The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 61, issue 4, 2001

THE SUPPLY PRICE OF LABOR DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION pp. 877-903

Curtis J. Simon

IS THE KUZNETS CURVE STILL ALIVE? EVIDENCE FROM ITALIAN HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS, 1881–1961 pp. 904-925

Nicola Rossi, Gianni Toniolo and Giovanni Vecchi

WOMEN'S WORK AND MEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT pp. 926-949

Carolyn Moehling

ENFORCING PROPERTY RIGHTS THROUGH REPUTATION: MEXICO'S EARLY INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1878–1913 pp. 950-973

Noel Maurer and Tridib Sharma

SPECIES OF PROPERTY: THE AMERICAN PROPERTY-TAX UNIFORMITY CLAUSES RECONSIDERED pp. 974-1008

Robin L. Einhorn

COMMON RIGHTS TO LAND IN ENGLAND, 1475–1839 pp. 1009-1036

Gregory Clark and Anthony Clark

TRADE, CONSUMPTION, AND THE NATIVE ECONOMY: LESSONS FROM YORK FACTORY, HUDSON BAY pp. 1037-1064

Ann Carlos and Frank Lewis

THE LONGEST YEARS: NEW ESTIMATES OF LABOR INPUT IN ENGLAND, 1760–1830 pp. 1065-1082

Hans-Joachim Voth

PORK PACKERS, RECIPROCITY, AND LAURIER'S DEFEAT IN THE 1911 CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTION pp. 1083-1101

Eugene Beaulieu and John Emery

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL Banking and Business in the Roman World. By Jean Andreau. Translated by Janey Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 176. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 1105-1106

H. W. Pleket

England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy, 1490–1690. By David Loades. London: Longman, 2000. Pp. xi, 277. $17.80, paper pp. 1106-1107

G. V. Scammell

MODERN EUROPE Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle. By Gérard Béaur. Paris: Éditions SEDES, 2000. Pp. 320. €21.13, paper pp. 1108-1109

Philip T. Hoffman

The Great Depression in Europe, 1929–1939. By Patricia Clavin. New York: St. Martin's Press. Pp. viii, 244 pp. 1109-1110

Stephen Broadberry

The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Volume VII, 1850–1914. Edited by E. J. T. Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xl, 2277. $295.00 pp. 1110-1111

Gregory Clark

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 404. $80.00 pp. 1111-1113

Stanley Chapman

Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making. By Gerard L'E. Turner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 305. £79.50 pp. 1113-1114

Koenraad Van Cleempoel

Material London, ca. 1600. Edited by Lena C. Orlin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. x, 393. $65.00, cloth; $26.50, paper pp. 1114-1115

Jeremy Boulton

Papermaking in Eighteenth Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761–1805. By Leonard N. Rosenband. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 210. $39.95 pp. 1115-1117

Clare Crowston

Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. By Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 351. $51.50 pp. 1117-1118

David Ringrose

Bier, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in Deutschland, 1800–1914. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Industrialisierungsgeschichte. By Mikulás Teich. Vienna: Böhlau-Verlag, 2000. Pp. 355 pp. 1118-1120

Wolfgang Behringer

The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830–1870. By Victoria E. Thompson. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 229. $32.00 pp. 1120-1121

Judith A. Miller

The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800–1850. By Marco van Leeuwen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 242. $69.95 pp. 1121-1122

Lynn MacKay

Time and Work in England, 1750–1830. By Hans-Joachim Voth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 304. £40 pp. 1123-1124

Gregory Clark

Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. By Keith Wrightson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 372. $35.00 pp. 1124-1125

Craig Muldrew

ASIA, MIDDLE EAST, LATIN AMERICA, AND AFRICA Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 305. $60.00 pp. 1125-1127

Richard J. Salvucci

Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. By James C. McCann. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. iii, 224. $24.95 pp. 1127-1128

Shane Doyle

The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. By Jacob Metzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 275 pp. 1128-1129

Tarik M. Yousef

Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China: The South Fukien Pattern, 946–1368. By Billy K. L. So. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. Pp. xxi, 469. $49.50 pp. 1130-1131

Valerie Hansen

Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889–1930. By Gail D. Triner. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xv, 333 pp. 1131-1132

Zephyr Frank

UNITED STATES AND CANADA An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 357. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 1132-1133

Andrew Rutten

Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676. By Joyce E. Chaplin. Cambridge, MA, and London England: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 411. $45.00 pp. 1134-1135

H. A. Gemery

Migrants, Servants, and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British America. By Russell R. Menard. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate/Variorum, 2001. Pp. xiv, 302. $105.95 pp. 1135-1137

John E. Murray

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. By Allan Kulikoff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 484. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 1137-1138

Robert E. Wright

From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750–1820. By Ross Frank. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 329. $45.00 pp. 1138-1139

Richard J. Salvucci

From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. By Lorena S. Walsh. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xxii, 335. $18.95, paper pp. 1140-1141

Peter A. Coclanis

American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920. By Brian C. Hosmer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xvi, 309. $35.00 pp. 1141-1142

Frank Lewis

Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation. By J. William Harris. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 454. $45.00 pp. 1142-1143

William H. Phillips

The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980. By Timothy J. Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. x, 277. $24.95, paper pp. 1143-1145

William Boyd

Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities. Edited by Alice O'Connor, Chris Tilly, and Lawrence D. Bobo. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. xii, 549. $45.00 pp. 1145-1146

Stephen Ziliak

Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century. By Christine E. Bose. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 257. $22.95, paper pp. 1146-1147

Ann Harper Fender

Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. By Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 188. $32.00 pp. 1148-1149

David Mitch

The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791–1797. By David Jack Cowen. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000. Pp. xxix, 323. $70.00 pp. 1149-1150

Richard J. Sullivan

Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750. By Mary B. Rose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 352. $64.95 pp. 1150-1152

Michael Huberman

The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South. By Broadus Mitchell, with a new introduction by David L. Carlton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. lviii, 281. $18.95, paper pp. 1152-1153

Thomas E. Terrill

A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund. By Richard P. Mulcahy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. Pp xiii, 274. $34.00 pp. 1153-1154

Lawrence W. Boyd

Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression. By Davis W. Houck. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. 226. $39.95 pp. 1155-1156

George D. Green

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. By Charles R. Geisst. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 355. $30.00 pp. 1156-1157

David Bunting

Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration. By Jonathan L. Bean. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 224. $29.95 pp. 1157-1158

Scott Wallsten

Dodging Bullets: Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1990s. By Robert N. McCauley, Judith S. Ruud, and Frank Iacono. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 415. $34.95 pp. 1158-1160

Carol E. Heim

Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000. By Mansel Blackford. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xiii, 277. $35.00 pp. 1160-1161

Sumner La Croix

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill. By Lara V. Marks. London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 372. $29.95 pp. 1161-1163

Stacey Jones

Productivity, Innovation and Economic Performance. Edited by Ray Barrell, Geoff Mason, and Mary O'Mahony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 289. $74.95 pp. 1163-1164

Va Nee L. Van Vleck

Economic Transition in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the History of Economics. Edited by Charles M. A. Clark and Janina Rosicka. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii, 165. $64.95 pp. 1164-1165

Frederic L. Pryor

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. By Manuel De Landa. New York: Zone Books, 1997. Pp. 333. $16.00 pp. 1165-1166

Philip Coelho

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. By Hernando de Soto. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. 276. $27.50, cloth; $14.00, paper pp. 1166-1168

Gary D. Libecap

The First World War and the International Economy. Edited by Chris Wrigley. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. x, 221 pp. 1168-1170

James Foreman-Peck

Volume 61, issue 3, 2001

THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION'S EFFECT ON ENGLISH PRIVATE FINANCE: A MICROHISTORY, 1680–1705 pp. 593-615

Stephen Quinn

SLAVE PRICES AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA ECONOMY, 1722–1809 pp. 616-639

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

PARLIAMENTARY ENCLOSURE AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL PROLETARIAT pp. 640-662

Leigh Shaw-Taylor

RESHAPING THE LANDSCAPE: THE IMPACT AND DIFFUSION OF THE TRACTOR IN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE, 1910–1960 pp. 663-698

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

HEALTH, HUMAN PRODUCTIVITY, AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 699-749

Suchit Arora

RACE, DISEASE, AND THE PROVISION OF WATER IN AMERICAN CITIES, 1889–1921 pp. 750-776

Werner Troesken

THE ANTEBELLUM TARIFF ON COTTON TEXTILES REVISITED pp. 777-798

Douglas Irwin and Peter Temin

NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE: THE CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, VOLUMES II AND III The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century; Volume III: The Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 1021 and x, 1190, respectively. Each volume $99.95 pp. 806-818

Alexander Field

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages. By John Aberth. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xii, 304. $26.00 pp. 821-821

William Chester Jordan

MODERN EUROPE The Merchant Houses of Stockholm, c. 1640–1800: A Comparative Study of Early-Modern Entrepreneurial Behaviour. By Leos Müller. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1998. Pp. 303 pp. 822-823

J. Thomas Lindblad

The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice. By Luca Molà. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 457. $48.00 pp. 823-824

Domenico Sella

British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950–1957: The Challenge of Nationalism. By James Bamberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 637. $130.00, cloth; $39.95, paper pp. 824-826

Joseph A. Pratt

Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865. By Mark Bassin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 329. $69.95 pp. 826-827

Robert D. Crews

The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c. 1200–1815. Edited by Richard Bonney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 527. $110.00 pp. 827-829

Mark Potter

Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850–1990. By Katrina Honeyman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 336. £45.00 pp. 829-830

Anne J. Kershen

Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe. By Richard Lachmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 314. $49.95 pp. 830-831

Jack Goldstone

Black '47 and Beyond: the Great Irish Famine in History, Economy and Memory. By Cormac Ó Gráda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 302. $21.50, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 832-833

David W. Miller

Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939–1955. By Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 286. $65.00 pp. 833-834

Harold L. Smith

ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. 458. $60.00 pp. 834-836

James R. Rush

Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. By Kathryn Burns. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 307. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 836-837

Eric Van Young

An Economic History of Malaysia, c. 1800–1990. By John H. Drabble. London and New York: Macmillan Press and St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 320. $75 and £62.50, cloth; £20.50, paper pp. 837-838

W. G. Huff

Culture and Technology in Modern Japan. Edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Pp. vii, 169. $59.50 pp. 839-840

Mark Metzler

Asia Pacific Dynamism, 1550–2000. Edited by A. J. H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu. London: Routledge, 2000, Pp. xiv, 281. $110.00 pp. 840-841

E. L. Jones

UNITED STATES AND CANADA U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective. By Charles W. Calomiris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxxii, 359. $54.95 pp. 841-842

Richard Sylla

Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy. By George J. Borjas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 263. $16.95, paper pp. 843-844

Joe Ferrie

On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past? Edited by David Neumark. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. 527. $59.95 pp. 844-845

William M. Boal

Spindletop Boom Days. By Paul N. Spellman. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 266. $29.95 pp. 845-846

Roger M. Olien

The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. By John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 368. $39.95 pp. 846-847

Pamela J. Nickless

Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal. By David E. Bernstein. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 191. $39.95 pp. 847-849

Cecilia A. Conrad

Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. By Eric Arnesen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 332. $39.95. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925–1945. By Beth Tompkins Bates. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 275. $17.95, paper pp. 849-851

Gerald Friedman

The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South. By Donald Holley. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 284. $36.00 pp. 851-852

Wayne Grove

New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election. By Michael J. Webber. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 180. $19.95, paper pp. 853-854

Robert Fleck

The Great Depression and the New Deal. By Robert F. Himmelberg. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 184. $39.95 pp. 854-855

Ellis W. Hawley

And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression. By James R. McGovern. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. Pp. 354. $69.95 pp. 855-856

John Joseph Wallis

Much More Than A Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball Since 1921. By Robert F. Burk. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 372. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 856-857

Stanley Engerman

Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. By Margaret Walsh. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited 2000. Pp. xvii, 245. $74.95 pp. 857-859

Lloyd J. Mercer

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900. By Richard Franklin Bensel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 549. $64.95 pp. 859-860

Christopher Grandy

The Keynesian Arithmetic in War-Time Canada: The Development of the National Accounts, 1939–1945. By Enid Barnett. Kingston, ON: Harbinger House, 1998, 2000. Pp. 91. $14.95, paper. The War Budget of September 1939: Keynes Comes to Canada. By Enid Barnett. Kingston, ON: Harbinger House, 2000. Pp. 64. $24.95, paper. Keynes's How to Pay for the War in Canada: The Story of Compulsory Savings, 1939–1944. By Enid Barnett. Kingston, ON: Harbinger House, 2001. Pp. 125. $24.95, paper pp. 860-861

Penny Bryden

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. By Edward J. Balleisen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 322. $55.00, cloth; $18.75, paper pp. 861-862

Howard Rosenthal

Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation. By Keith L. Dougherty. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 211. $49.95 pp. 863-863

Gregory Besharov

Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Governments in the Early United States. By John Lauritz Larson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 324. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 864-865

Kevin M. Davis

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 329. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 865-866

Gavin Wright

Dollars & Change: Economics in Context. By Louis Putterman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 284. $40.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 866-867

Frederic L. Pryor

Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History. Edited by Timo Myllyntaus and Mikko Saikku. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001 (Revised Edition). Pp. xix, 166. $16.95, paper pp. 868-869

Robert Farrow

Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias. By Peter M. Garber. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 163. $24.95. Great Bubbles: Reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme and the Tulip Mania Affair. Edited by Ross B. Emmett. London and Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto, 2000. 3 vols., pp. 1050. $470.00. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. By Edward Chancellor. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. Pp. xiv, 386. $25.00, cloth; $13.95, paper pp. 869-871

Jan De Vries

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. By Mike Davis. London and New York: Verso, 2001. Pp. x, 464. $27.00 pp. 871-872

Robert B. Marks

Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations. Edited by Cheng-chung Lai. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxxiii, 403. $99.99 pp. 872-874

Robert Prasch

Volume 61, issue 2, 2001

THE HUMAN-CAPITAL CENTURY AND AMERICAN LEADERSHIP: VIRTUES OF THE PAST pp. 263-292

Claudia Goldin

ECONOMIC CRISES AND THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 pp. 293-326

Helge Berger and Mark Spoerer

AGRICULTURAL CRISES AND THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION pp. 327-365

Jakob Madsen

COOPERATIVES AS INFORMATION MACHINES: GERMAN RURAL CREDIT COOPERATIVES, 1883–1914 pp. 366-389

Timothy Guinnane

TARIFFS, STRATEGY, AND STRUCTURE: COMPETITION AND COLLUSION IN THE ONTARIO PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, 1870–1880 pp. 390-413

Hugh Grant and Henry Thille

PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFORT: THE LABOR-SUPPLY DECISIONS OF LATE VICTORIAN COALMINERS pp. 414-438

John G. Treble

NEW ANSWERS TO OLD QUESTIONS: EXPLAINING THE SLOW ADOPTION OF RING SPINNING IN LANCASHIRE, 1880–l913 pp. 439-466

Tim Leunig

QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES OF THE UNITED STATES INTERREGIONAL SLAVE TRADE, 1820–1860 pp. 467-475

Jonathan Pritchett

BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL ECONOMY pp. 476-485

Martin Daunton

SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS pp. 486-489

J. David Hacker

RE-ESTIMATING GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE FOR DEVELOPED ECONOMIES, 1870–1990 pp. 489-492

Marianne Ward

AN UNSUNG HERO: THE FARM TRACTOR'S CONTRIBUTION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 493-496

William J. White

THE IMPACT OF REVOLUTION: BUSINESS AND LABOR IN THE MEXICAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY, ORIZABA, VERACRUZ, 1900–1930 pp. 497-500

Aurora Gómez Galvarriato Freer

ENFORCEABILITY AND RISK-SHARING IN FINANCIAL CONTRACTS: FROM THE SEA LOAN TO THE COMMENDA IN LATE MEDIEVAL VENICE pp. 500-504

Yadira Gonzalez De Lara

Producing a Peculiar Commodity: Jamaican Sugar production, Slave Life, and Planter Profits on the Eve of Abolition, 1750–1807 pp. 504-507

David Beck Ryden

Discussion of Hacker, Ward, and White pp. 507-512

Christina Romer

COMMENTS ON DISSERTATIONS SELECTED AS FINALISTS FOR THE GERSCHENKRON PRIZE pp. 512-516

Timothy Guinnane

SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS pp. 517-517

James Heckman and Petra Todd

SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS pp. 517-517

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson

SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 518-518

William Easterly

SESSION 2B: WARS AND STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT pp. 519-520

Philip Hoffman and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

SESSION 3: PLENARY GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OVER THE LONG RUN pp. 520-521

Jared Diamond

SESSION 4A: ECONOMIC WARFARE pp. 521-521

Lance Davis and Stanley Engerman

SESSION 4B: THE GREAT DEPRESSION—MACRO pp. 522-522

Pierre Siklos

SESSION 5A: PRODUCTIVITY pp. 523-523

Paul David and Gavin Wright

SESSION 5B: THE GREAT DEPRESSION—BANKING pp. 523-524

Joseph Mason, Ali Anari and James Kolan

SESSION 6: PLENARY pp. 524-525

John Lithgow, Mary Corey and Ella Taylor

SESSION 7A: TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS HISTORY pp. 525-525

Naomi Lamoreaux, Daniel Raff and Peter Temin

SESSION 7B: SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY pp. 526-526

Sukkoo Kim

SESSION 8A: INDUSTRY STUDIES AND STRUCTURES pp. 527-527

Emily Mechner

SESSION 8B: FOREIGN TRADE AND POLICY DURING THE AMERICAN CENTURY pp. 528-529

Hideaki Miyajima

A NEW FEATURE OF THE 2000 EHA MEETINGS, THE POSTER SESSION AFFORDED SIX YOUNG SCHOLARS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXHIBIT AND DISCUSS THEIR DEVELOPING RESEARCH pp. 530-531

Juliette Levy

Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im 18. Jahrhundert. By Georg Fertig. Osnabrück: Rasch, 2000. Pp. 466 pp. 536-537

Simone A. Wegge

Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720–1844. By Ron Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 331. $59.95 pp. 537-538

Julian Hoppit

Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité. By Michael Kwass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 353. $69.95 pp. 538-540

Mark Potter

The Russian Peasantry 1600–1930: The World the Peasants Made. By David Moon. London: Longman, 1999. Pp. xii, 396. £49.00, Cloth; £17.99, Paper pp. 540-541

Christine D. Worobec

Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821–1929. By Thomas Schoonover. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 317. $39.95 pp. 541-542

Woodruff D. Smith

Manipulating Hegemony: State Power, Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain. By Rhiannon Vickers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 185. $69.95 pp. 542-543

Anthony Adamthwaite

Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937. By Sherman Cochran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 257. $40.00 pp. 544-546

Dwight Perkins

China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Edited by Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 291. $64.95 pp. 546-547

Kenneth Pomeranz

Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria. By Thomas R. Gottschang and Diana Lary. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000. Pp. xvii, 231. $45.00 pp. 547-548

Lillian M. Li

Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia. By Peter H. Lindert. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. 351. $45.00 pp. 548-550

Rattan Lal

The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation. Edited by Helen Irving. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 474. $64.95 pp. 550-552

Ian McLean

Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. By Shawn William Miller. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 325. $55.00 pp. 552-553

Stuart B. Schwartz

Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California. Edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. x, 364. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 553-555

James Gerber

A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War. By John Majewski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 214. $49.95 pp. 555-556

Mary Eschelbach Hansen

The Atlanta Paradox. Edited by David L. Sjoquist. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Pp. 300. $34.95 pp. 556-557

Randall L. Patton

Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform. Edited by David E. Card and Rebecca M. Blank. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Pp. viii, 549. $55.00 pp. 557-559

Thomas Maloney

Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good. Edited by William G. Robbins and James C. Foster. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 222. $20.00 pp. 559-560

Mark Kanazawa

Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America. By Ian R. Bartky. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 310. $45.00 pp. 560-561

Carolyn C. Cooper

It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience. By Lloyd Klein. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 1999. Pp. xii, 155. $55.00 pp. 561-562

Martha Olney

Coast to Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899–1908. By Curt McConnell. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 349. $45.00 pp. 562-564

David A. Kirsch

My Sisters Telegraphic. By Thomas C. Jepsen. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 231. $49.96, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 564-565

Mark Aldrich

David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Pp. xxii, 297. $22.95, paper pp. 565-567

Joshua Rosenbloom

Banking Panics of the Gilded Age. By Elmus Wicker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 160. $49.95 pp. 567-568

Kerry Odell

The Way It Worked and Why It Won't: Structural Change and the Slowdown of U.S. Economic Growth. By Gordon C. Bjork. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xviii, 299. $69.50, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 568-571

Michael Bernstein

The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut: A Revisionist History. By Martin F. J. Prachowny. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. ix, 227. $80.00 pp. 571-573

Robert R. Keller

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Archival Supplement 8, 1999, Selig Perlman and Wisconsin Institutionalism. Edited by Warren J. Samuels. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 262. $82.50 pp. 573-574

James F. Shepherd

The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764–l768. By Walter S. Dunn, Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. Pp. viii, 208. $62.50 pp. 574-575

Robert Wright

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. By Richard P. Tucker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 551. $45 pp. 575-577

David Felix

R&D, Education, and Productivity: A Retrospective. By Zvi Griliches. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 127. $39.95 pp. 577-578

Alexander Field

Probability, Econometrics, and Truth: The Methodology of Econometrics. By Hugo A. Keuzenkamp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 312. $69.95 pp. 578-580

Stephen Ziliak

The United States and GATT: A Relational Study. By Donald G. Beane. New York: Pergamon Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 296. $75.00 pp. 580-582

Colleen M. Callahan

The Luddite Rebellion. By Brian Bailey. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 182. $38.00 pp. 582-583

Pat Hudson

Eight: Eurocentric Historians. By J. M. Blaut. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227. $22.00, paper pp. 583-584

Joel Mokyr

Malthus, Medicine and Morality: Malthusianism after 1798. Edited by Brian Dolan. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. 232. $53.00 pp. 584-585

Greta Jones

Currency Crises. Edited by Paul Krugman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. 356. $47.00 pp. 585-586

Victoria Miller

Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Economic Policies since 1918. By Ton Notermans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 302. $59.95 pp. 586-588

Kenneth Mouré

No Ordinary Academics: Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, 1910–1960. By Shirley Spafford. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 272. $45.00 pp. 588-589

Gregory Clark

The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World. Edited by Pier Angelo Toninelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 320. $49.95 pp. 589-591

Jonah D. Levy

Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan. Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, Pp. xviii, 410. $74.00 pp. 591-592

J. Nicholas Ziegler

Volume 61, issue 1, 2001

THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY ON DRUG USE: JAVA, 1875–1904 pp. 1-18

Eric W. Van Luijk and Jan C. Van Ours

STATE PROMOTION AND REGULATION OF THE TELEGRAPH INDUSTRY, 1845–1860 pp. 19-36

Tomas Nonnenmacher

EXPORTS AND INEQUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE BRAZILIAN FRONTIER, 1870–1937 pp. 37-58

Zephyr L. Frank

CAPITAL-GOODS PRICES AND INVESTMENT, 1870–1950 pp. 59-94

William Collins and Jeffrey Williamson

LEARNING TO TAX: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE OPIUM TRADE IN IRAN, 1921–1941 pp. 95-113

Bradley Hansen

CULTURE AND FAIRNESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS pp. 114-143

Richard O. Zerbe and C. Leigh Anderson

THE INTERNATIONAL TEA CARTEL DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1929–1933 pp. 144-159

Bishnupriya Gupta

RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND pp. 160-183

Richard H. Steckel and Carolyn Moehling

THE GROWTH OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1820 TO 1870 pp. 184-189

Randall G. Holcombe and Donald J. Lacombe

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy. By Richard K. Marshall. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 191. $42.50 pp. 197-198

Carol Lansing

Fifty fears of the Deutsche Mark: Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948. Edited by the Deutsche Bundesbank. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 836. $90.00 pp. 198-199

Albrecht Ritschl

Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700–1870. By Katrina Honeyman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, Pp. viii, 204. $59.95 pp. 199-201

Beverly Lemire

An Economic History of Sweden. By Lars Magnusson. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xvii, 305. $70.00 pp. 201-202

Lars G. Sandberg

The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England. By Craig Muldrew. London: Macmillan, 1998. Pp. xvii, 453. $69.95 pp. 202-203

David Harris Sacks

The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950. Edited by Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey Williamson. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xvii, 430. $115.00 pp. 204-204

Gianni Toniolo

British Society 1680–1880: Dynamism, Change and Containment. By Richard Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 349. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 205-206

James Thompson

Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s. By Michael Sanderson. (New Studies in Economic and Social History Series.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 124. $39.95, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 206-207

Hal Hansen

Merchants, Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century. By John Smail. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp. x, 198. $65.00 pp. 207-208

Pat Hudson

Economics of Transport: The Swedish Case 1780–1980. By Thomas Thorburn. Södertälje, Sweden: Almqvist and Wicksell International, 2000. Pp. 589. SEK 422 pp. 208-210

Rick Szostak

The Development of Modern Spain. An Economic History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Gabriel Tortella. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 528. $49.95 pp. 210-211

Juan Hernández Andreu

America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950–1960. By Aaron Forsberg. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 332. $45.00 pp. 211-212

Jennifer L. Frankl

Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace. By Sudipta Sen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. 225. $37.50 pp. 212-213

Thomas R. Metcalf

Japan's Economic Diplomacy with China, 1945–1978. By Yoshihide Soeya. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 187. $60.00 pp. 213-214

Joshua A. Fogel

Chinese Capitalism, 1522–1840. Edited by Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. x1, 517. $79.50 pp. 214-215

Richard Von Glahn

Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius. By Richard B. Allen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 221. $64.95 pp. 215-217

Pier M. Larson

Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758–1911. By Robin L. Anderson. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999. Pp. x, 187. $49.95 pp. 217-218

Mary Ann Mahony

Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888. By Laird W. Bergad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 298. $54.95 pp. 218-219

Bernardo Mueller

The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver 1600–1730. By Rudolph P. Mathee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 290. $64.95 pp. 219-221

Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. By Woody Holton. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 231. $39.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 221-222

Pamela J. Nickless

Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. By Craig Phelan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. 294. $65.00 pp. 222-223

Wayne Lewchuk

Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s–1990s. By Harland Prechel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 317. $75.50, cloth; $25.95, paper pp. 223-224

Tomas Nonnenmacher

The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880–1990. By Dora Costa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 234.$40.00, £31.95, cloth; $19.00, £ 13.50, paper pp. 224-226

Price Fishback

American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953–1980. By Jon Lauck. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 254. $45.00, £30.00 pp. 226-227

Carolyn Dimitri

Hard Work: The Making of Labor History. By Melvyn Dubofsky. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. x, 249. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 227-229

Gerald Friedman

Wealth in America. By Lisa Keister. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 307. $59.59, cloth; $19.95, paper. Inheritance and Wealth in America. Edited by Robert K. Miller Jr. and Stephen J. McNamee. New York: Plenum Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 226. $49.50 pp. 229-232

Edward Wolff

The Impact of International Trade on Wages. Edited by Robert C. Feenstra. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 406. $62.00 pp. 232-233

William Collins

A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 380. $39.95 pp. 233-234

Kenneth Lipartito

Struggling With “Iowa's Pride”: Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest Since 1877. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 185. $34.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 234-236

William M. Boal

From Ellis Island to JFK. New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. By Nancy Foner. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press; and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Pp. x, 334. $29.95 pp. 236-237

James Dunlevy

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940. By Howell John Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 456. $44.95 pp. 237-239

John K. Brown

Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader. Edited with introductions by David C. Hammack. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 481. $19.95, paper pp. 239-240

Stephen Ziliak

Martin C. Melosi. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 578. $59.95 pp. 240-242

Werner Troesken

Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980. By Allison L. Hepler. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 177. $18.95, paper pp. 242-243

Carolyn Moehling

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. By Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson, with contributions from Michael Massagli, Philip Moss, and Chris Tilly. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Pp. xiii, 461. $45.00 pp. 243-245

Joshua Rosenbloom

Political Economy in Macroeconomics. By Allan Drazen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 775. $55.00, £ 35.00 pp. 245-247

B. Rosendorff

Essays on the Great Depression. By Ben S. Bernanke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 310. $35.00 pp. 247-249

Barbara Alexander

Labour Unions, Public Policy and Economic Growth. By Tapio Palokangas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 237. $64.95 pp. 249-250

Gerald Friedman

Negotiating the World Economy. By John S. Odell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 252. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 250-251

Bernardo Mueller

Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach. Edited by Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000. Pp. xvi, 293. $62.50 pp. 251-253

Timothy E. Sullivan

Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business. Edited by Mark Casson and Mary B. Rose. London: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. 184. $42.50, cloth; $19.50, paper pp. 253-255

Margaret Levenstein

The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution. By Richard Grassby. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. Pp. ix, 87. $50.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 255-256

Charles P. Hanson

Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. By Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 343. $45.00 pp. 256-259

Robert Allen

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. By Mark Pendergrast. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxi, 520. $27.50, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 259-260

Alan Dye

Grain Markets in Europe, 1500–1900: Integration and Deregulation. By Karl Gunnar Persson. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1999. Pp. xx, 173. $59.95 pp. 260-262

Randall Nielsen