The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 78, issue 4, 2018

China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980–1850 pp. 955-1000

Stephen Broadberry, Hanhui Guan and David Daokui Li

Refugees from Dust and Shrinking Land: Tracking the Dust Bowl Migrants pp. 1001-1033

Jason Long and Henry Siu

Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty: Information Exchange in Early-Modern Markets pp. 1034-1067

Emily Erikson and Sampsa Samila

Upstart Industrialization and Exports: Evidence from Japan, 1880–1910 pp. 1068-1102

Christopher Meissner and John Tang

The Role of Irrigation in the Development of Agriculture in the United States pp. 1103-1141

Eric Edwards and Steven Smith

Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land-Use Change pp. 1142-1178

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah Walker, Volker Radeloff and Jacek Kozak

Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic pp. 1179-1209

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Atmospheric Pollution, Health, and Height in Late Nineteenth Century Britain pp. 1210-1247

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood

The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850. A review essay of Gillian Cookson. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. 337. $24.13, paper. - Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France. By Paola Bertucci. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. $35.01, hardcover pp. 1252-1257

Joel Mokyr

Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England, 1694–2013. By David Kynaston. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. viii, 879. $67.50, hardcover pp. 1258-1259

William Roberds

Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States. By Andrew Kolin. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015. Pp. xxxv, 399. $110.00, hardcover pp. 1259-1261

Rudi Batzell

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. By Joel Mokyr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 400. $20.65, hardcover pp. 1261-1263

Klaus Desmet

Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System. By John D. Wong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 247. $92.65, hardcover; $31.99, paper pp. 1263-1264

Billy K.L. So

An Historical Perspective on the Quest for Financial Stability and the Monetary Policy Regime — CORRIGENDUM pp. 1265-1265

Michael Bordo

The Dissertations of Vellore Arthi, Carlos Hernandez, and Vincent Geloso 2017 Allan Nevins Prize Competition of the Economic History Association — ERRATUM pp. 1266-1266

Lisa Cook

Volume 78, issue 3, 2018

Benefits of Empire? Capital Market Integration North and South of the Alps, 1350–1800 pp. 637-672

David Chilosi, Max-Stephan Schulze and Oliver Volckart

The Rise and Fall of Female Labor Force Participation During World War II in the United States pp. 673-711

Evan K. Rose

Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long Run pp. 712-743

Erik Bengtsson and Daniel Waldenström

Collective Action and the Origins of the American Labor Movement pp. 744-784

Ethan Schmick

The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on the Labor Market of Victoria, Australia pp. 785-821

Andrew Seltzer and Jeff Borland

Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War pp. 822-861

Shari Eli, Laura Salisbury and Allison Shertzer

Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500–1800 pp. 862-903

Patrick Wallis, Justin Colson and David Chilosi

Age at Arrival and Assimilation During the Age of Mass Migration pp. 904-937

Rohan Alexander and Zachary Ward

Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618–1718: ‘There is Great Want of Servants.’ By John Wareing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 298. $100.00, hardcover pp. 938-939

Farley Grubb

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. By Daniel Ziblatt. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 448. $36.69, hardcover pp. 940-942

Mark Koyama

Rulers and Capital in Historical Perspective: State Formation and Financial Development in India and the United States. By Abhishek Chatterjee. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 173. $45.95, hardcover pp. 943-944

Susan Wolcott

Between Blood and Gold: The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas. By Frédérique Beauvois. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. Translated from the original French edition of 2013. Pp. xii, 282. $106.50, hardcover pp. 944-946

B. W. Higman

No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945. By Felix Boecking. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. Pp. xvii, 292. $39.95, cloth pp. 946-948

Tuan-Hwee Sng

Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. xx, 255. $105, hardcover pp. 949-950

John Tang

Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World. By Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 187. $24.95, hardcover pp. 950-952

Carlos Eduardo Hernández

The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871. Edited by Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii, 391. $97.50, cloth pp. 952-954

John E. Murray

Volume 78, issue 2, 2018

An Historical Perspective on the Quest for Financial Stability and the Monetary Policy Regime pp. 319-357

Michael D. Bordo

A Dissection of Trading Capital: Trade in the Aftermath of the Fall of the Iron Curtain pp. 358-393

Matthias Beestermöller and Ferdinand Rauch

On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt pp. 394-434

Mohamed Saleh

Individual Investors and Portfolio Diversification in Late Victorian Britain: How Diversified Were Victorian Financial Portfolios? pp. 435-471

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos and Janette Rutterford

“The Curse of the Caribbean”? Agency’s Impact on the Productivity of Sugar Estates on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1814–1829 pp. 472-499

S. D. Smith and Martin Forster

The Economics of Renaissance Art pp. 500-538

Federico Etro

The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing pp. 539-574

Dina Shatnawi and Price Fishback

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 575-610

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting pp. 611-629

Anonymous

Editors’ Notes pp. 630-634

Anonymous

Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Pierre Force. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii, 230. $45.00, Kindle. doi: 10.1017/S0022050718000219 pp. 635-636

Craig Palsson

Volume 78, issue 1, 2018

Voting Behavior and Public Employment in Nazi Germany pp. 1-39

Stephan Maurer

Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor pp. 40-80

Marlous van Waijenburg

Tracing the Evolution of Agglomeration Economies: Spain, 1860–1991 pp. 81-117

Francisco Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso Díez-Minguela and Julio Martinez-Galarraga

Infant Health, Women's Fertility, and Rural Electrification in the United States, 1930–1960 pp. 118-154

Joshua Lewis

Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century? pp. 155-195

Matthew Jaremski and Price Fishback

“The Dust Was Long in Settling”: Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl pp. 196-230

Vellore Arthi

An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835–1885 pp. 231-267

Ewout Frankema, Jeffrey Williamson and Pieter Woltjer

“Big Data” in Economic History pp. 268-299

Myron P. Gutmann, Emily Klancher Merchant and Evan Roberts

A Century of Wealth in America. By Edward N. Wolff. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 865. $39.95, hardcover pp. 307-311

Richard Sutch

Respectable Banking: The Search for Stability in London's Money and Credit Markets since 1695. By Anthony C. Hotson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxvii, 279. $47.56, hardcover pp. 311-313

Forrest Capie

Selling Paris. Property and Commercial Culture the Fin-de-siècle Capital. By Alexia M. Yates. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 353. $51.50, hardcover pp. 313-314

Lionel Kesztenbaum

Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic. By Sharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Pp. 208. $19.95, paper pp. 314-316

Warren Weber

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. By Branko Milanovic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $29.95, hardcover pp. 316-318

Joerg Baten