Economic History Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Economic History Review is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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 £8520
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Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy16
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–136814
SelinaTodd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)13
Correction to ‘Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)’13
VictoriaBateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95)12
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Correction to ‘Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective’10
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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/£3710
Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s9
Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol‐West India Sugar Trade, 1783–1802.PeterBuckles, (Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 232. 17 fig 3. ISBN 981802078831, Hbk. £95)7
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, Hbk7
Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis7
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice.Eds AnnaBellavitis and ValentinaSapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125)7
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iv) 1700–18506
International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War6
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850–19456
Missing women in colonial India6
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992AlainNaef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)6
The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 19486
Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic6
Making Social Spending Work By Peter H.Lindert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. v+422. Hbk. ISBN: 9781108478168Hbk. £25.005
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The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–815
W. G.Miller, British traders in the East Indies 1770–1820 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Pp. i+222. ISBN 9781783275533 Hbk. £75.00)5
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No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining5
Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers5
Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia5
The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales4
MitsuhikoKimura, The economics of colonialism in Korea: Rethinking Japanese rule and aftermath (Tokyo: Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2021. Pp. 233. 1 fig. 38 tabs. ISBN 9784866581248 Hbk. 4
Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–744
Banking on railroads: The effect of market access on banking provision during the Gilded Age4
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–19134
One from the Many, The Global Economy Since 1850.Christopher M.Meissner, (Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780199924462. PbK $32)4
Pax Economica: Left‐Wing Visions of a Free Trade World.Marc‐WilliamPalen, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 309. ISBN 9780691199320. Hbk £30)4
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919. By GhassanMoazzin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 352. ISBN 9781009037891. Hbk £754
‘A new way by her invented’: Women inventors and technological innovation in Britain, 1800–19304
Correction to ‘Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective’3
Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century3
Sovereignty Without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 By LeighGardner, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 230. 61 figs. 21 tables ISBN 9781009181105. Hbk £75)3
CharlieWhitham, Corporate conservatives go to war: How the National Association of Manufacturers planned to restore free enterprise, 1939–1948 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi+400. ISBN 978‐3‐03
Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–19403
Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800MaartenPrak and Jan LuitenvanZanden, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 280. ISBN 9780691229874. Hbk £30)3
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Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change By Stephen G.Gross, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023: pp. 408. ISBN: 9780197667712, Hbk £35).3
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British imperialism and globalization, c. 1650–1960Joseph E.Inikori (ed.), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022. p. 325. ISBN 9781783276462. Hbk £70.003
HenningHillmann, The corsairs of Saint‐Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Régime (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xii+322. 35 figs. 26 tabs. ISBN 97802311803
New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–19093
Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction3
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Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 16663
Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop By LachlanMcNamee, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. pp. 256. 30 figs. ISBN 9780691237817. bk £30)3
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Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–15003
Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–18603
Neo‐Confucianism and the rise of science and technology in Medieval China3
Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders2
Telegraph and capital market integration: Evidence from late imperial China2
Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy.TimLankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99)2
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–11002
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–14002
By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems2
Review of periodical literature for 20212
The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective2
Capital in Banking, The Role of Capital in Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: The United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland.SimonAmrein, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 222
A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art2
Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas.GérardBéaur and FrancescoChiapparino (Eds.), (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 294. ISBN 9780367615505. Hbk £100)2
Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations2
Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth‐century city2
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia2
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)2
Correction to ‘Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40’2
Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950.FernandoCollantes, (Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350401549. HbK £85)2
Serbia on the path to modern economic growth2
Finding a Path for China's Rise. The Socialist State and the World Economy, 1970–1978.PhilippeLionnet, (Transcript, 2023. Pp. 468. ISBN 9783837664225. PbK €55)2
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 £24.992
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–17142
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 £25.002
Carbon technocracy: Energy regimes in modern East Asia.VictorSeow, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. pp. 376. 25 figs. ISBN: 9780226826554. Pbk. $27.50)2
Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China2
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–18501
Poverty and wealth in East Africa: A conceptual history By RhiannonStephens, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. pp. 312. 9 figs. ISBN 9781478018827. Pbk $27.951
The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 19341
Review of periodical literature for 20211
What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911–521
Shipping in the London coal trade, 1700‒18601
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AndyCook, The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK: Britain's Other D‐DayCambridge Scholars Publishing, Pp. 225. ISBN: 97815275769641
The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting1
One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 19831
Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–19401
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. Hbk1
Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology1
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (v) 1850–19451
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States1
Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)1
Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the present By Leandro Pradosde laEscosura, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 330. ISBN 9781108708586. Pbk £22.991
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy.CarloBastasin and GianniToniolo, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 211. 29 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781009235310, Pbk. £22.99)1
Stephen L.Morgan, The Chinese economy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021. Pp. xvii+316. 35 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781788210805 Hbk. £60.00; ISBN 9781788210812 Pbk. £16.99)1
Putting women back into the early modern economy: Work, occupations, and economic development1
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 9781
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics1
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+294.1
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 19021
Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco1
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development1
Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–19381
The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–19001
Robert E.Gallman and Paul W.Rhode, Capital in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2019. pp. vii+381. 131 tabs. 10 figs. Hbk. ISBN 9780226633114 Hbk. $65.001
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Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations1
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