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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 £8524
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Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy19
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–136818
Correction to ‘Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)’14
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)13
SelinaTodd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)12
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VictoriaBateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95)12
International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War11
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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/£3711
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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, Hbk8
Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s8
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992AlainNaef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)8
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
Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis7
Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic7
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850–19456
Missing women in colonial India6
The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 19486
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice.Eds AnnaBellavitis and ValentinaSapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125)6
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iv) 1700–18506
The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–815
Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia5
Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers5
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W. G.Miller, British traders in the East Indies 1770–1820 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Pp. i+222. ISBN 9781783275533 Hbk. £75.00)5
Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–744
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
Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 16664
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
Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction4
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).4
Making Social Spending Work By Peter H.Lindert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. v+422. Hbk. ISBN: 9781108478168Hbk. £25.004
No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining4
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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
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
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
Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders3
Neo‐Confucianism and the rise of science and technology in Medieval China3
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
Correction to ‘Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective’3
Serbia on the path to modern economic growth3
Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden†3
A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art3
Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations3
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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
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–15003
New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–19093
British imperialism and globalization, c. 1650–1960Joseph E.Inikori (ed.), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022. p. 325. ISBN 9781783276462. Hbk £70.003
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Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800MaartenPrak and Jan LuitenvanZanden, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 280. ISBN 9780691229874. Hbk £30)3
Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China2
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–11002
Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy.TimLankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99)2
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia2
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–17142
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 19022
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By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems2
Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–18602
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–14002
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–18502
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
The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective2
Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology2
Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth‐century city2
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
Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–19402
Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3†2
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
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
Review of periodical literature for 20212
Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 19311
Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–19381
The Blacketts: A northern dynasty's rise, crisis and redemption By GregFinch, Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne Bridge Publishing. 2021. pp. viii + 367. 28 plates. ISBN Hbk. 9781838280956 Pbk. 9781838280994 H1
Shipping in the London coal trade, 1700‒18601
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States1
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Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco1
The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting1
Review of periodical literature for 20211
BasvanLeeuwen, Robert C. M.Philips, and ErikBuyst, eds., An economic history of regional industrialization (London: Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 2021. Pp. v+300. 60 illus. ISBN 978036711
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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
Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iii) 1500–17001
Introduction to the symposium on money1
Modifying the success story of Sweden: Revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869–19501
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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the course of human history By KyleHarper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.001
The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 19341
Putting women back into the early modern economy: Work, occupations, and economic development1
One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 19831
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
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
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (v) 1850–19451
AndyCook, The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK: Britain's Other D‐DayCambridge Scholars Publishing, Pp. 225. ISBN: 97815275769641
What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911–521
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective1
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
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England1
A U‐shaped curve of female entrepreneurs? The development of women's entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1899–20201
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
Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–19401
Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations1
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development1
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
Correction to ‘Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40’1
Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)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
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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