The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 77, issue 4, 2017

The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Argentina pp. 971-1006

Santiago Perez

Publishing Nations: Technology Acquisition and Language Standardization for European Ethnic Groups pp. 1007-1047

Yu Sasaki

World War II and the Industrialization of the American South pp. 1048-1082

Taylor Jaworski

Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons pp. 1083-1115

Arcangelo Dimico, Alessia Isopi and Ola Olsson

America's First Great Moderation pp. 1116-1143

Joseph Davis and Marc D. Weidenmier

Why Are Modern Bureaucracies Special? State Support to Private Firms in Early Eighteenth-Century France pp. 1144-1176

Jean Beuve, Eric Brousseau and Jérôme Sgard

Ship Crowding and Slave Mortality: Missing Observations or Incorrect Measurement? pp. 1177-1202

Peter M. Solar and Nicolas Duquette

An Index of the Yields of Junk Bonds, 1910–1955 pp. 1203-1219

Peter Basile, Sung Won Kang, John Landon-Lane and Hugh Rockoff

Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States. By Michelle P. Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 321. $85.00, hardcover pp. 1224-1225

Michael Huberman

An Economic History of Portugal, 1143–2010. By Leonor Freire Costa, Pedro Lains, and Susana Münch Miranda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, xii + 406. $100.47, hardcover pp. 1225-1227

Claudia Rei

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. By Marc Flandreau. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp xix, 1–421. $35.00, paper; $105.00, cloth pp. 1227-1229

Ranald Michie

The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World. Edited by Philip Misevich and Kristin Mann. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. Ix, 361. $125, hardcover; $34.99, eBook pp. 1229-1230

Anne Ruderman

Measuring Wellbeing. A History of Italian Living Standards. By Giovanni Vecchi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 645. $ 97.19, hardcover pp. 1230-1232

Paolo Malanima

Competition in the Promised Land. By Leah Platt Boustan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 216. $23.95, hardcover pp. 1232-1234

Marianne Wanamaker

The Second Bank of the United States: “Central” Banker in an Era of Nation-Building, 1816–1936. Jane Ellen Knodell. London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2016. Pp. 202. $98.47, hardcover pp. 1234-1236

Matthew Jaremski

Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By Mark Wayne Nelson. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. Pp xxvi, 424. $39.00, hardcover pp. 1236-1238

Sean H. Vanatta

Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. By: Susan V. Spellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 226. $78.00, hardcover pp. 1238-1239

Vicki Howard

Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. By Daniel Amsterdam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 240. $45.00, cloth pp. 1239-1241

Allison Shertzer

The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government. By Steve Pincus. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 207. $26.00, hardcover pp. 1241-1243

Richard Sylla

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. By Ned and Constance Sublette. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2016. 752 pages. $35.00, hardback pp. 1243-1244

Jonathan B. Pritchett

Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai‘i. By Carol A. MacLennan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Pp. xi–378. $39.00, cloth pp. 1244-1246

Sumner La Croix

Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940. By John L. Neufeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 336. $60.00, cloth; $60.00, eBook pp. 1246-1248

David Gabel

Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America. By Allen Dietrich-Ward. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 347. $27.50, paper pp. 1248-1250

Tomas Nonnenmacher

The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law. By Brett Christophers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 310. $45.00, hardcover pp. 1250-1251

Christopher Hoag

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. By Yuen Yuen Ang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 326. $27.95, hardcover pp. 1251-1253

R. Bin Wong

Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. By Sergei Antonov. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 386. $49.95, hardcover pp. 1253-1256

Steven Nafziger

Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia. Edited by Peter Borschberg. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Pp. xxxix, 658. $64.00, cloth; $42.00, paper pp. 1257-1258

Christiaan van Bochove

Mexico's Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality. By Oscar J. Martinez New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 326. $44.95, paper; $16.00, hardcover; $31.47, eBook pp. 1258-1259

Noel Maurer

Handbook of Cliometrics. Edited by Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2016. Pp. xxii, 590. $339.00, cloth pp. 1260-1262

Lawrence H. Officer

Selling Empire India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830. By Jonathan Eacott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 455. $45.00, hardcover pp. 1262-1264

Susan Wolcott

Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not. By Jared Rubin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxi + 273. $30, paper pp. 1264-1266

Eric Chaney

Volume 77, issue 3, 2017

“High & Dry”: The Liquidity and Credit of Colonial and Foreign Government Debt and the London Stock Exchange (1880–1910) pp. 653-691

Matthieu Chavaz and Marc Flandreau

Institutional Inertia: Persistent Inefficient Institutions in Spain pp. 692-723

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez

Political Institutions, Economic Liberty, and the Great Divergence pp. 724-755

Gary W. Cox

Adapting to the Weather: Lessons from U.S. History pp. 756-795

Hoyt Bleakley and Sok Chul Hong

Marketing and Pricing Risk in Marine Insurance in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp pp. 796-837

Jeroen Puttevils and Marc Deloof

The Effects of World War II Military Service: Evidence from Australia pp. 838-865

Alex Cousley, Peter Siminski and Simon Ville

Banking on a Religious Divide: Accounting for the Success of the Netherlands' Raiffeisen Cooperatives in the Crisis of the 1920s pp. 866-919

Christopher Colvin

European Trade, Colonialism, and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770–1900 pp. 920-951

Gabriele Cappelli and Joerg Baten

Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. By Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 398. $35, cloth pp. 952-954

Thomas Weiss

Mortality, Marriage and Population Growth in England, 1550–1850. By Peter Razzell. London: Caliban Books, 2016. Pp. 135. £10, paper pp. 954-956

Neil Cummins

The Later Medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem: Mapping the Medieval Countryside and Rural Society. Edited by Michael Hicks. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 226. $66.61, hardcover pp. 956-958

Stephen H. Rigby

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. By Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 350. $45.00, cloth pp. 958-959

Craig Palsson

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War. By Robert J. Gordon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 784, $39.95, cloth pp. 960-962

Rowena Gray

Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History. By Barry Eichengreen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. vi, 512, Index. $29.95, hardcover pp. 962-964

Larry Neal

A Crisis of Community: The Trials and Transformations of a New England Town, 1815–1848. By Mary Babson Fuhrer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 354. $39.95, hardcover; $14.17, paper pp. 964-966

Ruth Wallis Herndon

The Historian's Huck Finn: Reading Mark Twain's Masterpiece as Social and Economic History. Annotated by Ranjit S. Dighe. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016. Pp. xxiii, 353. $58.00, cloth; $35.00, paper pp. 966-967

Paul A. Cantor

Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. By Calestous Juma. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+416. $29.95, hardcover pp. 968-970

Joel Mokyr

Volume 77, issue 2, 2017

Beyond Institutions: Beliefs and Leadership pp. 353-372

Lee Alston

Start-up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland pp. 373-405

Felipe González, Guillermo Marshall and Suresh Naidu

Lifespans of the European Elite, 800–1800 pp. 406-439

Neil Cummins

Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form in Late Nineteenth Century Japan pp. 440-472

Kazuki Onji and John Tang

Common Tongue: The Impact of Language on Educational Outcomes pp. 473-510

Tarun Jain

Economic History, Historical Analysis, and the “New History of Capitalism” pp. 511-536

Eric Hilt

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 537-574

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting pp. 575-593

Anonymous

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. By Josiah Ober. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xxviii + 416. $35.00, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 599-601

J. G. Manning and G. J. Oliver

The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy. Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-states. By Cresson Alain and translated by Rendall Steven. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi, 620. $45.00, cloth pp. 601-604

(Bert) van der Spek, R.J.

The Great Divergence Reconsidered: Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power. By Roman Studer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 231. $80.65–101.96, hardcover; $28.99, paper; $82.00, kindle. - State, Economy, and the Great Divergence: Great Britain and China, 1680s—1850s. By Peer Vries. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 504. $148.00, hardcover; $39.95, paper; $18.14, eTextbook pp. 604-607

Anand V. Swamy

Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702–1713. By Graham Aaron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 305. $110.00, cloth; £65.00, eBook pp. 607-608

Larry Neal

Banking in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series). By D. Turner John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $20.51, paper pp. 609-610

Hugh Rockoff

Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan. Edited by J. P. Bowen and A. T. Brown. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 310. $37.95, paper pp. 610-612

Steven A. Epstein

The Baltic: A History. By Michael North. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 427. $39.95, cloth pp. 612-613

Richard W. Unger

The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance. By Yardley Paul Kahan, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015. Pp. xii, 187. $28.00, cloth pp. 613-614

Matthew Jaremski

The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression. By Sumner Scott. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2015. Pp. xv, 507. $37.95, hardcover pp. 615-616

Joshua R. Hendrickson

Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. By Pearson Chad. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. viii, 303. $55.00, cloth pp. 617-618

Samuel K. Allen

Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made A. Pacyga Dominic Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 233. $26.00, cloth; $18.00, e-book pp. 618-620

Marc Law

The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America. By Olegario Rowena. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 312. $39.95, cloth pp. 620-621

Bradley A. Hansen

Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850. By J. Torget Andrew. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 353. $34.95 pp. 622-623

Jeff Forret

Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land. By L. McCullough Robert. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 367. $34.95, cloth pp. 623-625

Brandon Dupont

The Rise of the Military Welfare State. By Mittelstadt Jennifer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 344. $29.95, cloth pp. 625-627

Jessica L. Adler

Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers. By M. Barr Jason. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 437. $49.95, hardcover pp. 627-629

Sara E. Wermiel

Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II. By R. Wilson Mark. American Business, Politics, and Society Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 1–379. $45.00, hardcover pp. 629-630

Taylor Jaworski

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life. By Plakins Thornton Tamara. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 402. $35 cloth pp. 631-632

Christopher Kingston

The Age of Gunpowder, China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. By Andrade Tonio. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. IX, 432. $39.95, hardcover pp. 632-634

Peer Vries

The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. By Glahn Richard von. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. vii, 461. $99.99, hardcover; $39.99, paper pp. 634-636

Ian Matthew Miller

Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry: Opening Up Before the Reform. By Brasó Broggi Carles. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiii, 221. $120, hardcover; $89.00, eBook pp. 636-638

Cong Liu

Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945. By Daniel F. Doeppers. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 443. $79.95, cloth pp. 638-639

Yoshiko Nagano

State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898—1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony. By Yoshiko Nagano. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 248. $32.00, paper pp. 640-641

Dongwoo Yoo

A New Economic History of Colonial India. Edited by Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy, and Anand V. Swamy. London and New York: Routledge Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 270. $160, hardback; $59.95, paper pp. 641-643

Saumitra Jha

The Great Depression in Latin America. Edited by Paulo Drinot and Alan Knight. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 362. $26.95 paper pp. 643-645

Moramay López-Alonso

Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico. By David M. Stark. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. xv, 251. $74.95, hardcover pp. 645-647

Sarah L. Franklin

Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. Edited by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schaefer. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 436. $99.00, cloth pp. 647-649

Carol H. Shiue

A History of Financial Crises: Dreams and Follies of Expectations. By Cihan Bilginsoy. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 500. $189.98, hardcover; $58.60, paper pp. 649-650

Eric Hilt

The Guarani and their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. By J. S. Sarreal Julia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014, pp. xiii, 335. $65.00, cloth pp. 651-652

Catalina Vizcarra

Volume 77, issue 1, 2017

Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension pp. 1-38

Laura Salisbury

Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution: New Evidence from the Margins of Trade pp. 39-89

Michael Huberman, Christopher Meissner and Kim Oosterlinck

How Much Does Political Uncertainty Matter? The Case of Louisiana under Huey Long pp. 90-126

Gabriel Mathy and Nicolas Ziebarth

The National Rise in Residential Segregation pp. 127-170

Trevon Logan and John Parman

Sample-Selection Biases and the Industrialization Puzzle pp. 171-207

Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy Guinnane and Thomas Mroz

Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution pp. 208-250

Nadav Ben Zeev, Joel Mokyr and Karine van der Beek

Holding Up the Empire: Colombia, American Oil Interests, and the 1921 Urrutia-Thomson Treaty pp. 251-284

Xavier Duran and Marcelo Bucheli

Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Developing Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014 pp. 285-313

Daniel Waldenström

Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World pp. 314-343

Guido Alfani and Tommy Murphy

Human Capital and Knowledge-Intensive Industries Location: Evidence from Soviet Legacy in Russia pp. 351-351

Denis Ivanov

Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the United States 1870 to 1970 pp. 352-352

Mike Matheis