The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 24, issue 4, 1964

American Economic Growth Before 1840: An Exploratory Essay pp. 427-444

George Rogers Taylor

Market Expansion: The Case of Genoa pp. 445-464

Robert Sabatino Lopez

Discussion of Lopez paper pp. 465-469

Frederic C. Lane

Monetary Movements and Market Structure—Forces for Contraction in Fourteenth-and Fifteenth-Century England pp. 470-490

Harry A. Miskimin

Discussion of Miskimin paper pp. 491-495

Ronald D. Ware

The Economic Growth of the Chesapeake and the European Market, 1697–1775 pp. 496-511

Jacob M. Price

Discussion of Price paper pp. 512-516

Mancur Olson

Growth Deterrents of a Medieval Heritage: The Aachen-area Woolen Trades before 1790* pp. 517-537

Herbert Kisch

Discussion of Kisch paper pp. 538-540

Klaus H. Wolff

The Weaning of the American Economy: Independence, Market Changes, and Economic Development* pp. 541-560

Gordon C. Bjork

Discussion of Bjork paper pp. 561-566

Albert Fishlow

Wars, Blockade, and Economic Change in Europe, 1792–1815* pp. 567-588

François Crouzet

Discussion of Crouzet paper pp. 589-590

Richard Tilly

Some Dimensions of the American Commercial Invasion of Europe, 1871–1914: An Introductory Essay* pp. 591-605

Matthew Simon and David E. Novack

Discussion of Simon and Novack paper pp. 606-608

Morton Rothstein

Growth and Trade: Some Hypotheses About Long-Term Trends pp. 609-628

Richard N. Cooper

Discussion of Cooper paper pp. 629-633

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Volume 24, issue 3, 1964

Fixed Capital in the Industrial Revolution in Britain* pp. 299-314

Sidney Pollard

The Coming of the Railway and United Kingdom Economic Growth* pp. 315-336

B. R. Mitchell

Royal Textile Factories in Spain, 1700–1800* pp. 337-363

J. Clayburn la Force

Monetary History and Positive Economics* pp. 364-380

Robert W. Clower

The International Scientific Committee on Price History pp. 381-388

Arthur H. Cole and Ruth Crandall

From Cloth to Iron: The Anglo-Baltic Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century. Part I. By Sven-Erik Aström. Helsinki: Centraltryckeriet, 1963. Pp. 260. FM 13.00 pp. 389-390

Walther Kirchner

Mélanges historiques. By Marc Bloch. (2 vols.; École Pratique des Hautes Études, VIe Section.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1963. Pp. xiii, 1108 pp. 390-391

Virginia Rau

Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing, 1861–1938/39. By N. G. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. Pp. xvii, 475. $12.50 pp. 391-392

Penelope Hartland

Real Wages in Soviet Russia since 1928. By Janet G. Chapman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. xvi, 395. $12.00 pp. 392-393

Jack Minkoff

Navires et marchandises dans les ports de Rouen et du Havre au xviiie siècle. By Pierre Dardel. (École Pratique des Hautes Études, VIe Section.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1963. Pp. 787 pp. 394-395

P. W. Bamford

The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397–1494. By Raymond de Roover. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. xxii, 500. $10.00 pp. 395-397

Lauro Martines

The History of Foreign Exchange. By Paul Einzig. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962. Pp. x, 319. $7.50 pp. 397-398

Thomas M. Klein

The Automobile Under the Blue Eagle. By Sidney Fine. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 566. $15.00 pp. 398-399

Grant N. Farr

The London Capital Market and Australia, 1870–1914. By A. R. Hall. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1963. Pp. xiii, 221. 30s pp. 399-401

Allen C. Kelley

The Historian and the City. Edited by Oscar Handlin and John Burchard. Cambridge: The M. I. T. Press and Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. xii, 299. $7.50 pp. 401-401

Thomas C. Cochran

A History of Interest Rates, 2000 B. C. to the Present. By Sidney Homer, New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963. Pp. xvi, 617. $10.00 pp. 401-403

J. K. Horsefield

The Rise of the Dairy Industry in Wisconsin: A Study in Agricultural Change, 1820–1920. By Eric E. Lampard. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963. Pp. xii, 466. $6.00 pp. 403-404

Emerson M. Brooks

Land and Life. A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer. Edited, with an introduction, by John Leighly. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Pp. vi, 435. $8.95 pp. 404-405

M. M. Knight

The Cradle of Colonialism. By George Masselman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. x, 534. $10.00. - Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia. By Clifford Geertz. Foreword by Benjamin Higgins. (Association of Asian Studies Monographs, IX.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Pp. xx, 176. $4.00 pp. 405-408

Paul Wheatley

Money, Prices, and Foreign Exchange in Fourteenth Century France. By Harry A. Miskimin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. 215. $6.75 pp. 408-409

Joseph R. Strayer

The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds. By Glenn A. Niemeyer. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1963. Pp. xiii, 233. $6.50 pp. 409-410

Robert P. Thomas

The Matador Land and Cattle Company. By W. M. Pearce. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Pp. xiv, 244. $5.95 pp. 410-412

Forest G. Hill

Die Rolle des Staates in den Frühstadien der Industrialisierung: Die preussische Industrieförderung in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Ulrich Peter Ritter. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1961. Pp. 176. DM 19.60 pp. 412-413

Herbert Kisch

The Origins of Social Liberalism in Germany. By Donald G. Rohr. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Pp. 179. $5.50 pp. 414-415

Arthur Schweitzer

La population de la France de 1700 à 1959. By J.-C. Toutain. (Vol. III of Histoire quantitative de l'économie française.) Paris: I. S. E. A., 1963. Pp. x, 247 pp. 415-417

Gordon A. Marker

Les émigrés français: 1789–1825. By Jean Vidalenc. (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique.) Caen: University of Caen, 1963. Pp. 471 pp. 417-418

John Bowditch

Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia. By Theodore H. Von Laue. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963. Pp. x, 360. $7.50 pp. 418-419

Gaston V. Rimlinger

Der Rheinisch-Westfälische Unternehmer, 1834–1879. By Friedrich Zunkel. Cologne and Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1962. Pp. 284. DM 38.50 pp. 420-421

Richard Tilly

Volume 24, issue 2, 1964

The Place of Learning, Science, Vocational Training, and “Art” in Pre-Smithian Economic Thought pp. 129-144

E. A. J. Johnson

Relative Prices in the Nineteenth Century* pp. 145-203

Dorothy S. Brady

Problems of the Development of Hungarian Industry, 1900–1944* pp. 204-228

György Ránki

The Poor Law Report Reexamined pp. 229-245

Mark Blaug

Britain and the Congo in the Nineteenth Century. By Roger T. Anstey. Oxford: The Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. xiv, 260. $6.10 pp. 247-249

Richard J. Hammond

Century of Service; The First Hundred Years of the United States Department of Agriculture. By Gladys L. Baker, Wayne D. Rasmussen, Vivian Wiser, and Jane M. Porter. (Centennial Committee, United States Department of Agriculture.) Foreword by Orville L. Freeman. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1963. Pp. xv, 560. $2.75 pp. 249-250

Gilbert C. Fite

India's Balance of Payments: Estimates of Current and Capital Accounts from 1921–22 to 1938–39. By Arun K. Banerji. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1963. Pp. xiv, 255. $11.75 pp. 250-251

Richard C. Porter

A History of London Transport. Vol. I: The Nineteenth Century. By T. C. Barker and Michael Robbins. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963. Pp. xxxii, 412. 40s pp. 251-252

Kent T. Healy

Economic Trends in the Soviet Union. Edited by Abram Bergson and Simon Kuznets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. xiv, 382. $9.75 pp. 252-255

Robert W. Campbell

Une ville devant la Peste: Orvieto et la Peste Noire de 1348. By Élisabeth Carpentier. (École Pratique des Hautes Études—VIe section; Centre de Recherches Historiques.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1962. Pp. 286 pp. 255-256

Gene A. Brucker

England's Export Trade, 1275–1547. By E. M. Carus-Wilson and Olive Coleman. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 207. $10.10 pp. 256-257

Violet Barbour

Old Ukraine, Its Socio-Economic History Prior to 1781. By Nicholas L. Chirovsky. Madison, N. J.: Florham Park Press, Inc., 1963. Pp. xvi, 432 pp. 258-258

C. M. Foust

The Economic History of World Population. By Carlo Cipolla. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1962. Pp. 126 pp. 258-259

Shepard B. Clough

Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845–1921. By Donald B. Cole. (Publication sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. ix, 248. $6.00 pp. 259-261

Stephan Thernstrom

Sir John Banks: Baronet and Businessman. By D. C. Coleman. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. xv, 215. $6.40 pp. 261-262

F. J. Levy

The Transformation of Rhode Island, 1790–1860. By Peter J. Coleman. Providence: Published for the American History Research Association by Brown University Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 314. $9.00 pp. 262-263

Beatrice G. Reubens

L'Alun de Rome—xve-xixe siècle. By Jean Delumeau (Publication of the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1962. Pp. 352 pp. 263-265

Ruth Pike

The Salmon King of Oregon: R. D. Hume and the Pacific Fisheries. By Gordon B. Dodds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. ix, 257. $6.00 pp. 265-266

James N. Tattersall

Federal Banking Laws and Reports: A Compilation of Major Federal Banking Documents, 1780–1912. By Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963. Pp. vi, 529, $1.75 pp. 267-267

Paul B. Thescott

The Waldstein Woolen Mill: Noble Entrepreneurship in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia. By Herman Freudenberger. (Publication No. 18 of the Kress Library of Business and Economics.) Montpelier, Vt: Capital City Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 68 pp. 268-269

Andrew G. Whiteside

Bryggeriets Historie i Danmark indtil slutningen af det 19. århundrede (“History of the Danish Brewing Trade to the End of the Nineteenth Century”). By Kristof Glamann. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1962. Pp. 291. Kr. 42.50 pp. 269-270

Lars L. Björkbom

An Economic History of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. By Henry Hamilton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. xviii, 452. $8.00 pp. 270-272

Richard B. Sheridan

Die Arbeiterfrage zu Beginn des modernen Kapitalismus in Brandenburg-Preussen, 1685–1806. By Kurt Hinze. Foreword by Otto Büsch. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1963. Pp. xvi, 296 pp. 272-273

Arthur Schweitzer

Capital in the American Economy: Its Formation and Financing. By Simon Kuznets. Princeton, N. J.: Published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by Princeton University Press, 1961. Pp. 664. $12.00 pp. 273-277

Robert E. Gallman

Die Beziehungen der deutschen Seeschiffswerften zur Eisenindustrie an der Ruhr in der Zeit von 1850 bis 1930. By Günther Leckebusch. (“Schriften zur Rheinisch-Westfälischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte,” No. 8) Cologne: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, 1963. Pp. 149 pp. 277-278

Thomas J. Orsagh

Ghana Agriculture: Its Economic Development from Early Times to the Middle of the Twentieth Century. By S. La Anyane. London and Accra: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. xiv, 228. $4.00 pp. 277-277

Thomas T. Poleman

Price and Quantity Trends in the Foreign Trade of the United States. By Robert Lipsey. (National Bureau of Economic Research “Studies in International Economic Relations,” No. 2) Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1963. Pp. xviii, 487. $10.00 pp. 278-279

Matthew Simon

Industrial Growth and World Trade. By Alfred Maizels (Publication of the National Institute of Economics and Social Research, London. “Social Studies,” No. 21.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Pp. xxiii, 563. $14.00 pp. 280-281

C. P. Kindleberger

Land Use Policy and Problems in the United States. Edited by Howard W. Ottoson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. Pp. x, 470. $6.00 pp. 281-282

Richard S. Kirkendall

Histoire des faits économiques jusqu'à la fin du xviiie siécle. By Hubert Richardot, with the collaboration of Bernard Schnapper. Paris: Librairie Dalloz, 1963. Pp. 448 pp. 282-283

George V. Taylor

America's Great Depression. By Murray N. Rothbard. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1963. Pp. x, 361. $8.95 pp. 283-284

Eugene Smolensky

The Experience of Economic Growth: Case Studies in Economic History. Edited by Barry E. Supple. New York: Random House, 1963. Pp. 458. $6.95 pp. 285-285

William N. Parker

The Factory Movement, 1830–1855. By J. T. Ward. London: Macmillan and Co.; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962. Pp. xii, 515 pp. 286-288

George W. Hilton

A History of the Salters' Company. By J. Steven Watson. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. 161. $4.80 pp. 288-289

William F. Kahl

The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics. By Adna Ferrin Weber. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962. Pp. xxvi, 495. $5.75 (reprint) pp. 289-290

Eric E. Lampard

A Tudor Book of Rates. Edited by T. S. Willan. (“Publications of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Manchester,” No. 13) Manchester: The University Press, 1962. Pp. lv, 97. 18s pp. 290-291

H. S. Reinmuth

Volume 24, issue 1, 1964

A Quantitative Approach to Medieval Population Change pp. 1-21

J. C. Russell

Charts of Public Land Sales and Entries pp. 22-28

Paul W. Gates

Ideological Factors in Specie Resumption and Treasury Policy* pp. 29-52

Richard H. Timberlake

Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century pp. 53-59

Alexander Gerschenkron

Measuring British Economic Growth* pp. 60-82

J. R. T. Hughes

The Simple Fleece. Edited by Alan Barnard. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962. Pp. 640. $12.50 pp. 84-85

Gene M. Gressley

The Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England. By Peter J. Bowden. London: Macmillan, 1962, Pp. xviii, 242. 45s pp. 85-87

Daniel R. Fusfeld

Prix des céréales extraits de la Mercuriale de Paris (1520–1698). Vol. II, 1621–1698. By Micheline Baulant and Jean Meuvret. (École Pratique des Hautes Études;—VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1962. Pp. 165 pp. 85-85

Martin Wolfe

Essays in Economic History. Edited by Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson. Vols. II and III. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 373, and pp. viii, 393. $12.00 each pp. 87-88

Shepard B. Clough

People and Industries. By W. H. Chaloner. London: Frank Cass, 1963. Pp. 151. 25s pp. 88-89

Roy A. Church

Mexico. Revolution to Evolution, 1940–1960. By Howard F. Cline (Auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. xiv, 375. $6.75 pp. 89-91

Stanley J. Stein

Entrepreneurship in Argentine Culture: Torquato Di Tella and S. I. A. M. By Thomas C. Cochran and Ruben E. Reina; Research Assistant, Sue Nuttall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 338. $7.50 pp. 91-93

Carter Goodrich

The Decline of the Venetian Nobility as a Ruling Class. By James Cushman Davis. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXX, No. 2.) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. Pp. 155. $4.00 pp. 93-94

Domenico Sella

The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Ralph Davis. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1962. Pp. ix, 427. $12.00 pp. 95-96

John G. B. Hutchins

The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money. By SirAlbert Feaveryear. (Second edition, revised By E. Victor Morgan.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 446. 42s. $6.75 pp. 96-97

Margaret G. Myers

Der Staat und die Anfänge der Industrialisierung in Baden, 1800–1850 Vol. I, Die staatliche Gewerbepolitik. By Wolfram Fischer. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1962. Pp. 401. DM. 39.80 pp. 97-99

Klaus H. Wolff

John R. Commons: His Assault on Laissez-Faire. By Lafayette G. HarterJr. Foreword by Wayne Morse. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 283. $4.95 pp. 99-100

Joseph Dorfman

Farms and Farmers in an Urban Age. By Edward Higbee. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1963. Pp. xii, 183. Cloth, $3.00; paper, $1.45 pp. 100-101

Theodore Saloutos

Grain Yields and the American Food Supply: An Analysis of Yield Changes and Possibilities. By D. Gale Johnson and Robert L. Gustafson. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1962. Pp. 146. $3.50 pp. 102-103

John E. Floyd

The Law Merchant and Negotiable Instruments in Colonial New York, 1664 to 1730. By Herbert Alan Johnson. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1963. Pp. x, 85. $3.00 pp. 103-104

Lawrence M. Friedman

The Life Insurance Enterprise, 1885–1910. By Morton Keller. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Pp. x, 338, $7.25 pp. 104-105

Orange A. Smalley

Annali del Mezzogiorno, Vol. I. Edited by Antonio Pavone LaRosa. (Istituto di Storia Economica, Università di Catania.) Catania: Tip. dell'Università1961. Pp. 264 pp. 105-106

Samuel J. Surace

The West African Shipping Trade, 1909–1959. By Charlotte Leubuscher. Leyden: A. W. Sythoff, 1963. Pp. 109. Fl. 13 pp. 107-108

Richard J. Hammond

American Economic Development: Growth of the United States in the Western World. By Lester S. Levy and Roy J. Sampson. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1962. Pp. xiii, 623. $7.95 pp. 108-109

Forest G. Hill

Lettres de Change aux foires de Lanciano au xvie siècle. By Corrado Marciani. (École Pratique des Hautes Études—VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques.) Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1962. Pp. 196 pp. 109-110

Marvin B. Becker

The Urbanization of America, 1860–1915. By Blake McKelvey. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963. Pp. ix, 370. $10.00 pp. 110-111

Edward C. Kirkland

The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism. By Walter T. K. Nugent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 256. $6.00 pp. 111-112

Roger Daniels

Manuel Lisa and the Opening of the Missouri Fur Trade. By Richard E. Oglesby. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Pp. xiii, 246. $5.00 pp. 112-113

Thomas LeDuc

The External Relations of Cities during “Industrial Revolution,” with a Case Study of Göteborg, Sweden: 1860–1890. By Allan Pred. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. ix, 113 pp. 113-114

Eric E. Lampard

John Isham: Mercer and Merchant Adventurer. Two Account Books of a London Merchant in the Reign of Elizabeth I. Edited by G. D. Ramsay. (The Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society, Vol. XXI.) Gateshead, Durham: Northumberland Press Limited, 1962. Pp. cxii, 197 pp. 114-115

Margaret Gay Davies

Oregon Argonauts: Merchant Adventurers on the Western Frontier. By Arthur L. Throckmorton. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1961. Pp. xvii, 372. $10.00 pp. 115-117

James N. Tattersall

Trade Union Growth, Structure and Policy: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Unions in England. By H. A. Turner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962. Pp. 413. $7.50 pp. 117-118

Irving Bernstein

Contribution à l'histoire économique des Flandres. By B. Verhaegen. Two volumes; Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1961. Pp. 382, 326 pp. 119-120

A. Lamfalussy

The Great Hunger. By Cecil Woodham-Smith. New York and Evanston: Harper and Row, 1962. Pp. 510 pp. 120-121

E. A. J. Johnson