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Volume 59, issue 4, 1999

Economic Crisis and Political Response: The Political Economy of the Shipping Act of 1916 pp. 861-884

Richard Sicotte

Change and Involution in Sugar Production in Cultivation-System Java, 1840–1870 pp. 885-911

Siddharth Chandra and Timothy Vogelsang

Indexed Pricing: Sugarcane Price Guarantees in Colonial Taiwan, 1930–1940 pp. 912-926

Hui-Wen Koo and Chun-Chieh Wang

Typhoid Rates and the Public Acquisition of Private Waterwork, 1880–1920 pp. 927-948

Werner Troesken

Did They Jump or Were They Pushed? The Exit of Older Men from the London Labor Market, 1929–1931 pp. 949-971

Dudley Baines and Paul Johnson

A Troublesome Caste: Height and Nutrition of Antebellum Virginia's Rural Free Blacks pp. 972-996

Howard Bodenhorn

An Analysis of Japanese Corporate Structure, 1915–1937 pp. 997-1015

Jennifer L. Frankl

U.S.Regional Growth And Convergence, 1880–1980 pp. 1016-1042

Kris James Mitchener and Ian McLean

The Impact of Immigration on American Import Trade in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries pp. 1043-1062

James Dunlevy and William K. Hutchinson

Classical, Medieval, And Early Modern Europe - Urban Europe, 1500–1700. By Alexander Cowan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.229. $70.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1088-1089

Gordon Desbrisay

Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500–1700. By Wayne te Brake. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 221. $40.00, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 1089-1090

Robert S. Duplessis

Classical, Medieval, And Early Modern Europe - The Role of Precious Metals in European Economic Development from Roman Times to the Eve of the Industrial Revolution. By S. M. H. Bozorgnia. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, no. 192. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 210. $65.00 pp. 1090-1091

John Munro

London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History 1775–1825. By David Barnett. London. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xi, 276. $59.50 pp. 1091-1093

Leonard Schwarz

Modern Europe - The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact. By Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 301. $49.95 pp. 1093-1095

Blanca Sánchez

Modern Europe - Russian Industrialists in an Era of Revolution: The Association of Industry and Trade, 1906–1917. By Ruth AmEnde Roosa. Edited by Thomas C. Owen. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xii, 273. $70.95 pp. 1095-1096

Fred Carstensen

Modern Europe - Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. By Ivan T. Berand. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 437. $40.00 pp. 1096-1098

John Connelly

Modern Europe - Histories de la Banque de France. By Alain Plessis. (Mission Historique de la Banque de France.) Paris: A. Michel, 1998. Pp. 217. Ffr. 120 pp. 1098-1099

Marc Flandreau

Modern Europe - August Sartorius von Waltershausen: The Workers' Movement in the United States, 1879–1885. Edited by David Montgomery and Marcel van der Linder. Translated by Harry Drost. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 253. $49.95 pp. 1100-1101

Erik Grimmer

Modern Europe - Women's work: The English Experience 1650–1914. Edited by Pamela Sharpe. London: Arnold, 1998. Pp. xii, 368. $70.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1101-1102

Beverly Lemire

Modern Europe - In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development. By Esther Kingston-Mann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 301. $59.50, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 1102-1104

Heath Pearson

Modern Europe - Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933–1936. By Dan P. Silverman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 384. $45.00 pp. 1104-1105

Albrecht Ritschl

Aisa, Africa, And Latin America - La economía argentina en el largo plazo: ensayos de historia económica de los siglos XIXyXX. By Roberto Cortés Conde. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana-Universidad de San Andrés, 1997. Pp. 253. No price available pp. 1105-1106

Tulio Halperin

Aisa, Africa, And Latin America - The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. By Timothy Brook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.xxv. 320. $40.00 pp. 1106-1107

Melissa Macauley

Aisa, Africa, And Latin America - Agricultural Development in China, 1949–1989: The Collected Papers of Kenneth R. Walker (1931–1989). Collected and edited by Robert F. Ash. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 367. $85.00 pp. 1107-1109

Xiushi Yang

Selva Central: History, Economy, and Land Use in Peruvian Amazonia. By Fernando Santos-Granero and Frederica Barclay. Translated by Elisabeth King. Washington, D.C. and London: The Smithsonia Institution Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 351. $35.00 pp. 1109-1110

Paul Gootenberg

European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. By Om Prakash. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 377. $54.95 pp. 1110-1111

Ole Feldbaek

Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812. By C. Edward Skeen. Lexington: University Press of Kentuckly, 1999. Pp. 240. $27.50 pp. 1111-1112

Kyle D. Kauffman

The Everglades: An Enviromental History. By David McCalley. Gainseville: University of Florida Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 215. $39.95 pp. 1112-1114

Nicholas Flores

Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California. By J. S. Holliday. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 355. $55.00, cloth; $29.95, paper. - A Goldern State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush Califorina. Edited by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 313. $50.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 1114-1115

David Gerard

Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries. Edited by Dianne Newell and Rosemary E. Ommer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 374. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 1116-1117

Ronald N. Johnson

Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression. By Douglas Monroy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 322. $45.00, £35.00, cloth; $17.95, £14.95, paper pp. 1117-1118

Arturo Gonzalez

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Refrom in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 545. $57.50 pp. 1120-1121

Colleen M. Callahan

Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 229. $39.95 pp. 1121-1123

Sue Headlee

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors. By Edwin J. Perkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.95 pp. 1123-1124

Louis Cain

Foreign Investment In American Telecommunications. By J. Gregory Sidak. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 443. $29.95 pp. 1124-1126

Mathew Spitzer

What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy. By H. W. Brands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 355. $54.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 1126-1127

David C. Engerman

The Political Economy of the New Deal. By Jim F. Couch and William F. ShughartII. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp.247. $85 pp. 1127-1130

Barbara Alexander

Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965–79. By Thomas Mayer. Cheltenham, U.K. and Borthamption, MA: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. ix, 151. $70.00 pp. 1130-1131

David Wheelock

Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 261. $59.95 pp. 1131-1133

Robert A. McGuire

Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840–1990. Edited by Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda. Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield, 1999. Pp. vii, 377. $63.00, cloth; $23.95, paper pp. 1133-1134

Eric Hopkins

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Centuty. By Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. xiii, 210. $80.00 pp. 1135-1136

Stephen Broadberry

Money and the Nation State: The Finacial Revolution, Government and the World Monetary System. Edited by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. TimberlakeJr. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998. Pp. 453. $34.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1136-1137

James K. Galbraith

The State and Freedom of Contract. Edited by Harry N. Scheiber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 378, $55.00 pp. 1137-1139

Jenny B. Wahl

Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora. Edited by Nancy L. Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 256. $40.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 1139-1140

Lynn Hollen Lees

Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle. Edited by Edward J. Nell. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xiii, 368. $110.00 pp. 1140-1141

Martin Stack

Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. By Daniel T. Rodgers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 634. $35.00 pp. 1141-1143

Robin L. Einhorn

State-Making and Labor Movement: France and the United States, 1876–1914. By Gerald Friedman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 317. $55.00 pp. 1143-1144

Ben Baack

The State of the Nation. Edited by John A. Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 317. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1144-1145

Daniel Barbezat

General and Miscellaneous - The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830–1996. Edited by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 463. $95.00 pp. 1146-1147

John R. Hanson

Classics in Anthropometric History. Edited by John Komlos and Timothy Cuff. St. Katharinen. Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1998. Pp. v, 629. DM 118 pp. 1147-1148

Howard Bodenhorn

Volume 59, issue 3, 1999

Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime pp. 567-599

Gerardo Della Paolera and Alan Taylor

From Central planning to the Market: The American Transition, 1945–1947 pp. 600-623

Robert Higgs

To Raise the Golden Anchor? Financial Crises and Uncertainty During the Great Depression pp. 624-658

J. Ferderer and David A. Zalewski

The Marginal Effect of New Deal Relief Work on County-Level Unemployment Statistics pp. 659-687

Robert Fleck

Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850 pp. 688-713

Tom Nicholas

The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, 1919–1937 pp. 714-747

Joshua Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom

Investigating a Debt Channel for the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs: Evidence from the Sovereign Bond Market pp. 748-761

Kevin Carey

Big Business, Growth, and Decline pp. 787-794

G. N. von Tunzelmann

Gold and Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages. By Jean Favier. Translated from the French by Caroline Higgitt. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1998. Pp. 390. $ 39.95 pp. 797-797

Mavis Mate

Straws in the Wind: Medieval Urban Environmental Law—The Case of Northern Italy. By Ronald E. Zupko and Robert A. Laures. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996. Pp. viii, 152. $21.00 pp. 798-799

William H. TeBrake

La France du XIe au XVe siècle. Population, société, économie. By Elisabeth Carpentier and Michel Le Mené. (Collection Thémis.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996. Pp. xxiii, 547. Ffr 188 pp. 799-801

Kathryn L. Reyerson

The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300–1800. Edited by N. B. Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 334. $67.00 pp. 801-803

Karel Davids

Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France. By Thomas Brennan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 350. $39.95 pp. 803-804

John Nye

The Brandy Trade under the Ancien Régime: Regional Specialisation the Charente. By L. M. Cullen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 284. $69.95 pp. 804-805

Pierre Claude Reynard

Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine, 1450–1600. By Tom Scott. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 363. $92.00 pp. 805-807

Terence McIntosh

The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880: Trade, Slavery and Emancipation. By Pieter Emmer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. xii, 283. $89.95 pp. 807-808

Wim Klooster

John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker. By Antoin E. Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 391. $75.00 pp. 808-810

Larry Neal

Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Maxine Berg and Kristine Bruland. Cheltenham, U.K., and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. xiii, 325. $85.00 pp. 810-811

Alexander Field

The Balkan Economies, c. 1800–1914: Evolution Without Development. By Michael Palairet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 415. $69.95 pp. 811-813

John R. Lampe

Capitalism, Democracy and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910. By E. Spencer Wellhofer. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1996. £47.50 pp. 813-815

Adam Klug

Strikes and Solidarity. By Roy Church and Quentin Outram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xx, 314. $69.95 pp. 815-816

John G. Treble

The Hammonds: A Marriage in History. By Stewart A. Weaver. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 349. $49.50 pp. 816-817

Ellen Fitzpatrick

Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate. By Andrzej Olechnowicz. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 273. $85.00 pp. 817-818

Tanis Hinchcliffe

Spain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945–1957. Challenge and Response. By Fernando Guirao. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 240. $69.95 pp. 818-820

Pamela Beth Radcliff

The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe. By Larry Neal and Daniel Barbezat. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp, xvii, 396. $29.95, paper pp. 820-821

Richard T. Griffiths

Gentlemen Capitalists: British Imperialism in South East Asia, 1770–1890. By Anthony Webster. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998. Pp. vi, 282. $59.50 pp. 821-822

Nicholas Tarling

Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929. By Alan Dye. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 343. $55.00 pp. 822-824

Anne Hanley

Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. By Suzanne Mettler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 239. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 824-825

Melissa A. Thomasson

Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881–1917. By Julie Greene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi,293. $49.95 pp. 825-826

Carolyn Moehling

Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the ClO. By Gilbert J. Gall. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 363. $21.95, paper pp. 826-828

Gerald Friedman

A Breed So Rare: The Life of J. R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oil Man, 1896–1992. By Don E. Carlton. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1998. Pp. 668. $39.95 pp. 828-829

Dean Lueck

Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. By Pamela Walker Laird. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 479. $35.95 pp. 830-831

Martha Olney

E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. By Gerald J. Baldasty. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 217. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 831-832

Louis Cain

Manufacturing the Future: A Histoiy of Western Electric. By Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xi, 270. $34.95 pp. 832-833

Edward E. Zajac

The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. By Andrea Tone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 264. $39.95 pp. 833-835

Price Fishback

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965. By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 170. $49.95 pp. 835-836

Douglas Allen

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 345. $35.00 pp. 836-838

Price Fishback

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819. By Thomas N. Ingersoll. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 490. $60.00, cloth; $25.00, paper pp. 838-839

Anthony Patrick O'brien

From Dependency to Independence. Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. By Margaret Ellen Newell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. 329. $45.00 pp. 839-841

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Merchants & Empire: Trading in Colonial New York. By Cathy Matson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 458. $45.00 pp. 841-843

James F. Shepherd

New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Canada. By Marc Egnal. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 236. $49.95 pp. 843-845

Marvin McInnis

Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare,1920–1939. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xix, 432. $45.00 pp. 845-846

Robert Higgs

The Struggle for Water. By Wendy Nelson Espeland. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 281. $19.00, paper pp. 846-848

Micha Gisser

Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. Edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 344. $55.00, cloth; $19.00, paper pp. 849-851

Tracey E. George

Labor Statistics Measurement Issues. Edited by John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser, and Robert Topel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 478. $60.00 pp. 851-852

John DiNardo

Growth and Development from an Evolutionary Perspective. By John C. H. Fei and Gustav Ranis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. Pp xiv, 465. $73.95 pp. 853-854

Steve De Castro

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin. A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 347. $65.00, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 854-855

Jack A. Nickerson

Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective: Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation. By Kenneth Lapides. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1998. Pp. x, 275. $59.95 pp. 855-857

Heath Peterson

Finance in the Age of the Corporate Economy. The Third Anglo-Japanese Business History Conference. Edited by P. L. Cottrell, Alice Teichova, and Takeshi Yuzawa. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. 269. $76.95 pp. 857-858

Youssef Cassis

Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Alice Teichova, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk, and Dieter Ziegler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 427. $69.95 pp. 858-860

Howard Bodenhorn

Volume 59, issue 2, 1999

The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History pp. 267-289

Gavin Wright

The “Rabassa Morta” in Catalan Viticulture: The Rise and Decline of a Long-Term Sharecropping Contract, 1670s–1920s pp. 290-315

Juan Carmona and James Simpson

“Horn of Plenty”: The Globalization of Mediterranean Horticulture and the Economic Development of Southern Europe, 1880–1930 pp. 316-352

José Morilla Critz, Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

“If It's Yellow, It Must Be Butter”: Margarine Regulation in North America Since 1886 pp. 353-371

Ruth Dupré

Did Glass-Steagall Increase the Cost of External Finance for Corporate Investment?: Evidence From Bank and Insurance Company Affiliations pp. 372-396

Carlos Ramirez

Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and Performance in Indian Cotton Textiles, 1890–1938 pp. 397-423

Susan Wolcott and Gregory Clark

Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896 pp. 424-446

Werner Troesken

Institutions, Information, and Markets in Fifteenth- Century Tuscany pp. 456-459

Maristella Botticini

Caps and Gowns: Historical Reflections on the Institutions That Shaped Learning for and at Work in Germany and the United States, 1800–1945 pp. 459-462

Hal Eugune Hansen

Fueling the Fires of Genius: Women's Inventive Activities in American War Eras pp. 462-466

Lisa A. Marovich

The Risks and Returns of Not Being on the Gold Standard: The Spanish Experience, 1880–1913 pp. 466-469

María Concepción García-Iglesias Soto

Labor Mobility in American and Indian Economic History pp. 469-473

William Collins

“The Projecting Sprit”: Social, Economic and Cultural Change in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia pp. 473-476

A. Glenn Crothers

Comments on Botticini, Hansen, and Marovich pp. 476-479

Lynn Lees

Comments on the Dissertations by Collins, Crothers, and García-Iglesias pp. 479-486

Leonard Carlson

Session 1A: The Black Death and the Medieval Economy pp. 487-499

Anonymous

Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange and the Emergence of Scientific Thought. By Joel Kaye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 273. $54.95 pp. 505-506

Francois Velde

Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death. Women in Sussex, 1350–1535. By Mavis E. Mate. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 221. $75.00 pp. 506-507

Maristella Botticini

Medieval and Early Modern Europe - State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württtemberg Black Forest, 1580–1797. By Sheilagh Ogilvie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 513. $80.00 pp. 508-509

Terence McIntosh

Agriculture, Proto-Industry and Mennonite Entrepreneurship: A History of the Textile Industries in Twente 1600–1815. By Cor Trompetter. Amsterdam: NEHA, 1997. Pp. 264. NLG 55.00, paper pp. 509-510

John E. Murray

Modern Europe - Frontier Profit and Loss: The British Army and the Fur Traders, 1760–1764. By Walter S. Dunn Jr Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 196. $59.95 pp. 510-511

Ann Carlos

Modern Europe - Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England. By Timothy L. Albom. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. ix, 297. £50.00 pp. 511-513

Ron Harris

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia 1830–1870. By James M. Brophy. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 273. $50.00 pp. 513-514

Jonathan Sperber

Modern Europe - Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740–1850. By John Rule and Roger Wells. London: The Hambledon Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 257. $55.00 pp. 514-515

Adruab Randall

Modern Europe - Universal Banking in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Alice Teichova, Terry Gourvish, and Agnes Pogany. London: Routledge, 1994 pp. 515-517

Marc Flandreau

English Population History from Family Reconstitution: 1580–1837. By E. A. Wrigley, R. S. Davies, J. E. Oeppen, and R. S. Schofield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xxii, 657. $85.00 pp. 517-520

Michael R. Haines

The European Economy between the Wars. By Charles H. Feinstein, Peter Temin, and Gianni Toniolo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 233. $42.50, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 520-521

Harold James

Modern Europe - Gentlemen, Bourgeois, and Revolutionaries: Political Change and Cultural Persistence among the Spanish Dominant Groups, 1750–1850. By Jesus Cruz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x 350. $59.95 pp. 521-523

Carolyn P. Boyd

Modern Europe - Inland Navigation and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Andreas Kunz and John Armstrong. Mainz: Verlag Philipp Von Zabern, 1995. Pp. 330. DM 58, paper pp. 523-524

Rick Szostak

Modern Europe - The British Motor Industry. By James Foreman-Peck, Sue Bowden, and Alan McKinley. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 323. $69.95 pp. 524-525

Richard Overy

Modern Europe - Stalinism in a Russian Province. A Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia. By James Hughes. London: MacMillan Press, Ltd., 1996. Pp. xv, 271. - Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia: 1926–1934. By David R. Shearer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 263. $42.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 525-527

Robert Allen

Asia, Africa, and Australia - Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia. Edited by Paul H. Kratoska. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 244. $75.00 pp. 527-528

David G. Marr

The Price of Wealth: Economic and Institutions in the Middle East. By Kiren Aziz Chaudhry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. pp. xiii, 330. $19.95 pp. 528-530

Trik Yousef

Industrialisation and the British Colonial State: West Africa, 1939–1951. By. L. J. Butler. London: Frank Cass, 1977. pp. viii, 310. $49.50 pp. 530-531

A. G. Hopkins

The Rise of Asia: Economic, Society and Politics in Contemporary Asia. By Frank B. Tipton. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. pp. xiv, 527 pp. 531-532

John J. Stephan

Making Rural Australia: An Economic History of Technical and Institutional Creativity, 1788–1860. By Geoff Raby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996 pp. 532-533

Ian McLean

United States and Canada - In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling.1816–1906. By Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Kairn Gleiter. Chicago: Universirty of Chicago Press, 1997. pp.xii, 550. $80.00 pp. 534-535

Ronald N. Johnson

United States and Canada - Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 267. $40.00 pp. 535-536

Garth L. Mangum

United States and Canada - Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse. By John Erik Fossum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 368. $60, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 536-537

Andre Plourde

United States and Canada - Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico. By Martin R. Ansell. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 302. $60.00 pp. 537-539

Larry A. McFarlane

United States and Canada - Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century. By Robert E. WeemsJr. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 193. $45.00, cloth; $18.98, paper pp. 539-540

Martha Olney

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. By Margaret Levenstein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. pp. ix, 277. $49.50 pp. 540-541

Joanne Yates

Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 313. $39.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 541-543

Robert Whaples

United States and Canada - The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865–1945. By Victoria Saker Woeste. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xvii, 369. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 543-544

Mary Eschelbach Hanson

The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. pp. xvi, 311. $35.00 pp. 544-546

Douglas Allen

Votes Without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920–1970. By Anna L. Harvey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. xi, 253. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 546-548

Eileen L. McDonagh

The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era? By Harold BiermanJr. Wesport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1998. pp. xi, 161. $55.00 pp. 548-549

Kenneth Ng

Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. Edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 382. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 549-550

Gillian Hamilton

Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793–1821. By Donald J. Ratcliffe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. pp. xii, 336. $52.50 cloth; $22.95 paper pp. 551-552

Dennis Halcoussis

A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871–1896. By Karin A. Shapiro, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xvi, 333. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 552-553

William Collins

The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776–1836. By Donald R. Stabile. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. $59.95 pp. 553-554

John Wallis

Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860. By Laurence J. Malone. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 155. $59.95 pp. 554-555

Jac C. Heckelman

Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. By Thomas W. Zeiler. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 288. $39.95 pp. 555-556

Douglas Irwin

In Irons: Britain–s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 397. $35.00 pp. 556-557

Richard Sicotte

Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century Edited by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press for The German Historical Institute, 1998. Pp. xiv, 477. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 558-559

Louis P. Cain

The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945–1960. By John Killick. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, BAAS, 1997 and New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 209. $25.00, paper pp. 559-560

Louis P. Cain

Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History since 1900. By Kenneth D. Brown. New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 269. $79.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 560-561

Alan S. Milward

The Founding of Institutional Economics: The Leisure Class and Sovereignty. Edited by Warren J. Samuels. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xii, 322. $60.00 pp. 561-562

Heath Pearson

A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity. By Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay Winter. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. Pp. ix, 290. $26.00 pp. 562-564

Carl Ipsen

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxv, 419. $49.00, cloth; $17.00, paper pp. 564-565

Bruce G. Carruthers

ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. By Andre Gunder Frank. Berkeley: University of California Press,1998. Pp. xxix, 416. $55.00, cloth; $19.95 paper pp. 565-566

David S. Landes

Volume 59, issue 1, 1999

Culture Shock and Direct Investment in Poor Countries pp. 1-16

John R. Hanson

Was Ecomomic Growth Likely in Colonial British North America? pp. 17-40

Peter C. Mancall and Thomas Weiss

Labourers at the Oakes: Changes in the Demand for Female Day-Laborers at a Farm near Sheffield During the Agricultural Revolution pp. 41-67

Joyce Burnette

Property Rights and Transaction Costs in Marriage: Evidence from Prenuptial Contracts pp. 68-103

Gillian Hamilton

A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Marriage Market in a Tuscan Town, 1415–1436 pp. 104-121

Maristella Botticini

Property Rights and Institutions: Congress and the California Land Act 1851 pp. 122-142

Karen Clay

Viennese Chairs: A Case Study for Modern Industrialization pp. 143-166

Aikaterini Kyriazidou and Martin Pesendorfer

Why Did Prices Rise in the 1930s? pp. 167-199

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Athenian Economy and Society. By Edward E. Cohen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 288. $45.00, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 205-206

Philip Coelho

Warriors Into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. By David W. Tandy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 296. $45.00 pp. 206-207

Philip Coelho

The Venetian Money Market. Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200–1500. By Reinhold C. Mueller. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 711. $65.00 pp. 207-208

Maristella Botticini

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. By Robert S. DuPlessis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 329. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 208-210

Reneé Leboutte

The Wild and the Sown. Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350–1850. By Mauro Ambrosoli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiv, 460. $69.95 pp. 210-211

George Grantham

The Most Terrible of All Harpies. Smallpox Epidemics and Smallpox Prevention in the Netherlands in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. A Study in Social History and Historical Demography [‘De vreselijkste aller harpijen’. Pokkenepidemieën en pokkenbestrijding in Nederland in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw: een sociaal-historische en historisch-demografische studie]. By Willibrord Rutten. Wageningen: Afd. Agrarishe Geschiedenis, Landbouwuniversitat, 1997. Pp. ill, 562 pp. 211-212

Jan J. Barendregt

Understanding Decline. Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance. Edited by Peter Clarke and Clive Trebilcock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 313. $64.95 pp. 212-213

Stephen Broadberry

Merchants, Bankers, Middlemen, The Amsterdam money market during the first half of the 19th century. By Joost Jonker. Amsterdam: NEHA, 1996. Pp. 383. Dutch guilders 59.90 pp. 214-215

Peter Groote

The Prothictivity Race: BritishManifacturingin International Perspective, 1850–1990. By S. N. Broadberry. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 451. £45.00, $74.95 pp. 215-216

Tim Leunig

Inland Navigation and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Centwy Europe. Edited by Andreas Kunz and Joh Armstrong. Mainz: Verlag Philipp Von Zabern, 1995. Pp. 330. DM 58, paper pp. 216-217

Rick Szostak

A Financial History of The Netherlands. Edited by Marjolein't Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 232. $59.95 pp. 217-218

Anne McCants

A Monetary History of Italy. By Michelle Fratianni and Franco Spinelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 305. $64.95 pp. 218-219

Carlo Bardini

Trade and Transformation in Korea, 1876–1945. By Dennis L. McNamara. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 228. $59.00 pp. 220-221

Myung Soo Cha

Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania. By Aili Man Tripp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xxii, 260. $48.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 221-223

Galia Sabar-Friedman

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945–1963. By Robert L. Tignor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 419. $55.00 pp. 223-225

Frederick Cooper

The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela. By Fernando Coronil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 447. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 225-226

Frank Safford

Asia, Africa, and Latin America - Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. By Jeffery M. Paige. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 432. $45.00, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 226-228

Alan Dye

United States and Canada - Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country 1740–1790. By Robert Olwell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 293. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 228-229

Jenny Wahl

United States and Canada - Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. 309. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 229-230

Gavin Wright

United States and Canada - The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery. By Jenny Bourne Wahl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 277. $49.95 pp. 230-231

Thomas D. Morris

United States and Canada - The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. By Neil Foley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 326. $29.95 pp. 231-232

Wayne Grove

United States and Canada - Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. By Shawn Everett Kantor. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. x, 187. $45.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 232-234

Lee J. Alston

United States and Canada - Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South. Alabama's Hill Country, 1874–1920. By Samuel L. Webb. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 220. $34.95 pp. 234-235

J. Morgan Kousser

United States and Canada - Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865–1880. By Randolph B. Campbell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 251. $35.00 pp. 235-236

Harold D. Woodman

United States and Canada - Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xii, 391. $45.00 pp. 237-238

Margaret Levi

United States and Canada - Southern Labor in Transition, 1940–1995. Edited by Robert H. Zieger. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Pp. x, 346. $42.00 pp. 238-239

Andrew Seltzer

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912–1921. By Joseph A. McCartin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 303. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 239-240

Patrick Reagan

Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in Twentieth-Century America. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 214. $27.95 pp. 240-242

Joel Mokyr

Shopfloor Matters: Labor-Management Relations in Twentieth-Century American Manifacturing. By David Fairris. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xiii, 234. $75.00 pp. 242-243

Sanford M. Jacoby

Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism. By Thomas R. Heinrich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 290. $39.95 pp. 243-244

William J. Williams

Steinway & Sons. By Richard K. Lieberman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 374. $40.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 244-246

David B. Sicilia

BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870–1995. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 507. $30.00 pp. 246-247

Hugh Rockoff

Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. By Richard West Sellars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 380. $35.00 pp. 247-248

Peter J. Hill

Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution. By Peter D. McClelland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 348. $45.00 pp. 248-249

Lee Craig

Mixed Harvest, The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870–1930. By Hal S. Barron. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 301. $49.95 pp. 249-251

Fred Bateman

Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. By Hugh Prince. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 395. $21.00, paper pp. 251-252

Carville Earle

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870–1940. By Christopher Armstrong. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. x, 390. $39.95 pp. 252-254

John Emery

US. Economic History Since 1945. By Michael French. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press and St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. x, 236. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 254-255

Kim McQuaid

Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes. By Allen J. Matusow. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 323. $35.00 pp. 255-256

George A. Krause

The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920–1970. By Perry G. Mehrling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 283. $45.00 pp. 256-257

George Selgin

Redefining the State: Privatization and Welfare Reform in Industrial and Transitional Economies. By Nicolas Spulber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 254. $39.95 pp. 258-260

Raymond L. Cohn

A History of Corporate Finance. By Jonathan Barron Baskin and Paul J. Miranti Jr New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 350. $34.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 258-258

Larry Neal

History of Pedlars in Europe. By Laurence Fontaine. Translated by Vicki Whittaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. 280. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 260-261

B. W. de Vries

A History of Money from AD 800. By John F. Chown. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. ix, 306. $24.95, paper pp. 261-262

Nathan Sussman

Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism. By Margaret Levi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 255. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 262-264

William Fischel

Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Two volumes. Edited by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Oded Stark. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997. Volume 1A: Pp. xviii, 643; Volume 2A: Pp. xix, (1343–648). $110.00, each volume; $155.00, both volumes pp. 264-266

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