The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 7, issue 2, 1947

The Creative Response in Economic History pp. 149-159

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Taxation and Landownership in the Westernization of Japan* pp. 160-182

Nobutaka Ike

The End of the Suffolk System pp. 183-207

Wilfred S. Lake

An Attempt at Synthesis in American Banking History1 pp. 208-217

Anna Schwartz

Cycles and Growth - The Industrial Study of Economic Progress. By Hiram S. Davis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1947. Pp. xii, 187. $2.75 pp. 218-222

Solomon Fabricant

Measuring Business Cycles. By Arthur F. Burns and Wesley C. Mitchell. [Studies in Business Cycles, Vol. II.] New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1946. Pp. xxvii, 560. $5.00 pp. 222-226

Abba P. Lerner

California Business Cycles. By Frank L. Kidner. [Publications of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research.] Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. Pp. xiv, 131. $2.50 pp. 226-227

Samuel Rezneck

A Study of History. By Arnold J. Toynbee. [Abridgment of Vols. I–VI by D. C. Somervell.] New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. 617. $5.00 pp. 227-231

R. Richard Wohl

National and General Views - National Income: A Summary of Findings. By Simon Kuznets. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1946. Pp. 144. $1.50 pp. 231-232

Colin Clark

The Wealth of England from 1496 to 1760. By G. N. Clark. [The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.] London: Oxford University Press, 1946. Pp. 208. 3s. 6d pp. 232-233

Willson H. Coates

La Route française. Son histoire. Sa fonction. Etude de géographie humaine. By Henri Cavaillés. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1946. Pp. 399 pp. 233-234

Arthur L. Dunham

Readings in European Economic History. By Karl F. Helleiner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1946. Pp. ix, 437. $4.75 pp. 234-235

Clive Day

Essays on Historiography. By James C. Malin. Lawrence, Kansas: James C. Malin, 1946. Pp. iv, 148. $2.50 pp. 235-236

S. D. Clark

Bilan de l'économie française, 1919–1946. By Charles Bettleheim. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1947. Pp. viii, 292. Fr. 360 pp. 236-237

Shepard B. Clough

Colony to Nation: A History of Canada. By Arthur R. M. Lower. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1946. Pp. xiii, 600. $5.50 pp. 237-238

Albert H. Imlah

Trade and Empire - The Spanish Empire in America. By C. H. Haring. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. viii, 338. $5.00 pp. 238-239

Arthur P. Whitaker

Great Britain in the World Economy. By Alfred Edward Kahn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. 314. $4.00 pp. 240-241

Leland H. Jenks

The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part which Africa Has Played in World History. By W. E. Burghardt DuBois. New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Pp. xii, 276. $3.00 pp. 241-243

Eric Williams

India in World Politics. By Lanka Sundaram. Delhi: Sultan Chand and Company, 1944. Pp. 285. Rs. 10/8. - India's Armies and Their Costs. By Lanka Sundaram. Bombay: Avanti Prakashan, 1946. Pp. 256. Rs. 10. - The East India Company: 1784–1834. By C. H. Philips. [Publications of the University of Manchester No. 270, Historical Series No. 77.] Manchester: The University Press, 1940. Pp. 353. 20s pp. 243-244

Daniel Thorner

Yankee Ships in China Seas: Adventures of Pioneer Americans in the Troubled Far East. By Daniel Henderson. New York: Hastings House, 1946. Pp. xiv, 274. $3.00 pp. 244-245

Fred Harvey Harrington

Greater America: Essays in Honor of Herbert Eugene Bolton. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1945. Pp. ix, 723. $6.00 pp. 245-246

Donald Rowland

The Evolution of the Netherlands Indies Economy. By J. H. Boeke. New York: Netherlands and Netherlands Indies Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1946. Pp. x, 180. Cloth, $2.50; paper, $2.00 pp. 246-247

C. W. de Kiewiet

Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. By Frank Tannenbaum. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Pp. xi, 128, xi. $2.00 pp. 247-248

T. Lynn Smith

Welfare and Planning in the West Indies. By T. S. Simey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. Pp. xi, 267. $4.75 pp. 247-247

Ira De A. Reid

The Trade of Nations. By Michael A. Heilperin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Pp. xix, 234, vii. $3.00 pp. 248-249

Ralph H. Bowen

Agricultural Problems - Canadian Agricultural Policy: The Historical Pattern. By Vernon C. Fowke. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1946. Pp. xii, 304. $3.50 pp. 249-250

W. M. Drummond

The First Half-Century of Wadsworth Tenancy. By Neil Adams McNall. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1945. Pp. 31. Fifty cents pp. 251-252

Edward P. Alexander

History of Agriculture in Ontario: 1613–1880. By Robert Leslie Jones. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1946. Pp. xvi, 420. $4.25 pp. 251-251

Earle D. Ross

Marketing Farm Products. By Geoffrey Seddon Shepherd. Ames: Iowa State College Press, 1946. Pp. 455. $4.25 pp. 252-253

Marvin A. Schaars

The Diary of Alexander James McPhail. Edited by Harold A. Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1940. Pp. xi, 289. $2.50 pp. 253-253

Everett E. Edwards

Two Blades of Grass: A History of Scientific Development in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. By T. Swann Harding. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. Pp. 367. $3.50 pp. 254-255

Fred A. Shannon

Business Leaders and Business Practices - Men of Erie: A Story of Human Effort. By Edward Hungerford. New York: Random House, 1946. Pp. xiv, 346. $3.75 pp. 255-256

Edward C. Kirkland

Light Metals Monopoly. By Charlotte F. Muller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. 279. $3.00 pp. 256-257

Theodore F. Marburg

A History of Printing in North Carolina: A detailed account of the pioneer printers, 1749–1800 and of The Edwards & Broughton Company, 1871–1946, including a brief account of the connecting period. By George Washington Paschal. Introduction by Josephus Daniels. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Company, 1946. Pp. xxii, 313. $5.00 pp. 257-257

Thomas P. Martin

Building Lenin's Russia. By Simon Liberman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. vi, 229. $3.00 pp. 258-259

A. R. M. Lower

Fee and Fee Bills: Some Economic Aspects of Medical Practice in Nineteenth Century America. By George Rosen. [Supplement to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, No. 6.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1946. Pp. 93. $1.50 pp. 258-258

Bernhard J. Stern

The French Railroads and the State. By Kimon A. Doukas. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law No. 517.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Pp. 287. $3.50 pp. 259-260

Arthur L. Dunham

American Chemical Industry. Volumes II and III, The World War I Period: 1912–1922. By Williams Haynes. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1945. Pp. xliii, 440, and xv, 606. $8.00 per volume pp. 260-262

Theodore J. Kreps

California Yankee. William R. Staats, Business Pioneer. By Carol Green Wilson. Claremont: Saunders Press, 1946. Pp. 184. $3.75 pp. 262-262

Wayne Andrews

Battle for Chicago. By Wayne Andrews. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Pp. ix, 358. $3.75 pp. 262-263

Constance McL. Green

The Cotton Textile Industry of Fall River, Massachusetts: A Study of Industrial Localization. By Thomas Russell Smith. New York: King's Crown Press, 1944. Pp. 175. $2.00. - The Decline of a Cotton Textile City: A Study of New Bedford. By Seymour Louis Wolfbein. New York: Columbia University Press; London: P. S. King and Staples, Ltd., 1944. Pp. 179. $2.50 pp. 263-264

Lloyd G. Reynolds

History of Economic Thought - Studies in the Classical Theories of Money. By Karl H. Niebyl. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. xii, 190. $2.50 pp. 265-266

Fritz Redlich

Das Arbeitsethos des deutschen Protestantismus von der nachreformatorischen Zeit bis zur Aufklärung. By Klara Vontobel. [Beiträge zur Soziologie und Sozialphilosophie. Edited by René König, Priv.-Doz. an der Universität Zürich, Band 2.] Berne, Switzerland: A. Francke AG. Verlag, 1946. Pp. vi, 162. Swiss Fr. 12.00 pp. 266-268

Ernst Correll

Religion in Economics; A Study of John Bates Clark, Richard T. Ely, Simon N. Patten. By John Rutherford Everett. New York: King's Crown Press, 1946. Pp. xiii, 160. $2.50 pp. 268-269

D. R. Kennedy

The Response of Jean Bodin to the Paradoxes of Malestroit and The Paradoxes. By George Albert Moore. Translated from the French second edition. Paris: Jacques du Puys, 1578. Washington, D. C.: The Country Dollar Press, 1946. Pp. xviii, 90. $1.00 pp. 269-270

Beatrice Reynolds

Labor Relations - Government and Labor in Early America. By Richard B. Morris. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. 557. $6.75 pp. 270-272

M. W. Jernegan

Labor and the Law. By Charles O. Gregory. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1946. Pp. 467. $5.00 pp. 272-273

Emanuel Stein

Labor Unionism in American Agriculture. [United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin No. 836.] Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. Pp. 457. Seventy cents pp. 273-274

LaWanda Cox

The Social System of the Modern Factory. The Strike: A Social Analysis. By W. Lloyd Warner and J. O. Low [The Yankee City Series, Vol. 4.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947. Pp. 245. $3.00 pp. 275-277

Oscar Handlin

Volume 7, issue 1, 1947

Jackson, Biddle, and the Bank of the United States pp. 1-23

Bray Hammond

Inner Asian Frontiers: Chinese and Russian Margins of Expansion* pp. 24-52

Owen Lattimore

Governmental Policy and the Domestic Telegraph Industry* pp. 53-68

H. H. Goldin

The Decline of the Medici Bank* pp. 69-82

Raymond de Roover

Social Doctrines and Economic Theory - Theory and Practice in Historical Study: A Report of the Committee on Historiography. New York: Social Science Research Council, Bulletin 54, 1946. Pp. xi, 177. $1.75 pp. 83-84

Frederic C. Lane

The Economic Mind in American Civilization 1606–1865. By Joseph Dorfman. New York: Viking Press, 1946. Volume I, pp. xii, 499, xxxi; Volume II, pp. vi, 987, lv. $7.50 pp. 85-87

Eric Roll

The Socialist Tradition: From Moses to Lenin. By Alexander Gray. London and New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1946. Pp. v–vii, 523. $7.50 pp. 87-88

Frederick B. Artz

Monetary Policies and Full Employment. By William Fellner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. Pp. xx, 268. $3.50 pp. 88-89

Dudley Dillard

American Radicalism, 1865–1901: Essays and Documents. By Chester McArthur Destler. New London, Conn.: Connecticut College, 1946. Pp. xii, 276. Cloth, $3.50; paper, $2.50 pp. 89-90

Eric F. Goldman

A History of Banking Theory in Great Britain and the United States. By Lloyd W. Mints. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. 319. $3.50 pp. 90-92

Fritz Redlich

William Morris: Medievalist and Revolutionary. By Margaret R. Grennan. New York: King's Crown Press, 1945. Pp. x, 173. $2.50 pp. 92-93

William Aylott Orton

China a Model for Europe. By Lewis A. Maverick. San Antonio, Texas: Paul Anderson Company, 1946. Pp. xii, 334. $4.50 pp. 93-94

Knight Biggerstaff

Government Policy - Commercial Policy in the Canadian Economy. By Orville John McDiarmid. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. Pp. viii, 397. $4.50 pp. 94-95

S. A. Saunders

Rochester: The Water Power City 1812–1854. By Blake McKelvey. [Rochester Public Library, Kate Gleason Fund Publications, No. 1.] Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1945. Pp. xvi, 383. $4.00. - Chambersburg: Its Record and Its Prospect. By the Chambersburg Community Development Committee. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: The Chamber of Commerce, 1945. Pp. xi, 164 pp. 95-96

William Miller

An Introduction to the Papers of the New York Prize Court, 1861–1865. By Madeleine Russell Robinton. Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Pp. 203. $2.75 pp. 97-97

Richard B. Morris

“Notes on the Economic History of the Chin Dynasty.” By Lien-sheng Yang. Harvard-Yanching Institute, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, IX (June 1946), No. 2, pp. 107–185 pp. 98-100

Han-sheng Chuan

History of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. By Lt. Comdr. Karl Baarslag, U.S.N.R. Washington, D.C.: National Federation of Post Office Clerks, 1945. Pp. 216 pp. 98-98

Jonathan Grossman

American Agriculture - Agriculture in an Unstable Economy. By Theodore W. Schultz. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1945. Pp. xix, 299. $2.75 pp. 100-101

Clarence H. Danhof

The Wages of Farm and Factory Laborers, 1914–1944. By Daniel J. AhearnJr [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 518.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Pp. 245. $3.00 pp. 101-102

Lloyd G. Reynolds

Seaman A. Knapp: Schoolmaster of American Agriculture. By Joseph Cannon Bailey. [Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture, No. 10.] New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xiii, 307. $3.25 pp. 102-103

A. L. Demaree

Production Credit for Southern Cotton Growers. By A. E. Nielsen. New York: King's Crown Press, 1946. Pp. 194. $2.50 pp. 103-104

Theodore Saloutos

Seasonal Farm Labor in the United States with Special Reference to Hired Workers in Fruit and Vegetable and Sugar-beet Production. By Harry Schwartz. [Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture, No. 11.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Pp. xii, 172. $2.25 pp. 105-106

Clarence H. Danhof

Two Billion Acre Farm: An Informal History of American Agriculture. By Robert West Howard. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1945. Pp. x, 209. $2.50 pp. 105-105

Everett E. Edwards

Land Title Origins: A Tale of Force and Fraud. By Alfred N. Chandler. New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1945. Pp. xvi, 550. $3.00 pp. 106-107

Richard B. Morris

Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region: 1790–1850. By David Maldwyn Ellis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1946. Pp. 347. $4.00 pp. 107-108

Blake McKelvey

Frontier Landlords and Pioneer Tenants. By Paul Wallace Gates. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1945. Pp. 64. Seventy-five cents. (Reprinted from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, June 1945.) pp. 108-109

Donald L. Kemmerer

Business History - The Metropolitan Life: A Study in Business Growth. By Marquis James. New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Pp. 480. $5.00 pp. 109-111

Shepard B. Clough

Les Relations des papes d'Avignon et des compagnies commerciales et bancaires de 1316 à 1378. By Yves Renouard. [Bibliothèque des Ecoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Fasc. 151.] Paris: E. de Boccard, 1941. Pp. xxvii, 694. - Recherches sur les compagnies commerciales et bancaires utilisiés par les papes d'Avignon avant le Grand Schisme. By Yves Renouard. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942. Pp. 62 pp. 111-113

Florence Edler de Roover

Railroad Consolidation under the Transportation Act of 1920. By William N. Leonard. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 522.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. 350. $4.00 pp. 113-116

Richard C. Overton

History of Mutual Savings Banks in Northampton, Massachusetts. By Katherine Finney. New York: King's Crown Press, 1945. Pp. x, 225. $2.50 pp. 116-117

Anna Schwartz

Henry Meiggs: Yankee Pizarro. By Watt Stewart. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1946. Pp. xii, 370. $4.00 pp. 117-118

Herbert Heaton

Letters of William Davies, Toronto, 1854–1861. Edited by William Sherwood Fox. With a Preface by H. A. Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1945. Pp. viii, 144. $2.00 pp. 118-119

W. M. Drummond

An Economic History of the Indiana Oolitic Limestone Industry. By Joseph A. Batchelor. [Indiana Business Studies, No. 27.] Bloomington: School of Business, Indiana University, 1944. Pp. 382 pp. 119-120

Alfred Manes

The First Hundred Years of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce. By Lloyd Graham and Frank H. Severance. Buffalo: Foster & Stewart Publishing Corporation, 1945. Pp. xviii, 302. $3.50 pp. 120-121

Blake McKelvey

The Chicago Tribune: Its First Hundred Years, 1865–1880, Vol. II. By Philip Kinsley. Chicago: The Chicago Tribune, 1945. Pp. xv, 349. $3.00 pp. 121-122

Harold A. Innis

Clark, Dodge & Co., 1845–1945: A Brief History, Marking the Completion of a Hundred Years of Activity on Wall St.New York: Privately printed for Clark, Dodge & Co., 1945. Pp. 45. - The First Century of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1846–1946. By John W. Colton. Hartford: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1946. Pp. 95. - Pioneers in Industry: The Story of Fairbanks, Morse and Co., 1810–1945. Chicago: Fairbanks, Morse and Co., 1945. Pp. 159. - The Magic Powder: History of the Universal Atlas Cement Company and the Cement Industry. By Earl J. Hadley. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1945. Pp. xiv, 382. $3.50. - The First Hundred Years of An American Institution: The Story of Johnson and Higgins, Insurance Brokers and Average Adjusters, 1845–1945. New York: Johnson and Higgins, 1945. Pp. 108 pp. 122-123

Thomas C. Cochran