The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 6, issue S1, 1946

An Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to Edwin F. Gay pp. 1-15

Arthur H. Cole

The Business Entrepreneur in a Changing Colonial Economy, 1763–1795 pp. 16-27

Robert A. East

Entrepreneurial Leadership Among the “Robber Barons”: A Trial Balance pp. 28-49

Chester McArthur Destler

Other Wests Than Ours pp. 50-62

Herbert Heaton

Economic Stagnation in the Early Roman Empire* pp. 63-90

Mason Hammond

Retardative Factors in French Economic Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries pp. 91-102

Shepard B. Clough

The Declining American Maritime Industries: An Unsolved Problem, 1860–1940 pp. 103-122

John G. B. Hutchins

Volume 6, issue 2, 1946

The Pragmatic Basis of Keynes's Political Economy* pp. 121-152

Dudley Dillard

The Medici Bank Financial and Commercial Operations* pp. 153-172

Raymond de Roover

The Spring-Wheat Farmer in a Maturing Economy 1870–1920 pp. 173-190

Theodore Saloutos

The Crisis in French Economy at the Beginning of the Revolution1 pp. 191-196

Shepard B. Clough

French Histories of France - La France bourgeoise: XVIII–XX siècles. By Charles Morazé. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1946. Pp. xvi, 216 pp. 197-199

Arthur L. Dunham

La Vie économique et sociale de la Bourgoyne dans le haut moyen âge. By André Déléage. Mâcon: Protat Frères, 1941. 3 vols. Pp. 1,495 pp. 199-201

Sidney Painter

Politique économique de Louis XI. By Renè Gandilhon. Rennes: Imprimeries réunies, 1940; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1941. Pp. 476 pp. 201-202

Joseph R. Strayer

Business Leadership - A Century of American Life Insurance: A History of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 1843–1943. By Shepard B. Clough. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. xiii, 402. $4.50 pp. 203-204

R.W. Hidy

Mark Twain, Business Man. Edited by Samuel Charles Webster. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.] Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Pp. xii, 409. $4.00 pp. 204-206

N. S. B. Gras

Business Leadership in the Large Corporation. By Robert Aaron Gordon. Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution, 1945. Pp. xiv, 369. $3.00 pp. 206-207

James H. Stauss

Timing a Century: History of the Waltham Watch Company. By Charles W. Moore. [Harvard Studies in Business History, XI. Edited by N. S. B. Gras.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. Pp. xxxiv, 362. $4.00 pp. 207-209

Constance McLaughlin Green

Alexander Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton. By Nathan Schachner. New York and London: D. Appleton Century Company, 1946. Pp. vi, 488. $4.00 pp. 209-212

James O. Wettereau

Histories of Labor Unions - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Its Origin and Development. By Brailsford R. Brazeal. New York: Harper and Brothers. Pp. xiv, 258. $3.00 pp. 212-213

William M. Leiserson

Lumber and Labor. By Vernon H. Jensen. [Labor in Twentieth Century America.] New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1945. Pp. x, 314. $3.00 pp. 213-214

Agnes M. Larson

Geshikhte fun der yidisher arbeter-bavegung in di Fareynikte Shtatn [History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States]. Edited by E. Tcherikower. New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute, 1943. Vol. I. Pp. 414. $3.50 pp. 214-215

Ellis Rivkin

“Gentlemen, The Press!” Chronicles of a Crusade—Official History of the National Union of Journalists. By J. F. Mansfield. London: W. H. Allen, 1943. Pp. 579. 15s. 6d pp. 215-216

Harold A. Innis

Father Yorke and the Labor Movement in San Francisco, 1900–1910. By Bernard Cornelius Cronin. [The Catholic University of America Studies in Economics, Volume 12.] Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1943. Pp. ix, 239. $2.25 pp. 215-215

Charles Albro Barker

Trade Union Publications. By Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles C. Killingsworth. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. 3 vols. Pp. xxxii, 416; lvii, 486; xv, 487–931. $25.00 pp. 216-217

Philip Taft

Labor in America. By Harold U. Faulkner and Mark Starr. Introduction by S. P. McCutchen. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944. Pp. xiii, 305. $1.60 pp. 216-216

Charles C. Killingsworth

Liberalism - Edward Bellamy. By Arthur Morgan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Pp. xx, 468. $5.00 pp. 217-218

Henry David

The Church and the Liberal Society. By Emmet John Hughes. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. xv, 310. $3.00. - An Essay on the Economic Effects of the Reformation. By George O'Brien. Westminster, Md.: The Newman Bookshop, 1944. Pp. x, 194. $2.50 pp. 218-219

William Aylott Orton

The Liberal Tradition: A Study of the Social and Spiritual Condition of Freedom. By William Aylott Orton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. Pp. xiv, 317. $3.50 pp. 220-220

Oscar Handlin

The Co-operative Movement - A Century of Co-operation. By G. D. H. Cole. Manchester: The Co-operative Union, 1945. Pp. iv, 428. 10s pp. 220-221

Judith Blow Williams

A Century of Rochdale Co-operation, 1844–1944: A Critical but Sympathetic Survey of a Significant Movement of the Workers for Economic Emancipation. By Joseph Reeves. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1944. Pp. vi, 202. 7s. 6d pp. 221-222

James Peter Warbasse

Industrial and Agricultural Studies - Etat des péches maritimes sur les côtes occidentales de la France au début du XVIII siècle d'après les procès-verbaux de visite de l'Inspecteur des Pêches le Masson du Parc (1723–1732). By Eric Dardel. Paris: Imprimerie André Tournon et Cie, 1941. Pp. 156. - La Pêche harenguière en France: étude d'histoire économique et sociale. By Eric Dardel. Paris: Imprimerie André Tournon et Cie, 1941. Pp. 319 pp. 222-223

Harold A. Innis

The Romance of Mining. By T. A. Rickard. Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1945. Pp. viii, 450. $3.75 pp. 223-224

F. E. Richter

Shepherd's Empire. By Charles Wayland Towne and Edward Norris Wentworth. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1945. Pp. xii, 364. $3.50 pp. 224-225

Everett E. Edwards

A Saga of the St. Lawrence: Timber and Shipping Through Three Generations. By D. D. Calvin. Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1945. Pp. x, 176. $3.75; Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1945. $3.00 pp. 225-225

A. R. M. Lower

James Watt and the Industrial Revolution. By H. W. Dickinson and H. P. Vowles. [Science in Britain.] London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1944. Pp. 59. 1s pp. 225-226

Eric Roll

Mississippi Farmers, 1850–1860. By Herbert Weaver. Nashville: The Vanderbilt Press, 1945. Pp. 139. $2.50 pp. 226-227

Fred A. Shannon

Steelways of New England. By Alvin F. Harlow. New York: Creative Age Press, 1946. Pp. 461. $3.50 pp. 227-227

Edward C. Kirkland

Other Reviews and Brief Notices - Capitalism and Slavery. By Eric Williams. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1945. Pp. ix, 245. $3.00 pp. 228-228

Elizabeth Donnan

Government Assistance in Eighteenth-Century France. By Shelby T. McCloy. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1946. Pp. xi, 496. $6.00 pp. 229-230

Paul H. Beik

Currency in Roman and Byzantine Egypt. By Louis C. West and Alan Chester Johnson. [Princeton University Studies in Papyrology, No. 5.] Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. Pp. ix, 195. $3.00 pp. 230-231

Jotham Johnson

The Rise of the Jew in the Western World: A Social and Economic History of the Jewish People of Europe. By Uriah Zevi Engelman. New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1944. Pp. xiii, 238. $3.00 pp. 231-232

Ellis Rivkin

The East India Company and the British Empire in the Far East. By Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. New York: Richard R. Smith, 1945. Pp. xiii, 477. $7.50 pp. 232-233

Taraknath Das

The Letters of John McLoughlin from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and Committee: Third Series, 1844–46. Edited by E. E. Rich. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1944. Pp. lxi, 341, xiii pp. 233-234

John Perry Pritchett

Economie internationale: effondrement et reconstruction. By Laurent Dechesne. Bruxelles: Les Editions Comptables, Commerciales et Financières, 1946. Pp. 255 pp. 234-235

Donald E. Emerson

The Coopers' Company: A Short History of the Worshipful Company of Coopers of London. By SirWilliam Foster. Cambridge: The University Press, 1944. Pp. viii, 147. £1 15 pp. 234-234

Willson H. Coates

Federal Aid and Regulation of Agriculture and Private Industrial Enterprise in the United States: A Survey. By George W. Rightmire. [Graduate School Studies, Contributions in the Social Sciences, No. 17, Law Series, No. 1.] Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1943 Pp. x, 126. $2.00 pp. 236-236

Vernon C. Fowke

The South Carolina Rice Plantation: As Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston. Edited by J. H. Easterby. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. xxi, 478. $5.00 pp. 236-237

R. H. Woody

Volume 6, issue 1, 1946

A Merchant Adventurer in Brazil 1808–1818 pp. 1-23

Herbert Heaton

The Medici Bank Organization and Management* pp. 24-52

Raymond de Roover

George Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx pp. 53-72

William Irvine

The History of Prices in the Netherlands - Nederlandsche Prijsgeschiedenis, Deel I: Goederenprijzen of de Beurs van Amsterdam, 1585–1914; Wisselkoersen te Amsterdam, 1609-1914. By N. W Posthumus. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1943. Pp. cxxii, 660. 112.5 florins pp. 73-79

Earl J. Hamilton

The Age of Jackson. By Arthur M. SchlesingerJr, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Pp. xiv, 577. $5.00 pp. 79-84

Bray Hammond

The Bank of England: A History, 1694-1914. By Sir John Clapham. Cambridge: The University Press, 1944; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. 2 volumes. Pp. x, 278 and 460. £2 2s.; $7.50 pp. 84-86

F. Cyril James

North Atlantic Triangle: The Interplay of Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. By John Bartlet Brebner. [The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Economics and History, The Relations of Canada and the United States.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. Pp. xxii, 385. $4.00 pp. 86-88

Herbert Heaton

Origins of Inter-American Interest, 1700-1812. By Harry Bernstein. Published under the direction of the American Historical Association from the income of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Pp. vii, 125. $2.00 pp. 88-91

Dorothy Burne Goebel

National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade. By Albert O. Hirschman. [Publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California.] Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1945. Pp.xiv, 170. $3.00 pp. 91-93

Fritz Karl Mann

The Fall of the Old Colonial System: A Study in British Free Trade, 1770-1870. By Robert Livingston Schuyler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. Pp. vv, 344. $3.00 pp. 93-94

William B. Willcox

Demographic Studies of Selected Areas of Rapid Growth: Proceedings of the Round Table on Population Problems. [Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Milbank Memorial Fund, April 12-13, I944-] New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 1944. Pp. iv, 158. $1.00 pp. 94-96

M. M. Knight

Aspects of Agrarian History - The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897. By Fred A. Shannon. [The Economic History of the United States, Vol. V.] New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. Pp. xii, 434. Text edition, $3.50; Trade edition, $5.00 pp. 97-97

Rodney C. Loeus

The Influence of the Potato on the Course of Irish History. By Redcliffe N. Salaman. Dublin: Brown and Nolan, 1943. Pp. 32. 2s. 6d pp. 98-98

John E. Pomfret

Tin Horns and Calico: A Decisive Episode in the Emergence of Democracy. By Henry Christman. With an Introduction by Carl Carmer. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Pp. xvii, 377. $3.75 pp. 98-99

Samuel Rezneck

Triumphs in Transportation - The Builders of the Bridge: The Story of John Roebling and His Son. By D. B. Steinman. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. Pp. xi, 457. $3.50 pp. 100-101

Richard C. Overton

This Milk Business: A Study, from 1895 to 1943. By Arthur Guy Enock. London: H. K. Lewis and Company, 1943. Pp. 296. 185 pp. 100-100

Kenneth M. Spang

Amerigo Vespucci, Pilot Major. By Frederick J. Pohl. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. x, 249. $3.00 pp. 102-102

Frederic C. Lane

Paddle-wheel Days in California. By Jerry MacMullen. Stanford University: Stanford Uni versity Press, 1944. Pp. xiv, 157. $3.00. - Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action. By James Thomas Flexner. New York: Viking Press, 1944. Pp. x, 406. $3.50 pp. 102-104

Louis C. Hunter

Other Reviews and Brief Notices - The Letters of John McLoughlin from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and Committee, Second Series, 1830-44. Edited by E. E. Rich. With an Introduction by W. Kaye Lamb. [The Publications of the Champlain Society, Hudson's Bay Company Series, VI.] Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1943. Pp. xlix, 427, xv pp. 104-105

John Perry Pritchett

An Essay on the Nature of Real Property in the Classical World. By Angelo Segre. New York: Paul Bassinger, 1943. Pp. 143. $1.50 pp. 105-105

Thomas A. Brady

Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall ad. 1413-1437. Edited by A. H. Thomas. Cambridge: The University Press, 1943. Pp. xli, 369. $3.75 pp. 106-107

Sylvia L. Thrupp

American Catholic Opinion in the Slavery Controversy. By Madeleine Hooke Rice. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. 177. $2.50 pp. 106-106

Ollinger Crenshaw

The History of Rubber Regulation, 1934-1943. Edited by Sir Andrew McFadyean. London: George Allen and Unwin, for the International Rubber Regulation Committee, 1944. Pp. 239. 10s. 6d pp. 107-108

Thomas P. Martin

Historia Económica de Cuba. By H. E. Friedlaender. Prólogo de Herminie Portell Vilá. [Biblioteca de História, Filosofía y Sociología, Vol. XIV.] La Habana: Jesus Montere, 1944. Pp. 596. $6.00 pp. 108-109

Leland H. Jenks

The Spirit of Russian Economics. By J. F. Normano. Issued in co-operation with the Russian Economic Institute. New York: The John Day Company, 1945. Pp. xiv, 170. $2.00 pp. 109-109

Abram Bergson