1515-1517

Kate Bradley

William A. Allen, The Bank of England and the government debt: operations in the gilt‐edged market, 1928–1972 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+260. 23 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781108499835 Hbk. £85) pp. 1517-1518

John Singleton

Jim Tomlinson, Managing the economy, managing the people: narratives of economic life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii+273. 6 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780198786092 Hbk. £60) pp. 1518-1519

Laura Beers

Jan de Vries, The price of bread: regulating the market in the Dutch Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xix+515. 39 figs. 100 tabs. ISBN 9781108476386 Hbk. £34.99) pp. 1519-1521

Christiaan Van Bochove

Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden, The origins of globalization: world trade in the making of the global economy, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+338. 34 figs. 15 tabs. 9 maps. ISBN 9781108426992 Hbk. £64.99; ISBN 9781108447133 Pbk. £21.99) pp. 1521-1522

Tirthankar Roy

Joel Mokyr, A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+403. ISBN 9780691168883 Hbk. £27.95/$35) pp. 1522-1523

Sean Bottomley

Tirthankar Roy and Giorgio Riello, eds., Global economic history (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. vii+370. 21 tabs. 25 figs. ISBN 9781472588432 Pbk. $47.69) pp. 1523-1525

Pim De Zwart

Korinna Schönhärl, ed., Decision taking, confidence and risk management in banks from early modernity to the 20th century (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx+342. 6 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9783319420752 Hbk. £75) pp. 1525-1526

Emily C. Nacol

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis, eds., Organizations, civil society, and the roots of development (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 380. 30 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780226426365 Hbk. $130; ISBN 9780226426532 E‐book. $130) pp. 1526-1528

Gregory Mark

Heinrich Hartmann, The body populace: military statistics and demography in Europe before the First World War, trans. Ellen Yutzy Glebe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. vii+256. 18 figs. ISBN 9780262536325 Pbk. £30) pp. 1528-1529

Björn Quanjer

Hassan Malik, Bankers and Bolsheviks: international finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xi+296. 18 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9780691170169 Hbk. $35/£27) pp. 1529-1530

Nikita Lychakov

Roberto Cortés Conde and Gerardo Della Paolera, eds., Nueva historia económica de la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República de Argentina, 2018. Pp. 9+342. 4 tabs. 4 figs. ISBN 9789876284981 Pbk. Ar.$495) pp. 1530-1531

Peter Sims

Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin, From Wall Street to Bay Street: the origins and evolution of American and Canadian finance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781442648210 Hbk. $67.50) pp. 1532-1533

Mark Billings

Grietjie Verhoef, The power of your life: the Sanlam century of insurance empowerment, 1918–2018 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxv+409. 13 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198817758 Hbk. £65) pp. 1533-1534

Robin Pearson

Mike Mason, Turbulent empires: a history of global capitalism since 1945 (Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. x+329. ISBN 9781786831439 Hbk. £32.03; ISBN 9781786832634 Pbk. £20.21) pp. 1534-1536

Alexander Green

Volume 72, month 08, 2019

Falling behind and catching up: India's transition from a colonial economy pp. 803-827

Bishnupriya Gupta

The price of the poor's words: social relations and the economics of deposing for one's ‘betters’ in early modern England pp. 828-847

Hillary Taylor

Investing in early public works: financial risks and returns in English and Welsh turnpikes, 1820–82 pp. 848-868

Dan Bogart

Adopting a new technology: potatoes and population growth in the periphery pp. 869-896

Thor Berger

Elites and the expansion of education in nineteenth‐century Sweden pp. 897-924

Jens Andersson and Thor Berger

Toddlers, teenagers, and terminal heights: the importance of puberty for male adult stature, Flanders, 1800–76 pp. 925-952

Ewout Depauw and Deborah Oxley

Why did the industrial diet triumph? The massification of dairy consumption in Spain, 1965–90 pp. 953-978

Fernando Collantes

Religious minorities and firm ownership in early twentieth‐century Egypt pp. 979-1007

Cihan Artunç

An efficient market? Going public in London, 1891–1911 pp. 1008-1027

Sturla Fjesme, Neal Galpin and Lyndon Moore

Loans of the revolution: how Mexico borrowed as the state collapsed in 1912–13 pp. 1028-1047

Leonardo Weller

Price formation on clandestine markets: the case of the Paris gold market during the Second World War pp. 1048-1072

Georges Gallais‐Hamonno, Thi‐Hong‐ Van Hoang and Kim Oosterlinck

Inequality in turbulent times: income distribution in Germany and Britain, 1900–50 pp. 1073-1098

María Gómez León and Herman J. De Jong

Peter Edwards, Horses and the aristocratic lifestyle in early modern England: William Cavendish, First Earl of Devonshire (1551–1626) and his horses (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+256. 7 graphs. 6 plates. 21 tables. ISBN 9781783272884 Hbk. £75) pp. 1099-1100

Jordan Claridge

Julian Hoppit, Britain's political economies: Parliament and economic life, 1660–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii+391. 18 figs. 3 maps. 47 tabs. ISBN 9781107015258 Hbk. £69.99; ISBN 9781316649909 Pbk. £22.99) pp. 1100-1101

Kara Dimitruk

K. J. Saville‐Smith, Provincial society and empire: the Cumbrian counties and the East Indies, 1680–1829 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+296. 8 figs. 1 map. 6 plates. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783272815 Hbk. £65) pp. 1101-1103

Michael Aldous

Peter Scott, The market makers: creating mass markets for consumer durables in inter‐war Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+367. 35 figs. 49 tabs. ISBN 9780198783817 Hbk. £75) pp. 1103-1104

David Clayton

Catherine Flinn, Rebuilding Britain's blitzed cities: hopeful dreams, stark realities (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. v+243. 30 figs. ISBN 9781350067622 Hbk. £76.50) pp. 1104-1106

David Adams

J. G. Manning, The open sea. The economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii+414. 47 figs. 3 maps. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780691151748 Hbk. £27.95/$35) pp. 1106-1107

Zosia H. Archibald

Gareth Austin, ed., Economic development and environmental history in the Anthropocene: perspectives on Asia and Africa (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. xii+326. 20 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781474267496 Hbk. £85) pp. 1107-1108

Yongjing Zhang

Bert de Munck, Guilds, labour and the urban body politic: fabricating community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300–1800 (New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv+312. 19 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780815372028 Hbk. £115) pp. 1108-1109

Patrick Wallis

Arnved Nedkvitne, Norse Greenland: Viking peasants in the Arctic (New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. v+432. 17 figs. ISBN 9780815366294 Hbk. £115) pp. 1110-1111

Brooks Kaiser

Marcello Carmagnani, Le connessioni mondiali e l'Atlantico 1450–1850 (Turin: Einaudi, 2018. Pp. ix+224. 26 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9788806233273 Hbk. €22) pp. 1111-1112

Mattia C. Bertazzini

Tim Dyson, A population history of India: from the first modern people to the present day (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. v+310. 15 figs. 26 tabs. 3 maps. ISBN 9780198829058 Hbk. £35) pp. 1112-1114

Bishnupriya Gupta

Jesse Cromwell, The smuggler's world: illicit trade and Atlantic communities in eighteenth‐century Venezuela (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018. Pp. v+314. 15 illus. 4 maps. ISBN 9781469636887 Hbk. $39.95) pp. 1114-1115

Jeremy Land

Mohammed Bashir Salau, Plantation slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: a historical and comparative study (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp. v+236. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781580469388 Hbk. £80) pp. 1115-1116

Klas Rönnbäck

Daniel Peart, Lobbyists and the making of US tariff policy, 1816–1861 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. viii+326. 46 tabs. ISBN 9781421426112 Hbk. $69.95) pp. 1117-1118

Brian Varian

Kym Anderson and Vincente Pinilla, eds., Wine globalization: a new comparative history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxx+546. 115 figs. 74 tabs. ISBN 9781107192928 Hbk. £120) pp. 1118-1119

Juan Pan‐Montojo

Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster, and Benedikt Stuchtey, eds., Cooperation and empire: local realities of global processes (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2017. Pp. viii+384. 4 figs. 1 tab. £107/$150) pp. 1119-1121

Karin Pallaver

Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds., American capitalism: new histories (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+432. ISBN 9780231185240 Hbk. £31.95/$38) pp. 1121-1122

Peter Conti‐Brown

Felix Boecking, No Great Wall: trade, tariffs, and nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. Pp. xx+280. 13 figs. 5 maps. 13 tabs. ISBN 978–0674970601 Hbk. £31.95) pp. 1122-1124

Mark R. G. Hoskin

Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado, eds., Latin America since the left turn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. viii+376. 7 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9780812249712 Hbk. £58/$69.95) pp. 1124-1125

Colin M. Lewis

Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds., High‐skilled migration to the United States and its economic consequences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. viii+247. ISBN 9780226525525 Hbk. $130) pp. 1125-1126

Chris Minns

Volume 72, month 05, 2019

Tobacco retail licences and state formation in early modern England and Wales pp. 433-458

Alexander G. Taylor

Speed under sail during the early industrial revolution (c. 1750–1830) pp. 459-480

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

Women's work and structural change: occupational structure in eighteenth‐century Spain pp. 481-509

Carmen Sarasua

The returns to invention during the British industrial revolution pp. 510-530

Sean Bottomley

Modernization and rural imagery at the Paris Salon: an interdisciplinary approach to the economic history of art pp. 531-567

Diana Seave Greenwald

Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: dividing up a fast‐growing frontier pie, 1821–71 pp. 568-594

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson

International bimetallism and silver absorption in Singapore, 1840–73 pp. 595-617

Atsushi Kobayashi

UK shocks and Irish business cycles, 1922–79 pp. 618-640

Rebecca Stuart

The Hungarian twin crisis of 1931 pp. 641-668

Flora Macher

The question of land access and the Spanish land reform of 1932 pp. 669-690

Juan Carmona, Joan Rosés and James Simpson

Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid‐century: evidence from local labour markets pp. 691-715

William Collins and Gregory Niemesh

‘Stop‐go’ policy and the restriction of postwar British house‐building pp. 716-737

Peter M. Scott and James Walker

Real wages once more: a response to Judy Stephenson pp. 738-754

Robert Allen

Mistaken wages: the cost of labour in the early modern English economy, a reply to Robert C. Allen pp. 755-769

Judy Stephenson

John Hare, The Victoria history of Hampshire. Basingstoke: a medieval town, c. 1000–c. 1600 (London: University of London, 2017. Pp. xii + 106. 23 figs. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781909646612 Pbk. £12 + £2 p&p) pp. 770-771

Spike Gibbs

Michael Zell and Heather Falvey, eds., Walter Morrell's ‘Manufacture for the new draperie’ (1616) (Hertford: Hertfordshire Record Society, 2018. Pp. xlii + 181. 9 figs. 1 map. ISBN 9780950174105 Hbk. £22.00 + £3.50 p&p) pp. 771-772

John S. Lee

Gillian Cookson, The age of machinery. Engineering the industrial revolution, 1770–1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018. Pp. ix + 324. 1 fig. 1 map. 11 plates. ISBN 9781783272761 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 772-773

Jane Humphries

Nicholas Crafts, Forging ahead, falling behind and fighting back: British economic growth from the industrial revolution to the financial crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 152. 1 fig. 41 tabs. ISBN 9781108438162 Pbk. £17.99) pp. 774-775

Mark Koyama

Robbie Shilliam, Race and the undeserving poor (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiv+209. ISBN 9781788210386 Pbk. £18.99) pp. 775-776

Eric Melander

Andrew Wilson and Alan Bowman, eds., Trade, commerce, and the state in the Roman world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii+656. 94 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780198790662 Hbk. £110) pp. 777-778

Taco Terpstra

William Caferro, Petrarch's war: Florence and the Black Death in context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+228. 5 figs. 3 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781108424011 Hbk. £75) pp. 778-779

Francesco Ammannati

Colin Heywood, Childhood in modern Europe (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2018. Pp. x+286. 22 figs. ISBN 9780521866231 Hbk. £74.99; ISBN 9780521685252 Pbk. £21.99) pp. 779-781

Eleanor Murray

David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, and David Richardson, eds., The Cambridge world history of slavery: volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii+705. 9 figs. 3 maps. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780521840669 Hbk. £129/$150) pp. 781-782

Rebecca Shumway

Gregor Benton and Hong Liu, Dear China: emigrant letters and remittances, 1820–1980 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+286. ISBN 9780520298415 Hbk. £66; ISBN 9780520298439 Pbk. £27) pp. 782-783

Sumiyo Nishizaki

Philip Thai, China's war on smuggling: law, economic life, and the making of the modern state, 1842–1965 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi+380. 8 figs. 5 maps. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780231185844 Hbk. £47/$59.99) pp. 783-785

Linda Grove

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein, An economic and demographic history of São Paulo, 1850–1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii+ 448. 49 figs. 11 maps. 99 tabs. ISBN 9780503602007 Hbk. £62/$75) pp. 785-786

André Luiz Lanza

Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt, Botswana—a modern economic history: an African diamond in the rough (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xv+235. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783319731438. €119.59) pp. 786-787

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

Brian James Leech, The city that ate itself: Butte, Montana and its expanding Berkeley Pit (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. Pp. x+414. 25 figs. ISBN 9781943859429 Hbk. £39.95/$39.95) pp. 787-789

William M. Boal

Tariq Omar Ali, A local history of global capital: jute & peasant life in the Bengal Delta (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+244. 1 fig. 3 maps. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780691170237 Hbk. £30/$39.95) pp. 789-790

Jim Tomlinson

David M. Higgins, Brands, geographical origin, and the global economy: a history from the nineteenth century to the present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+334. 9 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781107032675 Hbk. £90) pp. 790-791

Martin Purvis

Getnet Bekele, Ploughing new ground: food, farming & environmental change in Ethiopia (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xvi+207. 3 maps. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781847011749 Hbk. £50) pp. 791-792

Temesgen Gebeyehu Baye

Nathan Marcus, Austrian reconstruction and the collapse of global finance, 1921–1931 (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+546. 20 figs. 40 graphs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780674088924 Hbk. £35.95/$49.95/€45) pp. 792-794

Stefano Ungaro

Barry Naughton, The Chinese economy: adaptation and growth (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2018. 2nd edn., first pub. 2007. Pp. viii+594. 81 figs. 36 tabs. ISBN 9780262534796 Pbk. £30/$40) pp. 794-795

Sijie Hu

Simone Selva, Before the neoliberal turn: the rise of energy finance and the limits to US foreign policy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx+423. 5 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781137574428 Hbk. £120) pp. 795-796

Jonas Ljungberg

Marc Buggeln, Martin Daunton, and Alexander Nützenadel, eds., The political economy of public finance. Taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+313. 26 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107140127 Hbk. £64.99) pp. 796-798

Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland

Kate Philip, Markets on the margins: mineworkers, job creation and enterprise development (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2018. Pp. xvi+222. 22 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781847011763 Hbk. £60) pp. 798-799

Martine Mariotti

Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnemacher, Institutional and organizational analysis: concepts and applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. vii+393. 19 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 978110708637 Hbk. £71.99; ISBN 9781107451254 Pbk. £24.99) pp. 799-800

John Wallis

Volume 72, month 02, 2019

The age of mass migration in Latin America pp. 3-31

Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso

The ‘light touch’ of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: an urban trick? pp. 32-56

Joris Roosen and Daniel R. Curtis

Forced loans in the Spanish Empire: the first requisition of American treasures in 1523 pp. 57-87

Sergio Sardone

Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: lessons from England's social tables, 1688–1867 pp. 88-125

Robert Allen

Spinning the industrial revolution pp. 126-155

Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

Extralegal payments to state officials in Russia, 1750s–1830s: assessing the burden of corruption pp. 156-181

Elena Korchmina and Igor Fedyukin

Technology transfer via foreign patents in Germany, 1843–77 pp. 182-208

Alexander Donges and Felix Selgert

African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth century pp. 209-232

Klas Rönnbäck and Dimitrios Theodoridis

The contribution of infrastructure investment to Britain's urban mortality decline, 1861–1900 pp. 233-259

Jonathan Chapman

International banking and transmission of the 1931 financial crisis pp. 260-285

Olivier Accominotti

Causes and consequences of the Great Vietnam Famine, 1944–5 pp. 286-316

Gregg Huff

Why did socialist economies fail? The role of factor inputs reconsidered pp. 317-345

Tamás Vonyó and Alexander Klein

Susan Rose, The wealth of England: the medieval wool trade and its political importance 1100–1600 (Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2018. pp. xviii+219. 55 figs. 2 maps. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781785707360 Hbk. £40) pp. 397-398

Hannah Robb

Helen Fulton and Michele Campopiano, eds., Anglo‐Italian cultural relations in the later middle ages (York: York Medieval Press, 2018. pp. xii+212. 2 figs. ISBN 9781903153697 Hbk. £60) pp. 398-399

James E. Shaw

Clive Burgess, The right ordering of souls: the parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the eve of the Reformation. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xxii+463. 5 illus. ISBN 9781783273096 Hbk. £60) pp. 399-400

Heather Falvey

Koji Yamamoto, Taming capitalism before its triumph: public service, distrust, & ‘projecting’ in early modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. xviii+336. 5 figs. 7 illus. ISBN 9780198739173 Hbk. £65) pp. 401-402

Aaron Graham

Todd Gray, ed., Devon parish taxpayers 1500–1650; vol. 1: Abbotskerswell to Beer & Seaton; vol. 2: Bere Ferrers to Chudleigh (Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2016. Vol. 1: pp. x+358. 40 figs. ISBN 9780901853585 Pbk. £20. Vol. 2: pp. x+395. 50 figs. ISBN 9780901853592 Pbk. £20) pp. 402-403

Catherine Ferguson

Leslie Tomory, The history of the London water industry, 1580–1820. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017. pp. 314. 52 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781421422046 Hbk $54.95) pp. 403-405

Leona J. Skelton

Erika Rappaport, A thirst for empire: how tea shaped the modern world (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. pp. xvi+549. 53 figs. 3 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780691167114 Hbk. £32.95/$39.50) pp. 405-406

Andrew B. Liu

Tom Williamson, Gerry Barnes, and Toby Pillatt, Trees in England: management and disease since 1600 (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017. Pp. x+229. 61 figs. ISBN 9781909291966, Pbk. £16.99) pp. 406-407

Jan Woudstra

Richard Olney, Farming and society in north Lincolnshire: the Dixons of Holton‐le‐Moor, 1741–1906 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xvii+214. 2 maps. 16 plates. ISBN 9781910653050 Hbk. £30) pp. 407-408

Nicola Verdon

Robert J. Bennett, ed., Documents of the first Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland 1767–1839 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+715. 2 figs. 7 plates. ISBN 9780197266243 Hbk. £120) pp. 409-410

Perry Gauci

Paul Kosmetatos, The 1772–73 British credit crisis (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. pp. xxiv+334. 43 figs. 40 tabs. ISBN 9783319709079 Hbk. £99.99) pp. 410-411

Chenzi Xu

William Deringer, Calculated values: finance, politics, and the quantitative age (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. pp. xxiv+413. 30 figs. ISBN 9780674971875 Hbk. £32.95/$45) pp. 411-412

Raffaele Danna

James Kelly, Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the ‘moral economy’ and the Irish crowd (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. pp. 272. 4 figs. 6 maps. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781846826399 Hbk. €45) pp. 412-413

Brenda Collins

Penelope Ismay, Trust among strangers: friendly societies in modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 217. 6 figs. 2 maps. 21 tab. ISBN 9781108472524 Hbk. £75) pp. 413-415

Daniel Weinbren

Jane Whittle, ed., Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. pp. xiv+271. 19 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 9781783272396 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 415-416

Jonas Lindström

Joan Abela, Hospitaller Malta and the Mediterranean economy in the sixteenth century (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xxviii+263. 3 charts. 10 figs. 2 maps. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781783272112 Hbk. £75) pp. 416-417

Carmel Cassar

Dagmar Schäfer, Giorgio Riello, and Luca Molà, eds., Threads of global desire: silk in the pre‐modern world (Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xviii+412. 2 figs. 50 illus. 6 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781783272938 Hbk. £60/$99) pp. 418-419

Serena Dyer

Mark Dincecco and Massimiliano G. Onorato, From warfare to wealth: the military origins of urban prosperity in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 196. 22 figs. 33 tabs. ISBN 9781316612590 Pbk. £23.99) pp. 419-420

Cyril Milhaud

Tirthankar Roy, A business history of India: enterprise and the emergence of capitalism from 1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. xiv+298. 29 figs. 3 maps. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781107186927 Hbk. £59.99; ISBN 9781316637487 Pbk. £24.99) pp. 420-421

Arvind Ashta

Sandra Kuntz‐Ficker, ed., The first export era revisited: reassessing its contribution to Latin American economics (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. pp. xviii+348. 52 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9783319623399 Hbk. £95.50) pp. 422-423

Thales Augusto Zamberlan Pereira

George Robb, Ladies of the ticker: women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2017. pp. xii+248. 11 figs. ISBN 9780252041174 Hbk. £82/$95; ISBN 9780252082719 Pbk. £20.99/$24.95) pp. 423-424

Peter Knight

Geoffrey Jones, Profits and sustainability: a history of green entrepreneurship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+442. 2 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780198706977 Hbk. £30) pp. 424-425

Paul Warde

Frederick L. McKitrick, From craftsmen to capitalists: German artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939–1953 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2016. pp. xx+286. 2 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781785332487 Hbk. £85/$120) pp. 426-427

Armin Grünbacher

Jonathan A. Grant, Between depression and disarmament: the international armaments business, 1919–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x+228. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781108428354 Hbk. £75) pp. 427-428

Talbot Imlay

Steve Slavin, The great American economy: how inefficiency broke it and what we can do to fix it (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017. pp. 414. 9 figs. ISBN 9781633883055 Hbk. £21.99/$25) pp. 428-429

Gavin Benke