THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY Volume 70 - Issue 01 - March 2010
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Articles
The Uneven Rise of American Public Schools to 1850 Sun Go, Peter Lindert The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 1 - 26 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000033 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan Kris James Mitchener, Masato Shizume, Marc D. Weidenmier The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 27 - 56 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000045 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880–1930 Tom Nicholas The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 57 - 82 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000057 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data Elizabeth Brainerd The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 83 - 117 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000069 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity Across the Colonies versus Across the States, 1748–1811 Farley Grubb The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 118 - 145 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000070 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
The German Elections in the 1870s: Why Germany Turned from Liberalism to Protectionism Sibylle H. Lehmann The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 146 - 178 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000082 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate Tirthankar Roy The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 179 - 194 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000094 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal Todd C. Neumann, Price V. Fishback, Shawn Kantor The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 195 - 220 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000100 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Notes
The Decline in Infant Death Rates, 1878–1913: The Role of Early Sickness Insurance Programs John R. Bowblis The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 221 - 232 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000112 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Editors Note
Editors' Notes The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 233 - 241 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000124 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Reviews Of Books
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. By Robert Allen. (New Approaches to Economic and Social History Series.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 242 - 245 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000136 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: A Study of Political Power and Social Revolution in Languedoc. By Stephen Miller. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 322. $79.95. cloth. D. M. G. SUTHERLAND The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 245 - 246 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000148 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade Between France and the Dutch Republic in its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650. By Henriette de Bruyn Kops. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiv, 371. $147. Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste. By David Hancock. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xxix, 632. $50. PAUL M. HOHENBERG The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 247 - 249 doi:10.1017/S002205071000015X Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. By Cormac Ó Gréda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 300. $35.00, cloth. NEAL GARNHAM The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 249 - 250 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000161 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace. By Steven M. Gelber. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. TODD NEUMANN The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 250 - 252 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000173 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. By Brian Schoen. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 369. $55. DAVID G. SURDAM The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 252 - 254 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000185 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Industrial Development in Postwar Japan. By Hirohisa Kohama. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xiv, 226.. MARK METZLER The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 254 - 255 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000197 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. By Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 308.. $24.00, cloth. D. RODERICK KIEWIET The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 255 - 259 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000203 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods. The Cairoli Lectures, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. By Barry Eichengreen. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 187. $26.00. GIANNI TONIOLO The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 259 - 260 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000215 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism. By Alex Preda. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. viii, 318. $25.00, paper. LARRY NEAL The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 260 - 262 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000227 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010
Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History: The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge. By Douglas J. Puffert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 376. $55.00, cloth. AASHISH VELKAR The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 262 - 263 doi:10.1017/S0022050710000239 Published online by Cambridge University Press 08 Mar 2010