The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 69, issue 4, 2009

The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India pp. 901-927

Robert Allen

Capital Formation in Machinery in Latin America, 1890-1930 pp. 928-950

Xavier Tafunell

A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants' Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment During the Gold Standard Period pp. 951-985

Rui Esteves and David Khoudour

Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market pp. 986-1011

Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett

Effects of Bilateralism and the MFN Clause on International Trade: Evidence for the Cobden-Chevalier Network, 1860-1875 pp. 1012-1040

Markus Lampe

Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity pp. 1041-1062

Kenneth M. Sylvester

The Sources of Long-Run Growth in Spain, 1850-2000 pp. 1063-1091

Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Joan Rosés

The Massachusetts Paper Money of 1690 pp. 1092-1106

Dror Goldberg

Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870 pp. 1107-1137

Graeme G. Acheson, Charles R. Hickson, John Turner and Qing Ye

Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History. By Angus Maddison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 418. $99.00, cloth; $42.95, paper pp. 1156-1161

Gregory Clark

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo World, 1783–1939. By James Belich. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 573. $50.00, cloth pp. 1162-1163

Stanley L. Engerman

Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004. By Tony A. Freyer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 437. $80.00 pp. 1163-1165

Dean Williamson

The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire. By Peter Fibiger Bang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 358. $110 pp. 1165-1166

Peter Temin

Hunger: A Modern History. By James Vernon. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 369. $29.95 pp. 1166-1168

Trevon Logan

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa. By Quentin van Van Doosselaere. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 278. $95.00 pp. 1168-1170

Dean Williamson

Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774–1905. By Leonard G. Friesen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vii, 325. $39.95 pp. 1170-1171

T. K. Dennison

The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550–1870: A Geohistorical Approach. By Faruk Tabak. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. vii, 432. $60.00 pp. 1172-1174

Giovanni Levi

The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art. By Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xviii, 234. $39.50, cloth pp. 1174-1175

Robert Jensen

State and Market in Victorian Britain: War, Welfare, and Capitalism. By Martin Daunton. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 341. $105.00 pp. 1175-1177

Deborah Oxley

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. By Jan de Vries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 327. $80.00, cloth; $23.00, paper pp. 1177-1179

John Styles

The Political Economy of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. By Roberto Cortés Conde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 388. $85.00, cloth pp. 1179-1180

David Rock

Mexico Since 1980. By Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 272. $80.00 cloth; $23.99, paper pp. 1180-1182

Jeffrey Bortz

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. By Ghislaine Lydon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii, 468. $95.00 pp. 1182-1184

Timur Kuran

Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. By Leonard Blussé. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 133. $25.95, cloth pp. 1184-1185

Timothy Brook

Japanese Economic Development: Markets, Norms, Structures. By Carl Mosk. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xxi, 384 pp. 1185-1186

Penelope Francks

Jingji Xue, The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas into China, 1850–1950. By Paul B. Trescott. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 442 pp. 1187-1188

Kent G. Deng

The Fisherman's Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution. By Christopher P. Magra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x, 243. $75.00 pp. 1188-1190

Marc Egnal

Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice in Early America. Edited by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 266. $42.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 1190-1191

David Mitch

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore. By Seth Rockman. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 368. $25.00, paper pp. 1191-1192

Howard Bodenhorn

Tenants in Time: Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799–1871. By Catharine Anne Wilson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii, 375. $85.00 pp. 1193-1194

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. By Robert Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 351. $40.00, cloth pp. 1194-1195

Louis P. Cain

The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America. By Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 253. $39.95 pp. 1196-1197

Gloria L. Main

Main Street to Main Frames: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie. By Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen. Albany: Excelsior Editions of State University of New York Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 451. $30.00, cloth pp. 1197-1199

Paul M. Hohenberg

Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War. By Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxi, 315. $27.95, cloth pp. 1199-1200

Lee Craig

Volume 69, issue 3, 2009

The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822–1858: Partnerships Without Kinship pp. 615-645

Eric Hilt and Katharine O'Banion

Bonds and Brands: Foundations of Sovereign Debt Markets, 1820–1830 pp. 646-684

Marc Flandreau and Juan Flores Zendejas

The Impact of the Boll Weevil, 1892–1932 pp. 685-718

Fabian Lange, Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Towards an Objective Account of Nutrition and Health in Colonial Kenya: A Study of Stature in African Army Recruits and Civilians, 1880–1980 pp. 719-754

Alexander Moradi

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970 pp. 755-782

Leah Boustan

Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital pp. 783-808

Brian A'Hearn, Joerg Baten and Dorothee Crayen

Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France pp. 809-845

Eliana Balla and Noel Johnson

Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885–1933 pp. 846-881

Nikolaus Wolf

The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion, and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 15501630. By Clè Lesger. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xii, 326. $100, cloth pp. 882-883

Karine van der Beek

Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America. By Kenneth Morgan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 221. $39.95 pp. 883-884

Warren Whatley

Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain. By Frank Trentmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 450. $50.00, cloth pp. 885-886

John Nye

Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890. By Paul Lucier. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 426. $52.00, cloth pp. 887-888

Karen Clay

Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, 1700–1960. By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 467. $80.00 cloth; $23.99, paper pp. 888-890

Jeremy Atack

Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. By Ann Norton Greene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 322. $29.95, cloth pp. 890-891

Paul Rhode

French East India Companies: A Historical Account and Record of Trade. By Donald C. Wellington. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2006. Pp. xi, 241. $34.95, paper pp. 891-893

Glenn J. Ames

France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?. By Philip P. Boucher. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp.xiii, 372. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 893-894

Stanley L. Engerman

Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The “Agreeable Customs” of 1815–1914. By Robert Pahre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 426. $95.00, cloth pp. 894-896

David Jacks

A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis. By Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart. Translated by James H. Membrez. London: Earthscan, 2006. Pp. 528. $35, paper pp. 896-897

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x, 417. $40, cloth pp. 898-899

Roman Studer

Volume 69, issue 2, 2009

The First Line of Defense: Inventing the Infrastructure to Combat Animal Diseases pp. 327-357

Alan Olmstead

Guano, Credible Commitments, and Sovereign Debt Repayment in Nineteenth-Century Peru pp. 358-387

Catalina Vizcarra

The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present pp. 388-408

Trevon Logan

Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries pp. 409-445

Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression pp. 446-465

Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn

The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake pp. 466-499

Alvaro S. Pereira

Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881–1913 pp. 500-527

Carsten Burhop and Thorsten Lübbers

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 569-586

Anonymous

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 587-592

Anonymous

Peasants and Production in the Medieval Northeast: The Evidence from Tithes, 1270–1536. By Ben Dodds. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2007. Pp. 204. $85.00, cloth pp. 598-599

George Grantham

Growth and Business Cycles: Swedish Manufacturing Industry, 1952–2001. (Lund Studies in Economic History 37). By Camilla Josephson. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2005. $89.50, paper pp. 599-601

Michael Bergman

A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France. By Amalia D. Kessler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 389. $55.00, cloth pp. 601-602

Daniel Klerman

Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 215. $24.95, paper pp. 603-604

Peter A. Coclanis

The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth pp. 604-606

Gavin Wright

One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. Pp. vii, 419. $28, cloth pp. 606-608

Peter Rousseau

A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture Since 1929. By Paul K. Conkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Pp. xiv, 223. $29.95 pp. 608-609

Alan Olmstead

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. By Thomas G. Andrews. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 386. $29.95 pp. 609-611

William M. Boal

Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt. By Sean Safford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 212. $29.95, cloth pp. 611-613

David R. Meyer

A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States. By John H. Wood. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. index, 439 pp. 613-614

Gianni Toniolo

Volume 69, issue 1, 2009

Time Spent in Home Production in the Twentieth-Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data pp. 1-47

Valerie Ramey

Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650–1913 pp. 48-103

Mark Dincecco

Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915 pp. 104-137

Lee Alston, Shannan Mattiace and Tomas Nonnenmacher

Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan pp. 138-171

Kris James Mitchener and Mari Ohnuki

Why did Education Become Publicly Funded? Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Growth of Public Primary Schooling in the United States pp. 172-201

Christiana Stoddard

Nationalizations and the Development of Transport Systems: Cross-Country Evidence from Railroad Networks, 1860–1912 pp. 202-237

Dan Bogart

Economic Opportunity or Hardship? The Causes of Geographic Mobility on the Agricultural Frontier, 1860–1880 pp. 238-268

James I. Stewart

Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India pp. 269-302

Latika Chaudhary

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. By Adam Tooze. London and New York: Allen Lane for Penguin, 2006. Pp. xvii, 800. $30 pp. 312-316

Robert J. Gordon

The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve: A History. By Robert L. Hetzel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 390. $50 pp. 317-318

Christina Romer

Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 324. $48.00, cloth pp. 319-320

Jeremy Atack

Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. By Janet L. Abu-Loghod. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 344. $35.00, cloth pp. 320-322

Daniel J. Myers

Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective. By Istvan Hont. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 541. $50 pp. 322-323

Meir Kohn

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. By Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 719. $35 pp. 324-325

Paul Rhode

Commercial Banking and Economic Development: The Lebanese Experience, 1856–1974. By Ali Abou Zeinab. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 2006. Pp. xii, 190. SEK262 pp. 325-326

Roger Owen