The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 68, issue 4, 2008

Ordinary Economic Voting Behavior in the Extraordinary Election of Adolf Hitler pp. 951-996

Gary King, Ori Rosen, Martin Tanner and Alexander Wagner

Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush pp. 997-1027

Karen Clay and Randall Jones

Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913 pp. 1028-1058

C. Knick Harley

Corruption, Quasi-Rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities pp. 1059-1097

John Neufeld

“Una fiera senza luogo”: Was Bisenzone an International Capital Market in Sixteenth-Century Italy? pp. 1098-1122

Luciano Pezzolo and Giuseppe Tattara

Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy pp. 1123-1171

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results pp. 1172-1176

Burton Abrams, Li Jing and James Mulligan

Editors' Notes pp. 1177-1179

Anonymous

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth pp. 1180-1181

Jan de Vries

Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History. By Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $29.00, cloth pp. 1182-1183

Jari Eloranta

Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny. Edited by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney. Washington, DC: The World Bank and Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 369. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 1183-1185

Ian Keay

Artisan Workers in the Upper South, Petersburg, 1820–1865. By L. Diane Barnes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 230. $37.50, cloth pp. 1185-1186

Mary Ferrari

Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. By Robert Eric Barde. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xi, 283. $45.95, cloth pp. 1187-1188

Erika Lee

The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented America. By Maury Klein. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 520. $29.99, cloth pp. 1188-1189

William J. Hausman

Volume 68, issue 3, 2008

When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century pp. 645-685

Eric Hilt

What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903–1937 pp. 686-721

Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu

The Crisis of 1873: Perspectives from Multiple Asset Classes pp. 722-757

Scott Mixon

Mexican Exceptionalism: Globalization and De-Industrialization, 1750–1877 pp. 758-811

Rafael Dobado González, Aurora Gómez Galvarriato and Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Effect of Geography and Vitamin D on African American Stature in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from Prison Records pp. 812-831

Scott Alan Carson

Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England pp. 832-861

Patrick Wallis

Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880 pp. 862-899

Chulhee Lee

Russian Living Standards under the Tsars: Anthropometric Evidence from the Volga pp. 900-929

Boris Mironov and Brian A'Hearn

Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895–1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl pp. 930-934

Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop

Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian. By Peter Sarris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 258. £80, cloth pp. 935-936

Philip Coelho

War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900. By John V. C. Nye. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 174. $29.95, cloth pp. 936-938

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era. By Randall E. Parker. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2007. Pp. xi, 257. £69.95, cloth; £29.95, paper pp. 938-940

William Collins

Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization. By Nitsan Chorev. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 242. $42.50 pp. 940-941

Jeffry Frieden

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865. By Robert H. Zieger. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 276. $37.50 pp. 941-943

Andrew E. Kersten

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 383. $45 pp. 943-945

Peter C. Mancall

Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 317. $39.95 pp. 945-946

Chris Mayda

Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 274. $42.00 pp. 946-948

Peter Rousseau

From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South. By Timothy J. Minchin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $39.95 pp. 948-949

William A. Sundstrom

Volume 68, issue 2, 2008

Toward a More Useful Economic History pp. 339-354

Paul M. Hohenberg

Economic Growth in the Lower Yangzi Region of China in 1911–1937: A Quantitative and Historical Analysis pp. 355-392

Debin Ma

India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India pp. 393-437

Roman Studer

Banks, Credit Markets, and Early American Development: A Case Study of Entry and Competition pp. 438-461

Ta-Chen Wang

The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s pp. 462-500

Kris James Mitchener and Marc D. Weidenmier

Advances in Communication Technology and Growth of the American Over-the-Counter Markets, 1876–1929 pp. 501-534

J. Ferderer

The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895–1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution pp. 535-565

Albrecht Ritschl

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 603-617

Anonymous

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 618-620

Anonymous

London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussiere. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 367. £50 pp. 626-627

Stefano Battilossi

The Re-Emergence of Global Finance. By Gary Burn. London: Palgrave, 2006. Pp. xii, 231 pp. 628-629

Forrest Capie

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume II: The Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coatsworth and Roberto Cortés Conde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 755. $150 pp. 629-632

Colin M. Lewis

The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 181. $32.50 pp. 632-635

R. Taggart Murphy

Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 222. $35 pp. 635-637

Sean Patrick Adams

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007. Pp. ix, 395. $35 pp. 637-638

Carola Frydman

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $45 pp. 639-640

John Majewski

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 457. $29.95 pp. 640-642

Scott A. Redenius

Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward S. Miller. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 323. $23 pp. 642-644

Kris James Mitchener

Volume 68, issue 1, 2008

How Much Can a Victor Force the Vanquished to Pay? France under the Nazi Boot pp. 1-45

Filippo Occhino, Kim Oosterlinck and Eugene White

Logistics, Market Size, and Giant Plants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Global View pp. 46-79

Leslie Hannah

Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil pp. 80-108

Aldo Musacchio

The Contribution of Economists to Military Intelligence During World War II pp. 109-150

Mark Guglielmo

The Stability of the Interwar Gold Exchange Standard: Did Politics Matter? pp. 151-181

Kirsten Wandschneider

The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis pp. 182-210

Robert Allen

Welfare State and Labor Mobility: The Impact of Bismarck's Social Legislation on German Emigration before World War I pp. 211-243

David Khoudour

Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith pp. 244-282

Jun Seong Ho, James Lewis and Kang Han-Rog

The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued? pp. 283-291

Farley Grubb

Editors' Notes pp. 292-299

Jeremy Atack

Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece. By Takeshi Amemiya. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 184. $125 pp. 300-301

David Tandy

A History of Scottish Economic Thought. Edited by A. Dow and S. Dow. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. vii, 261. $135 pp. 302-303

Martin Kragh

The British Whaling Trade: Research in Maritime History Number 29. By Gordon Jackson. St. John's, NL: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. Pp. xvi, 293. Free to members of the association; $15.00 for nonmembers, paper pp. 303-305

Ian Keay

The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850–1914: Social Policies Compared. By E. P. Hennock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 381. $99, cloth; $35.99, paper pp. 305-307

George R. Boyer

The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 377. $75 pp. 307-308

Mark Harrison

Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Sozialstruktur und biologischer Lebensstandard in München und dem südlichen Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert. By Klaus Schuster. Studien zur Wirtschafts- -und Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 25. Pp. 287, illustration, tables, bibliography. St. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag St. Katharinen 2005. Euro 29 pp. 309-310

Mojgan Stegl

Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. By Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy. St. John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. Pp. xi, 364. $15.00, softback pp. 310-311

Tony Arnold

Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer. By Gary D. Libecap. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 209. $24.95, paper pp. 312-313

Matthew Kahn

Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John. E. Murray. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40 pp. 313-315

Price Fishback

Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States. By Susan Porter Benson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 233. $45 pp. 315-316

Tomas Cvrcek

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 1, 398. $35 pp. 317-318

Mark C. Smith

The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 242. $50 pp. 318-320

Werner Troesken

The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. By Maury Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 224. $22.99, paper pp. 320-322

Sukkoo Kim

An American Planter: Steven Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York. By Mary Jane Brazy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006. Pp. xiii, 232. $45 pp. 322-324

Aaron Anderson

U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. By Kim Moody. New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii, 289. $29.95, paper pp. 324-325

John Brueggemann

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95 pp. 325-328

Price Fishback

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 316. $44.95 pp. 328-329

Joshua Rosenbloom

Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets. By Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 11, 263. $27.95 pp. 330-331

Richard Sylla

Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870–1913 and Today. By Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 193. £20 pp. 331-333

Aldo Musacchio

Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order. By Filippo Cesarano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 248. GBP 51.00 pp. 333-334

Kirsten Wandschneider

Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850–2000; British Performance in International Perspective. By Stephen Broadberry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 409. $101 pp. 334-337

James Foreman-Peck

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. Edited by Peter C. Mancall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 596, $65, cloth; $27.50, paper pp. 337-338

Russell R. Menard