The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 76, issue 4, 2016

The Lasting Impact of Grandfathers: Class, Occupational Status, and Earnings over Three Generations in Sweden 1815–2011 pp. 969-1000

Martin Dribe and Jonas Helgertz

The Home Front: Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership pp. 1001-1043

Daniel Fetter

How Fiscal Policy Affects Prices: Britain's First Experience with Paper Money pp. 1044-1077

Pamfili Antipa

Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State: Confederate Pensions in the American South pp. 1078-1112

Shari Eli and Laura Salisbury

How Technologically Progressive Was Germany in the Interwar Period? Evidence on Total Factor Productivity in Coal Mining pp. 1113-1151

Tobias A. Jopp

Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the United States 1870 to 1970 pp. 1152-1181

Mike Matheis

Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times pp. 1182-1215

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Jan Luiten van Zanden

The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620–1730. By Jonathan Healey. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. Pp. 335. $29.95, paper pp. 1237-1238

Susannah Ottaway

Bordeaux et les Etats-Unis 1776–1815 Politique et stratégies négociantes dans la genèse d'un réseau commercial. By Silvia Marzagalli. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2015. Pp. 11, 559, $60.78 paperback; $48.62 pdf pp. 1238-1240

Anne Ruderman

The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection. By Werner Troesken. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 237. $40.00, cloth pp. 1240-1242

W Hanlon

Auburn, New York: The Entrepreneurs' Frontier. By Scott W. Anderson Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 292, $39.95, cloth pp. 1242-1243

Donald Parkerson

Heading South to Teach: The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815–1845. By Kim Tolley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. x, 265. $29.95, paper pp. 1244-1245

John L. Rury

True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity. By Dane A. Morrison Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii, 257. $34.95, cloth pp. 1245-1247

Diana L. Ahmad

Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port. By Michael D. Thompson Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. x, 284. $44.95, cloth pp. 1247-1248

Timothy Lockley

Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. By Mark Kanazawa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 351. $55.00, cloth pp. 1248-1250

Steven P. Erie

A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American States, 1783–1867. By Max M. Edling Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 318. $45.00, cloth pp. 1250-1252

Farley Grubb

Little Business on the Prairie: Entrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Challenge in South Dakota. By Robert E. Wright Sioux Falls: Center for Western Studies, 2015. Pp. viii, 340. $16.95, paper pp. 1252-1254

Steven J. Bucklin

Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic. By Brian Phillips Murphy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 287. $49.95, cloth pp. 1254-1256

Howard Bodenhorn

CRASH!: How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked. By Phillip G. Payne Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,2015. Pp. vii, 142. $19.95, paper pp. 1256-1257

Jason E. Taylor

The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats. By Eva Bertram. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. x, 326. $75.00, cloth pp. 1257-1259

Todd Neumann

The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Howard Bodenhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 320. $39.95, cloth pp. 1259-1261

Gavin Wright

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. By Talitha L. LeFlouria ChapelHill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 257. $39.95, cloth pp. 1261-1263

Karin A. Shapiro

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. By Margaret Ellen Newell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. Pp. Xi, 316. $45.00, cloth pp. 1263-1265

Lorena S. Walsh

The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America. By James L. Huston Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Pp. Xvii, 345. $35.00, cloth pp. 1265-1266

Lee Craig

Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965–1995. By Morten Jerven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. vi, 215. $90.00 pp. 1267-1269

James Fenske

Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil. By William R. Summerhill Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 342. $85.00, cloth pp. 1269-1271

Gail D. Triner

Education Matters. Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century. By Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 289. $34.95, hardcover pp. 1271-1273

David Mitch

The Idea of History in Constructing Economics. By Michael H. Turk London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. viii, 242. $160.00, cloth pp. 1273-1274

Alexander Field

The Economy of the Word: Language, History, and Economics. By Keith Tribe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 352. $74.00, hardcover pp. 1275-1276

George Grantham

Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences for Human Welfare. By Carles Boix. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 311. $22.99, paper pp. 1276-1278

John Nye

Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History. Edited by Marc Badia-Miro, Vicente Pinilla, and Henry Willebald. London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xix, 374. $160.00, cloth pp. 1278-1279

Mark Kanazawa

Technology Shocks and the Great Depression — ERRATUM pp. 1280-1280

Anonymous

Volume 76, issue 3, 2016

Hidden in Plain Sight: Stillbirths and Infanticides in Imperial Japan pp. 651-696

Fabian F. Drixler

Public Mass Modern Education, Religion, and Human Capital in Twentieth-Century Egypt pp. 697-735

Mohamed Saleh

Human Capital and Knowledge-Intensive Industries Location: Evidence from Soviet Legacy in Russia pp. 736-768

Denis Ivanov

Delivering the Vote: The Political Effect of Free Mail Delivery in Early Twentieth Century America pp. 769-802

Elisabeth Perlman and Steven Sprick Schuster

People, Plagues, and Prices in the Roman World: The Evidence from Egypt pp. 803-839

Kyle Harper

Slack and Slacker: Job Seekers, Job Vacancies, and Matching Functions in the U.S. Labor Market during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Contraction, 1924–1932 pp. 840-873

Woong Lee

The Yankees of Europe? A New View on Technology and Productivity in German Manufacturing in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 874-908

Marcel Timmer, Joost Veenstra and Pieter Woltjer

Technology Shocks and the Great Depression pp. 909-933

Shingo Watanabe

A Note on Technology Shocks and the Great Depression pp. 934-936

Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Reitze Gouma

The New Economic History and Beyond: The Scholarship of Douglass C. North pp. 937-947

John Joseph Wallis

King William's Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble Its Past. By Moshe A. Milevsky. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 257. $49.99, hardcover; $40.00, digital pp. 948-951

Richard Sutch

Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France: The Bordeaux Leather Trades, 1740–1815. By Daniel Heimmerman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xiii, 298. $44.01, paper pp. 951-953

Clare Crowston

War, Peace & Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution. By Iyigun Murat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xix, 195. pp. $55, hardcover pp. 953-954

Jared Rubin

The Dilemma of the Commoners: Understanding the Use of Common-Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective. By Tine De Moor. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. ix–xv, 1–204. $95.63, hardcover pp. 955-958

Gary D. Libecap

The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951–1989. By David G. Surdam. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. x, 318. $65.00, cloth pp. 958-959

John Bradbury

Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age. By Benjamin F. Alexander. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 159. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 960-961

Ranjit S. Dighe

After Oriental Despotism: Eurasian Growth in a Global Perspective. By Alessandro Stanziani. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Pp. viii, 183, $34.95, paperback pp. 961-963

Amanda Gregg

Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. By Edward Beatty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Pp. x, 342. $70.00, cloth; $34.95, paper pp. 963-966

Carlos Marichal

Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth. By James Forder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 306. $90.00, cloth pp. 966-968

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

Volume 76, issue 2, 2016

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality pp. 301-341

Robert Margo

If You're So Smart: John Maynard Keynes and Currency Speculation in the Interwar Years pp. 342-386

Olivier Accominotti and David Chambers

Immigration and the Canadian Earnings Distribution in the First Half of the Twentieth Century pp. 387-426

Alan Green and David Green

What Was Bad for General Motors Was Bad for America: The Automobile Industry and the 1937/38 Recession pp. 427-477

Joshua K. Hausman

What Caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A Look at the 1920s pp. 478-519

Natacha Postel-Vinay

Globalization in the Early Modern Era: New Evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic Trade, c. 1600–1800 pp. 520-558

Pim de Zwart

Gender Discrimination in Property Rights: Six Centuries of Commons Governance in the Alps pp. 559-594

Marco Casari and Maurizio Lisciandra

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 595-626

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting pp. 627-646

Anonymous

Volume 76, issue 1, 2016

Corporate Ownership, Control, and Firm Performance in Victorian Britain pp. 1-40

Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell, John Turner and Nadia Vanteeva

Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation pp. 41-75

Brian Beach, Joseph Ferrie, Martin Saavedra and Werner Troesken

Clans and Ploughs: Traditional Institutions and Production Decisions of Kazakhs under Russian Colonial Settlement pp. 76-108

Catherine Guirkinger and Gani Aldashev

Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves pp. 109-138

Richard H. Steckel and Nicolas Ziebarth

A Peculiar Sample: A Reply to Steckel and Ziebarth pp. 139-162

Jonathan Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger

Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Family Firms in Nineteenth-Century France pp. 163-195

B. Zorina Khan

The European Marriage Pattern and Its Measurement pp. 196-204

Sarah G. Carmichael, Alexandra de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Tine De Moor

Institutions, Demography, and Economic Growth pp. 205-217

Tracy K. Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. By Jürgen Osterhammel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. (First published as Die Verwandlung der Welt, 2009.) Pp. 1167. $39.95, hardcover pp. 226-229

Jan de Vries

The Moral Economy. Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early-Modern Europe. By Laurence Fontaine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 320. $90.10, hardcover pp. 230-231

Jon Stobart

Opium and Empire. By Richard J. Grace. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. Pp. xxiii, 453. $34.95, cloth pp. 231-232

Stacie Kent

The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866. By Yair Mintzker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 302. £64.99, hardback; £22.99, paper pp. 233-234

Jakob Schneebacher

Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850 Narratives of Consumption. By Ian Mitchell. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. Xv, 223. $124.95 pp. 234-235

Anne Ruderman

British Economic Growth: 1270–1870. By Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 461. $39.99, paper pp. 236-238

Alexander Field

British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851–1965: A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines. By Robert E. Forrester. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Pp. 268. $134.96, hardcover pp. 238-239

Florian Ploeckl

Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East Company, 1600–1757. By Emily Erikson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 252. $39.95, hardcover pp. 239-241

Dan Bogart

The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain, and Their Colonies. By Jerry F. Hough and Robin Grier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. x, 448. $110.00, cloth; $39.99, paper pp. 241-242

Stanley L. Engerman

Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 393. $70.00, hardcover pp. 242-244

Alan Dye

Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. By Rebecca L. Spang. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 350 pp. $39.95, hardcover pp. 244-246

Eugene N. White

Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s. By John Woodland. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. Pp. xiii, 282. $102.17, hardcover pp. 246-247

Glenda Oskar

For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars. By Jennifer Siegel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 306. $45.00, hardcover pp. 247-249

Amanda Gregg

Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's Franc. By Guy Rowlands. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiv + 265 pp. $115, hardcover pp. 249-251

Eugene N. White

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. By Zachary M. Schrag. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint 2014. Pp. xiii, 355. $29.95, paper pp. 251-252

Jason Barr

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. By Shepherd W. McKinley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Pp. xii, 230. $69.95, cloth pp. 253-254

Ian Beamish

Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. By Douglas McCalla. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 296. $100.00, cloth; $34.95, paper pp. 254-256

Livio Di Matteo

The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. By Leon Fink. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 206. $45.00, cloth pp. 256-258

Thomas K. Duncan

The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest. By Bethel Saler. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 382. $45.00, cloth pp. 258-259

Nicole Etcheson

The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. By Scott P. Marler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 317. $95.00, hardcover; $32.99, paper pp. 259-261

Eberhard L. Faber

Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 By William Patrick O'Brien. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 211. $34.95, paper; $27.99, eBook pp. 261-263

Rebekah M.K. Mergenthal

The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America. By Tony Allen Freyer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Pp. xii, 204. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 263-265

Jenny Bourne

The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany. By Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 291. $110.00, hardcover pp. 265-266

Kenneth Mouré

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. By Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden and Price Fishback, editors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 397. $110.00, cloth pp. 266-268

Andrew J. Jalil

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet. By Amy Bentley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $29.95, paper pp. 268-270

Emily E. Hopkins

Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America. By Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson, editors Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 328. $49.95, cloth pp. 270-271

Paul D. Naish

Current Federal Reserve Policy Under the Lens of Economic History. By Owen F. Humpage editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 386. $110.00, cloth pp. 272-273

Timothy Fuerst

Henry Ford's Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. By Heather B. Barrow. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 216. $38, cloth pp. 274-275

Thomas Maloney

Strained Relations: US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century By Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. x, 442, $97.50, cloth pp. 275-277

Robert L. Hetzel

Investing in Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011. By Simon James Bytheway. Harvard East Asian Monographs 370. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 286. $39.95, cloth pp. 277-279

Tom Nicholas

Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700. By Joseph R. Dennis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. Pp. 406. $49.95, hardcover pp. 279-280

Timothy Brook

States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic. By Yanni Kotsonis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. xix, 483. $80.00, cloth pp. 281-282

Amanda Gregg

The Cambridge Economic History of Australia. By Simon Ville and Glenn Withers, editors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 668. £120.00, hardcover pp. 283-284

Stanley Engerman

The Affluent Society Revisited. By Mike Berry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. vi, 204. $60.00, cloth pp. 285-286

Art Carden

The Cambridge History of Capitalism. By Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, editors. 2 vols. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. Vol. I, xii, 616; Vol. II, Pp. x, 567. $230.00, hardcover pp. 286-290

Peter A. Coclanis

The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration: Power, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850–1930. By Christof Dejung and Niels P. Petersson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $99.99, hardcover; $32.99, paper pp. 291-292

Claire Louise Brennecke

Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. By John L. Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 648. $32.46, paper pp. 292-294

Keith Woodhouse

Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization: An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration. By Paul Caruana Galizia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xv, 197. $105.00, cloth pp. 295-296

Michael Huberman

Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy and Conflicts of Animal Disease Control. By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. x, 455. $49.95, cloth pp. 296-298

Ann Norton Greene

Carriers of Growth?: International Trade and Economic Development in the Austrian Netherlands. By Ann Coenen. The Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Pp. 318. $117.23, hardcover pp. 298-300

Corey Tazzara