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Volume 71, month 11, 2018

Towards an explanation of inequality in premodern societies: the role of colonies, urbanization, and high population density pp. 1029-1047

Branko Milanovic

The Great Famine in the county of Flanders (1315–17): the complex interaction between weather, warfare, and property rights pp. 1048-1072

Sam Geens

Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England pp. 1073-1099

James Foreman‐Peck and Peng Zhou

Refinancing short‐term debt with a fixed monthly interest rate into funded juros under Philip II: an asiento with the Maluenda brothers pp. 1100-1117

Carlos Álvarez‐Nogal and Christophe Chamley

The global interests of London's commercial community, 1599–1625: investment in the East India Company pp. 1118-1146

Edmond Smith

The alchemy of gold: interest rates, money stock, and credit in eighteenth‐century Lisbon pp. 1147-1172

Leonor Costa, Maria Manuela Rocha and Paulo Brito

An old poor law on the Continent? Agrarian capitalism, poor taxes, and village conflict in eighteenth‐century coastal Flanders pp. 1173-1198

Thijs Lambrecht and Anne Winter

The amelioration of British West Indian slavery: anthropometric evidence pp. 1199-1226

J. R. Ward

The Taiwan tea boom—a financial glut pp. 1227-1248

Kelly B. Olds

Monetary aggregates for Ireland, 1840–1921 pp. 1249-1269

Seán Kenny and Jason Lennard

Retail markets in northern and midland England, 1870–1914: civic icon, municipal white elephant, or consumer paradise? pp. 1270-1290

Ian Mitchell

Social mobility among Christian Africans: evidence from Anglican marriage registers in Uganda, 1895–2011 pp. 1291-1321

Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Jacob Weisdorf

Land reform and conflict before the Civil War: landowner response to tenancy reform in 1930s Catalonia pp. 1322-1348

Jordi Domenech and Francisco Herreros

The London Stock Exchange, 1869–1929: new statistics for old? pp. 1349-1356

Leslie Hannah

Revising ‘Bloody foreigners!’ pp. 1357-1359

Richard Grossman

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2017 pp. 1360-1411

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

Buchanan Sharp, Famine and scarcity in late medieval and early modern England: the regulation of grain marketing, 1256–1631 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+264. ISBN 9781107121829 Hbk. £64.99) pp. 1412-1413

Richard Sheldon

Christopher Thornton, Jennifer Ward, and Neil Wiffen, eds., The fighting Essex soldier: recruitment, war and society in the fourteenth century (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017. Pp. xii+178. 23 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781909291881 Pbk. £18.99/$37.95) pp. 1413-1414

Aleksandr Lobanov

David M. Mitchell, Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: their lives and their marks (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. xxii+702. 151 figs. ISBN 9181783272389 Hbk. £125) pp. 1414-1415

Patrick Wallis

Natalie Roxburgh, Representing public credit: credible commitment, fiction, and the rise of the financial subject (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. x+206. 3 figs. ISBN 9781138182547 Hbk. £110) pp. 1415-1416

Helen Paul

Steve Poole and Nicholas Rogers, Bristol from below: law, authority and protest in a Georgian city (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. xii+387. 15 figs. ISBN 9781783272440 Hbk. £70) pp. 1417-1418

Adrian Randall

Katerina Galani, British shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars: the untold story of a successful adaptation (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. xvi+278. 43 figs. 5 maps. 18 tabs. ISBN 9789004343276 Hbk. £111.72/€127) pp. 1418-1419

Giada Pizzoni

Samantha A. Shave, Pauper palaces: poor law practice in England, 1780–1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+300. 14 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780719089633 Hbk. £75) pp. 1419-1420

Malcolm Chase

Charles W. Munn, Minister of money: Henry Duncan, founder of the savings bank movement (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2017. Pp. xvi+240. 2 maps. 12 plates. ISBN 9781910900147 Hbk. £25) pp. 1420-1421

Leslie Hannah

Martin Gibson, Britain's quest for oil: the First World War and the peace conferences (Solihull: Helion & Company, 2017. Pp. xx+208. 3 maps. 28 tabs. ISBN 9781911512073 Hbk. £29.95) pp. 1421-1422

Katayoun Shafiee

Chris Swinson, Regulation of the London Stock Exchange: share trading, fraud and reform 1914–45 (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv+241. 4 charts. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781138040212 Hbk. £105) pp. 1422-1424

James Taylor

Aled Davies, The City of London and social democracy: the political economy of finance in Britain, 1959–1979 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+248. 6 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780198804116 Hbk. £60) pp. 1424-1424

Duncan M. Ross

Alice Rio, Slavery after Rome, 500–1100 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp xii+285. ISBN 9780198704058 Hbk. £65) pp. 1425-1426

Judith Spicksley

Corey Tazzara, The free port of Livorno and the transformation of the Mediterranean world 1574–1790 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+346. 33 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780198791584 Hbk. £75) pp. 1426-1427

David Chilosi

Wantje Fritschy, Public finance of the Dutch Republic in comparative perspective: the viability of an early modern federal state (1570s–1795) (Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. xvi+429. 41 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 97804641272 Hbk. €135) pp. 1427-1428

Julian Hoppit

Arild Sæther, Natural law and political economy: Samuel Pufendorf and the history of economics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xii+296. 1 illus. ISBN 9781138670907 Hbk. £105) pp. 1428-1429

Ben Holland

Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe, eds., Cameralism in practice: state administration and economy in early modern Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. Pp. xii+315. 2 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781783272280 Pbk. £25) pp. 1430-1431

Sophus A. Reinert

Ulrich Theobald and Cao Jin, eds., Southwest China in a regional and global perspective (c. 1600–1911): metals, transport, trade and society (Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xviii+456. 51 figs. 16 maps. 24 tabs. ISBN 9789004353633 Hbk. €165/$190) pp. 1431-1432

Song‐Chuan Chen

A. Gonzalez Enciso, War, power and the economy: mercantilism and state formation in 18th‐century Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xviii+284 11 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781138855694 Hbk. £110) pp. 1432-1433

Patrick O'brien

Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen, Alexander Hamilton on finance, credit, and debt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+346. ISBN 9780231184564 Hbk. £24.99/$29.95) pp. 1433-1435

Nadia Matringe

Cassandra Mark‐Thiesen, Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital: mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast colony, 1879–1909 (Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp. xii+217. 6 figs. 3 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781580469180 Hbk. £90) pp. 1435-1436

Kristin Ranestad

Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley, eds., Money in the German‐speaking lands (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. Pp. x+317. 20 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781785335884 Hbk. £107) pp. 1436-1438

Ousmène Jacques Mandeng

Kevin R. Brine and Mary Poovey, Finance in America: an unfinished story (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. x+499. 3 figs. ISBN 9780226502045 Hbk. $110) pp. 1438-1439

Sean H. Vanatta

Jonas Scherner and Eugene White, eds., Paying for Hitler's war: the consequences of Nazi hegemony for Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 475. ISBN 9781107279131 Hbk. £74.99) pp. 1439-1440

Ray Stokes

Neil Monnery, Architect of prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the making of Hong Kong (London: London Publishing Partnership, 2017. Pp. vi+337. 43 figs. ISBN 9781907994692 Hbk. £24.50) pp. 1441-1442

Peter Cunich

Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard, eds., The deindustrialized world: confronting ruination in postindustrial places (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Pp. x+375. 23 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9780774834940 Pbk. £28.99/$34.95) pp. 1442-1444

Ben Curtis

Alex Millmow, A history of Australian economic thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. viii+250. ISBN 9781138861008 Hbk. £95) pp. 1444-1445

Stuart Macintyre

Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe, eds., The contradictions of capital in the twenty‐first century: the Piketty opportunity (Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne: Agenda, 2016. Pp. xii+300. 21 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 978191116103 Hbk. £65/$90) pp. 1445-1446

Phillip W. Magness

Volume 71, month 08, 2018

Road transport productivity in the sixteenth‐century Low Countries: the case of Brabant, 1450–1650 pp. 707-726

Bart Ballaux and Bruno Blondé

Illegal quays: Elizabethan customs reforms and suppression of the coastal trade of Christchurch, Hampshire pp. 727-746

Stephen Gadd

Modelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration to late eighteenth‐century London† pp. 747-771

Adam Crymble, Adam Dennett and Tim Hitchcock

Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1750–1900 pp. 772-794

Erik Bengtsson, Anna Missiaia, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

A monetary plethora and what to do with it: the Bank of Portugal during the Second World War and the postwar period (1931–60) pp. 795-822

Luciano Amaral

The liquidity of the London capital markets, 1825–70† pp. 823-852

Gareth Campbell, John Turner and Qing Ye

Infant mortality decline in rural and urban Bavaria: fertility, economic transformation, infant care, and inequality in Bavaria and Munich, 1825–1910 pp. 853-886

John C. Brown and Timothy Guinnane

The Public Works Loan Board and the growth of the state in nineteenth‐century England pp. 887-908

Ian Webster

The futures premium and rice market efficiency in prewar Japan pp. 909-937

Mikio Ito, Kiyotaka Maeda and Akihiko Noda

Colonization and education: exploring the legacy of local elites in Korea pp. 938-964

Ji Yeon Hong and Christopher Paik

Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of parish register data pp. 965-994

Michiel de Haas and Ewout Frankema

Jacqueline B. Geater, ed., Birmingham wills and inventories, 1512–1603 (Stratford‐upon‐Avon: Dugdale Society, 2016. Pp. x+454. 1 map. 9 plates. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780852201015 Hbk. £30+p&p) pp. 995-996

Heather Falvey

Margaret Spufford and Susan Mee, The clothing of the common sort 1570–1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+332. 2 figs. 14 plates. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780198807049 Hbk. £75) pp. 996-997

Jane Huggett

William J Ashworth, The industrial revolution: the state, knowledge and global trade (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781474286466 Pbk. £21.99) pp. 997-998

Aaron Graham

Tom Crook and Mike Esbester, eds., Governing risks in modern Britain: danger, safety and accidents, c. 1800–2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+315. 7 figs. ISBN 9781137467447 Hbk. £63) pp. 999-1000

Barry M. Doyle

Peter J. Atkins, A history of uncertainty: bovine tuberculosis in Britain, 1850 to the present (Winchester: Winchester University Press, 2016. Pp. xxv+422. 16 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781906113179 Pbk. £30) pp. 1000-1001

John Martin

Christopher Hood and Rozana Himaz, A century of fiscal squeeze politics: 100 years of austerity, politics and bureaucracy in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+248. 3 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780198779612 Hbk. £55) pp. 1001-1003

Roger Middleton

Rory Naismith, Medieval European coinage with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, vol. 8: Britain and Ireland c. 400–1066 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxii+901. 15 figs. 9 maps. 114 plates. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780521260169 Hbk. £150) pp. 1003-1004

N. J. Mayhew

Martin Allen and Nicholas Mayhew, eds., Money and its use in medieval Europe: three decades on. Essays in honour of Professor Peter Spufford (London: Royal Numismatic Society, 2017. 41 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 0901405698 Hbk. £45) pp. 1004-1005

Murray Andrews

Matteo Salonia, Genoa's freedom: entrepreneurship, republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic (Lanham, MD and London, 2017. Pp. xxv+186. 2 figs. ISBN 9781498534215 Hbk. £65) pp. 1005-1007

Céline Dauverd

Zhihong Shi, Central government Silver Treasury: revenue, expenditure and inventory statistics, ca. 1667–1899 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xxviii+252. 10 figs. 12 illus. 110 tabs. ISBN 9789004307322 Hbk. €129/£167) pp. 1007-1008

Ulrich Theobald

Peter Drake, Merchants, bankers, governors: British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786–1920 (Hackensack, NJ and London: World Scientific, 2018. Pp. xii+194. 7 tabs. ISBN 9789813222410 Hbk. £73) pp. 1008-1010

Tony Webster

Javier Rodríguez Weber, Desarrollo y desigualdad en Chile (1850–2009): historia de su economía política (Santiago: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2017. Pp. 302. ISBN 9562443841 Hbk.) pp. 1010-1011

Claudia Sanhueza

Stuart Banner, Speculation: a history of the fine line between gambling and investment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+335. ISBN 9780190623043 Hbk. £19.99/$29.95) pp. 1011-1012

Andrew Odlyzko

Grietjie Verhoef, The history of business in Africa: complex discontinuity to emerging markets (Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. xi+215. 5 tabs. 1 map. ISBN 9783319625669 Hbk. €123) pp. 1012-1014

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

Ralph Callebert, On Durban's docks: Zulu workers, rural households, global labor (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+235. 3 maps. ISBN 9781580469074 Hbk. £80/$99) pp. 1014-1015

Frederick Cooper

Laurent Warlouzet, Governing Europe in a globalizing world: neoliberalism and its alternatives following the 1973 oil crisis (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv+274. 8 figs.11 tabs. ISBN 9781138729421 Hbk. £105) pp. 1015-1016

Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez

Ivano Cardinale, D'Maris Coffman, and Roberto Scazzieri, eds., The political economy of the eurozone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+571. 45 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781107124011 Hbk. £120) pp. 1016-1018

Geoffrey Wood

Richard R. John and Kim Phillips‐Fein, eds., Capital gains: business and politics in twentieth‐century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. x+301. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780812248821 Hbk. $55) pp. 1018-1019

Veronica Binda

Mark Zachary Taylor, The politics of innovation: why some countries are better than others at science and technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+427. 31 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9780190464127 Hbk. £64) pp. 1019-1021

Hermione Giffard

LaDale C. Winling, Building the ivory tower: universities and metropolitan development in the twentieth century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 251. 46 figs. ISBN 9780812249682 Hbk. £33/$39.95) pp. 1021-1022

Robert Anderson

John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, and Jan Rüger, eds., History after Hobsbawm: writing the past for the twenty‐first century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+332. 2 maps. 1 tab. 28 plates. ISBN 9780198768784 Hbk. £75) pp. 1022-1023

Beverley Southgate

James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park, Hidden interests in credit and finance: power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium (Lanham, MD and London: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. xvi+311. 7 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781498545785 Hbk. £75/$110) pp. 1023-1024

David Foulk

Phillip E. Auerswald, The code economy: a forty‐thousand year history (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. vi+298. 18 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780190226763 Hbk. £19.99/$29.95) pp. 1024-1026

Elena Fell

Volume 71, month 05, 2018

Reconstruction of money supply over the long run: the case of England, 1270–1870 pp. 373-392

Nuno Palma

Retail revolution and the village shop, c. 1660–1860 pp. 393-417

Jon Stobart and Lucy Bailey

Quakers, coercion, and pre†modern growth: why Friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early modern trade expansion pp. 418-436

Esther Sahle

‘Because family and friends got easily weary of taking care’: a new perspective on the specialization in the elderly care sector in early modern Holland pp. 437-463

Anita Boele and Tine De Moor

Age heaping and numeracy: looking behind the curtain pp. 464-479

Matthias Blum and Karl†Peter Krauss

What is a market crash? pp. 480-505

David le Bris

Immigration and the path dependence of education: the case of German†speakers in São Paulo, Brazil (1840–1920) pp. 506-539

Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza

Multinational business and host countries in times of crisis: Courtaulds, Glanzstoff, and Italy in the interwar period pp. 540-566

Valerio Cerretano

Managing financial constraints: undercapitalization and underwriting capacity in Spanish fire insurance pp. 567-592

Pablo Gutiérrez González and Lars†Fredrik Andersson

The expanding Empire and spatial distribution of economic activity: the case of Japan's colonization of Korea during the prewar period pp. 593-616

Kentaro Nakajima and Tetsuji Okazaki

Shakeout in the early commercial airframe industry pp. 617-638

Taylor Jaworski and Andrew Smyth

Clark's Malthus delusion: response to ‘Farming in England 1200–1800’ pp. 639-664

Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M. S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen

Boston, 1086–1225: a medieval boom town – By Stephen H. Rigby pp. 665-666

James Masschaele

Food, eating and identity in early medieval England – By Allen J. Frantzen pp. 666-667

Susan Flavin

Contesting the city: the politics of citizenship in English towns, 1250–1530 – By Christian D. Liddy pp. 667-669

Stephen H. Rigby

Elizabethan inventories and wills of the Exeter Orphans’ Court volumes 1 & 2 – Edited by Jannine Crocker pp. 669-670

Heather Falvey

The world of the small farmer: tenure, profit and politics in the early modern Somerset Levels – By Patricia Croot pp. 670-671

Joshua Rhodes

An age of risk: politics and economy in early modern Britain – By Emily C. Nacol pp. 671-672

Judy Stephenson

A social history of British naval officers 1775–1815 – By Evan Wilson pp. 672-674

Margarette Lincoln

Old age in nineteenth†century Ireland: ageing under the Union – By Chris Gilleard pp. 674-675

Tom Heritage

British cotton textiles: maturity and decline – Edited by David Higgins and Steven Toms pp. 675-676

John Singleton

The first serious optimist: A. C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics – By Ian Kumekawa pp. 676-678

Roger Middleton

Hull: culture, history, place – Edited by David J. Starkey, David Atkinson, Briony McDonagh, Sarah McKeon, and Elisabeth Salter pp. 678-679

Graham Fairclough

The roots of western finance: power, ethics, and social capital in the ancient world – By Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg pp. 679-680

Michael Leese

The classical debt: Greek antiquity in an era of austerity – By Johanna Hanink pp. 681-682

Charlotte Van Regenmortel

The village world of early medieval northern Spain: local community and the land market – By Robert Portass pp. 682-683

José Carlos SáNchez Pardo

Maimonides and the merchants: Jewish law and society in the medieval Islamic world – By Mark R. Cohen pp. 683-684

Maya Shatzmiller

Widows in European economy and society, 1600–1920 – By Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall pp. 685-686

Julie Marfany

Rethinking east†central Europe: family systems and co†residence in the Polish†Lithuanian Commonwealth. Volume 1: Contexts and analyses. Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography – By Mikolaj Szołtysek pp. 686-687

Christoph Augustynowicz

Mutual insurance 1550–2015: from guild welfare and friendly societies to contemporary micro†insurers – By Marco H. D. van Leeuwen pp. 687-689

Guido Rossi

Other people's money: how banking worked in the early American republic – By Sharon Ann Murphy pp. 689-690

Farley Grubb

Minding her own business: colonial businesswomen in Sydney – By Catherine Bishop pp. 690-691

Kathryn Gleadle

Rulers and capital in historical perspective: state formation and financial development in India and the United States – By Abhishek Chatterjee pp. 691-692

Anand V. Swamy

A global history of consumer co†operation since 1850: movements and businesses – Edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, and Greg Patmore pp. 692-694

Lawrence Black

Managing risk in reinsurance: from city fires to global warming – Edited by Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones pp. 694-695

Thomas J. Gould

Corporations and American democracy – Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William J. Novak pp. 695-696

Robert E. Wright

Economic history of warfare and state formation – By Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich, and Nikolaus Wolf, eds pp. 697-698

Nathan Marcus

Creditworthy: a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America – By Josh Lauer pp. 698-700

Vicki Howard

European banks and the rise of international finance: the post†Bretton Woods era – By Carlo Edoardo Altamura pp. 700-701

Simone Selva

The currency of confidence: how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with its borrowers – By Stephen C. Nelson pp. 702-703

Korinna Schönhärl

People, places and business cultures: essays in honour of Francesca Carnevali – Edited by Paolo di Martino, Andrew Popp, and Peter Scott pp. 703-704

John F. Wilson

Volume 71, month 02, 2018

Italy in the Renaissance: a leading economy in the European context, 1350–1550 pp. 3-30

Paolo Malanima

Mills, cranes, and the great divergence: the use of immovable capital goods in western Europe and the Middle East, ninth to sixteenth centuries pp. 31-54

Bas J.P. Van Bavel, Eltjo Buringh and Jessica Dijkman

Growth or stagnation? Farming in England, 1200–1800 pp. 55-81

Gregory Clark

Cooperating in time of crisis: war, commons, and inequality in Renaissance Lombardy pp. 82-105

Matteo Di Tullio

‘Real’ wages? Contractors, workers, and pay in London building trades, 1650–1800 pp. 106-132

Judy Stephenson

The rise and demise of gedik markets in Istanbul, 1750–1860 pp. 133-156

Seven AÄŸir

What moved share prices in the nineteenth†century London stock market? pp. 157-189

Gareth Campbell, William Quinn, John Turner and Qing Ye

Anglo†American trade costs during the first era of globalization: the contribution of a bilateral tariff series pp. 190-212

Brian Varian

Trends in morbidity: national statistics on sickness claims among the working population in Sweden, 1892–1954 pp. 213-235

Helene Castenbrandt

Geography, policy, or productivity? Regional trade in five South American countries, 1910–50 pp. 236-266

Marc Badia†Miró, Anna Carreras†Marín and Christopher Meissner

From the substance to the shadow: the role of the court in Japanese labour markets pp. 267-289

Masaki Nakabayashi

Almshouses in early modern England: charitable housing in the mixed economy of welfare 1550–1725 – By Angela Nicholls pp. 336-337

David Hitchcock

The East India Company 1600–1858: a short history with documents – By Ian Barrow pp. 337-338

Karolina Hutková

The financing of John Wesley's Methodism c. 1740–1800 – By Clive Murray Norris pp. 338-339

Kirsten W. Kininmonth

From goblets to gaslights: the Scottish glass industry 1750–2006 – By Jill Turnbull pp. 340-341

Sam McKinstry

William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer. A study in mid†19th†century engineering – By Richard Byrom pp. 341-342

Fabian Hiscock

George Carr Glyn: railwayman and banker – By David Hodgkins pp. 342-343

Terry Gourvish

Child labor in the British Victorian entertainment industry, 1875–1914 – By Dyan Colclough pp. 343-345

Simon Sleight

The building society promise: access, risk, and efficiency – By Antoninus Samy pp. 345-346

Sergio Castellanos†Gamboa

The Routledge history handbook of gender and the urban experience – Edited by Deborah Simonton pp. 346-347

Jennifer Aston

The economics of Ottoman justice: settlement and trial in the Sharia courts – By Metin Coşgel and Boğaç Ergene pp. 348-349

Ulas Karakoc

Cul de Sac: patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint Domingue – By Paul Cheney pp. 349-351

Carolyn Fick

Merchants of Canton and Macao: success and failure in eighteenth†century Chinese trade – By Paul A. van Dyke pp. 351-352

David Abulafia

Japan and the great divergence. A short guide – By Penelope Francks pp. 352-354

Matteo Salonia

India, modernity and the great divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) – By Kaveh Yazdani pp. 354-355

Sashi Sivramkrishna

‘Deficient in commercial morality’? Japan in global debates on business ethics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – By Janet Hunter pp. 355-356

Tetsuji Okazaki

Cotton and race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900–1920 – By Jonathan E. Robins pp. 356-357

Janet Greenlees

The political economy of sugar production in colonial Kenya: the Asian initiative in Central Nyanza – By Godriver Wanga†Odhiambo pp. 358-359

Jutta Bolt

The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871 – Edited by Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson pp. 359-360

Christopher W. Miller

The international aluminium cartel, 1886–1978: the business and politics of a cooperative industrial institution – By Marco Bertilorenzi pp. 360-362

Birgit Karlsson

West German industrialists and the making of the economic miracle: a history of mentality and recovery – By Armin Grünbacher pp. 362-363

Tobias Alexander Jopp

The politics and economics of decolonization in Africa: the failed experiment of the Central African Federation – By Andrew Cohen pp. 363-365

Alex Sutton

Economic and natural disasters since 1900: a comparative history – By John Singleton pp. 365-366

Vinita Damodaran

The Chinese and Indian corporate economies: a comparative history of their search for economic renaissance and globalization – By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown pp. 366-367

B. R. Tomlinson

The information nexus: global capitalism from the Renaissance to the present – By Steven G. Marks pp. 367-369

Jonathan Levy

The great leveler. Violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty†first century – By Walter Scheidel pp. 369-370

Bas J.P. Van Bavel