The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 58, issue 4, 1998

Migration and Economic Mobility: Wealth Accumulation and Occupational Change Among Antebellum Migrants and Persisters pp. 927-956

Steven Herscovici

Chain Migration and Information Networks: Evidence From Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel pp. 957-986

Simone A. Wegge

Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight pp. 987-1009

Dora Costa

Domestic Exchange Rates and Regional Economic Growth in the United States, 1899–1908: Evidence from Cointegration Analysis pp. 1010-1026

Ronnie Phillips and Harvey Cutler

Tracking Economic Change with Ambiguous Tools: Soviet Planning, 1928–1991 pp. 1027-1031

Holland Hunter

Prices, Planners, and Producers: an Agency Problem in Soviet Industry, 1928–1950 pp. 1032-1062

Mark Harrison

The Standard of Living in the Soviet Union, 1928–1940 pp. 1063-1089

Robert Allen

The Role of Gender in Biased Technical Change: U.S. Manufacturing, 1850–1919 pp. 1090-1109

Elizabeth Field-Hendrey

Interest Rate Uncertainty and the Founding of the Federal Reserve pp. 1110-1117

Tony Caporale and Barbara McKiernan

Medieval and Early Modern - Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150–1350. By James Masschaele. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 275. $45.00, cloth pp. 1127-1128

Bruce M. S. Campbell

The Artisan and the European Town, 1500–1900. Edited by Geoffrey Crossick. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997, Pp. xv, 263. $76.95 pp. 1128-1129

Gary Richardson

Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528. By Steven A. Epstein. 1996. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Pp. 396. $45.00, cloth pp. 1129-1130

Avner Greif

The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. By David Herlihy. Edited by Samuel K. CohnJr. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 117. $27.00, cloth, $12.00, paper pp. 1130-1131

Maristella Botticini

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England. Mary J. Dobson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 670. $95.00, cloth pp. 1131-1132

James C. Riley

Labour, Science and Technology in France 1500–1620. By Henry Heller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 258. $59.95, cloth pp. 1132-1134

James B. Collins

Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam. By Anne E. C. McCants. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 282. $36.95 pp. 1134-1135

Karel Davids

Changing Values in Medieval Scotland: A Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures. By Elizabeth Gemmill and Nicholas Mayhew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 419. $79.95, cloth pp. 1135-1136

Leo Noordegraaf

Modern Europe - British Industrial Capitalism Since the Industrial Revolution. By Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis. London: U. C. L. Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 275. $75.00 pp. 1136-1137

Stephen Broadberry

Medical Charities, Medical Politics. The Irish Dispensary System and the Poor Law, 1836–1872. By Ronald D. Cassell Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1997. Pp. x, 181. $63.00 pp. 1137-1138

Laurence M. Geary

Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Centry of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York. By L. Green. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 426. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1139-1140

Wendy Gamber

Land and Society in Edwardian Britain. By Brian Short. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 398. $69.95, cloth pp. 1140-1141

Michael Turner

Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800–1930. By Barry Reay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxv, 288. $59.95, Cloth pp. 1141-1143

K. D. M. Snell

Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century. By Albert Schram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 198. $59.95, cloth pp. 1143-1144

Stefano Fenoaltea

Government Versus the Market: The Growth of the Public Sector, Economic Management and British Economic Performance, c. 1890–1979. By Roger Middleton. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp. xxviii, 756. $119.95 pp. 1144-1145

Paul Johnson

Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire. By Michael Huberman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 222. $59.95, cloth pp. 1145-1147

Lynne Kiesling

Asia and Africa - Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning, 1774–1873. By James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 280. $49.95, cloth pp. 1147-1149

Carl Mosk

China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. By R. Bin Wong. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 327. $39.95 pp. 1149-1150

K. G. Deng

Economic Change in South-East Asia, c 1830–1980. By Ian Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 300. $52.00 pp. 1150-1151

Siddharth Chandra

Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire. By Osumaka Likaka. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 189. $47.95 pp. 1152-1153

Richard Roberts

United States and Canada - Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800–1821. By Frank Lawrence OwsleyJr. and Gene A. Smith. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 241. $29.95 pp. 1153-1154

Robert A. McGuire

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio. By Darrel E. Bigham. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. xiv, 334. $39.95, cloth pp. 1155-1156

John E. Murray

Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890–1928. By Jonathan Kahn. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 222. $39.95 pp. 1156-1157

Thomas Laichas

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. By Mark M. Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xxx, 303. $45, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 1157-1158

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madicon County, Alabama 1800–1840. By Daniel S. Dupre. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 269. $40.00 pp. 1158-1159

Nancy Virts

Revolt among the Sharecroppers. By Howard Kester. With an Introduction by Alex Lichtenstein. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Pp. lvii, 98. $14.50, paper pp. 1160-1160

Joseph D. Reid

Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America. By Leland Donald. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 379. $40.00 pp. 1160-1162

D. Bruce Johnsen

The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860–1930. By Wendy Gamber. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 300. $39.95, cloth; $16.95 paper pp. 1162-1163

Carolyn Moehling

Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865–1925. By Philip Scranton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 415. $39.50 pp. 1163-1164

Dario Gaggio

American Iron, 1607–1900. By Robert B. Gordon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 341. $49.95 pp. 1165-1166

Charles B. Dew

Early American Railroads. Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's ‘Die innern Communication’ (1842–1843). Edited by Frederick C. Gamst, translated by David J. Diephouse and John C. Decker. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. vi, 844. $95.00 pp. 1166-1167

Jerome K. Laurent

The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System. By Lawrence Broz. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 269. $35.00 pp. 1167-1168

Mark Toma

Competition and Monopoly in the Federal Reserve System, 1914–1951: A Microeconomics Approach to Monetary History. By Mark Toma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 132. $49.95 pp. 1168-1170

David Wheelock

The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. By Louis S. Warren. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. ix., 227. $30.00 pp. 1170-1171

Dean Lueck

Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation. By Terence Kehoe. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 250. $32.00 pp. 1171-1172

Louis P. Cain

General and Miscellaneous - Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance. Edited by Daniele Archibugi and Jonathan Michie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 303. $59.95. - Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism, Prabhat Patnaik. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Pp. viii, 322. $75 pp. 1173-1175

Gregory Clark

Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications. Seventh World Congress. Volume 2. Edited by David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 356. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1175-1176

Lee Alston

Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations. By Yujiro Hayami. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 316. $75.00 pp. 1176-1178

Bernardo Mueller

Against the Tide, an Intellectual History of Free Trade. By Douglas A. Irwin. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 274. $39.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 1178-1179

Franck Schuurmans

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. By Jared Diamond. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 480. $27.50 pp. 1179-1181

Philip Coelho

The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. By Rodney Stark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 245. $24.95 pp. 1181-1183

Philip Coelho

The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploring the Myth of Social Evolution. By Graeme Donald Snooks. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xiv, 585. $125, cloth pp. 1183-1184

Gregory Clark

Economics and the Historian. By Thomas G. Rawski, Susan B. Carter, Jon S. Cohen, Steven Cullenberg, Peter H. Lindert, Donald M. McCloskey, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard Sutch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 297. $45.00, cloth; $17.00, paper pp. 1184-1185

Judith A. Miller

Volume 58, issue 3, 1998

Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution pp. 625-658

Charles H. Feinstein

Economic Integration and Convergence: U.S. Regions, 1840–1987 pp. 659-683

Sukkoo Kim

Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe pp. 684-713

S. R. Epstein

The Demise of Central Banking and the Domestic Exchanges: Evidence from Antebellum Ohio pp. 714-730

Jane Knodell

Imperial Policy or World Price Shocks? Explaining Interwar Korean Consumption Trend pp. 731-754

Myung Soo Cha

Exclusive Dealing and the Whiskey Trust, 1890–1895 pp. 755-778

Werner Troesken

The Wealth and Poverty of History pp. 857-861

E. L. Jones

Culture, Malthus, and Irish Demographic History pp. 862-865

Kevin O'Rourke

Height and the Standard of Living pp. 866-870

Joerg Baten and John Komlos

Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Eutvpe. By Thomas Ertman: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 363. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 874-875

Philip Coelho

The Transformation of a Peasant Economy: Townspeople and Villagers in the Lutterworth Area 1500–1700. By John Goodacre. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1994. Pp xix, 322. $84.95, cloth pp. 875-876

Albion M. Urdank

Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy. By Samuel K. CohnJr. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. Xi, 250. $45, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 876-878

Maristella Botticini

Modern Europe - Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. By Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. PhillipsJr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 441. $49.95 pp. 878-879

Joseph Harrison

Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry. Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860–1914. By Gary Bryan Magee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 293. $59.95 pp. 879-881

Pierre Claude Reynard

The People and the British Economy, 1830–1914. By Roderick Floud. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 218. $15.95, paper pp. 881-882

Tim Leunig

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862–1969. By Robert Fitzgerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, Pp. xix, 737. £68.00 pp. 882-883

Tom Nicholas

Les Logiques de l'entreprise. La rationalisation dans l'industrie francaise de l'entre-deuxguerres. By Aimée Moutet. Paris; Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1997. Pp. 495. 250 F pp. 884-885

Maurice Lévy-Leboyer

France and the International Economy. From Vichy to the Treaty of Rome. By Frances M. B. Lynch. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xv, 227. £ 45 pp. 885-886

Pierre Sicsic

Labour, Science, and Technology in France 1500–1620. By Henry Heller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 258 pp. 886-887

James B. Collins

Selected Cliometric Studies on German Economic History. Edited by John Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, Pp. 369. 78 DM pp. 887-888

Michael Pammer

History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape. By Emilio Sereni. Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xliv, 389. $55.00, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 888-889

Francesco L. Galassi

Die Bundesbank im westeuropäischen Wiederaufbau: Die internationale Währungspolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1948 bis 1958. By Monika Dickhaus. Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1996. Pp. 286. DM 35, paper pp. 889-891

Caroline Fohlin

Asia - The RGA History of the Plantation Industry in the Malay Peninsula. By D. J. M. Tate. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp xx, 647. $80.00 pp. 891-892

Colin Barlow

Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840. Compiled by Helen Dunstan. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1996. Pp. 363 pp. 892-894

Melissa Macauley

Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860'1890. By Erik Baark. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp, xii, 216. $69.50 pp. 894-895

Shannon R. Brown

United States and Canada - Texas Oil, American Dreams. By Lawrence Goodwyn. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. Pp. xiii, 274. $29.95 pp. 895-896

Peter Z. Grossman

Beating Plowshares into Swords. The Political Economy of American Warfare. 1606–1865. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. xv, 376. $39.95, cloth pp. 896-897

Michael Edelstein

Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide. Volume 2. Handbook of American Business History. Edited by David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 523. $115 pp. 897-898

Louis Cain

What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945–1955. By Timothy J. Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 285. $45.00, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 898-899

Morgan O. Reynolds

Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels Through the South. By W. C. Corsan. Edited by Benjamin H. Trask. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 155. $26.95 pp. 900-900

David G. Surdam

An Anthology of Henry George's Thought. Volume 1 of the Henry George Centennial Trilogy. Edited by Kenneth C. Wenzer. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 253. $59.95 pp. 901-902

Robert V. Andelson

The Rise of Big Government in the United States. By John F. Walker and Harold G. Vatter. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xiii, 261. $64.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 902-903

Robert Higgs

The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. By Robert Kanigel. New York: Viking, 1997. Pp. xi, 675. $34.95 pp. 903-904

Daniel Nelson

Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935. By Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 289. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper pp. 904-906

Melissa A. Thomasson

Beyond the Boundaries: Life and Landscape at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, 1840–1875. By Larry Lankton. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Pp. xvi, 247. $39.95 pp. 906-907

David Gerard

Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary. By Craig W. Horle, Jeffrey L. Scheib, Joseph S. Foster, David Haugaard, Carolyn M. Peters, and Laurie M. Wolfe, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 1,210. $145 pp. 907-908

John A. Schutz

The Man who Found the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of the Western Railroads. By Saul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 257. $34.95 pp. 908-910

Knick Harley

The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America. By Paul W. Kahn. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 306. $35.00 pp. 910-911

Robert McGuire

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 375. $35.00, cloth pp. 911-913

Thomas Maloney

Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. By Mary P. Ryan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 376. $27.50 pp. 913-914

Gillian Hamilton

General and Miscellaneous - On the Search for Well-Being. By Henry J. Bruton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. x, 227. $37.50, cloth pp. 914-916

Lee Alston

Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points: Exchange Rates, Parity, and Market Behavior. By Lawrence Officer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 342. $59.50 pp. 916-917

Richard Tilly

Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below: An Essay in Comparative Political Economy. By Terence J. Byers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xxiii, 490. $79.95 pp. 917-918

Lee Craig

The Wealth of States: A Comparative Sociology of International Economic and Political Change. By John M. Hobson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 338. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 919-920

Suzanne Gleason

Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology. By Robert Pool. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 358. $30.00 pp. 920-921

Thomas Holmes

The Third Revolution. Professional Elites in the Modern World. By Harold Perkin. Routledge: London and New York1996, pp. xviii, 253; $65.00 pp. 921-922

Gianni Toniolo

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. By David Hackett Fischer. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 536 pp. 922-924

Jan de Vries

In Pursuit of the Quality of Life. Edited by Avner Offer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp viii, 302. £35.00 pp. 924-925

Nicholas Crafts

The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? Edited by Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills. London and New York; Routledge, 1996. Pp. xxii, 320. £16.99, paper pp. 925-926

John M. Hobson

Volume 58, issue 2, 1998

Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S pp. 297-317

Deirdre N. McCloskey

Learning and the Creation of Stock-Market Institutions: Evidence from the Royal African and Hudson's Bay Companies, 1670–1700 pp. 318-344

Ann Carlos, Jennifer Key and Jill L. Dupree

America's Graduation from High School: The Evolution and Spread of Secondary Schooling in the Twentieth Century pp. 345-374

Claudia Goldin

How Did the United States and Germany Overtake Britian? A Sectoral Analysis of Comparative Productivity Levels, 1870–1990 pp. 375-407

Stephen Broadberry

When Your Word Is Not Enough: Race, Collateral, and Household Credit pp. 408-431

Martha Olney

Marriage, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Excess Female Mortality among Adults during Early German Development, 1740–1860 pp. 432-467

Stephan Klasen

Nativity and Wealth in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cities pp. 468-493

Timothy Conley and David Galenson

Productivity of a Commune: The Shakers, 1850–1880 pp. 494-510

Metin Cosgel and John E. Murray

The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911 pp. 525-528

Edward Beatty

The Myth of the Corporate Economy: Factor Costs, Industrial Structure and Technological Choice in the Lancashire and New England Cotton Textile Industries, 1900–1913 pp. 528-531

Timothy Leuning

Migration Decisions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany pp. 532-535

Simone Wegge

Work and Family: Intergenerational Support in American Families, 1880–1920 pp. 535-537

Carolyn Moehling

Real Output and Business Cycle Volatility, 1869–1993: U.S. Experience in International Perspective pp. 537-541

Mark Siegler

Banking and Politics in New York, 1784–1829 pp. 541-544

Robert E. Wright

Discussion pp. 544-552

Daniel Barbezat and Kenneth Snowden

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 553-566

Anonymous

Medieval and Early Modern Europe - The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily. Politics, Religion and Economy in the Reign of Frederick III, 1296–1337. By Clifford R. Backman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxii, 352. $59.95 pp. 572-573

David Abulafia

The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700–1775. By Steven L. Kaplan. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 761. $49.95 pp. 573-575

Leonard N. Rosenband

The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile: Mobility and Migration in Everyday Rural Life. By David E. Vassberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 253. $59.95 pp. 575-576

Akira Motomura

Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850. By Mark Overton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 258. $54.95, cloth. $19.95 paper pp. 576-578

Gregory Clark

Maritime Commerce and English Power. By S. Arasaratnam. Aldershot, England and Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1996. Pp. v, 326. $72.95 pp. 578-579

Santhi Hejeebu

Dress, Culture and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660–1800. By Beverly Lemire. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1997. Pp. vii, 224. $65.00 pp. 579-580

Nancy Page Fernandez

Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwābisch Hall and its Region, 1650–1750. By Terence McIntosh. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xix, 317. $37.00, paper pp. 580-582

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Modern Europe - The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe, 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. pp. xi, 296. $75.00 pp. 582-583

Sarah Maza

La longue stagnation en France: L'autre grande dépression, 1873–1897. Edited by Yves Breton, Albert Broder, and Michel Lutfalla. Paris: Economica, 1997. pp.viii, 492. FF 250 pp. 583-584

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Sick, Not Dead: The Health of British Workingmen during the Mortality Decline. By James C. Riley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University press, 1997. pp. xvii, 349. $58.00 pp. 584-586

John E. Murray

Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy: The Attlee Years, 1945–1951. By Jim Tomlinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 331. $64.95 pp. 586-587

Alan Booth

Britain's Relative Economic Decline. By Nicholas Crafts. London: Social Market Foundation, 1997. pp. 68. £12.00 pp. 587-588

Sidney Pollard

Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defense Burden, 1940–1945. By Mark Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. pp. xxiv, 338 pp. 588-590

Robert Allen

Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. By Lynne Viola. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 312 pp. 590-591

Robert Allen

Asia and Latin America - Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture. By Susan B. Hanley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 213. $35.00 pp. 591-592

Alan MacFarlane

Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth. By J. Mark Ramseyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 189. $54.95 pp. 592-594

Carl Mosk

Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000–1700. By Richard Von Glahn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 338. $55.00 pp. 594-595

Arturo Giraldez

Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire. By Steven C. Topik. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 301. $55.00 pp. 595-596

Anne Hanley

United States and Canada - Federal Taxation in America: A Short History. By W. Elliot Brownlee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 190. $39.95, cloth; $12.95, paper. - Funding the Modern American State, 1941–1995: The Rise and Fall of Easy Finance. Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 467. $59.95 pp. 597-599

Mark H. Leff

The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789–1801. By David P. Currie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 327. $32.50 pp. 599-600

Robert McGuire

Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. By Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 297. $85.00, cloth pp. 600-601

Ronald N. Johnson

The Tenant League of Prince Edward Island 1864–1867: Leasehold Tenure in the New World. By Ian Ross Robertson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 397. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 601-603

Catharine Wilson

The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians 1860–1865. By Mark Grimsley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, reprint 1996. Pp. xii, 244. $17.95, paper pp. 603-604

Garland Brinkley

Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America. By Stuart D. Brandes. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. ix, 371. $34.95 pp. 604-605

William Collins

A History of Corporate Finance. By Jonathan Barron Baskin and Paul J. MirantiJr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 350. $29.95 pp. 605-607

Gerald P. Dwyer

The Collapse of the American Management Mystique. By Robert R. Locke. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 351. $35.00 pp. 607-608

Paul Robertson

100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture. By Timothy B. Spears. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 300. $40.00, cloth; $17.00. paper pp. 608-609

Larry Schweikart

The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870–1945. By Cindy Hahamovitch. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 287. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 609-610

Linda Barrington

The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years. By Steven A. Sass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 332. $39.95 pp. 610-612

Dora L. Costa

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895–1995. By Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Sewell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 274. $39.95 pp. 612-613

B. Zorina Khan

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 353. $29.95, cloth pp. 613-614

Ron Limbaugh

General and Miscellaneous - Stock Market Crashes and Speculative Manias. Edited by Eugene N. White. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1996. Pp. xviii, 564. $179.95 pp. 614-617

Charles Calomiris

Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System. By Barry Eichengreen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 223. $24.95 pp. 617-618

Anna Schwartz

Interest Groups and Monetary Integration: The Political Economy of Exchange Regime Choice. By Carsten Hefeker. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 159. $55.00 pp. 618-619

Lee Craig

Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith. London: Verso, 1996, Pp. 296 pp. 620-621

Ken Alder

Consumption in the Age of Affluence: The World of Food. By Ben Fine, Michael Heasman and Judith Wright. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. x, 305. $75.00, cloth; $22.00, paper pp. 621-622

Avner Offer

Management and Business in Britain and France: The Age of the Corporate Economy. Edited by Youssef Cassis, François Crouzet, and Terry Gourvish. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 239 pp. 622-623

John Nye

Volume 58, issue 1, 1998

On the Costs of Inward-Looking Development: Price Distortions, Growth, and Divergence in Latin America pp. 1-28

Alan Taylor

Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London pp. 29-58

Hans-Joachim Voth

Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of “The Great Tariff Debate of 1888” pp. 59-72

Douglas Irwin

Commons Sense: Common Property Rights, Efficiency, and Institutional Change pp. 73-102

Gregory Clark

Metropolitan Development, Regional Financial Centers, and the Founding of the Fed in the Lower South pp. 103-125

Kerry A. Odell and David F. Weiman

The Late Medieval Bullion Famine Reconsidered pp. 126-154

Nathan Sussman

Manufacturing Strategies in the Eighteenth Century: Subcontracting for Growth among Papermakers in the Auvergne pp. 155-182

Pierre Claude Reynard

Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881–1894 pp. 183-205

Joshua Rosenbloom

Renting The Revolution pp. 206-210

Gregory Clark

Renting The Revolution: A Reply to Clark pp. 211-214

Michael Turner, John Beckett and Bethanie Afton

Crisis and Change in the Later Medieval English Economy pp. 215-219

John Munro

Ancient and Medieval - Hesiod's Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences. By David W. Tandy and Walter C. Neale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 149. $30.00, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 226-226

Brooks Kaiser

Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 322. $59.95 pp. 227-228

Constance B. Bouchard

Peasant Economic Development within the English Manorial System. By J. A. Raftis. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 243. $49.95 pp. 228-229

Bruce M. S. Campbell

Agriculture in the Middle Ages: Technology, Practice, and Representation. Edited by Del Sweeney. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 371 pp. 229-230

John Langdon

A Woman in History–Eileen Power 1889–1940. By Maxine Berg. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 292. $69.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 231-232

Susan Mosher Stuard

Early Modern Europe - Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West. By Margaret C. Jacob. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 269 pp. 232-233

Ian Inkster

The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and Beyond, 1540–1750. By Dauril Alden. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 707. $75.00 pp. 233-235

Tim Yeager

City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution. Bruce G. Carruthers Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 303. $45.00 pp. 235-237

Jean-Laurent Roseonthal

The Middling Sort Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England 1680–1780. By Margaret R. Hunt. Berkely: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xiii, 343. $48.00 pp. 237-238

Maxine Berg

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg. By Thomas Max Safley. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1997. Pp. xiii, 350 $70.00 pp. 238-239

Anne E. C. McCants

Modern Europe - The Integration of the European Economy, 1850–1913. By Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher. New York and London: MacMillan and St. Martin's Press, 1997, Pp. xviii, 327 pp. 239-241

Arthur van Riel

Land and Society in Britain, 1700–1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson. Edited by Negley Harte and Roland Quinault. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 255. $79.95 pp. 241-242

Gregory Clark

The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830–1860. By Robert Gray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, Pp. xiv, 253. $59.95 pp. 242-243

Joyce Burnette

Information, Mediation and Institutional Development: The Rise of Large-scale Enterprise in British Shipping, 1870–1919. By Gordon Boyce. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 346. $79.95 pp. 243-244

Paul Robertson

An Economic History of Consumer Expenditure in Interwar Blgium 1920–1939. The Reconstruction of a Database. by Chris Schroeven. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1994. Pp. 284 pp. 244-245

Edwin Horlings

Nazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the National Community. By Timothly Kirk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. pp. xiv, 190. $44.95 pp. 245-247

Michael Pammer

The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945–1989. By Jeffrey Kopstein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. pp. xii, 246 pp. 247-248

Daniel Barbezat

Britain's Place in the World: A Historical Enquiry into Import Controls 1945–60. By Alan S. Milward and George Brennan. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xvi, 320 pp. 248-249

Alan Booth

Great Inflations of the 20th Century: Theories, Policies and Evidence. Edited by P. L. Siklos. Cornwall: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995. Pp. xiv, 308. $79.95 pp. 249-251

Bruce Smith

Africa, Asia, and Australia - Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional Economy in the French Soudan, 1800–1946. By Richard L. Roberts. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 381. $55.00 pp. 251-252

Karen A. Magner

Fortunes á Faire: The French in Asian Trade, 1719–48. By Catherine Manning. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1996. pp. xvi, 286. $72.95 pp. 252-254

Jonathan Liebowitz

Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule. By Anthony J. Barker. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1996. Pp. x, 225. $65.00 pp. 254-255

David N. Gellman

Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan. By Carl Mosk. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 156. $45.00 pp. 255-257

John Komlos

Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia. By Deborah Oxley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, Pp. ix, 339. $64.95 pp. 257-258

Ralph Shlomowitz

United States and Canada - Liberal Economics and Democracy: Keynes, Galbraith, Thurow, and Reich. By Conrad P. Waligorski. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Pp. xii, 258. $29.95 pp. 258-259

Ben Baack

Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits: Great Cities of North America Since 1600. By James T. Lemmon. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 341. $39.95 pp. 259-260

Kerry A. Odell

Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and their Legacies, 1933–1993. By Theodore Rosenof. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 222. $34.95 pp. 261-262

Barbara Alexander

Taxing America. Edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 363. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 262-263

Richard Vedder

Trade Protection in the United States. By Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, and Richard E. Wagner. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Edward E. Elgar, 1995. Pp. xiii, 348. $90.00 pp. 263-264

Douglas Irwin

Poverty in Central Appalachia: Underdevelopment and Exploitation. By Ada F. Haynes. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. Pp. xv, 225. $68.00. - Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City. By Paul A. Jargowsky. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. Forward, by William Julius Wilson. Pp. xiv, 288. $39.95 pp. 264-266

Stephen Ziliak

Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance. By Gregory P. Marchildon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 348. $39.00 pp. 266-268

Angela Redish

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. Pp. xvii, 251. $21 pp. 268-269

John Majewski

Passage to Union. How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829–1929. By Sarah H. Gordon. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. Pp. xii, 403. $30.00, cloth (illustrated) pp. 269-270

Marcia J. Frost

Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830–1890. By Wayne M. O'Leary. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1966. Pp. ix, 391. $24.95, paper pp. 270-271

Ronald N. Johnson

The Rise of Hotel Chains in the United States, 1896–1980. By Paul L. Ingram. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. Pp. xiv, 159. $47.00 pp. 271-272

Peter Z. Grossman

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William G. Roy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 338. $35 pp. 273-274

Christopher Grandy

Kellogg's Six-Hour Day. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 261. $24.95, paper pp. 274-275

Joyce Jacobsen

The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program. By Willis J. Nordlund. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 283. $57.95 pp. 275-276

Clifford Thies

The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production. By Lindy Biggs. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 202. $39.95 pp. 276-278

Laura J. Owen

Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 415. $49.95 pp. 278-279

Price Fishback

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 331. $45.00 pp. 279-280

Melissa A. Thomasson

The Power of Boldness. Ten Master Builders of American Industry Tell Their Success Stories. Edited by Elkan Blout. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 214. $29.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 280-282

David Mitch

“Fear God and Walk Humbly”: The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843–1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. MooreJr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 687. $49.95 pp. 282-283

Gavin Wright

American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750–1850. Edited by Howard B. Rock, Paul A. Gilje, and Robert Asher. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 251. $45.00, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 283-284

Billy G. Smith

The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. By T. Stephen Whitman. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997. Pp. 256. $35.95 pp. 284-285

Alison Games

Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Banking, Politics, and Social Order. By George David Rappaport. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 276. $37.50 pp. 286-287

Donald R. Adams

General and Miscellaneous - The Penguin Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century History. Edited by Jeremy Black and Roy Porter. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1996. Pp. xviii, 880. $17.95, paper. - The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century History. Edited by John Belchem and Richard Price, Advisory Editor: Richard J. Evans. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1996. Pp. xviii, 717. $16.95, paper pp. 287-288

Robert E. Gallman

The Ultimate Resource: 2. By Julian L. Simon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 734. $35.00 pp. 288-289

Douglas Allen

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996, Pp. xi, 341. $39.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 289-290

Emily Mechner

Serfdom and Slavery. Studies in Legal Bondage. Edited by M. L. Bush. London: Longman, 1996. Pp. 358. £44.00, cloth; £16.99, paper pp. 291-291

Christopher Hanes

Trends in Business Organization: Do Participation and Cooperation Increase Competitiveness? Edited by Horst Siebert. Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1995. Pp. viii, 292. DM 108 pp. 292-293

Caroline Fohlin

The Road from Serfdom. The Economic and Political Consequences of the End of Communism. By Robert Skidelsky. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Pp. x, 214. $12.95, paper pp. 293-295

Robert Higgs