The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 33, issue 4, 1973

The Agricultural Revolution in Nineteenth-Century France pp. 697-731

William H. Newell

Dutch Investment in France, 1781-1787 pp. 732-760

J. C. Riley

The Impact of a New Capital City: Madrid, Toledo, and New Castile, 1560-1660 pp. 761-791

David Ringrose

New Deal Activity and the States, 1933 to 1939 pp. 792-810

Don C. Reading

Slavery and Scientific Management pp. 811-824

R. Keith Aufhauser

1853: The End of Bimetallism in the United States pp. 825-844

David A. Martin

Backwardness and the Role of Banking in Nineteenth-Century European Industrialization pp. 845-850

David F. Good

Conceptualization of Learning by Doing: A Note on Paul David's “Learning by Doing and … the Ante-Bellum United States Cotton Textile Industry” pp. 851-861

Tsuneo Ishikawa

Debt Peonage Re-examined pp. 862-871

William W. Brown and Morgan O. Reynolds

The World Petroleum Market. By M. A. Adelman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1972. Pp. xviii, 438. 130 Tables. $22.50 pp. 875-876

Kathleen M. Langley

Memoriales y discursos de Francisco Martínez de Mata. Edited by Gonzalo Anes. Madrid: Editorial Moneda y Crédito, 1971. Pp. 631 pp. 876-877

David R. Ringrose

Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe: Essays from Annales. Edited by Peter Burke. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. Pp. 169. $7.50 pp. 877-879

Bryce Lyon

Towns and Minerals in Southeastern Kansas: A Study in Regional Industrialization, 1890–1930. By John G. Clark. Lawrence, Kansas: State Geological Survey of Kansas, 1970. Pp. xi, 148. $0.55 pp. 879-880

George Lamson

American Enterprise: Free & Not So Free. By Clarence H. Cramer. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Pp. 728. $17.50 pp. 880-881

Austin Spencer

Capital Formation in the Industrial Revolution. Edited with an introduction by Francois Crouzet. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1972. Pp. x, 261. $5.50 (paper) and $11.00 (cloth) pp. 881-882

Jonathan Pincus

Uomini e terre di um borgo collinare dal XVI al XVIII secolo. By Giorgio Doria. (Publication of the Istituto di Storia economica, University of Genoa.) Milan: Giuffre, 1968. Pp. xiii–435. Lire 4200 pp. 882-883

Domenico Sella

Land Reform in Latin America: Issues and Cases. Edited by Peter Dorner. Madison: Land Economics for the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971 (Land Economics Monograph No. 3). Pp. xx + 276. $3.95 pp. 884-885

Clarence Zuvekas

The Optional Society: An Essay on Economic Choice and Bargains of Communication in an Affluent World. By Folke Dovring and Karin Dovring. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971. Pp. x, 107 pp. 886-887

John Rapoport

The Classical Tradition in West European Farming. By G. E. Fussell Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972. Pp. 237 + 13 plates and 12 text figures. $11.50 pp. 887-888

W. Kent Hackmann

Mitninske knjige 16. in 17. stoletja na Slovenskem. (Viri za zgodovino. Slovencev, V). By Ferdo Gestrin. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 1972. Pp. 491 pp. 888-889

Toussaint Hočevar

Papers in Economic Prehistory. Edited by E. S. Higgs. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. Pp. x, 219. $15.50 pp. 889-890

P. C. Nair

Studies in the Medieval Wine Trade. By Margery K. James. Elspeth M. Veale, editor. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. xviii, 232. $13.00 pp. 890-892

William M. Daly

Transport and Communication in Early Medieval Europe, 500–1100. By Albert C. Leighton. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972. Pp. 257. $12.75 pp. 892-893

M. M. Knight

American Government and Business. By H. H. Liebhafsky. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.1971. Pp. xl, 587. $11.95 pp. 893-895

William O. Wagnon

Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840. Edited by Donald N. McCloskey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. Pp. 439. $12.50 pp. 895-896

Andre Simmons

Österreichische Wirtschaft 1848–1913: Konjunkturelle Dynamik und Gesellschaftlicher Wandel in Zeitalter Franz Joseph I. By Herbert Matis. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1972. Pp. 490. DM 78.60 pp. 897-897

Herman Freudenberger

The Economics of Defense Spending: A Look at the Realities. By Robert C. Moot, Comptroller, DoD. Washington, D.C.: DoD publication, 1972. Pp. x, 193, tables, appendix. Free pp. 898-899

James L. Clayton

The Correspondence of Lord Overstone. Vol. I: June 1804–September 1849; Vol. II: September 1849–December 1861; Vol. Ill: December 1861–April 1883. Edited by D. P. O'Brien. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. lxxxi, 1–452; pp. xxvi, 453–980; pp. xxiii, 981–1548. $28.50 each pp. 899-901

Arthur E. Rockwell

Oil and the Mexican Revolution. By Merrill Rippy. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. Pp. xvi, 345. 84 guilders pp. 902-903

E. J. Hanson

Technology and American Economic Growth. By Nathan Rosenberg. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Pp. xi, 211. $7.00 cloth, $2.95 paper pp. 903-904

John F. Hanieski

Wea Creek to El Dorado: Oil in Kansas, 1860–1920. By Francis W. Schruben. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972. Pp. x, 176+ Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $8.00 pp. 904-906

Francis J. Munch

A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861–1960. By David C. Smith. Orono: University of Maine Press, 1972. Pp. xvi, 469. $9.00 pp. 906-907

William L. Marr

The Development of the Factory. By Jennifer Tann. London: Cornmarket Press Limited, 1970. Pp. 175. $36 pp. 907-908

David O. Whitten

Migration and Urban Development: A Reappraisal of British and American Long Cycles. By Brinley Thomas. London: Methuen & Co., 1972. Pp. xvi, 239. $6.75 (paper), $13.50 (cloth) pp. 908-910

Peter George

Sovereignty at Bay: The Multinational Spread of U.S. Enterprises. By Raymond Vernon. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1971. Pp. x, 326. $8.50 pp. 910-911

N. Stephen Kane

Labour in the South African Gold Mines, 1911–1969. By Francis Wilson. Cambridge: The University Press, 1972. Pp. xviii–218, illus., appendices, bibliog., index. $14.95 (in U.S.A.) pp. 912-912

James A. Casada

Volume 33, issue 3, 1973

Toward a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1867 pp. 509-546

Kozo Yamamura

The Beginnings of Modern Growth in Europe: An Essay in Synthesis pp. 547-580

W. W. Rostow

Late Nineteenth-Century American Retardation: A Neoclassical Analysis pp. 581-607

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Cotton “Overproduction” in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern Agriculture pp. 608-633

Stephen DeCanio

White Population, Labor Force and Extensive Growth of the New England Economy in the Seventeenth Century pp. 634-667

Terry L. Anderson and Robert Paul Thomas

Federal Reserve System. By Benjamin H. Beckhart. New York: American Institute of Banking (Distributed by Columbia University Press), 1972. Pp. vii, 584. $12.50 pp. 669-670

Benjamin J. Klebaner

The Swedish Bullionist Controversy: P. N. Christiernin's Lectures on the High Price of Foreign Exchange in Sweden (1761). Edited and translated with an introduction by Robert V. Eagly. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971. Pp. 119. $2.00 pp. 670-672

J. Herbert Furth

Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America. By Charlotte Erickson. Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1972. Pp. 1, 531. $17.50 pp. 672-675

Margaret Beattie Bogue

The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 1700–1830. By Robert Forster. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. Pp. xii, 277. $15.00 pp. 675-676

John S. Wozniak

The International Monetary Fund, 1945–1965: Twenty Years of International Monetary Cooperation. Vol. I: Chronicle. By J. Keith Horsefield. Pp. xviii, 663. Vol. II: Analysis. By Margaret G. de Vries and J. Keith Horsefield with the collaboration of Joseph Gold, Mary H. Gumbart, Gertrud Lovasy, and Emil G. Spitzer. Pp. xiv, 621. Vol. III: Documents. Edited by J. Keith Horsefield. Pp. vii, 549. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1969. $12.50 pp. 676-678

J. Herbert Furth

Farming and Food Supply: The Interdependence of Countryside and Town. By SirJoseph Hutchinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. x, 146. $11.00 pp. 678-679

Kenneth Paul Fox

Farming in the New Nation: Interpreting American Agriculture, 1790–1840. Edited by Darwin P. Kelsey. Washington: The Agricultural History Society, 1972. Pp. 239. $5.00 pp. 679-681

David O. Whitten

The Downshire Estates in Ireland 1801–1845: The Management of Irish Landed Estates in the Early Nineteenth Century. By W. A. Maguire. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1972. Pp. xi, 284. $19.25 pp. 681-682

Russell L. Berry

Florentine Public Finance in the Early Renaissance, 1400–1433. By Anthony Molho. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 234. $10.50 pp. 682-683

David L. Hicks

Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China. By Evelyn Sakakida Rawski. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. xi, 282. $10.50 pp. 683-685

Katherine H. Hsiao

The Behavior of Industrial Prices. By G. J. Stigler and J. K. Kindahl. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970. Pp. 202. $7.50 pp. 685-686

Austin Spencer

Approaches to American Economic History. Edited by George Rogers Taylor and Lucius F. Ellsworth. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 135. $7.50 cloth, $2.25 paper pp. 686-687

David O. Whitten

A Productive Monopoly: The Effect of Railroad Control on New England Coastal Steamship Lines, 1870–1916. By William Leonhard Taylor. Providence: Brown University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi, 323. $10.00 pp. 687-688

Arthur E. Rockwell

Seventeenth-Century Economic Documents. Edited by Joan Thirsk and J. P. Cooper. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp xvii, 849. $27.25 pp. 689-689

Joyce Appleby

Volume 33, issue 2, 1973

The Macro-Economics of Tsarist Russia in the Industrialization Era: Monetary Developments, the Balance of Payments and the Gold Standard pp. 339-371

Haim Barkai

On the Persistence of Old Techniques: The Case of North American Wooden Shipbuilding pp. 372-398

C. K. Harley

Flexible Exchange Rates, Northern Expansion, and the Market for Southern Cotton: 1866–1879 pp. 399-416

Mark Aldrich

Some Evidence of Subsidization: the U.S. Trucking Industry, 1900–1920 pp. 417-433

Anthony F. Herbst and Joseph S. K. Wu

Eighteenth-Century Shipping Tonnage Measurements pp. 434-443

Christopher J. French

The Persistence of Old Technologies: The Case of Flatboats pp. 444-451

James Mak and Gary M. Walton

New and Old Views on the Economics of Slavery pp. 452-466

Gavin Wright

Sugar Without Slaves: The Political Economy of British Guiana, 1838–1904. By Alan H. Adamson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Pp. 315. $12.50 pp. 470-471

Jay R. Mandle

English Money and Irish Land: The “Adventurers” in the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. By Karl S. Bottigheimer. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. xiii, 163 + 63 appendix, map. $10.50 pp. 471-472

Russell L. Berry

Honor, Commerce and Industry in Eighteenth-Century Spain. By William J. Callahan. Publication Number 22 of the Kress Library of Business and Economics. Boston: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1972. Pp. ix, 79. $4.00 pp. 472-473

Richard Herr

Banking and Economic Development. Edited by Rondo Cameron. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xii, 268. $8.95 pp. 473-475

David F. Good

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature. Volume 1, Printed Books to 1800. Compiled by Margaret Canney and David Knott, with an Introduction by J. H. P. Pafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xxii, 838. $65.00 pp. 475-476

Nathan Rosenberg

Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. By Richard S. Dunn. Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1972. Pp. xx, 359. $11.95 pp. 477-478

Robert Carlyle Batie

Banking in Frontier Iowa, 1836–1865. By Erling Erickson. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1971. Pp. 180, illustrated. $7.50 pp. 478-479

George Lamson

The Ballyhoo Bonanza: Charles Sweeny and the Idaho Mines. By John Fahey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971. Pp. 280. $10.00 pp. 480-480

W. Barnes

Gli Investimenti Finanziari Genovesi In Europa Tra Il Seicento e la Restaurazione. By Giuseppe Felloni. Milano: Dott. A. Giuffre, 1971. Pp. xxvii, 705. Lire 7500 pp. 481-482

Jon S. Cohen

Finance and Economic Development in the Old South: Louisiana Banking, 1804–1861. By George D. Green. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972. Pp. xiii, 268. $8.75 pp. 482-483

Hugh Rockoff

The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and his Contemporaries, 1788–1821. By D. R. Hainsworth. Melbourne: Cassell Australia Ltd., 1972. Pp. xiii, 264. $15.50 pp. 483-484

Albert J. Robinson

Agricultural Development: An International Perspective. By Yujiro Hayami and Vernon Ruttan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 367 + 52 Tables, 26 Charts. $10.00 pp. 484-487

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Historical Demography. By T. H. Hollingsworth. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 448. $10.50 pp. 488-489

Michael R. Haines

History of Russian Non-Marxian Economic Thought. By Boris Ischboldin. New Delhi: New Book Society of India, 1971. Pp. 328. $7.00 pp. 489-490

Daniel R. Brower

Productivity and Industrial Growth. The Irish Experience. By Kiernan A. Kennedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. xvi, 281. $13.75 pp. 490-491

Jonathan Pincus

Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji. By Dr.A. R. Kulkarni. Poona: Deshmukh & Co., 1969. Pp. xxiii, 308 pp. 491-492

Ranu Basu

A Cotton Enterprise, 1795–1840: A History of M'Connel & Kennedy, Fine Cotton Spinners. By C. H. Lee. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1972. Pp. viii, 188. £3.00 pp. 492-493

Thomas W. Perry

The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania. By James T. Lemon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1972. Pp. xviii, 295, Maps & Tables. $12.00 pp. 494-494

Simeon J. Crowther

The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950–1350. By Robert S. Lopez. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc.; 1971. Pp. viii, 177. $5.95 pp. 495-495

David O. Whitten

Les Préoccupations statistiques du gouvernement des Pays-Bas Autrichiens et le dénombrement des industries dressé en 1764. By Philippe Moureaux. Bruxelles: Éditions de l'université de Bruxelles, 1971. Pp. 535. Maps and tables. [No price listed.] pp. 496-498

Rene Alltmont

The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Volume 1. From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community. By George P. Rawick. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. Pp. xxi, 208. $10.00 pp. 498-499

Marvin Fletcher

American Business and Foreign Policy, 1920–1933. By Joan Hoff Wilson. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Pp. xvii, 339. $9.95 pp. 499-500

Paul P. Abrahams

The Fiscal System of Renaissance France. By Martin Wolfe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972. Pp. x, 385. $17.50 pp. 501-502

Marvin B. Becker

Volume 33, issue 1, 1973

Decision Making and Modern Institutional Change pp. 1-15

Alfred Chandler

The Property Right Paradigm pp. 16-27

Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz

Good Old Economic History pp. 28-40

R. M. Hartwell

Comment on Paper by Alchian and Demsetz pp. 41-42

Svetozar Pejovich

Some Considerations Relating to Property Rights in Man pp. 43-65

Stanley L. Engerman

The Economics of Emancipation pp. 66-85

Claudia Goldin

Notes on Serfdom in Western and Eastern Europe pp. 86-99

Arcadius Kahan

Comment on Papers by Engerman, Goldin, and Kahan pp. 100-105

John R. Meyer

Sharecropping As An Understandable Market Response: The Post-Bellum South pp. 106-130

Joseph D. Reid

The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A Study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment pp. 131-148

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch

Race, Tenure, and Resource Allocation in Southern Agriculture, 1910 pp. 149-169

Robert Higgs

Comment on Papers by Reid, Ransom and Sutch, and Higgs pp. 170-176

Gavin Wright

Transactions Costs and Differential Growth in Seventeenth Century Western Europe pp. 177-190

Clyde G. Reed

On the Modernity of the Dutch Republic pp. 191-202

Jan deVries

War and the Birth of the Nation State pp. 203-221

Richard Bean

Comment on Papers by Reed, deVries, and Bean pp. 222-231

David R. Ringrose and Richard Roehl

Property Law, Expropriation, and Resource Allocation by Government: the United States, 1789–1910 pp. 232-251

Harry N. Scheiber

Factor Income Distribution in the United States During the 1920's: A Reexamination of Fact and Theory pp. 252-273

Robert R. Keller

Corporate Farming in the United States pp. 274-290

Philip Raup

Comment on Papers by Scheiber, Keller, and Raup pp. 291-298

Lloyd J. Mercer and Peter Passell

The Economic Growth of Seventeenth-Century New England: A Measurement of Regional Income pp. 299-301

Terry L. Anderson

Economic-Demographic Interrelations in Developing Agricultural Regions: A Case Study of Prussian Upper Silesia, 1840-1914 pp. 302-304

Michael R. Haines

The Nineteenth-Century Exports of the Less Developed Countries pp. 305-308

John R. Hanson

The Napoleonic Wars and Their Impact on Factor Returns and Output Growth in England, 1793-1815 pp. 309-311

Glenn Hueckel

Technological Change and the Development of the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870 pp. 312-313

Charles K. Hyde

Some Economic Aspects of Railroad Development in Tsarist Russia pp. 314-316

Jacob Metzer

The House of Brown: America's Foremost International Bankers, 1800-1880 pp. 317-320

Edwin J. Perkins

The Structure and Profitability of the Antebellum Rice Industry: 1859 pp. 321-325

Dale E. Swan

Dissertation Comments pp. 326-335

Gary M. Walton and Morton Rothstein