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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 Downloads
Steven Herscovici
Chain Migration and Information Networks: Evidence From Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel pp. 957-986 Downloads
Simone A. Wegge
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight pp. 987-1009 Downloads
Dora Costa
Domestic Exchange Rates and Regional Economic Growth in the United States, 1899–1908: Evidence from Cointegration Analysis pp. 1010-1026 Downloads
Ronnie Phillips and Harvey Cutler
Tracking Economic Change with Ambiguous Tools: Soviet Planning, 1928–1991 pp. 1027-1031 Downloads
Holland Hunter
Prices, Planners, and Producers: an Agency Problem in Soviet Industry, 1928–1950 pp. 1032-1062 Downloads
Mark Harrison
The Standard of Living in the Soviet Union, 1928–1940 pp. 1063-1089 Downloads
Robert Allen
The Role of Gender in Biased Technical Change: U.S. Manufacturing, 1850–1919 pp. 1090-1109 Downloads
Elizabeth Field-Hendrey
Interest Rate Uncertainty and the Founding of the Federal Reserve pp. 1110-1117 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Nancy Virts
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 Downloads
D. Bruce Johnsen
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 Downloads
Joseph D. Reid
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Charles H. Feinstein
Economic Integration and Convergence: U.S. Regions, 1840–1987 pp. 659-683 Downloads
Sukkoo Kim
Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe pp. 684-713 Downloads
S. R. Epstein
The Demise of Central Banking and the Domestic Exchanges: Evidence from Antebellum Ohio pp. 714-730 Downloads
Jane Knodell
Imperial Policy or World Price Shocks? Explaining Interwar Korean Consumption Trend pp. 731-754 Downloads
Myung Soo Cha
Exclusive Dealing and the Whiskey Trust, 1890–1895 pp. 755-778 Downloads
Werner Troesken
The Wealth and Poverty of History pp. 857-861 Downloads
E. L. Jones
Culture, Malthus, and Irish Demographic History pp. 862-865 Downloads
Kevin O'Rourke
Height and the Standard of Living pp. 866-870 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Pierre Sicsic
Labour, Science, and Technology in France 1500–1620. By Henry Heller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 258 pp. 886-887 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
C. 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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Thomas J. 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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
John M. Hobson

Volume 58, issue 2, 1998

Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S pp. 297-317 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Claudia Goldin
How Did the United States and Germany Overtake Britian? A Sectoral Analysis of Comparative Productivity Levels, 1870–1990 pp. 375-407 Downloads
Stephen Broadberry
When Your Word Is Not Enough: Race, Collateral, and Household Credit pp. 408-431 Downloads
Martha Olney
Marriage, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Excess Female Mortality among Adults during Early German Development, 1740–1860 pp. 432-467 Downloads
Stephan Klasen
Nativity and Wealth in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cities pp. 468-493 Downloads
Timothy Conley and David Galenson
Productivity of a Commune: The Shakers, 1850–1880 pp. 494-510 Downloads
Metin Cosgel and John E. Murray
The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911 pp. 525-528 Downloads
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 Downloads
Timothy Leuning
Migration Decisions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany pp. 532-535 Downloads
Simone Wegge
Work and Family: Intergenerational Support in American Families, 1880–1920 pp. 535-537 Downloads
Carolyn Moehling
Real Output and Business Cycle Volatility, 1869–1993: U.S. Experience in International Perspective pp. 537-541 Downloads
Mark Siegler
Banking and Politics in New York, 1784–1829 pp. 541-544 Downloads
Robert E. Wright
Discussion pp. 544-552 Downloads
Daniel Barbezat and Kenneth A. Snowden
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 553-566 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Alan Booth
Britain's Relative Economic Decline. By Nicholas Crafts. London: Social Market Foundation, 1997. pp. 68. £12.00 pp. 587-588 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Anna J. 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 Downloads
Lee Craig
Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith. London: Verso, 1996, Pp. 296 pp. 620-621 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Alan Taylor
Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London pp. 29-58 Downloads
Hans-Joachim Voth
Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of “The Great Tariff Debate of 1888” pp. 59-72 Downloads
Douglas Irwin
Commons Sense: Common Property Rights, Efficiency, and Institutional Change pp. 73-102 Downloads
Gregory Clark
Metropolitan Development, Regional Financial Centers, and the Founding of the Fed in the Lower South pp. 103-125 Downloads
Kerry A. Odell and David F. Weiman
The Late Medieval Bullion Famine Reconsidered pp. 126-154 Downloads
Nathan Sussman
Manufacturing Strategies in the Eighteenth Century: Subcontracting for Growth among Papermakers in the Auvergne pp. 155-182 Downloads
Pierre Claude Reynard
Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881–1894 pp. 183-205 Downloads
Joshua Rosenbloom
Renting The Revolution pp. 206-210 Downloads
Gregory Clark
Renting The Revolution: A Reply to Clark pp. 211-214 Downloads
Michael Turner, John Beckett and Bethanie Afton
Crisis and Change in the Later Medieval English Economy pp. 215-219 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Bruce D. 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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Robert E. Gallman
The Ultimate Resource: 2. By Julian L. Simon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 734. $35.00 pp. 288-289 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Robert Higgs
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