The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 65, issue 4, 2005

The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World pp. 891-921

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities? pp. 922-948

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

Not Guilty? Agriculture in the 1920s and the Great Depression pp. 949-976

Giovanni Federico

The Ties that Divide: A Network Analysis of the International Monetary System, 1890–1910 pp. 977-1007

Marc Flandreau and Clemens Jobst

Capitalism and Freedom: Manumissions and the Slave Market in Louisiana, 1725–1820 pp. 1008-1027

Shawn Cole

A Measure of Legal Independence”: The 1870 Married Women's Property Act and the Portfolio Allocations of British Wives pp. 1028-1057

Mary Beth Combs

Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890–1938 pp. 1058-1081

Lee Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie

Measuring the Extent and Implications of Director Interlocking in the Prewar Japanese Banking Industry pp. 1082-1115

Tetsuji Okazaki, Michiru Sawada and Kazuki Yokoyama

Similar Economic Histories, Different Industrial Structures: Transatlantic Contrasts in the Evolution of Professional Sports Leagues pp. 1116-1147

Louis P. Cain and David D. Haddock

Men, Women, and Property in England, 1780–1870: A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Classes. By R. J. Morris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 445. $95 pp. 1151-1152

Joyce Burnette

The Poor in England 1700–1850: An Economy of Makeshifts. Edited by Stephen King and Alannah Tomkins. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 285. £47.50 pp. 1152-1153

Lynn Hollen Lees

The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914. By Mario Tiberi. Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. Pp. ix, 183. $99.95 pp. 1153-1155

William K. Hutchison

Communist Economics in Russia. By Bruno S. Sergi. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004. Pp. xvi, 330. €39.00 pp. 1155-1157

Mark Harrison

Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. Edited by Kaoru Sugihara. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 295. $140 pp. 1157-1158

Carl Mosk

Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South. By Jonathan D. Martin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 237. $39.95 pp. 1159-1160

Robert S. Wolff

The Hidden Cost of Economic Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania. By Timothy Cuff. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. vii, 277. $99.95 pp. 1160-1162

Trevon Logan

On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. By Geoff Cunfer. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 292. $55 pp. 1162-1163

Zeynep K. Hansen

The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. By Robert G. Angevine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 351. $65.00 pp. 1163-1164

Laurence J. Malone

Every Man a Speculator. By Steve Fraser. New York: Harper Collins, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 721. $29.95 pp. 1165-1166

Marc D. Weidenmier

City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. By Jerome P. Bjelopera. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 208. $22, paper pp. 1166-1167

Lisa M. Fine

Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882. By Roger Daniels. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xi, 328. $30.00, cloth; $15.00, paper pp. 1168-1169

Eric J. Morser

Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Failures in Corporate America and Where They Came From. By David Skeel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Pp. viii, 250 pp. 1169-1171

Paul Miranti

The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950–1985. By Adam R. Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 332. $27.50, paper pp. 1172-1173

Sarah J. Reber

Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities and Limits of Reform. By Thrainn Eggertsson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 264. $65, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 1173-1175

Joseph D. Reid

The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660–1740. By Søren Mentz. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. Pp. 304. $46 pp. 1175-1176

Philip J. Stern

Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Edited by Susana Delfino and Michele Gillespie. New Currents in the History of Southern Economy and Society Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Pp. vii, 240. $24.95, paper pp. 1176-1178

Robert Margo

Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. By Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 149. $18.95 pp. 1178-1179

John McCusker

Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America. By Janet Nolan. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 191. $45.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 1179-1181

John H. Barnhill

Vor der groβen Flut: Die europäische Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1783–1820. By Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner, 2001. Pp. 458. € 71 pp. 1181-1183

Simone Wegge

Volume 65, issue 3, 2005

A Compromise Estimate of German Net National Product, 1851–1913, and its Implications for Growth and Business Cycles pp. 613-657

Carsten Burhop and Guntram Wolff

Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary pp. 658-692

Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier

Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century pp. 693-722

Scott Wallsten

Specialization and Regulation: The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation pp. 723-756

Marc Law and Sukkoo Kim

Financial Market Discipline in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico pp. 757-778

Elisabeth Huybens, Astrid Luce Jordan and Sangeeta Pratap

Immigration, Exclusion, and Taxation: Anti-Chinese Legislation in Gold Rush California pp. 779-805

Mark Kanazawa

Risk, Transaction Costs, and Tax Assignment: Government Finance in the Ottoman Empire pp. 806-821

Metin Cosgel and Thomas Miceli

Conspicuous by their Absence: French Canadians and the Settlement of the Canadian West pp. 822-849

Alan Green, Mary MacKinnon and Chris Minns

Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England. By Jonathan Gil Harris. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 263. $49.95 pp. 861-862

Blair Hoxby

The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487–1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe. By Govind P. Sreenivasan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 386. $80.00 pp. 862-864

Annee. C. McCants

The Soviet Century. By Moshe Lewin. London: Verso, 2005. Pp. 416. $35.00 pp. 864-867

Paul Gregory

Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. By Zephyr L. Frank. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 230. $22.95 pp. 867-868

Anne G. Hanley

American Capitalism, 1945–2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society. By Wyatt Wells. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $24.95 pp. 869-871

Michael Bernstein

Labor's Story in the United States. By Philip Yale Nicholson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 376. $27.95, paper pp. 871-873

Ilyana Kuzimko

Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture. Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 384. $99.50, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 873-874

Bob Freeland

Water, Race, and Disease. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 251. $35.00 pp. 874-876

William Collins

The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Analysis. By Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 379. $40.00 pp. 876-878

Karen Clay

Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A History and Directory. By Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 277. $54.95 pp. 878-879

Marietta Lebreton

Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Keith J. Volanto. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 194. $35.00 pp. 879-880

Craig W. Heinicke

From Buildings and Loans to Bailouts: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry 1831–1995. By David L. Mason. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 349. $50.00 pp. 881-882

Kenneth A. Snowden

Sovereign City: The City-State through History. By Geoffrey Parker. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. Pp. 253. $39.00 pp. 882-883

David R. Meyer

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 350. £45.00 pp. 884-885

Peter Rousseau

The Forces of Economic Growth: A Time Series Perspective. By Alfred Greiner, Willi Semmler and Gang Gong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, Pp. xiv, 208. $50.00 pp. 885-887

Tomas Cvrcek

Anglo-American Shipbuilding in World War II: A Geographical Perspective. By Michael Lindberg and Daniel Todd. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xix, 223. $84.95 pp. 887-888

H. A. Gemery

The Emergence of Modern Marketing. Edited by Roy Church and Andrew Godley. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. 150. $34.95, paper pp. 889-890

Richard W. Pollay

Volume 65, issue 2, 2005

The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth pp. 285-351

Joel Mokyr

Wealth Accumulation and the Health of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1870 pp. 352-385

Chulhee Lee

The Prudent Village: Risk Pooling Institutions in Medieval English Agriculture pp. 386-413

Gary Richardson

“She Has Suddenly Become Powerful”: Youth Employment and Household Decision Making in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 414-438

Carolyn Moehling

Did Turnpike Trusts Increase Transportation Investment in Eighteenth-Century England? pp. 439-468

Dan Bogart

The Transition from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States pp. 469-495

Raymond L. Cohn

Contract Enforcement in the English East India Company pp. 496-523

Santhi Hejeebu

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 550-565

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Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 566-571

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A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany. By Sheilagh Ogilvie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 394. $85.00 pp. 577-578

Anne E. C. McCANTS

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By Richard W. Unger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. xvi; 344. $45.00 pp. 578-580

Susan Mosher Stuard

Family, Family Firm, and Strategy: Six Dutch Family Firms in the Food Industry 1880–1970. By Doreen Arnoldus. Amsterdam: Askant, 2002. Pp. 448. €36,25 pp. 580-581

Jill Dupree

Corporate Capitalism in Japan. By Hiroshi Okumura. Translated by Douglas Anthony and Naomi Brown. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. lxi, 165 pp. 582-583

Hiroshi Onitsuka

Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. Edited by Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. Pp. ix, 390. $45.00 pp. 583-585

Leah Boustan

Coalcracker Culture: Work and Culture in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835–1935. By Harold W. Aurand. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2003. Pp. 155. $36.50 pp. 585-586

Lawrence W. Boyd

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. By Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 263. $24.95 pp. 586-588

David D. Haddock

Federal Taxation in America: A Short History. Second Edition. By W. Elliot Brownlee. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. $55, cloth; $20, paper pp. 588-589

William J. Hausman

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp xii, 304. $29.95 pp. 590-591

Robert Margo

The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. By Andrew Wender Cohen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 333. $60.00 pp. 591-593

Joseph D. Reid

On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry. By Allen J. Scott. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 200. $39.50 pp. 593-594

John Sedgwick

The Economic Future in Historical Perspective. Edited by Paul A. David and Mark Thomas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 528. $74.00 pp. 594-596

George Grantham

History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change. Edited by Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren C. Whatley. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. iv, 510. $65 pp. 596-598

George Grantham

Origins of the Modern Career. Edited by David Mitch, John Brown, and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiii, 342. $99.95 pp. 598-600

Jason Long

Race, Liberalism, and Economics. Edited by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. x, 334. $65 pp. 600-602

Thomas Maloney

Understanding the Process of Economic Change. By Douglass C. North. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 187. $29.95 pp. 602-604

Robert Margo

The Fibre That Changed the World The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600–1990s. Edited by Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Pasold Research Fund, 2004, Pp. xxviii, 614. $140 pp. 604-606

Susan Wolcott

The Changing Face of Central Banking: Evolutionary Trends Since World War II. By Pierre L. Siklos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 347. $70 pp. 606-607

Gerald P. Dwyer

Family Welfare: Gender, Property, and Inheritance since the Seventeenth Century. Edited by David R. Green and Alastair Owens. Contributions in Family Studies, Number 18. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Pp. vii, 306. $74.95 pp. 607-609

Joyce M. Mastboom

How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion. Edited by Peter Z. Grossman. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2004. Pp. vi, 324. $115.00 pp. 609-611

John Howard Brown

Catching up with America: Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of American Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War. Edited by Dominique Barjot. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. Pp. 477 pp. 611-612

Stephen Broadberry

Volume 65, issue 1, 2005

Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility in Victorian Britain pp. 1-35

Jason Long

Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies? A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression pp. 36-71

Price Fishback, William C. Horrace and Shawn Kantor

Big Social Savings in a Small Laggard Economy: Railroad-Led Growth in Brazil pp. 72-102

William R. Summerhill

Corn Market Integration in Porfirian Mexico pp. 103-128

Rafael Dobado González and Gustavo Marrero

Branch Banking Restrictions and Finance Constraints in Early-Twentieth-Century America pp. 129-151

Daniel Giedeman

Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability During the Great Depression pp. 152-185

Kris James Mitchener

Colonial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Trade: Repartimiento Credit and Indigenous Production of Cochineal in Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, Mexico pp. 186-210

Jeremy Baskes

Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption: American States and Constitutional Change, 1842 to 1852 pp. 211-256

John Joseph Wallis

The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Jyväskylä: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. Pp. 427. €35 pp. 265-266

Ted Beatty

Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. By John Bezís-Selfa. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 279. $39.95 pp. 266-268

Paul F. Paskoff

TMI Twenty Five Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and its Impact. By Bonnie A. Osif, Anthony J. Baratta, and Thomas W. Conking. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 158. $24.95 pp. 268-269

Mark Aldrich

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. By Neil Lanctot. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 496. $34.95 pp. 269-270

Michael Haupert

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945. By Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 980. $95 pp. 270-274

Bruce Kogut

Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People who Made It. By Alison Isenberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 441. $32.50, cloth; $20.00, paper pp. 274-275

Jacob Vigdor

Les origines de la révolution industrielle aux états-Unis. By Pierre Gervais. Paris: Les éditions de l'école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, 2004. Pp. 347. 30€ pp. 275-277

Paul M. Hohenberg

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By Michael J. Connolly. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $44.95 pp. 277-278

John Majewski

Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. By April Lee Hatfield. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 312. $39.95 pp. 278-279

Gloria L. Main

Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. By Robert Higgs. Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 2004. Pp. xv, 408. $18.95, paper pp. 279-281

Peter J. Hill

Life under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia. Edited by Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 531. $45.00 pp. 281-282

John Landers

The World Economy: Historical Statistics. By Angus Maddison. Paris: OECD, 2003. Pp. 384. $24 pp. 283-284

Paul Rhode