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Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 14, issue 4, 1977

Export instability in historical perspective pp. 293-310 Downloads
John Hanson
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War pp. 311-336 Downloads
Stephen DeCanio and Joel Mokyr
Returns to scale in antebellum United States manufacturing pp. 337-359 Downloads
Jeremy Atack
Immigration and the colonial labor system an analysis of the length of indenture pp. 360-377 Downloads
David Galenson
The role of breadstuffs in American trade, 1770-1790 pp. 378-387 Downloads
Geoffrey Gilbert
Interrelations of population density, urbanization, literacy, and fertility pp. 388-401 Downloads
Don R. Leet
Fenoaltea on open fields: A comment pp. 402-404 Downloads
Deirdre McCloskey
Fenoaltea on open fields: A reply pp. 405-410 Downloads
Stefano Fenoaltea

Volume 14, issue 3, 1977

The California gold rush: A study of emerging property rights pp. 197-226 Downloads
John Umbeck
Determinants of the rate of parliamentary enclosure pp. 227-249 Downloads
Nicholas Crafts
Racial discrimination and occupational attainment at the turn of the century pp. 250-276 Downloads
Edward Meeker and James Kau
Who benefited from the prosperity of the twenties? pp. 277-289 Downloads
Charles F. Holt

Volume 14, issue 2, 1977

The North Pacific Seal Hunt, 1886-1910: Rights and regulations pp. 97-119 Downloads
D. G. Paterson
The cotton industry and southern urbanization, 1880-1930 pp. 120-140 Downloads
Kenneth Weiher
National bias in the Austrian capital market before World War I pp. 141-166 Downloads
David F. Good
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: Another view pp. 167-182 Downloads
Robert McGuire and Robert Higgs
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: A reply pp. 183-195 Downloads
Gavin Wright and Howard Kunreuther

Volume 14, issue 1, 1977

Relative downward industrial price flexibility, 1870-1921 pp. 1-19 Downloads
Austin H. Spencer
The income effects of the sources of new money: A comparison of the United States and the United Kingdom, 1870-1913 pp. 20-43 Downloads
Michael Bordo
Diversification and concentration of LDC exports: Victorian trends pp. 44-68 Downloads
John Hanson
The interest rate and prices in Britain, 1873-1913: A study of the Gibson Paradox pp. 69-89 Downloads
Knick Harley
Regional interest rates and bank failures, 1870-1914 pp. 90-95 Downloads
Hugh Rockoff

Volume 13, issue 4, 1976

The transition from indentured to involuntary servitude in colonial Georgia pp. 353-370 Downloads
Ralph Gray and Betty Wood
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe pp. 371-396 Downloads
Joel Mokyr
Economic change after the American Revolution: Pre- and post-war comparisons of maritime shipping and trade pp. 397-422 Downloads
James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton
Cattlemen's associations and property rights in land in the American West pp. 423-436 Downloads
R. Taylor Dennen
U. S. gold production prior to the California gold rush pp. 437-449 Downloads
David A. Martin
Relative skill and income levels of native and foreign born workers: A reexamination pp. 451-461 Downloads
Peter R. Shergold
Parliamentary enclosure and population change in England, 1750-1830 pp. 463-468 Downloads
Michael Turner
Reply to parliamentary enclosure and population change in England, 1750-1830 pp. 469-471 Downloads
Gordon Philpot

Volume 13, issue 3, 1976

French industrialization: A reconsideration pp. 233-281 Downloads
Richard Roehl
Realized rates of return on U.K. Home and overseas portfolio investment in the age of high imperialism pp. 283-329 Downloads
Michael Edelstein
English farming profits during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 pp. 331-345 Downloads
Glenn Hueckel
European historical statistics and economic growth pp. 347-351 Downloads
Herman van der Wee

Volume 13, issue 2, 1976

Risk, transaction costs, and the organization of medieval agriculture pp. 129-151 Downloads
Stefano Fenoaltea
Participation of blacks and immigrants in the American Merchant class, 1890-1910: Some demographic relations pp. 153-164 Downloads
Robert Higgs
On returns to scale and input substitutability in slave agriculture pp. 165-178 Downloads
Thomas M. Zepp
Sources of capital and expenditures for internal improvements in a developing region: The case of Wisconsin Lake Ports, 1836-1910 pp. 179-201 Downloads
Jerome K. Laurent
Regional differences in real wages: The United States, 1851-1880 pp. 203-230 Downloads
Philip Coelho and James F. Shepherd

Volume 13, issue 1, 1976

Health, work, and leisure before the industrial revolution pp. 1-12 Downloads
Herman Freudenberger and Gaylord Cummins
Mortality trends of southern blacks, 1850-1910: Some preliminary findings pp. 13-42 Downloads
Edward Meeker
Economic change and the demise of the Roman Empire pp. 43-68 Downloads
Gerald Gunderson
Antebellum southern rental contracts pp. 69-83 Downloads
Joseph Reid
Railroads in Tsarist Russia: Direct gains and implications pp. 85-111 Downloads
Jacob Metzer
The welfare costs of bilateralism: German-Hungarian trade, 1933-1938 pp. 113-125 Downloads
Philip Friedman

Volume 12, issue 4, 1975

Editorial introduction pp. 333-334 Downloads
Gary M. Walton
The treatment received by American slaves: A critical review of the evidence presented in Time on the Cross pp. 335-438 Downloads
Richard Sutch
Slavery and the cotton boom pp. 439-451 Downloads
Gavin Wright
The slave exploitation (expropriation) rate pp. 453-457 Downloads
Richard K. Vedder

Volume 12, issue 3, 1975

Profitability in southern manufacturing: Estimates for 1860 pp. 211-231 Downloads
Fred Bateman, James Foust and Thomas Weiss
The old poor law revisited pp. 233-252 Downloads
G. S. L. Tucker
Introduction of the symposium pp. 253-261 Downloads
Morris David Morris
Railways and the expansion of markets in India, 1861-1921 pp. 263-288 Downloads
John Hurd
The effects of expansion of markets on rural income distribution in nineteenth century India pp. 289-302 Downloads
Michelle Burge McAlpin
The peasant farm in North India, 1848-1968 pp. 303-331 Downloads
Tom G. Kessinger

Volume 12, issue 2, 1975

The gold crisis of 1869: Stabilizing or destabilizing speculation under floating exchange rates? pp. 105-122 Downloads
Larry T. Wimmer
Rational management, modern business practices, and economies of scale in the ante-bellum southern plantations pp. 123-150 Downloads
Jacob Metzer
Wealth estimates for the New England Colonies, 1650-1709 pp. 151-176 Downloads
Terry L. Anderson
Industrial prices and inflation in southern England, 1401-1640 pp. 177-192 Downloads
Robert A. Doughty
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth: A critique of Davis and North pp. 193-210 Downloads
Alan Olmstead and Victor P. Goldberg

Volume 12, issue 1, 1975

The impact of the Civil War and of emancipation on Southern agriculture pp. 1-28 Downloads
Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch
Enclosure and population growth in eighteenth-century England pp. 29-46 Downloads
Gordon Philpot
Relative skill and income levels of native and foreign born workers in the United States pp. 47-60 Downloads
Peter J. Hill
Educational slowdown and public intervention in 19th-century England: A study in the economics of bureaucracy pp. 61-87 Downloads
E. G. West
Southern ante-bellum income reconsidered pp. 89-99 Downloads
Robert E. Gallman
Southern income reconsidered: A reply pp. 101-102 Downloads
Gerald Gunderson
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