Journal of Economic History

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A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access.	67
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	40
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The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression. By Jason E. Taylor. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. v, 274. $29.35, paper.	23
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting	22
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State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	18
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	16
Before the Fed: J.P. Morgan, America’s Lender of Last Resort. By Jon Moen and Mary Tone Rodgers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 270. $45.00, hardcover; $45.00, eBook.	16
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. Pp. vii, 223. $29.00, hardcover.	15
Editors’ Report for 2023	15
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	15
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	14
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	14
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	14
Pronatalist Policies’ Backlash in Authoritarian Regimes	14
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	14
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	13
Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st Centuries. Edited by Alberte Martínez-López, Jesús Mirás-Araujo, and Nuria Rodríguez-Martín. London and New Y	12
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Crises and Educational Attainment	11
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	10
Eligibility to the Central Bank in Times of Crises: Evidence from France, 1863–1890	9
The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940 —ADDENDUM	9
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	9

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Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	8
Institutions, Local Agency, and Allegiance: Healthcare Provision in Colonial India	8
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	8
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	8
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	8
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Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.	7
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	7
Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID-19. By Sheilagh C. Ogilvie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. $45.00, hardcover.	7
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	7
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	6
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	6
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	6
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	6
Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno	6
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. By Didac Queralt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 343. $120.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.	6
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	6
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	5
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	5
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	5
Reconstructing History: Using Language to Estimate Religious Spread	5
Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe	5
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Railroad Bailouts in the Great Depression	4
Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940	4
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility	4
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	4
Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America. By Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 412. $39.95, hardcover.	4
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Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	4
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Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era	3
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	3
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. By Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 258. $32.50, cloth. ISBN-13: 978	3
Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. £65.00, hardcover.	3
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	3
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	3
Creating American Farmland: Governance Institutions and Investment in Agricultural Drainage	3
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Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle. By Cédric Quertier. Rome, Italy: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. xiv, 600. 35€.	3
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin. By Jeronim Perović. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x, 250. £80.00, hardcover.	3
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France	3
Institutional Innovation and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam	2
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. By Chris Miller. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 464. $32.00, hardcover.	2
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	2
The Model T	2
Strikes and Machines: Investments in the Norwegian Inter-War-Period	1

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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting	1
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	1
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	1
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	1
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting	1
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.	1
An Economic History of India: Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century. By Bishnupriya Gupta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 234. $110.00, hardcover; $35.	1
Editors’ Report for 2025	1
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	1
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Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Late-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Manufacturing Firms	1
Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper.	1
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024. Pp. i.x, 320. $29.99, hardcover.	1
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011	1
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	1
Large Fires and the Rise of Fire Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Japan	1
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State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	0
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	0
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 300. £75.00, hardcover.	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools	0
The Her in Inheritance: How Marriage Matching Has Always Mattered, Quebec 1800–1970	0
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Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World	0
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The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 240. $40.00, cloth.	0
Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia	0
Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.	0
What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act	0
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	0
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980	0
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	0
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	0
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.	0
El Nacimiento de la Banca en América Latina: Finanzas y Política en el Siglo XIX. By Carlos Marichal. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 508, MX$350.	0
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Lottery-Based Elections, Power Monopolization, and Urban Development: The Case of Swiss City-States, 1666–1794	0
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government	0
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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908	0
The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal	0
Editors’ Report for 2024	0
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. By Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. £22.99, paper; £70.00, cloth.	0
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change	0
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830–1962	0
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The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. $64.95, hardcover.	0
Small, Medium, Large: How the Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Coleen A. Dunlavy. Cambridge, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xii, 226. $29.95 cloth; $24.00 eboo	0
Financial Innovation and Resilience: A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462–1808). Edited by Lilia Costabile and Larry Neal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xix, 372. €155.9	0
Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations. By Christina Lubinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. £75.00, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-316	0
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California	0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India	0
Voting Rights and Media Sentiment: Evidence from Early Suffrage States	0
Financing Late Industrialization: Evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire	0
It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending —ADDENDUM	0
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Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	0
El Pan Nuestro: A History of the Corn Tortilla. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato Freer. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 2024. Pp. 610, il. $25.	0
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492	0
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe	0
How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century	0
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament	0
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870. By Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 1107. $195.00, hardcover; $99.	0
Ibicaba (1817–1927): Entendendo, Vivendo e Construindo Futuros. Bruno Gabriel Witzel and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal (Orgs.). Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2021. Pp. 471; $17.50.	0
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover.	0
Sovereign Collateral	0
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912	0
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data	0
Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast	0
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce and Empire in the Riverine West, 1750–1803. By Kim M. Gruenwald. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 193. $64.95, hardcover; $64.95	0
Firm Networks in the Great Depression	0
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The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper.	0

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Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe —ADDENDUM	0
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	0
Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records	0
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660	0
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency. By Oliver Volckart. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. $39.99, hardcover.	0
The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. v, 453. $45.00, hardcover.	0
Shining Light on a Statistical Dark Age: Postal Activity in Antebellum America	0
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The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990	0
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. By Carola Binder. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $35.00, cloth.	0
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Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”	0
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Editors’ Notes	0
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain	0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility	0
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England	0
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Chicago Before the Fire: An Economic History. By Louis P. Cain. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2025. Pp. 304. $125.00, cloth; $29.95, paper; $14.95, eBook.	0
One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850. By Christopher M. Meissner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 330. £64.00, cloth; £22.99, paper.	0
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	0
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression	0
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2024. Pp. 752. $23.86, hardcover.	0
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise. By Richard N. Langlois. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 816. $45.00 cloth.	0
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Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office	0
How Britain Unified Germany: Trade Routes and the Formation of the Zollverein	0
Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900	0
How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. By Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. Medford: Polity Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 259. $24.95, paper.	0
The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940	0
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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting	0
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 300. $87.56, hardcover.	0
Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression	0
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Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe	0
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Pp. 271. $45.00, hardcover; $45.00, eBook.	0
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The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy	0
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. By Daniel Waldenström. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95, hardcover.	0
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The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition	0
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach	0
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand	0
Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities	0
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U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	0
Who Wins and Loses in a Bubble? Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania	0
Exposure to World War II and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle	0
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan	0
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy. By Jérôme Sgard. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Pp. 354. $165.00, hardcover.	0
It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending	0
Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM	0
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	0
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility —ADDENDUM	0
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia	0
Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development	0
The Irish in England	0
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation	0
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants	0
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The Extent of the Market for Early American Banknotes	0