The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2024

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Volume 84, issue 4, 2024

Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records pp. 963-996

William J. Collins, Nicholas Holtkamp and Marianne H. Wanamaker

Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s pp. 997-1028

Stephen Broadberry and Elena Korchmina

Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011 pp. 1029-1065

Pablo Astorga

Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia pp. 1067-1106

Javier Mejia

Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era pp. 1107-1141

Mohamed Saleh

Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911 pp. 1143-1173

Ziming Zhu

Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate” pp. 1175-1207

Thor Berger and Erik Prawitz

The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change pp. 1209-1239

Sonia Schifano and Antoine Paccoud

Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 300. $87.56, hardcover pp. 1244-1246

Coşkun Tunçer

The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency. By Oliver Volckart. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. $39.99, hardcover pp. 1247-1249

Michael Schiltz

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. By Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. £22.99, paper; £70.00, cloth pp. 1249-1250

Stefano Ugolini

Volume 84, issue 3, 2024

Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance pp. 655-689

Avner Greif and Jared Rubin

State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China pp. 690-726

Joy Chen

Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940 pp. 727-766

Ariell Zimran

The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912 pp. 767-806

Thomas Pastore

Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand pp. 807-837

Christopher Paik and Jessica Vechbanyongratana

Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England pp. 838-873

Domenico Rossignoli and Federico Trombetta

The Great Depression as a Savings Glut pp. 874-916

Victor Degorce and Eric Monnet

Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971 pp. 917-952

Maylis Avaro

Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover pp. 953-954

Suresh Naidu

El Pan Nuestro: A History of the Corn Tortilla. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato Freer. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 2024. Pp. 610, il. $25 pp. 954-956

Aldo Musacchio

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. By Chris Miller. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 464. $32.00, hardcover pp. 956-959

Kenneth Flamm

Volume 84, issue 2, 2024

Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor pp. 319-351

Jane Humphries

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office pp. 352-394

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Dylan Shane Connor

Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages pp. 395-431

Chicheng Ma

Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World pp. 432-478

Federico Etro

The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe pp. 479-516

Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama

Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities pp. 517-553

Felix Schaff

Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980 pp. 554-592

Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 593-627

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting pp. 628-645

Anonymous

Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle. By Cédric Quertier. Rome, Italy: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. xiv, 600. 35€ pp. 652-653

Juliette Françoise

The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper pp. 653-654

Christopher Colvin

Volume 84, issue 1, 2024

Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia pp. 1-39

Pier Paolo Creanza

Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas pp. 40-73

Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller and Carlos Sanz

Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility pp. 74-110

Mary Kopriva

Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan pp. 111-148

Kota Ogasawara

Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911) pp. 149-190

Monica Bozzano, Gabriele Cappelli and Michelangelo Vasta

Sovereign Collateral pp. 191-231

Marc Flandreau, Stefano Pietrosanti and Carlotta E. Schuster

Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act pp. 232-270

Giovanni Facchini, Timothy Hatton and Max Steinhardt

Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data pp. 271-306

Andreas Ferrara, Joung Yeob Ha and Randall Walsh

Financial Innovation and Resilience: A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462–1808). Edited by Lilia Costabile and Larry Neal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xix, 372. €155.99, hardcover; €93.08, eBook pp. 315-317

Maria Stella Chiaruttini

Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. By Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 258. $32.50, cloth. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82368-3 pp. 317-318

Alberto Tena Camporesi

Volume 83, issue 4, 2023

The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990 pp. 943-980

Faustine Perrin, Tobias Karlsson and Joris Kok

Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution pp. 981-1017

Liang Bai and Lingwei Wu

The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s pp. 1019-1056

Price Fishback, Jessica LaVoice, Allison Shertzer and Randall Walsh

Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France pp. 1057-1100

Louis Rouanet and Ennio E. Piano

Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748 pp. 1101-1137

Meredith M. Paker, Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis

Railways, Development, and Literacy in India pp. 1139-1174

Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske

The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach pp. 1175-1220

Robert Allen

The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review pp. 1221-1252

Mark Kanazawa

The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 300. £75.00, hardcover pp. 1257-1258

Didac Queralt

Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. £65.00, hardcover pp. 1258-1261

Marc Morgan

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870. By Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 1107. $195.00, hardcover; $99.99, paper pp. 1261-1263

Jérome Sgard

How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. By Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. Medford: Polity Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 259. $24.95, paper pp. 1264-1265

Esteban Nicolini

Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1266-1266

A’Hearn, Brian and Valeria Rueda

Volume 83, issue 3, 2023

Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation pp. 645-675

Richard Hornbeck

The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament pp. 676-708

Kara Dimitruk

State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949 pp. 709-746

Craig Palsson

Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy pp. 747-785

A’Hearn, Brian and Valeria Rueda

Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South pp. 786-832

Andreas Ferrara and Patrick Testa

British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data pp. 833-873

Alessandro Nuvolari, Gaspare Tortorici and Michelangelo Vasta

Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century pp. 874-911

Abe de Jong, Tim Kooijmans and Peter Koudijs

We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years pp. 912-938

Timothy Guinnane

Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations. By Christina Lubinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. £75.00, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-316-51128-2 pp. 939-940

Sabine Pitteloud

El Nacimiento de la Banca en América Latina: Finanzas y Política en el Siglo XIX. By Carlos Marichal. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 508, MX$350 pp. 941-942

Sebastian Alvarez

Volume 83, issue 2, 2023

The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492 pp. 319-358

Ann Carlos

Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act pp. 359-397

Jean Lacroix, Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Kim Oosterlinck

The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition pp. 398-430

Cihan Artunç

Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State pp. 431-463

Thor Berger, Per Engzell, Björn Eriksson and Jakob Molinder

The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England pp. 464-500

Vincent Delabastita and Sebastiaan Maes

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy pp. 501-537

Nicola Bianchi and Michela Giorcelli

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence pp. 538-571

Trevon Logan

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 573-611

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting pp. 613-631

Anonymous

The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. v, 453. $45.00, hardcover pp. 641-642

Taylor Jaworski

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover pp. 642-644

Nicolas L. Ziebarth

Volume 83, issue 1, 2023

Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital pp. 1-44

Heyu Xiong and Yiling Zhao

Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907 pp. 45-85

David Escamilla-Guerrero and Moramay López-Alonso

Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California pp. 87-130

Todd Messer

Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain pp. 131-165

Michael Aldous, Philip T. Fliers and John Turner

Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany pp. 167-202

Christoph Koenig

Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France pp. 203-241

Adrien Montalbo

Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660 pp. 242-274

Sean Bottomley

Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria pp. 275-308

Florian Ploeckl

Ibicaba (1817–1927): Entendendo, Vivendo e Construindo Futuros. Bruno Gabriel Witzel and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal (Orgs.). Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2021. Pp. 471; $17.50 pp. 316-316

Aldo Musacchio

An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover pp. 317-318

Gianandrea Nodari