The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 12, issue 4, 1952

Prices and Progress* pp. 325-349

Earl J. Hamilton

Medieval Italy1 pp. 350-365

Robert L. Reynolds

European Entrepreneurship* pp. 366-377

Edgar Salin

Electrical Manufacturing Around 1900* pp. 378-395

Harold C. Passer

The Soviet Steel Industry pp. 396-410

M. Gardner Clark

The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) pp. 411-424

Ralph W. Hidy

Economic Implications pp. 425-437

Ben W. Lewis

Bank Administration, 1780–1914 pp. 438-453

Fritz Redlich

The Marketing of Securities, 1930–1952 pp. 454-468

Donald L. Kemmerer

Volume 12, issue 3, 1952

The Inside Contract System1 pp. 205-221

John Buttrick

Adolf Hitler and German Heavy Industry, 1931–1933* pp. 222-246

George W. F. Hallgarten

Some Classical Economists, Laissez Faire, and the Factory Acts pp. 247-262

Lloyd R. Sorenson

The Economic History of the Second World War pp. 263-270

Sidney Ratner

What Generally Happens During Business Cycles—and Why pp. 270-282

Harold M. Somers

Historical Measurement - A Dollar Index of Soviet Machinery Output, 1927–28 to 1937. By Alexander Gerschenkron, assisted by Alexander Erlich. Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1951. Pp. v, 357 pp. 283-285

Irving H. Siegel

Cyclical Movements in the Balance of Payments. By Tse Chun Chang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Pp. x, 224. $3.75 pp. 285-286

W. W. Rostow

Theory and History - The Foundations of Economics—History and Theory in the Analysis of Economic Reality. By Walter Eucken. Translated from the German by T. W. Hutchison. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1951. Pp. 358. $4.75 pp. 286-288

Raymond T. Bye

The Economics of the International Patent System. By Edith Tilton Penrose. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1951. Pp. xv, 247. $4.00 pp. 289-290

Jacob Schmookler

Economic Fluctuations in the United States, 1921–1941. By Lawrence R. Klein. [Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, Monograph No. 11.] New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1950. Pp. xi, 174. $4.00. - Business Cycles in Selected Industrial Areas. By Philip Neff and Annette Weifenbach. [Published for the John Randolph Haynes Foundation.] Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. Pp. xiii, 274. $4.00 pp. 291-292

George Soule

Men in Business - Men in Business: Essays in the History of Entrepreneurship. Edited by William Miller. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp. ix, 350. $5.00 pp. 292-295

Donald L. Kemmerer

Het Handelshuis Van Eeghen. By J. Rogge. Amsterdam: Privately Printed, 1949. Pp. 422 pp. 295-297

Jelle C. Riemersma

The Trowbridge Woollen Industry as Illustrated by the Stock Books of John and Thomas Clark, 1804–1824. Edited by R. P. Beckinsale. London: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1951. Pp. xxxv, 249 pp. 297-297

George Sweet Gibb

The Farr Alpaca Company: a Case Study in Business History. By Frances Cornwall Hutner. [Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XXXVII.] Northampton, Mass.: Smith College, 1951. Pp. v, 107 pp. 297-298

Hugh G. J. Aitken

The Irvine Ranch of Orange County, 1810–1950. By Robert Glass Cleland. San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1952. Pp. 153. $3.50 pp. 298-299

Vincent P. Carosso

Steel Trails to Santa Fe. By L. L. Waters. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas Press, 1950. Pp. 500. $4.00. - Railroads down the Valleys: Some Short Lines of the Oregon Country. By Randall V. Mills. Palo Alto, Calif.: Pacific Books, 1950. Pp. ix, 151. $3.50. - Main Line of Mid-America: The Story of the Illinois Central. By Carlton J. Corliss. New York: Creative Age Press, 1950. Pp. xv, 490. $4.75. - The Lackawanna Story: The First Hundred Years of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. By Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglas. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951. Pp. 223. $4.00 pp. 299-301

Joseph T. Lambie

Government Controls - A Short History of O.P.A. By Harvey C. Mansfield and Associates. [Historical Reports on War Administration: Office of Price Administration.] Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947. Pp. vi, 318. 55 cents pp. 301-302

Edward S. Mason

Commonwealth Bank - The Growth of a Central Bank: The Development of The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1924–1945. By L. F. Giblin. Melbourne: University Press. 1951. Pp. xi, 363. 30s pp. 303-303

Karl R. Bopp

The Closing of the Public Domain: Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900–50. By E. Louise Peffer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1951. Pp. xi, 372. $4.50 pp. 304-305

Bayrd Still

The Danish System of Labor Relations: A Study in Industrial Peace. By Walter Galenson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp. 321. $4.50 pp. 305-306

Joel Colton

Trade Areas and Colonies - Navires et marchandises à l'entrée du port de Livonrne (1547–1611). By Fernand Braudel et Ruggiero Romano. [Ports, routes et trafics, I. Centre de recherches historiques. Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes, vie section.] Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1951. Pp. 122 pp. 306-308

Violet Barbour

De Engelse Natie te Antwerpen in de 16e Eeuw (1496–1582). Vol. I. By Oskar de Smedt. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1950. Pp. viii, 448 pp. 308-309

Violet Barbour

Cinq siècles de circulation Internationale vue de Jougne. Un péage jurassien du xiiie au xviiie siècle. By Vital Chomel and Jean Ebersolt. [Ports, routes et trafics, II. Centre de recherches historiques. Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes.] Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1951. Pp. 216. Fr. 850 pp. 309-310

Robert S. Smith

Deutschland und Übersee: Der Deutsche Handel mit den anderen Kontinenten, inbesondere Africa, von Karl V bis zu Bismarck. By Percy Ernest Schramm. Braunschweig, Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel: Georg Westermann Verlag, 1950. Pp. 640. DM18. - A History of the Gold Coast. By W. E. F. Ward. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1949. Pp. 387. $4.50. - Commerce and Conquest in East Africa. By Cyrus Townsend Brady Jr. Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1950. Pp. xxi, 245. $3.50. - A Short History of Agriculture in the British Colonies. By G. B. Masefield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp. viii, 179. $2.50 pp. 310-312

Holden Furber

The British Isles - Taxation in Medieval England. By Sidney Knox Mitchell. Edited by Sidney Painter. [Yale Historical Publications. Studies, Vol. XV.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. Pp. 413. $5.00 pp. 312-313

Sylvia L. Thrupp

Royal Mail: The Story of the Posts in England from the Time of Edward IV to the Present Day. By F. George Kay. London: Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1951. Pp. 151. $4.50 pp. 313-314

Grace Fox

The Industrial Revolution in North Wales. Second edition, revised and supplemented. By A. H. Dodd. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1951. Pp. xl, 439, 21s. - The Industrial Development of South Wales, 1750–1850. By A. H. John. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1950. Pp. x, 201. 12s. 6d pp. 314-315

J. B. Brebner

The Social and Economic Development of Crewe, 1780–1923. By W. H. Chaloner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1950. Pp. xx, 326. 30s pp. 315-317

C. P. Wright

Scottish Democracy, 1815–1840: The Social and Intellectual Background. By Laurance James Saunders. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1950. Pp. 444. 21s pp. 317-318

R. K. Webb

Volume 12, issue 2, 1952

British Mercantilism and the Economic Development of the Thirteen Colonies pp. 105-114

Curtis P. Nettels

National Income Estimates for the United States Prior to 1870 pp. 115-130

Simon Kuznets

The “Historical” Character of Economic Theories pp. 131-139

Arthur Spiethoff

The Great Northern's Land Grant* pp. 140-145

John B. Rae

An Economic History of Russia1 pp. 146-159

Alexander Gerschenkron

The Early Economic History of China pp. 160-163

E. A. Kracke

Industry - Ships for Victory, A History of Shipbuilding under the U. S. Maritime Commission in World War II. By Frederic C. Lane. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Pres, 1951. Pp. xxii, 881. $12.50 pp. 164-165

John G. B. Hutchins

The Decline of Laissez Faire, 1897–1917. By Harold U. Faulkner. [Vol. VII of the Economic History of the United States.] New York: Rinehart, 1951. Pp. xiv, 433. $6.00 pp. 165-166

Eric F. Goldman

Industrialization and Labor: Social Aspects of Economic Development. By Wilbert E. Moore. Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 1951. Pp. xiii, 410. $5.00 pp. 166-168

Sanford A. Mosk

The California Wine Industry, 1830–1895: A Study of the Formative Years. By Vincent P. Carosso. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1951. Pp. ix, 241. $3.75 pp. 168-168

George Sweet Gibb

The Development of American Industries. 3d. Ed.John George Glover and William Bouck Cornell, Eds. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1951. Pp. xxvii, 1,121. $8.00 pp. 168-169

Harold F. Williamson

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky. By James F. Hopkins. Lexington, Ky.: University Press, 1951. Pp. viii, 240, map, illus. $4.00 pp. 169-169

Thomas P. Martin

The Institutions of Capitalism - The Molding of American Banking, Men and Ideas. Part II, 1840–1910. By Fritz Redlich. New York: Hafner Publishing Company, 1951. Pp. 517. $6.00 pp. 170-171

Edward C. Kirkland

Private Corporations and Their Control. By A. B. Levy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1950. Vol. I, pp. x, 454, and Vol. II, pp. vi, 457–916. £3 10s. the set. - Corporation, Trust and Company. By C. A. Cooke. Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. 206. $3.00 pp. 171-173

Roland W. Boyden

Private Property: the History of an Idea. By Richard Schlatter. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1951. Pp. 284. $2.50 pp. 173-174

Roland W. Boyden

The Jews and Modern Capitalism. By Werner Sombart. Translated by M. Epstein. With an introduction to the American Edition by Bert F. Hoselitz. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1951. Pp. xlii, 402. $4.50 pp. 174-175

Ellis Rivkin

Labor and Living Conditions - London Life in the XVIIIth Century. By M. Dorothy George. [Series of Reprints of Scarce Works on Political Economy, No. 12.] London: The London School of Economics and Political Science, 1951. Pp. xii, 452. 15s pp. 175-176

John G. Gazley

The Labor Story: A Popular History of American Labor, 1786–1949. By Aleine Austin. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1949. Pp. x, 244. $2.50. - Destination Unknown: Fifty Years of Labor Relations. By Walter Gordon Merritt. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1951. Pp. x, 454. $5.65 pp. 176-177

Harold U. Faulkner

Labour's Formative Years: Nineteenth Century, 1849–1879. Edited by James B. Jefferys. Extracts from contemporary sources. [History in the Making, V. II, Dona Torr, general editor.] London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1948. Pp. 203. 5s pp. 177-178

Elizabeth Brandeis

Passing of the Mill Village. By Harriet L. Herring. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949. Pp. vii, 137. $3.00 pp. 178-179

Vera Shlakman

Agricultural Regions - The Rural Economy of New England, A Regional Study. By John D. Black. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950. Pp. 796. $7.50 pp. 179-181

Clarence H. Danhof

Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874–1890. By Allen Johnston Going. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1951. Pp. ix, 256. $4.00 pp. 181-181

A. D. Kirwan

Gains in Productivity of Farm Labor. By Reuben W. Hecht and Glen T. Barton. Technical Bulletin No. 1020. Washington: United States Department of Agriculture, 1950. Pp. 121. $0.30 pp. 181-182

Clarence H. Danhof

Recent European History - The Economic Problem of the Danubian States: A Study in Economic Nationalism. By Frederick Hertz. London: Gollancz, 1947; New York: Transatlantic, 1948. Pp. 223. 15s. $4.50 pp. 182-184

C. E. Black

Twentieth Century Economic History of Europe. By Paul Alpert. New York: Henry Schuman, 1951. Pp. xiv, 466. $6.00 pp. 184-185

Ralph H. Bowen

International Trade and Investment - Empire of the North Atlantic; the Maritime Struggle for North America. By Gerald S. Graham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950. Pp. xvii, 338. $5.00 pp. 185-186

Wesley Frank Craven

Trade Through the Himalayas: The Early British Attempts to Open Tibet. By Schuyler Cammann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. Pp. x, 186. $3.50. - British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800–42. By Michael Greenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Pp. xii, 238. $4.00 pp. 186-190

Earl H. Pritchard

The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution. By Oliver M. Dickerson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951. Pp. xv, 344. $6.00 pp. 190-192

Merrill Jensen

Investment in Empire: British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825–1849. By Daniel Thorner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950. Pp. xi, 197. $3.75 pp. 192-193

John G. B. Hutchins

Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa: An Economic and Political Analysis. By V. D. Wickizer. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1951. Pp. xiii, 497. $5.00 pp. 193-194

Lawrence A. Harper

Comercio entre Venezuela y México en los Siglos XVII y XVIII. By Eduardo Arcila Farías. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1950. Pp. 324 pp. 195-195

Clinton Harvey Gardiner

Volume 12, issue 1, 1952

The Japanese Village in the Seventeenth Century pp. 1-20

Thomas C. Smith

France and the American Market in Naval Timber and Masts, 1776–1786* pp. 21-34

Paul Walden Bamford

Government Finance on the Eve of the Civil War pp. 35-44

Robert T. Patterson

The United States and the Economic Development of Puerto Rico pp. 45-59

Harvey S. Perloff

The Money and Economy of China under the Mongols pp. 60-62

Wolfram Eberhard

The Middle Ages, East and West - History of Chinese Society: Liao (907–1125). By Karl A. Wittfogel and Feng Chiasheng, with the assistance of John De Francis, Esther S. Goldfrank, Lea Kisselgoff, and Karl H. Menges. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S., Vol. 36, 1946.] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1949. Pp. xv, 752. Paper-bound edition, $7.50. Cloth-bound edition, New York: Macmillan Co., $12.50 pp. 63-65

Derk Bodde

Naval Power and Trade in the Mediterranean, A.D. 500–1100. By Archibald R. Lewis. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1951. Pp. xii, 271. $4.00 pp. 65-66

Frederic C. Lane

Measuring the Economy - Prices and Inflation During the American Revolution, Pennsylvania, 1770–1790. By Anne Bezanson and assistants. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951. Pp. xvi, 362. $6.75 pp. 66-68

Chester W. Wright

Index Numbers. By Bruce D. Mudgett. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1951. Pp. 135. $3.00 pp. 69-71

Irving H. Siegel

The Structure of American Economy, 1919–1939: An Empirical Application of Equilibrium Analysis (2d edition, enlarged). By Wassily W. Leontief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Pp. 264. $5.75 pp. 69-69

Solomon Fabricant

Economic Though and Methods - Quakers in Science and Industry: Being an Account of the Quaker Contributions to Science and Industry during the 17th and 18th Centuries. By Arthur Raistrick. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. Pp. 361. $6.00. - Democracy and the Quaker Method. By Francis E. Pollard, Beatrice E. Pollard, and Robert S. W. Pollard. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. Pp. 160. $3.00. - Quaker Social History, 1669–1738. By Arnold Lloyd (Introduction by Herbert G. Wood). New York: Longmans, Green & Co., Inc., 1950. Pp. 207. $5.00 pp. 71-74

Frederick B. Tolles

The Life of John Maynard Keynes. By Roy F. Harrod. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. Pp. 674. $7.50 pp. 74-75

Dudley Dillard

Economic Ideas: A Study of Historical Perspectives. By Ferdinand Zweig. [Prentice-Hall Economics Series.] New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1950. Pp. 197. $3.65 pp. 75-77

William Diamond

La Physiocratie sous les ministères de Turgot et de Necker (1774–1781). By Georges Weulersse. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1950. Pp. xvi, 374. 800 fr pp. 77-78

Martin Albaum

Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism. By Adam B. Ulam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. Pp. 173. $3.75 pp. 78-79

J. B. Brebner

The Utopian Communist. A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling, Nineteenth-Century Reformer, by Carl Wittke. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1950. Pp. 327. $4.50 pp. 79-80

Carl N. Degler

Migration and Cities - La Formation de la population parisienne au XIXe siècle. By Louis Chevalier, [lnstitut national d'Etudes démographiques, Travaux et documents, Cahier No. 10.] Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1950. Pp. 312. 500 fr pp. 81-82

David H. Pinkney

Kaskaskia Under the French Regime. By Natalia Maree Belting. (Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. XXIX, No. 3). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1948. Pp. 140. $2.50; paper, $1.50 pp. 82-83

Richard B. Morris

American Immigration Policy: A Reappraisal. By William S. Bernard, ed., Carolyn Zeleny and Henry Miller, assistant eds. [Published under the sponsorship of The National Committee on Immigration Policy]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Pp. 341. $4.00 pp. 83-85

G. Wallace Chessman

The Early Settlement of Georgia. By James Etheridge Callaway. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1948. Pp. vii, 138. $2.50 pp. 83-83

Richard B. Morris

The Puritan Frontier: Town-Planting in New England Colonial Development, 1630–1660. By William Haller Jr. New York: Columbia Unixersity Press, 1951. Pp. 119. $2.00 pp. 85-86

Anthony N. B. Garvan

Transportation - The Transportation Industries, 1889–1946, A Study of Output, Employment, and Productivity. By Harold Barger. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1951. Pp. xvi, 288. $4.00 pp. 86-87

John G. B. Hutchins

The Delaware and Hudson Canal: A History. By Edwin D. LeRoy. Honesdale, Pa.: Wayne County Historical Society, 1950. Pp. 95. $2.00 pp. 87-87

Anthony J. Bryski

Trade Unions - The Early English Trade Unions: Documents from the Home Office Papers in the Public Record Office. By Arthur Aspinall. London: The Batchworth Press, 1949. Pp. xxxi, 410. $6.75 pp. 88-89

Judith B. Williams

The U.A.W. and Walter Reuther. By Irving Howe and B. J. Widick. New York: Random House, 1949. Pp. 319. $3.00. - The Philadelphia Printing Industry: A Case Study. By John W. Seybold. [Industry Wide Collective Bargaining Series.] Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. Pp. 114. $1.50. - Labor Relations in the New York Rapid Transit Systems, 1904–1944. By James J. McGinley. [St. Louis University, Institute of Social Science Study.] New York: King's Crown Press, 1949. Pp. 635. $6.50. - The Firemen's and Patrolmen's Unions in the City of New York: A Case Study in Public Employee Unions. By Emma Schweppe. New York: King's Crown Press, 1948. Pp. xii, 395. $4.50 pp. 89-91

William M. Leiserson

Politics, Law and Public Policy - Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West, 1900–1939. By Theodore Salutos and John D. Hicks. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951. Pp. 581. $6.75 pp. 91-92

Earle D. Ross

State Planning and Economic Development in the South. By Albert Lepawsky. [National Planning Association Committee of the South, Report No. 4.] Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association, 1949. Pp. xviii, 193. $3.00 pp. 93-94

Carter Goodrich

Money in the Law: National and International. A Comparative Study in the Borderline of Law and Economics. By Arthur Nussbaum. Revised edition. Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, 1950. Pp. xxxii, 618. $8.00 pp. 93-93

Joseph Dorfman

Historical Development of Transport Coordination and Integration in the United States. By James A. Little and Henry M. Cunningham. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C., 1950. Pp. 217. (Free.) pp. 95-97

W. N. Leonard

Alabama's First Railroad Commission, 1881–1885. By James F. Doster. University; Alabama: 1949. Pp. iv, 192 pp. 95-95

Joseph T. Lambie