The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 66, issue 4, 2006

Railroad Impact in Backward Economies: Spain, 1850–1913 pp. 853-881

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas pp. 882-905

Ran Abramitzky and Fabio Braggion

Institutional Reforms, Financial Development and Sovereign Debt: Britain 1690–1790 pp. 906-935

Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen pp. 936-962

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

Banking on the King: The Evolution of the Royal Revenue Farms in Old Regime France pp. 963-991

Noel Johnson

Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production: Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution pp. 992-1025

Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

The Socioeconomic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England pp. 1026-1053

Jason Long

Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reassessment pp. 1054-1065

David Eltis, Frank Lewis and David Richardson

Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply pp. 1066-1071

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

Economic Transformations pp. 1072-1075

Joel Mokyr

Editors' Note pp. 1076-1079

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Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. By Avner Greif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 503. $34.99, paper pp. 1080-1081

Kathryn Reyerson

Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Rachel G. Fuchs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 267 pp. 1081-1082

Katherine A. Lynch

Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 364. $32.99, paper pp. 1083-1084

Wade E. Shilts

The Economics of World War I. Edited by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 345. $80 pp. 1084-1086

Hans-Joachim Voth

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. 432. $45 pp. 1086-1088

Carol H. Shuie

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. Edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $990. Pricing varies for the online version pp. 1088-1097

William Collins

Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. By Jason Scott Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 283. $75 pp. 1097-1098

Robert Fleck

Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development. By Vernon W. Ruttan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 219. $45 pp. 1099-1100

H. A. Gemery

Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. By Paul D. Moreno. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. 12, 304. $49.95 pp. 1100-1102

Thomas Maloney

Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. By Arthur L. Norberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. x, 347. $40 pp. 1102-1103

Richard Coopey

Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History. Edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. ix, 386. $75 pp. 1104-1105

Christopher Grandy

Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970. By Christophe Lécuyer. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 393. $40 pp. 1106-1107

Rebecca S. Lowen

The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective. Edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 319. $80, cloth; $34.99, paper pp. 1107-1109

Eric Hilt

Volume 66, issue 3, 2006

Rethinking the Jacksonian Economy: The Impact of the 1832 Bank Veto on Commercial Banking pp. 541-574

Jane Knodell

How Did the Location of Industry Respond to Falling Transport Costs in Britain Before World War I? pp. 575-607

Nicholas Crafts and Abay Mulatu

Geography, Timing, and Technology: A GIS-Based Analysis of Pennsylvania's Iron Industry, 1825–1875 pp. 608-634

Anne Kelly Knowles and Richard G. Healey

Time is Money: A Re-Assessment of the Passenger Social Savings from Victorian British Railways pp. 635-673

Tim Leunig

Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873 pp. 674-706

Lee Alston, Jeffery A. Jenkins and Tomas Nonnenmacher

Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England pp. 707-736

Gregory Clark and Gillian Hamilton

The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s pp. 737-777

Martha Bailey and William Collins

Unemployment in Interwar Germany: An Analysis of the Labor Market, 1927–1936 pp. 778-808

Nicholas H. Dimsdale, Nicholas Horsewood and Arthur van Riel

Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820 pp. 809-828

Sevket Pamuk

Cambridge and its Economic Region, 1450–1560. Studies in Regional and Local History, volume 3. By John S. Lee. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 238. £18.99, paper pp. 829-830

Michael Potterton

The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives. By Paul R. Gregory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 308. $90, cloth; $32, paper pp. 830-831

James Heinzen

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806–1816. By Herbert H. Kaplan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 194. $45 pp. 831-833

Wade Shilts

Exceptionalism and Industrialization: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688–1815. Edited by Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 335. $95 pp. 833-834

Gregory Clark

Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870–1930. By Fernando Rocchi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 394. $70 pp. 834-836

Joel Horowitz

The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions. Edited by Cathy Matson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 380. $55 pp. 836-837

David Flynn

The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance. By Robert E. Wright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 210. $25 pp. 837-839

Marc D. Weidenmier

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. By Tom Downey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 262. $49.95 pp. 839-841

Harry L. Watson

Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America. By Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Pp. ix, 248. $40 pp. 841-842

Linda Carter

The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920. By B. Zorina Khan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. Xvii, 322. $60.00 pp. 842-844

Peter Rousseau

Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Colleen O'Neill. Lawrence: The University of Kansas Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 235. $29.95 pp. 844-846

Leonard Carlson

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. By Jeffry A. Frieden. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. Pp. xvii, 556. $29.95 pp. 846-848

Kris James Mitchener

Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 447. $64.50 pp. 848-849

Rowena Olegario

The Natural Origins of Economics. By Margaret Schabas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 231. $40.00 pp. 850-852

Andrea Maneschi

Volume 66, issue 2, 2006

War and Cliometrics: Adventures in Economic History pp. 271-282

Roger L. Ransom

The Empire Effect: The Determinants of Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880–1913 pp. 283-312

Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick

Nutrition and Well-Being in the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 313-341

Trevon Logan

The Atlantic Telegraph Cable and Capital Market Information Flows pp. 342-353

Christopher Hoag

The Diffusion of Tractor Technology pp. 354-389

Dinah Duffy Martini and Eugene Silberberg

The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry pp. 390-416

Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner

The Effect of Changes in Reserve Requirements During the 1930s: The Evidence from Nonmember Banks pp. 417-432

Thomas Cargill and Thomas Mayer

Early State Banks in the United States: How Many Were There and When Did They Exist? pp. 433-455

Warren Weber

Why Did Income Growth Vary Across States During the Great Depression? pp. 456-466

Thomas Garrett and David Wheelock

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 503-515

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Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 516-518

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Vol. III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939–2000. Edited by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 473. $100.00, cloth; $40.00, paper pp. 525-526

Carol E. Heim

Ricardo's Macroeconomics: Money, Trade Cycles, and Growth. By Timothy Davis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 328. $75 pp. 526-527

Hugh Rockoff

Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War. By Penelope Francks. London and New York: Rutledge, 2006. Pp. xvi, 312. $115 pp. 528-529

Philip C. Brown

The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. By William R. Childs. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 323. $35 pp. 529-531

Hugh S. Gorman

America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. By J'Nell L. Pate. Fort Worth, TX: TCU Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 225. $24.95 pp. 531-532

Fred H. Smith

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 416. $35 pp. 532-534

Robert Margo

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and Their Lasting Impact. By Vaclav Smil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 350. $35 pp. 535-536

Zorina Khan

The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939. By Larry G. Gerber. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. viii, 212. $40 pp. 536-538

Chris Howell

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. By Victoria de Grazia. Cambridge, MA: The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 586. $29.95 pp. 538-540

Nicola Tynan

Volume 66, issue 1, 2006

Plans, Prices, and Corruption: The Soviet Firm Under Partial Centralization, 1930 to 1990 pp. 1-41

Mark Harrison and Byung-Yeon Kim

The Whig Fable of American Tobacco, 1895–1913 pp. 42-73

Leslie Hannah

Rediscovering Risk: Country Banks as Venture Capital Firms in the First Industrial Revolution pp. 74-102

Liam Brunt

An Improved Annual Chronology of U.S. Business Cycles since the 1790s pp. 103-121

Joseph H. Davis

Estimating Financial Integration in the Middle Ages: What Can We Learn from a TAR Model? pp. 122-139

Oliver Volckart and Nikolaus Wolf

Was the Federal Reserve Constrained by the Gold Standard During the Great Depression? Evidence from the 1932 Open Market Purchase Program pp. 140-176

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Christina Romer

The Global and Local: Explaining Migrant Remittance Flows in the English-Speaking World, 1880–1914 pp. 177-202

Gary Magee and Andrew S. Thompson

Technological Change and U.S. Productivity Growth in the Interwar Years pp. 203-236

Alexander Field

Working Women in English Society, 1300–1620. By Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 291. £18.99, paper pp. 245-246

Susannah Ottaway

An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages. By Christopher Dyer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. x, 293. $55 pp. 246-248

James Masschaele

Keynes and His Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution, 1925–1946. Edited by G. C. Peden. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, for the British Academy. Pp. xv, 372. £45 pp. 248-249

Wade E. Shilts

An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. By Charles H. Feinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 302. $75 pp. 249-252

Mira Wilkins

Sprawl: A Compact History. By Robert Bruegmann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 301. $27.50 pp. 252-253

Matthew Kahn

Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company. By Michael R. Botson Jr. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 265. $43 pp. 253-255

Andrew E. Kersten

To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution. By Robert A. McGuire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 395. $19.95 pp. 255-257

Jac C. Heckelman

The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820–1860. By Richard Follett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 290. $54.95 pp. 257-258

John C. Rodrigue

Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919. By Karin L. Zipf. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 207. $42.95 pp. 258-260

Susanna Delfino

A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States. By John H. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 439. $90 pp. 260-262

Howard Bodenhorn

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919. By Margaret Garb. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 261. $40 pp. 262-264

Louis Cain

The Size of Nations. By Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. x, 261. $35 pp. 264-266

Dan Bogart

Shaping the Twentieth Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. By Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 366. $29.95 pp. 266-268

Ashish Arora

Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930–1973. By Gianni Toniolo with the assistance of Piet Clement. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 729. $125 pp. 268-270

Michele Fratianni