TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ordinary Economic Voting Behavior in the Extraordinary Election of Adolf Hitler
GARY KING
ORI ROSEN
MARTIN TANNER
ALEXANDER F. WAGNER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 951 - 996

Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush
KAREN CLAY
RANDALL JONES
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 997 - 1027

Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913
C. KNICK HARLEY
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1028 - 1058

Corruption, Quasi-Rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities
JOHN L. NEUFELD
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1059 - 1097

“Una fiera senza luogo”: Was Bisenzone an International Capital Market in Sixteenth-Century Italy?
LUCIANO PEZZOLO
GIUSEPPE TATTARA
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1098 - 1122

Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
ALAN L. OLMSTEAD
PAUL W. RHODE
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1123 - 1171

Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results
BURTON A. ABRAMS
JING LI
JAMES G. MULLIGAN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1172 - 1176

Editors' Notes

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth.
JAN DE VRIES
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1180 - 1181

Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History. By Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $29.00, cloth.
JARI ELORANTA
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1182 - 1183

Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny. Edited by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney. Washington, DC: The World Bank and Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 369. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.
IAN KEAY
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1183 - 1185

Artisan Workers in the Upper South, Petersburg, 1820–1865. By L. Diane Barnes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 230. $37.50, cloth.
MARY FERRARI
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1185 - 1186

Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. By Robert Eric Barde. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xi, 283. $45.95, cloth.
ERIKA LEE
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1187 - 1188

The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented America. By Maury Klein. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 520. $29.99, cloth.
WILLIAM J. HAUSMAN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1188 - 1189