Articles

The Mystery of Property Rights: A U.S. Perspective
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 275 - 306
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001537
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Repairing a Mortgage Crisis: HOLC Lending and Its Impact on Local Housing Markets
Charles Courtemanche, Kenneth Snowden
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 307 - 337
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001549
Published Online on 06th June 2011

The National Banking Acts and the Transformation of New York City Banking During the Civil War Era
John A. James, David F. Weiman
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 338 - 362
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001550
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Do Patents Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World's Fairs
Petra Moser
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 363 - 382
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001562
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Thrifty Pensioners: Pensions and Savings in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Jérôme Bourdieu, Lionel Kesztenbaum, Gilles Postel-Vinay
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 383 - 412
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001574
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Networks in the Premodern Economy: The Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600–1749
Tim Leunig, Chris Minns, Patrick Wallis
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 413 - 443
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001586
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Net Exports and the Avoidance of High Unemployment During Reconversion, 1945–1947
Jason E. Taylor, Bharati Basu, Steven McLean
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 444 - 454
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001598
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Notes

The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal
Ugo Gragnolati, Daniele Moschella, Emanuele Pugliese
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 455 - 460
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001604
Published Online on 06th June 2011

The Spinning Jenny: A Fresh Look
Robert C. Allen
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 461 - 464
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001616
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Summaries Of Doctoral Dissertations

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 465 - 497
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001628
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Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The Annual Meeting

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 498 - 515
doi: 10.1017/S002205071100163X
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Abstracts Of Posters Presented At The Annual Meeting

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 516 - 522
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001641
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Editors Note

Editors' Notes
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 523 - 527
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001811
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Reviews Of Books

The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery. By Nicholas Draper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 401. $95.00, hardcover.
Stanley L. Engerman
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 528 - 529
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001653
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The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany. By Rebecca Jean Emigh. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009. Pp. xv, 271. $29.95, paper.
Steven A. Epstein
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 529 - 530
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001665
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Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595–1660. By Robert Parthesius. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. 217. $ 37.50, paper.
Hugo S'jacob
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 530 - 532
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001677
Published Online on 06th June 2011

La fin des corporations. By Steven L. Kaplan. Trans. Béatrice Vierne. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2001. Pp. xvi, 740.
James R. Farr
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 532 - 534
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001689
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A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862. By Craig Miner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Pp. vii, 325. $34.95, hardcover.
Keith T. Poole
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 534 - 535
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001690
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Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865. By Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi, 617. $115.00, cloth; $36.99, paper.
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 535 - 537
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001707
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xxix, 273. $35.00, cloth.
William J. Collins
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 537 - 538
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001719
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Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. By Benjamin Cloyd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. $37.50, hardcover.
Michael Bonner
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 539 - 540
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001720
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858–1954. By Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xv, 490. $60.00, cloth.
Gregg Huff
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 540 - 542
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001732
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi, 571. $35.00, hardcover.
Paul M. Hohenberg
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 542 - 544
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001744
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The Ideologies of Taxation. By Louis Eisenstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii, 220. $29.95, paper.
Daniel Marcin
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 544 - 545
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001756
Published Online on 06th June 2011

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010. $35.00, hardcover.
Philip T. Hoffman
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 545 - 547
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001768
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So Great a Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. By James R. Fichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 384. $35.00, hardcover.
Douglas A. Irwin
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 547 - 548
doi: 10.1017/S002205071100177X
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Flick. Eine Konzerngeschichte vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik. By Kim Christian Priemel. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. Pp. 864. ∊ 49,40 cloth.
Peter Hayes
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 548 - 550
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001781
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Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860. By Janet Greenlees. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. Pp. xx, 244. $114.95, hardcover.
Gillian Hamilton
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 550 - 551
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001793
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Hispanics in the United States: A Demographic, Social, and Economic History, 1980–2005. By Laird Bergad and Herbert Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $95.00, hardcover.
Robert Fairlie
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 551 - 553
doi: 10.1017/S002205071100180X
Published Online on 06th June 2011