The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 5, issue S1, 1945

In Search of a Business Class in Thirteenth-Century Genoa* pp. 1-19

Robert L. Reynolds

The American Business Elite: A Collective Portrait* pp. 20-44

C. Wright Mills

Business History and Economic History* pp. 45-53

Arthur H. Cole

The Economics in a Business History* pp. 54-65

Thomas C. Cochran

Invention as a Factor in Economic History* pp. 66-85

S. C. Gilfillan

Labor Policy and Economic History* pp. 86-92

Leo Wolman

Volume 5, issue 2, 1945

The “Railroad Scheme” of Massachusetts pp. 145-171

Edward C. Kirkland

Early Examples of Marine Insurance pp. 172-200

Florence Edler de Roover

Isaac Bronson: His Banking Theory and the Financial Controversies of the Jacksonian Period pp. 201-214

Abraham H. Venit

The Historical Explanation of Land Use in New Zealand pp. 215-230

Andrew H. Clark

Changing Economic Systems - A Planned Economy or Free Enterprise: The Lessons of History. By Ephraim Lipson. London: A. and C. Black, 1944. Pp. viii, 318. 15s pp. 231-234

W. B. Willcox

England in the Eighteen-Eighties: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom. By Helen Merrell Lynd. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1945. Pp. viii, 508. $4.50 pp. 234-237

William Aylott Orton

The Nazi Economic System: Germany's Mobilization for War. By Otto Nathan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1944. Pp. ix, 378. $4.00 pp. 237-240

Robert A. Brady

Businessmen and Their Methods - The House of Hancock: Business in Boston, 1724–1775. By W. T. Baxter. [Harvard Studies in Business History, Vol. X.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945 Pp. xxvii, 321. $3.50 pp. 241-243

James B. Hedges

The Hall Carbine Affair: A Study in Contemporary Folklore. By R. Gordon Wasson. New York: Privately printed, 1941. Pp. x, 184 pp. 243-245

Chester McA. Destler

Development of Two Bank Groups in the Central Northwest: A Study in Bank Policy and Organization. By Charles Sterling Popple. [Harvard Studies in Business History, IX.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944. Pp. xxv, 418. $4.50 pp. 245-247

F. Cyril James

Benjamin Tallmadge: Revolutionary Soldier and American Businessman. By Charles Swain Hall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. x, 375. $3.50 pp. 247-248

Robert A. East

Social Thought and Economic Theory - History of Economic Doctrines: An Introduction to Economic Theory. By Eduard Heimann. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1945. Pp. ix, 263. $3.50 pp. 249-250

Edmund Whittaker

Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915. By Richard Hofstadter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944. Pp. viii, 191. $2.50 pp. 250-251

Thomas C. Cochran

The Economic Thought of Woodrow Wilson. By William Diamond. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXI, No. 4.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. Pp. xiv, 210. Paper, $2.00; cloth, $2.50 pp. 251-252

J. J. Spengler

The History of Economics in Its Relation to Social Development. By W. Stark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. viii, 80. $2.00 pp. 252-253

Eric Roll

Money and Banking - Essays in American Economic History: Eric Bollmann and Studies in Banking. By Fritz Redlich. New York: E. G. Stechert and Company, 1944. Pp. v, 199. $2.00 pp. 253-255

James O. Wettereau

Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money Past, Present and Future. By Edwin Walter Kemmerer. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1944. Pp. ix, 238. $2.50. - International Currency Experience: Lessons of the Inter-War Period. By Economic, Financial and Transit Department, League of Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. Pp. 249. $3.25 pp. 255-256

Jeannette P. Nichols

Central Banking Functions of the United States Treasury, 1789–1941. By Esther Rogoff Taus. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xii, 313. $3.50 pp. 256-257

Robert Warren

Land Use in America - Land Tenure Problems in the Santa Fe Railroad Grant Area. By Sanford A. Mosk. [Publications of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California.] Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944. Pp. 66. $1.00 pp. 257-258

Paul Wallace Gates

Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest. By George F. Carter. [Publications in Anthropology, No. 5.] New York: Viking Fund, 1945. Pp. 140. $1.50 pp. 258-258

Sanford A. Mosk

Malaria in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1760–1900. By Erwin H. Ackernecht. [Supplement to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, No. 4.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. Pp. viii, 142. $2.00 pp. 259-260

Helen Clapesattle

The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California. By Glenn S. Dumke. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1944. Pp. xi, 313. $3.75 pp. 260-260

Paul Wallace Gates

Principio to Wheeling, 1715–1945: A Pageant of Iron and Steel. By Earl Chapin May. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1945. Pp. xiv, 335. $3.00 pp. 261-262

Joseph A. Batchelor

The Méline Tariff: French Agriculture and Nationalist Economic Policy. By Eugene Owen Golob. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 506]. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. 266. $3.25 pp. 261-261

M. M. Knight

The Completion of Independence, 1790–1830. By John Allen Krout and Dixon Ryan Fox. [A History of American Life, Vol. V.] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Pp. xxiii, 487. $4.00 pp. 262-263

Oscar Handlin

Asia Between Two World Wars. By J. F. Normano. [Proceedings of the Graduate Seminar on Economic Problems of Modern Asia, Vol. I.] New York: Iranian Institute and School of Asiatic Studies, 1944. Pp. 89. $2.00 pp. 263-263

Owen Lattimore

Pioneering in Penology: The Amsterdam Houses of Correction in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Thorsten Sellin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944. Pp. viii, 125. $2.50 pp. 263-263

Violet Barbour

Israel Pemberton: King of the Quakers. By Theodore Thayer. Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943. Pp. v, 260. $2.50 pp. 264-264

Verner W. Crane

Camillus: The Story of an American Small Business. By Alfred Lief. [Business Life in America Series.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. 88. $2.00 pp. 264-265

Georce S. Gibb

The Food Front in World War I. By Maxcy Robson Dickson. With an Introduction by Claude Wickard. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1944. Pp. 194. Cloth, $3.25; paper, $2.50 pp. 265-265

Everett E. Edwards

The Economic Development of French Indo-China. By Charles Robequain. Translation by Isabel A. Ward. With a Supplement, “Recent Developments in Indo-China: 1939–1943,” by John R. Andrus and Katrine R. C. Greene. Issued under the auspices of the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. vii, 400. $4.00 pp. 265-267

M. M. Knight

Local History: How to Gather it, Write it, and Publish it. By Donald Dean Parker. Revised and edited by Bertha E. Josephson for the Committee on Guide for Study of Local History of the Social Science Research Council. New York: Social Science Research Council, 1944. Pp. xiv, 186. $1.00 pp. 267-267

E. L. Bogart

Confederate Mississippi: The People and Policies of a Cotton State in Wartime. By John K. Bettersworth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943. Pp. xi, 386. $3.00 pp. 267-268

Thomas D. Clark

The Harmonists: A Personal History. By John S. Duss. Harrisburg: The Pennsylvania Book Service, 1943. Pp. xviii, 425. $3.50 pp. 268-268

Richard W. Leopold

British Economic Interests in the Far East. By E. M. Gull. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs as a report in the International Research Series of the Institute of Pacific Relations. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations in association with the Oxford University Press, 1943. Pp. vii, 272. $3.00 pp. 269-269

Leland H. Jenks

Iron and Steel in Britain, 1870–1930: A Comparative Study of the Causes Which Limited the Economic Development of the British Iron and Steel Industry Between the Years 1870–1930. By T. H. Burnham and G. O. Hoskins. London: Allen and Unwin, 1943. Pp. 352. 25s. - A Steel Man in India. By John L. Keenan, with the collaboration of Lenore Soresby. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. Pp. xiii, 224. $2.50 pp. 270-270

Abbott Payson Usher

Volume 5, issue 1, 1945

Origins of the American Business Corporation pp. 1-23

Oscar Handlin and Mary F. Handlin

The Realism of Saint-Simon's Spiritual Program1 pp. 24-42

W. Stark

Business Manuscripts: A Pressing Problem pp. 43-59

Arthur H. Cole

The New York Committee on Business Records pp. 60-64

Thomas C. Cochran

Medieval Money and Banking - The Early History of Deposit Banking in Mediterranean Europe. By Abbott Payson Usher. [Harvard Economic Studies LXXV.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943. Vol. I. Pp. xx, 649. $5.00 pp. 65-69

A. H. Stockder

Labor History - The Cotton Mill Worker. By Herbert J. Lahne. [Labor in Twentieth Century America.] New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. Pp. xiii, 303. $3.00. - The Printing Trades. By Jacob Loft. [Labor in Twentieth Century America.] New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. Pp. xiii, 301. $3.00. - The Rubber Workers: Labor Organization and Collective Bargaining in the Rubber Industry. By Harold S. Roberts. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944. Pp. xiii, 441. $4.00. - The Headwear Workers: A Century of Trade Unionism. By Charles H. Green. New York: United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, 1944. Pp. 269. $2.00. - Growth of a Union: The Life and Times of Edward Flore. By Jay Rubin and M. J. Obermeier. New York: The Historical Union Association, 1943. Pp. xv, 320. $3.00. - Bread Upon the Waters. By Rose Pesotta. Edited by John Nicholas Beffel. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1944. Pp. x, 435. $3.00. - Tailor's Progress: The Story of a Famous Union and the Men Who Made It. By Benjamin Stolberg. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1944. Pp. vi, 360. $2.75 pp. 69-75

William M. Leiserson

American Negro Slave Revolts. By Herbert Aptheker. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 501.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. 409. 4.50 pp. 75-77

Avery Craven

Possibilities in the History of Prices - Western Prices Before 1861: A Study of the Cincinnati Market. By Thomas Senior Berry. [Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. LXXIV.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943. Pp. xxi, 645. $5.00 pp. 77-80

Anne Bezanson

Prices Paid by Vermont Farmers for Goods and Services and Received by Them for Farm Products, 1790–1940; Wages of Vermont Farm Labor, 1780–1940. By T. M. Adams. [Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 507.] Burlington, Vermont: Agricultural Experiment Station, 1944.Pp. 176 and 71. Gratis pp. 80-81

Clarence H. Danhof

Social Thought and Economic Theory - The Growth of American Thought. By Merle Curti. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1943. Pp. xx, 848. $5.00 pp. 81-84

Edward C. Kirkland

British Colonial Theories, 1570–1850. By Klaus E. Knorr. With a Foreword by H. A. Innis. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1944. Pp. xix, 429. $4.00 pp. 84-86

Edmund Whittaker

A Judgment of the Old Régime; Being a Survey by the Parlement of Provence of French Economic and Fiscal Policies at the Close of the Seven Years War. By Paul H. Beik. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, ed. by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, No. 509.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. 290. $3.00 pp. 86-87

Leo Gershoy

Origins of Academic Economics in the United States. By Michael J. L. O'Connor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. x, 367. $4.25 pp. 88-90

Frank Albert Fetter

The Spirit of American Economics: A Study in the History of Economic Ideas in the United States Prior to the Great Depression. By J. F. Normano. With a Supplement, “The Development of Canadian Economic Ideas,” by A. R. M. Lower. New York: The John Day Company, 1943. Pp. 252. $3.50 pp. 90-91

V. W. Bladen

Monetary and Banking Theories of Jacksonian Democracy. By Sister M. Grace Madeleine. Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1943. Pp. xi, 186. $2.50 pp. 91-93

Walter B. Smith

Origins of American Sociology: The Social Science Movement in the United States. By L. L. and Jessie Bernard. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1943. Pp. 866. $6.50 pp. 93-94

Richard Hofstadter

From Economic Theory to Policy. By E. Ronald Walker. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943. Pp. vii, 273. $3.00 pp. 94-95

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Merchandising - Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store. By Thomas D. Clark. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Pp. 359. $3.50 pp. 96-97

Harold F. Williamson

”Yorkshire Cloth Traders in the United States, 1770–1840.” By Herbert Heaton. Thoresby Society, Leeds, Publications, Vol. XXXVII, Part III (1941) [ issued April 1944], pp. 225–87. A few offprints are available from the Society, 16 Queen Square, Leeds, 2, at 2s. 6d pp. 97-98

Lewis E. Atherton

The Far East - Netherlands India: A Study of Plural Economy. By J. S. Furnivall. With an Introduction by Jonkheer Mr. A. C. D. de Graeff. Cambridge: The University Press, 1939. Pp. xxii, 502. $4.00. - Nusantara: A History of the East Indian Archipelago. By Bernard H. M. Vlekke. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943. Pp. xv, 439. $5.00. - The Industrial Development of the Netherlands Indies. By Peter H. W. Sitsen. [Netherlands and Netherlands Indies Council, Bulletin No. 2.] New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1944. Pp. 65. 50 cents pp. 98-100

C. W. de Kiewiet

China's Struggle for Railroad Development. By Chang Kia-ngau. New York: The John Day Company, 1943. Pp. vii, 340. $5.00 pp. 100-101

Southworth Lancaster

Early American-Australian Relations from the Arrival of the Spaniaras in America to the Close of 1830. By Gordon Greenwood. With a Foreword by Professor S. H. Roberts. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. x, 184. 10s. 6d pp. 102-103

Herbert Heaton

Europe and its Imperialisms - From Despotism to Revolution, 1763–1789. By Leo Gershoy. [The Rise of Modern Europe, ed. by William L. Langer.] New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1944. Pp. XVIII, 355. $4.00 pp. 103-104

F. L. Nussbaum

The Russian Fur Trade, 1550–1700. By Raymond H. Fisher. [University of California Publications in History, Vol. XXXI.] Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. Pp. xi, 275. $3.00 pp. 104-106

Michael Karpovich

Jules Ferry and the Renaissance of French Imperialism. By Thomas F. Power Jr. New York: King's Crown Press, 1944. Pp. x, 222. $2.75 pp. 106-107

Mary E. Townsend

The Greek Foreign Debt and the Great Powers, 1821–1898. By John A. Levandis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. x, 137. $2.25 pp. 107-108

Leland H. Jenks

American Mining and Farming Frontiers - Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas: A Study in Adaption to Subhumid Geographical Environment. By James C. Malin. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1944. Pp. 290. $3.00 pp. 109-110

Robert G. Dunbar

Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture. By Edward F. Castetter and Willis H. Bell. [Inter-Americana Studies I.] Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1942. Pp. xv, 245. $3.50 pp. 110-111

Sanford A. Mosk

The Mining Industries, 1899–1939: A Study of Output, Employment and Productivity. By Harold Barger and Sam H. Schurr. [Publication No. 43.] New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1944. Pp. xxii, 447. $3.00 pp. 111-112

Chester W. Wright

The American Frontier in Hawaii: The Pioneers, 1789–1843. By Harold Whitman Bradley. Stanford University: Stanford University Press, [1942]. Pp. xii, 488. $4.50 pp. 113-114

Julius W. Pratt

John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By John Richard Alden. [University of Michigan Publications, History and Political Science, Vol. XV.] Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1944. Pp. xiv, 384. $4.00 pp. 114-115

Ray Allen Billington

Soil Exhaustion and the Civil War. By William Chandler Bagley Jr. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1942. Pp. xi, 101. Cloth, $2.00; paper, $1.50 pp. 116-117

Clarence H. Danhof

Ibero-America - Latin America and the Industrial Age. By J. Fred Rippy. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1944. Pp. 277, $3.00 pp. 117-117

Philip D. Bradley

Silk Raising in Colonial Mexico. By Woodrow Borah. [Ibero-Americana: 20.] Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. Pp. vii, 169. Paper, $2.00 pp. 118-119

Robert S. Smith

O comércio português no Rio da Prata (1580–1640). By A. P. Canabrava. With a Preface by Affonso de E. Taunay. [História da civilização americana, Boletim XXXV, No. 2, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo.] São Paulo, 1944. Pp. xv, 174 pp. 119-119

Alexander Marchant

Germans in the Conquest of America: A Sixteenth Century Venture. By Germán Arciniegas. Translated by Angel Flores. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Pp. 217. $2.50 pp. 119-120

C. H. Haring

The Land Divided: A History of the Panama Canal and Other Isthmian Canal Projects. By Gerstle Mack. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Pp. xxxiv, 650. $6.00 pp. 120-121

Fred Harvey Harrington

Modern Problems - The Economics of Demobilization. By E. Jay HowenstineJr. With an Introduction by Alvin H. Hansen. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1944. Pp. 336. Cloth, $3.75; paper, $3.25 pp. 121-122

Harold M. Somers

Tea Under International Regulation. By V. D. Wickizer. [Commodity Policy Studies No. 4.] Stanford University: Food Research Institute, 1944. Pp. vi, 198. $2.50 pp. 122-123

William Diebold

Bread and Democracy in Germany. By Alexander Gerschenkron. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. Pp. 238. $2.75 pp. 123-124

Eugene O. Golob

The Great Transformation. By Karl Polanyi. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944. Pp. xiii, [i], 305. $3.00 pp. 124-124

Judith Blow Williams

Jacob Perkins: His Inventions, His Times, and His Contemporaries. By Greville and Dorothy Bathe. Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943. Pp. xiv, 215. $5.00 pp. 125-125

Rudolf A. Clemen

John Sharp Williams, Planter-Statesman of the Deep South. By George Coleman Osborn. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943. Pp. ix, 501. $4.00 pp. 125-126

Joseph C. Robert

Social-Economic Movements: An Historical and Comparative Survey of Socialism, Communism, Co-operation, Utopianism, and Other Systems of Reform and Reconstruction. By Harry W. Laidler. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1944. Pp. xx, 828. $5.00 (trade edition); $3.75 (text edition) pp. 126-127

H. B. Parkes

The Tariff Problem in Great Britain, 1918–1923. By Rixford Kinney Snyder. [Stanford University Publications, University Series, History, Economics, and Political Science, Vol. V, No. 2.] Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1944. Pp. 168. $2.75 pp. 126-126

W. B. Willcox

The Revolutionary Generation, 1763–1790. By Evarts Boutell Greene. [A History of American Life, Vol. IV.] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Pp. xvii, 487. $4.00 pp. 127-128

Dumas Malone

The Leveller Tracts, 1647–1653. Edited by William Haller and Godfrey Davies. New York: Columbia University Press in co-operation with Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1944. Pp. vi, 481. $6.50 pp. 127-127

Mildred Campbell

Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy. By Charles W. Ramsdell. [Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History, 1937.] Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Pp. xxi, 136. $2.00 pp. 128-129

J. L. Sellers

The Development of the Colonial Newspaper. By Sidney Kobre. Pittsburgh: The Colonial Press, 1944. Pp. xi, 188. $3.50. - One Hundred Great Years: The Story of the Times-Picayune, From Its Founding to 1940. By Thomas Ewing Dabney. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Pp. xii, 552. $4.00. - The Disappearing Daily: Some Chapters in American Newspaper Evolution. By Oswald Garrison Villard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Pp. vii, 285. $3.50 pp. 129-130

Harold A. Innis

The Medieval Gild System. By George Clune. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1943. Pp. xix, 300. 7s. 6d pp. 130-131

Sylvia L. Thrupp

The Early History of Transportation in Oregon. By Henry Villard. [University of Oregon Monographs. Studies in History, No. 1.] Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 1944. Pp. v, 99. Cloth, $2.00; paper, $1.00 pp. 131-131

James B. Hedges

Trees and Test Tubes: The Story of Rubber. By Charles Morrow Wilson. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. Pp. xii, 352. $3.50 pp. 131-131

William D. Overman

The Rise of the Electrical Industry During the Nineteenth Century. By Malcolm MacLaren. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943. Pp. xi, 225. $3.75 pp. 132-132

Herbert B. Dorau

On the Influence of Trades, Professions and Occupations in the United States in the Production of Disease. By Benjamin W. McCready, M.D. With an Introductory Essay by Genevieve Miller. [Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Fourth Series, Biblioteca Medica Americana, Vol. IV.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. Pp. 129 pp. 132-133

Alice Hamilton

Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History. By H. E. Jacob. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1944. Pp. xiv, 399. $4.50 pp. 133-134

Russell Lord

A Basic History of the United States. By Charles A. and Mary R. Beard. New York: The New Home Library, 1944. Pp. x, 508. 69 cents pp. 134-135

Frederic C. Lane