The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 75, issue 4, 2015

The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants pp. 947-992

William Collins and Marianne Wanamaker

What Do We Really Know about Protection before the Great Depression: Evidence from Italy pp. 993-1029

Giovanni Federico and Michelangelo Vasta

Government versus Bankers: Sovereign Debt Negotiations in Porfirian Mexico, 1888–1910 pp. 1030-1057

Leonardo Weller

Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) pp. 1058-1096

Guido Alfani

The Determinants of Plant Survival in the U.S. Radio Equipment Industry During the Great Depression pp. 1097-1127

Peter Scott and Nicolas Ziebarth

From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil's Impact on Education in Rural Georgia pp. 1128-1160

Richard B. Baker

Flip the Switch: The Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935–1940 pp. 1161-1195

Carl Kitchens and Price Fishback

Incentives That (Could Have) Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884–1914 pp. 1196-1227

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

Looking Forward: Positive and Normative Views of Economic History's Future pp. 1228-1233

William Collins

Introduction pp. 1228-1228

Anonymous

The 4D Future of Economic History: Digitally-Driven Data Design pp. 1234-1239

Kris James Mitchener

Economics and the Modern Economic Historian pp. 1240-1251

Ran Abramitzky

The Future of Economic History Must Be Interdisciplinary pp. 1251-1257

Naomi Lamoreaux

Was the Classical Gold Standard Credible on the Periphery? Evidence from Currrency Risk - CORRIGENDUM pp. 1262-1262

Anonymous

Monetary Policy and Financial Repression in Britain 1951–59. By William A. Allen. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xii, 287. $115.00, hardcover pp. 1263-1264

Susan Howson

The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England: Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency. By Leslie Rosenthal. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. Pp. i–xiv, 1–253. $135.00, hardcover pp. 1265-1266

Gary D. Libecap

The Euro Crisis and Its Aftermath. By Jean Pisani-Ferry. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 224. £20.49, hardcover. - Economic Policy Coordination in the Euro Area. By Armin Steinbach. New York, NY, and London, U.K.: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 201. $155.00, cloth pp. 1266-1269

Concepción García-Iglesias

The Empire Trap. The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013. By Noel Maurer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 558. $39.50, hardcover pp. 1269-1271

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America. By Christopher Beauchamp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 272. $35.00, cloth pp. 1271-1272

Robert MacDougall

Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America. By Geraldine J. Clifford. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. 496. $44.95, cloth pp. 1272-1274

Kate Rousmaniere

Volume 75, issue 3, 2015

Mutual Assistance between Federal Reserve Banks: 1913–1960 as Prolegomena to the TARGET2 Debate pp. 621-659

Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, Livia Chitu and Gary Richardson

Keeping “the wheel in motion”: Trans-Atlantic Credit Terms, Slave Prices, and the Geography of Slavery in the British Americas, 1755–1807 pp. 660-689

Nicholas Radburn

Financing Long-Distance Trade: The Joint Liability Rule and Bills of Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France pp. 690-719

Veronica Aoki Santarosa

The Price of Legal Institutions: The Beratlı Merchants in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire pp. 720-748

Cihan Artunç

Grain Market Integration in the Baltic Sea Region in the Nineteenth Century pp. 749-790

Fredrik Andersson and Jonas Ljungberg

Landschaften as Credit Purveyors—The Example of East Prussia pp. 791-818

Kirsten Wandschneider

The Evolution of Bank Supervisory Institutions: Evidence from American States pp. 819-859

Kris James Mitchener and Matthew Jaremski

Technical Change, Non-Tariff Barriers, and the Development of the Italian Locomotive Industry, 1850–1913 pp. 860-888

Carlo Ciccarelli and Alessandro Nuvolari

The Rise of Effective States in Europe pp. 901-918

Mark Dincecco

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. By Edward E. Baptist. New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. xxvii, 498. $35.00, cloth pp. 919-931

John E. Murray, Alan Olmstead, Trevon Logan, Jonathan B. Pritchett and Peter Rousseau

The Rise of Market Society in England 1066–1800. By Christine Eisenberg. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2013. Pp. 176. $70.00, hardcover pp. 931-933

Mark Koyama

The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority 1688–1856, By Guy Chet. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 157. $80.00, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 933-936

Christopher Kingston

Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries. By Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, and Paul Warde. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 457. $39.50 pp. 936-937

Karen Clay

Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II. By Charles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 248. $39.95, cloth; $13.99, Kindle Edition pp. 938-939

Hugh Rockoff

Images from the Arsenal of Democracy. By Charles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 296. $39.99, cloth; $13.99, Kindle Edition pp. 938a-939a

Hugh Rockoff

Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877–1929. By Ajay K. Mehrotra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 429. $34.99, paper pp. 939-941

Jessica Hennessey

The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt. By Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. 446. $65.00, hardcover pp. 941-944

Roxani Eleni Margariti

The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 439. $90.00, cloth; $32.99, paper pp. 944-946

Zephyr Frank

Volume 75, issue 2, 2015

What Do States Do? Politics and Economic History pp. 303-332

Philip T. Hoffman

The Organization of Enterprise in Japan pp. 333-363

Tom Nicholas

Spinning Tales about Japanese Cotton Spinning: Saxonhouse (1974) and Lessons from New Data pp. 364-404

Serguey Braguinsky and David A. Hounshell

The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850 pp. 405-447

Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf

Income Effects on Health: Evidence from Union Army Pensions pp. 448-478

Shari Eli

Was the Classical Gold Standard Credible on the Periphery? Evidence from Currency Risk pp. 479-511

Kris James Mitchener and Marc D. Weidenmier

The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Estimating Available Calories from the Budgets of Late Nineteenth-Century British Households pp. 512-525

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell and Mintewab Bezabih

The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Reply pp. 526-530

Trevon Logan

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 531-562

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting pp. 563-578

Anonymous

The History Manifesto. By Jo Guldi and David Armitage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 165. $45.00, hardcover; $19.99, paper pp. 584-587

Mark Koyama

The Power of Market Fundamentalism. Karl Polanyi's Critique. By Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $49.95, hardcover pp. 587-588

George W. Grantham

Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution. By Emma Griffin. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 320. S35.00, hardcover pp. 589-590

Joyce Burnette

War, Agriculture, and Food. Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. Edited by Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, and Leen Van Molle. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xvii, 268, hardcover pp. 590-592

Ingrid Henriksen

American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the 20th Century. By Volker R. Berghahn. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 375. $49.50, cloth pp. 592-594

Richard Tilly

Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. By Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. 328. $35.00, hardcover pp. 594-595

Ricardo Hernández Garcia

Contraband. Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. By Michael Kwass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 472. $49.95, hardcover pp. 595-597

T.J.A. Le Goff

The History of Bankruptcy: Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Thomas Max Safley. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. 257. $92.05, hardcover pp. 597-599

Bruce G. Carruthers

American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression. By Mark Hendrickson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 306. $99.00, cloth pp. 599-601

Debbie A. Evercloud

Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War. By C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. xv, 228. $27.95, paper pp. 601-602

Matthew Gregg

Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley 1915–1960. By Matthew L. Downs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Pp. 331. $47.50, cloth pp. 603-604

Carl Kitchens

Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920. By David Huyssen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 378. $39.95, cloth pp. 604-606

Sukkoo Kim

Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains. By David B. Danbom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $44.95, hardcover; $19.95 paper pp. 606-608

Mary Eschelbach Hansen

The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It. By Barbara L. Floyd. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. 272. $50.00, hardcover pp. 608-609

Timothy Messer-Kruse

The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt. By Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 446. $65.00, cloth pp. 610-611

Gladys Frantz-Murphy

Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585–1800. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) By George Bryan Souza. Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 346, $165.00, hardcover pp. 612-613

Jessica Hanser

Reimagining Business History. By Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 260. $50.00, hardcover; $24.95, paper pp. 613-615

Steven W. Usselman

Global Markets Transformed: 1870–1945. By Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. v, 330. $19.95, paper pp. 615-617

Gisela Rua

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. By Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011. Pp. 320. $37.00, hardcover; $24.00, paper; 17.00, ebook pp. 617-619

Ann Harrison

Reforming Ottoman Governance: Success, Failure and the Path to Decline. By Fuat Andic and Suphan Andic. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014. Pp. xiv. 171. Hardcover pp. 619-620

Cihan Artunç

Volume 75, issue 1, 2015

How Did Britain Democratize? Views from the Sovereign Bond Market pp. 1-29

Aditya Dasgupta and Daniel Ziblatt

Childhood Health and Human Capital: New Evidence from Genetic Brothers in Arms pp. 30-64

John Parman

The Reluctant Transformation: State Industrialization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Egypt pp. 65-94

Mohamed Saleh

Transport Costs and Trade Volumes: Evidence from the Trans-Atlantic Iron Trade, 1870–1913 pp. 95-124

Kris Inwood and Ian Keay

The Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the Great Depression pp. 125-162

Price Fishback and Valentina Kachanovskaya

Love in the Time of the Depression: The Effect of Economic Conditions on Marriage in the Great Depression pp. 163-189

Matthew J. Hill

Marketing Sovereign Promises: The English Model pp. 190-218

Gary W. Cox

Moving Matters: The Effect of Location on Crop Production pp. 219-249

Jason Beddow and Philip Pardey

Review Essay: Recent Textbooks for European and World Economic History pp. 259-266

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman. By Jeremy Adelman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. 760. $39.95, hardcover pp. 267-268

Lawrence White

Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West.. Edited by Maarten Prak and Jean Luiten van Zenden. Leiden: Brill. 2013. Pp. xi, 353. $154.00, hardcover pp. 268-270

Cihan Artunç

The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict and Ecology. By Derek Wall. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2014. Pp. xv, 165. $26.00, hardcover pp. 270-272

José Antonio Espín Sánchez

L'enquête TRA, histoire d'un outil, outil pour l'histoire. Tome 1: 1793–1902.. By Jérôme Bourdieu, Lionel Kesztenbaum and Gilles Postel-Vinay. Paris: INED [Institut national d’études démographiques] Editions. 2013. Pp. 216. $29.72, paperback pp. 272-274

Ruth Dupré

An Economic History of Modern Sweden. By Lennart Schön. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2012. Pp. xvi, 371. $111.60, hardcover pp. 274-276

Daniel Waldenström

Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France. By Clare Haru Crowston. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 2013. Pp. xx, 424. $99.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 276-277

Thomas M. Luckett

The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598.. By Michael J. Crawford. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. 2014. Pp. 256. $64.95, hardcover pp. 278-279

Sarah Ifft Decker

The Contractor State and its Implications, 1659–1815.. Edited by Richard Harding and Sergio Solbes Ferri. Gran Canaria: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 2012. Pp 334. €19.47 paper pp. 279-281

David Parrott

Bread Upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811.. By Robert E. Jones. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 298. $45.00, hardcover pp. 281-282

Steven Nafziger

Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis. By Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 525. $50.00, hardcover; $35.00 ebook pp. 283-285

Joshua R. Hendrickson

Corporation Nation. By Robert E. Wright. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2014. Pp. 328. $69.95, hardcover pp. 285-286

Harwell Wells

Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010.. By John Laslett. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2012. Pp. 460. $39.95 cloth; $29.95 paper pp. 287-288

Arthur C. Verge

Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution. By Anthony J. Connors. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 282. $75.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 288-290

David R. Meyer

Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South. By Kathleen M. Hilliard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 217. $27.99, paper pp. 290-291

Jonathan B. Pritchett

Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply. By David Soll. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 275. $29.95, hardcover pp. 292-293

Werner Troesken

Walter Lippmann: Public Economist. By Craufurd D. Goodwin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2014. Pp. viii, 414. $35.00, cloth pp. 294-295

Lee Craig

Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War.. By Larry Haeg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 375. $29.95, cloth pp. 295-297

Carola Frydman

Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia. By Jessica Choppin Roney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 252. $59.95, cloth; $59.95, ebook pp. 297-299

Robert E. Wright

Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century. By Ian Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 229. $29.99, paperback pp. 299-300

Anand V. Swamy

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. By Gregory Clark. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 364. $29.95, hardcover pp. 301-302

Richard Breen