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Volume 68, month 11, 2015

Economic restructuring and demographic growth: demystifying growth and development in Northern Song China, 960–1127 pp. 1107-1131

Kent Deng and Lucy Zheng

Just add milk: a productivity analysis of the revolutionary changes in nineteenth-century Danish dairying pp. 1132-1153

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

The shift from sterling to the dollar, 1965–76: evidence from Australia and New Zealand pp. 1154-1176

John Singleton and Catherine Schenk

Market forces shaping human capital in eighteenth-century London pp. 1177-1202

Moshe Justman and Karine Beek

Information asymmetry and the speed of adjustment: debasements in the mid-sixteenth century pp. 1203-1225

Ling-Fan Li

Informational efficiency in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1931–40 pp. 1226-1249

Jean-Pascal Bassino and Thomas Lagoarde-Segot

Strategic colonies and economic development: real wages in Cyprus, Gibraltar, and Malta, 1836–1913 pp. 1250-1276

Paul Caruana-Galizia

Big push or big grab? Railways, government activism, and export growth in Latin America, 1865–1913 pp. 1277-1305

Vincent Bignon, Rui Esteves and Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

Modern secondary education and economic performance: the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria pp. 1306-1338

Alexandra Semrad

‘Eating the bread out of their mouth’: Antwerp's export trade and generalized institutions, 1544–5 pp. 1339-1364

Jeroen Puttevils

Yankee Doodle went to London: Anglo-American breweries and the London securities market, 1888–92 pp. 1365-1387

Mary A. O'Sullivan

Adam Lucas, Ecclesiastical lordship, seigneurial power and the commercialization of milling in medieval England ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xxii + 414. ISBN 9781409421962 Hbk. £90) pp. 1441-1442

Richard Holt

Mark Brayshay, Land travel and communications in Tudor and Stuart England: achieving a joined-up realm ( Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiv + 417. 71 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781846319501 Hbk. £80) pp. 1442-1443

Justin Colson

Martin Allen and D'Maris Coffman, eds., Money, prices and wages: essays in honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp xiv + 284. 38 figs. 51 tabs. ISBN 9781137394019 Hbk. £75) pp. 1443-1444

Judy Stephenson

Chris Briggs, P. M. Kitson, and S. J. Thompson, eds., Population, welfare and economic change in Britain, 1290–1834 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 345. 18 figs. 30 tabs. ISBN 9781843839552 Pbk. £25) pp. 1445-1446

David Hitchcock

William A. Pettigrew, Freedom's debt. The Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672–1752 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 262. ISBN 9781469611815 Hbk. $45) pp. 1446-1448

Nuala Zahedieh

Peter D. Wright, Life on the Tyne: water trades on the lower river Tyne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a reappraisal ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xviii + 199. 12 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781472426338 Hbk. £70) pp. 1448-1449

Andy Burn

Brian Bonnyman, The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: estate management and improvement in Enlightenment Scotland ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 218. 7 figs. ISBN 9780748642007 Hbk. £45) pp. 1449-1450

Michael Turner

Katie Barclay and Deborah Simonton, Women in eighteenth-century Scotland: intimate, intellectual and public lives ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiii + 288. 3 figs. 19 illus. 1 tab. ISBN 9781409450467 Hbk. £75) pp. 1450-1451

Nicola Cowmeadow

Alexander Mercer, Infections, chronic disease, and the epidemiological transition: a new perspective ( Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 338. 65 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781580465083 Hbk. £80) pp. 1452-1453

Martin Moore

Carl Griffin, Protest, politics and work in rural England ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xviii + 228. ISBN 9780230299672 Hbk. £60; Pbk. £20.99) pp. 1453-1455

Jeremy Burchardt

Ian Levitt, ed., Treasury control and public expenditure in Scotland, 1885–1979 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 277. ISBN 9780197265796 Hbk. £60) pp. 1455-1456

Jim Tomlinson

Peter Sloman, The Liberal party and the economy, 1929–1964 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvix + 281. ISBN 9780198723509 Hbk. £65) pp. 1456-1457

G. C. Peden

Brian Short, The battle of the fields: rural community and authority in Britain during the Second World War ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 468. 42 illus. 49 tabs. ISBN 9781843839378 Hbk. £75) pp. 1457-1458

Paul Brassley

William A. Allen, Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951–59 ( Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2014. Pp. xii + 287 30 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781137383815 Hbk. £70) pp. 1458-1460

Peter Scott

Richard C. Hoffman, An environmental history of medieval Europe ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 409. 27 figs. 13 maps. ISBN 9780521876964 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1460-1461

William Calvert

Matteo di Tullio, The wealth of communities: war, resources and cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xvi + 217. ISBN 9781472442468 Hbk. £70) pp. 1461-1462

Matthew Vester

Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite, Orpheus in the marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the economy of late Renaissance Florence ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 479. 25 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780674724648 Hbk. £36.95) pp. 1463-1464

Kelley Harness

Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly, Worthy efforts: attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe ( Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiv + 664. ISBN 9789004231436 Hbk. $179/€129) pp. 1464-1466

Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz

Jérôme Blanc and Ludovic Desmedt, eds., Les pensées monétaires dans l'histoire: l'Europe, 1517–1776 ( Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. Pp. 1057. 8 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9782812428630 Pbk. €39.00) pp. 1466-1467

Stefano Ugolini

Wenkai He, Paths toward the modern fiscal state: England, Japan, and China ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 313. 64 figs. 4 maps. 42 tabs. ISBN 9780674072787 Hbk. £40.95) pp. 1467-1468

Mark Dincecco

Gregory O'Malley, Final passages: the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619–1807 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. 416. 11 figs. 7 illus. 7 maps. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781469615349 Hbk. $45) pp. 1468-1469

Charles W. A. Prior

Michael Kwass, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the making of a global underground ( Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 457. ISBN 9780674726833 Hbk. £35) pp. 1469-1471

Evan Jones

Bethel Saler, The settlers' empire: colonialism and state formation in America's old northwest ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp 392. 10 figs. ISBN 9780812246636 Hbk. $45/£29.50) pp. 1471-1472

Max M. Edling

Eric L. Jones, Revealed biodiversity: an economic history of the human impact ( New Jersey: World Scientific, 2014. Pp. xvii + 257. ISBN 9789814522564 Hbk. £65/$99) pp. 1472-1473

Catherine Mills

Volker R. Berghahn, American big business in Britain and Germany: a comparative history of two ‘special relationships’ in the twentieth century ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. 392. ISBN 9780691161099 Hbk. £34.95) pp. 1473-1475

Ralf Banken

Eric Helleiner, Forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods: international development and the making of the postwar order ( Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 304. ISBN 9780801452758 Hbk. $39.95) pp. 1475-1476

Nathan Marcus

Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor, Packaged pleasures: how technology & marketing revolutionized desire ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780226121277 Hbk. $35/£24.50) pp. 1477-1478

Susan Bishop

Per Lundin and Thomas Kaiserfeld, eds., The making of modern European consumption: facing the American challenge ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xvi + 256. 23 figs. ISBN 9781137374035 Hbk. £60) pp. 1478-1479

John Benson

R. G. Stokes, R. Köster, and S. C. Sambrook, The business of waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 331. ISBN 9781107027213 Hbk. £65) pp. 1479-1480

Timothy Cooper

Gregory Clark, The son also rises. Surnames and the history of social mobility ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 364. 132 figs. 42 tabs. ISBN 9780691162546 Hbk. £19.95) pp. 1481-1482

Ineke Maas

Francesca Fauri, ed., The history of migration in Europe: perspectives from economics, politics and sociology ( Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xx + 282. 23 figs. 2 plates. 17 tabs. ISBN 9781138777835 Hbk. £90/$155) pp. 1482-1483

Timothy Hatton

Richard Roberts and David Kynaston, The lion wakes: a modern history of HSBC ( London: Profile Books, 2015. Pp. xvi + 768. ISBN 9781781250556 Hbk. £30) pp. 1483-1485

Leslie Hannah

Christopher Hood, David Heald, and Rozana Himaz, eds., When the party's over: the politics of fiscal squeeze in perspective ( Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2014. Pp. 277. ISBN 9780197265734 Hbk. £60) pp. 1485-1486

Geoffrey Wood

Geoffrey Hosking, Trust: a history ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. viii + 211. ISBN 9780198712381 Hbk. £25) pp. 1486-1487

Jeff Horn

Ben Ramalingam, Aid on the edge of chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex world ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780198728245 Hbk. £25) pp. 1487-1488

Andrew Jones

Volume 68, month 08, 2015

An irrevocable shift: detailing the dynamics of rural poverty in southern England, 1762–1834: a case study pp. 769-805

Henry French

Copper sheathing and the British slave trade pp. 806-829

Peter M. Solar and Klas Rönnbäck

Consumption conundrums unravelled pp. 830-857

Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries and Ken Sneath

Independent invention in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861–1913 pp. 858-886

Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta

Small-scale technologies and European coal mine safety, 1850–1900 pp. 887-910

John E. Murray and Javier Silvestre

Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain pp. 911-936

Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell, John Turner and Nadia Vanteeva

Does history matter? Colonial education investments in India pp. 937-961

Latika Chaudhary and Manuj Garg

The diffusion and impact of the corporation in 1910 pp. 962-984

James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah

The occupational attainment of migrants and natives in Barcelona, 1930 pp. 985-1015

Javier Silvestre, María-Isabel Ayuda and Vicente Pinilla

Rating the UK: the British government's sovereign credit ratings, 1976–8 pp. 1016-1037

David James Gill

‘The city has been wronged and abused!’: institutional corruption in the eighteenth century pp. 1038-1061

Mark Latham

Sally Harvey, Domesday: Book of Judgement ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi + 335. 7 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780199669783 Hbk. £35) pp. 1062-1063

Rory Naismith

Mark Bailey, The decline of serfdom in late medieval England: from bondage to freedom ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 373. 6 figs. 4 maps. 56 tabs. ISBN 9781843838906 Hbk. £60) pp. 1063-1064

John Langdon

Patrick Walsh, The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: money, banking and investment, 1690–1721 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 204. 2 figs. 1 plate. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781843839309 Hbk. £60) pp. 1064-1065

Helen Julia Paul

Kenneth Quickenden, Sally Baggott, and Malcolm Dick, eds., Matthew Boulton: enterprising industrialist of the Enlightenment ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xviii + 294. 26 illus. ISBN 9781409422181 Hbk. £79) pp. 1066-1067

George Selgin

Malcolm Chase, 1820: disorder and stability in the United Kingdom ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 247. 8 figs. ISBN 9780719087417 Hbk. £70) pp. 1067-1068

Carl J. Griffin

John Woodland, Money pits: British mining companies in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the 1850s ( Farham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Pp. xiii + 282. 39 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781471441796 Hbk. £70) pp. 1068-1069

Roger Burt

Richard W. Hoyle, ed., The farmer in England 1650–1980 ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Pp. xvi + 358. 51 figs. 28 tabs. ISBN 9781409439615 Hbk. £80) pp. 1070-1071

C. V. J. Griffiths

Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt, Revolutions from Grub Street: a history of magazine publishing in Britain ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 263. ISBN 9780199601639 Hbk. £35) pp. 1071-1072

Adrian Bingham

John D. Turner, Banking in crisis: the rise and fall of British banking stability 1800 to the present ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 253. 10 figs. 40 tabs. ISBN 9781107609860 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 1072-1073

Mark Billings

Nicholas H. Dimsdale and Anthony Hotson, eds., British financial crises since 1825 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 210. 38 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 8780199688661 Hbk. £55) pp. 1073-1075

Roger Middleton

Jim Tomlinson, Dundee and the Empire: ‘Juteopolis’ 1850–1939 ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 222. 12 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9780748686148 Hbk. £70) pp. 1075-1076

Sally Tuckett

Robert E. Forrester, British mail steamers to South America, 1851–1965 ( Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 9781472416612 Hbk. £63) pp. 1076-1077

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Georgina Brewis, A social history of student volunteering: Britain and beyond, 1880–1980 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xiv + 263. 5 figs. ISBN 9781137370136 Hbk. £60) pp. 1077-1078

Alison Penn

Benjamin Coombs, British tank production and the war economy, 1939–1945 ( London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Pp. x + 198. 6 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781472505040 Hbk. £64.99) pp. 1079-1080

Niall Barr

Peter Medway, John Hardcastle, Georgina Brewis, and David Crook, English teachers in a postwar democracy: emerging choice in London schools, 1945–1965 ( London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xix + 243. 8 figs. ISBN 99781137005137 Hbk. £55) pp. 1080-1081

Heather Ellis

Louise A. Jackson with Angela Bartie, Policing youth: Britain, 1945–70 ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. Pp. 240. 5 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780719081781 Hbk. £65) pp. 1081-1082

John Carter Wood

Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., The Cambridge history of capitalism, volume 1, the rise of capitalism: from ancient origins to 1848 ( Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 616. 30 figs. 5 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781107019638 Hbk. £85/$130) pp. 1083-1084

Howard Brick

Mark C. Bartusis, Land and privilege in Byzantium: the institution of pronoia ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 697. 9 figs. 5 maps. 22 tabs. 9781107009622 Hbk. £100) pp. 1084-1086

Peter Frankopan

Rory Naismith, Martin Allen, and Elina Screen, Early medieval monetary history: studies in memory of Mark Blackburn ( Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Pp. xxiv + 646. 104 figs. 10 plates. 54 tabs. ISBN 9781409456681 Hbk. £90) pp. 1086-1087

N. J. Mayhew

Daniel R. Curtis, Coping with crisis: the resilience and vulnerability of pre-industrial settlements ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xx + 381. 48 figs. 29 tabs. ISBN 9781472420046 Hbk. £80) pp. 1087-1088

Grenville Astill

Jeff Flynn-Paul, ed., War, entrepreneurs and the state in Europe and the Mediterranean 1300–1800 ( Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xii + 356. 4 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004243644 Hbk. €168) pp. 1088-1089

Patrick K. O'brien

Pierre Gervais, Yannick Lemarchand, and Dominique Margairaz, eds., Merchants and profit in the age of commerce, 1680–1830 ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014. Pp. xvi + 228. 5 figs. 15 tabs. 1 map. ISBN 9781848934825 Hbk. £60) pp. 1089-1091

Gelina Harlaftis

Sean Stilwell, Slavery and slaving in African history ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. pp. xvi + 223. 13 figs. ISBN 9780521171885 Pbk. £18.99) pp. 1091-1092

Klas Rönnbäck

Justin Roberts, Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. pp. xiv + 351, 31 figs. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781107025851 Hbk. £65/US$99) pp. 1092-1093

Simon P. Newman

Manuela Albertone, National identity and the agrarian republic: the transatlantic commerce of ideas between America and France (1750–1830) ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. x + 324. 9781472421364 Hbk. £75) pp. 1093-1095

Liana Vardi

Martin Ruef, Between slavery and capitalism: the legacy of emancipation in the American South ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. 285. 27 tabs. 31 illus. ISBN 9780691162775 Hbk. $35/£24.95) pp. 1095-1096

Peter A. Coclanis

Ronnie J. Phillips, ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. I: building and loan associations ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xxxiii + 267. ISBN 9781848932944a Hbk. £275, vols. 1–3 ) Ronnie J. Phillips, ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. II: provident loan societies ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. x + 299. ISBN 9781848932944b Hbk. £275, vols. 1–3 ) Ronnie J. Phillips, ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. III: savings banks and Morris Plan financial institutions ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. x + 319. ISBN 9781848932944c Hbk. £275, vols. 1–3 ) Ronnie J. Phillips, ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. IV: domestic exchanges ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii + 336. ISBN 9781848932951a Hbk. £275, vols. 4–6 ) Ronnie J. Phillips, ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. V: non-par banking ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xix + 364. ISBN 9781848932951b Hbk. £275, vols. 4–6 ) Ronnie J. Phillips, ed., US credits and payments, 1800–1935, vol. VI: central banking ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xix + 364. ISBN 9781848932951c Hbk. £275, vols. 4–6 ) pp. 1096-1098

Natacha Postel-Vinay

Ajay K. Mehrotra, Making the modern American fiscal state: law, politics, and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877–1929 ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 429. 9 tabs. 2 charts. 8 illus. ISBN 9781107043923 Hbk. £60) Gail Radford, The rise of the public authority: statebuilding and economic development in twentieth-century America ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 218. 8 figs. ISBN 9780226037691 Pbk. £19.50) pp. 1098-1100

Joel Isaac

Noel Maurer, The empire trap: the rise and fall of US intervention to protect American property overseas, 1893–2013 ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 568. ISBN 9780691155821 Pbk. $39.50) pp. 1101-1102

Marcelo Bucheli

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein, The economic and social history of Brazil since 1889 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi + 439. 163 figs. 5 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107616585 Pbk. £19.99/US$32.99) pp. 1102-1103

Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer, American railroads: Decline and renaissance in the twentieth century ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 506. ISBN 9780674725645 Hbk. £40.95) pp. 1103-1104

Andrew Odlyzko

Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Lobbying America: the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA ( Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 345. ISBN 9780691149165 Hbk. £27.95) pp. 1105-1106

Scott H. Ainsworth

Volume 68, month 05, 2015

Editorial: Women in economic and social history: twenty-fifth anniversary of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society pp. E1-E17

Helen Paul

Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective pp. 399-419

Osamu Saito

Dealing with drainage: state regulation of drainage projects in the Dutch Republic, France, and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries pp. 420-440

Piet Cruyningen

‘To help keep the home going’: female labour supply in interwar London pp. 441-470

Jessica S. Bean

Bloody foreigners! Overseas equity on the London Stock Exchange, 1869–1929 pp. 471-521

Richard Grossman

Urban growth and change in 1940s Southeast Asia pp. 522-547

Gregg Huff and Gillian Huff

A global corporate census: publicly traded and close companies in 1910 pp. 548-573

Leslie Hannah

Share portfolios in the early years of financial capitalism: London, 1690–1730 pp. 574-599

Ann Carlos, Erin Fletcher and Larry Neal

Hunger games: or how the Allied blockade in the First World War deprived German children of nutrition, and Allied food aid subsequently saved them pp. 600-631

Mary Elisabeth Cox

Numeracy of Africans, Asians, and Europeans during the early modern period: new evidence from Cape Colony court registers pp. 632-656

Joerg Baten and Johan Fourie

British working-class household composition, labour supply, and commercial leisure participation during the 1930s pp. 657-682

Peter Scott, James Walker and Peter Miskell

The inequality trap. A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1930 pp. 683-706

Sergio Espuelas

Fertility, social class, gender, and the professional model: statistical explanation and historical significance pp. 707-722

Simon Szreter

Richard Britnell, ed., Durham Priory manorial accounts 1277–1310 ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. lxxiv+379. ISBN 9780854440733 Hbk. £50) pp. 723-724

A. T. Brown

Peter Coss and Joan C. Lancaster Lewis, eds., Coventry Priory Register ( Bristol: Dugdale Society, 2013. Pp. 723. ISBN 978085220096 Hbk. £35) pp. 724-725

Miriam Müller

Spencer Dimmock, The origin of capitalism in England, 1400–1600 ( Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2014. Pp. vii+399. ISBN 9789004271098 Hbk. €129/US$167) pp. 725-726

Stephen H. Rigby

Kimberly Schutte, Women, rank and marriage in the British aristocracy, 1485–2000. An open elite? ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xi+290. 9 tabs. 9 illus. ISBN 9781137327796 Hbk. £60) pp. 726-727

Jackie Collier

Jane A. Lawson, ed., The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges 1559–1603 ( Oxford University Press: British Academy, 2013. Pp. 739. ISBN 9780197265260 Hbk. £140) pp. 728-729

Judith Spicksley

Guy Lawton, ed., Church Lawton Manor Court Rolls, 1631–1860 ( Lancaster: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 2013. Pp. lxii+297. ISBN 9780902593824 Hbk. £30) pp. 729-729

Carol Beardmore

Tim Reinke-Williams, Women, work and sociability in early modern London ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. viii+225. ISBN 9781137372093 Hbk. £60) pp. 730-731

Jennifer Evans

L. M. Cullen, John Shovlin, and Thomas M. Truxes, eds., The Bordeaux–Dublin letters, 1757: correspondence of an Irish community abroad ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxvi+330. 5 maps. 12 plates. ISBN 9780197265628 Hbk. £70) pp. 731-732

Patrick Walsh

Desmond Shawe-Taylor ed., The first Georgians: art & monarchy 1714–1760 ( London: Royal Collection Trust, 2014. Pp. 495. ISBN 9781905686797 Hbk. £29.95) pp. 732-733

Sally Holloway

Christopher J. Berry, Maria Paganelli, and Craig Smith, eds., The Oxford handbook of Adam Smith ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 656. ISBN 9780199605064 Hbk. £100) pp. 733-735

Jerry Evensky

Nigel Goose and Katrina Honeyman, eds., Childhood and child labour in industrial England: diversity and agency, 1750–1914 ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xii+358. 1 fig. 28 tabs. ISBN 9781409411147 Hbk. £75) pp. 735-736

Carolyn Tuttle

Carolyn Steedman, An everyday life of the English working class: work, self and sociability in the early nineteenth century ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+298. 8 illus. 2 tabs. ISBN 9781107046214 Pbk. £19.99/US$32.99; Hbk. £55/US$90) pp. 736-737

Andrew August

John F. Wilson, Anthony Webster, and Rachel Vorberg-Rugh, Building co-operation. A business history of the Co-operative Group, 1863–2013 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xv+440. 131 figs. 26 tabs. 20 plates. ISBN 9780199655113 Hbk. £30) pp. 737-739

Peter Gurney

Cathy Hunt, The National Federation of Women Workers, 1906–1921 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. vi+240. ISBN 9781137033536 Hbk. £60) pp. 739-740

Sarah Hellawell

Stephanie Ward, Unemployment and the state in Britain: the means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi+292. 2 maps. 3 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9780719086809 Hbk. £65) pp. 740-741

Chris Wrigley

Joseph R. Cammarosano, John Maynard Keynes: free trader or protectionist? ( Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780739189511 Hbk. £51.95) pp. 741-742

Douglas Irwin

John Belchem, Before the Windrush: race relations in 20th-century Liverpool ( Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi+298. 16 illus. 1 map. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781781380000 Pbk. £19.99) pp. 742-743

Mick Wilkinson

Duncan Needham, UK monetary policy from devaluation to Thatcher, 1967–82 ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xiii+253. ISBN 9781137342249 Hbk. £70) pp. 743-745

Anthony Hotson

Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel, eds., Explaining monetary and financial innovation: a historical analysis ( Springer, 2014. Pp. vi+366. ISBN 9783319061085 Hbk. €121) pp. 745-746

Forrest Capie

Niv Horesh, Chinese money in global context: historical junctures between 600CE and 2012 ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii+364. 8 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780804788540 Hbk. $65) pp. 746-747

Wenkai He

Patricia Skinner, Medieval Amalfi and its diaspora, c. 800–1250 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xix+280. ISBN 9780199646272 Hbk. £65) pp. 747-748

David Abulafia

Joel Kaye, A history of balance, 1250–1375: the emergence of a new model of equilibrium and its impact on thought ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix+519. 6 plates. ISBN 9781107028456 Hbk. £65) pp. 748-750

Joseph Canning

Guido Alfani, Calamities and the economy in Renaissance Italy: the grand tour of the horsemen of the apocalypse ( Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xii+257. 19 figs. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781137289766 Hbk. £63) pp. 750-751

Jane Stevens Crawshaw

William Hogeland, Founding finance: how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation ( Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. Pp. vii+274. 16 illus. ISBN 9780292743618 Hbk. $20) pp. 751-752

Richard Sylla

Lars Maischak, German merchants in the nineteenth-century Atlantic ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii+295. 7 figs. 3 maps. 14 tabs. ISBN 9781107017290 Hbk. £60) pp. 752-753

Esther Sahle

Larry Haeg, Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street's great railroad war ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Pp. xvi+375. ISBN 9780816683642 Hbk. £22.50) pp. 754-755

Andrew Odlyzko

Drew Keeling, The business of transatlantic migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914 ( Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2012. Pp. xx+345. ISBN 9783034011525 Hbk. $44) pp. 755-756

David Fitzpatrick

Michael R. Yogg, Passion for reality: the extraordinary life of the investing pioneer Paul Cabot ( New York and Chichester, Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiii+296. 7 tabs. 11 illus. ISBN 9780231167468 Hbk. £19.95) pp. 756-758

Janice Traflet

Geoffrey C. Gunn, Rice wars in colonial Vietnam: the great famine and the Viet Minh road to power ( Lanham, MD, and Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Pp. xix+323. 2 figs. 3 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781442223028 Hbk. £54.95/$89) pp. 758-759

Gregg Huff

Jean-Christian Vinel, The employee: a political history ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 293. ISBN 9780812245240 Hbk. £31) pp. 759-760

Andrew Seltzer

Hartmut Berghoff and Uta Andrea Balbier, eds., The East German economy, 1945–2010. Falling behind or catching up? ( Washington, DC: Publications of the German Historical Institute, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 249. ISBN 9781107030138 Hbk. $90) pp. 761-762

Mathieu Denis

Matthew T. Huber, Lifeblood: oil, freedom, and the forces of capital ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Pp. xxi+253. 27 illus. ISBN 9780816677856 Pbk. £25) pp. 762-763

Christopher F. Jones

Michael F. Lofchie, The political economy of Tanzania: decline and recovery ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. xii+265. ISBN 9780812245905 Hbk. £39) pp. 763-764

Ellen Hillbom

Morten Jerven, Economic growth and measurement reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, 1965–1995 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii+215. 12 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9780199689910 Hbk. £55) pp. 764-766

Jutta Bolt

Stijn Claessens, M. Ayhan Kose, Luc Laeven, and Fabián Valencia, eds., Financial crises: causes, consequences and policy response ( Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2014. Pp. xxxii+635. ISBN 9781475543407 Hbk. $40) pp. 766-767

Christopher Colvin

Volume 68, month 02, 2015

The high wage economy and the industrial revolution: a restatement pp. 1-22

Robert Allen

Unskilled wage gaps within the Japanese Empire pp. 23-47

Myung Soo Cha

The making of a fiscal state in Song China, 960–1279 pp. 48-78

William Guanglin Liu

Did Muhammad Ali foster industrialization in early nineteenth-century Egypt? pp. 79-100

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Urban working-class food consumption and nutrition in Britain in 1904 pp. 101-122

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

Regional GDP in the UK, 1861–1911: new estimates pp. 123-144

Frank Geary and Tom Stark

Is there anything real about real wages? A history of the official British cost of living index, 1914–62 pp. 145-166

Rebecca Searle

The sixteenth-century price rise: new evidence from Scotland, 1500–85 pp. 167-190

Amy Blakeway

Coping with regional inequality in Sweden: structural change, migrations, and policy, 1860–2000 pp. 191-217

Kerstin Enflo and Joan Rosés

Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or …)? pp. 218-243

Michael D. Bordo, Angela Redish and Hugh Rockoff

The compulsory public pension and the demand for life insurance: the case of Sweden, 1884–1914 pp. 244-263

Lars-Fredrik Andersson and Liselotte Eriksson

Riding a wave: the Company's role in the South Sea Bubble pp. 264-285

Richard A. Kleer

Review of periodical literature published in 2013 pp. 286-353

Michael Costen, Philip Slavin, Helen Paul, Patrick Walsh, Tom Crook, Aashish Velkar and Christopher Godden

D. M. Palliser, Medieval York, 600–1540 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 332. 8 maps. 19 illus. ISBN 9780199255849 Hbk. £45) pp. 354-355

Robert Braid

Emilie Amt, ed., The Latin cartulary of Godstow Abbey ( London: British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xliii + 503. ISBN 9780197265581 Hbk. £100.00) pp. 355-356

Steven Biddlecombe

Alan Rogers, ed., The wardens: managing a late medieval hospital. Browne's Hospital, Stamford, 1495–1518 ( Bury St Edmunds: Stamford and District Local History Society, 2013. Pp. 367. 4 illus. ISBN 9781845495992. Pbk. £25) pp. 356-357

Carole Rawcliffe

Carole Rawcliffe, Urban bodies: communal health in late medieval English towns and cities ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 431. 28 illus. 4 maps. ISBN 9781843838364 Hbk. £60) pp. 357-359

Anne M. Scott

Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Poor relief and community in Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1547–1600 ( Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 187. 5 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9781907396922 Pbk. £18.99; Hbk. £35) pp. 359-359

David Hitchcock

Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, and John Walter, eds., Remaking English society: social relations and social change in early modern England ( Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 371. 9 figs. 1 illus. 6 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781843837961 Hbk. £60) pp. 360-361

Mark Hailwood

A. W. Ager, Crime and poverty in 19th-century England: the economy of makeshifts ( London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 197. 5 figs. ISBN 9781441155085 Hbk. £65) pp. 361-362

David J. Cox

Leslie Rosenthal, The river pollution dilemma in Victorian England: nuisance law versus economic efficiency ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xiv + 253. 10 maps. ISBN 9781409441823 Hbk. £75) pp. 363-364

Christopher Hamlin

Peter Bysouth, Small but flourishing: towns of north-east Hertfordshire's extra-urban matrix ( Cambridge: EAH Press, 2013. ISBN 9780956038456 Pbk. £15) pp. 364-365

Friedrich Newman

Mark C. Nolan, Keynes in Dublin: exploring the 1933 Finlay Lecture ( Cork: Maurice Sweeney Editorial and Publishing Services, 2013. Pp. i + 210. ISBN 9781908378187 Hbk. £25) pp. 365-366

Mel Farrell

Jan Toporowski, Michal Kalecki: an intellectual biography: volume I: rendezvous in Cambridge 1899–1939 ( Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 200. ISBN 9780230211865 Hbk. £60) pp. 366-367

Susan Howson

Caitríona Beaumont, Housewives and citizens. Domesticity and the women's movement in England, 1928–64 ( Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 244. ISBN 978071908607 Hbk. £65) pp. 367-369

Lucy Delap

Andy Bielenberg and Raymond Ryan, An economic history of Ireland since independence ( London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xxii + 282. 59 tabs. ISBN 9780415566940 Hbk. £85.00) pp. 369-370

Charles Read

James Hinton, The Mass Observers: a history, 1937–1949. ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 401. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780199671045 Hbk. £31) pp. 370-371

Hester Barron

Leonie V. Hicks and Elma Brenner, eds., Society and culture in medieval Rouen, 911–1300 ( Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013. Pp. xiv + 400. 23 figs. 11 maps. 1 tabs. ISBN 9782503536651 Hbk. €100/$124) pp. 372-373

Constance B. Bouchard

Gérard Béaur, Phillipp R. Schofield, Jean-Michel Chevet, and María Teresa Pérez Picazo, eds., Property rights, land markets and economic growth in the European countryside ( Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013. Pp. 535. 46 figs. 62 tabs. ISBN 9782503529554 Pbk. £74.65) pp. 373-374

Guido Alfani

Andea Caracausi and Christof Jeggle, eds., Commercial networks and European cities, 1400–1800. ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014. Pp. xvi + 306. 33 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9781848934504 Hbk. £60) pp. 374-375

Claudio Marsilio

Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun, the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. 352. 9 illus. 2 maps. ISBN 9780231164283 Hbk. £38/$55) pp. 375-377

Leonard Blussé

Ulrich Theobald, War finance and logistics in late Imperial China, a study of the second Jinchuan campaign (1771–1776) ( Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 268. 9 illus. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004253100 Hbk. €103) pp. 377-378

Kent G. Deng

Göran Rydén, ed., Sweden in the eighteenth-century world: provincial cosmopolitans ( Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xiv + 355. ISBN 9781409465881 Hbk. £67.50) pp. 378-380

Patrik Winton

Margaret C. Jacob, The first knowledge economy: human capital and the European economy, 1750–1850 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 257. 11 figs. 2 maps. ISBN 9781107619838 Pbk. £19.99; Hbk. £55) pp. 380-381

Emma Griffin

Andrew B. Arnold, Fueling the Gilded Age: railroads, miners and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country ( New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 288. ISBN 9780814764985 Hbk. £33) pp. 381-382

Paul A. Shackel

Robert MacDougall, The people's network: the political economy of the telephone in the gilded age ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 344. 11 figs. ISBN 9780812245691 Hbk. £36/$55) pp. 382-383

Claude S. Fischer

Walter A. Friedman, Fortune tellers. The story of America's first economic forecasters ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 273. ISBN 9780691159119 Hbk. £19.95) pp. 383-384

John Turner

Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara, eds., Labour-intensive industrialization in global history ( London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xiv + 310. 15 figs. 1 map. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780415455527 Hbk. £80/$150) pp. 385-386

Knick Harley

Robert E. Wright, Corporation nation ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 317. 6 illus. ISBN 9780812245646 Hbk. £45.50) pp. 386-387

James Taylor

Raymond Dumett, Imperialism, economic development and social change in West Africa ( Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 538. 14 figs. ISBN 9781594609763 Pbk. US$65) pp. 387-388

Ruth Rempel

Ralph Jessen and Lydia Langer, eds., Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xvi + 234. 6 tabs. 17 figs. ISBN 97814094244444 Hbk. £65.00) pp. 388-389

Jan-Otmar Hesse

Judith Devlin and Hendrick Müller, eds., War of words: culture and the mass media in the making of the Cold War in Europe ( University College Dublin Press: Dublin, 2013. Pp. xiv + 226. ISBN 9781906359379 Hbk. £60) pp. 389-391

Tony Shaw

W. R. Garside, Japan's great stagnation: forging ahead, falling behind ( Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. pp. viii + 219. 8 figs. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781783475070 Pbk. £25) pp. 391-392

Roger Middleton

Claudia Kedar, The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: the Argentine puzzle in context ( Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 251. ISBN 9781439909096 Hbk. $74.50) pp. 392-393

Colin M. Lewis

Ruslan Dzarasov, The conundrum of Russian capitalism ( London: PlutoPress, 2014. Pp. x + 294. ISBN 9780745332789 Pbk. $145.00) pp. 393-395

Anders Aslund

Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting, ed., Natural disaster and reconstruction in Asian economies ( New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xvi + 222. 3 figs. 13 illus. ISBN 9781137374936 Hbk. £69) pp. 395-396

Hyungguen Park

Arvid Lukauskas, Robert Stern, and Gianni Zanini, eds., Handbook of trade policy for development ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxi + 986. 67 tabs. 114 figs. ISBN 9780199680405 Hbk. £125) pp. 396-397

Lucia Coppolaro

Floris Heukelom, Behavioral economics: a history ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 233. ISBN 9781107039346 Hbk. £55/$90) pp. 397-398

Helen Julia Paul