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Volume 69, month 11, 2016

Establishing statistical foundations of a chronology for the great divergence: a survey and critique of the primary sources for the construction of relative wage levels for Ming–Qing China pp. 1057-1082

Kent Deng and Patrick O'Brien

London creditors and the fifteenth-century depression pp. 1083-1107

Matthew Frank Stevens

Periodic recoinage as a monetary tax: conditions for the rise and fall of the bracteate economy pp. 1108-1131

Roger Svensson

Non-legal-tender paper money: the structure and performance of Maryland's bills of credit, 1767–75 pp. 1132-1156

James Celia and Farley Grubb

The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa pp. 1157-1177

Nonso Obikili

Direct finance in the Dutch Golden Age pp. 1178-1198

Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker and Clemens Kool

Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain pp. 1199-1227

Robert J. Bennett

Inheritance taxation in Sweden, 1885–2004: the role of ideology, family firms, and tax avoidance pp. 1228-1254

Magnus Henrekson and Daniel Waldenström

Long-term trends in economic inequality: lessons from colonial Botswana, 1921–74 pp. 1255-1284

Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom

Tariff-jumping foreign direct investment in protectionist era Ireland pp. 1285-1308

Frank Barry, Linda Barry and Aisling Menton

List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2015 pp. 1309-1365

Matthew Hale, Graham Raymond and Catherine Wright

David Roffe and K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, eds., Domesday now: new approaches to the inquest and the book ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 338. 20 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781783270880 Hbk. £60) pp. 1366-1367

Benjamin Pohl

Frances Willmoth and Susan Oosthuizen, eds., The Ely Coucher book, 1249–50: the Bishop of Ely's manors in the Cambridgeshire fenland ( Cambridge: Cambridgeshire Record Society, 2015. Pp. x + 252. 1 map. 26 plates. ISBN 9780904323245 Pbk. £37.50) pp. 1367-1368

Rebecca Oakes

Elizabeth Griffiths, ed., Her price is above pearls: family and farming records of Alice Le Strange, 1617–1656 ( Norwich: Norfolk Record Society, 2015. Pp viii + 376. 6 figs. 1 map. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780955635786 Hbk. £18) pp. 1368-1369

Judith Spicksley

Chris Nierstrasz, Rivalry for trade in tea and textiles: the English and Dutch East Indian Companies (1700–1800) ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xvi + 219. 5 figs. 22 graphs. 7 plates. 1 tab. ISBN 9781137486523 Hbk. £60) pp. 1370-1371

Karolina Hutková

Tyler Beck Goodspeed, Legislating instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the financial crisis of 1772 ( Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 208. 23 figs. ISBN 9780674088887 Hbk. £29.95) pp. 1371-1373

Paul Kosmetatos

Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed., Adam Smith: his life, thought and legacy ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi + 571. 2 figs. ISBN 9780691154053 Hbk. $45/£34.95) pp. 1373-1374

Anton Howes

Peter Maw, Transport and the industrial city: Manchester and the canal age, 1750–1850 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 320. 13 maps. ISBN 9780719083600 Hbk. £75) pp. 1374-1376

Dan Bogart

Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann, eds., The country house: material culture and consumption ( Swindon: Historic England, 2016. Pp. x + 214. 114 figs. ISBN 9781848022331 Hbk. £70) pp. 1376-1377

Madge Dresser

Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan, eds., with the assistance of Gordon Bannerman, The letters of Richard Cobden, vol. 4: 1860–1863 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. lxii + 672. 13 illus. ISBN 9780199211982 Hbk. £140) pp. 1377-1379

Antony Taylor

Kathryn A. Morrison, Woolworth's: 100 years on the High Street ( Swindon: Historic England, 2016. Pp. viii + 232. ISBN 9781848022461 Hbk. £50) pp. 1379-1380

Tom Buckley

Kiyoshi Hirowatari, Britain and European monetary cooperation, 1964–1979 ( London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiii + 276. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781137491411 Hbk. £75) pp. 1380-1381

Roger Middleton

Alain Bresson, trans. by Steve Rendall, The making of the ancient Greek economy: institutions, markets and growth in the city-states ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 648. ISBN 9780691144702 Hbk. £34.95) pp. 1382-1384

Darel Tai Engen

Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven, and Arjan Zuiderhoek, Ownership and exploitation of land and natural resources in the Roman world ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 407. 34 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198728924 Hbk. £90) pp. 1384-1385

Penelope J. Goodman

Lawrin Armstrong, The idea of a moral economy: Gerard of Siena on usury, restitution and prescription ( Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2016. pp. xii + 331. ISBN 9781442643222 Hbk. $75/£50.19) pp. 1385-1386

Stephen H. Rigby

Linda Clark, ed., The fifteenth century XIV: essays presented to Michael Hicks ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. Pp. xvii + 249. 9 tabs. 8 maps. ISBN 9781783270484 Hbk. £60) pp. 1386-1388

Jordan Claridge

Karel Davids and Bert de Munck, eds., Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 438. ISBN 9781472439871 Hbk. £90) pp. 1388-1389

Patrick Wallis

Pepijn Brandon, War, capital and the Dutch state (1588–1795) ( Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. xiii + 447. 10 figs. 28 tabs. ISBN 9789004228146 Pbk. €135) pp. 1389-1390

Aaron Graham

A. B. Leonard, ed., Marine insurance: origins and institutions, 1300–1850 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv + 325. 3 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781137411372 Hbk. £75) pp. 1390-1392

Robin Pearson

Peter M. Jones, Agricultural enlightenment: knowledge, technology, and nature, 1750–1840 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 268. 9 figs. ISBN 9780198716075 Hbk. £60) pp. 1392-1393

John Chapman

G. Roger Knight, Trade and empire in early nineteenth century southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and his business network ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 193. 2 maps. ISBN 9781783270699 Hbk. £65) pp. 1393-1394

François Gipouloux

Tine de Moor, The dilemma of the commoners: understanding the use of common-pool resources in long-term perspective ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 204. 12 figs. 5 tabs ISBN 9781107022164 Hbk. £65/$99) pp. 1394-1395

Susan Oosthuizen

Philip T. Hoffman, Why did Europe conquer the world? ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. 18 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780691139708 Hbk. $29.95/£19.95) pp. 1396-1397

Guillaume Daudin

Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, eds., Making news: the political economy of journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the internet ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. x + 263. 97 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9780199676187 Hbk. £50) pp. 1397-1398

Richard K. Popp

Youssef Cassis, Giuseppe de Luca, and Massimo Florio, eds., Infrastructure finance in Europe: insights into the history of water, transport, and telecommunications ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xxi + 358. 30 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9780198713418 Hbk. £75) pp. 1398-1399

Eduard J. Alvarez-Palau

William N. Goetzmann, Money changes everything: how finance made civilization possible ( Princeton, NJ, and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 584. 60 figs. ISBN 9780691143781 Hbk. $35/£24.95) pp. 1400-1401

John Turner

Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing, Investment: a history ( New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 436. 8 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780231169523 Hbk. $35/£24) pp. 1401-1402

Graeme Acheson

Stephen Gross, Export empire: German soft power in southeastern Europe, 1890–1945 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xv + 384. 5 figs. 1 map. 32 tabs. ISBN 9781107112254 Hbk. £64.99) pp. 1402-1404

A. Coşkun Tunçer

Andre Schlueter, Institutions and small settler economies: a comparative study of New Zealand and Uruguay, 1870–2008 ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xvi + 290. ISBN 9781137448286 Hbk. $89) pp. 1404-1405

Carl Bridge

Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch, eds., The impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile: business enterprises and entrepreneurship ( Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015. Pp. x + 290. 3 figs. 19 tabs. ISBN 9781783473632 Hbk. £80) pp. 1405-1406

Colin M. Lewis

Philip J. Havik, Alexander Keese, and Maciel Santos, Administration and taxation in former Portuguese Africa 1900–1945 ( Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Pp. xiv + 256. 11 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9781443870108 Hbk. £47.99) pp. 1407-1408

Martine Mariotti

Jeanne Marie Penvenne, Women, migration and the cashew economy in southern Mozambique 1945–1975 ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015. Pp. xx + 281. 14 figs. 4 maps. ISBN 9781847011282 Hbk. £45) pp. 1408-1409

Kleoniki Alexopoulou

Eva Bertram, The workfare state: public assistance politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats ( Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2015. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780812247077 Hbk. £49/$75) pp. 1409-1410

Jason Scott Smith

Iris Claus and Les Oxley, eds., China's economy: a collection of surveys ( Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Pp. 201. 31 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9781118982471 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1410-1412

Tao Liu

Johan A. Lybeck, The future of financial regulation: who should pay for the failure of American and European banks? ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxxvi + 560. 40 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781107106857 Hbk. £74.99) pp. 1412-1413

Rasheed Saleuddin

Volume 69, month 08, 2016

Decomposing income inequality in a backward pre-industrial economy: Old Castile (Spain) in the middle of the eighteenth century pp. 747-772

Esteban A. Nicolini and Fernando Ramos-Palencia

Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia pp. 773-800

Steven Nafziger

Pestilence, poverty, and provision: re-evaluating the role of the popolani in early modern Venice pp. 801-822

Ioanna Iordanou

Interlopers and disorderly brethren at the Stade Mart: commercial regulations and practices amongst the Merchant Adventurers of England in the late Elizabethan period pp. 823-843

Thomas Leng

The Danish agricultural revolution in an energy perspective: a case of development with few domestic energy sources pp. 844-869

Sofia Henriques and Paul Sharp

The decline of an aristocratic stud: the stud of Edward Lord Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, at Welbeck (Nottinghamshire), 1717–29 pp. 870-892

Peter Edwards

South Africa in the Australian mirror: per capita real GDP in the Cape Colony, Natal, Victoria, and New South Wales, 1861–1909 pp. 893-914

Gary Magee, Lorraine Greyling and Grietjie Verhoef

Can public policies lower religiosity? Evidence from school choice in France, 1878–1902 pp. 915-944

Raphael Franck and Noel Johnson

The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1790–1834 pp. 945-971

Samantha Williams

After us, the deluge: German miners’ experience with pay-as-you-go pensions and the intergenerational contract before the great inflation pp. 972-998

Tobias A. Jopp

Duplication without constraints: Álvarez-Nogal and Chamley's analysis of debt policy under Philip II pp. 999-1006

Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth

Response to ‘Duplications’ by Drelichman and Voth pp. 1007-1013

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal and Christophe P. Chamley

Isla Fay, Health and the city: disease, environment and government in Norwich, 1200–1575 ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015. Pp. xxvi+246. 19 figs. 9 maps. ISBN 9781903153604 Hbk. £50) pp. 1014-1015

Leona J. Skelton

Michael Hicks, ed., English inland trade 1430–1540: Southampton and its region ( Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. Pp. xvi+216. 154 figs. 41 maps. ISBN 9781782978244 Hbk. £45) pp. 1016-1017

Justin Colson

Christine Desan, Making money. Coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi+478. 11 figs. ISBN 9780198709572 Hbk. £50) pp. 1017-1018

Paolo Di Martino

Paul Slack, The invention of improvement: information and material progress in seventeenth-century England ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 336. 5 figs. ISBN 9780199645916 Hbk. £35) pp. 1018-1019

Edmond Smith

Aaron Graham, Corruption, party, and government in Britain, 1702–1713 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi+305. ISBN 9780198738787 Hbk. £65) pp. 1019-1020

Helen Julia Paul

Sheila White and Philip Sheail, eds. and trans., Lord Fordwich's Grand Tour, 1756–60 ( Hertford: Hertfordshire Record Publications, 2015. Pp. viii+401. 15 figs. 6 maps. 22 tabs. ISBN 9780956511140 Hbk. £22) pp. 1020-1021

Timothy Wilks

Anthony Cooke, A history of drinking: the Scottish pub since 1700 ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Pp. xii+268. 23 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781474400121 Hbk. £80; ISBN 9781474407625 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1022-1023

David Beckingham

Victoria E. M. Gardner, The business of news in England, 1760–1820 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. x+270. 9 figs. 4 maps. 1 tab. ISBN 9781137336385 Hbk. £63) pp. 1023-1024

Will Slauter

Graham Mooney, Intrusive interventions: public health, domestic space, and infectious disease surveillance in England, 1840–1914 ( Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+278. 25 figs. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781580465274 Hbk. £80) pp. 1024-1025

Keir Waddington

Julie-Marie Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865–1914 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. ix+234. ISBN 9781107446861 Hbk. £65.00) pp. 1025-1027

Jane Humphries

Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale, eds., Mental health nursing: the working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi+268. ISBN 9780719096938 Hbk. £70) pp. 1027-1028

John Hopton

Matthew Hollow, Rogue banking: a history of financial fraud in interwar Britain ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. vii+105. ISBN 9781137360533 Hbk. £45.00) pp. 1028-1030

Mark Billings

Jotham Parsons, Making money in sixteenth-century France: currency, culture and the state ( New York: Cornell University Press, 2015. Pp. x+324. ISBN 9780801451591 Hbk. $59.95) pp. 1030-1031

Guy Rowlands

Bert de Munck and Dries Lyna, eds., Concepts of value in European material culture, 1500–1900 ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xiv+290. 21 figs. ISBN 9781471451965 Hbk. £75) pp. 1031-1033

Kate Smith

Peter Borschberg, ed., Journal, memorials and letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: security, diplomacy and commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia ( Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Pp. xl+657. 49 figs. 20 maps. ISBN 9789971697983 Pbk. $42) pp. 1033-1034

Pepijn Brandon

Marie Ménard-Jacob, La Première Compagnie des Indes: apprentissages, échecs et héritage, 1664–1704 ( Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016. Pp. vi+316. 19 figs. ISBN 9782753543515 Pbk. €21) pp. 1034-1035

Blake Smith

Maxine Berg, ed., with Felicia Gottman, Hanna Hodacs, and Chris Nierstrasz, Goods from the east, 1600–1800: trading Eurasia ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xvi+369. 18 figs. 1 map. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781137403933 Hbk. £68) pp. 1035-1037

Elise Nederveen Meerkerk

Jan Hein Furnée and Clé Lesger, eds., The landscape of consumption: shopping streets and cultures in western Europe, 1600–1900 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xiii+246. 26 figs. 14 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780230355644 Hbk. £60.00) pp. 1037-1038

Anne Montenach

Roman Studer, The great divergence reconsidered: Europe, India and the rise to global economic power ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xii+231. 38 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781107020542 Hbk. £65.00) pp. 1038-1039

Bishnupriya Gupta

Anthony Webster, Ulbe Bosma, and Jaime de Melo, eds., Commodities, ports and maritime trade in Asia after 1750 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xv+318. ISBN 9781137463913 Hbk. £63) pp. 1040-1041

Nandini Chatterjee

Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat, eds., Local subversions of colonial cultures: commodities and anti-commodities in global history ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xii+213. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781137381095 Hbk. £58) pp. 1041-1042

Christopher Minton

James L. Huston, The British gentry, the southern planter and the northern family farmer ( Baton Rouge: Louisiana University State Press, 2015. Pp. xviii+345. 31 tabs. ISBN 9780807159187 Hbk. $47.50) pp. 1042-1044

Philip Mills Herrington

Clive Dewey, Steamboats on the Indus: the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia ( New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii+297. 13 figs. 3 maps. 59 plates. 13 tabs. ISBN 9780198092193 Hbk. £76.00) pp. 1044-1045

Chandrika Kaul

Howard Bodenhorn, The color factor: the economics of African-American well-being in the nineteenth-century South ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi+320. 27 figs. 60 tabs. ISBN 9780199383092 Hbk. £25.99) pp. 1045-1046

Trevon Logan

Waltraud Ernst, ed., Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii+378. 20 figs. ISBN 9780719097690 Hbk. £75) pp. 1046-1048

Pamela Dale

Shellen Xiao Wu, Empires of coal: fueling China’s entry into the modern world order, 1860–1920 ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. xii+266. 12 figs. ISBN 9780804792844 Hbk. $45.00) pp. 1048-1049

Philip Thai

Sarah Dietz, British entrepreneurship in Poland: a case study of Bradford Mills at Marki near Warsaw, 1883–1939 ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. Pp. xiv+296. 17 figs. ISBN 9781472441386 Hbk. £75) pp. 1049-1050

Falk Flade

Premilla Nadasen, Household workers unite: the untold story of African American women who built a movement ( Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780807014509 Hbk. $27.95) pp. 1050-1052

Keona K. Ervin

Pierluigi Ciocca, Stabilising capitalism: a greater role for central banks ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. viii+105. 15 figs. ISBN 9781137555502 Hbk. £70) pp. 1052-1053

Linda Arch

Carroll Pursell, From playgrounds to Playstation: the interaction of technology and play ( Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. xii+200. 15 figs. ISBN 9781421416502 Pbk. £18.50) pp. 1053-1054

Alex Layne

Volume 69, month 05, 2016

Laissez-faire, the Irish famine, and British financial crisis pp. 411-434

Charles Read

Economic freedom in the long run: evidence from OECD countries (1850–2007) pp. 435-468

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

The mother of all sudden stops: capital flows and reversals in Europe, 1919–32 pp. 469-492

Olivier Accominotti and Barry Eichengreen

Occupational structure in the Czech lands under the second serfdom pp. 493-521

Alexander Klein and Sheilagh Ogilvie

Wedding trousseaus and cloth consumption in Catalonia around 1300 pp. 522-547

Lluís To Figueras

Wages, prices, and technology in early Catalan industrialization pp. 548-574

Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Marc Prat

Location, location, location? Analysing property rents in medieval Gloucester pp. 575-599

Catherine Casson and Mark Casson

The last visitation of the plague in Sweden: the case of Bräkne-Hoby in 1710–11 pp. 600-626

Roger Schofield

Standards, learning, and growth in Britain, 1901–2009 pp. 627-652

Christopher Spencer and Paul Temple

Going multilateral? Financial markets' access and the League of Nations loans, 1923–8 pp. 653-678

Juan Flores Zendejas and Yann Decorzant

Ready to stop: socioeconomic status and the fertility transition in Stockholm, 1878–1926 pp. 679-704

Joseph Molitoris and Martin Dribe

John Sabapathy, Officers and accountability in medieval England 1170–1300 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi+312. ISBN 9780199645909 Hbk. £60) pp. 705-706

James Davis

Brian J. Barber, ed., calendared by Constance M. Fraser, The court roll of the manor of Wakefield 1436–1437 ( Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2014. Pp. xx+121. 1 fig. 1 map. 1 plate. ISBN 9781903564271 Pbk. £20) pp. 706-707

Mark Bailey

Margaret Murphy and Matthew Stout, eds., Agriculture and settlement in Ireland ( Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2015. Pp. xxx+226. ISBN 9781846825071 Hbk. €50.00) pp. 707-708

R. W. Hoyle

Marion E. Allen, ed., Wills of the archdeaconry of Suffolk 1627–1628 ( Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. Pp. xxii+179. 3 plates. ISBN 9781843839729 Hbk. £25.00) pp. 708-710

Alisdair Dobie

Matthew Davies, Catherine Ferguson, Vanessa Harding, Elizabeth Parkinson, and Andrew Wareham, eds., London and Middlesex 1666 Hearth Tax—Parts 1 & 2 ( London: British Record Society, 2014. Pp. xviii+1825. 2 figs. 22 maps. 41 tabs. ISBN 9780901505606 Hbk. £60 for two-part set) pp. 710-711

J. V. Beckett

Alexandra Shepard, Accounting for oneself: worth, status and the social order in early modern England ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xvii+357. ISBN 9780199600793 Hbk. £65) pp. 711-713

Andy Wood

Peter Earle, The Earles of Liverpool: a Georgian merchant dynasty ( Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2015. Pp. xvi+301. 12 figs. ISBN 9781781381731 Hbk. £75) pp. 713-714

Robert J. Bennett

W. G. Runciman, Very different, but much the same: the evolution of English society since 1714 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. vii+190. ISBN 9780198712428 Hbk. £30) pp. 714-715

Peter Mandler

John A. Hargreaves, ed., The court roll of the manor of Wakefield from October 1812 to September 1813 ( Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2014. Pp. xlii+260. 5 tabs. ISBN 9781903564172 Pbk. £20.00) pp. 716-716

Carol Beardmore

Richard Oliver, The Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century: maps, money and the growth of government ( London: The Charles Close Society, 2014. Pp. xxvii+607. 75 figs. 33 illus. ISBN 9781870598323 Hbk. £45.00) pp. 717-718

Michael Heffernan

John Herson, Divergent paths: family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain 1820–1920 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+341. 37 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9780719090639 Hbk. £70.00) pp. 718-719

Ciaran O'Neill

David Sunderland, ed., British economic development in South-East Asia, 1880–1939, vol. 1: Agriculture, vol. 2: Mining, trade & industry, vol. 3: The building blocks of development: governance, transport and communications, and human and financial capital ( London and Vermont: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Vol. 1, pp. lviii+356. Vol. 2, pp. vi+486. Vol. 3, pp. vi+468. ISBN 9781848934887 Hbk. £350/$625) pp. 719-721

Nicholas J. White

Giles E. M. Gasper and Svein H. Gullbekk, eds., Money and the church in medieval Europe, 1000–1200: practice, morality and thought ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. Pp. xiv+292. ISBN 9781472420992 Hbk. £70) pp. 721-722

Pamela Nightingale

Murat Iyigun, War, peace & prosperity in the name of God: the Ottoman rule in Europe's socioeconomic evolution ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015. Pp. xii+395. 26 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780226388434 Hbk. £38.50) pp. 723-724

Juergen Hagen

Maria Fusaro, Bernard Allaire, Richard J. Blakemore, and Tijl Vanneste, eds., Law, labour, and empire: comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500–1800 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 357. ISBN 9781137447456 Hbk. £68) pp. 724-725

Adrian Leonard

Guy Rowlands, Dangerous and dishonest men: the international bankers of Louis XIV's France ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xvi+265. 2 maps. ISBN 9781137381781 Hbk. £75) pp. 726-727

Helen Julia Paul

Josep M. Benaul Berenguer, Nova manufactura i impuls emprenedor. Els fabricants de teixits de cotó en cru a Sabadell, 1789–1830 ( Fundació Bosch i Cardellach: Sabadell, 2015. Pp. 104. ISBN 9788495113344) pp. 727-728

J. K. J. Thomson

David Todd, Free trade and its enemies in France, 1815–1851 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x+275. ISBN 9781107036932 Hbk. £64.99/$99.99) pp. 728-729

Daisy Gibbs

Hubert Bonin, Nuno Valerio, and Kazuhiko Yago, eds., Asian imperial banking history ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Pp. xv+224. 20 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781848935518 Hbk. £75) pp. 730-731

Toshio Suzuki

Cornelius Torp, The challenges of globalization: economy and politics in Germany, 1860–1914 ( New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. xii+375. 12 tabs. 8 figs. ISBN 9781782385028 Hbk. £68/$110) pp. 731-732

Ray Stokes

Ali Coskun Tunçer, Sovereign debt and international financial control: the Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xviii+243. 31 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781137378538 Hbk. £75) pp. 732-734

Matthias Morys

Robert Millward, The state and business in the major powers: an economic history 1815–1939 ( Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 294. 9 figs. 3 maps. 77 tabs. ISBN 9781138904040 Pbk. £34.99) pp. 734-735

David Higgins

Yoshiko Nagano, State and finance in the Philippines, 1898–1941: the mismanagement of an American colony ( Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2015. Pp. xiv+248. 4 figs. 12 illus. 1 map. 23 tabs. ISBN 9789971698416 Pbk. $38.00) pp. 735-736

Theresa Ventura

Marcel Boldorf and Tetsuji Okazaki, eds., Economies under occupation: the hegemony of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II ( Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xiv+335. 38 tabs. ISBN 9780415835336 Hbk. £95) pp. 737-738

Hein A. M. Klemann

Vicki Howard, From main street to mall. The rise and fall of the American department store ( Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 295. ISBN 9780812247282 Hbk. £23.00) pp. 738-739

Peter Scott

David George Surdam, Century of the leisured masses: entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii+305. 20 tabs. ISBN 9780190211578 Pbk. £22.99) pp. 739-740

Elizabeth Sine

Jonathan Coopersmith, Faxed: the rise and fall of the fax machine ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. xii+308. 16 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781421415917 Hbk. $54.95/£33.50) pp. 740-742

Andrew L. Russell

James Bessen, Learning by doing: the real connection between innovation, wages, and wealth ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. xi+295. ISBN 9780300195668 Hbk. £25.00) pp. 742-743

Joyce Burnette

Dirk Philipsen, The little big number: how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. p. xii+398. 11 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780691166520 Hbk. $29.95/£19.95) pp. 743-744

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Volume 69, month 02, 2016

Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665 pp. 3-34

Neil Cummins, Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

Health, height, and the household at the turn of the twentieth century pp. 35-53

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood

American colonial incomes, 1650–1774 pp. 54-77

Peter Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Energy consumption in England and Italy, 1560–1913. Two pathways toward energy transition pp. 78-103

Paolo Malanima

Commerce, clusters, and community: a re-evaluation of the occupational geography of London, c. 1400–c. 1550 pp. 104-130

Justin Colson

Counter-intelligence in a command economy pp. 131-158

Mark Harrison and Inga Zaksauskienė

How important were formalized charity and social spending before the rise of the welfare state? A long-run analysis of selected western European cases, 1400–1850 pp. 159-187

Bas J.P. Van Bavel and Auke Rijpma

Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox mortality in eighteenth-century cities—a reply to Razzell pp. 188-214

Romola J. Davenport, Jeremy Boulton and Leonard Schwarz

What happened to regional inequality in Britain in the twentieth century? pp. 215-228

Frank Geary and Tom Stark

A colonial legacy of African gender inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895–2011 pp. 229-257

Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Jacob Weisdorf

International competition in the first wave of globalization: new evidence on the margins of trade pp. 258-287

Concepción Betrán and Michael Huberman

Theft under Stalin: a property rights analysis pp. 288-313

Yoram Gorlizki

Review of periodical literature published in 2014 pp. 314-360

Michael Costen, Philip Slavin, Mark Hailwood, Patrick Walsh, Amanda Wilkinson and Peter Cirenza

Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith, Anglo-Saxon farms and farming ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 336. 51 figs. 9 plates. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780199207947 Hbk. £65.00) pp. 361-362

Stephen Rippon

Gervase Rosser, The art of solidarity in the middle ages: guilds in England 1250–1550 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 235. 8 illus. ISBN 9780198201571 Hbk. £60) pp. 362-363

Catherine Casson

Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M. S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen, British economic growth 1270–1870 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xl + 461. 45 figs. 96 tabs. ISBN 9781107676497 Pbk. £24.99 ISBN 9781107070783 Hbk. £65) pp. 363-365

Pat Hudson

Roger Morriss, Science, utility and maritime power: Samuel Bentham in Russia, 1779–91 ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. Pp. xviii + 274. 2 maps. ISBN 9781472412676 Hbk. £70) pp. 365-366

Megan Barford

Paul Laxton and Richard Rodger, Insanitary city: Henry Littlejohn and the condition of Edinburgh ( Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing, 2014. Pp. 480. ISBN 9781859362204 Hbk. £25) pp. 366-367

Deborah Brunton

Bill Luckin, Death and survival in urban Britain: disease, pollution and environment, 1800–1950 ( London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. Pp. xvi + 272. 4 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781780768663 Hbk. £62) pp. 367-369

David McLean

Kim Price, Medical negligence in Victorian Britain: the crisis of care under the English poor law, c. 1834–1900 ( London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. xii + 235. 7 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781441125460 Hbk. £65) pp. 369-370

Victoria Bates

Gillian Sutherland, In search of the new woman: middle-class women and work in Britain 1870–1914 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 187. 10 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781107092792 Hbk. £55/$90) pp. 370-371

Amanda Wilkinson

James Nye, A long time in making: the history of Smiths ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxvi + 375. 17 figs. 61 plates. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198717256 Hbk. £30) pp. 371-373

Sean F. Johnston

Terry Gourvish, Dolphin Square: the history of a unique building ( London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Pp. xxi + 392. 36 illus. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781472911094 Hbk. £40) pp. 373-374

Peter J. Larkham

Dennis Romano, Markets and marketplaces in medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1440 ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 272. 116 illus. ISBN 9780300169072 Hbk. £35) pp. 374-376

Marie D. Ito

Jessica L. Goldberg, Trade and institutions in the medieval Mediterranean: the Geniza merchants and their business world ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi + 426. 13 figs. 2 tabs. 22 maps. ISBN 9781107005471 Hbk. £65/$110) pp. 376-377

Jeremy Edwards

Francesca Trivellato, Leor Halevi, and Cátia Antunes, eds., Religion and trade. Cross-cultural exchange in world history, 1000–1900 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 296. 5 illus. ISBN 9780199379194 Hbk. £68) pp. 377-379

James Tracy

Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth, Lending to the borrower from hell: debt, taxes, and default in the age of Philip II ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 310. 36 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9780691151496 Hbk. £24.95) pp. 379-380

Tony K. Moore

Laurence Fontaine, The moral economy: poverty, credit and trust in early modern Europe ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 320. ISBN 9781107603707 Pbk. £21.99) pp. 380-381

Jane Whittle

Akira Hayami, Japan’s industrious revolution: economic and social transformations in the early modern period ( Tokyo and London: Springer, 2015. Pp. xix + 130. 6 figs. 1 map. 1 tab. ISBN 9784431551416 Hbk. £90) pp. 381-383

Penelope Francks

Adrian Leonard and David Pretel, eds., The Caribbean and the Atlantic world economy: circuits of trade, money and knowledge, 1650–1914 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiv + 319. 16 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781137432711 Hbk. £68) pp. 383-385

Henrice Altink

Pedro Machado, Ocean of trade: South Asian merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750–1850 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 315. 2 figs. 8 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781107070264 Hbk. £65) pp. 385-386

George Bryan Souza

Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye, eds., Institutions, innovation and industrialization: essays in economic history and development ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 430. ISBN 9780691157344 Hbk. £34.95) pp. 386-387

Knick Harley

Rafael Torres Sánchez, Constructing a fiscal-military state in eighteenth century Spain ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xviii + 253. 38 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781137478658 Hbk. £75) pp. 387-388

Aaron Graham

Simon Ville and Glenn Withers, eds., The Cambridge economic history of Australia ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi + 668. 64 figs. 4 maps 42 tabs. ISBN 9781107029491 Hbk. £120/$180) pp. 388-390

G. R. Hawke

Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson, eds., Capitalism by gaslight: illuminating the economy of nineteenth-century America ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 328. 19 illus. ISBN 9780812246896 Hbk. £32.50) pp. 390-391

Stanley Buder

South-eastern European monetary and economic statistics from the nineteenth century to World War II ( Athens: Bank of Greece, Sofia: Bulgarian National Bank, Bucharest: National Bank of Romania, Vienna: Oesterreicshische Nationalbank, 2014. Pp. 405. 87 figs. 137 tabs. ( www.bankofgreece.gr/Pages/en/Publications/Studies/seemhn.aspx ) pp. 391-392

Stefan Nikolić

Yanni Kotsonis, States of obligation: taxes and citizenship in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Republic ( Toronto, Buffalo, and London, Toronto University Press, 2014. Pp. xix + 483. 6 illus. ISBN 9781442643543 Hbk. $80) pp. 392-394

Lara Cook

Ralf Roth and Colin Divall, eds., From rail to road and back again? A century of transport competition and interdependency ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. Pp. xxii + 415. 38 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781409440468 Hbk. £80) pp. 394-395

Mark Casson

Paul Caruana Galizia, Mediterranean labor markets in the first age of globalization: an economic history of real wages and market integration ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xvi + 197. 24 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781137401083 Hbk. £75) pp. 395-396

Carlo Ciccarelli

Brian Phillips Murphy, Building the empire state: political economy in the early republic ( Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 287. 7 figs. ISBN 9780812247169 Hbk. £32.50/$49.95) pp. 396-398

Robert E. Wright

Ali Kabiri, The Great Crash of 1929: a reconciliation of theory and evidence ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiv + 236. 34 figs. 24 tabs. ISBN 9781137372888 Hbk. £75) pp. 398-399

Clive Walker

Barry J. Eichengreen, Hall of mirrors: the Great Depression, the Great Recession and the uses and misuses of history ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. vi + 512. ISBN 9780199392001 Hbk. £20) pp. 399-400

Roger Middleton

Juliane Czierpka, Kathrin Oerters, and Nora Thorade eds., Regions, industries and heritage: perspectives on economy, society, and culture in modern western Europe ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xviii + 288. 20 figs. 6 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781137333407 Hbk. £60) pp. 400-402

Ian Donnachie

Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden, and Price Fishback eds., Housing and mortgage markets in historical perspective ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 496. 50 tabs. ISBN 9780226073842 Hbk. $110) pp. 402-403

Katharina Knoll and Moritz Schularick

Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz, Strained relations: US foreign-exchange operations and monetary policy in the twentieth century ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. x + 442. 74 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780226051482 Hbk. £68.50/$97.50) pp. 403-404

Paul Turner

Shu Guang Zhang, Beijing’s economic statecraft during the Cold War 1949–1991 ( Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 477. ISBN 9781421415833 Hbk. £90/$155) pp. 405-406

Xiaobing Wang

Bruce Smardon, Asleep at the switch: the political economy of federal research and development policy since 1960 ( Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 490. ISBN 9780773544277 Hbk. $110) pp. 406-407

Taylor Jaworski