Journal of Economic History 71 (2011), 3

The Journal of Economic History
Volume 71 / Issue 03, September 2011, pp 555 - 826

Articles

Interest Reductions in the Politico-Financial Nexus of Eighteenth-Century England
Christophe Chamley
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 555 - 589
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001847
Published Online on 13th September 2011

The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938
Noel Maurer
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 590 - 615
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001859
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The Economics of Badmouthing: Libel Law and the Underworld of the Financial Press in France Before World War I
Vincent Bignon, Marc Flandreau
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 616 - 653
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001860
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Malaria and Economic Productivity: A Longitudinal Analysis of the American Case
Sok Chul Hong
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 654 - 671
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001872
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Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia's National Income, 1913 to 1928 Andrei Markevich, Mark Harrison
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 672 - 703
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001884
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Human Capital and Technological Transition: Insights from the U.S. Navy
Darrell J. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 704 - 729
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001896
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Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering
Henning Hillmann, Christina Gathmann
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 730 - 761
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001902
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Money, States, and Empire: Financial Integration and Institutional Change in Central Europe, 1400–1520
David Chilosi, Oliver Volckart
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 762 - 791
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001914
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Editors Note

Editors' Notes
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 792 - 792
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002142
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Reviews Of Books

Death Before Birth: Fetal Health and Mortality in Historical Perspective. By Robert Woods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $125.00, hardcover.
Jonathan F. Fox
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 793 - 794
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001926
Published Online on 13th September 2011

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. By Jane Humphries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 439. $99.00, hardback.
Joyce Burnette
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 794 - 796
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001938
Published Online on 13th September 2011

Le marché financier français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007. Volume 1 Récit. edited by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur 526pp, Volume 2 Aspects quantitatifs des acteurs et des instruments à la Bourse de Paris edited by Georges Gallais-Hamonno, 640pp + CD, each 40 €.
Clemens Jobst
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 796 - 797
doi: 10.1017/S002205071100194X
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Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe. By Tobias Straumann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xix, 392. $90.00, hardback.
Lars Fredrik ⊘ksendal
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 797 - 799
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001951
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The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943–1953. By Donald Filtzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. Xxx, 379. $110.00, cloth.
Mark Harrison
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 799 - 801
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001963
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Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters. By Richard E. Spear et al. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 384. $85.00, cloth..
Robert Jensen
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 801 - 802
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001975
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Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300–1600. By Martha C. Howell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 365. $90.00, cloth; $29.99, paper.
Bas van Bavel
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 803 - 804
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001987
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Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer. Edited by Richard Goddard, John Langdon, and Miriam Müller. The Medieval Countryside, 4. Turnhout Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2010. Pp. viii, 306. € 70.00.
James Given
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 804 - 806
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001999
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The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945–1992. By Catherine R. Schenk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. vii, 437. $99.00, hardcover.
Geoffrey Wood
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 806 - 807
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002002
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Nation, State, and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible Hand. By Lars Magnusson. London: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xi, 183. $130.00, hardcover.
Mark Dincecco
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 807 - 809
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002014
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Gender, Work, and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain. By Joyce Burnette. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 377. $99.00, hardcover.
Natalia Mora-Sitja
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 809 - 810
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002026
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Scottish Trade with German Ports, 1700–1770: A Sketch of the North Sea Trades and the Atlantic Economy on Ground Level. By Philipp Robinson Rössner. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. Pp. 236, €43.00.
Chris Evans
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 810 - 812
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002038
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Aspiring to a Higher Rank: Swedish Factor Prices and Productivity. By Svante Prado. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 2008. Pp. 242, Published Ph.D. thesis.
Rodney Edvinsson
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 812 - 813
doi: 10.1017/S002205071100204X
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Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic. By Nancy Beadie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 333. $95.00, cloth.
John E. Murray
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 814 - 815
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002051
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The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made. By Domenic Vitiellowith George E. Thomas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. xvi, 253. $45.00, cloth.
Peter L. Rousseau
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 815 - 816
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002063
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Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History, 1700–1940. By Tirthankar Roy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 252. $99.00, hardcover.
Latika Chaudhary
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 817 - 819
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002075
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A Chinese Economic Revolution, Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century. By Linda Grove. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc., 2006. Pp. xi, 303. $74.00, hardcover.
Kent Deng
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 819 - 820
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002087
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Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth. By Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw, and Clifford T. Bekar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005., $55.00, hardback.
Brent Goldfarb
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 820 - 823
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002099
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The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire. By Steven Bryan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Pp. 273, $50.00, cloth.
Michael Schiltz
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 823 - 824
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002105
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Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007. By William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner and Mira Wilkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 487. $80.00, hardcover.
Tom Nicholas
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 71, Issue 03, September 2011, pp 825 - 826
doi: 10.1017/S0022050711002117
Published Online on 13th September 2011