The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 64, issue 4, 2004

The “Tuberculous Cattle Trust”: Disease Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty pp. 929-963

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Working Hours of the World Unite? New International Evidence of Worktime, 1870–1913 pp. 964-1001

Michael Huberman

Real Shock, Monetary Aftershock: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907 pp. 1002-1027

Kerry A. Odell and Marc D. Weidenmier

On the Efficiency of Markets for Agricultural Products: Rice Prices and Capital Markets in Java, 1823–1853 pp. 1028-1055

Jan Luiten van Zanden

Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison pp. 1056-1086

Dora Costa

When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico pp. 1087-1107

Noel Maurer and Andrei Gomberg

The Free Silver Movement in America: A Reinterpretation pp. 1108-1129

Marshall Gramm and Phil Gramm

ERRATUM pp. 1130-1130

Lawrence W. Boyd

The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848–1873. By Marc Flandreau. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 319. $95 pp. 1133-1134

Ronald McKinnon

Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. By Robert Allen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 302. $45 pp. 1134-1138

Paul R. Gregory

A New Economic History of Argentina. Edited by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 397. $60 pp. 1138-1139

William McGreevey

A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. By Max M. Edling. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 333. $35 pp. 1139-1140

Gregory Besharov

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 294. $49.95 pp. 1141-1142

Jonathan Prude

Warrior into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City. By Russell L. Johnson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 388. $55 pp. 1142-1144

Christiane Diehl Taylor

Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s: Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression. By Frank G. Steindl. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 228. $52.50 pp. 1144-1145

Michael Bernstein

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. By Nelson Lichtenstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 336. $29.95 pp. 1146-1147

John P. Enyeart

Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act. By David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2004. Pp. xiv, 241. $39.95 pp. 1147-1148

B. Zorina Khan

Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer. By Gary Fields. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2004. Pp. xviii, 281. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 1148-1150

Steven W. Usselman

Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Edited by David R. Foster and John D. Aber. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 477. $45.00 pp. 1150-1151

Brooks Kaiser

Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth. By Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 354. $65 pp. 1151-1153

Mark Wright

The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth. By Richard H. Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 241. $65 pp. 1153-1154

Gregory Clark

The History of Human Populations. Volume 2. Migration, Urbanization, and Structural Change. By P. M. G. Harris. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 553. $99.99 pp. 1154-1155

Dudley Baines

Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study. By Thomas Sowell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 239. $28 pp. 1155-1157

Cecilia A. Conrad

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr, Editor in Chief. Five Volumes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 2,800. $695 pp. 1157-1159

Gavin Wright

Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680. Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 347. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 1159-1160

Christopher Ebert

Volume 64, issue 3, 2004

Completing a Financial Revolution: The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595–1612 pp. 641-672

Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker

The U.S. Sugar Program and the Cuban Revolution pp. 673-704

Alan Dye and Richard Sicotte

Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire pp. 705-733

Peter Temin

An Impossible Undertaking: The Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the United States pp. 734-772

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Family, Literacy, and Skill Training in the Antebellum South: Historical-Longitudinal Evidence from Charleston pp. 773-799

John E. Murray

The Aftermath of Hamilton's “Report on Manufactures” pp. 800-821

Douglas Irwin

The German Twin Crisis of 1931 pp. 822-871

Isabel Schnabel

Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State, France and Great Britain, 1688–1789. By David Stasavage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 210. $60 pp. 893-894

Larry Neal

Del monopolio al libre mercado: La historia de la industria petrolera española. By Gabriel Tortella, Alfonso Ballestero and José Luis Díaz Fernández. Madrid: LID Editorial Empresarial, 2003. Pp. 632.€24 pp. 894-895

Stefan Houpt

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. x, 296. $30.00 pp. 895-897

Sharon Ann Murphy

A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 246. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 897-898

Jenny Wahl

Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. By William Kauffman Scarborough. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 521. $39.95, hardcover pp. 898-899

Peter Kolchin

Technology and the African American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study. Edited by Bruce Sinclair. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. vi, 237. $35.00 Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation. By Rayvon Fouché. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 225. $34.95 pp. 900-902

Lisa Cook

Origins of the New South Fifty Years Later. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 308. $62.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 902-903

David L. Carlton

Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Wiese. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 411. $37.50 pp. 903-905

Zachary M. Schrag

The Roots of American Industrialization. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 333. $45.00 pp. 905-906

Timothy E. Sullivan

Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. By Doron S. Ben-Atar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 281. $38.00 pp. 906-908

Carolyn C. Cooper

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. By Walter A. Friedman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 356. $27.95 pp. 908-909

Kerry Pannell

Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Edited by John Bender and Richard Greenwald. New York and London: Routledge, 2003, Pp. xi, 300. $90.95, cloth; $26.95, paper pp. 909-910

Lawrence W. Boyd

Productivity, Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment. By Robert J. Gordon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 504. $130.00, cloth; $48.00, paper pp. 910-911

Peter Temin

Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century, Revised Edition. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2004. Pp. xi, 315. $79.95, cloth; $35.50, paper pp. 911-912

David Fairris

Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Edited by Joel A. Tarr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 281. $32.00 pp. 913-914

Diana Di Stefano

Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. By Owen D. Gutfreund. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 297. $35.00 pp. 914-915

David J. St. Clair

Economies of Network Industries. By Hans-Werner Gottinger. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xvii, 227. $100.00 Bandwagon Effects in High-Technology Industries. By Jeffrey H. Rohlfs. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 256. $16.95, paper pp. 916-918

Douglas J. Puffert

To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of Digital Technology. By Ross Knox Bassett. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 421. $44.95 pp. 918-919

John S. Nader

Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond. Edited by Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 369. $85.00 pp. 919-921

Margaret Pugh O'Mara

The Company of Strangers. By Paul Seabright. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 304. $29.95 pp. 921-923

Alexander Field

Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law. Edited by Terry L. Anderson and Fred S. McChesney. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 398. $65.00, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 923-924

Shawn Kantor

The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A Historical Review. By Leonard Gomes. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2003. Pp. x, 350. £75.00 pp. 925-925

Susan Howson

Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States. Edited by Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 400. $99.00 pp. 926-927

Sanford M. Jacoby

Coal: A Human History. By Barbara Freese. New York: Penguin Group, 2003. Pp vii, 304. $14.00, paper pp. 927-928

William M. Boal

Volume 64, issue 2, 2004

Tourism in America before World War II pp. 289-327

Thomas Weiss

The Influences Affecting French Assets Abroad Prior to 1914 pp. 328-362

Antoine Parent and Christophe Rault

Human Capital and Growth in the Postbellum South: A Separate but Unequal Story pp. 363-399

Michelle Connolly

Saving the Whales: Lessons from the Extinction of the Eastern Arctic Bowhead pp. 400-432

Robert Allen and Ian Keay

Self-Reliance Before the Welfare State: Evidence from the Charity Organization Movement in the United States pp. 433-461

Stephen Ziliak

Convertible Husbandry vs. Regular Common Fields: A Model on the Relative Efficiency of Medieval Field Systems pp. 462-499

Harry Kitsikopoulos

Wartime Socialization of Investment: A Reassessment of U.S. Capital Formation in the 1940s pp. 500-520

Robert Higgs

Productivity Growth in the Industrial Revolution: A New Growth Accounting Perspective pp. 521-535

Nicholas Crafts

The New Financial Order pp. 536-539

Melvin Reder

Terriers et plans-tesrriers du XIIIe au XVIIIe siècle: Mémoires et Documents de l'École des Chartes 62. By Ghislain Brunel, Olivier Guyotjeannin, and Jean-Marc Moriceau. Paris: École National des Chartes, 2002 pp. 610-611

George Grantham

The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849–1999. By Niall Ferguson. New York: Viking, 1999. Pp. xxx, 658. $34.95 pp. 611-613

Larry Neal

Der Privatbankier. Nischenstrategien in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat des Instituts für bankhistorische Forschung e.V. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 145. €30.00, paper pp. 614-615

Monika Pohle Fraser

Terres mouvantes: Les campagnes française du féodalisme à la mondialisation xiie–xixesiècle. By Jean-Marc Moriceau. Paris: Fayard. 2002 pp. 615-616

George Grantham

The Conquest of Smallpox: The Impact of Inoculation on Smallpox Mortality in Eighteenth Century Britain. Second Edition. By Peter Razzell. Sussex: Caliban Books, 2003 pp. 616-618

Sheila Ryan Johansson

The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth. Edited by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 348. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 618-620

John Womack

Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861–1880. By Kyle S. Sinisi. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 208. $50.00 pp. 620-621

Ann Harper Fender

The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory. Edited by Ranjit S. Dighe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xi, 149. $21.95, paper pp. 621-622

Hugh Rockoff

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. By Glenn C. Loury. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 226. $22.95 pp. 623-625

Warren Whatley

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 456. $45.00 pp. 625-626

Steven Sass

The Cadillac Story: The Postwar Years. By Thomas E. Bonsall. Stanford: Stanford, CA: General Books, 2004. Pp. x, 229. $39.95 The Lincoln Story: The Postwar Years. By Thomas E. Bonsall. Stanford, CA: Stanford General Books, 2004. Pp. x, 229. $39.95 pp. 626-627

Paul Robertson

Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences. By William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, and Edward N. Wolff. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. Pp. 321. $29.95 pp. 627-629

Richard Sicotte

Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971. By Francis J. Gavin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 263. $45 pp. 629-631

Harold James

A History of Online Information Services, 1963–1976. By Charles P. Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 493. $45.00 pp. 631-632

John S. Nader

A History of Modern Computing. Second edition. By Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, 2003. Pp. xi, 445. $22.95, paper pp. 632-633

Steven W. Usselman

The Money Doctors: The Experience of International Financial Advising 1850–2000. Edited by Marc Flandreau. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 312. $135 pp. 633-635

Ronald McKinnon

The Size of Nations. By Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. x, 261. $35 pp. 635-638

Leonard Dudley

Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and their Legacies in Italy and Japan. By Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 456. $39.95 pp. 638-640

Franklin Hugh Adler

Volume 64, issue 1, 2004

The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample pp. 1-23

Dora Costa

English Agrarian Labor Productivity Rates Before the Black Death: A Case Study pp. 24-60

Eona Karakacili

A General-Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States pp. 61-99

Nathan Rosenberg and Manuel Trajtenberg

Local Granaries and Central Government Disaster Relief: Moral Hazard and Intergovernmental Finance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China pp. 100-124

Carol H. Shiue

Important or Impotent? Taking Another Look at the 1920 California Alien Land Law pp. 125-143

Masao Suzuki

Profitability of Slave and Long-Distance Trading in Context: The Case of Eighteenth-Century France pp. 144-171

Guillaume Daudin

Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing pp. 172-192

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

Nature or Nurture? Explaining English Wheat Yields in the Industrial Revolution, c.1770 pp. 193-225

Liam Brunt

Brownsville, Brooklyn pp. 236-239

Marcus Alexis

Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England 1750–1970. Edited by John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003. $84.95, £47.50 pp. 247-248

James Foreman-Peck

Banques et entreprises en Europe de l'ouest, XIXe–XXe siècles: aspects nationaux et régionaux, textes réunis et édités par Philippe Marguerat, Laurent Tissot et Yves Froidevaux (Actes du Colloque de l'Institut d'histoire de l'Université de Neuchâtel: Le financement bancaire de l'entreprise, 27–28 octobre 1997) Geneva: Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel - Droz, 2000. Pp. 270. 40 SF, paper pp. 248-249

Pierre Claude Reynard

Labour's First Century. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane, and Nick Tiratsoo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 418. $49.95 pp. 249-251

Mark Bevir

Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic. By Theo Balderston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 123. $35 pp. 251-252

Hans-Joachim Voth

Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe. Edited by Harold James and Jakob Tanner. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xii, 283. $74.95 pp. 252-253

Mark Spoerer

Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. By Muriel McAvoy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. 338. $27.95 pp. 254-255

Antonio Santamaría García

The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775–1810. By Selwyn H. H. Carrington. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Pp. xxii, 362. $59.95 pp. 255-257

Kenneth Morgan

Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850–1920. By Stephen Bell. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 292 pp. 257-258

William Summerhill

The Decline of the South African Economy. Edited by Stuart Jones. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002. Pp. xv, 238. £59.95 pp. 258-259

Charles H. Feinstein

China Maritime Customs and China Trade Statistics, 1858–1948. By Thomas Lyons. Trumansburg, NY: Willow Creek Press, 2003. Pp. 184. $34.95 pp. 259-260

Debin Ma

Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life. By Tim Rowse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 419. £50.00 pp. 260-262

Sean Turnell

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790–1850. By Kim M. Gruenwald. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 214 pp. $39.95 pp. 262-263

Diane Lindstrom

John Hull, the Mint and the Economics of Massachusetts Coinage. By Louis Jordan. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, C4 Publications, The Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2002. Pp. xx, 348. $50.00 pp. 263-264

David Flynn

Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. By Nancy S. Seasholes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 533. $49.95 pp. 264-265

Louis P. Cain

The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929. By R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 168. $39.95 pp. 266-267

Monty Hindman

A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States. By Robert L. Clark, Lee A Craig, and Jack W. Wilson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 259. $49.95 pp. 267-268

Gary Libecap

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Helen Tangires. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 265. $45.00 pp. 269-270

Sara E. Wermiel

Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 394. $45.00 pp. 270-271

Stanley Engerman

Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past. Edited by Dora L. Costa. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 343. $75.00 pp. 271-272

Marianne Ward

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Dylan C. Penningroth. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. x, 310. $14.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 272-273

Loren Schweninger

Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. Edited by Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 467. $40.00 pp. 273-274

Stephen Ziliak

Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History. Vol. 1: The Encyclopedia. Vol. 2: Debating the Issues: Selected Primary Documents. Vol. 3: The Texts of the Tariffs. Edited by Cynthia C. Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. $300.00 pp. 275-275

Douglas Irwin

American Workers, American Unions. 3rd edition. By Robert H. Zieger and Gilbert J. Gall. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 292. $17.95, paper pp. 275-276

Gerald Friedman

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout. By Timothy J. Minchin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Pp. xii, 233. $55.00 pp. 276-278

Randall L. Patton

Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation. By Charles K. Hyde. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 385. $34.95 pp. 278-279

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

Why the Bubble Burst: US Stock Market Performance since 1982. By Lawrance Lee Evans Jr. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002. Pp. ix, 237. $90.00 pp. 279-280

Peter Rousseau

Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. By S. M. Amadae. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 401. $59.00, cloth; $19.00, paper pp. 281-282

David Colander

First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange 1500–1800. By Geoffrey C. Gunn. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefied Publishers, 2003. Pp. xviii, 341. $80.00, paper pp. 282-283

Arturo Giraldez

Wirtschaftspolitik nach dem Ende der Bretton-Woods-Ära. “Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte.” 2002/1. Pp. 269. €64.80, paper pp. 283-285

Stefano Battilossi

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump. Edited by Theo Balderston. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp xii, 226. $72.00 pp. 285-287

Jean-Pierre Dormois