The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 27, issue 4, 1967

The Discipline and I pp. 443-459

Alexander Gerschenkron

Government Policies and the Industrialization of Russia pp. 460-477

Arcadius Kahan

Government as an Obstacle to Industrialization: The Case of Nineteenth-Century China pp. 478-492

Dwight Perkins

State Intervention as an Obstacle to Economic Growth in the Habsburg Monarchy pp. 493-509

Herman Freudenberger

Slavery as an Obstacle to Economic Growth in the United States: A Panel Discussion pp. 518-560

Anonymous

Values as an Obstacle to Economic Growth: The American Colonies pp. 561-575

Sigmund Diamond

Investment in Medieval Agriculture pp. 576-587

M. M. Postan

Values as an Obstacle to Economic Growth in South Asia: An Historical Survey pp. 588-607

Morris David Morris

Wage Kates in Philadelphia, 1790-1830 pp. 608-610

Donald R. Adams

The Yeoman Farmer and Westward Expansion of U.S. Cotton Production pp. 611-614

James D. Foust

The Compound Marine Steam Engine: A Study in the Relationship Between Technological Change and Economic Development pp. 615-617

Ramon Knauerhase

The Irish Land Question After 1870 pp. 618-620

Barbara Lewis Solow

Finance and Capital in the United States, 1850–1900 pp. 621-624

Richard Sylla

The Service Sector in the United States, 1839 to 1899 pp. 625-628

Thomas Weiss

Discussion of doctoral dissertation summaries pp. 629-634

Anonymous

Volume 27, issue 3, 1967

The Specification Problem in Economic History pp. 283-308

Robert Fogel

American Urban Growth Preceding the Railway Age pp. 309-339

George Rogers Taylor

The Impact of Growth on Government: The Example of Spain pp. 340-362

Hermann Kellenbenz

Financing Industrialization in Italy, 1894–1914: The Partial Transformation of a Late-Comer pp. 363-382

Jon S. Cohen

Labor Scarcity and the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850's: A Comment pp. 383-390

Ian M. Drummond

Public Finance and the Industrialization of Prussia, 1815–1866: A Correction pp. 391-391

Richard Tilly

Colonial Tonnage Measurements: A Comment pp. 392-397

Gary M. Walton

Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891–1966. By Leonard J. Arrington. Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1966. Pp. xiv, 234. $7.50 pp. 398-399

Robert W. Amsler

The Deserted Villages of Oxfordshire. By K. J. Allison, M. W. Beresford, J. G. Hurst, et al. Leicester: The University Press, 1965. Pp. 47. 10s. 6d. - The Deserted Villages of Northamptonshire. By K. J. Allison, M. W. Beresford, J. G. Hurst, et al. Leicester: The University Press, 1966. Pp. 48. 10s. 6d pp. 398-398

Sylvia L. Thrupp

Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America, 1660–1775. By Thomas C. Barrow. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Pp. xii, 336. $8.00 pp. 399-400

Jacob M. Price

French Rural History: An Essay on Its Basic Characteristics. By Marc Bloch. Foreword by Bryce Lyon. Translated by Janet Sondheimer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xxxiii, 258. $6.00 pp. 400-401

Joseph R. Strayer

Albert Ballin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany, 1888–1918. By Lamar Cecil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. Pp. xxi, 388. $9.00 pp. 401-402

M. L. Flaningam

Central Bank Cooperation: 1924–1931. By Stephen V. O. Clarke. New York: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1967. Pp. 234. $2.00 pp. 402-404

Elmus Wicker

Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. By Charles B. Dew. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. Pp. xiv, 345. $10.00 pp. 404-406

Peter Temin

The Dynamics of Growth in New England's Economy, 1870–1964. By Robert W. Eisenmenger. The New England Research Series: 2. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. Pp. xvii, 201. $9.00 pp. 406-407

Arthur M. Johnson

New England: A Study in Industrial Adjustment. By R. C. Estall. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. Pp. xv, 296. $7.50 pp. 407-408

Harris Proschansky

The Evolution of National Insurance in Great Britain: The Origins of the Welfare State. By Bentley B. Gilbert. London: Michael Joseph, 1966. Pp. 497. 84s pp. 409-410

Gaston V. Rimlinger

The Agricultural Revolution in South Lincolnshire. By David Grigg. Cambridge, [Eng.]: The University Press, 1966. Pp. xiv, 219. $10.00 pp. 410-411

Walter C. Neale

Britain and Industrial Europe 1750–1870: Studies in British Influence on the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe. By W. O. Henderson. Second Edition. Leicester University Press; Humanities Press, Inc., New York, distributor, 1965: 30s pp. 411-412

M. M. Knight

Shipping Enterprise and Management, 1830–1939: Harrisons of Liverpool. By Francis E. Hyde. With contributions from J. R. Harris and A. M. Bourn. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1967. Pp. xx, 208. 42s pp. 412-414

James P. Baughman

Household Capital Formation and Financing, 1897–1962. By F. Thomas Juster. National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University Press, New York, distributor, 1966. Pp. xiv, 146. $6.00 pp. 414-415

Jane Kennedy

Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act. By William Letwin. New York: Random House, 1965. Pp. xi, 304. $5.95 pp. 415-416

Theodore F. Marburg

Histoire Economique et Sociale du Québec, 1760–1850: Structures et Conjoncture. By Fernand Ouellet. Preface by Robert Mandrou. Montreal: Editions Fides, 1966. Pp. xxii, 639. $10.00 pp. 417-417

Norman W. Taylor

Merchants and Scholars: Essays in the History of Exploration and Trade. Edited by John Parker. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1966. Pp. 258. $7.50 pp. 418-419

Archibald R. Lewis

The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, 1845–1883: A Case Study in American Railroad Economics. By John Pixton. The Pennsylvania State University Studies No. 17. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1966. Pp. 94. $1.00 (paperback) pp. 419-419

Irene D. Neu

History of North Dakota. By Elwyn B. Robinson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966. Pp. xi, 599. $7.95 pp. 420-420

John T. Schlebecker

Industrialization in Two Systems: Essays in Honor of Alexander Gerschenkron. By a group of his students. Edited by Henry Rosovsky. New York: Wiley, 1966. Pp. ix, 289. $6.95 pp. 420-423

George G. S. Murphy

A History of Income Tax. By B. E. V. Sabine. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.; Humanities Press, Inc., New York, distributor, 1966. Pp. vii, 288. $6.75 pp. 423-424

Sidney Ratner

Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792–1854. By Ronald E. Shaw. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 499. $8.00 pp. 424-425

Julius Rubin

Manchester Men and Indian Cotton, 1847–1872. By Arthur W. Silver. Manchester: Manchester University Press; Barnes & Noble, New York, distributor, 1966. Pp. xi, 349. $11.00 pp. 425-426

Nancy P. Norton

Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1917–1933. By Elmus R. Wicker. New York: Random House, 1966. Pp. xiv, 221. $5.95 pp. 426-427

Stephen Clarke

Biddies Bank: The Crucial Years. By Jean Alexander Wilburn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. Pp. 149. $6.50 pp. 427-428

James S. Chase

A History of Jewish Crafts and Guilds. By Mark Wischnitzer. Foreword by Salo W. Baron. Introduction by Werner J. Cahnman. Sponsored by Yeshiva University and The Conference on Jewish Social Studies. New York: Jonathan David, 1965. Pp. xxvii, 324. $7.95 pp. 429-431

Hermann Kellenbenz

Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia. By William E. Wright. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 217. $6.00 pp. 431-433

Doris G. Phillips

Volume 27, issue 2, 1967

The Growth of Real Product in the United States Before 1840: New Evidence, Controlled Conjectures pp. 151-197

Paul David

The Role of the Samurai in the Development of Modern Banking in Japan pp. 198-220

Kozo Yamamura

Anglo-American Wage Differences in the 1820's pp. 221-229

Nathan Rosenberg

Railroads and Regulation, 1877–1916: Conspiracy or Public Interest? pp. 230-242

Robert W. Harbeson

Technological Change in American Manufacturing During the 1920's pp. 243-246

John H. Lorant

Claus Spreckels: The Sugar King in Hawaii. By Jacob Adler. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 339. $8.00 pp. 248-249

Gerald T. White

A Hundred Years of Pastoral Banking: A History of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, 1863–1963. By J. D. Bailey. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xi, 292 pp. 249-249

Kendall P. Cochran

Economic Development and Export Growth: A Study of Northern Rhodesia, 1920–1960. By Robert E. Baldwin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xviii, 254. $6.00 pp. 250-251

John Adams

Socialism and the Workers in Massachusetts, 1886–1912. By Henry F. Bedford. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1966, Pp. xiii, 315. $6.50 pp. 251-252

Philip Taft

Les origines antiques de la banque de dépôt: Une mise au point accompagnée d'une esquisse des opérations de banque en Mésopotamie. By Raymond Bogaert. Leyden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1966. Pp. 185. $6.50 pp. 252-253

Raymond de Roover

Sozialer und kultureller Wandel in einem ländlichen Industriegebiet (Zürcher Oberland) unter der Einwirkung des Maschinen- und Fabrikwesens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. By Rudolf Braun. Erlenbach-Zürich, Stuttgart: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1965. Pp. 368. DM 26 pp. 253-254

Rolf Engelsing

The Lordship of Canterbury: An Essay on Medieval Society. By F. R. H. Du Boulay. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1966. Pp. xiv, 418. 84s pp. 254-255

Josiah C. Russell

Türkenhirsch: A Study of Baron Maurice de Hirsch, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. By Kurt Grunwald, Israel Program for Scientific Translations. New York: Daniel Davey & Co., Inc., 1966. Pp. xviii, 141. $5.50 pp. 255-256

Fritz Redlich

The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study. By Richard Colebrook Harris. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; Quebec: Les Presses de L'Université Laval, 1966. Pp. xvi, 247. $10.00 pp. 256-257

Norman W. Taylor

The Economic History of the Middle East, 1800–1914: A Book of Readings. Edited by Charles Issawi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Pp. xv, 543. $12.50 pp. 258-259

Nikki Keddie

Essays on the Chilean Economy. By Markos Mamalakis and Clark W. Reynolds. Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1965. Pp. xxii, 409. $8.50 pp. 259-261

David Felix

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. By Barrington MooreJr, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966. Pp. xix, 559, $10.00 pp. 261-262

Edith M. Link

Organization and Revolution: Working Class Associations in the German Revolutions of 1848–1849. By P. H. Noyes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. x, 434. $10.00 pp. 262-264

Hedwig Reinhardt

The Early Spanish Main. By Carl Ortwin Sauer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 306. $7.95 pp. 265-266

Richard B. Sheridan

Merchant Campbell, 1769–1846: A Study in Colonial Trade. By Margaret Steven. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xv, 360. $9.75 pp. 266-267

George Masselman

Ideology, Economic Change, and the Working Classes: The Case of Italy. By Samuel J. Surace. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xiii, 196. $5.00 pp. 267-270

Douglas F. Dowd

Financial Institutions and Industrialization in the Rhineland, 1815–1870. By Richard Tilly. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966. Pp. x, 197. $6.50 pp. 271-272

Klaus H. Wolff

The Changing Faces of Economic Insecurity. By John G. Turnbull. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966. Pp. ix, 157. $5.00 pp. 272-273

Joseph C. Blumel

Science and Society in the United States. Edited by David D. Van Tassel and Michael G. Hall. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1966. Pp. vii, 360. $7.95 pp. 273-274

Gerald D. Nash

The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages. By Elspeth M. Veale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 251. $7.50 pp. 274-275

Margaret Hastings

Volume 27, issue 1, 1967

Has There Been a Twentieth-Century Consumer Durables Revolution? pp. 1-16

Harold G. Vatter

Evidences of Long Swings in the Growth of Swedish Population and Related Economic Variables, 1860–1965 pp. 17-38

Maurice Wilkinson

Mercantilist Policies and the Pattern of World Trade, 1500–1750 pp. 39-55

Rudolph C. Blitz

Industrial Development of Mainland China 1912–1949 pp. 56-81

John K. Chang

Colonial Tonnage Measurement: Five Philadelphia Merchant Ships as a Sample pp. 82-91

John McCusker

Bank of England Reserve Policy pp. 92-93

J. R. T. Hughes

Age of Industrial Violence, 1910–1915: The Activities and Findings of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations. By Graham AdamsJr., New York: Columbia University Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 316. $8.50 pp. 95-96

August C. Bolino

“Don Dinero” en la Independencia. By Arturo Abella. Bogotà: Ediciones Lerner, Ltda., 1966. Pp. 210. 48 pesos = $3.60 pp. 95-95

Matthew Edel

The Formative Years of Social Security. By Arthur J. Altmeyer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966. Pp. xi, 314. $6.50 pp. 97-98

Gaston V. Rimlinger

New England Merchants in Africa: A History Through Documents, 1802 to 1865. Edited by Norman R. Bennett and George E. BrooksJr, (Publication of the Boston University African Research Studies, No. 7). Boston: Boston University Press, 1965. Pp. xxxiii, 576. $11.50 pp. 98-100

Joseph Finkelstein

The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933. By Irving Bernstein. Baltimore: Penguin Books, Inc.1966. Pp. xi, 577. $2.25 (paperback) pp. 100-101

Vernon M. Briggs

Guns and Sails in the Early Phase of European Expansion, 1400–1700. By Carlo M. Cipolla. London: Collins, 1965. Pp. 192. 30s pp. 101-102

Thomas R. De Gregori

North Atlantic Arena: Water Transport in the World Order. By Charles C. Colby. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. Pp. xiv, 253. $7.50 pp. 103-104

Max E. Fletcher

John Owens, Manchester Merchant. By B. W. Clapp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1965. Pp. viii, 193. 37s. 6d pp. 103-103

Nancy P. Norton

The Reconstruction of Georgia. By Alan Conway. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966. Pp. vii, 248. $6.50 pp. 105-106

Lewis E. Hill

Fairs, Shops, and Supermarkets: A History of English Shopping. By Dorothy Davis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 322. $6.75 pp. 106-107

Margaret G. Myers

“L'economia bresciana nei secoli XIX e XX” and “Credito e banche a Brescia nei secoli XIX e XX.” By Aldo De Maddalena. Reprinted from Storia di Brescia. Edited by G. Treccani degli Alfieri. Brescia: Morcelliana Editrice, n.d. Vol. IV. Pp. 527–84 and 1043–82 pp. 107-107

Domenico Sella

The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada. By John F. Due. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. Pp. x, 118. $3.95 pp. 108-108

John J. Madden

Villages désertés et histoire économique, XI-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1965. Vol. XI in the series Les Hommes et la Terre issued by the VIth Section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études and the Centre de Recherches Historiques. Pp. 619 pp. 109-109

Shepard B. Clough

Domestic Capital Formation in the United Kingdom, 1920–1938. By C. H. Feinstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. xii, 270. $17.50 pp. 110-110

Duncan McDougall

Farm to Factory: A History of the Consumers Cooperative Association. By Gilbert C. Fite. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965. Pp. viii, 288. $6.00 pp. 111-112

Charles Gilbert

The Farmers' Frontier, 1865–1900. By Gilbert C. Fite. Histories of the American Frontier Series. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Pp. xiv, 272. $5.95 pp. 112-113

Allan G. Bogue

Agriculture and the Civil War. By Paul W. Gates. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Pp. xiii, 383. $8.95 pp. 113-114

Stephen Salsbury

Population in History: Essays in Historical Demography. Edited by D. V. Glass and D. E. C. Eversley. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1965. Pp. ix, 692. $17.50 pp. 114-115

Brinley Thomas

Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Elsa V. Goveia. (The Caribbean Series, Vol. VIII.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Pp. ix, 370. $8.50 pp. 116-116

Matthew Edel

Bankers and Cattlemen. By Gene M. Gressley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1966. Pp. xxi, 330. $6.95 pp. 117-118

Warren S. Gramm

The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence. By Ellis W. Hawley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. xv, 525. $10.00 pp. 118-119

Grant N. Farr

Memoirs of Capitalism, Communism and Nazism. By Calvin Hoover. Durham: Duke University Press, 1965. Pp. x, 302 pp. 119-121

E. A. J. Johnson

Turner, Bolton, and Webb: Three Historians of the American Frontier. By Wilbur R. Jacobs, John W. Caughey, and Joe B. Frantz. Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1965. Pp. xiii, 113. $2.95 pp. 121-121

Harry N. Scheiber

The Travel Diaries of Thomas Robert Malthus. Edited by Patricia James. Foreword by Lord Robbins. New York: Cambridge University Press (for the Royal Economic Society), 1966. Pp. xvi, 316. $8.50 pp. 122-123

Dudley Dillard

Social Scientists and Farm Politics in the Age of Roosevelt. By Richard S. Kirkendall. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 358. $7.00 pp. 123-124

Daniel R. Fusfeld

Venice and History: The Collected Papers of Frederic C. Lane. Edited by a committee of colleagues and former students. Foreword by Fernand Braudel. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. Pp. xxi, 560. $10.00 pp. 124-126

J. H. Parry

The Age of Keynes. By Robert Lekachman. New York: Random House, 1966. Pp. xii, 324. $6.00 pp. 126-126

Charles B. Friday

Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Spain. (Two volumes.) By Gabriel H. Lovett. New York: New York University Press, 1965. Pp. vii, 884 pp. 127-128

J. Clayburn La Force

Consumer Finance: A Case History in American Business. By Irving S. Michelman. Preface by Leon Henderson. New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1966. Pp. 336. $6.00 pp. 128-129

R. C. Doenges

Enterprise in Soap and Chemicals: Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Limited, 1815–1965. By A. E. Musson. Manchester: The University Press, 1965. Pp. xii, 384. 37s. 6d pp. 129-130

Thomas Senior Berry

New Orleans and the Railroads: The Struggle for Commercial Empire, 1830–1860. By Merl E. Reed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (for the Louisiana Historical Association), 1966. Pp. 172. $5.00 pp. 130-131

Thomas B. Brewer

The Public-Private Character of United States Central Banking. By J. Z. Rowe. Rutgers Banking Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1966. Pp. viii, 210. $6.00 pp. 131-132

Elmus R. Wicker

A History of Agricultural Science in Great Britain, 1620–1954. By SirE. John Russell. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; Humanities Press, Inc., New York, distributor, 1966. Pp. 493. $10.00 pp. 132-133

David Spring

The Encomienda in New Spain: The Beginning of Spanish Mexico. By Lesley Byrd Simpson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Pp. xvi, 263. $5.75 pp. 133-135

Robert Edminster

George Smith's Money: A Scottish Investor in America. By Alice E. Smith. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1966. Pp. vii, 197. $4.50 pp. 135-135

Nathan Miller

White Collar Trade Unions: Contemporary Developments in Industrialized Societies. Edited by Adolf Sturmthal. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Pp. xv, 412. $7.95 pp. 136-138

Mark Perlman

American Baseball: From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System. By David Quentin Voigt. Foreword by Allan Nevins. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Pp. xxxi, 336. $5.95 pp. 138-139

Ralph L. Andreano

Cincinnati Locomotive Builders, 1845–1868. By John H. White. United States National Museum Bulletin 245. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. Pp. ix, 167. $2.00 pp. 139-140

W. Paul Strassmann

George W. Norris: Gentle Knight of American Democracy. By Norman L. Zucker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Pp. xii, 186. $5.00 pp. 140-141

W. Robert Brazelton