Economic History Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Economic History Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–180024
Beyond the male breadwinner: Life‐cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–185020
The Irish economy during the century after partition20
Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations17
Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy†17
Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution17
Augmented human development in the age of globalization12
Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019†11
The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization†11
The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–201610
‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century10
Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–184410
The Polish interbella puzzle: the biological standard of living in the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39 10
Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–196710
War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–19138
Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)8
Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe†8
After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780–18358
Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–18697
The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 19347
Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona7
Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico7
The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 18667
Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–18617
Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 19137
Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset†6
Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 19236
Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber6
Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 16666
Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)5
Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers5
Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy5
Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport5
Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–605
From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–20195
Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries5
Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade?4
Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−144
Serbia on the path to modern economic growth4
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective4
Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes4
Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism†4
An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–19134
Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction4
History as heresy: Unlearning the lessons of economic orthodoxy4
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 19024
Paesaniversuspaisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration4
Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–19004
How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?†4
Industrialisation in a small grain economy during the First Globalisation: Bulgaria c. 1870–19104
Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–19484
Wiring China: The impact of telegraph construction on grain market integration in late imperial China, 1870–19113
Short‐ and medium‐run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil3
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions3
Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–19213
English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries3
The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes†3
Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney3
Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)3
Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s3
Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia3
Consumer revolution in north‐western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto‐industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries3
Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–19403
Demographic trends in late‐slavery Jamaica, 1817–323
Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–833
Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth‐century Lyon3
Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have?3
Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 20223
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–19133
The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600–1850)3
The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS2
Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden2
The anatomy of a bubble company: The London Assurance in 17202
Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–17502
Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century2
Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–832
Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements: Evidence from New Zealand's Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act of 19032
A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub‐sector pattern, and region2
Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census2
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States2
Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland2
The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population†2
Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)2
Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution2
Credit risk in colonial India2
Human capital transfer of German‐speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s2
Individual investors and social ownership structures in the UK before the 1930s: Joint holdings and trustee investment1
Firm survival and the rise of the factory1
Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard,c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages1
The price of poverty: The association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947–20151
New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–19091
Introduction to the symposium on inequality1
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Los von London’: A comparative, empirical analysis of German and British global foreign banking and trade development, 1881–19131
Autarky in Franco's Spain: The costs of a closed economy1
Fiscal policy under constraints: Fiscal capacity and austerity during the Great Depression1
Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–16041
Legal origins of corporate governance: Choice of law in Egypt, 1887–19141
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–17141
Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–19381
Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia1
Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s1
The emergence of double entry bookkeeping1
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International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War1
Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders1
Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth‐century Netherlands1
The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies1
Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–91
Gender and justice: The status of women in Ottoman courts1
Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–121
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–18501
New evidence on wine in French international trade (1848–1913): Import discrimination as export quality promotion1
From circular to permanent: The economic assimilation of migrants during Spain's rural exodus, 1955–731
Peer pressure: The puzzle of aristocrats’ tax compliance in early nineteenth‐century Moscow1
Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–31
Making the municipal capital market in nineteenth‐century England†1
Dating business cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700–20101
Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society1
Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth in a long run perspective, 1885–20191
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development1
Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: The case of Cambridgeshire1
Credibility building in the sovereign debt market: Evidence from prewar China1
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A. G.Hopkins, An economic history of West Africa (London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. v+399. 17 maps. 6 figs. ISBN 978036700243 Hbk. £120.00)1
The great margin call: The role of leverage in the 1929 Wall Street crash1
The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–18301
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia1
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England1
Aesthetics for a polite society: Language and the marketing of second‐hand goods in eighteenth‐century London1
The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East1
Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556†1
The settlers’ fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic1
Introduction to the symposium on banking and currency0
JaneKershaw and GarethWilliams, eds., Silver, butter, cloth: monetary and social economies in the Viking Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. v+306. 69 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198827986 Hbk0
ErinWoodruff Stone, Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. 235. 3 maps. 3 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780812253108. Hbk 0
Supervision without regulation: Discount limits at the Austro–Hungarian Bank, 1909–130
The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume II By Richard vonGlahn and DebinMa (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 864. 29 figs. ISBN 9781108348485. Hbk £1200
VictoriaBateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95)0
Davies, John E., The changing fortunes of an aristocratic family, 1689–1976: the Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh estates (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. ix+343. 12 figs. ISBN 978‐1‐78327‐4340
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–11000
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iv) 1700–18500
RobinFleming, The Material Fall of Roman Britain 300–525 CE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. xii + 303. 22 figs. ISBN 978‐0‐8122‐5244‐6. $45/£370
JohnHenderson, Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+363. 39 plates. 4 maps. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780300196344 Hbk. £30.00)0
Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India0
The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 19480
Review of periodical literature for 20210
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (vi) post‐19450
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Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.WenkaiHe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 320. ISBN 9781009334556. Pbk. £25.99)0
AndyCook, The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK: Britain's Other D‐DayCambridge Scholars Publishing, Pp. 225. ISBN: 97815275769640
NorbertGötz, GeorginaBrewis, and SteffenWerther, Humanitarianism in the modern world: the moral economy of famine relief (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+310. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISB0
An Economic History of the First German Unification: State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective.UlrichPfister & NikolausWolf (eds.), (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. pp. 390. 500
Three centuries of corporate governance in the United Kingdom0
State of forgiveness: Cooperation, conciliation, and state formation in Mughal South Asia (1556–1707)0
Finance capitalism in industrializing autocracies: Evidence from corporate balance sheets in imperial Germany and Russia0
Stationary steam power in the United Kingdom, 1800–70: An empirical reassessment0
Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India0
Putting women back into the early modern economy: Work, occupations, and economic development0
MortenJerven, The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 198. ISBN 9780
One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 19830
Secret leviathan: Secrecy and state capacity under Soviet Communism.MarkHarrison, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. pp. 372. 9 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN: 9781503628892 $65)0
A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960–2017 By TimothyKehoe and Juan PabloNicolini (eds), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. pp. xvii + 569. ISBN Hbk. 9781517911980 Pb0
The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930.AlunDavies, (Routledge, 2024. pp. 414. 21 B/W images. ISBN 9781032131351, Pbk £39.99)0
Carbon technocracy: Energy regimes in modern East Asia.VictorSeow, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. pp. 376. 25 figs. ISBN: 9780226826554. Pbk. $27.50)0
Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–390
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (v) 1850–19450
Correction to ‘Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40’0
CraigVanGrasstek, Trade and American leadership: the paradoxes of power and wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxviii+475. 20 figs. 19 tab0
Review of periodical literature for 20210
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The Roman Stock Exchange Between the 19th and 20th Centuries: A History of the Italian Stock Market By DonatellaStrangio (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. pp. Xxvi + 259. 42 figs. 28 tab0
Sterling's farewell symphony: The end of the Sterling Area revisited0
Goodbye, Mr. Portugal: Fiscal crisis, constitutional revolution, and the independence of Brazil (1808–22)0
SimonMee, Central bank independence and the legacy of the German past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. 13 illus. 3 tabs. ISBN 978110849978 Hbk. £75.00)0
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660–1800. By EstherSahle, (Ed.), Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. pp. vi+206. 10 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN Pbk. 9781783275861 £24.990
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SelinaTodd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)0
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Review of periodical literature for 2020: (ii) 1100–15000
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance By DidacQueralt, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. p. 368. 43 figs. 19 tables. ISBN 9780691231525. Hbk0
Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’0
MichaelSchiltz, Accounting for the fall of silver: hedging currency risk in long‐distance trade with Asia, 1870–1913 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v+224. 48 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198860
Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy0
Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth‐century city0
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John C.Appleby, Fur, fashion and transatlantic trade during the seventeenth century: Chesapeake Bay Native hunters, colonial rivalries and London merchants (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. x+294.0
Hot money inflows and bank risk‐taking: Germany from the 1920s to the Great Depression0
Should history change the way we think about populism?0
DavidFreeman, A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+226. ISBN 9781108417495 Ebk. 9781108281164 Hbk. £75 Eb0
XavierLafrance, The making of capitalism in France: class structures, economic development, the state and the formation of the French working class, 1750–1914 (Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. x+312. ISBN 9780
The Making of a Fiscal‐Military State in Post‐Revolutionary FranceJeromeGreenfield, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. ix+325. 14 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781108839679. Hbk. £75)0
The Economic weapon: The rise of sanctions as a tool of modern war By NicholasMulder, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. pp. xiv + 434 pages. ISBN 9780300259360 Hbk £25.000
The 1929 crash of the New York stock exchange as a liquidity crisis0
TirthankarRoy and Anand V.Swamy, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. pp. 272. 14 tables. 4 figs. ISBN 9780226799001. Hbk $45.000
Railways’ Economic Impact on Uttar Pradesh and Colonial North India (1860–1914): The Iron Raj By Ian D.Derbyshire, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. pp. 615. ISBN 97815275869010
Back to the future: How economic history can gain more relevance by abandoning modernization thinking0
Cellular: An economic and business history of the international mobile‐phone industry.Daniel D.Garcia‐Swartz and MartinCampbell‐Kelly, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. pp. 400. 75 figs. ISBN 978020
Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic0
Breaking free? The evolution of intra‐Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795–1839)0
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Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–11000
WilliamQuinn and John D.Turner, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. pp. viii+288. 25 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN Hbk. 97811084212560
Virtue capitalists: The rise and fall of the professional class in the Anglophone world, 1870–2008HannahForsyth, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 317. 12 figs. ISBN: 9781009206488, Hbk0
StanaNenadic, Craftworkers in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. pp. 1–256. 14 figs. ISBN 9781474490307. Hbk £850
The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya0
Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology0
Aaron G.Jakes, Egypt's occupation: colonial economism and the crises of capitalism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+352. 1 tab. ISBN 9781503607194 Hbk. $90.00; ISBN 97815036126170
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BronwenEverill, Not made by slaves: ethical capitalism in the age of abolition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 318. ISBN 9780674240988 Hbk. $39.95/£31.95)0
Dael A.Norwood, Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early AmericaChicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 270. 9 figs. ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐81558‐9 Hbk. $45.000
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Assessing female accountability in the long eighteenth century through debt imprisonment0
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992AlainNaef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)0
JulianHoppit, DuncanNeedham, and AdrianLeonard, eds., Money and markets: essays in honour of Martin Daunton (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. v+294. 17 figs. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781783274451 Pbk. £19.90
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 19450
Poverty and wealth in East Africa: A conceptual history By RhiannonStephens, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. pp. 312. 9 figs. ISBN 9781478018827. Pbk $27.950
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iii) 1500–17000
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BenMarsh, Unravelled dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World 1500–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+500. ISBN 9781108418287 Hbk. £29.99)0
The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History By Thomas M.Truxes, London: Yale University Press, 2021. pp. 464. 35 figs. ISBN 9780300159882. Hbk $37.490
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GreggHuff, World War II and Southeast Asia: economy and society under Japanese occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+524. ISBN 9781107099333 Hbk. £90.00)0
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–13680
From the little divergence to the little divide: Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540‒1850)0
Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s0
AdamGoodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling ImmigrantsPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. Hbk. 9780691182155 Hbk. £25.00/$29.950
Jan LuitenvanZanden, TinedeMoor, and SarahCarmichael, Capital women: the European Marriage Pattern, female empowerment, and economic development in western Europe, 1300–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University0
Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China0
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Female relatives and domestic service in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: Female kin servants revisited0
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The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt0
Updated estimates of UK GDP from the income side, 1841–19200
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Peasants making history: Living in an English region 1200–1540ChristopherDyer, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. 396. 55 figs and tabs. ISBN: 9780198847212, Hbk. £81)0
The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean0
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–14000
It's not about the money: New evidence on U.S. reconstruction aid in Italy, 1947–680
The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective0
Review of periodical literature for 20210
The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting0
Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi‐occupied Netherlands0
Introduction to the symposium on demographic shocks0
Review of periodical literature for 20210
Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis0
HaroldJames, Making a modern central bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. i+525. ISBN 9781108799492 Pbk. £29.99)0
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