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The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue S1, 1944

What Is Economic History? pp. 1-19 Downloads
John U. Nef
Discussion of the Paper by John U. Nef: What Is Economic History? pp. 20-28 Downloads
Richard Harrison Shryock
The Corporation and the Historian pp. 29-37 Downloads
Stanley Pargellis
Discussion of the Paper by Stanley Pargellis: The Corporation and the Historian pp. 38-46 Downloads
Ralph Budd and Colston E. Warne
Use and Misuse of Price History pp. 47-60 Downloads
Earl J. Hamilton
The Role of Money in Economic History pp. 61-67 Downloads
Wesley C. Mitchell
British Experience with Foreign Investments pp. 68-79 Downloads
Leland H. Jenks
Presidential Address: On the Economic Significance of Culture pp. 80-97 Downloads
Harold A. Innis

Volume 4, issue 2, 1944

The Leaders of the German Steam-Engine Industry During the First Hundred Years1 pp. 121-148 Downloads
Fritz Redlich
The American Career of David Parish pp. 149-166 Downloads
Philip G. Walters and Raymond Walters
Federal Land Grants in Aid of Canals pp. 167-177 Downloads
John Bell Rae
Family Partnerships and Joint Ventures in the Venetian Republic1 pp. 178-196 Downloads
Frederic C. Lane
Business and Personal Biography - The Whitesmiths of Taunton: A History of Reed and Barton, 1824–1943. By George Sweet Gibb. [Harvard Studies in Business History, Vol. VIII.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943. Pp. xxxiii, 419. $3.50 pp. 197-199 Downloads
Constance McLaughlin Green
Lonely Midas: The Story of Stephen Girard. By Harry Emerson Wildes. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1943. Pp. xii, 372. $3.50 pp. 199-202 Downloads
Marvin Wilkes McFarland
The Panama Route, 1848–1869. By John Haskell Kemble. [University of California Publications in History, Vol. XXIX.] Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943. Pp. viii, 316. $3.00 pp. 202-203 Downloads
Wheaton J. Lane
The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. By Carleton Mabee. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Pp. xix, 420, xv. $5.00 pp. 203-205 Downloads
Robert Luther Thompson
Theory and Practice - The Danube Basin and the German Economic Sphere. By Antonín Basch. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xviii, 275. $3.50. - The World Coffee Economy, With Special Reference to Control Schemes. By V. D. Wickizer. [Commodity Policy Studies, No. 2.] Stanford University: Food Research Institute, Stanford University, 1943. Pp. x, 258. $3.00. - Trade Regulations and Commercial Policy of the United Kingdom. By the Research Staff of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. [Economic and Social Studies, III.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. Pp. x, 275. $3.75 pp. 205-208 Downloads
William Diebold
Interest and Usury. By Bernard W. Dempsey. With an Introduction by Joseph Schumpeter. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1943. Pp. xii, 233. $3.00 pp. 209-211 Downloads
Raymond de Roover
The Labor Legislation of New Jersey. By Philip Charles Newman. With a foreword by Charles A. Beard. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1943. Pp. xii, 149. $2.00 pp. 211-212 Downloads
E. Foster Dowell
Employment in Manufacturing, 1899–1939. By Solomon Fabricant. [Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, No. 41.] New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1942. Pp. xix, 362. $3.00 pp. 213-214 Downloads
Chester W. Wright
The British Story - The Wiltshire Woolen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By G. D. Ramsay. [Oxford Historical Series.] New York: Oxford University Press, 1943. Pp. 156. $3.25 pp. 214-216 Downloads
Herbert Heaton
Anglo-Saxon England. By F. M. Stenton. [The Oxford History of England, edited by G. N. Clark.] Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1943. Pp. vii, 748. $7.50 pp. 216-217 Downloads
Carl Stephenson
Canterbury Cathedral Priory: A Study in Monastic Administration. By R. A. L. Smith. [Cambridge Studies in Economic History.] Cambridge: At the University Press; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Pp. xii, 237. $3.75 pp. 218-220 Downloads
Sidney Painter
Studies in the History of the English Feudal Barony. By Sidney Painter. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXI, No. 3.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. Pp. 211. $2.00 pp. 220-222 Downloads
W. E. Lunt
The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881-1895. By Benjamin H. Brown. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xi, 170. $2.50 pp. 222-224 Downloads
W. B. Willcox
Shorter Review and Brief Notices - Men and Coal. By McAlister Coleman. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. Pp. xix, 350. $3.00. - Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry. By George Korson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943. Pp. xvi, 460. $3.50 pp. 225-225 Downloads
William A. Orton
Development of Collective Enterprise: Dynamics of an Emergent Economy. By Seba Eldridge and Associates. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1943. Pp. viii, 577 pp. 226-226 Downloads
Edward C. Kirkland
Boom Copper. By Angus Murdoch. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Pp. 255. $300 pp. 226-228 Downloads
F. E. Richter
The House of Goodyear. By Hugh Allen. Akron: Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, 1943. Pp. 417. $2.00 pp. 228-228 Downloads
Thomas P. Martin
Alexander James Dallas, Lawyer, Politician, Financier, 1759–1817. By Raymond WaltersJr. [Pennsylvania Lives.] Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943. Pp. vi, 251. $2.50 pp. 228-229 Downloads
Kenneth L. Brown
New Viewpoints on the Spanish Colonization of America. By Silvio Zavala. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943. Pp. 118. $1.25 pp. 229-229 Downloads
Lesley B. Simpson
The Economic Reconstruction of Lithuania after 1918. By Anicetas Simutis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. xiii, 148. $1.50 pp. 230-230 Downloads
Ona Bielogurskas
The Displacement of Population in Europe. By Eugene M. Kulischer. [International Labour Office, Studies and Reports, Series O (Migration), No. 8.] Montreal: International Labour Office, 1943. Pp. ii, 171. Paper, $1.00; boards, $1.50 pp. 230-231 Downloads
Karl J. Pelzer
The First Passenger Railway: The-Oystermouth or Swansea and Mumbles Line. By Charles E. Lee. London: Railway Publishing Company, 1942. Pp. 91. 5 shillings net pp. 231-231 Downloads
K. T. Healy
A History of the Canadian People: Volume I, New France. By Morden H. Long. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942. Pp. xiv, 376. $3.50 pp. 232-233 Downloads
J. B. Brebner
Agricultural Trends in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts, 1800–1900. By Margaret Richards Pabst. [Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 1–4.] Northampton, Mass.: Smith College, 1941. Pp. xiv, 138. Seventy-five cents pp. 232-232 Downloads
H. F. R. Shaw
American Agriculture, 1899–1939: A Study of Output, Employment and Productivity. By Harold Barger and Hans H. Landsberg. [Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, No. 42.] New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1942. Pp. xxii, 440. $3.00 pp. 233-234 Downloads
Arthur G. Peterson
Fur: A Study in English Mercantilism, 1700–1775. By Murray G. Lawson. With a Foreword by Harold A. Innis. [University of Toronto Studies, History and Economics Series, Vol. IX.] Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1943. Pp. xxiii, 140. $1.75 pp. 234-235 Downloads
Arthur C. Bining
The Movement of Factory Workers. By Charles A. Myers and W. Rupert Maclaurin. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1943. Pp. viii, 111. $1.50 pp. 235-236 Downloads
Lloyd G. Reynolds
Talleyrand in America as a Financial Promoter, 1794–96. Unpublished Letters and Memoirs. Translated and edited by Hans Huth and Wilma J. Pugh. With a Foreword by F. L. Nussbaum. [Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1941. Vol. II.] Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1942. Pp. vii, 181. Sixty-five cents pp. 236-236 Downloads
Robert A. East
Two Manuscripts. By Charles Davenant. With an Introduction by Abbott Payson Usher. [A Reprint of Economic Tracts.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1942. Pp. xi, 108 pp. 237-238 Downloads
Frank W. Fetter
Banking and Monetary Statistics. By the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Washington, 1943. Pp. xvi, 979. $1.50 pp. 237-237 Downloads
Arthur H. Cole
Modern Problems in the Ancient World. By Frank Burr Marsh. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1943. Pp. 123. $1.00 pp. 238-239 Downloads
C. Bradford Welles
The Tragedy of European Labor, 1918–1939, By Adolf Sturmthal. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xii, 389. $3.50 pp. 239-240 Downloads
Otto Nathan
Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, 1836–1846: As Reflected in the Diary of Bennet Hilliard Barrow. Edited by Edwin Adams Davis. [Studies in the History of American Agriculture, No. 9.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xvi, 457. $5.00 pp. 240-240 Downloads
Avery Craven
The Growth of the American Economy: An Introduction to the Economic History of the United States. Edited by Harold F. Williamson. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1944. Pp. xiii, 804. $4x.00 pp. 240-241 Downloads
A. R. M. Lower
The Rise of American Economic Life: By Arthur Cecil Bining. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Pp. xii, 732. $4.00. - American Economic History. By Harold Underwood Faulkner. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1943. Fifth edition. Pp. xxiii, 784. $3.75 pp. 241-242 Downloads
Richard L. Power

Volume 4, issue 1, 1944

Railroads as an Economic Force in American Development1 pp. 1-20 Downloads
Leland H. Jenks
Monetary Problems in Spain and Spanish America 1731–1800 pp. 21-48 Downloads
Earl J. Hamilton
A Report on Research in Economic History1 pp. 49-72 Downloads
Arthur H. Cole
The Theory and Practice of Central Banking, 1797–1913. By E. Victor Morgan. [Cambridge Studies in Economic History.] Cambridge: At the University Press; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Pp. xi, 252. $3.50 pp. 73-75 Downloads
Elmer Wood
The Dynamics of Business: An Analysis of Trends, Cycles, and Time Relationships in American Economic Activity Since 1700 and Their Bearing Upon Government and Business Policy. By Norman J. Silberling. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1943. Pp. x, 759. $5.00 pp. 76-78 Downloads
Thomas C. Cochran
Monetary Reform Movements. By Joseph E. Reeve. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1943. Pp. xiv, 404. Cloth, $3.75; paper, $3.25 pp. 78-80 Downloads
G. L. Bach
French Mercantilism, 1683–1700. By Charles Woolsey Cole. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. viii, 354. $4.25 pp. 80-82 Downloads
Lawrence B. Packard
Business as a System of Power. By Robert A. Brady. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. xx, 340. $3.00 pp. 82-84 Downloads
Martin L. Lindahl
In Defense of the West: A Political and Economic Study. By Herbert von Beckerath. Durham: Duke University Press, 1942. Pp. xiii, 297. $3.50 pp. 84-86 Downloads
Carl J. Friedrich
The Economic Development of the Netherlands Indies. By Jan O. M. Broek. [Inquiry Series.] New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942. Pp. xv, 172. $2.00. - The Structure of Netherlands Indian Economy. By J. H. Boeke. [International Research Series.] New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942. Pp. v, 201. $2.00 pp. 87-88 Downloads
C. W. de Kiewiet
The English Yeoman under Elizabeth and the Early Stuarts. By Mildred Campbell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. Pp. xiii, 453. $3.75 pp. 88-91 Downloads
Margaret Gay Davies
The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University. A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership. By Paul Wallace Gates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1943. Pp. ix, 265. $3.50 pp. 91-92 Downloads
James B. Hedges
The Age of Enterprise. A Social History of Industrial America. By Thomas C. Cochran and William Miller. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Pp. x, 394. $3.50 pp. 92-93 Downloads
R. W. Hidy
History of Macy's of New York, 1858–1919. By Ralph M. Hower. [Harvard Studies in Business History, VII.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1943. Pp. xxvii, 500. $3.75 pp. 93-97 Downloads
G. B. Hotchkiss
The Pullman Strike: the Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval. By Almont Lindsey. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943. Pp. xi, 385. $3.75 pp. 97-97 Downloads
Douglass V. Brown
The First Century and a Quarter of American Coal Industry. By Howard N. Eavenson. Pittsburgh: Howard N. Eavenson, 1942. Pp. xiv, 701 pp. 98-98 Downloads
Louis C. Hunter
The Primrose League, 1883–1906. By Janet Henderson Robb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. 258. $3.25 pp. 99-100 Downloads
F. G. Marcham
Theodore Roosevelt and Labor in New York State, 1880–1900. By Howard L. Hunwitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Pp. 316. $3.75 pp. 99-99 Downloads
Eric F. Goldman
The Chicago Tribune, Its First Hundred Years. Vol. i, 1847–1865. By Philip Kinsley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Pp. xv, 381, viii. $5.00 pp. 100-100 Downloads
Harold A. Innis
A History of Social Thought. By Paul Hanly Furfey. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Pp. xiii, 468. $2.75 pp. 101-101 Downloads
Earl E. Muntz
Maryland During and After the Revolution: By Philip A. Crowl. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXI, No. 1.] Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. Pp. 185, xiv. $1.75 pp. 101-102 Downloads
Curtis P. Nettels
Federal Cooperation with the States under the Commerce Clause. By Joseph E. Kallenbach. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1942. Pp. viii, 428. $4.00 pp. 102-103 Downloads
Benjamin F. Wright
Harvard Co-operative Society Past and Present, 1882–1942. By N. S. B. Gras. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. Pp. xi, 191. $1.50 pp. 103-104 Downloads
James C. Drury
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773–1774: A Plantation Tour of the Old Dominion. Edited with an Introduction by Hunter Dickinson Farish. [Williamsburg Restoration Historical Studies, No. 3.] Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1943. Pp. xlv, 323. $4.00 pp. 104-105 Downloads
T. J. Wertenbaker
Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830–1860. By Luther Porter Jackson. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942. Pp. xix, 270. $3.75 pp. 105-106 Downloads
Frank L. Owsley
The Kentucky Poor Law, 1792–1936. By Emil McKee Sunley. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1942. Pp. lx, 160. $1.50 pp. 106-106 Downloads
T. D. Clark
European Powers and South-East Africa. A Study of International Relations on the South-East Coast of Africa, 1796–1856. By Mabel V. Jackson. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1942. Pp. 284, vi. $8.40 pp. 106-107 Downloads
M. M. Knight
Économie et finances de la France—passé et avenir. By Robert Wolff. New York: Brentano's, 1943. Pp. 320. $2.25 pp. 107-108 Downloads
Shepard B. Clough
The Canadian Born in the United States: An Analysis of the Statistics of the Canadian Element in the Population of the United States 1850 to 1930. By Leon E. Truesdell. New Haven: Yale University Press; Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1943. Pp. xvii, 263. $3.00 pp. 107-107 Downloads
Conrad Taeuber
The United States, 1865–1900: A Survey of Current Literature with Abstracts of Unpublished Dissertations. Vol. I. September 1941-August 1942. Edited by Curtis Wiswell Garrison. Fremont, Ohio: The Rutherford B. Hayes-Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation, 1942. Pp. ix, 176. $1.00 to libraries; 50 cents to students and teachers pp. 108-109 Downloads
Harold U. Faulkner
The Tennessee Valley Authority. By Joseph Sirera Ramsmeier. Nashville: The Vanderbilt University Press, 1942. Pp. xx, 486. $3.00 pp. 109-110 Downloads
W. H. Winfield
Workmen's Compensation in North Carolina 1929–1940. By J. Maynard Keech. Durham: Duke University Press, 1942. Pp. ix, 198. $3.00 pp. 109-109 Downloads
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
A Family of Thirty Million. The Story of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. By Louis I. Dublin. New York: Metropolitan life Insurance Company, 1943. Pp. xvi, 496. Privately printed and distributed pp. 110-111 Downloads
Alfred Manes
The Rise and Fall of the House of Ullstein. By Hermann Ullstein. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Pp. 308. $3.00 pp. 111-112 Downloads
George N. Shuster
The Spirit of the Age. By John Stuart Mill. Introductory essay by Frederick A. von Hayek. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1942. Pp. xxxiii, 94. $1.50 pp. 112-113 Downloads
John Herman Randall
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