The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 70, issue 4, 2010

Covered Farm Mortgage Bonds in the United States During the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 783-812

Kenneth Snowden

The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: A Reconstruction of Castile's Fiscal Position, 1566–1596 pp. 813-842

Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth

Hoover's Truce: Wage Rigidity in the Onset of the Great Depression pp. 843-870

Jonathan D. Rose

The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why? pp. 871-897

Barry Eichengreen and Douglas Irwin

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Sewing Machine Industry pp. 898-920

Ryan Lampe and Petra Moser

The Transfer of Patents in Imperial Germany pp. 921-939

Carsten Burhop

Accounting for the Traffic in Africans: Transport Costs on Slaving Voyages pp. 940-963

David Eltis, Frank Lewis and Kimberly McIntyre

Productivity, Discrimination, and Lost Profits During Baseball's Integration pp. 964-988

Jonathan A. Lanning

The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1850. By Joel Mokyr. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 564. $45.00, cloth pp. 993-995

Jack Goldstone

An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500. By Steven A. Epstein. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2009. Pp.xi, 290. $85.00, hardback; $28.99, paper pp. 995-996

Adrian Bell

Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe Since 1870. Edited by Pedro Lains and Vicente Pinilla. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xviii, 407. $170.00, hardcover pp. 996-998

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. By G. C. Peden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 384. $99.00, cloth pp. 998-1000

Jari Eloranta

Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. By Gene Dattel. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. Pp. xiv, 416. $28.95 pp. 1000-1001

Peter A. Coclanis

Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War. By Andrew McIlwaine Bell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 192. $29.95, cloth pp. 1002-1003

Carl Kitchens

Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts. By William A. Fischel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xi, 298. $55.00 pp. 1003-1005

Sun Go

Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s–1990s. By Lillian M. Li. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 520. $75.00 pp. 1005-1006

Kent G. Deng

The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative History of Modern Japan. By Penelope Francks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 249. $32.99, paper pp. 1006-1008

John Ramseyer

Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in Peru. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. By Alfonso W. Quiroz. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2008. Pp. xxii, 514. $65.00, cloth; $30.00, paper pp. 1008-1009

Catalina Vizcarra

Argentine Railways: Seven Papers on Their Economics and History. By Sylvester Damus. Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 2008. Pp. x, 186. $49.00 pp. 1010-1011

Dan Bogart

Volume 70, issue 3, 2010

National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878–1933 pp. 535-566

Gary Saxonhouse and Gavin Wright

Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans pp. 567-592

Dora Costa

Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500–1914 pp. 593-629

Kıvanç Karaman and Sevket Pamuk

Asymmetric Information, Market Power, and the Underpricing of New Stock Issues in Germany, 1882–1892 pp. 630-656

Caroline Fohlin

Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization pp. 657-685

Michael Huberman and Christopher Meissner

Risk, Incentives, and Contracts: Partnerships in Rio de Janeiro, 1870–1891 pp. 686-715

Ran Abramitzky, Zephyr Frank and Aprajit Mahajan

Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late-Eighteenth-Century France pp. 716-743

Guillaume Daudin

Crossover Inventions and Knowledge Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies: Evidence from the Electrical Technology pp. 744-764

Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. By Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. $35.00 pp. 766-768

Marc Weidenmier

Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians. Edited by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson. New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 491. $144.00, cloth pp. 769-770

Robert Whaples

Natural Experiments in History. Edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 2, 278. $29.95 pp. 770-772

Robert Margo

The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times. Edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 566. $49.50 pp. 772-773

Peter Temin

Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century. By Chris Evans and Göran Rydén. Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xvi, 360. $129.00 pp. 773-775

Philipp Robinson Rössner

The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 317. $99.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 775-777

Anne E. C. McCants

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship, Volume 1, to 1865 (Second Edition). By Juliet E. K. Walker. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv, 405. $24.95, paper pp. 777-778

Vicki Bogan

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790–1865. By Ross Thompson. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 432. $68.00 pp. 778-780

Alan Olmstead

The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good. By John Lauritz Larson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 222. $20.99, paper pp. 780-782

Eric Hilt

Volume 70, issue 2, 2010

Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains pp. 265-286

Richard Steckel

Consumption, Social Capital, and the “Industrious Revolution” in Early Modern Germany pp. 287-325

Sheilagh Ogilvie

The Procyclical Behavior of Total Factor Productivity in the United States, 1890–2004 pp. 326-350

Alexander Field

Railways and Price Convergence in British India pp. 351-377

Tahir Andrabi and Michael Kuehlwein

Land Conflicts, Property Rights, and the Rise of the Export Economy in Colombia, 1850–1925 pp. 378-399

Fabio Sanchez Torres, María del Pilar López-Uribe and Antonella Fazio

Real Wages and Labor Productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871–1938: A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards pp. 400-427

Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop

Race, Literacy, and Real Estate Transactions in the Postbellum South pp. 428-445

Neil Canaday and Charles Reback

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 482-498

Anonymous

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 499-503

Anonymous

Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France: Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674–1715. By Darryl Dee. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2009. Pp. xi, 245. $80.00 pp. 509-510

Stephen Miller

1688: The First Modern Revolution. By Steve Pincus. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 647. $40.00 pp. 510-515

Joel Mokyr

Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome. By Laurie Nussdorfer. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xi, 354. $65.00 pp. 515-516

Steven A. Epstein

The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848. By Jonathan Karp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 379. $ 80.00, paper pp. 517-519

Rita Bredefeldt

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882–1950. By Aldo Musacchio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xix, 298. $85.00 pp. 519-521

Gail D. Triner

Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India. By Ritu Birla. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009 pp. 521-522

Bishnupriya Gupta

The Price of Rice: Market Integration in Eighteenth-Century China. By Sui-Wai Cheung. Bellingham: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University Press, 2008. $55.00, paper pp. 523-525

Carol Shiue

“To Do Justice to Him and Myself”: Evert Wendell's Account Book of the Fur Trade with Indians in Albany, New York, 1695–1726. Translated and edited by Kees-Jan Waterman. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2008. Pp. xv, 311. $50.00, paper pp. 525-526

Ann Carlos

African American Urban History Since World War II. Edited by Kenneth L. Kuzmer and Joe W. Trotter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. v, 536 pp. 526-528

Leah Boustan

Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. By Patrick M. Malone. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 254. $50.00, cloth; $25.00, paper pp. 529-530

Ross Thomson

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. By Johan Peter Murmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (paperback edition, 2006). Pp. xxi, 294 pp. 530-532

Fredrik Tell

Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern. Edited by Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 375. $99.00, cloth pp. 532-534

Martin Klein

Volume 70, issue 1, 2010

The Uneven Rise of American Public Schools to 1850 pp. 1-26

Sun Go and Peter Lindert

Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan pp. 27-56

Kris James Mitchener, Masato Shizume and Marc D. Weidenmier

The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880–1930 pp. 57-82

Tom Nicholas

Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data pp. 83-117

Elizabeth Brainerd

Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity Across the Colonies versus Across the States, 1748–1811 pp. 118-145

Farley Grubb

The German Elections in the 1870s: Why Germany Turned from Liberalism to Protectionism pp. 146-178

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate pp. 179-194

Tirthankar Roy

The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal pp. 195-220

Todd C. Neumann, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. By Robert Allen. (New Approaches to Economic and Social History Series.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 pp. 242-245

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: A Study of Political Power and Social Revolution in Languedoc. By Stephen Miller. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 322. $79.95. cloth pp. 245-246

D. M. G. Sutherland

A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade Between France and the Dutch Republic in its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650. By Henriette de Bruyn Kops. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiv, 371. $147. - Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste. By David Hancock. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xxix, 632. $50 pp. 247-249

Paul M. Hohenberg

Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. By Cormac Ó Gréda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 300. $35.00, cloth pp. 249-250

Neal Garnham

Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace. By Steven M. Gelber. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 pp. 250-252

Todd Neumann

The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. By Brian Schoen. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 369. $55 pp. 252-254

David G. Surdam

Industrial Development in Postwar Japan. By Hirohisa Kohama. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xiv, 226 pp. 254-255

Mark Metzler

Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. By Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 308.. $24.00, cloth pp. 255-259

D. Roderick Kiewiet

Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods. The Cairoli Lectures, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. By Barry Eichengreen. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 187. $26.00 pp. 259-260

Gianni Toniolo

Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism. By Alex Preda. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. viii, 318. $25.00, paper pp. 260-262

Larry Neal

Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History: The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge. By Douglas J. Puffert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 376. $55.00, cloth pp. 262-263

Aashish Velkar