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Volume 70, month 11, 2017

The market turn: from social democracy to market liberalism pp. 1051-1071

Avner Offer

Long‐term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300–1800 pp. 1072-1102

Guido Alfani and Francesco Ammannati

The economic geography of race in the New World: Brazil, 1500–2000 pp. 1103-1130

Justin R. Bucciferro

Inter‐communal institutions in medieval trade pp. 1131-1152

Mika Kallioinen

Pieces of eight, pieces of eight: seamen's earnings and the venture economy of early modern seafaring pp. 1153-1184

Richard J. Blakemore

Integration between the London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1825–1925 pp. 1185-1218

Gareth Campbell and Meeghan Rogers

Challenging the de‐industrialization thesis: gender and indigenous textile production in Java under Dutch colonial rule, c. 1830–1920 pp. 1219-1243

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

Lewis revisited: tropical polities competing on the world market, 1830–1938 pp. 1244-1267

Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena‐Junguito

Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850–1910 pp. 1268-1290

Paul Atkinson, Brian Francis, Ian Gregory and Catherine Porter

Individual investors and local bias in the UK, 1870–1935 pp. 1291-1320

Janette Rutterford, Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos and Carry van Lieshout

The impact of ‘stop‐go’ demand management policy on Britain's consumer durables industries, 1952–65 pp. 1321-1345

Peter M. Scott and James Walker

Shortages and the informal economy in the Soviet republics, 1965–89 pp. 1346-1374

Byung-Yeon Kim and Yoshisada Shida

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2016 pp. 1375-1438

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

Civic community in late medieval Lincoln: urban society and economy in the age of the Black Death, 1289–1409 – By Alan Kissane pp. 1439-1440

Stephen H. Rigby

Rural society and economic change in County Durham. Recession and recovery, c. 1400–1640 – By A. T. Brown pp. 1440-1442

R. W. Hoyle

Insurance in Elizabethan England: the London Code – By Guido Rossi pp. 1442-1443

Giovanni Ceccarelli

Sleep in early modern England – By Sasha Handley pp. 1443-1445

Mark Hailwood

Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650–1750 – By Craig Spence pp. 1445-1446

Charmian Mansellx

The court roll of the manor of Wakefield, vol. XIX, 1781–2 – Edited by David Scriven pp. 1446-1447

Carol Beardmore

Consumption and the country house – By Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery pp. 1447-1449

Anne Montenach

The globalization of merchant banking before 1850: the case of Huth & Co. – By Manuel Llorca‐Jaña pp. 1449-1450

Matthew Hollow

Family and business during the industrial revolution – By Hannah Barker pp. 1450-1451

Andrew Popp

Transforming the countryside: the electrification of rural Britain – Edited by Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt, and Karen Sayer pp. 1451-1452

Martin Chick

From depression to devolution: economy and government in Wales, 1934–2006 – By Leon Gooberman pp. 1452-1453

Ben Curtis

British banking: continuity and change from 1694 to the present – By Ranald C. Michie pp. 1453-1454

Mark Billings

The economy of Pompeii – Edited by Miko Flohr and Andrew Wilson pp. 1455-1456

J. W. Hanson

Merchants and explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and networks of Atlantic exchange 1500–1560 – By Heather Dalton pp. 1456-1457

Adrian Finucane

Money, power, and influence in eighteenth‐century Lithuania: the Jews on the Radziwiłł estates – By Adam Teller pp. 1457-1459

Piotr Koryś

The trouble with tea: the politics of consumption in the eighteenth‐century global economy – By Jane T. Merritt pp. 1459-1460

Giada Pizzoni

National duties: custom houses and the making of the American state – By Gautham Rao pp. 1460-1461

Aaron Graham

Slavery's capitalism: a new history of American economic development – Edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rochman pp. 1461-1463

Paul E. Lovejoy

A new economic history of colonial India – Edited by Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy, and Anand V. Swamy pp. 1463-1464

Ghulam A. Nadri

Why did we choose to industrialize? Montreal, 1819–1849 – By Robert C. H. Sweeny pp. 1464-1465

Pat Hudson

Anthropologists in the stock exchange: a financial history of Victorian science – By Marc Flandreau pp. 1466-1467

Rebecca L. Spang

Transnational radicalism and the connected lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross – By Neville Kirk pp. 1467-1468

Marcus Morris

The quest for stable money: central banking in Austria, 1816–2016 – By Clemens Jobst and Hans Kernbauer pp. 1468-1470

Matthias Morys

Munich Re: the company history, 1880–1980 – By Johannes Bähr and Christopher Kopper, trans. Patricia Casey Sutcliffe pp. 1470-1471

Robin Pearson

Green capitalism: business and the environment in the twentieth century – Edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome pp. 1471-1473

Elena Fell

Volume 70, month 08, 2017

Review of periodical literature on continental Europe from 1700 published in 2013 pp. E1-E45

Eric Schneider, Matthias Morys, Markus Lampe and Kerstin Enflo

The timing and pattern of real wage divergence in pre-industrial Europe: evidence from Germany, c. 1500–1850 pp. 701-729

Ulrich Pfister

From orphan to artisan: apprenticeship careers and contract enforcement in The Netherlands before and after the guild abolition pp. 730-757

Ruben Schalk

Power politics and princely debts: why Germany's common currency failed, 1549–56 pp. 758-778

Oliver Volckart

Farmers at the heart of the ‘human capital revolution’? Decomposing the numeracy increase in early modern Europe pp. 779-809

Franziska Tollnek and Joerg Baten

Gender, life cycle, and family ‘strategies’ among the poor: the Barcelona workhouse, 1762–1805 pp. 810-836

Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller and Julie Marfany

Risk, success, and failure: female entrepreneurship in late Victorian and Edwardian England pp. 837-858

Jennifer Aston and Paolo Martino

Innovation and upheaval: early growth in Greek capital market listings and IPOs from 1880 to the Second World War in the Athens Stock Exchange pp. 859-892

Stavros Thomadakis, Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Christos Nounis and Michalis Riginos

The demand for residential domestic service in the London of 1901 pp. 893-918

Quentin Outram

Shareholder rights and share capital: the effect of the 1901 Russian Corporation Reform, 1890–1905 pp. 919-943

Amanda Gregg

Did closures do any good? Labour productivity, mine dynamics, and rationalization in interwar Ruhr coal mining pp. 944-976

Tobias A. Jopp

Sharecropping was sometimes efficient: sharecropping with compensation for improvements in European viticulture pp. 977-1003

Samuel Garrido

Rejoinder to Szreter pp. 1004-1009

Geoffrey Barnes and Timothy Guinnane

Rebuttal to Barnes and Guinnane pp. 1010-1013

Simon Szreter

Michael Hicks, ed., The later medieval inquisitions post mortem: mapping the medieval countryside and rural society ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+226. 4 figs. 14 illus. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781783270798 Hbk. £60) pp. 1014-1015

Chris Briggs

David Butcher, Medieval Lowestoft: the origins and growth of a Suffolk coastal community ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xviii+370. 7 maps. 26 plates. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781783271498 Hbk. £50) pp. 1015-1016

Ronan O'Donnell

Thomas Riis, Crail and its fisheries 1550–1600 ( St Andrews: Strathmartine Press, 2016. Pp. xviii+193. 26 tabs. ISBN 9780995544109 Pbk. £14.99) pp. 1016-1017

Poul Holm

David Neave, Susan Neave, Catherine Ferguson, and Elizabeth Parkinson, eds., Yorkshire East Riding Hearth Tax 1672–3 ( London: British Record Society, 2016. Pp. xvi+600. 18 maps. 30 plates. 10 tables. ISBN 9780901505613 Hbk. £30 + £5 p&p [UK], £10 p&p [overseas]) pp. 1017-1018

Heather Falvey

Gary W. Cox, Marketing sovereign promises: monopoly brokerage and the growth of the English state ( New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+221. 21 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781316506097 Pbk. £17.99/$26.99) pp. 1018-1019

Helen Julia Paul

Aaron Graham and Patrick Walsh, eds., The British fiscal-military states, 1660–c. 1783 ( London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xvi+290. 6 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781472440785 Hbk. £75) pp. 1019-1021

Christopher Storrs

Jennifer Aston, Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England: engagement in the urban economy ( London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xviii+257. 16 charts. 10 figs. 5 graphs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9783319308791 Hbk. £86) pp. 1021-1022

Catherine Bishop

Susan Buckham, Peter C. Jupp, and Julie Rugg, eds., Death in modern Scotland, 1855–1955: beliefs, attitudes and practices ( Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. Pp. xvi+336. 27 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9783034318211 Pbk. £60.89) pp. 1023-1024

Helen Frisby

André Tchernia, The Romans and trade ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+380. 22 figs. ISBN 9780198723714 Hbk. £85) pp. 1024-1025

Annalisa Marzano

Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft, eds., Slavery hinterland: transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680–1850 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+261. 15 figs. ISBN 9781783271122 Pbk. £17.99) pp. 1025-1026

Philip Misevich

Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, Law and the economy in colonial India ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xii+240. 8 figs. 3 maps. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780226387642 Hbk. £31.50/$45) pp. 1027-1028

B. R. Tomlinson

John D. Wong, Global trade in the nineteenth century: the House of Houqua and the Canton system ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+247. 14 figs. ISBN 9781107150669 Hbk. £64.99/$99.99) pp. 1028-1029

G. Roger Knight

Fabien Cardoni, ed., Les banques françaises et la Grande Guerre ( Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France-Igpde, series, 2016. Pp. 292. ISBN 9782111293946. €28) pp. 1029-1030

Hubert Bonin

Kim Oosterlinck, trans. Anthony Bulger, Hope springs eternal: French bondholders and the repudiation of Russian sovereign debt ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+244. 4 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780300190915 Hbk. £55/$85) pp. 1031-1032

William Summerhill

Chris Miller, The struggle to save the Soviet economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xx+244. 11 charts. 1 tab. ISBN 9781469630175 Hbk. £29.50/$29.95) pp. 1032-1033

Olga Velikanova

Youssef Cassis, Andrea Colli, and Harm G. Schröter, eds., The performance of European business in the twentieth century ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+359. 2 figs. 125 tabs. ISBN 9780198749776 Hbk. £65) pp. 1033-1034

Rowena Olegario

Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer, eds., Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii+709. 46 figs. 48 tabs. ISBN 9780199378296 Hbk. £64) pp. 1035-1035

Hein A. M. Klemann

Per Hõgselius, Arne Kaijser, and Erik van der Vleuten, Europe's infrastructure transition: economy, war, nature ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xxiv+454. 77 figs. ISBN 9780230307995 Hbk. £60/$90) pp. 1036-1037

Robert Millward

Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller, The social history of agriculture ( Lanham, Md., and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Pp. xvi + 387. 16 figs. 5 maps ISBN 9781442209671 Pbk. £29.95) pp. 1037-1038

Paul Brassley

Leonor Freire Costa, Pedro Lains, and Susana Munch, An economic history of Portugal 1143–2010 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+406. 20 figs. 10 maps. 54 tabs. ISBN 9781107035546 Hbk. £74.99/$120) pp. 1038-1039

Francisco Henriques

William O. Coleman, ed., Only in Australia: the history, politics and economics of Australian exceptionalism ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+320. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198753254 Hbk. £35) pp. 1039-1040

Stuart Macintyre

Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Unequal gains: American growth and inequality since 1700 ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xx+398. 30 figs. 68 tabs. ISBN 9780691170497 Hbk. $35.00/27.95) pp. 1041-1042

Suresh Naidu

Matthias Schmelzer, The hegemony of growth: the OECD and the making of the economic growth paradigm ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+384. 6 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781107130609 Hbk. £64.99/$99.99) pp. 1042-1044

Simone Selva

Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg, eds., The economy of hope ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 198. 5 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780812248692 Hbk. £32.50/$49.95) pp. 1044-1045

Sophus A. Reinert

Roderick Floud, Santhi Hejeebu, and David Mitch, eds., Humanism challenges materialism in economics and economic history ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 276. 8 figs. ISBN 9780226419588 Hbk. $65/£49) pp. 1045-1046

Mark Koyama

Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire, eds., Research methods for history ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. x+278. 9 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781474408769 Pbk. £26.99) pp. 1046-1048

Will Pooley

Volume 70, month 05, 2017

Cambium non est mutuum: exchange and interest rates in medieval Europe pp. 373-396

Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Tony K. Moore

Information asymmetries and craft guilds in pre-modern markets: evidence from Italian proto-industry pp. 397-422

Andrea Caracausi

Patterns of economic change in the south-west during the fifteenth century: evidence from the reductions to the fifteenths and tenths pp. 423-451

Mark Forrest

The unpopularity of the hearth tax and the social geography of London in 1666 pp. 452-482

Andrew Wareham

The agricultural revolution and the conditions of the rural poor, southern Sweden, 1750–1860 pp. 483-508

Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

Networks, trust, and risk mitigation during the American Revolutionary War: a case study pp. 509-528

Carolyn Downs

Mercantilism and bureaucratic modernization in early eighteenth-century France pp. 529-558

Jean Beuve, Eric Brousseau and Jérôme Sgard

Debt dilution in 1920s America: lighting the fuse of a mortgage crisis pp. 559-585

Natacha Postel-Vinay

Britain as a debtor: Indian sterling balances, 1940–53 pp. 586-604

Marcelo Paiva Abreu

Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda's smallholders thrive? pp. 605-631

Michiel de Haas

Housing affordability during the urban transition in Spain pp. 632-658

Juan Carmona, Markus Lampe and Joan Rosés

Martin Allen and Matthew Davies, eds., Medieval merchants and money: essays in honour of James L. Bolton ( London: Institute of Historical Research, 2016. Pp. xx+363. 10 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781909646162. £40) pp. 659-660

William Caferro

Benjamin Thompson and John Watts, eds., Political society in later medieval England. A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015. Pp. 280. 4 illus. ISBN 9781783270309 Hbk. £60) pp. 660-661

Serena Ferente

Nicholas R. Amor, From wool to cloth: the triumph of the Suffolk clothier ( Bungay, Suffolk: RefineCatch Limited, 2016. Pp. xx+282. 17 figs. 14 maps. 24 plates. 19 tabs. ISBN 0995508507 Hbk. £20) pp. 662-663

John Oldland

Thomas Malcomson, Order and disorder in the British navy, 1793–1815: control, resistance, flogging and hanging ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xii+304. 2 maps. ISBN 9781783271191 Hbk. £75) pp. 663-664

Roger Morriss

Helen Watt and Anne Hawkins, eds., Letters of seamen in the wars with France, 1793–1815 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xx+668. 6 illus. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781843838968 Hbk. £95) pp. 664-665

Joseph Cozens

Charlotte Wildman, Urban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918–1939 ( London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. xiv+287. 17 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781474257367 Hbk. £90) pp. 665-667

Barry M. Doyle

Richard von Glahn, The economic history of China: from antiquity to the nineteenth century ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+461. ISBN 9781107030565 Pbk. £24.99/$39.99) pp. 667-669

Niv Horesh

Larry Neal, Concise history of international finance: from Babylon to Bernanke ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781107034174 Hbk. £59.99) pp. 669-670

Marc Weidenmier

Bas van Bavel, The invisible hand? How market economies have emerged and declined since AD500 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 330. 2 figs. 3 maps. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780199608133 Hbk. £35) pp. 671-672

Mark Casson

Bruce M. S. Campbell, The great transition: climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+463. 78 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780521195881 Hbk. £69.99/$105; 9780521144438 Pbk. £22.99/$34.99) pp. 672-673

Christopher Dyer

Gerhard Jaritz and Katalin Szende, eds., Medieval east central Europe in a comparative perspective: from frontier zones to lands in focus ( London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xiv+265. 34 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781138923478 Pbk. £29.99) pp. 673-674

Karel Davids

Donald J. Harreld, ed., A companion to the Hanseatic League ( Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp viii + 277. 9 figs. 2 maps. 6 tabs. ISBN 9789004282889 Hbk. £86) pp. 674-675

Stephen H. Rigby

Giampiero Nigro, ed., Le crisi finanziarie: gestione, implicazioni sociali e conseguenze nell'età preindustriale /Financial crises: their management, their social implications and their consequences in pre-industrial times ( Florence: Firenze University Press, 2016. Pp. viii+555. 9 figs. 51 graphs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9788866559481 Pbk. €65) pp. 676-677

Jérôme Sgard

Silvia Sovič, Pat Thane, and Pier Paolo Viazzo, eds., The history of families and households: comparative European dimensions ( Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xii+263. 13 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9789004307858 €104/$135) pp. 677-678

Mikolaj Szoltysek

Pim de Zwart, Globalization and the colonial origins of the great divergence: intercontinental trade and living standards in the Dutch East India Company's commercial empire, c. 1600–1800 ( Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. x+290. 40 figs. 6 maps. 30 tabs. ISBN 9789004299658 Hbk. €109/$141) pp. 679-680

Edmond Smith

Rafael Torres Sánchez, Military entrepreneurs & the Spanish contractor state in the eighteenth century ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. pp. xxii+297. 18 figs. 16 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780198784111 Hbk. £60) pp. 680-681

Aaron Graham

Philip Misevich and Kristin Mann, eds., The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world ( Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+361. 9 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781580465601 Hbk. £80) pp. 681-682

Mary Wills

Ghulam A. Nadri, The political economy of indigo in India, 1580–1930: a global perspective ( Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xviii+246. 18 figs. 2 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004311541 Hbk. €109/$141) pp. 682-683

Prakash Kumar

Gergely Baics, Feeding Gotham: the political economy and geography of food in New York, 1790–1860 ( Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii+347. 19 figs. 16 maps. 7 plates. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780691168791 Hbk. £29.95/$39.95) pp. 684-685

Susan Parham

Naiem A. Sherbiny and Omaima M. Hatem, State and entrepreneurs in Egypt: economic development since 1805 ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. Pp. xix+195. ISBN 9781137567536 Hbk. £70) pp. 685-686

Mohamed Saleh

Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula, eds., Swedish taxation: developments since 1862 ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 334. ISBN 9781137478146 Hbk. £75) pp. 686-688

Jari Ojala

Robert Fitzgerald, The rise of the global company: multinationals and the making of the modern world ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp xii+622. 39 tabs. ISBN 9780521614962 Pbk. £19.99/$29.99) pp. 688-689

Andrea Colli

Matt Bera, Lobbying Hitler: industrial associations between democracy and dictatorship ( New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016. Pp. x + 250. ISBN 9781785330650 Hbk. £75) pp. 689-690

Armin Grünbacher

Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira, Brazil in transition: beliefs, leadership, and institutional change ( Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xx+259. 21 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780691162911 Hbk. £29.95/$39.50) pp. 690-692

Gail D. Triner

Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama, eds., Corporate forms and organisational choice in international insurance ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 330. ISBN 9780198739005 Hbk. £60) pp. 692-693

Adrian Leonard

Youssef Cassis, Richard S. Grossman, and Catherine R. Schenk, eds., The Oxford handbook of banking and financial history ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii+537. 9 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780199658626 Hbk. £95) pp. 693-695

Sabine Schneider

Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson, eds., Diverse development paths and structural transformation in the escape from poverty ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+284. 16 figs. 18 tabs. ISBN 9780198737407 Hbk. £60) pp. 695-696

Gloria Quiroga

Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg, The Nobel factor: the prize in economics, social democracy and the market turn ( Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xx+323. 23 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780691166032 Hbk. £24.95/$35) pp. 697-698

Benny Carlson

Volume 70, month 02, 2017

Children's growth in an adaptive framework: explaining the growth patterns of American slaves and other historical populations pp. 3-29

Eric Schneider

The great divergence and the economics of printing pp. 30-51

Luis Angeles

Extracting economics from Roman marble quarries pp. 52-78

Leah E. Long

The first Sterling Area pp. 79-100

Martin Allen

Migrants’ self-selection in the early stages of modern economic growth, Spain (1880–1930) pp. 101-121

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Santiago Miguel Salanova

Product quality or market regulation? Explaining the slow growth of Europe's wine cooperatives, 1880–1980 pp. 122-142

Eva Fernández and James Simpson

Building an alternative economic network? Consumer cooperation in Scotland from the 1870s to the 1960s pp. 143-170

D. C. H. Watts

Conditional crisis? Ecological challenges and conditions of growth during the agricultural revolution in southern Sweden, c. 1700–1900 pp. 171-186

Magnus Bohman

Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century pp. 187-223

Matthias Blum, Christopher Colvin, Laura McAtackney and Eoin McLaughlin

How the German crisis of 1931 swept across Europe: a comparative view from Stockholm pp. 224-247

Tobias Straumann, Peter Kugler and Florian Weber

War and socialism: why eastern Europe fell behind between 1950 and 1989 pp. 248-274

Tamás Vonyó

Alisdair Dobie, Accounting at Durham Cathedral Priory: management and control of a major ecclesiastical corporation 1083–1539 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xii+341. 32 tabs. ISBN 9781137479778 Hbk. £80) pp. 323-324

Harmony Dewez

C. M. Woolgar, The culture of food in England, 1200–1500 ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+341. 8 figs. 32 illus. ISBN 9780300181913 Hbk. £30/$45) pp. 324-325

Iona McCleery

J. P. Bowen and A. T. Brown, eds., Custom and commercialization in English rural society: revisiting Tawney and Postan ( Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+310. 23 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781909291454 Hbk. £35/$79.95; 9781909291447 Pbk. £18.99/$37.95) pp. 325-327

H. R. French

Ronan O'Donnell, Assembling enclosure: transformations in the rural landscape of post-medieval north-east England ( Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2015. Pp. xi +152. ISBN 9781909291430 Pbk. £14.99) pp. 327-328

John Broad

Dwight Codr, Raving at usurers: anti-finance and the ethics of uncertainty in England, 1690–1750 ( Charlottesville, Va., and London: University of Virginia Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+242. 1 fig. ISBN 9780813937809 Hbk. £37.50/$39.50) pp. 328-329

Lina Weber

Janet E. Mullin, A sixpence at whist: gaming and the English middle classes, 1680–1830 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. Pp. 240. 8 illus. ISBN 9781783270477 Hbk. £45) pp. 329-330

Jessica Richard

Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, London lives: poverty, crime and the making of a modern city, 1690–1800 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi+461. 47 figs. ISBN 9781107025721 Hbk. £55/$85; 9781107639942 Pbk. £21.99/$32.99) pp. 331-332

James Sharpe

Peter Razzell, Mortality, marriage and population growth in England, 1550–1850 ( London: Caliban Books, 2016. Pp. 135. 53 tabs. ISBN 9780904573190 Pbk. £10) pp. 332-333

Andrew Hinde

Nigel Goose, Helen Caffrey, and Anne Langley, eds., The British almshouse: new perspectives on philanthropyca 1400–1914 ( Milton Keynes: FACHRS Publications, 2016. Pp vii+407. 4 figs. 78 illus. 4 maps. 14 plates. 35 tabs. ISBN 9780954818029 Pbk. £12) pp. 333-334

Beatrice Moring

E. A. Wrigley, The path to sustained growth: England's transition from an organic economy to an industrial revolution ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+219. 3 figs. 31 tabs. ISBN 9781316504284 Pbk. £18.99/$29.99) pp. 335-336

Yasir Nawaz

Kate Smith, Material goods, moving hands: perceiving production in England, 1700– 1830 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Pp. x +181. 15 figs. ISBN 9780719090677 Hbk. £70) pp. 336-337

Stana Nenadic

Marc W. Steinberg, England's great transformation: law, labour, and the industrial revolution ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+233. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780226329956 Pbk. £24.50/$35) pp. 337-339

Victoria Bateman

Daniel Harrison, The Thames Iron Works 1837–1912: a major shipbuilder on the Thames ( London: Museum of London Archaeology, 2015. Pp. xiv+114. 103 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781907586347 Pbk. £10) pp. 339-340

Helen Doe

Simone Fari, Victorian telegraphy before nationalization ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. vii+235. ISBN 9781137406514 Hbk. £63) pp. 340-341

Nigel Linge

Lewis Mates, The great labour unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+311. 6 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9780719090684 Hbk. £70) pp. 342-343

Ralph Darlington

Andrew Wilson and Miko Flohr, eds., Urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii+408. 74 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198748489 Hbk. £80) pp. 343-344

J. W. Hanson

Kent Deng, Mapping China's growth and development in the long run: 221 BC to 2020 ( Singapore and London: World Scientific Publishing, 2016. Pp. x+250. 34 figs. 74 tabs. ISBN 9789814667555 Hbk. £58) pp. 344-346

Richard Von Glahn

John Drendel, ed., Crisis in the later middle ages: beyond the Postan–Duby paradigm ( Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. Pp. viii+363. ISBN 9782503547428 Hbk. €90) pp. 346-347

Philip Slavin

Roman Zaoral, ed., Money and finance in central Europe during the later middle ages ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xviii+269. 11 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9781137460226 Hbk. £75) pp. 347-349

Peter Spufford

Shireen Moosvi, The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595. A statistical study (2nd edn. New Delhi: Oxford University Press: 2015. Pp. xii + 476. ISBN 9780199450541 Pbk. £37.99) pp. 349-350

Tirthankar Roy

Jeroen Puttevils, Merchants and trading in the sixteenth century: the golden age of Antwerp ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2015. Pp. xiii+312. 2 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781848935761 Hbk. £95) pp. 350-351

Siobhan Talbott

Denjian Jin, The great knowledge transcendence: The rise of western science and technology reframed ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xii+312. ISBN 9781137527936 Hbk. £63/$100) pp. 352-353

P. M. Jones

Felicia Gottmann, Global trade, smuggling, and the making of economic liberalism: Asian textiles in France 1680–1760 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+256. 5 figs. 18 plates. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781137444875 Hbk. £55) pp. 353-354

R. C. Nash

Frank Trentmann, Empire of things: how we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first ( London: Allen Lane, 2016. Pp. xviii+862. 36 figs. 72 illus. ISBN 9780713999624 Hbk. £30) pp. 354-355

Ilja I. B. Van Damme

Michael D. Thompson, Working on the dock of the bay: labor and enterprise in an antebellum southern port ( Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. x+284. 5 figs. 11 maps. 90 tabs. ISBN 9781611174748 Hbk. $44.95/£38.95) pp. 356-357

Leonard Carlson

Robert J. Gordon, The rise and fall of American growth: the US standard of living since the Civil War ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+762. 97 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9780691147727Hbk. $39.95/£27.95) pp. 357-358

Simone Selva

Emanuele Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d'Italia Bologna: Il Mulino, 2015. Pp. 385+50 online appendix. 2 tabs. 8 figs. ISBN 9788815257857 Pbk. €18, e-book €12.99) pp. 358-359

Paolo Di Martino

Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn, The cotton kings: capitalism and corruption in turn-of-the-century New York and New Orleans ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+214. 23 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780190211653 Hbk. $29.95/£19.99) pp. 360-360

Matthew Hollow

Youssef Cassis and Philip L. Cottrell, Private banking in Europe: rise, retreat and resurgence ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 305. ISBN 9780198735755 Hbk. £55) pp. 361-362

Janette Rutterford

Gerald D. Feldman, Austrian banks in the period of National Socialism ( Washington and Cambridge: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. x+581. ISBN 9781107001657 Hbk. £90/$140) pp. 362-363

Flora Macher

Carles Brasó Broggi, Trades and technology networks in the Chinese textile industry: opening up before the reform ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+221. 3 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781137494047 Hbk. £75) pp. 363-364

Joyman Lee

Stuart John Barton, Policy signals and market responses: a 50-year history of Zambia's relationship with foreign capital ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xii+285. 11 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781137390974 Hbk. £70) pp. 364-366

Grietjie Verhoef

Joerg Baten, ed., A history of the global economy: 1500 to the present ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+369. 68 figs. 19 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107104709 Hbk. £69.99/$119.99) pp. 366-368

Pedro Lains

Francesco Boldizzoni and Pat Hudson, Routledge handbook of global economic history ( London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xvi+471. 4 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781138838031 Hbk. £150) pp. 368-369

Philipp Roessner