The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

From Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press, UPH, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8BS UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kirk Stebbing ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 73, issue 4, 2013

The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810–1850: A Puzzle pp. 901-936

Alan Dye and Sumner La Croix

Financing Japan's World War II Occupation of Southeast Asia pp. 937-977

Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima

The Local Economic Effects of Public Housing in the United States, 1940–1970 pp. 978-1016

Katharine L. Shester

Accounting for Secrets pp. 1017-1049

Mark Harrison

The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602–1623 pp. 1050-1076

Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong and Joost Jonker

Rearmament to the Rescue? New Estimates of the Impact of “Keynesian” Policies in 1930s' Britain pp. 1077-1104

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills

Property Rights Under Administrator-Dictators: The Rise and Fall of America's First Bank pp. 1105-1131

Dror Goldberg and Igal Milchtaich

Numerare Est Errare: Agricultural Output and Food Supply in England Before and During the Industrial Revolution pp. 1132-1163

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization. By Roland Wenzlhuemer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. 353. $110.00, hardcover pp. 1171-1172

Shameel Ahmad

The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification. By Gianni Toniolo. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 720. $150.00, hardcover pp. 1172-1174

Emanuele Felice

Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia: To the Undiscovered Country of Post-Socialism, 1988–2008. By Jeffrey Hass. New York: Routledge. 2011. Pp. 311. $138.00, hardcover pp. 1174-1175

Ararat Osipian

The Pariahs of Yesterday: Breton Migrants in Paris. By Leslie Page Moch. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 2012. Pp. 255. $23.95, paper pp. 1175-1177

Lionel Kesztenbaum

Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries. Edited by Augustin K. Fosu. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 339. £55.00, hardcover pp. 1177-1179

Ian Keay

Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka and Dieter Ziegler. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 249. $90.00, cloth pp. 1179-1180

Richard Tilly

Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. By Gavin Wright. Cambridge: Belknap Press. 2013. Pp. 368. $35.00, hardcover pp. 1180-1181

Robert Margo

The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression.. By Angus Burgin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 303. $20.54, hardcover pp. 1181-1183

Brendan Livingston

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States.. By Jan L. Logemann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. Pp. Xv, 300. $40.50, hardcover pp. 1183-1184

Jochen Streb

Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being. By Zoltan J. Acs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. xv, 249. $29.95, hardcover pp. 1184-1186

Nicolas Duquette

Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act. By Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2012. Pp. xxxiv, 378. $45.00, paper pp. 1186-1188

Charles T. Clotfelter

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order. By Benn Steil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. viii, 449. $29.95, cloth pp. 1188-1189

Joshua Hausman

Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 237. $34.95, paper; also available as an eBook pp. 1190-1191

Valerie A. Ramey

Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics.. By Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 168. $32.00, hardcover pp. 1191-1192

Richard Easterlin

The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.. By Monica Prasad. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 327. $39.95, cloth pp. 1193-1195

Alice O'Connor

The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis. Lectures by Ben S. Bernanke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. 144. $19.95, cloth pp. 1195-1198

Michael Bordo

The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. 280. $99.00, hardcover pp. 1198-1199

Mark Metzler

The Economies of Latin America. Edited by César Yáñez and Albert Carreras. London and Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto. 2012. Pp. xvi, 240. $99.00, hardcover pp. 1200-1201

Aldo Musacchio

Volume 73, issue 3, 2013

Opening to the East: Shipping Between Europe and Asia, 1770–1830 pp. 625-661

Peter M. Solar

Building Fiscal Capacity in Colonial Mexico: From Fragmentation to Centralization pp. 662-693

Luz Marina Arias

A Dam Problem: TVA's Fight Against Malaria, 1926–1951 pp. 694-724

Carl Kitchens

American Incomes Before and After the Revolution pp. 725-765

Peter Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Taste Endures! The Rankings of Roger de Piles (†1709) and Three Centuries of Art Prices pp. 766-791

Kathryn Graddy

A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves pp. 792-809

Richard H. Steckel and Nicolas Ziebarth

Law, Politics, and Financial Development: The Great Reversal of the U.K. Corporate Debt Market pp. 810-846

Christopher Coyle and John Turner

Globalization and the Near East: A Study of Cotton Market Integration in Egypt and Western Anatolia pp. 847-872

Laura Panza

Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution After 1700. By Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 224. $39.95, hardcover pp. 873-874

Stephen Quinn

Mathew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment. Edited by Quickenden Kenneth, Sally Baggott, Malcolm Dick. Farnham: Ashgate. 2013. Pp. xviii, 294. $124.95, hardcover pp. 874-876

Alexander Field

The Rise of a Victorian Ironopolis: Middlesborough and Regional Industrialization. By Minoru Yasumoto. Woodbridge: Boydell. 2011. Pp. xvii, 230. $99.00, hardcover pp. 876-877

Jonathan Chapman

Commercial Activity, Markets, and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Richard Britnell. By Harold James. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. xv, 567. $35.00, hardcover pp. 877-879

Larry Neal

The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment. By Liana Vardi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. 315, viii. $99.00, hardcover pp. 879-881

Alessandro Stanziani

The Triumph of the Antebellum Free Trade Movement. By William S. Belko. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 2012. Pp. xi, 197. $69.95, paper pp. 881-882

John Majewski

Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History. By Alexandra Harmon. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2010. Pp. x, 388. $27.95, paper pp. 882-883

Leonard Carlson

The American National State and the Early West. By William H. Bergmann. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 288. $90.00, hardcover pp. 883-885

Karen Clay

Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. By Michael O'Malley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. Pp. 272. $75.00, hardcover pp. 885-887

Melinda Miller

Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America. By Peter Andreas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 454. $29.95, cloth pp. 887-888

David G. Surdam

Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870–1940. By Vanessa H. May. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2011. Pp. xi, 246. $65.00, cloth; $26.95, paper pp. 888-890

Shari Eli

The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937. By David Welky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2011. Pp. xiv, 304. $27.50, hardcover pp. 890-892

Suresh Naidu

Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2012. Pp. 228. $65.00, hardcover pp. 892-893

Alexander Whalley

The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. Pp. xv, 489. $55.00, paper pp. 893-894

Santhi Hejeebu

Plague, Quarantines, and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. By Birsen Bulmuş. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2012. Pp. vii, 195. $105.00, hardcover pp. 895-896

Seven Ağir

Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth. By Ian W. McLean. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 281. $35.00, hardcover pp. 896-898

Edwyna Harris

What's the Use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis. Edited by Diane Coyle. London: London Publishing Partnership. 2012. Pp. xx, 197. $27.99, paper pp. 898-899

David Mitch

Volume 73, issue 2, 2013

On the Use of Geographic Information Systems in Economic History: The American Transportation Revolution Revisited pp. 313-338

Jeremy Atack

Engines of Growth: The Productivity Advance of Indian Railways, 1874–1912 pp. 339-370

Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary

Political Extremism in the 1920s and 1930s: Do German Lessons Generalize? pp. 371-406

Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O'Rourke

A Spatial Analysis of Delegate Voting at the Constitutional Convention pp. 407-444

Jac C. Heckelman and Keith L. Dougherty

Competing Bimetallic Ratios: Amsterdam, London, and Bullion Arbitrage in Mid-Eighteenth Century pp. 445-476

Pilar Nogues-Marco

Sequential Sales as a Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves pp. 477-497

Jonathan Pritchett and Mallorie Smith

An Optimal World Portfolio on the Eve of World War I: Was There a Bias to Investing in the New World Rather Than in Europe? pp. 498-530

Cécile Edlinger, Maxime Merli and Antoine Parent

New Stock Issues in Germany, 1882–1892: A Comment to Professor Fohlin pp. 531-536

Carsten Burhop

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 571-587

Anonymous

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 588-595

Anonymous

Commercial Activity, Markets, and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Richard Britnell. Edited by Ben Dodds and Christian D. Liddy. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2011. Pp. xv, 256. $95.00, hardcover pp. 602-603

James Given

Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions. By Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Stephen Haber, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Eric M. Zolt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. 2011. Pp. 444. $34.99, paper pp. 603-605

J. Bradford DeLong

Norman B. Ream: Forgotten Master of Markets. By Paul Ryscavage. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2013. Pp. xxi, 281. $85.00, hardcover pp. 605-606

Evan Roberts

America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837. By Alasdair Roberts. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. 2012. Pp. 255. $26.00, hardcover; $18.95, paper pp. 606-608

Howard Bodenhorn

German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709–1920. By Farley Grubb. New York: Routledge Explorations in Economic History. 2011. Pp. xxvi, 433. $190.00, hardcover pp. 608-610

Martina Viarengo

The United States and the Global Economy: From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis.. By Frederick S. Weaver. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011. Pp. 192. $34.95, hardcover pp. 610-611

Christopher Meissner

Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America.. By Jonathan Levy. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 432. $35.00, hardcover pp. 611-613

Barbara Hahn

Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan. By Martin Dusinberre. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 247. $55.00, cloth pp. 613-614

Philip Brown

The Economy of Israel from the Foundation of the State through the Twenty-First Century.. By Paul Rivlin. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xvi, 288. $90.00, hardcover; $31.99, paper pp. 615-616

Ephraim Kleiman

The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875–1931. By William J. Suarez-Potts. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 348. $60.00, hardcover pp. 616-618

Michael Huberman

Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950. By Moramay Lopez-Alonso. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Published in 2012. xvii, 276 pp., $65.00, hardcover pp. 618-619

Trevon Logan

Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America. By John Tutino. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. v, 698. $99.95, hardcover; $29.95, paper pp. 620-621

Juliette Levy

Reforming the World Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group. By Carol M. Connell. London: Pickering and Chatto, Ltd.2012. Pp. 271. $99.00, hardcover pp. 621-622

Harold James

Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World. Edited by Beatrice Moring. London: Pickering and Chatto, Ltd.2012 pp. 622-624

Julia A. Jennings

Volume 73, issue 1, 2013

Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in the Habsburg Empire, 1827–1910 pp. 1-37

Tomas Cvrcek

Persistent Inequality? Trade, Factor Endowments, and Inequality in Republican Latin America pp. 38-78

Leticia Arroyo Abad

Slavery and Information pp. 79-116

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

Do Local Institutions Affect All Foreign Investors in the Same Way? Evidence from the Interwar Chinese Textile Industry pp. 117-141

Peter Zeitz

The Economic Benefits of Political Connections in Late Victorian Britain pp. 142-176

Fabio Braggion and Lyndon Moore

The First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad: Expected Profits and Government Intervention pp. 177-200

Xavier Duran

Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold Standard America pp. 201-246

Christopher Hanes and Paul Rhode

Configuring Financial Markets in Preindustrial Europe pp. 247-278

Christiaan van Bochove

Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (1276–1313). By Gregory B. Milton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. xv, 244. $90.00, hardcover pp. 287-288

Jeffrey A. Bowman

The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500–1914. Edited by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla and Patrick O'Brien with Francisco Comín Comín. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xxi, 471. $110.00, hardcover pp. 288-290

Mark Dincecco

Money in the Medieval English Economy: 973–1489. By J.L. Bolton. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2012. Pp. xvi, 317. £75.00 hardback; £19.99 paperback pp. 290-292

Rory Naismith

Mints and Money in Medieval England.. By Martin Allen. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xvii, 576. $185.00, hardcover pp. 292-294

Nick Mayhew

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World. By Douglas Allen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. Pp. ix, 267. $30.00, hardcover pp. 294-295

Tracy Dennison

Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937.. By Barbara Hahn. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. pp. x, 236. $60.00, hardcover pp. 295-297

Alan Olmstead

State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945–2011. By Paul A.C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 2012. Pp. ix, 313. $39.95, hardcover pp. 297-298

Taylor Jaworski

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. By Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. ix, 485. $35.00, hardcover pp. 298-300

Robert E. Wright

Management Innovation: Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. By William Lazonick and David J. Teece. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. x11, 378. $85.00, hardcover pp. 300-301

Tom Nicholas

Bonanzas and Borrascas: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies. By Richard E. Lingenfelter. Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company—University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. Pp. 11, 586. $40.00, cloth pp. 301-303

Brian Leech

Bonanzas and Borrascas: Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848–1884. By Richard E. Lingenfelter. Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company—University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. Pp. 13, 461. $40.00, cloth pp. 301-301

Anonymous

India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution: Democratizing Entrepreneurship. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xxv, 426. $99.00, hardcover; $29.99, paper pp. 303-304

Shameel Ahmad

Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia. Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. xv, 534. $99.95, hardcover; $29.95, paper pp. 305-306

John E. Wills

Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800). By Nelly Hanna. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. 2011. Pp. ix, 244. $34.95, hardcover pp. 306-308

Cihan Artunç

Mobilizing Money: How the World's Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth. By Caroline Fohlin. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. Xiv, 263. $99.00, hardcover pp. 308-309

John James

The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492.. By Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xvii, 323. $39.50, cloth; $39.50, ebook pp. 310-311

Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman