The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 62, issue 4, 2002

The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800–1940 pp. 929-966

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

From the Counting House to the Modern Office: Explaining Anglo-American Productivity Differences in Services, 1870–1990 pp. 967-998

Stephen Broadberry and Sayantan Ghosal

Strategic Behavior in Whiskey Distilling, 1887–1895 pp. 999-1023

Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

The Development of Intermediation in French Credit Markets: Evidence from the Estates of Burgundy pp. 1024-1049

Mark Potter and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

The Market for Capital and the Origins of State Regulation of Electric Utilities in the United States pp. 1050-1073

William J. Hausman and John Neufeld

Boom-or-Bust Commodities and Industrialization in Pre–World War II Malaya pp. 1074-1115

W. G. Huff

Many Mexicos pp. 1126-1132

Richard J. Salvucci

Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th–16th Centuries. By Raymond van Uytven. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. Pp. xiii, 352. $105.95 pp. 1136-1137

James M. Murray

Concepts and Patterns of Service in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Anne Curry and Elizabeth Matthew. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 195. $75.00 pp. 1137-1138

Mavis Mate

Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages. By Alan M. Stahl. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. 497. $68.00 pp. 1138-1139

Yadira Gonzalez De Lara

The British Economy Since 1945. By Roger Middleton. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 198. $49.95 pp. 1140-1140

John Treble

Die rheinischen Sparkassen. Entwicklung und Bedeutung für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft von den Anfängen bis 1990 (Eine Veröffentlichung des Rheinischen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes). By Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 319 pp. 1141-1142

Richard Tilly

Sozialfürsorge in der SBZ/DDR. Ursachen, Ausmaß und Bewältigung der Nachkriegs-armut. (Social Welfare in the SBZ/GDR: The Causes, Extent, and Treatment of Postwar Poverty.) By Marcel Boldorf. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998. Pp. 254 pp. 1142-1143

Wilfried Rudloff

Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family, and Business in the English-Speaking World, 1580-1740. By Richard Grassby. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 505. $64.95 pp. 1144-1145

Henry Roseveare

Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge. By J. Adam Tooze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 314. $60.00 pp. 1145-1146

Theodore M. Porter

L'Invention Technique au Siècle des Lumières. By Liliane Hilaire-Pérez. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000. Pp. 443. Ffr 140.00 pp. 1146-1148

Joel Mokyr

European Economic History: From Mercantilism to Maastricht and Beyond. By E. Damsgaard Hansen. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2001. Pp. 528. $54.00 pp. 1148-1149

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Poor Relief and Charity, 1869–1945: The London Charity Organization Society. By Robert Humphreys. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiv, 228. $65.00 pp. 1149-1150

Lynn Hollen Lees

Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921–1929. By György Péteri. (Translated from Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo.) Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2002. Pp. x, 199. $30.00 pp. 1150-1152

Ivan T. Berend

Of Mettle and Metal: From Court Jews to World-Wide Industrialists. By B. W. de Vries. Amsterdam: NEHA, 2000. Pp. 152. Euro 22.50 pp. 1152-1154

Avraham Barkai

Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930. By Elizabeth Quay Hutchison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 342. $64.95, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 1154-1155

Patrick Barr-Melej

Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. By Sarah Babb. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 295. $35.00 pp. 1155-1156

Gil Eyal

The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. By Andrew Gordon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 270. $18.95, paper pp. 1156-1158

Scott O'Bryan

Twenty-Five Years Behind Bars: The Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the U.P.C. at the Smithsonian Institution, September 30, 1999. Edited by Alan L. Haberman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 159. $25.00 pp. 1158-1159

Glen Asner

Reflections on the Great Depression. By Randall E. Parker. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. Pp. xii, 230. $85.00 pp. 1159-1160

William Barber

The Boom and the Bubble: The U.S. in the World Economy. By Robert Brenner. London: Verso, 2002. Pp. xv, 303. $23.00 pp. 1160-1162

Marie E. Sushka

Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles. Edited by Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvyn L. Oliver, James H. JohnsonJr., and Abel ValenzuelaJr. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Pp. iv, 611. $49.95 pp. 1162-1163

Masao Suzuki

“Like Fire in Broom Straw”: Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929–1931. By Robert Weldon Whalen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 125. $62.00 pp. 1163-1165

Thomas E. Terrill

Understanding Poverty. Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. ix, 566. $24.95 pp. 1165-1167

Stephen Ziliak

The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective. Edited by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001. Pp. x, 228. $80.00 pp. 1167-1168

Scott Wallsten

Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World. By Wyatt Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 276. $32.50 pp. 1168-1170

Valerie Y. Suslow

Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756–57, Merchants of New York and Belfast. Edited by Thomas M. Truxes. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2001. Pp. xxxi, 430. £50.00 pp. 1170-1171

Guillaume Daudin

The Historicity of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities of Historical Thought in 19th and 20th Century Economics. Edited by Heino H. Nau and Bertram Schefold. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2002. Pp. x, 245. €69.95 pp. 1171-1172

Kiichiro Yagi

An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life. By J. Donald Hughes. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xv, 264. $100.00 pp. 1172-1173

Eric Jones

Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka. By Blair A. Ruble. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 464. $35.00 pp. 1173-1175

James Gilbert

A Century of Banking Consolidation in Europe: The History and Archives of Mergers and Acquisitions. Edited by Manfred Pohl, Teresa Tortella and Herman van der Wee. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. 320. $84.95 pp. 1175-1177

Jeffrey R. Fear

Money and the End of Empire: British International Economic Policy and the Colonies 1947–58. By Gerold Krozewski. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiv, 311. $75.00. - Britain's Sterling Colonial Policy and Decolonization 1939–1958. By Allister Hinds. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 221. $67.95 pp. 1177-1179

John Darwin

Volume 62, issue 3, 2002

NEW ESTIMATES OF BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT, 1870–1913 pp. 643-675

George R. Boyer and Timothy J. Hatton

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AT THE MOVIES: HOLLYWOOD, 1946 TO 1965 pp. 676-705

John Sedgwick

FAMINE AND MARKET IN ANCIEN RÉGIME FRANCE pp. 706-733

Cormac Ó Gráda and Jean-Michel Chevet

THE LIMITS OF JIM CROW: RACE AND THE PROVISION OF WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES IN AMERICAN CITIES, 1880–1925 pp. 734-772

Werner Troesken

CHINESE–FILIPINO WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY MANILA pp. 773-791

John E. Murray

PART-YEAR OPERATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1870 AND 1880 CENSUSES pp. 792-809

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

THE MODERNIZATION OF SWEDISH CREDIT MARKETS, 1840–1905: EVIDENCE FROM PROBATE RECORDS pp. 810-832

Håkan Lindgren

DEPOSIT INSURANCE AND MORAL HAZARD: EVIDENCE FROM TEXAS BANKING IN THE 1920S pp. 833-853

Linda M. Hooks and Kenneth Robinson

Les sources de l'histoire économique et sociale du moyen âge. Les états de la maison de Bourgogne, tome II: Archives centrales de l'État bourguignon (1384–1500), vol. I:1: Archives des principautés du Sud, and vol. I:2: Les principautés du Nord (supplement). Edited by Robert-Henri Bautier and Janine Sornay. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2001. Pp. xiii, 782 pp. 856-857

John Munro

Towns in Decline, AD 100–1600. Edited by T. R. Slater. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii, 325. $89.95 pp. 857-858

Charles Phythian-Adams

Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden. By Timothy G. Fehler. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999. Pp. xiii, 332. £55.00 pp. 858-860

Ole Peter Grell

Peasants into Farmers? The Transformation of Rural Economy and Society in the Low Countries (Middle Ages–19th Century) in Light of the Brenner Debate. Edited by Peter Hoppenbrouwers and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. Pp. 338. EU 61.97, paper pp. 860-861

S. R. Epstein

Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954–79 U.K. Labour Productivity Record. By Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001. Pp. xi, 672. $115.00 pp. 862-863

R. Millward

The British Economy in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Booth. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 244. $65.00 pp. 863-864

Peter Howlett

Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791. By Clare Haru Crowston. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 508. $64.95, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 864-865

Pamela Sharpe

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. Volume III, 1840–1950. Edited by Martin Daunton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 944. $140.00 pp. 866-867

Robert Woods

Friedrich Hayek: A Biography. By Alan Ebenstein. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xiii, 403. $29.95 pp. 867-868

Viktor Vanberg

Town and Country in Europe, 1300–1800. Edited by S. R. Epstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 343. $64.95 pp. 868-870

Paul M. Hohenberg

The Supranational Politics of Jean Monnet: Ideas and Origins of the European Community. By Frederic J. Fransen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. 157. $64.95 pp. 870-871

John R. Gillingham

The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property. By Harold James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 268. $25.00 pp. 871-873

John R. Gillingham

Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700–1850: A Regional Perspective. By Steven King. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 294. $74.95, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 873-874

George R. Boyer

The German Urban Experience, 1900–1945: Modernity and Crisis. By Anthony McElligott. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xiii, 295. $100.00, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 874-876

Andrew Lees

The German Historical School: The Historical and Ethical Approach to Economics. Edited by Yuichi Shionoya. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xii, 224. $90.00 pp. 876-878

Bertram Schefold

Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. By Pat Thane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 536. £42.00 pp. 878-879

David Thomson

Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. By Arnold J. Bauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 245. $50.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 879-880

Margaret Chowning

An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America. Edited by Enrique Cárdenas, José Antonio Ocampo, and Rosemary Thorp. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Volume I: The Export Age: The Latin American Economies in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Pp. 329. $75.00. Volume II: Latin America in the 1930s: The Role of the Periphery in World Crisis. Pp. 297. $69.95. Volume III: Industrialization and the State in Latin America: The Postwar Years. Pp. 345. $75.00 pp. 880-882

Stephen Haber

Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890–1990. Edited by Douglas A. Farnie, Tetsuro Nakaoka, David J. Jeremy, John F. Wilson, and Takeshi Abe. (Routledge International Studies in Business History, no. 7). London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xviii, 322. $65.00 pp. 882-883

Ronald Dore

A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. By Ginger Chengchi Hsü. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 314. $49.50 pp. 883-885

Antonia Finnane

Policies for Competitiveness: Comparing Business–Government Relations in the Golden Age of Capitalism. Edited by Hideaki Miyajima, Takeo Kikkawa, and Takashi Hikino. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 344. A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy. Edited by Mikio Sumiya. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 662 pp. 885-887

Ronald Dore

Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963. By Shu Guang Zhang. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 375. $49.50 pp. 887-889

Warren I. Cohen

Politics and Banking. By Susan Hoffman. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 304. $42.00 pp. 889-890

Lynne Pierson Doti

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860. By Martin Bruegel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 305. $21.95, paper pp. 890-891

Hal S. Barron

Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929–1940. By James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 355. $90.00 pp. 891-892

Ellis W. Hawley

Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880–1928. By Timothy J. Meagher. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. Pp. 523. $22.00 pp. 893-894

Timothy Guinnane

The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914. By Nancy Cohen. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 318. $22.50, paper pp. 894-895

Mark Aldrich

Designing U.S. Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling. By W. Robert Brazelton. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 181. $65.00 pp. 895-897

Louis D. Johnston

The United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier. By Jean Heffer. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 509. $ 48.95 pp. 897-898

Arturo Giraldez

Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport. By Ronald A. Smith. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 304. $45.00 pp. 898-899

Stanley L. Engerman

Worker Participation: Lessons from the Worker Co-Ops of the Pacific Northwest. By John Pencavel. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. ix, 117. $29.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 899-901

Lawrence W. Boyd

Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation. By Timothy Curtis Jacobson and George David Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 346. $29.95 pp. 901-902

Craig W. Heinicke

Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. By Ruth O'Brien. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 288. $19.00, paper pp. 902-904

Robert J. Cottrol

Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. By Heather Ann Thompson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 295. $29.95 pp. 904-905

Thomas Maloney

Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market. By Annette Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark S. Handcock, and Marc A. Scott. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. x, 267. $32.50 pp. 906-907

William M. Boal

The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment Be Sustained? Edited by Alan B. Krueger and Robert Solow. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation and the Century Foundation Press, 2001. Pp. xlvi, 592. $49.95 pp. 907-908

Gene Smiley

Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy. By Constantine J. Spiliotes. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 212. $39.95 pp. 909-910

Robert Fleck

A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors. By John McDonald. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. xvii, 202. $24.95 pp. 910-911

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism. By William J. Baumol. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 318. $35.00 pp. 912-913

F. M. Scherer

Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. By Philip Mirowski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 655. $35.00, paper pp. 913-915

Warren J. Samuels

Lectures on Economic Growth. By Robert E. Lucas Jr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 204. $49.95 pp. 915-916

Louis D. Johnston

Island Epidemics. By Andrew D. Cliff, Peter Haggett, and Matthew R. Smallman-Raynor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 563. $120.00 pp. 916-918

Andrew Noymer

The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present. Edited by C.-L. Holtfrerich, J. Reis, and G. Toniolo. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. 398. $99.95 pp. 918-919

Charles Goodhart

The Business of Medicine: The Extraordinary History of Glaxo, a Baby Food Producer, Which Became One of the World's Most Successful Pharmaceutical Companies. By Edgar Jones. London: Profile Books, 2001. Pp. xxiii, 520. $49.95 pp. 920-921

John E. Lesch

The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. By Angus Maddison. Paris: OECD Development Centre Studies, 2001. Pp. 383. $26.00, paper pp. 921-922

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution. By Haim Ofek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 254. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 922-924

Alexander Field

Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History. By James C. Riley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 243. $49.95, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 924-925

Richard H. Steckel

Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund 1979–1989. By James M. Boughton. Washington, DC: The International Monetary Fund, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 1111. $75. The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF. By Paul Blustein. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. Pp. xvi, 431. $30 pp. 925-928

Michele Fratianni

Volume 62, issue 2, 2002

FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION pp. 277-292

Richard Sylla

REAL WAGES AND STANDARDS OF LIVING IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1489–1914 pp. 293-321

Suleyman Ozmucur and Sevket Pamuk

REAL INEQUALITY IN EUROPE SINCE 1500 pp. 322-355

Philip T. Hoffman, David Jacks, Patricia A. Levin and Peter Lindert

MARKETS FOR CHILDREN IN EARLY AMERICA: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PAUPER APPRENTICESHIP pp. 356-382

John E. Murray and Ruth Wallis Herndon

INTERINDUSTRY FACTOR MOBILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: EVIDENCE ON WAGE AND PROFIT DISPERSION ACROSS U.S. INDUSTRIES, 1820–1990 pp. 383-416

Michael J. Hiscox

AFTER COLUMBUS: EXPLAINING EUROPE'S OVERSEAS TRADE BOOM, 1500–1800 pp. 417-456

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

JACKSONIAN MONETARY POLICY, SPECIE FLOWS, AND THE PANIC OF 1837 pp. 457-488

Peter Rousseau

SHELTER FROM THE STORM: HOUSING AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1550–1909 pp. 489-511

Gregory Clark

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING pp. 566-581

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ABSTRACTS OF POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING pp. 582-582

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At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000. By David Levine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 431. $45.00 pp. 588-589

George Grantham

Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560–1620. By Ida Altman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 254. $46.00 pp. 589-590

David Ringrose

The Rise of the English Town, 1650–1850. By Christopher Chalklin. [New Studies in Social and Economic History, no. 43.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 102. $39.50, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 590-591

Peter Clark

Working Women of Early Modern Venice. By Monica Chojnacka. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 188. $32.50 pp. 592-593

John Jeffries Martin

Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy. By Steven A. Epstein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 215. $32.50 pp. 593-594

William D. Phillips

Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300–1750. By Stephan R. Epstein. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. 223. $90.00 pp. 594-595

Maristella Botticini

El mercado del tabaco en España durante el siglo XVIII: fiscalidad y consumo. Edited by Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, Sergio Solbes Ferri, and Juan José Laforet. Las Palmas: Fundación Altadis, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Gran Canaria, 2000. Pp. vi, 311 pp. 596-597

Marcy Norton

Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool. By Graeme J. Milne. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 243 pp. 597-599

Drew Keeling

Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660–1800. By Kenneth Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 120. $39.95, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 599-600

S. D. Smith

Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. By Derek J. Penslar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 374. $45.00 pp. 600-601

Nachum T. Gross

The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast. By Sarah Stockwell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 265. $80.00 pp. 601-603

Rod Alence

The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy. By Wang Gungwu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp.148. Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 328. $79.95 pp. 603-605

David Faure

Australia and the Global Trade System: From Havana to Seattle. By Ann Capling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 260. $64.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 605-607

Richard Pomfret

Labour Relations and Industrial Performance in Brazil: Greater São Paulo, 1945–60. By Renato Colistete. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xxv, 225 pp. 607-608

Zephyr Frank

Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Twentieth-Century Australia. By Robert Conlan and John Perkins. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. x, 180 pp. 608-609

Roy Church

Japan at a Deadlock. By Michio Morishima. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. x, 261. $79.95 pp. 609-611

Jeff Kingston

The Economic History of India 1857–1947. By Tirthankar Roy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2001. Pp. xvi, 318. £16.99 pp. 611-612

Deepak Lal

The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand. By Simon Ville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 259. $64.95 pp. 612-613

Ian Maclean

Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. By Gloria L. Main. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 237. $49.95 pp. 613-615

David Flynn

Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750–1800. By Robert E. Wright. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. Pp. xii, 217. $24.95, paper pp. 615-616

Richard J. Sullivan

Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change. Edited by Craig E. Colten. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pp. x, 272. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 616-618

Paul Paskoff

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War. By David G. Surdam. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 286. $34.95 pp. 618-619

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Indian Reservations in the United States: Territory, Sovereignty and Economic Change. By Klaus Frantz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 370. $25.00, paper pp. 619-621

C. Matthew Snipp

Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945. By Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 307. $39.95 pp. 621-622

Gary Libecap

The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in South-western North Carolina. By Stephen Wallace Taylor. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. xi, 186. $55.00 pp. 622-623

Rosemary L. Hopcroft

Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain. By Ian MacLachlan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 378. $70.00 pp. 623-624

Bill Marr

The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence. By John N. Vardalas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 409. $45.00 pp. 624-626

Rick Szostak

A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America. By Michael A. Bernstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. 358. $39.50 pp. 626-628

Sally Clarke

Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. By David A. Skeel, Jr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi. 281. $35.00 pp. 628-629

Jenny Wahl

On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Pp. x, 291. $26.00 pp. 629-630

Scott Alan Carson

Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment. By Martin V. Melosi. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 325. $19.95, paper pp. 630-632

Christopher J. Castaneda

Flight from Fallibility: How Theory Triumphed over Experience in the West. By Henry J. Perkinson. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2002. Pp. x, 154. $55.00 pp. 632-633

John Henry Schlegel

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. By David T. Courtwright. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $24.95, paper pp. 633-634

Carl A. Trocki

As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution. By Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 407 pp. 634-636

Alexander Field

The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948–1963. By Ian Jackson. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 239 pp. 636-637

Alan S. Milward

The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality. By Alan Macfarlane. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 326. $65.00 pp. 637-638

John A. Hall

Consumerism in World History. The Global Transformation of Desire. By Peter N. Stearns. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 147. $10.99 pp. 638-639

Jan de Vries

Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century. By Ted Wilson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xi, 200 pp. 639-640

Angela Redish

Comparing Economic Systems: Italy and Japan. Edited by Andrea Boltho, Alessandro Vercelli, and Hiroshi Yoshikawa. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvii, 250. $75.00 pp. 640-642

Frederic L. Pryor

Volume 62, issue 1, 2002

PEASANTS, LORDS, AND LEVIATHAN: WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM THE ABOLITION OF FRENCH FEUDALISM, 1780–1820 pp. 1-24

D. M. G. Sutherland

DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938 pp. 25-54

Robert Fleck

LAND, LABOR, AND GLOBALIZATION IN THE THIRD WORLD, 1870–1940 pp. 55-85

Jeffrey Williamson

“RAIN FOLLOWS THE PLOW” AND DRYFARMING DOCTRINE: THE CLIMATE INFORMATION PROBLEM AND HOMESTEAD FAILURE IN THE UPPER GREAT PLAINS, 1890–1925 pp. 86-120

Gary Libecap and Zeynep Kocabiyik Hansen

NEW INDICES OF BRITISH EQUITY PRICES, 1870–1913 pp. 121-146

Richard Grossman

MAKING THE LITTLE GUY PAY: PAYMENTS-SYSTEM NETWORKS, CROSS-SUBSIDIZATION, AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE SUFFOLK SYSTEM pp. 147-169

Howard Bodenhorn

STATE-DIRECTED DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY: THE MECHANIZATION OF COTTON HARVESTING IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA pp. 170-188

Richard Pomfret

CONTRACT EVOLUTION AND INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION: MARKETING PACIFIC-GROWN APPLES FROM 1890 TO 1930 pp. 189-212

Carolyn Dimitri

CAMPBELL ON LATE-MEDIEVAL ENGLISH AGRICULTURE: TWO VIEWS English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250–1450. By Bruce M. S. Campbell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 517 pp. 213-216

Harry Kitsikopoulos and Harold Fox

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento. Dal baco al drappo. Edited by Luca Molà, Reinhold C. Mueller, and Claudio Zanier. Venice: Marsilio, 2000. Pp. ix, 568 pp. 223-224

Domenico Sella

Prince Henry “The Navigator”: A Life. By Peter Russell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 448. $35.00 pp. 224-225

Bill M. Donovan

MODERN EUROPE State Formation in Early Modern England, c. 1550–1700. By Michael J. Braddick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 448. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 225-227

Philip S. Gorski

Marriage and Rural Economy: Western Europe Since 1400. Edited by Isabelle Devos and Liam Kennedy. [Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area, No. 3.] Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. Pp. 292. €55.00 pp. 227-229

Andrejs Plakans

Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660–1870. By Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 350 pp. 229-231

Larry Neal

Early Modern Capitalism: Economic and Social Change in Europe, 1400–1800. Edited by Maarten Prak. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xv, 236. $90.00 pp. 231-232

Paul M. Hohenberg

Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion. By K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 499. $74.95 pp. 232-234

Albion M. Urdank

Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France. By Tamara L. Whited. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 274 pp. 234-236

Caroline Ford

An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: Demographic, Economic and Social Transition. By Michael Wintle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 399. $69.95 pp. 236-237

Boudien de Vries

The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk, 1440–1580. By Jane Whittle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp xii, 361. £45.00 pp. 237-238

R. W. Hoyle

Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution. By Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 402 pp. 239-240

John Treble

Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. By Bernd Wittig. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 277 pp. 239-239

Harold James

ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance 1856–1881. By Christopher Clay. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. Pp. xxii, 698. $65.00 pp. 241-242

Donald Quataert

The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932. By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 522 pp. 242-243

Ramon H. Myers

Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History. By Paul Sillitoe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 264. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 243-244

R. J. May

A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression and Rural Revitalization. By Kerry Smith. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 481. $40.00 pp. 244-245

Penelope Francks

UNITED STATES AND CANADA The Many Legalities of Early America. Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 466. $22.50, paper pp. 246-247

Sean Patrick Adams

Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. By Judith A. Carney. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 240. $37.95 pp. 247-248

Peter A. Coclanis

Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790–1850. By Donna J. Rilling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 261. $45.00 pp. 248-250

Gillian Hamilton

Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720–1850. By Thomas S. Wermuth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp.vii,186. $17.95, paper pp. 250-251

Donald R. Adams

Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile. By Harriet E. Amos. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985, paperback edition, 2001. Pp. xviii, 311. $24.95 pp. 251-253

David R. Meyer

The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century City. By Sara Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 301. $45.00 pp. 253-254

Jared Day

Labor in Retreat: Class and Community Among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871–1929. By Youngsoo Bae. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 295. $26.95, paper pp. 254-255

Laura J. Owen

Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850–1915. By Robert S. Weise. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 374. $40.00 pp. 255-257

Mary Wilma Hargreaves

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. By Adam Rose. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 299. $54.95 pp. 257-258

Kim McQuaid

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. By Venus Green. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 370. $19.95, paper pp. 258-259

David Gabel

Ties That Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800–1990. By Charles David Jacobson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 282. $34.95 pp. 259-260

Werner Troesken

The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s. Edited by Phillip Scranton. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 310. $50.00 pp. 260-261

Marvin Fischbaum

Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960. By Hugh R. Slotten. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 308. $45.00 pp. 261-263

Debora Spar

Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xv, 336. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 263-264

Margaret Walsh

Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada. By John Clarke. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxvii, 747. $75.00 pp. 264-265

Marvin McInnis

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Land Productivity and Agro-systems in the North Sea Area: Middle Ages–20th Century. Elements for Comparison. Edited by Bas J. P. van Bavel and Erik Thoen. CORN Publication Series, no. 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. Pp. 382 pp. 266-267

George Grantham

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000. By Niall Ferguson. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. xix, 552 pp. 267-268

Larry Neal

The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478–1776. By Geoffrey Poitras. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. x, 522 pp. 268-269

Larry Neal

Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis. By Angela Redish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 276. $54.95 pp. 269-271

Marc Flandreau

Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. By Emma Rothschild. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 353. $45.00 pp. 271-272

Pierre Force

Technology, Growth and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective. By Vernon W. Ruttan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 656 pp. 272-273

Joel Mokyr

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause. By Julian L. Simon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 214. $39.50 pp. 274-275

John Komlos

After Slavery: Emancipation and its Discontents. Edited by Howard Temperley. London: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 310. $62.50, cloth; $26.50, paper pp. 275-276

Mary Turner