The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 79, issue 4, 2019

Long-Run Effects of Forced Resettlement: Evidence from Apartheid South Africa pp. 915-953

Martin Abel

The Persistence of Harvest Shocks in Medieval England pp. 954-988

Cliff T. Bekar

The Residential Segregation of Immigrants in the United States from 1850 to 1940 pp. 989-1026

Katherine Eriksson and Zachary Ward

The Gold Pool (1961–1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for Central Bank Cooperation pp. 1027-1059

Michael Bordo, Eric Monnet and Alain Naef

Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia pp. 1060-1093

Giampaolo Lecce and Laura Ogliari

The Making of a National Currency: Spatial Transaction Costs and Money Market Integration in Spain (1825–1874) pp. 1094-1128

Pilar Nogues-Marco, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Nektarios Aslanidis

Clarifications of a Puzzle: The Decline in Nutritional Status at the Onset of Modern Economic Growth in the United States pp. 1129-1153

John Komlos and Brian A'Hearn

Diagnosing Sample-Selection Bias in Historical Heights: A Reply to Komlos and A’Hearn pp. 1154-1175

Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy Guinnane and Thomas Mroz

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xx, 296. $30.00, hardcover. - Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. By Keri Leigh Merritt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. x, 373. $59.99, hardcover pp. 1180-1183

Trevon Logan

The Technology Trap: Capital Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. By Carl Benedikt Frey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 480. $29.95, hardcover pp. 1183-1189

Joel Mokyr

Botswana – A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough. By Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt. New York: Palgrave, 2018. Pp. v–xv, 235, hardcover pp. 1189-1190

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Migrating Merchants. Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal. By Jorun Poettering. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. viii, 389. $68.99, hardcover pp. 1190-1192

Florbela Veiga Frade

Dark Credit Matter. The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France. By Philipp T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 303. $39.95, hardcover pp. 1193-1194

Jérôme Sgard

Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act. By Jason E. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 206. $55.00, cloth pp. 1195-1196

Nicolas Ziebarth

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World. By William L. Silber, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xx, 240. $20.53, hardcover pp. 1196-1198

Angela Redish

Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. By Shennette Garrett-Scott. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $105.00, hardback; $35.00, paper pp. 1198-1200

Geoffrey Clarke

Bankers & Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution. By Hassan Malik. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 318 pp. $35, hardcover pp. 1200-1203

Steven Nafziger

Uneven Centuries. Economic Development of Turkey since 1820. By Şevket Pamuk. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, Pp. xiii, 352. $35.00, hardcover pp. 1203-1204

Laura Panza

Nueva Historia Econàmica de Argentina. By Roberto Cortes Conde and Gerardo Della Paolera (eds.). Barcelona, Spain: EDHASA, 2018. Pp. 344. $15.00, paper pp. 1204-1206

Alejandra Irigoin

Las Obligaciones Fundamentales: Crédito y Consolidación Económica Durante el Surgimiento de Buenos Aires. By Martin Wasserman. Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2018. Pp. 341 pp. 1207-1208

David González Agudo

Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking. By Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 324 pp. $75.00, hardcover pp. 1208-1210

Gustavo Del Angel

Volume 79, issue 3, 2019

Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250–1860 pp. 589-627

Leonardo Ridolfi

French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: Evidence from the Partition of Cameroon pp. 628-668

Yannick Dupraz

Top Incomes in Germany, 1871–2014 pp. 669-707

Charlotte Bartels

Arrested Development? Puerto Rico in an American Century pp. 708-735

John Devereux

A Policy Framework for the Bank of Amsterdam, 1736–1791 pp. 736-772

Stephen Quinn and William Roberds

What Motivates an Oligarchic Elite to Democratize? Evidence from the Roll Call Vote on the Great Reform Act of 1832 pp. 773-825

Toke Aidt and Raphael Franck

Responding to the First Era of Globalization: Canadian Trade Policy, 1870–1913 pp. 826-861

Patrick Alexander and Ian Keay

Economic Consequences of State Failure—Legal Capacity, Regulatory Activity, and Market Integration in Poland, 1505–1772 pp. 862-896

Mikołaj Malinowski

The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society. By Francesca Trivellato. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv, 405. $45.00, hardcover pp. 897-899

Jared Rubin

Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution. By Padraic X. Scanlan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 320. $40.00, hardcover pp. 899-900

James Fenske

The Economic Consequences of the War. West Germany’s Growth Miracle after 1945. By Tamás Vonyó. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 272, $99, cloth pp. 900-902

Carsten Burhop

The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. By George R. Boyer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii, 346. $45.00, hardcover pp. 902-904

David Mitch

Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. By Maren A. Ehlers. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Pp xiv, 351. $49.95, hardcover pp. 904-905

John Tang

Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective. By Jean-Philippe Platteau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 528. $34.99, softcover pp. 906-907

Mohamed Saleh

Twentieth Century South Africa: A Developmental History. By Bill Freund. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 288. $86.52, hardcover; $29.99, paper pp. 908-909

Martine Mariotti

Transatlantic Speculations: Globalization and the Panics of 1873. By Hannah Catherine Davies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xix, 226. $65.00, hardcover pp. 910-911

Max Harris

Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt. By Jerome E. Roos. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vi, 398. $39.95, hardcover pp. 911-913

Veronica Santarosa

The Wealth Tax of 1942 and the Disappearance of Non-Muslim Enterprises in Turkey — ERRATUM pp. 914-914

Seven Ağir and Cihan Artunç

Volume 79, issue 2, 2019

The Next World and the New World: Relief, Migration, and the Great Irish Famine pp. 319-355

Cormac Ó Gráda

Economic History and Contemporary Challenges to Globalization pp. 356-382

O’Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj

Intergenerational Occupational Mobility across Three Continents pp. 383-416

Santiago Perez

Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade pp. 417-446

Robin Pearson and David Richardson

Escaping Local Risk by Entering Indentureship: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Indian Migration pp. 447-476

Alexander Persaud

From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850 pp. 477-506

Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 507-542

Carola Frydman and Mark Koyama

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting pp. 543-563

Anonymous

Capitalism in America: A History. By Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Pp. 496. $22.48, hardcover. - Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government. By Paul Volcker with Christine Harper. New York: Public Affairs, 2018. Pp. 304. $18.30, hardcover pp. 571-574

Barry Eichengreen

Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century. By LaDale C. Winling. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 264. $39.95, hardcover pp. 574-576

Alexander Whalley

Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. By Gavin Benke. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 272. $29.92, hardcover pp. 576-578

Natalya Vinokurova

Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939–48: The Rise of the Corporate Moderates. By Charlie Whitham. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. xii, 289. £81, hardcover pp. 578-580

Samuel Milner

The Experts’ War on Poverty: Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America. By Romain D. Huret, translated by John Angell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. 246. $38.94, hardcover pp. 580-582

Andrew Goodman-Bacon

The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930. By Anne G. Hanley. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 288. $55.37, hardcover pp. 582-584

Ian Olivo Read

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. By Adam Tooze. New York: Viking, 2018. Pp. xiv, 706. $23.79, hardcover pp. 584-587

Larry Neal

Volume 79, issue 1, 2019

Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923 pp. 1-31

Tetsuji Okazaki, Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl

The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South pp. 32-62

Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick and Werner Troesken

The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861–1913 pp. 63-98

Giovanni Federico, Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta

Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States pp. 99-138

Ariell Zimran

The Cream of the Crop? Geography, Networks, and Irish Migrant Selection in the Age of Mass Migration pp. 139-175

Dylan Shane Connor

The Stop of the Exchequer and the Secondary Market for English Sovereign Debt, 1677–1705 pp. 176-200

Ling-Fan Li

The Wealth Tax of 1942 and the Disappearance of Non-Muslim Enterprises in Turkey pp. 201-243

Seven Ağır and Cihan Artunç

In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud: Nuclear Testing, Radioactive Fallout, and Damage to U.S. Agriculture, 1945 to 1970 pp. 244-274

Keith Meyers

State and Entrepreneurs in Egypt: Economic Development since 1805. By Naiem A. Sherbiny and Omaima Hatem. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xviii, 195. $110, hardcover pp. 282-283

Cihan Artunç

From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe. By Mark Dincecco and Massimiliano Onorata. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 210. $20.97, paper. - Empire of Guns. The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. By Priya Satia. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Pp. 544. $25.50, hardcover pp. 283-290

O’Brien, Patrick

Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World. Edited by Andrew Wilson and Miko Flohr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 408. $135, hardcover. - Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World. Edited by Andrew Wilson and Alan Bowman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 656. $145, hardcover pp. 290-294

Paul Erdkamp

The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. By J. G. Manning. Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi, 414. $35.00, hardcover pp. 294-296

Ferdinand Rauch

The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. By J. G. Manning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxiii, 414. $35, hardcover pp. 296-298

Peter Temin

Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era. By Michael R. Cohen. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 259. $40.00, cloth pp. 298-299

Rowena Olegario

Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. By George Robb. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. 264. $95.00, hardcover pp. 300-302

Susie Pak

In Essentials Unity: An Economic History of the Grange Movement. By Jenny Bourne. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 138. $55.00, cloth; $26.95, paper pp. 302-303

Charles Postel

Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age. By Noam Maggor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 284. $39.95, hardcover pp. 304-305

Bradley A. Hansen

The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896. By Richard White. New York, NY: Oxford, 2017. Pp. xx, 94. $35.00, hardcover pp. 305-308

Trevon Logan

American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold. By Sebastian Edwards. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. 278. $21.20, hardcover pp. 308-310

Joshua K. Hausman

Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy. By Douglas A. Irwin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 832. $35.00, cloth; $10.00 to $35.00 EBook pp. 310-313

Christopher Meissner

Financial Systems and Economic Growth: Credit, Crises, and Regulation from the 19th Century to the Present. By Peter L. Rousseau and Paul Wachtel (eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 292. $66.95, hardcover pp. 314-315

Howard Bodenhorn

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. By Steven Pinker. London: Allen Lane, 2018. Pp. xvii, 556. £25, hardcover pp. 315-318

John Tang