The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 63, issue 4, 2003

The Trading of Unlimited Liability Bank Shares in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Bagehot Hypothesis pp. 931-958

Charles R. Hickson and John Turner

A Golden Age? Unemployment and the American Labor Market, 1880–1910 pp. 959-994

John James and Mark Thomas

Why Isn't the Whole of Spain Industrialized? New Economic Geography and Early Industrialization, 1797–1910 pp. 995-1022

Joan Rosés

Why Schumpeter was Right: Innovation, Market Power, and Creative Destruction in 1920s America pp. 1023-1058

Tom Nicholas

Peeking Backward: Regional Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy pp. 1059-1102

Stefano Fenoaltea

The Origins of State Pure Food Regulation pp. 1103-1130

Marc Law

The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 39. Washington, DC, 2002. 3 vol. Pp. viii, vi, vi, 1205. $180.00 pp. 1149-1150

A. R. Littlewood

Le Crédit lyonnais: Etudes historiques (1863–1986). Edited by Bernard Desjardins, Michel Lescure, Roger Nougaret, Alain Plessis, and André Straus. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. Pp. 1020. 60 CHF pp. 1150-1152

François Crouzet

Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914–1947. By Paul V. Dutton. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 251. $60.00 pp. 1152-1153

Michael Hanagan

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900–1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Fowler. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xv, 236. $84.95 pp. 1153-1154

Michael Huberman

The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. By David Ormond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 388. $75.00 pp. 1154-1155

Ann Carlos

The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931–1951. By Richard Toye. Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. Pp. xii, 268. $75.00 pp. 1155-1156

D. E. Moggridge

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. By Linsun Cheng. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 277. 39 Tables, 10 Figures, 2 Appendices. $65.00 pp. 1157-1158

Philip Richardson

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945. By Parks M. Coble. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 296. $60 pp. 1158-1159

Tim Wright

A History of Small Business in America. By Mansel G. Blackford. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 216. $45.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 1159-1161

Glen R. Asner

The Farm on the North Talbot Road. By Allan G. Bogue. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 226. $19.95, paper pp. 1161-1162

Robert Ankli

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry. By Martin Campbell-Kelly. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 372. $29.95 pp. 1162-1163

Luanne Johnson

The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery. By Carville Earle. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. Pp. xvii, 448. $69.95 pp. 1163-1165

John Majewski

Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. By Deborah Fitzgerald. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 241. $45.00 pp. 1165-1166

Carolyn Dimitri

Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. By Laura Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 244. $60.00, cloth; $20.00, paper pp. 1166-1167

Richard Bensel

America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 371. $29.95 pp. 1168-1169

John S. Nader

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 303. $15.95, paper pp. 1169-1170

Ann Carlos

American Economic Development Since 1945. By Samuel Rosenberg. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Pp. xii, 337. $75.00, cloth; $23.95, paper pp. 1170-1171

Richard H. K. Vietor

Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economics and Political Relationships. By Peter Bernholz. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2003. Pp. xi, 210. $85.00 pp. 1171-1173

Angela Redish

Bonds and Bondholders: British Foreign Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824–1888. By Michael Costeloe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xxii, 359. $69.95 pp. 1173-1174

Noel Maurer

International Banking and Financial Systems: Evolution and Stability. Edited by Luigi di Rosa. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xiv, 267. £47.50 pp. 1174-1175

Jaime Reis

Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815–1859. By Joseph C. Dorsey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. xvii, 311. $59.95 pp. 1175-1176

Astrid Cubano-Iguina

Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences. By Atish R. Ghosh, Anne-Marie Gulde, and Holger C. Wolf. Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2002. Pp. 232. $32.95 pp. 1177-1178

Stefano Battilossi

The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. By Harold James. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 260. $42.5, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 1178-1179

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur

The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. By Joel Mokyr. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 359. $35.00 pp. 1179-1181

Christine Macleod

The End of Diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism. Edited by Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 401. $49.95, £31.50 cloth; $24.95, £15.95, paper pp. 1181-1183

Richard Whitley

Volume 63, issue 3, 2003

Implicit Contracts, the Great Depression, and Institutional Change: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japanese Employment Relations, 1920–1940 pp. 625-665

Chiaki Moriguchi

Institutional Innovation and the Creation of Liquid Financial Markets: The Case of Bankers' Acceptances, 1914–1934 pp. 666-694

J. Ferderer

Notes on the Rate of Industrial Growth in Italy, 1861–1913 pp. 695-735

Stefano Fenoaltea

Better Opportunities or Worse? The Demise of Cotton Harvest Labor, 1949–1964 pp. 736-767

Wayne Grove and Craig Heinicke

The Debasement of the “Dollar of the Middle Ages” pp. 768-801

Costas Kaplanis

Shattered Rails, Ruined Credit: Financial Fragility and Railroad Operations in the Great Depression pp. 802-825

Daniel A. Schiffman

Measuring British Decline: Direct Versus Long-Span Income Measures pp. 826-851

Marianne Ward and John Devereux

The Carolingian Economy. By Adriaan Verhulst. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 160. $50.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 866-867

David Nicholas

A History of Brewing in Holland, 900–1900: Economy, Technology and the State. By Richard W. Unger. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xxii, 428. €140, $154.00 pp. 867-868

Arjan Poelwijk

Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie. By Franklin Hugh Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 458. $90.00 pp. 868-869

Jon Cohen

Les aides americaines economiques et militaires a la France 1938–1960: Une nouvelle image des rapports de puissance. By Gerard Bossuat. Paris: Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere de la France, 2001. Pp. 406 pp. 870-871

John Gillingham

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793–1873. By Jeremy Burchardt. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002. Pp. x, 287. $75.00 pp. 871-872

Michael Turner

Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887–1938. By Peter Cain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 320. £45.00 pp. 872-873

Carol E. Heim

Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain c.1589–2000. By Stanley Chapman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiv, 328. £55.00 pp. 873-875

Marilyn Palmer

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development. By Joseph E. Inikori. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, Pp. xxi, 576. £55.00, cloth; £19.95, paper pp. 875-876

Kenneth Morgan

The Gold Standard Illusion: France, the Bank of France, and the International Gold Standard, 1914–1939. By Kenneth Mouré. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 297. $72.00 pp. 876-878

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur

The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688–1914. Edited by Donald Winch and Patrick K. O'Brien. Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 453. £40 pp. 878-880

Ron Harris

Population and Society in an East Devon Parish: Reproducing Colyton 1540–1840. By Pamela Sharpe. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 408. £45.00 pp. 880-881

Nicola Verdon

West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945–1955. By S. Jonathan Wiesen. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. 329, viii. $39.95 pp. 881-882

John Gillingham

Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820. Edited by Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 328. $80.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 882-883

Richard Salvucci

The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876–1932. By Noel Maurer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 250. $60.00 pp. 883-885

J. Ferderer

Ensayos de Historia Económica: Uruguay y la Región en la Economía Mundial 1870–1990. By Luis Bértola. Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce, 2000. Pp. 199 pp. 885-886

Edward Beatty

Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880–1935. By Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 275. $35.00 pp. 886-888

Steve H. Hanke

Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878–1895. By Susan Fernández. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 203. $59.95 pp. 888-889

Noel Maurer

Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World. Edited by Nancy Birdsall, Allen C. Kelley, and Steven W. Sinding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. £57.50, cloth; £19.99, paper pp. 889-890

T. Paul Schultz

Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900–2000. By H. W. Dick. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 541. $30.00, paper pp. 891-892

Freek Colombijn

The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. By R. J. Barendse. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvi, 588. $85.00 pp. 892-893

Om Prakash

Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia. By Linda L. Sturtz. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xv, 278, $85.00 pp. 893-895

Zephyr Frank

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $29.95 pp. 895-897

Robert J. Steinfeld

Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic. By Robert E. Wright. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 230. $62.95 pp. 897-898

Edwin J. Perkins

Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700–1870. By Charles A. Kromkowski. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. v, 451. $70.00 pp. 898-899

Robert A. McGuire

Advocate for Free Enterprise: William Buck Dana and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1865–1910. By Douglas Steeples. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 237. $72.95 pp. 899-901

David B. Sicilia

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. By Harold S. Wilson. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 412. $45.00 pp. 901-902

John Majewski

Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation. By Elizabeth Regosin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp xi, 239. $49.50, cloth; $17.50, paper pp. 902-903

Robert J. Cottrol

The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920. By Jeffrey Sklansky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 313. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 903-905

Stephen Ziliak

Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England. Edited by Peter Temin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 328, $18.95, paper pp. 905-906

Annalee Saxenian

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935. By Donald J. Pisani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 394. $49.95 pp. 906-908

Mark Kanazawa

The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response. By Henry Ruth and Kevin R. Reitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 374. $35.00 pp. 908-909

Jenny B. Wahl

Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed. Edited by Jane Adams. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. 338. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 909-910

Mary Eschelbach Hansen

Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. By James M. Rubinstein. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 401. $45.00. Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel. By Thomas E. Bonsall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. v, 230. $35.95 pp. 910-913

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry. By F. Robert van der Linden. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. xvi, 349. $35.00 pp. 913-914

Richard B. Kielbowicz

Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy. By Edward C. Lorenz. University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. Pp vii, 318. $43.95, cloth; 23.95, paper pp. 914-915

Lawrence W. Boyd

The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics, and Power in the “Discovery” of Byssinosis in the U.S. By Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. De Laurier with Mary Lee Dunn. Amityville, New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2002. Pp. xvi, 160. $32.95 pp. 915-917

Annette Wright

Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. By R. Douglas Hurt. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xiii, 192. $24.95 pp. 917-918

Hal S. Barron

The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Edited by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 633. $75.00 pp. 918-919

Peter C. Mancall

Merchants and Migrations: Germans and Americans in Connection, 1776–1835. By Sam A. Mustafa. Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 284. $79.95 pp. 919-921

Katherine B. Aaslestad

Technological Change and the Environment. Edited by Arnulf Grübler, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, and William D. Nordhaus. Co-publication of Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., and Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 2002. Pp. v, 409. $49.00 pp. 921-922

Paul Rhode

La piastre et le fusil: Le coût de la guerre d'Indochine, 1945–1954 [The Piaster and the Gun: The Cost of the Indochina War, 1945–1954]. By Hugues Tertrais, Paris: Comité pour l'Histoire économique et financière de la France, 2002, Pp. ix, 634. €35.00, paper pp. 922-924

Christopher E. Goscha

Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period. Edited by Makoto Kasuya. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 235. $65.00 pp. 924-925

Christopher Hanes

The Worlds of the East India Company. Edited by H. V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 246. $75.00 pp. 925-926

Santhi Hejeebu

Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century: An Evolutionary-Keynesian Analysis. By John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 269. $59.95 pp. 927-928

Geoffrey Hodgson

The Problems and Methods of Economic History. By Wittold Kula. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2001. Pp. li, 479. $104.95 pp. 928-929

Lars Magnusson

Famine Demography: Perspectives from the Past and Present. Edited by Tim Dyson and Cormac Ó Gráda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 264. £45.00 pp. 929-930

James C. Riley

Volume 63, issue 2, 2003

Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right? pp. 315-350

Peter Lindert

Anthropometric Evidence on Living Standards in Northern Italy, 1730–1860 pp. 351-381

Brian A'Hearn

The Short and the Dead: Nutrition, Mortality, and the “Antebellum Puzzle” in the United States pp. 382-413

Michael R. Haines, Lee Craig and Thomas Weiss

The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East pp. 414-446

Timur Kuran

Hog-Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920–1960 pp. 447-488

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Economic Well-Being and Fertility in France: Nuits, 1744–1792 pp. 489-505

Hajime Hadeishi

How Economics Became a Mathematical Science: Two Views pp. 514-516

Roy J. Epstein and David Colander

Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England. Edited by Michael Hicks. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2001. Pp. x, 198. $75.00 pp. 577-578

Richard Britnell

Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300–900. By Michael McCormick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxviii, 1101. $60.00 pp. 578-579

Richard Hodges

Society and Economy in Germany, 1300–1600. By Tom Scott. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xi, 313. $69.95, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 579-580

Terence McIntosh

Die Baumwollgewerbe Nordwestdeutschlands und der westlichen Nachbarländer beim Ügang von der vorindustriellen zur frühindustriellen Zeit 1750–1815; Verflechtung und regionale Differenzierung. By Gerhard Adelmann. (In the series: Beiträge zur Unternehmensgeschichte; Bd. 11.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 184. $34.00 pp. 581-582

Klaus Weber

Les Grains du Désordre: L'Etat Face aux Violences Frumentaires dans la Première Moitiédu XIX Siècle. By Nicolas Bourguinat. Paris: EHESS, 2002. Pp. 9, 542. €42, paper pp. 582-583

Cynthia A. Bouton

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia. By Wendy Z. Goldman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 294. $60.00, cloth; $23.00, paper pp. 583-584

Jeffrey Brooks

Les hauts revenus en France au XXe siècle: Inégalités et redistributions 1901–1998. By Thomas Piketty. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2001. Pp. 807. €30, paper pp. 585-586

C. Edmund Clingan

British Imperialism, 1688–2000. Second Edition. By P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins. London and New York: Longman, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 739. $24.95, paper pp. 586-589

Michael Edelstein

Geschichte und Zukunft der deutschen Automobilindustrie. Edited by Rudolf Boch. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 290. €49 pp. 589-591

Jeffrey Fear

Finance from Kaiser to Führer: Budget Politics in Germany, 1912–1934. By C. Edmund Clingan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. x, 255. $67.50 pp. 591-592

Gerald D. Feldman

The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820–1960. (New Studies in Economic and Social History, vol. 44). By Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Economic History Society, 2001. Pp. viii, 139. $40.00, cloth; $13.00, paper pp. 592-593

Stefano Fenoaltea

Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage. By Naomi Tadmor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. v, 312. £45.00 pp. 593-594

Amanda Flather

Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835–1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England. By Carol E. Morgan. New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 224. $27.95, paper pp. 594-595

Janet Greenlees

Changing Family Size in England and Wales: Place, Class and Demography, 1891–1911. By Eilidh Garret, Alice Reid, Kevin Schürer, and Simon Szreter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 526. $90.00 pp. 596-597

Edward Higgs

The Subterranean Forest Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution. By Rolf Peter Sieferle. Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2001. Pp. x, 230. £35.00 pp. 597-598

Vaclav Smil

Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia: Challenges Met and Opportunities Seized. Edited by Andrew Mason. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 503. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 598-600

Naohiro Ogawa

Taiwan in the Global Economy. Edited by Peter C. Y. Chow. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xiii, 284. $67.95 pp. 600-601

Erik Thorbecke

Argentina: A Short History. By Colin M. Lewis. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002. Pp. x, 260. $12.00, paper pp. 601-602

Jeremy Adelman

A History of Household Government in America. By Carole Shammas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 232. $55, cloth; $19.50, paper pp. 602-604

Gloria L. Main

American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States. By Jonathan A. Glickstein. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. x, 361. $39.50 pp. 604-605

John Enyeart

A History of the Federal Reserve: Volume 1, 1913–1951. By Allan H. Meltzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 600 pp. 605-606

Kris James Mitchener

Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. By Diana Muir. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000. Pp. 324. $15.95, paper pp. 607-608

Chad Montrie

Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. By J. Mills Thornton III. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 733. $59.95 pp. 608-609

Robert J. Norrell

Saving International Capitalism during the Early Truman Presidency: The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems. By Kevin M. Casey. New York, London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xi, 252. $70 pp. 609-610

Hugh Rockoff

The Sword of Damocles: U.S. Financial Hegemony in Colombia and Chile, 1950–1970. By Jon V. Kofas. Westport, CT: Prager, 2002. Pp. xix, 238. $64.95 pp. 610-612

Marcelo Bucheli

On Borrowed Time? Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion. By John E. Tilton. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2003. Pp. v, 158. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 612-613

Jesse Czelusta

How the Dismal Science got its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics. By David M. Levy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 320. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 613-615

Seymour Drescher

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages. By Carlota Perez. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. Pp. xix, 198. $65.00, cloth; $30.00, paper pp. 615-616

Douglas J. Puffert

Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. By Stephen M. Stigler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 488. $48.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 616-617

E. Roy Weintraub

Entrepreneurship and Organization: The Role of the Entrepreneur in Organizational Innovation. Edited by Michael J. Lynskey and Seiichiro Yonekura. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 390. $93.25 pp. 617-618

David M. Higgins

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. By Seymour Drescher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 307. $50.00 pp. 619-620

Kenneth Morgan

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. By Seymour Drescher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. vi, 307. $50.00 pp. 619-620

Kenneth Morgan

The Dissemination of The Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776–1843. By Kenneth E. Carpenter. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2002. Pp. lxiii, 255. $45.00 pp. 621-623

Emma Rothschild

The Dissemination of The Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776–1843. By Kenneth E. Carpenter. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2002. Pp. lxiii, 255. $45.00 pp. 621-623

Emma Rothschild

War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present. By Jytte Klausen. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. 341. $18.95, paper pp. 623-624

Jim Tomlinson

Volume 63, issue 1, 2003

When the Law Does Not Matter: The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Oil Industry pp. 1-32

Stephen Haber, Noel Maurer and Armando Razo

Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842 pp. 33-64

James Bessen

With a Bang, not a Whimper: Pricking Germany's “Stock Market Bubble” in 1927 and the Slide into Depression pp. 65-99

Hans-Joachim Voth

A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing: Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940–1944 pp. 100-126

Leonardo Caruana and Hugh Rockoff

Did Takahashi Korekiyo Rescue Japan from the Great Depression? pp. 127-144

Myung Soo Cha

Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans pp. 145-177

Sarah Turner and John Bound

The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R&D Failure: Steam Power for Aviation, 1932 to 1939 pp. 178-212

Mark Harrison

The Panics of 1854 and 1857: A View from the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank pp. 213-240

Cormac Ó Gráda and Eugene White

Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London. Edited by Patrick Karl O'Brien, Derek J. Keene, Herman Van der Wee, and Majolein't Hart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 361. $64.95 pp. 249-250

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The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450–1800. By Rosemary O'Day. Harlow: Longman, 2000. Pp. xi, 334. 19.99, paper pp. 251-252

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The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850–1970. By Robert J. Smith. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 247. $42.50 pp. 254-255

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Von der Autarkie zum Wirtschaftswunder: Wirtschaftspolitik und industrieller Wandel in Italien 1935–1963. By Rolf Petri. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001. Pp. 534 pp. 261-262

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The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry. By George Symeonidis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. x, 542. $55.00 pp. 262-263

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Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market. By Sucheta Mazumdar. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 657. $49.50 pp. 264-265

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The Thai Village Economy in the Past. By Chattip Nartsupha. English Translation by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999. Pp. viii, 131 pp. 265-266

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Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico Before 1911. By Edward Beatty. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001 pp. 267-268

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The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800–2000. By Howard Dick, Vincent J. H. Houben, J. Thomas Lindblad, and Thee Kian Wie. Crows Nest NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 2002. Pp. xvii, 286. $38.00 pp. 268-269

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Domestic Service in Australia. By B. W. Higman. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 358 pp. 269-270

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The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. By Gerald N. Grob. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 349. $35.00 pp. 270-272

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La Harpe's Post: A Tale of French-Wichita Contact on the Eastern Plains. By George H. Odell. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 369. $29.95, paper pp. 272-273

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Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society. Edited by Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy J. Sparks. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 400. $49.95 pp. 273-274

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Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 324. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 275-276

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Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. viii, 238. $29.95 pp. 276-277

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Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920. By Steven W. Usselman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 398. $65.00 cloth; $25.00, paper pp. 277-279

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Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920. By Thomas Winter. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 208. $40.00, cloth; $17.00, paper pp. 279-280

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Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. By Charles Perrow. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 259. $34.95 pp. 283-285

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Investing For Middle America: John Elliot Tappan And The Origins Of American Express Financial Advisors. By Kenneth Lipartito and Carol Heher Peters. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 268. $27.95 pp. 285-286

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Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940–1980. By Christopher Armstrong. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. x, 424. $60.00 pp. 291-292

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Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry. By Hugh S. Gorman. Series on Technology and the Environment. Series Editors, Jeffrey Stine, and Joel Tarr. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 451. $49.95, cloth; $39.95, paper pp. 294-295

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The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. By Liah Greenfeld. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 541. $45.00 pp. 300-302

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Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880–1914: Enterprise and Culture. By Andrew Godley. Basingstoke, England, and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii, 187. $60.00 pp. 302-303

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Monetary Standards in the Periphery: Paper, Silver and Gold, 1854–1933. Edited by Pablo Martin Acena and Jaime Reis. London: Macmillan, 2000. Pp. 264 pp. 303-305

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Early Globalization and the Economic Development of the United States and Brazil. By John DeWitt. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Pp. 178 pp. 305-306

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International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility. By Michael J Hiscox. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp xiv, 209. $49.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 306-307

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The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison. Edited by Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 261 pp. 310-311

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