The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2026

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Volume 86, issue 1, 2026

Institutions, Local Agency, and Allegiance: Healthcare Provision in Colonial India pp. 1-37

Jordi Caum-Julio

The Her in Inheritance: How Marriage Matching Has Always Mattered, Quebec 1800–1970 pp. 38-66

Matthew Curtis

How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century pp. 67-108

Elena Korchmina and Mikołaj Malinowski

How Britain Unified Germany: Trade Routes and the Formation of the Zollverein pp. 109-145

Thilo R. Huning and Nikolaus Wolf

Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno pp. 146-181

Giulio Cainelli, Carlo Ciccarelli and Roberto Ganau

Railroad Bailouts in the Great Depression pp. 182-217

Lyndon Moore and Gertjan Verdickt

The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach pp. 218-257

Rui Esteves, Seán Kenny and Jason Lennard

Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression pp. 258-286

Jason Lennard and Meredith M. Paker

Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st Centuries. Edited by Alberte Martínez-López, Jesús Mirás-Araujo, and Nuria Rodríguez-Martín. London and New York: Routledge (Explorations in Economic History), 2025. Pp. 216. £145.00, hardback pp. 296-298

Rodrigue Dossou-Cadja

Chicago Before the Fire: An Economic History. By Louis P. Cain. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2025. Pp. 304. $125.00, cloth; $29.95, paper; $14.95, eBook pp. 298-300

Jason Barr

An Economic History of India: Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century. By Bishnupriya Gupta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 234. $110.00, hardcover; $35.99, paperback; $35.99, digital pp. 300-302

Maria Bach

Volume 85, issue 4, 2025

Reconstructing History: Using Language to Estimate Religious Spread pp. 921-961

Arthur Blouin and Julian Dyer

It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending pp. 962-1000

Julia Cagé and Edgard Dewitte

Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility pp. 1001-1039

Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini

Firm Networks in the Great Depression pp. 1040-1065

Erik Loualiche, Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth

The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940 pp. 1066-1100

Christian Robles-Baez, Luis Fernando Medina and Marcelo Bucheli

Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe pp. 1101-1137

Evan Wigton-Jones

Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Late-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Manufacturing Firms pp. 1138-1169

Vinzent Ostermeyer

Financing Late Industrialization: Evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire pp. 1170-1206

Marvin Suesse and Theocharis Grigoriadis

Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin. By Jeronim Perović. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x, 250. £80.00, hardcover pp. 1211-1212

Marina Chuchko

Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Pp. 271. $45.00, hardcover; $45.00, eBook pp. 1212-1214

James Harrison

The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. $64.95, hardcover pp. 1214-1215

Edson Severnini

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID-19. By Sheilagh C. Ogilvie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. $45.00, hardcover pp. 1216-1217

Martin Saavedra

The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940—ADDENDUM pp. 1219-1219

Christian Robles-Baez, Luis Fernando Medina and Marcelo Bucheli

Volume 85, issue 3, 2025

International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908 pp. 617-663

Yannay Spitzer, Gaspare Tortorici and Ariell Zimran

Voting Rights and Media Sentiment: Evidence from Early Suffrage States pp. 664-700

Martin Saavedra

Large Fires and the Rise of Fire Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Japan pp. 701-729

Tetsuji Okazaki, Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl

The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal pp. 730-766

Davis Kedrosky and Nuno Palma

Lottery-Based Elections, Power Monopolization, and Urban Development: The Case of Swiss City-States, 1666–1794 pp. 767-805

Jonas M. Geweke and Katja Rost

Creating American Farmland: Governance Institutions and Investment in Agricultural Drainage pp. 806-843

Eric Edwards and Walter N. Thurman

Institutional Innovation and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam pp. 844-873

Thor Berger and Vinzent Ostermeyer

Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast pp. 874-913

Amanda Gregg and Anne Ruderman

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise. By Richard N. Langlois. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 816. $45.00 cloth pp. 915-916

Michela Giorcelli

The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 240. $40.00, cloth pp. 917-918

Sriya Anbil

The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression. By Jason E. Taylor. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. v, 274. $29.35, paper pp. 918-920

Todd Messer

Volume 85, issue 2, 2025

Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s pp. 303-335

Douglas A. Irwin

Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823 pp. 336-369

Ernesto Dal Bó, Karolina Hutková, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman

Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900 pp. 370-410

Carol H. Shiue

What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950 pp. 411-441

Erik Bengtsson and Jakob Molinder

Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression pp. 442-474

Kris James Mitchener and G Gary Richardson

Who Wins and Loses in a Bubble? Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania pp. 475-504

William Quinn and John Turner

Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development pp. 505-540

Stephen Broadberry and John Joseph Wallis

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 541-574

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting pp. 575-597

Anonymous

Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. By Carola Binder. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $35.00, cloth pp. 607-608

Andrew Jalil

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024. Pp. i.x, 320. $29.99, hardcover pp. 608-610

Vellore Arthi

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2024. Pp. 752. $23.86, hardcover pp. 611-612

Donn Feir

Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover pp. 612-614

Craig Palsson

One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850. By Christopher M. Meissner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 330. £64.00, cloth; £22.99, paper pp. 614-616

Markus Lampe

Volume 85, issue 1, 2025

The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation pp. 1-32

Tianyi Wang

Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India pp. 33-71

Guilhem Cassan, Lakshmi Iyer and Rinchan Ali Mirza

Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools pp. 72-109

A. R. Shariq Mohammed and Paul Mohnen

The Model T pp. 110-151

Shari Eli, Joshua Hausman and Paul W. Rhode

Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907 pp. 152-179

Matthew Jaremski and David Wheelock

The Irish in England pp. 180-214

Neil J. Cummins and Cormac Ó Gráda

The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846 pp. 215-249

Christopher David Absell

Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe pp. 250-286

Yuzuru Kumon

Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. By Daniel Waldenström. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95, hardcover pp. 296-297

Javier Mejia

A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access pp. 297-299

David González Agudo

The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy. By Jérôme Sgard. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Pp. 354. $165.00, hardcover pp. 299-302

Ugo Panizza