The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 1, issue S1, 1941

The Responsibility of Economic Historians pp. 1-8

John U. Nef

The Tasks of Economic History1 pp. 9-16

Edwin F. Gay

Mill to Marshall: The Conversion of the Economists pp. 17-29

V. W. Bladen

New Tools for the Economic Historian pp. 30-38

E. A. J. Johnson

Social Control in the Medieval Town pp. 39-52

Sylvia L. Thrupp

The Organization and Functions of Anglo-American Merchant Bankers, 1815–1860 pp. 53-66

Ralph W. Hidy

Business Incorporations: Their Nature and Significance1 pp. 67-85

George Heberton Evans

Laissez-faire Theory in Presidential Messages during the Nineteenth Century pp. 86-95

R. M. Havens

Economic Validity of the Safety-Valve Doctrine pp. 96-98

Sidney R. Packard

John D. Rockefeller, The Heroic Age of American Enterprise. By Allan Nevins. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Two volumes. Pp. xiii, 683; x, 747. $7.50 pp. 98-106

Clarence H. Danhof

A History of French Commercial Policies. By Frank Arnold Haight. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Pp. xvii, 285. $2.50 pp. 107-109

Herbert Heaton

The Economic History of a Young Corporation pp. 110-111

S. B. Clough

Volume 1, issue 2, 1941

Arthur Young and the Society of Arts1 pp. 129-152

A. Y.,

Technology and the French Glass Industry, 1640–17401 pp. 153-167

Warren C. Scoville

The Classical Economists and the Factory Acts pp. 168-177

Kenneth O. Walker

Non-Importation, 1806–1812 pp. 178-198

Herbert Heaton

Interstate Redistribution of Population, 1850–1940 pp. 199-205

Edgar M. Hoover

Business Cycles, Harvests, and Politics: 1790–18501 pp. 206-221

W. W. Rostow

English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century. By George C. Homans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp. xiv, 478. $4.50 pp. 222-224

Carl Stephenson

The Cod Fisheries, The History of an International Economy. By Harold A. Innis. New Haven: Yale University Press; and Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1940. Pp. xiii, 520. $3.50. - The Diplomatic History of the Canadian Boundary, 1749–1763. By Max Savelle. New Haven: Yale University Press; and Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1940. Pp. xvi, 172. $2.50. - The United States, Great Britain, and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812. By A. L. Burt. New Haven: Yale University Press; and Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1940. Pp. xv, 448. $3.25. - Reciprocity, 1911, A Study in Canadian-American Relations. By L. Ethan Ellis. New Haven: Yale University Press; and Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1939. Pp. xi, 207. $2.50 pp. 224-227

Thomas H. Le Duc

Men of Wealth. By John T. Flynn. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. Pp. xi, 531. $3.75 pp. 228-229

E. G. Campbell

A History of Economic Ideas. By Edmund Whittaker. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1940. Pp. xiv, 766. $4.00 pp. 229-232

B. F. Haley

The Cambridge History of the British Empire. General Editors, J. Holland Rose, A. P. Newton, E. A. Benians. Vol. II: The Growth of the New Empire, 1783–1870. Cambridge: The University Press, 1940. Pp. xii, 1068. $10.50 pp. 232-233

Howard Robinson

Industry and Government in France and England, 1540–1640. By John U. Nef. [Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume XV.] Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1940. Pp. x, 162. $2.00 pp. 234-235

Herbert Heaton

Eastern Workingmen and National Land Policy, 1829–1862. By Helene Sara Zahler. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. x, 246. $2.25 pp. 235-236

Richard L. Power

Economic History of the United States. By Chester W. Wright. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1941. Pp. xxviii, 1120. $4.00 pp. 236-237

Harold F. Williamson

Recent America: A History of the United States since 1900. By Henry Bamford Parkes. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941. Pp. viii, 664. $4.50 pp. 237-238

B. B. Kendrick

The Huancavelica Mercury Mine. By Arthur Preston Whitaker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp. xiii, 150. $2.00 pp. 238-239

Robert S. Smith

The Cost of the World War to Germany and to Austria-Hungary. By Leo Grebler and Wilhelm Winkler. New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1940. Pp. xv, 192. $2.50 pp. 240-242

Horst Mendershausen

The Newsprint Paper Industry, an Economic Analysis. By John A. Guthrie. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp. xxiii, 274. $3.50 pp. 242-243

Louis T. Stevenson

The American Carpet Manufacture: A History and an Analysis. By Arthur H. Cole and Harold F. Williamson. [Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LXX.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp. xiv, 281. $3.50 pp. 243-244

King Hoagland

Exchange Control in Central Europe. By Howard S. Ellis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp. xv, 413. $4.00 pp. 244-245

C. R. Whittlesey

Great Britain under Protection. By Frederic Benham. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Pp. 271. $2.50 pp. 245-246

Max Gideonse

J. Laurence Laughlin, Chapters in the Career of an Economist. By Alfred Bornemann. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, 1941. Pp. ix, 98. $2.00 pp. 246-247

Margaret G. Myers

The Structure of the American Economy, 1919–1929. By Wassily W. Leontief. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. Pp. xi, 181. $2.50 pp. 246-246

Simon Kuznets

Business Cycles, Their Nature, Cause, and Control. By J. A. Estey. New York: Prentice-Hall, Incorporated, 1941. Pp. xvii, 544. $5.00 pp. 247-247

Donald W. Gilbert

Social and Economic Aspects of Swedish Population Movements, 1750–1933. By Dorothy Swain Thomas. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Pp. xxiii, 487. $6.00 pp. 247-248

A. B. Wolfe

Some Experiences of Economic Control in Wartime. By SirWilliam Beveridge. London: Oxford University Press, 1940. Pp. 38. 40 cents. - Wartime Control of Prices. By Charles O. Hardy. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1940. Pp. 216. $1.00 pp. 248-248

Henry M. Oliver

Credit Union North America. By Roy F. Bergengren. Kingsport, Tennessee: Southern Publishers, 1940. Pp. vii, 390. $2.00 pp. 248-249

Edwin C. Rozwenc

Dollars in Latin America; An Old Problem in a New Setting. By Willy Feuerlein and Elizabeth Hannan. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1940. Pp. vii, 102. $1.50 pp. 249-249

Horace G. White

New Directions in Our Trade Policy. By William Diebold Jr. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1941. Pp. x, 174. $2.00 pp. 249-249

Eugene Staley

The European Possessions in the Caribbean Area; A Compilation of Facts Concerning Their Population, Physical Geography, Resources, Industries, Trade, Government, and Strategic Importance. By Raye R. Platt, John K. Wright, John C. Weaver, and Johnson E. Fairchild. New York: American Geographical Society, 1941. Pp. vii, 112. $1.00 pp. 249-250

Horace G. White

International Labor, Diplomacy, and Peace, 1914–1919. By Austin Van der Slice. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941. Pp. xi, 408. $4.00 pp. 250-250

René Albrecht-Carrié

Studies in Economic Warfare. By D. T. Jack, New York: Chemical Publishing Company, 1941. Pp. viii, 178. $4.00 pp. 250-250

Edward Mead Earle

Residential Real Estate: Its Economic Position, as Shown by Values, Rents, Family Incomes, Financing, and Construction, together with Estimates for All Real Estate. By David L. Wickens. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1941. Pp. xx, 305. $3.50 pp. 251-251

Eleanor S. Bagley

Guide to the National Archives. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. Pp. xviii, 303. 40 cents paper, 70 cents cloth pp. 251-251

Abbot Smith

Volume 1, issue 1, 1941

Early Nineteenth-Century Shipowning—A Chapter in Business Enterprise pp. 1-11

Robert G. Albion

How the First French Railways Were Planned pp. 12-25

Arthur L. Dunham

Statistics and Economic History1 pp. 26-41

Simon Kuznets

Recruiting Contract Laborers for the Amoskeag Mills1 pp. 42-56

Daniel Creamer

Life Insurance in Fifteenth-Century Barcelona pp. 57-59

Robert Sidney Smith

Land Policy and Tenancy in the Prairie States1 pp. 60-82

Paul Wallace Gates

Terence Vincent Powderly—An Appraisal pp. 83-87

Harry J. Carman

Institutional Methodology in Economic History1 pp. 88-96

Abbott Payson Usher

The Medieval Fenland. By H. C. Darby. [Cambridge Studies in Economic History.] Cambridge, 1940. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. xvii, 200. $3.00. - The Draining of the Fens. By H. C. Darby. [Cambridge Studies in Economic History.] Cambridge: 1940. New York: The Macmillan Company. Pp. xix, 311. $5.50 pp. 97-98

Sidney R. Packard

John D. Rockefeller, The Heroic Age of American Enterprise. By Allan Nevins. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Two volumes. Pp. xiii, 683; x, 747. $7.50 pp. 98-99

Edward C. Kirkland

English Theories of Central Banking Control, 1819-1858. With Some Account of Contemporary Procedure. By Elmer Wood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939. Pp. xiii, 250, $5.00 pp. 99-100

Frank Whitson Fetter

The Economics of Ancient Greece. By H. Michell. Cambridge: At the University Press; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Pp. 415. $4.00 pp. 100-101

James H. Oliver

“A Florentine Firm of Cloth Manufacturers.” By Raymond de Roover. Offprint from Speculum, XVI (1941), 3–33 pp. 101-102

Wallace K. Ferguson

The Industrialization of Japan and Manchukuo. By E. B. Schumpeter (Editor). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Pp. xxviii, 944. $7.50. - Japanese Industry: Its Recent Development and Present Condition. By G. C. Allen. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940. Pp. xii, 124. $1.00 pp. 102-103

D. H. Buchanan

The Mingling of the Canadian and American Peoples. By the late M. L. Hansen. [Vol. I, Historical. Completed and prepared for publication by John Bartlett Brebner.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. xviii, 274. $3.00 pp. 103-104

H. A. Innis

The Reconstruction of World Trade. By J. B. Condliffe. New York: W. W. Norton. 1940. Pp. 427. $3.75 pp. 104-105

P. T. Ellsworth

The Economic History of Steelmaking, 1867–1939: A Study in Competition. By D. L. Burn. Cambridge: At the University Press. 1940. Pp. xii, 548. $6.50 pp. 105-106

Louis C. Hunter

The Spanish Guild Merchant, a History of the Consulado, 1250–1700. By Robert Sidney Smith. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1940. Pp. IX, 167. $2.50 pp. 106-107

Arthur S. Aiton

A History of French Commercial Policies. By Frank Arnold Haight. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Pp. xvii, 285. $2.50 pp. 107-108

Arthur L. Dunham

La Guerre dans la pensée économique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. By Edmond Silberner. Preface by William E. Rappard. [Études sur l'histoire des théories économiques, published under the direction of Gaétan Pirou. Vol. VII.] Paris: Librarie du Recueil Sirey, 1939. Pp. 301. Fr. 42 pp. 108-108

Frederic C. Lane

A Hundred Years of Economic Development in Great Britain. By G. P. Jones and A. G. Pool. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Pp. 420. $4.50 pp. 108-109

Judith Blow Williams

La Formation du capitalisme moderne dans la principauté de Liége au XVIe siècle. By Jean Lejeune. [Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liége, Fascicule LXXXVII.] Liége: Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres; Paris: Librarie E. Droz, 1939. Pp. 353 pp. 109-110

George Woodbridge

Five and Ten—The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth. By John K. Winkler. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1940. Pp. 251. $3.00 pp. 110-111

Herluf V. Olsen

The Vanderbilt Legend; The Story of the Vanderbilt Family, 1794–1940. By Wayne Andrews. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. Pp. xi, 454. $3.50 pp. 111-113

E. G. Campbell

The Output of Manufacturing Industries, 1899–1937. By Solomon Fabricant. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1940. Pp. xxi, 685. $4.50 pp. 113-113

William R. Pabst