The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 74, issue 4, 2014

American Banking and the Transportation Revolution before the Civil War pp. 943-986

Jeremy Atack, Matthew Jaremski and Peter Rousseau

The Adoption of New Technologies: Understanding Hollywood's (Slow and Uneven) Conversion to Color pp. 987-1014

Ricard Gil and Ryan Lampe

Who Crossed the Border? Self-Selection of Mexican Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 1015-1044

Edward Kosack and Zachary Ward

Fertility and the Price of Children: Evidence from Slavery and Slave Emancipation pp. 1045-1071

Marianne Wanamaker

Baring, Wellington and the Resurrection of French Public Finances Following Waterloo pp. 1072-1102

Kim Oosterlinck, Loredana Ureche-Rangau and Jacques-Marie Vaslin

The Location of the UK Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838: A Quantitative Analysis pp. 1103-1139

Nicholas Crafts and Nikolaus Wolf

The Political Stock Market in the German Kaiserreich — Do Markets Punish the Extension of the Suffrage to the Benefit of the Working Class? Evidence from Saxony pp. 1140-1167

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Philipp Hauber and Alexander Opitz

Endogenous Formation of Free Trade Agreements: Evidence from the Zollverein's Impact on Market Integration pp. 1168-1204

Wolfgang Keller and Carol H. Shiue

Of Seeds, Seasons, and Seas: Andrew Watson's Medieval Agrarian Revolution Forty Years Later pp. 1205-1220

Paolo Squatriti

The Financial Decline of a Great Power: War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France. By Guy Rowlands. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 267. $112.67, hardcover pp. 1225-1226

Noel Johnson

Schlüsselereignisse der deutschen Bankengeschichte. Edited by D. Lindenlaub, C. Burhop, J. Scholtyseck. Herausgegeben im Auftrag des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Instituts für bankhistorische Forschung e.V. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2013. Pp. 5, 581. €46.00, cloth pp. 1226-1228

Kirsten Wandschneider

Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire. Edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 404. $99.00 pp. 1228-1229

Blake Smith

Slavery and the British Country House. Edited by Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann. Swindon: English Heritage. 2013. Pp. xv, 180. $100.00, hardcover pp. 1230-1231

Stanley L. Engerman

Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780–1850. By Peter Kirby. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 212. $29.95, paper pp. 1231-1233

Carolyn M. Moehling

Freedom's Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648–1848. By S.A. Eddie. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xx, 356. $178.00, hardcover pp. 1233-1234

Amanda Gregg

The Farmer in England, 1650–1980. Edited by Richard W. Hoyle. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2013. Pp. xvi, 358. $144.95, hardcover pp. 1235-1236

David Mitch

Orpheus in the Marketplace. By Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 496. $44.96, hardcover pp. 1236-1238

Corey Tazzara

Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. By Marcus Rediker. Boston: Beacon Press. 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $26.95, cloth pp. 1238-1239

David Skarbek

Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood. By Michael J. Hightower. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 391. $29.95, cloth pp. 1239-1241

Matthew Jaremski

Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit. By Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 570. $35, cloth pp. 1241-1242

Howard Bodenhorn

Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. By Gregory L. Schneider. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 2013. Pp. ix, 380. $29.50, cloth pp. 1243-1244

Keith T. Poole

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters.. By Walter A. Friedman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 273. $29.95, hardcover pp. 1244-1246

Gabriel Mathy

The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today. Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xxi, 459. $125.00, hardcover pp. 1246-1247

Douglas Irwin

Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s. By Douglas A. Irwin. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 2011. Pp. 216. $26.00, hardcover pp. 1247-1249

William Craighead

The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age. By Robert MacDougall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2014. Pp. 344. $55.00, cloth pp. 1249-1251

David Gabel

Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command. By John S. D. Eisenhower. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 190. $40.00, cloth pp. 1251-1252

Lee Craig

Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807. By Justin Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 352, $99.00, hardback; $79.00, eBook pp. 1253-1254

Anne Ruderman

The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith. Edited by Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli and Craig Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 656. $156.34, hardcover pp. 1255-1256

George Grantham

Volume 74, issue 3, 2014

Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth? pp. 651-693

Tracy Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie

Borders That Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo Since Colonial Times pp. 694-729

Denis Cogneau and Alexander Moradi

Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930 pp. 730-766

Aldo Musacchio, André Martínez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo

Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution pp. 767-798

Peter Lindert and Steven Nafziger

The Price of Media Capture and the Debasement of the French Newspaper Industry During the Interwar pp. 799-830

Vincent Bignon and Marc Flandreau

Did the National Industrial Recovery Act Foster Collusion? Evidence from the Macaroni Industry pp. 831-862

Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

Railroad Expansion and Industrialization: Evidence from Meiji Japan pp. 863-886

John Tang

Risky Institutions: Political Regimes and the Cost of Public Borrowing in Early Modern Italy pp. 887-915

David Chilosi

Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay pp. 916-920

Alexander Field

The Economic History of European Jews: Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. By Michael Toch. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2013. Pp. x, 373. €146.00, cloth pp. 921-922

Francesca Trivellato

The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812–1941.. By Miguel A López-Morell. translated by Stephen P. Hasler. Surrey: Ashgate. 2013. Pp. xvii, 449. £75.00, hardcover pp. 922-924

William Roberds

Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia. By Carl Mosk. London: Routledge. 2013. Pp. xxi, 298. $140.00, hardcover pp. 924-925

Mark Dincecco

Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800–1868. By Anne Kelly Knowles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 334. $45.00, hardcover pp. 925-927

Ross Thomson

Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field. By James Sanders Day. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 209. $49.95, cloth pp. 927-928

Mike Matheis

Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership. By Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 192. $35.00, cloth pp. 928-930

Daniel Fetter

Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. By David Koistinen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2013. Pp. xii, 332. $74.95, cloth pp. 930-931

Louis P. Cain

Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2013. Pp. xxii, 365. $34.95, cloth pp. 931-933

Lee Craig

Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared, c. 700–1800. By Karel Davids. Leiden: Brill. 2013. Pp. xxii, 365. $34.95, cloth pp. 933-934

Eric Jones

Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. By Gregory T. Cushman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. 414. $99.00, hardcover pp. 934-936

Catalina Vizcarra

Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics. By Nicholas Wapshott. New York: Norton. 2011. Pp. 400. $17.95, paper; $28.95, hardcover pp. 936-936

Peter Boettke

Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. By Daniel Stedman Jones. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. vii, 432. $35.00, cloth pp. 936-938

Peter Boettke

From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions. By Yannis M. Ioannides. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 521. $65.00, cloth pp. 938-939

William A. Sundstrom

Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact. By Eric L. Jones. Singapore: World Scientific. 2014. $99.00, hardcover pp. 939-941

Eric Rutkow

Volume 74, issue 2, 2014

American Exceptionalism as a Problem in Global History pp. 309-350

Robert Allen

How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity pp. 351-388

Martha Bailey and Nicolas Duquette

The Role of Publicly Provided Electricity in Economic Development: The Experience of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1929–1955 pp. 389-419

Carl Kitchens

How the Bank of France Changed U.S. Equity Expectations and Ended the Panic of 1907 pp. 420-448

Mary Tone Rodgers and James Payne

Technology and the Era of the Mass Army pp. 449-481

Massimiliano Onorato, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage

Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the Nineteenth-Century Demographic Transition pp. 482-508

Joanna Lahey

Autarky and the Rise and Fall of Piracy in Ming China pp. 509-534

James Kung and Chicheng Ma

Revealing the Relationship Between Ship Crowding and Slave Mortality pp. 535-552

Nicolas Duquette

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 553-590

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 591-609

Anonymous

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 610-619

Anonymous

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD. By Peter Brown. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xxx, 759. $24.95, paper pp. 627-628

Jonathan P. Conant

Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650. By Oscar Gelderblom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 293. $31.50, hardcover pp. 628-630

Thomas Max Safley

Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940. By Nicholas R. Parrillo. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 568. $125.00, hardcover; $55.00, paper pp. 630-632

Logan Everett Sawyer

Run to Glory and Profits: The Economic Rise of the NFL During the 1950s. By David George Surdam. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2013. Pp. x, 433. $55.00, hardcover pp. 632-633

Trevon Logan

The Great Inflation: The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking. Edited by Michael D. Bordo and Athanasios Orphanides. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER.. Pp. 532. $120.00, hardcover pp. 634-635

Pierre Siklos

America's Assembly Line. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 360. $29.95, hardcover pp. 635-637

Changkeun Lee

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2013. Pp.xiii, 256. $27.95, hardcover pp. 635-637

Changkeun Lee

Legacies of the War on Poverty. Edited by Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (The National Poverty Series on Poverty and Public Policy). 2013. Pp. xii, 309. $39.95, paper pp. 637-638

Gavin Wright

Paths Toward the Modern Fiscal State. By Wenkai He. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2013. Pp. xx, 417. $55.00, hardcover pp. 639-640

Dan Bogart

An Economic History of Bengal, 1757–1947. By M. Mufakharul Islam. Dhaka: Adorn Books. 2012. Pp. xv, 222. $29.00, hardcover pp. 640-642

Shameel Ahmad

Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 351. $49.95, hardcover pp. 642-644

James Bessen

Metals, Culture, and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World. By Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. 349. $26.99, paper pp. 644-646

Joel Mokyr

Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds. Edited by Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani. London: Pickering & Chatto. 2013. $99.00, hardcover pp. 646-647

James Fenske

Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World. By Jessica L. Goldberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xxi, 426. $114.00, hardcover pp. 648-649

Avner Greif

Volume 74, issue 1, 2014

The Black Man's Burden: The Cost of Colonization of French West Africa pp. 1-38

Elise Huillery

Imachi Nkwu: Trade and the Commons pp. 39-68

James Fenske

The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Postwar Germany pp. 69-108

Sebastian Braun and Toman Omar Mahmoud

National Banking's Role in U.S. Industrialization, 1850–1900 pp. 109-140

Matthew Jaremski

Discrimination or Social Networks? Industrial Investment in Colonial India pp. 141-168

Bishnupriya Gupta

“You're in the Army Now:” The Impact of World War II on Women's Education, Work, and Family pp. 169-195

Taylor Jaworski

Plagues, Wages, and Economic Change in the Islamic Middle East, 700–1500 pp. 196-229

Sevket Pamuk and Maya Shatzmiller

Structural Change in Argentina, 1935–1960: The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments pp. 230-258

Dario Debowicz and Paul Segal

Monetary Intervention Really Did Mitigate Banking Panics During the Great Depression: Evidence Along the Atlanta Federal Reserve District Border pp. 259-273

Andrew J. Jalil

“Getting Things Done in the World:” New Perspectives on History and Theory pp. 282-286

J.G. Manning

Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200–1500. By Harry Kitsikopoulos. Routledge Research in Medieval Studies. New York: Routledge. 2012. Pp. x, 364. $130.00, hardcover pp. 287-288

Philip Slavin

Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt. By Charles R. Geisst. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2013. Pp. vi, 388. $39.95, hardcover pp. 289-290

Bruce G. Carruthers

Bismarck's Institutions: A Historical Perspective on the Social Security Hypothesis. By Beatrice Scheubel. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2013. Pp. xvi, 280. $89.72, paper pp. 290-291

Jochen Streb

Comparative Responses to Globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese Enterprises. Edited by Maki Umemura and Rika Fujioka. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. Pp. xi, 261. £65.00, hardcover pp. 292-293

Makoto Kasuya

Their Fair Share: Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR. By Joseph J. Thorndike. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 349. $29.50, paper pp. 293-295

Daniel Marcin

The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools. By DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation. 2013. Pp. 296. $37.50, paper pp. 295-296

Giovanni Peri

Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950. By Fabian Drixler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2013. Pp. xx, 417. $75.00, hardcover pp. 296-298

Carl Mosk

The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937. By Michael Schiltz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp.xix, 268. $39.95, hardcover pp. 298-299

Mark Metzler

Workers Go Shopping in Argentina. The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture. By Natalia Milanesio. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 307. $55.00, hardcover pp. 300-301

Mirta Zaida Lobato

Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It.. By Morten Jerven. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. 2013. Pp. iv, 187. $65.00, hardcover pp. 301-303

Marlous van Waijenburg

The Education of Nations: How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy, Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education. By Stephen Kosack. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. 384. $99.00 hardcover; $34.95, paper pp. 303-304

Marcus Melo

Artemisia Annua, Artemisinin, ACTs, and Malaria Control in Africa: Tradition, Science, and Public Policy. By Dana G. Dalrymple. Washington DC: Politics and Prose. 2012. Pp. 254. $18.00, paper pp. 304-306

Sok Chul Hong

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. By Mark Harrison. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2013. Pp. xviii, 376. $38.00, hardcover pp. 306-307

Anthony Wray