The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 25, issue 4, 1965

Twenty-Five Years of the Economic History Association: A Reflective Evaluation pp. 465-479

Herbert Heaton

“New” and Traditional Approaches to Economic History and Their Interdependence pp. 480-495

Fritz Redlich

The Sterling Crisis of 1337–1339* pp. 496-522

Edward Ames

Economic Modernization in Imperial Russia: Purposes and Achievements pp. 523-540

Herbert J. Ellison

Economic Development in Preindustrial Japan, 1859–1894* pp. 541-564

Mataji Miyamoto, Yōtarō Sakudō and Yasukichi Yasuba

Discussion of papers by Edward Ames, Herbert J. Ellison, Miyamoto, Sakudō, Yasuba pp. 565-568

Carter Goodrich

History, Politics, and Economic Development in Liberia* pp. 569-591

George Dalton

Antebellum Urbanization in the American Northeast* pp. 592-608

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Discussion of papers by George Dalton and Jeffrey G. Williamson pp. 609-611

Ralph E. Beals

Discussion of papers by George Dalton and Jeffrey G. Williamson pp. 612-614

Eric E. Lampard

A Quantitative Approach to the Study of the Effects of British Imperial Policy upon Colonial Welfare: Some Preliminary Findings* pp. 615-638

Robert Paul Thomas

Economic Base and Social Structure: The Northern Chesapeake in the Eighteenth Century* pp. 639-654

Aubrey C. Land

Discussion of papers by Robert Paul Thomas and Aubrey C. Land pp. 655-659

Jacob M. Price

Economic Systems and Economic History pp. 660-679

Arthur Schweitzer

The Growth of Manufacturing in Early Nineteenth-Century New England pp. 680-682

Robert Brooke Zevin

The American Colonial Vineyard: An Economic Interpretation* pp. 683-685

David Mishkin

The New Brunswick Economy in the Nineteenth Century pp. 686-690

P. D. McClelland

A Balance of Payments for the Thirteen Colonies, 1768–1772: A Summary* pp. 691-695

James Shepherd

International Migration and Economic Growth: The Swedish Experience pp. 696-699

John A. Tomaske

Unbalance in Demand and Supply, and Input-Provision Capital Formation: Brazil, 1920–1951 pp. 700-703

Carlos Manuel Pelaez

Mechanizing the Cotton Harvest in the Nineteenth-Century South pp. 704-706

Heywood Fleisig

Discussion of doctoral dissertation summaries pp. 707-712

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Volume 25, issue 3, 1965

International Migration and Economic Growth: Australia, 1865–1935* pp. 333-354

Allen C. Kelley

The Investment Market, 1870–1914: The Evolution of a National Market pp. 355-399

Lance E. Davis

The Statistics of American Commercial Banking, 1782–1818 pp. 400-413

J. Van Fenstermaker

The Specie Circular and Sales of Public Lands: A Comment pp. 414-416

Richard H. Timberlake

Recent Membership Trends of the Economic History Association pp. 417-418

Forest G. Hill

Britain and the Netherlands, Vol. II. Edited by J. S. Bromley and E. H. Kossman. Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1964. Pp. 229 pp. 420-420

George Masselman

Canada's National Policy, 1883–1900: A Study in Canadian-American Relations. By Robert Craig Brown. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964. Pp. xi, 436. $9.00 pp. 421-422

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Investment in Australian Economic Growth, 1861–1900. By N. G. Butlin. Cambridge [Engl.]: University Press, 1964. Pp. xv, 477. $11.50 pp. 422-424

Penelope Hartland

The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815–1885. By S. G. Checkland. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964. Pp. xiv, 471. $7.00 pp. 424-425

Barry E. Supple

How Labour Governs: A Study of Workers' Representation in Australia. By Vere Gordon Childe. (Second edition.) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964. Pp. xxii, 193. $7.00. - Asian Migration to Australia: The Background to Exclusion, 1896–1923. By A. T. Yarwood. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 210. $9.50 pp. 425-428

Karl de Schweinitz

Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal, 1757–1900. By Benoy Chowdhury. Calcutta: Quality Printers, 1964. Pp. iv, 217. Rs. 20. - Agrarian Relations and Early British Rule in India: A Case Study of Ceded and Conquered Provinces (Uttar Pradesh), 1801–1833. By Sulekh Chandra Gupta. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1963. Pp. xix, 338 pp. 428-430

Alan Heston

Railroads, Lands, and Politics: The Taxation of the Railroad Land Grants, 1864–1897. By Leslie E. Decker. Providence: Brown University Press, 1964. Pp. xi, 435. $15.00 pp. 431-433

Stanley L. Engerman

L'Arrondisement du Brabant sous l'occupation française, 1794–1795. By Robert Devleeshouwer. Brussels: Institut de Sociologie, 1964. Pp. 560 pp. 433-434

Richard Tilly

The Evolution of Money. By Rupert J. Ederer. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1964. Pp. vii, 155. $4.50 pp. 434-435

Daniel R. Fusfeld

Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870–1950. Vol. III, Demographic Analysis and Interrelations. By Hope T. Eldridge and Dorothy Swaine Thomas, with introduction by Simon Kuznets. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1964. Pp. xxxv, 368. $6.00 pp. 436-437

R. M. McInnis

The Growth of the Athenian Economy. By A. French. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1965. Pp. xii, 208. $6.00 pp. 437-440

M. E. White

The Sanchez Navarros: A Socio-economic Study of a Coahuilan Latifundio, 1846–1853. By Charles H. HarrisIII. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 127. $3.50 pp. 440-440

Dwight S. Brothers

The Copper King: A Biography of Thomas Williams of Llanidan. J. R. Harris. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1964. Pp. xviii, 194. $5.75 pp. 441-442

Willson H. Coates

David Rittenhouse. By Brooke Hindle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Pp. ix, 394. $8.50 pp. 442-442

Stuart Bruchey

The Australian Iron and Steel Industry, 1848–1962. By Helen Hughes. Melbourne: The University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964. Pp. xv, 213. $8.50 pp. 443-443

Thomas J. Orsagh

Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin, 1836–1915. By James Willard Hurst. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Pp. xx, 946. $17.50 pp. 444-445

B. Dowdle

Economic Growth in France and Britain, 1841–1950. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Cambridge: Harvard Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 378. $8.95 pp. 446-448

J. R. T. Hughes

Postwar Economic Growth. By Simon Kuznets. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. Pp. 148. $4.25 pp. 448-450

Eugene Smolensky

State Government and Economic Development: A History of Administrative Policies in California, 1849–1933. By Gerald D. Nash. Berkeley: University of California, 1964. Pp. xii, 379. $7.50 pp. 450-451

Lewis H. Kimmel

The Conquest of the Material World. By John U. Nef. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Pp. xii, 408. $8.95 pp. 452-453

Lawrence Stone

Rudolf Diesel: Pioneer of the Age of Power. By W. Robert Nitske and Charles Morrow Wilson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Pp. ix, 318. $5.95 pp. 453-455

Richard B. Du Boff

History of British Agriculture, 1846–1914. By Christabel S. Orwin and Edith H. Whetham. London: Longmans, Green & Co.; Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964. Pp. xx, 411. $12.00 pp. 455-457

G. E. Mingay

The Wardens' Accounts of the Founders' Company, 1497–1681. Edited by Guy Parsloe. London: The Athlone Press, 1964. Pp. lviii, 492. £5 5s pp. 457-457

Sylvia L. Thrupp

De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden en het Mercantilisme. By Willem Dirk Voorthuysen. The Hague: Martinus Nyhoff, 1964. Pp. x, 143 pp. 458-459

Max Gideonse

Volume 25, issue 2, 1965

External Equilibrium and Internal Convertibility: Financial Policy in Meiji Japan* pp. 187-213

Hugh T. Patrick

The Labor Force at Waltham Watch during the Civil War Era pp. 214-243

H. M. Gitelman

The Economic History of Malaysia: A Bibliographic Essay pp. 244-262

Wong Lin Ken

The Plains Farmer and the Prairie Province Frontier, 1897–1914* pp. 263-270

Karel Denis Bicha

The Take-Off into Sustained Controversy pp. 271-275

Henry Rosovsky

The Management of Money: A Survey of American Experience. By Harold Barger. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1964. Pp. ix, 421. $8.00 pp. 277-277

Lester V. Chandler

States of the Annual Progress of the Linen Manufacture, 1727–1754: From the Records of the Board of Trustees for Manufactures etc., in Scotland, Preserved in the Scottish Record Office. Edited by R. H. Campbell. Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964. Pp. x, 145. $5.50 pp. 278-278

Francis G. James

The Mexican Mesta: The Administration of Ranching in Colonial Mexico. By William H. Dusenberry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963. Pp. ix, 253. $5.50 pp. 278-279

John Leddy Phelan

Formaçāo Industrial do Brasil (Período Colonial). By Heitor Ferreira Lima. Rio de Janeiro: Editôra Fundo de Cultura, 1962. Pp. 327 pp. 279-281

Hans G. Mueller

Industrial Development in Australia, 1920–30. By Colin Forster. Canberra: Australian National University, 1964. Pp. vii, 256 pp. 281-282

Kent T. Healy

An Ancient Economic History, from the Palaeolithic Age to the Migrations of the Germanic, Slavic, and Arabic Nations. Vol. II. By Fritz M. Heichelheim. Translated by Mrs. Joyce Stevens. Leyden: A. W. Sythoff, 1964. Pp. 245 pp. 283-285

Howard L. Adelson

Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History, 1701–1750. By L. W. Hanson. Cambridge, Engl.: The University Press, 1963. Pp. xxiii, 977. $39.50 pp. 283-283

D. C. Coleman

The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan. By Johannes Hirschmeier. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Pp. 354. $7.50 pp. 285-286

Thomas C. Smith

English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century. By G. E. Mingay. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. Pp. x, 292. - English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century. By F. M. L. Thompson. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. Pp. xiii, 374. $7.50 pp. 286-288

William N. Parker

Wirtschaftsgeschichte Deutschlands: Ein Grundriss. Vol. II, Von der Zeit der Franzosischen Revolution bis zur Zeit der Bismarkschen Reichsgrundung. By Hans Mottek. Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissonschaften, 1964. Pp. ix, 296. 13.60 DM pp. 288-289

Theodore F. Marburg

Theodor Wuppermann und die Vereinigung Rheinisch-Westfälischer Bandeisenwalzwerke. By Wolfgang Pieper. Cologne: Published by Rheinisch Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, 1963. Pp. 194 pp. 289-290

Thomas J. Orsagh

La proprietà terriera nel comune di Ravenna dalla metà del secolo xvi ai giorni nostri. By Giorgio Porisini. (Istituto di Storia Economica e Sociale dell' Università di Bologna.) Milan: Giuffrè Editore, 1963. Pp. 155. Lire 1,500 pp. 290-292

Cono Casella

The Lunar Society of Birmingham. By Robert E. Schofield. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. vii, 491. $11.20 pp. 292-293

Nathan Rosenberg

Big Business in the Third Reich. By Arthur Schweitzer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964. Pp. xii, 739. $7.50 pp. 293-295

Carl Landauer

The Agrarian History of Western Europe, A. D. 500–1850. By B. H. Slicher van Bath. Translated by Olive Ordish. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. Pp. ix, 364. $9.00 pp. 295-297

Folke Dovring

Scottish Trade on the Eve of Union, 1660–1707. By T. C. Smout. Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1963. Pp. xv, 320. 50s pp. 298-298

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City. By Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Pp. xiv, 286. $5.95 pp. 299-300

Carter Goodrich

The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879. By Irwin Unger. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964. Pp. 467. $10.00 pp. 300-301

Paul B. Trescott

The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy. By Hermann Van der Wee. Three volumes. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. Vol. I, pp. lix, 562; Vol. II, pp. xl, 436; Vol. III, pp. 168. $37.80 pp. 302-303

John Munro

The License System of the City of Atlanta. By James M. Wright. Atlanta: Harper Printing Co., 1964. Pp. viii, 355. $4.00 pp. 304-304

Robert F. Croll

Volume 25, issue 1, 1965

Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660–1750: Agricultural Change pp. 1-18

E. L. Jones

Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England, 1700–1760* pp. 19-34

A. H. John

The Growth and Decline of Indigo Production in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Comparative Economic History pp. 35-60

Dauril Alden

Continuity in Economic Activity and Policy during the Post-Petrine Period in Russia* pp. 61-85

Arcadius Kahan

State Policy and the Public Domain: The Ohio Canal Lands* pp. 86-113

Harry N. Scheiber

Farm Construction as a Use of Farm Labor in the United States, 1850–1910 pp. 114-125

Martin L. Primack

In the Trek of the Immigrants: Essays Presented to Carl Wittke. Edited by O. Fritiof Ander. Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana College Library Publications, 1964. Pp. xvi, 325. $5.95 pp. 128-128

John A. Tomaske

Foreign Capital as an Instrument of National Economic Policy. By V. N. Bandera. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964. Pp. xiv, 155. $5.50 pp. 128-130

Richard N. Cooper

A Rural Society in Medieval France: The Gâtine of Poitou in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By George T. Beech. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. Pp. 141. $5.00 pp. 130-131

Bryce Lyon

From Prairie to Com Belt. Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century. By Allan G. Bogue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Pp. ii, 310. $6.95 pp. 131-133

Clarence H. Danhof

Herbert Hoover and Economic Diplomacy. By Joseph Brandes. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962. Pp. xiv, 237. $4.50 pp. 133-134

George Soule

Economic Growth: England in the Later Middle Ages. By A. R. Bridbury. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1962. Pp. 115. $3.75 pp. 134-136

Margaret Hastings

Frontier Community: Kansas City to 1870. By A. Theodore Brown. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 235. $5.95 pp. 136-137

Eugene Smolensky

A travers la Normandie des xviie et xviiie siècles. By Michel Caillard, Marcel Duval, Philippe Guillot, Mary Claude Gricourt. Caen, 1963. Pp. 562. 20 NF pp. 137-139

Robert Forster

A History of British Trade Unions since 1889. By H. A. Clegg, Alan Fox, and A. F. Thompson, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1964. Pp. ix, 514. $8.80 pp. 139-139

Karl de Schweinitz

The Economic History of Modern Italy. By Shepard B. Clough. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. Pp. xi, 458. $10.00 pp. 140-140

Richard S. Eckaus

Domaines et seigneurs en Russie vers la fin du xviiie siècle. Etude de structure agraires et de mentalités économiques. By Michael Confino. Paris: Institut d' Études Slaves de;'Université de Paris, 1963. Pp. 306 pp. 141-142

Jerome Blum

Les français et le commerce international à Anvers, fin du xve, xvie siècle. By Emile Coornaert. Two volumes. Paris: Marcel Rivière, 1961. Pp. 446, 354. 70 NF pp. 142-143

Orest Ranum

Isaac Hicks: New York Merchant and Quaker, 1767–1820. By Robert A. Davison. (Harvard Studies in Business History, XXII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Pp. xiii, 217. $4.75 pp. 143-144

Beatrice G. Reubens

Études anversoises: Documents sur le commerce international à Anvers, 1488–1514. By Renée Doehaerd. (3 vols.; École Pratique des Hautes Études, Vie Section.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1962, 1963. Pp. 282, 309, 372 pp. 144-145

Warren C. Scoville

The Local Port Book of Southampton for 1435–36. Edited by B. Foster. (Southampton Record Series, No. 7). Southampton: Southampton University Press, 1963. Pp. xvi, 144. £ 2 12s. 6d pp. 145-146

Edward Miller

English Merchants' Marks. A Field Survey of Marks Made by Merchants and Tradesmen in England between 1400 and 1700. By F. A. Girling. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. 123. $5.60 pp. 146-147

T. S. Willan

The Industrial Archaeology of County Down. By E. R. R. Green. Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963. Pp. vii, 99 (plus maps, photographic plates, and an engineering plan). 25s pp. 147-148

Lawrence J. McCaffrey

Sugar and Society in the Caribbean: An Economic History of Cuban Agriculture. By Ramiro Guerra y Sánchez. Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz, Appendix by Jose Antonio Guerra y Debén. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1964. Pp. xliv, 218. $5.00 pp. 149-150

J. Carlyle Sitterson

Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920. By Samuel Haber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Pp. xiv, 181 pp. 150-151

Leland H. Jenks

Coin's Financial School. By William H. Harvey. (Edited and with an introduction by Richard Hofstadter.) Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. vi, 254. $4.50 pp. 151-153

Robert P. Sharkey

Timber and Men: The Weyerhauser Story. By Ralph W. Hidy, Frank Ernest Hill, and Allan Nevins. New York and London: Macmillan Company, 1964. Pp. xiv, 704. $12.00 pp. 153-155

Ralph Andreano

The Maritime Commerce of Colonial Philadelphia. By Arthur L. Jensen. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963. Pp. viii, 312. $4.75 pp. 156-158

Bernard Bailyn

Studies in the Development of Capitalism in India. By Shiva Chandra Jha. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1963. Pp. ix, 415. Rs. 20 pp. 158-158

Alan Heston

A Century of Banking in Latin America. By David Joslin. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 307. $6.75 pp. 159-160

David Felix

The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898. By Walter LaFeber. Ithaca: Published for the American Historical Association by Cornell University Press, 1963. Pp. xii, 444. $5.95 pp. 160-161

Morton Rothstein

The Share of Top Wealth-Holders in National Wealth, 1922–56. By Robert J. Lampman. Princeton, N.J.: Published for the NBER by Princeton University Press, 1964. Pp. xxvii, 286. $6.50 pp. 162-163

Edward C. Budd

Manpower and Economic Growth. By Stanley Lebergott. New York: McGraw- Hill Book Company: 1964. Pp. xii, 561. $8.95 pp. 163-165

Roger L. Ransom

History of the Renaissance (1350–1550). Book I, Economy and Society. By Emil Lucki. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1963. Pp. x, 171. $2.50 pp. 165-166

Ruth Pike

Population Movements in Modern European History. Edited by H. Moller. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964. Pp. vi, 138. $1.50 pp. 166-167

John T. Krause

The Economics of the Wartime Shortage. By Mancur Olson Jr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1963. Pp. vi, 152. $4.50 pp. 167-169

Paul David

The Locomotive Engineer, 1863–1963. By Reed C. Richardson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963. Pp. 456. $8.00 pp. 169-171

George Delehanty

Argentina—A City and a Nation. By James R. Scobie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Pp. x, 294. $6.50 (standard edition), $2.50 (text edition) pp. 171-172

Carter Goodrich

The National Association of Manufacturers: A Study in Business Leadership, 1895–1914. By Albert K. Steigerwalt. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Dean-Hicks Company, 1964. Pp. v, 220. $8.50 pp. 172-174

Harold F. Williamson

Industrialization of Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1878–1918. By Peter F. Sugar. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 275. $8.50 pp. 174-176

John H. Jensen

The American Petroleum Industry. Vol. II, The Age of Energy, 1899–1959. By Harold F. Williamson, Ralph L. Andreano, Arnold R. Daum, and Gilbert C. Klose. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1963. Pp. xx, 928. $7.50 pp. 176-177

Arthur M. Johnson

American Growth and the Balance of Payments, 1820–1913. By Jeffrey G. Williamson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. xviii, 298. $7.50 pp. 177-179

Allen C. Kelley

The Transportation Frontier: Trans-Mississippi West, 1865–1890. By Oscar Osburn Winther. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Pp. xiv, 224. $4.50 pp. 179-180

Richard C. Overton