The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 60, issue 4, 2000

The Standardization of Track Gauge on North American Railways, 1830–1890 pp. 933-960

Douglas J. Puffert

Women and the “Second Serfdom”: Evidence from Early Modern Bohemia pp. 961-994

Sheilagh Ogilvie and Jeremy Edwards

Declining Industries and the Persistence of Government Support Programs: The Quiet Decline of Gum Naval Stores Production in the United States pp. 995-1016

Ronald N. Johnson

Central Planning and Unintended Consequences: Creating the Soviet Financial System, 1930–1939 pp. 1017-1040

Paul R. Gregory and Aleksei Tikhonov

The First Bank of the United States and the Securities Market Crash of 1792 pp. 1041-1060

David J. Cowen

“Weimar on the Volga”: Causes and Consequences of Inflation in 1990s Russia Compared with 1920s Germany pp. 1061-1087

Niall Ferguson and Brigitte Granville

Commerce and Cooperation: Litigation and Settlement of Civil Disputes on the Australian Frontier, 1860–1990 pp. 1088-1119

B. Zorina Khan

A Note on New Estimates of the Distribution of Income in the 1920s pp. 1120-1128

Gene Smiley

Modern Europe - Taxation in Britain since 1660. By Roy Douglas. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp. xii, 174. $39.95 pp. 1132-1133

Michael Braddick

European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century Experience. Edited by James Foreman-Peck and Giovanni Federico. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 466. $105.00 pp. 1133-1134

Alan S. Milward

Russia Enters Railway Age, 1842–1855. By Richard Mowbray Haywood. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1998. Pp. xxvi, 635. $91.00. - Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways. By Anthony Heywood. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 328. $69.95 pp. 1134-1135

Jonathan Grant

Frankfurt as a Financial Centre: From Medieval Trade Fair to Europena Financial Centre. By Carl-Ludwing Holtfrerich. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1999. Pp. 366 pp. 1135-1137

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History. By Rosemary L. Hopcroft. Ann Arbor: Univeristy of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 272. $49.50 pp. 1137-1138

Robert A. Dodgshon

Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1891–1914. By Yanni Kotsonis. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 245. $65.00 pp. 1138-1139

Esther Kingston-Mann

Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market 1860–1892. By Peter T. Marsh. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 246. $30.00 pp. 1140-1141

John Nye

The London Stock Exchange: A History. By Ranald C. Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xiii, 672. $110.00 pp. 1141-1142

Lance Davis

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume II, The Era of the Insurance Giants, 1870–1984. By Clive Trebilcock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.v, 1064. $150.00 pp. 1142-1144

Dalit Baranoff

Hard at Work in Factories and Mines. The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution. By Carolyn Tuttle. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Pp. 308. $63.00 pp. 1144-1145

Jane Humphries

Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment. By James H. Winter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 342. $35.00 pp. 1146-1147

Peter Thorsheim

The Management of the National Debt of the United Kingdom, 1900–1932. By Jeremy Wormell. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xxx, 805. $160.00 pp. 1147-1148

D. E. Moggridge

Asia and Latin America - Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World. By Jeremy Adelman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 376. $55.00 pp. 1148-1149

Susan M. Socolow

Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier. By Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 227. $49.50 pp. 1149-1150

Elinor Ostrom

Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. By Soon Won Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 223. $42.50 pp. 1151-1152

Bruce Cumings

Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa. By Luck S. Roberts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 251. $59.95 pp. 1152-1153

David L. Howell

United States and Canada - Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. By Karin Wulf. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. Pp. xvii, 217. $39.95 pp. 1154-1155

Gloria L. Main

Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820–1860. By Robert A. Margo. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. xii, 200. $28.00 pp. 1155-1156

Ronald Oaxaca

Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion: The Making of a President 1884. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 377. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1156-1158

Robert A. McGuire

The Great Kanawha Navigation. By Emory L. Kemp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 300. $45.00 pp. 1158-1159

Michael J. Haupert

Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920. By David Vaught. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. x, 280. $38.00 pp. 1160-1160

Karen Clay

Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. By Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 380. $39.95 pp. 1161-1162

Kerry Odell

Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1943. By Patrick D. Reagan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 362. $40.00. - Civilizing Capitalism. The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. By Landon R. Y. Storrs. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 392. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1162-1164

Barbara Alexander

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American Stare During World War II. By Daniel Kryder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 301. $29.95 pp. 1164-1166

William Collins

Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. Pp. xii, 378. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1166-1167

Gavin Wright

The Professionalization of Poverty: Social Work and the Poor in the Twentieth Century. Edited by P. Nelson Reid and Gary R. Lowe. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. 179. $37.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 1167-1169

Stephen Ziliak

The Politics of the Minimum Wage. By Jerold Waltman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 172. $24.95 pp. 1169-1170

Thomas Maloney

The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism. By Robert William Fogel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. 383. $25.00 pp. 1171-1172

Edward E. Zajac

General and Miscellaneous - Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. By John R. McNeill. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 421. $29.95 pp. 1172-1174

J. Donald Hughes

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782. By Ronald Hoffman in Collaboration with Sally D. Mason. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 429. $39.95 pp. 1174-1175

Steven Sarson

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. By Alison Games. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 322. $45.00 pp. 1175-1176

Farley Grubb

Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology. By Clark Spencer Larsen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 248. $35.00 pp. 1177-1178

John E. Murray

Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era. Edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 330. $69.95 pp. 1178-1179

Prasannan Parthasarathi

Siemens 1918–1945. By Wilfried Feldenkirchen. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 714. $75.00 pp. 1179-1181

Jeffrey R. Fear

The Laws of History. By Graeme Donald Snooks. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp xiv, 293. $110.00 pp. 1181-1182

Peer Vries

Europe and the Third World. By Bernard Waites. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 354. $65.00 pp. 1182-1183

John R. Hanson

Volume 60, issue 3, 2000

Good Offices: Intermediation by Corporate Bodies in Early Modern French Public Finance pp. 599-626

Mark Potter

The Decline of Apprenticeship in North America: Evidence from Monetreal pp. 627-664

Gillian Hamilton

Integration and Disintegration in North China's Grain Markets, 1738–1911 pp. 665-699

Lillian M. Li

The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry, 1870–1925 pp. 700-729

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed Behind: Explaining Emigration from the Regions of Spain, 1880–1914 pp. 730-755

Blanca Sànchez-Alonso

African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s: A Portrait from the Palmer Survey pp. 756-781

William Collins

Education and Income in the Early Twentieth Century: Evidence from the Prairies pp. 782-818

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

Simulating the Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution pp. 819-841

C. Knick Harley and Nicholas Crafts

A Response to Harley and Crafts pp. 842-846

Peter Temin

Distribution of Wealth in Prince George's Country, Maryland, 1800–1820 pp. 847-855

Steven Sarson

Time and Chance in the Old-world Economies pp. 856-859

E. L. Jones

Ancient and Medieval - European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turey. By Kate Fleet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) Pp. x, 204. $59.95 pp. 862-863

Edhem Eldem

Birth of the Multinational: 2000 Years of Ancient Business History, From Ashur to Augustus. By Karl Moore and David Lewis. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 1999. Pp. 341. $48.00 pp. 863-864

Gerald Gunderson

Studies in the Interwar European Economy. By Derek H. Aldcroft. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. 240. $84.95 pp. 864-866

Robert J. Gordon

Fraternity Among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815–1914. By Alan R. H. Baker. (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, no. 28.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 373. $74.95 pp. 866-867

George Grantham

Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650–1850. Edited by Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 260. $79.95, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 868-869

Cissie Fairchilds

Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695–;1775. By Geoffrey Clark. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 241. £45.00 pp. 869-870

Oliver M. Westall

The British Industrial Decline. Edited by Jean-Pierre Dormois and Michael Dintenfass. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 234. $95.00 pp. 870-871

Stephen Broadberry

Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice. By Michael L. Hughes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 266. $49.95 pp. 871-873

Robert G. Moeller

From Autarchy to Market: Polish Economics and Politics 1945–1995. By Richard J. Hunter and Leo V. Ryan. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xii, 275. $65.00 pp. 873-875

Tony Levitas

A Business History of Britain, 1900–1990. By David J. Jeremy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix, 610. $82.00 pp. 875-876

Leslie Hannah

L'Élevage sous I'Ancien Régime: Les fondements agraires de la France moderne, XVIe XVIIe siécles. By Jean-Marc Moriceau. Paris: Sedes, 1999. Pp. 256 pp. 876-877

George Grantham

The Early Modern European Economy. By Peter Musgrave. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 236. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 877-878

Robert S. Duplessis

Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish. By Frank Neal. Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1998. Pp. 292. $69.95 pp. 878-879

Ruth-Ann M. Harris

Asia And Latin America - The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility. By Gang Deng. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xiv, 421. $110.00 pp. 879-882

Mark Elvin

Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World. Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta. Edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Lakshmi Subramanian. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 281. $24.95 pp. 882-883

Douglas Haynes

Pacific Centuries. Pacific and Pacific Rim History since the Sixteenth Century. Edited by Dennis O. Flynn, Lionel Frost, and A. J. H. Latham. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x, 261. $85.00 pp. 883-885

Kenneth Pomeranz

Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance. By Vincent C. Peloso. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 251. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 885-886

Paul Gootenberg

Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire. By Gordon T. Stewart. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 258. $79.95 pp. 886-887

Morris David Morris

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 247. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 887-889

Colleen M. Callahan

Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future. By Peter Schrag. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 344. $14.95, paper pp. 889-891

Paul Rhode

Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. By Brooks Blevins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. 219. $34.95 pp. 891-892

Kyle D. Kauffman

The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. By Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 434. $59.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 892-894

Simon A. Wegge

Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South. By Mark M. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 117. $39.95, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 894-895

Harold D. Woodman

Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience Since 1800. Edited by Peter A. Coclanis and Stuart Bruchey. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 231. $29.95 pp. 895-897

Daniel H. Borus

Myths of Rich & Poor; Why We're Better Off Than We Think. By W. Michael Cox and Richard Aim. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xvi,256. $25.00 pp. 897-898

James F. Shepherd

From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967. By David T. Beito. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp.xiv, 320. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 898-899

George Emery

The Unfinished Struggle: Thrning Points in American Labor 1877–Present. By Steve Babson. New York: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. xvii, 205. $22.95, cloth; $12.95, paper. - Black Unionism and the Industrial South. By Earnest Obadele-Starks. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 183. $29.95 pp. 899-901

Robert Cherry

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917. By Elizabeth Sanders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. x, 532. $48.00, cloth; $16.00, paper pp. 901-903

Clyde G. Reed

Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. By Michael Keith Honey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 402. $29.95 pp. 903-904

Gerald Friedman

Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age. Edited by W. David Lewis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 379. $60.00 pp. 904-906

B. Zorina Khan

The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy. By Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 362. $39.95 pp. 906-908

Lance Davis

Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 305. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 908-910

James Smith

A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. By Howard Bodenhorn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 260. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 910-912

David Wheelock

The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power 1653–2000. By John Steel Gordon. New York: Scribner, 1999. Pp. 320. $25.00 pp. 912-913

Larry Neal

Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry. By William R. Haycraft. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 466. $34.95 pp. 913-914

Tomas Nonnenmacher

The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman. By Maury Klein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 521. $34.95 pp. 914-915

David C. Klingaman

General and Miscellaneous - A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies. Edited by Mancur Olson and Satu Kähkönen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 274. $65.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 915-917

Mary M. Shirley

New Frontiers in Agricultural History: Advances in Agricultural Economic History. Edited by Kyle D. Kaufmann. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 2000. Pp. v, 252. $78.50 pp. 917-918

Dean Lueck

Global Economic Growth: Theories, Research, Studies and Annotated Bibliography, 1950–1997. By Lewis-Guodo Liu and Robert Premus. Number 19 of Bibliographies and Indexes in Economics and Economic History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 342. $85.00 pp. 918-919

Steve De Castro

General and Miscellaneous - Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships. By Mancur Olson. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. xxvii, 233. $28.00 pp. 919-921

Philip Keefer

General and Miscellaneous - The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience. Edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasintz, and Josh DeWind. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Pp vii, 502. $65.00 pp. 921-922

H. A. Gemery

Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight: Volume 1: “What is Truth in Economics?” Edited by Ross B. Emmett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 406. $58.00. - Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight: Volume 2: “Laissez-Faire: Pro and Con.” Edited by Ross B. Emmett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 1, 459. $58.00 pp. 922-924

Ronald N. Johnson

Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom and Free Labor. Edited by Stanley Engerman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 339. $55.00 pp. 925-926

Robin Blackburn

The Foundations of Laissez-faire: The Economics of Pierre de Boisguilbert. By Gilbert Facarello. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 198. $85.00 pp. 926-927

Robert F. Hébert

Essays in History: Financial, Economic, Personal. By Charle P. Kindleberger. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 245. $49.50 pp. 927-928

Richard Sylla

Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Konsuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 314. $70.00 pp. 929-930

Jonathan Zeitlin

Authority and Control in Modern Industiy: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Edited by Paul L. Robertson. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xii, 246. $99.99 pp. 930-931

Tom Nicholas

Economic Cycles: Long Cycles and Business Cycles Since 1870. By Solomos Solomou. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp.i, 132. $79.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 931-932

Thomas E. Hall

Volume 60, issue 2, 2000

A Shocking View of Economic History pp. 317-334

Larry Neal

Did Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry pp. 335-360

Douglas Irwin

Nativism and the End of the Mass Migration of the 1840s and 1850s pp. 361-383

Raymond L. Cohn

The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880–1953 pp. 384-413

Gerald Friedman

History as Reflected in Capital Markets: The Case of World War II pp. 468-496

Bruno Frey and Marcel Kucher

Assessing the Performance of Canada's Manufacturers: Firm Level Evidence, 1902–1990 pp. 497-501

Ian Keay

Dealing with Deindustrialization: Economics, Politics, and Policy During the Decline of the New England Textile Industry, 1920–1960 pp. 501-504

David Koistinen

From Sickness to Health. The Twentieth-Century Development of the Demand for Health Insurance pp. 504-508

Melissa A. Thomasson

Proletarianisation, Parliamentary Enclosure and the Household Economy of the Labouring Poor: 1750–1850 pp. 508-511

Leigh Shaw-Taylor

Grain Trade and Storeage in Late Imperial China pp. 511-515

Carol Hua Shiue

The Evolution of Employment Systems in the United States and Japan, 1900–1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis pp. 515-519

Chiaki Moriguchi

Comment on keay, koistinen, and thomasson pp. 519-525

Michael Bernstein

Comment on Shaw-Taylor, Shiue, and Moriguchi pp. 525-529

Loren Brandt

The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire. By Thomas Figueira. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 627. $49.95 pp. 546-547

Michael Clark

Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma 'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. By Nelly Hanna. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Pp. xxvii, 219. $45.00 pp. 547-548

Beshara Doumani

Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century. By Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína. Translated by Carla Rahn Phillips. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 289. $29.95 pp. 549-550

Geoffrey Parker

Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena. By William Caferro. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 251. $39.95 pp. 550-551

Judith C. Brown

Money and Finance in the Age of Merchant Capitalism. By John Day. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999. Pp. viii, 165. $62.95 pp. 551-552

S. R. Epstein

English Merchants in Seventeenth Century Italy. By Gigliola Pagano de Divitiis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 202. $59.95 pp. 552-553

Stefano D'amico

Major Recessions: Britain and the World, 1920–1995. By Christopher Dow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 471. $98.00 pp. 553-555

Timothy Hatton

Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics: Excerpts from the Lehrbuch der Nationalökonomie. Translated by Rupert J. Ederer. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. Pp. xi, 304. $46.00 pp. 555-556

Erik Grimmer-Solem

Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. By John Harris. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xviii, 655. $110.95 pp. 556-557

Christine Macleod

The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600–1725. By Richard Hellie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 671. $42.00 pp. 557-559

J. T. Kotilaine

Or du Brésil, monnaie er croissance en France au XVIIIe siècle. By Christian Morrisson Jean-Noël Barrandon and Cécile Morrisson. Preface by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Abstracts in English. Cahiers Ernest Babelon, no. 7. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1999. Pp. 222 pp. 559-560

Michel Morineau

Los banqueros de Felipe IVy los metales preciosos americanos (1621–1665). By Carlos álvarez Nogal. Madrid: Banco de España, 1997. Pp. 195. Paper. - El crédito de la monarquía hispánica en el reinado de Felipe IV. By Carlos álvarez Nogal. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 1997. Pp. 398. Cloth pp. 560-562

David R. Ringrose

The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms: the Case of the Crédit Mobilier. By Elisabeth Paulet. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 178. $90.00 pp. 562-563

Caroline Fohlin

La terre et l'argent. L'agriculture et le crédit en France du XVIe an début du XXe siècle. By Gilles Postel-Vinay. Paris: Albin Michel, 1998. Pp. 462. FF180 pp. 563-565

George Grantham

Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain. By G. R. Searle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 300. $85.00 pp. 565-567

Frank Trentmann

Decline in History: The European Experience. By J. K. J. Thomson. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 225. $27.95, paper pp. 567-568

S. R. Epstein

The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy. By Carolyn L. Gates. London: Center for Lebanese Studies, in association with I. B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xvi, 248. $59.50 pp. 568-569

Akram F. Khater

Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850–1960. By Maria Misra. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 250. $72.00 pp. 570-571

Claude Markovits

United States and Canada - The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradtion in America, 1788–1828. By Saul Cornell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 327. $55.00, cloth: $19.95, paper pp. 571-572

John McGinnis

The Papers of Robert Morris: 1781–1784 Vol. 9. Edited By Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and Mary A. Gallagher. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Pp. lxii, 1026. $90.00 pp. 572-574

Winifred B. Rothenberg

The Bank of the United States and the American Economy. By Edward S. Kaplan Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. x, 172. $57.95 pp. 574-575

David Wheelock

Cincinnati in 1840: The Social and Funcitonal Organization of Urban Community during the Pre-Civil War Period. By Walter Stix Glazer. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 184. $40.00, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 575-577

Glenn J. Platt

Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries. Edited by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 401. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 577-578

Louis P. Cain

Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866–1900. By Earle B. Young. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 158. $29.95 pp. 578-579

Tomas Nonnenmacher

Trasure from the Painted Hills: A History of Calico, California, 1882–1907. By Douglas Steeples. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 142. $49.95 pp. 579-580

Karen Clay

Endangered Dreasm: The Great Depression in California. By Kevin Starr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 402. £14.50 pp. 580-581

Kerry Odell

True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance. By Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 369. $40.00, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 581-583

Stephen Ziliak

Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History. Edited by Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 552. $60.00, cloth: $29.95, paper pp. 583-584

Donald Schaefer

Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. By Roger Waldinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 374. $18.95, paper pp. 584-585

William Collins

The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. By Alain Desrosieres. Translated byCamille Naish. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 368. $45.00 pp. 586-587

Margo J. Anderson

Business Cycles Since 1820: New International Perspectives from Historical Evidence. Edited by Trevor J. O. Dick. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. v, 294. $95.00 pp. 587-588

Thomas E. Hall

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. By Charles L. Griswold Jr Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix,412. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 588-589

Charles Hanson

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. By David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, and Jonathan Perraton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 515. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 589-590

Jerry H. Bentley

Against the Odds: The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky. By Bruce Muirhead. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. x, 380. $45.00 pp. 591-592

Susan Howson

The State, The Financial System, and Economic Modernization. Edited by Richard Sylla Richard Tilly, and Gabriel Tortella. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 295. $64.95 pp. 592-593

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science. Edited by James E. Alt Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Pp. xix, 347. $39.95 pp. 593-594

Stanley L. Engerman

Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940. By Arwen P. Mohun. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 348. $48.00 pp. 594-596

Barbara Sands

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. By Seymour Drescher. Forward by Stanley Engerman. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 454. $45.00 pp. 596-597

Frank Lewis

Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. By Thomas R. Dunlap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 350. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 597-598

Greg Clark

Volume 60, issue 1, 2000

Why “More Work for Mother?” Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945 pp. 1-41

Joel Mokyr

The Law and Labor Strife in the United States, 1881–1894 pp. 42-66

Janet Currie and Joseph Ferrie

Could Southern Italians Cooperate? Banche Popolari in the Mezzogiorno pp. 67-93

Brian A 'Hearn

The Transatlantic Market for British Convict Labor pp. 94-122

Farley Grubb

The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain pp. 123-144

David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman

Clearinghouse Membership and Deposit Contraction during the Panic of 1907 pp. 145-163

Jon Moen and Ellis Tallman

A Tale of “Benevolent” Governments: Private Credit Markets, Public Finance, and the Role of Jewish Lenders in Medieval and Renaissance Italy pp. 164-189

Maristella Botticini

Capital Structure and the Financial Development of the U.S. Sugar-Refining Industry, 1875–1905 pp. 190-215

William M. Doyle

Turning Points in the U.S. Civil War: A British Perspective pp. 216-231

William O. Brown and Richard Burdekin

Diets Versus Diseases: The Anthropometrics of Slave Children pp. 232-246

Philip Coelho and Robert A. McGuire

Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply pp. 247-259

Richard H. Steckel

New Works in West African Economic History - Middlemen of the Cameroons River: The Duala and their Hinterland, c. 1600–c.1960. By Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 252. $64.95, cloth; $24.95, paper. - EI Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 396. $44.95, cloth; $19.95, paper. - Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. By Martin A. Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 354 $54.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 260-263

Robert L. Tignor

Ancient And Medieval - Medieval Merchants: York Beverley, and Hull in the Later Middle Ages. By Jenny Kermode. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 381. $69.95 pp. 270-271

James Masschaele

Ancient And Medieval - Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, c. 1000–c. 1300. By Joseph P. Huffman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 273. $59.95 pp. 271-272

Vanessa Harding

Ancient And Medieval - Trade, Trust, and Networks: Commercial Culture in Late Medieval Italy. By Gunnar Dahl.Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 355 pp. 272-273

Avner Greif

Ancient And Medieval - A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200–1550. By Edin S. Hunt and James M. Murray Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 277, $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 273-276

Richard A. Goldthwaite

Modern europe - The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal. 1654–1810. By L. M. E. Shaw. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xii, 233. $76.95 pp. 276-277

Christopher Storrs

Modern europe - Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690–1860. By Stuart Banner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 318. $69.95 pp. 277-279

Ron Harris

Modern europe - European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective: 1850 to the Present. Edited by Jytte Klausen and Louise A. Tilly. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Pp. xvi, 323. $64.00, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 279-280

Richard T. Griffiths

Modern Europe - Democracy, Revolution, and History. Edited by Theda Skocpol with the assitance of George Ross, Tony Smith, and Judith Eisenberg Vichnia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1999. Pp.273. $39.95 pp. 280-281

Jack A. Goldstone

Modern Europe - Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America. by Marianne S. Wokeck. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1999. Pp. xxx, 319. $60.00, cloth; $21.50, paper pp. 281-283

Georg Fertig

Modern Europe - The Gold Standard and Related Regimes: Collected Essays. By Michael D. Bordo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 526. $69.95 pp. 283-284

Trevor J. O. Dick

Modern Europe - Modern Perspectives on the Gold Standard. Edited by Tamin Bayoumi, Barry Eichenberg, and Mark P. Yaylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 396. $59.95 pp. 284-286

Peter Lindert

Modern Europe - The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865–1914: A Statistical Survey. By Irving Stone. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. Pp. xi, 430. $75.00 pp. 286-287

Lance Davis

Modern Europe - Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700–1860. By Judith A. Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 334. $49.95 pp. 287-288

Thomas Brennan

Modern Europe - The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History. Edited by Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe1998. Pp. xxiv, 328. $78.90, cloth; $35.00, paper pp. 288-289

Robert Campbell

Asia and Latin America - The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. By Anne Booth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 377. $79.95 pp. 290-291

Summer J. La Crolx

Asia and Latin America - The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785–1870. By Samuel Amaral. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 359, $59.95 pp. 291-292

Richard W. Slatta

United States and Canada - A People's History of the Supreme Court. By Peter Irons. New York: Viking, 1999. Pp. xviii, 542. $32.95. - The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan. By Linda Przybyszewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 286. $49.95, cloth: $19.95, paper pp. 292-295

John McGinnis

The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract. Edited by F. H. Buckley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 461. $65.95 pp. 295-296

Ronald N. Johnson

The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700–1783. By Michael P. Morris. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 160. $55.00 pp. 296-297

Peter C. Mancall

United States and Canada - Women in the United States, 1830–1945. By S. J. Kleinberg. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 368. $52.00, cloth; $22.00, paper pp. 298-299

Sue Headlee

United States and Canada - Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. By Angel Kwolek-Folland. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. Pp. vii, 275. $27.00 pp. 299-300

Melissa A. Thomasson

United States and Canada - Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. By Timothy R. Mahoney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 334. $54.95 pp. 300-301

Joyce Burnette

United States and Canada - Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 377. $29.95 pp. 301-303

Martha Olney

United States and Canada - The Rural Sounth Since World War II. Edited by R. Douglas Hurt Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1998. Pp.202. $35.00 pp. 303-304

Wayne Grove

Race, Money, and the American Welfare State. By Michael K. Brown. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press1999. Pp.xxii,381. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 304-306

Gerald Friedman

United States and Canada - lrrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. By Mark Fiege. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 323, $35.00 pp. 306-307

Mark Kanazawa

United States and Canada - Charting Twentieth Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917–1929, By Silvano A. Wueschner. Westport, CT: Greewood Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 178. $59.95 pp. 307-308

Ed Stevens

General and Miscellaneous - United States–Latin American Relations 1850–1903: Establishing a Relationships. Edited by T. M. Leonard. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999. Pp. 303. $44.95 pp. 308-310

Bernardo Mueller

The West and the Third World. By D. K. Fieldhouse. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. Pp. xii, 378. $29.95, paper pp. 310-311

Jan De Vries

General and Miscellaneous - Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1859–1990. Edited by Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz.Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1999. Pp.xix, 359. $49.95 pp. 311-312

Rick Szostak

General and Miscellaneous - Analytic Narratives. By Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry R. Weingast. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press,1998. Pp.x, 249. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 312-314

Avner Offer

General and Miscellaneous - Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter- War Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment. By David Laidler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 380. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 314-315

Susan Howson

General and Miscellaneous - Technology and Global Change. By Arnulf Grübler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1998. Pp.x,452. $49.95 pp. 315-316

Karel Davids