TABLE OF CONTENT

Toward a More Useful Economic History
PAUL M. HOHENBERG
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 339 - 354

Economic Growth in the Lower Yangzi Region of China in 1911–1937: A Quantitative and Historical Analysis
DEBIN MA
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 355 - 392

India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India
ROMAN STUDER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 393 - 437

Banks, Credit Markets, and Early American Development: A Case Study of Entry and Competition
TA-CHEN WANG
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 438 - 461

The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s
KRIS JAMES MITCHENER
MARC D. WEIDENMIER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 462 - 500

Advances in Communication Technology and Growth of the American Over-the-Counter Markets, 1876–1929
J. PETER FERDERER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 501 - 534

The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895–1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution
ALBRECHT RITSCHL
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 535 - 565

The Institutional Foundations of the International Capital Market Before 1914
RUI PEDRO ESTEVES
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 566 - 570

Communal Institutions, Resource Allocation, and Russian Economic Development: 1861–1905
STEVEN NAFZIGER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 570 - 575

The Lender's Curse: A New Look at the Origin and Persistence of Interest Bans in Islam and Christianity
JARED RUBIN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 575 - 579

Missouri's Hidden Civil War: Financial Conspiracy and the End of the Planter Elite, 1861–1865
MARK W. GEIGER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008,
pp 579 - 584

Merchants and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana: New Orleans and Its Hinterlands
SCOTT P. MARLER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 584 - 590

Automobiles, the Mass Market, and the Retail Revolution of the Early Twentieth Century: A Structural Analysis of Changes in American Retail Institutions, Market Power, and Labor Demand
TODD C. NEUMANN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 591 - 594

Comments on Esteves, Nafziger, and Rubin
JOYCE BURENTTE
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 594 - 599

Comments on Geiger, Marler, and Neumann
CAROLYN M. MOEHLING
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 599 - 602

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 603 - 617

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 618 - 620

Editors' Notes
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 621 - 625

London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussiere . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 367. £50.
STEFANO BATTILOSSI
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 626 - 627

The Re-Emergence of Global Finance. By Gary Burn. London: Palgrave, 2006. Pp. xii, 231.
FORREST CAPIE
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 628 - 629

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume II: The Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coatsworth and Roberto Cortés Conde . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 755. $150.
COLIN M. LEWIS
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 629 - 632

The Fable of the Keirets: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 181. $32.50.
R. TAGGART MURPHY
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 632 - 635

Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 222. $35.
SEAN PATRICK ADAMS
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 635 - 637

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007. Pp. ix, 395. $35.
CAROLA FRYDMAN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 637 - 638

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $45.
JOHN MAJEWSKI
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 639 - 640

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 457. $29.95.
SCOTT A. REDENIUS
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 640 - 642

Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward S. Miller. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 323. $23.
KRIS JAMES MITCHENER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 642 - 644