The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 13, issue 4, 1953

Economic and Political Conditions of World Stability pp. 363-377

Quincy Wright

Communications and Trade: The Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century pp. 378-387

Bernard Bailyn

Short-Term Economic Fluctuations and the Swedish Timber Industry, 1850–1900* pp. 388-397

E. F. Söderlund

Land Tenure and Related Sectors of the Balkan Economy, 1600–1800* pp. 398-411

Traian Stoianovich

Economic Factors in the Decline of the Byzantine Empire pp. 412-424

Peter Charanis

The High Cost and the Gamble of the Witte System: A Chapter in the Industrialization of Russia* pp. 425-448

Theodore H. Von Laue

The Social and Psychological Setting of Veblen's Economic Theory* pp. 449-461

David Riesman

The Background of Fabian Theory pp. 462-471

Jesse D. Clarkson

Volume 13, issue 3, 1953

Agenda for the Study of British Imperial Economy, 1850-1950* pp. 257-273

W. K. Hancock

Agricultural Conditions in the Northern Colonies Before the Revolution pp. 274-290

William S. Sachs

Business Attitudes Toward European Immigration, 1880-1900 pp. 291-304

Morrell Heald

Langdon Cheves and Nicholas Biddle: New Data for a New Interpretation* pp. 305-319

David McCord Wright

International Trade and Policy - A Short History of the International Economy, 1850–1950. By William Ashworth. London and New York: Longmans, Green and Company, Inc., 1952. Pp. 256. $3.25 pp. 320-321

Abbott Payson Usher

British Overseas Trade from lyoo to the 1930's. By Werner Schlote. Translated by W. O. Henderson and W. H. Chaloner. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952. Pp. xvi, 181. 22s. 6d pp. 321-323

Albert H. Imlah

United States Economic Policy and International Relations. By Raymond F. Mikesell. [Economics Handbook Series, edited by Seymour E. Harris.] New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1952. Pp. xii, 341. $4.75 pp. 323-324

Jeannette P. Nichols

The Pacific Coast Maritime Shipping Industry, 1930–1948, Volume I: An Economic Profile. By Wytze Gorter and George H. Hildebrand. [A Joint Publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Southern Section, and the Institute of Industrial Relations, Southern Division, University of California.] Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952. Pp. xiii, 118. $2.50 pp. 324-325

John G. B. Hutchins

Government in Economic Life - The Trend of Government Activity in the United States Since 1900. By Solomon Fabricant, assisted by Robert E. Lipsey. [Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Number 56.] New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1952. Pp. xix, 267. $4.00 pp. 325-326

Harvey H. Segal

The Soar: Battleground and Pawn. By Frank M. Russell. [Stanford Books in World Politics.] Stanford: Stanford University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege—Oxford University Press. 1951. Pp. xi, 204. $5.00 pp. 326-328

Michael T. Florinsky

German Agrarian Politics After Bismarck's Fall: The Formation of the Farmers' League. By Sarah Rebecca Tirrell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Pp. 354. $4.50 pp. 328-329

Chester V. Easum

Agricultural Policy of the United States. By Harold G. Halcrow. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1953. Pp. xiv, 458. $5.50 pp. 329-330

Earle D. Ross

Ersatz in the Confederacy. By Mary Elizabeth Massey. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 233. $5.00 pp. 330-331

Fred A. Shannon

Economic Thought - Socialism and American Life. Edited by Donald Drew Egbert and Stow Persons. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. Vol. I, pp. xiv, 776; Vol. II, pp. xiv, 575. $10.00 each, or $17.50 together pp. 331-333

Joseph Dorfman

Thorstein Bunde Veblen, 1857–1929. Darstellung und Deutung amerikanischen institutionellen Denizens aus seinem Werk heraus. By Carl Eugster. [Published as Vol. VIII of Wirtschajt, Geselhchajt, Staat; Ziircher Studien zur Allgemei-nen Geschichte.] Zürich: Europa Verlag, 1952. Pp. 116 pp. 333-334

Fritz Redlich

This Unsuccessful Age or The Pains of Economic Progress. By Walter Eucken, with an Introduction by John Jewkes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1952. Pp. 96. $2.00 pp. 334-335

Norman S. Buchanan

Schumpeter, Social Scientist. Edited by Seymour E. Harris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. x, 142. $4.00 pp. 336-337

Dudley Dillard

Industry - Winchester: The Gun that Won the West. By Harold F. Williamson. Washington, D.C.: Combat Forces Press, 1952. Pp. xvi, 494. $10.00 pp. 337-339

Herbert Heaton

Dynasty of Iron Founders: The Darbys and Coalbrookdale. By Arthur Raistrick. London and New York: Longmans, Green and Company, Inc., 1953. Pp. xvi, 308. 30s. $8.50 pp. 339-340

Arthur C. Bining

La draperie médiévale en Flandre et en Artois, technique et terminologie (avec des compléments par M. Dubois et une introduction par H. van Werveke). By G. De Poerck. [Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Nos. 110–112.] Bruges: De Tempel, 1951. 3 vols.; pp. 342; xiii, 254; 194 - Recueil de documents relatifs à l'histoire de l'industrie drapière en Flandre; deuxième partie: le Sud-Ouest de la Flandre depuis l'époque bourguignonne. Edited by Henri-E. de Sagher. [Publication de la Commission Royale d'Histoire de l'Académie royale de Belgique.] Brussels: Palais des Academies, 1951. Vol. I, pp. xxvii, 653 pp. 340-343

Florence Elder de Roover

General Economic History - Histoire économique et sociale de la Russie du moyen âge au XXe Siècle. By Bertrand Gille. Paris: Payot, 1949. 236 pp. Fr. 480 pp. 344-347

Alexander Gerschenkron

20 Giants of American Business: Biographical Sketches in Economic History. By Walter Wilson Jennings. New York: Exposition Press, Inc., 1953. Pp. 480. $5.00 pp. 344-344

Thomas C. Cochran

The American Way: The Economic Basis of Our Civilization. By Shepard B. Clough. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. Pp. viii, 246. $4.00 pp. 348-348

Edward C. Kirkland

Economic History of Europe. By Shepard B. Clough and Charles Woolsey Cole. 3d ed.; Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1952. Pp. xx, 917. $5.75 pp. 348-351

Forest G. Hill

Prelude to History: A Study of Human Origins and Paleolithic Savagery. By Adrian Coates. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952. Pp. xvii, 289. $475 - Prehistoric Europe: The Economic Basis. By J. G. D. Clark. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952. Pp. xvii, 349. $12.00 pp. 351-353

Daniel R. Fusfeld

Volume 13, issue 2, 1953

The Land-Bank System in the American Colonies pp. 145-159

Theodore Thayer

Labor Policies of the General Managers' Association of Chicago, 1886–1894 pp. 160-178

Donald L. McMurry

Industrial Emigration in Early Victorian Britain pp. 179-192

Wilbur S. Shepperson

Three Works on Imperialism pp. 193-201

Paul M. Sweezy

Conditions of Economic Growth - The Process of Economic Growth. By W. W. Rostow. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1952. Pp. x, 285. $4.50 pp. 202-204

Bert F. Hoselitz

The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. General editors, M. M. Postan and H. J. Habakkuk. Volume II, Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages. M. M. Postan and E. E. Rich, eds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1952. Pp. xvi, 604. £2 6s. 9d pp. 204-206

Louise R. Buenger and Robert L. Reynolds

Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon. By H. P. R. Finberg. [Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, edited by M. D. Knowles. New Series, Vol. 2.] Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Pp. xi, 320 pp. 206-208

W. E. Lunt

De Opkomst van de Zaanstreek: De Ontwikkeling van Holland benoorden het Ij als Factor in de Wordinggeschiedenis van de Zaandorpen. By M. A. Verkade. Utrecht: Boekhandel H. de Vroede. [1952.] Pp. 264. Fl. 6.90 pp. 208-209

Violet Barbour

The Growth of the American Economy. Second edition. Edited by Harold F. Williamson. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1951. Pp. xiv, 946. $6.00. - Economic Development of the United States. By John R. Craf. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1952. Pp. xi, 598. $5.00. - Economic Forces in American History. By George Soule. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1952. Pp. viii, 568. $4.75 pp. 209-212

Herbert Heaton

Economic Thought - The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy. By Lionel Robbins. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1952. Pp. xii, 217. $3.00 pp. 212-214

W. W. Rostow

Welfare Economics in English Utopias: From Francis Bacon to Adam Smith. By J. K. Fuz. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1952. Pp. 113. 7 guilders. - The Development of Economic Thought: Great Economists in Perspective. Edited by Henry William Spiegel. New York: John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1952. Pp. xii, 811. $6.50. - New Fabian Essays. Edited by R. H. S. Crossman. Preface by the Rt. Hon. C. R. Attlee. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1952. Pp. xv, 215. $4.00 pp. 214-216

Willson H. Coates

More's Utopia: The Biography of an Idea. By J. H. Hexter. [The History of Ideas Series.] Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 171. $3.00 pp. 217-218

Willson H. Coates

Johann Joachim Becher, 1635–1682. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Merkantilismus. By Herbert Hassinger. [Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Neuere Geschichte Österreichs No. 38.] Wien: Verlag Adolf Holzhausens Nfg., 1951. Pp. viii, 272. ös 72 pp. 218-219

Fritz Redlich

Economic Anthropology. By Melville Herskovits. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1952. Pp. xiii, 547. $5.75 pp. 219-221

Daniel R. Fusfeld

Commerce - Il Regno di Napoli al tempo di Carlo V: amministrazione c vita economicosociale. By Giuseppe Coniglio. Naples: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1951. Pp. vii, 290. L.1500 pp. 221-222

Frederic C. Lane

De Nederlandse Doorvoerpolitiek en de Vrije Vaart op de Internationale Rijn: een Schets van het Ontstaan van de Vrije Doorvoer door Nederland. By J. Ratté. Rotterdam: Uitgeversmaatschappij Ad. Donker N.V., 1952. Pp. 212 pp. 222-223

Violet Barbour

Pittsburgh's Commercial Development, 1800–1850. By Catherine Elizabeth Reiser. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1951. Pp. 247 pp. 223-224

Myron H. Luke

The Railroads of the Confederacy. By Robert C. BlackIII. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1952. Pp. xvi, 360. $6.00. - The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861–1865. By Thomas Weber. New York: King's Crown Press, 1952. Pp. xiv, 318. $4.00 pp. 224-227

Richard C. Overton

The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier. By V. V. Masterson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. Pp. xvi, 312. $4.00 pp. 227-230

Richard C. Overton

Industry - Flour for Man's Bread: A History of Milling. By John Storck and Walter Dorwin Teague. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1952. Pp. xiii, 382. $7.50 pp. 230-231

Clare Leslie Marquette

Papermaking in Pioneer America. By Dard Hunter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952. Pp. 178. Illustrated. $6.50 pp. 231-232

Carl Bridenbaugh

Imprese Lombarde nella Storia della Siderurgia Italiana. II Contributo dei Falck. By Armando Frumento. Milan: La Societa Acciaierie e Ferriere Lombarde Falck, 1952. Pp. xxi, 274. - Die Italienische Südfrage. Entstehung und Problematik eines wirtschaftlichen Notstandsgebietes. By Friedrich Vochting. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1951. Pp. 680 pp. 232-233

Shepard B. Clough

Wealth, Money, and Credit - Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500–200 B.C. The Horos Inscriptions. By M. I. Finley. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 332. $3.50 pp. 233-235

Karl Polanyi

Studies in Roman Economic and Social History in Honor of Allan Chester Johnson. Edited by P. R. Coleman-Norton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. Pp. xiii, 373. $5.00 pp. 235-236

Richard M. Haywood

The French Franc between the Wars, 1919–1939. By Martin Wolfe. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, No. 569] New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Pp. 229. $3.25. - La Banque au service des échanges: Essai de révision de nos systèmes monétaires. By Roger Alheinc. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1946. Pp. 526. Fr. 400 pp. 236-238

Eugene O. Golob

Commercial Bank Activities in Urban Mortgage Financing. By Carl F. Behrens. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1952. Pp. xix, 131. $2.50. - History and Policies of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. By C. Lowell Harriss. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1951. Pp. xix, 204. $3.00 pp. 238-240

Irving H. Siegel

Bibliography on Income and Wealth, 1937–47. Edited by Daniel Creamer. [Volume I, Annotated International Bibliographies on Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.] Cambridge, England: Bowes and Bowes, Ltd., 1952. Pp. 184. 63s pp. 240-241

Irving H. Siegel

Migration and Labor - The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People. By Oscar Handlin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. Pp. 310. $4.00. - Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America. By Carl Wittke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952. Pp. ix, 384. $6.00 pp. 241-244

Vera Shlakman

Comparative Labor Movements. Edited by Walter Galenson. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1952. Pp. xiv, 579. $6.50. - Labor in the Soviet Union. By Solomon M. Schwarz. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1952. Pp. xviii, 359. $6.00 pp. 245-246

Lois MacDonald

The Labor Force in War and Transition: Four Countries. By Clarence D. Long. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1952. Pp. 62. $1.00 pp. 247-247

Joel Colton

The Exploitation of Land in Central Mexico in the Sixteenth Century. By Lesley Byrd Simpson. [Ibero-Americana:36.] Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952. Pp. vii, 92. $1.50 pp. 247-248

Clement G. Motten

Volume 13, issue 1, 1953

Harold Adams Innis 1894–1952 pp. 1-1

Edward C. Kirkland

Baltimore's Aid to Railroads: A Study in the Municipal Planning of Internal Improvements pp. 2-35

Carter Goodrich and Harvey H. Segal

Yates and McIntyre: Lottery Managers* pp. 36-57

Hugh G. J. Aitken

American Business and the Approach of War 1935–1941 pp. 58-78

Roland N. Stromberg

Committee on Research in Economic History pp. 79-87

Arthur H. Cole

Communication and Human Welfare pp. 87-89

John U. Nef

Is Monopoly Increasing? pp. 89-94

Solomon Fabricant

Ricardo in Retrospect pp. 94-101

Dudley Dillard

Economic Thought - A Scholar in Action: Edwin F. Gay. By Herbert Heaton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp. vii, 260. $4.25 pp. 102-103

Chester W. Wright

Joseph B. Eastman: Servant of the People. By Claude M. Fuess. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Pp. xv, 363. $5.00 pp. 104-105

W. N. Leonard

Henry Charles Carey: Nineteenth-Century Sociologist. By Arnold W. Green. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951. Pp. 218. $4.00. - Henry C. Carey and American Sectional Conflict. By George Winston Smith. [University of New Mexico Publications in History, Number 3.] Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1951. Pp. 127. $1.50 pp. 105-106

Dudley Dillard

Marx: His Time and Ours. By Rudolf Schlesinger. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1950. Pp. viii, 440. $4.50 pp. 106-108

Solomon F. Bloom

The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544–1605. By Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 134. $2.50 pp. 108-108

Robert S. Smith

The Role of the Economic Historian - The Rise and Fall of Civilization: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Economic Development and Civilization. By Shepard B. Clough. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951. Pp. xv, 291. $4.50 pp. 109-110

Karl W. Deutsch

The Economy of Turkey: An Analysis and Recommendations for a Development Program. Pp. xxv, 276. $5.00. The Economic Development of Guatemala. Pp. xviii, 305. $5.00. Report on Cuba. Pp. xxiv, 1049. $7.50. Washington: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1951. - Public Finance in a Developing Country: El Salvador—A Case Study. By Henry C. Wallich and John H. Adler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. xviii, 346. $6.00 pp. 111-113

Sanford A. Mosk

American Regional Studies - Interregional Competition in Agriculture with Special Reference to Dairy Farming in the Lake States and New England. By Ronald L. Mighell and John D. Black. [Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LXXXIX.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. xvii, 320. $5.00 pp. 114-115

Earle D. Ross

Michigan Copper and Boston Dollars: An Economic History of the Michigan Copper Mining Industry. By William B. Gates Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. x, 301. $5.00 pp. 115-116

Theodore F. Marburg

The Illinois Military Tract: A Study of Land Occupation, Utilization and Tenure. By Theodore L. Carlson. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1951. Pp. vii, 218. $2.50 paper, $3.50 cloth pp. 116-117

Irene D. Neu

An Agricultural History of the Genesee Valley, 1790–1860. By Neil Adams McNall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 276. $5.00 pp. 117-118

John D. Black

Empire in Pine: The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830–1900. By Robert F. Fries. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1951. Pp. viii, 285. Illustrations. $4.00 pp. 118-119

William G. Rector

Colonial New England - The Browns of Providence Plantations. By James B. Hedges. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp. xviii, 379. $6.00 pp. 119-121

Louis C. Hunter

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial Connecticut. By Anthony N. B. Garvan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. Pp. xiv, 166. $7.50 pp. 121-122

Oscar Handlin

History of the Soviet Area - Revolution in Eastern Europe. By Doreen Warriner. London: Turnstile Press, 1950. Pp. xv, 188. 12s. 6d pp. 122-124

Paul A. Baran

Rumania: Political Problems of an Agrarian State. By Henry L. Roberts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. Pp. xiv, 414. $6.00 pp. 124-125

C. E. Black

The Soviet Sugar Industry and Its Postwar Restoration. By Vladimir P. Timoshenko. [Food Research Institute War-Peace Pamphlet No. 13.] Stanford: Stanford University, 1951. Pp. vii, 53.50 cents pp. 126-126

Irving H. Siegel

The Religion of China. By Max Weber. Translated by Hans H. Gerth. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1951. Pp. xi, 308. $4.50 pp. 127-128

Joseph R. Levenson

Labor - AFL Attitudes Toward Production, 1900–1932. By Jean Trepp McKelvey. [Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations, Volume II.] Ithaca: Cornell University, 1952. Pp. ix, 148. $1.00 pp. 128-130

Dorothea de Schweinitz

Compulsory Labor Arbitration in France, 1936–1939. By Joel Colton. New York: Kings Crown Press, Columbia University, 1951. Pp. xvi, 220. $3.25 pp. 130-131

Val R. Lorwin

Ernest Jones: Chartist—Selections from the Writings and Speeches of Ernest Jones with Introduction and Notes. By John Savillc. London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., 1952. Pp. 284. 25s pp. 131-132

Willson H. Coates

Manpower Resources and Utilization: Principles of Working Force Analysis. By A. J. Jaffe and Charles D. Stewart. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1951. Pp. xii, 532. $6.50 pp. 132-133

Ann Ratner Miller