Volume 65: Issue 4
Contents:
1.Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914
James Foreman-Peck
Leslie Hannah
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2.The Great Bovine Pestilence and its economic and environmental consequences in England and Wales, 1318–50
Philip Slavin
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3.Social class and the fertility transition: a critical comment on the statistical results reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860–1940
Geoffrey A. Barnes
Timothy W. Guinnane
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4.The biological standard of living in early nineteenth-century West Africa: new anthropometric evidence for northern Ghana and Burkina Faso
Gareth Austin
Joerg Baten
Bas Van Leeuwen
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5.The determinants of competitive success in the interwar British radio industry
Peter Scott
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6.The Paris financial market in the nineteenth century: complementarities and competition in microstructures
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur
Angelo Riva
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7.Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution
Sara Horrell
Deborah Oxley
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8.Royal finance under King Henry III, 1216–72: the wardrobe evidence
Benjamin L. Wild
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9.International shipping and national economic growth: shipping earnings and the Greek economy in the nineteenth century
Gelina Harlaftis
George Kostelenos
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10.The failure of 'nationalization by attraction‘: Britain's cross-class alliance against earnings-related pensions in the 1950s
Hugh Pemberton
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11.Smoking for taxes: the triumph of fiscal policy over health in postwar West Germany, 1945–55
Rosemary Elliot
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12.Explaining the short stature of the poor: chronic childhood disease and growth in nineteenth-century England
Pamela Sharpe
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13.Canals, rivers, and the industrial city: Manchester's industrial waterfront, 1790–1850
Peter Maw
Terry Wyke
Alan Kidd
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14.List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2011
Matthew Hale
Graham Raymond
Catherine Wright
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15.Paul Cullen, Richard Jones & David N. Parsons, Thorps in a changing landscape, Explorations in Local and Regional History ser. vol. 4, ser. eds. Nigel Goose and Christopher Dyer (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 224. 47 maps. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781902806822Pbk. £14.99/$29.95))
Mark Gardiner
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16.C. M. Woolgar, ed., Testamentary records of the English and Welsh Episcopate 1200–1413: wills, executors' accounts and inventories, and the probate process (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011. Pp. lvii + 360. ISBN 9780907239741£25))
Alisdair Dobie
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17.Simon Walker, ed., with supplementary material by Julian Munby, Building accounts of All Souls College Oxford 1438–1443 (Oxford: Oxford Historical Society, new ser., vol. 42/Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. xxxii + 396. 3 figs. 4 plates. ISBN 9780904107234Hbk. £35.00))
John Langdon
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18.Christopher Dyer, Andrew Hopper, Evelyn Lord & Nigel Tringham, eds., New directions in local history since Hoskins (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 276. 46 figs. 12 plates. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781907396120Pbk. £16.99/$32.95))
Kate Tiller
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19.Craig Muldrew, Food, energy and the creation of industriousness: work and material culture in agrarian England, 1550–1780 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 355. 3 figs. 68 tabs. ISBN 9780521881852Hbk. £60/$99))
Roderick Floud
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20.Wallis Patrick, ed., London inhabitants outside the walls 1695 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer/London Record Society, 2011. Pp. xvi + 359. 1 map. ISBN 9780900952456Hbk. £25/$45))
Gill Newton
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21.Rosalin Barker, The rise of an early modern shipping industry: Whitby's golden fleet, 1600–1750 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 189. 21 figs. 3 maps. 20 plates. 22 tabs. ISBN 9781843836315Hbk. £60/$99))
Helen Doe
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22.Daniel Carey & Christopher J. Finlay, eds., The empire of credit: the financial revolution in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688–1815 (Portland, OR, and Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 302. 5 tabs. ISBN 9780716534150Hbk. £45/$74.95/€49.50))
Helen Julia Paul
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23.Michael Brown, Performing medicine: medical culture and identity in provincial England, c. 1760–1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. 272. 3 figs. ISBN 9780719077975Hbk. £60))
Jonathan Reinarz
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24.E. A. Wrigley, The early English censuses (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 322. 5 figs. 46 tabs. ISBN 9780197264799Hbk. £55/$99))
Edward Higgs
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25.James E. Thomas, Social disorder in Britain, 1750–1850: the power of the gentry, radicalism and religion in Wales (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. ix + 266. ISBN 9781848855038Hbk. £59.50/$99))
Chris Williams
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26.Leonore Davidoff, Thicker than water: siblings and their relations, 1780–1920 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 449 4 illus. 6 charts. ISBN 9780199546480Hbk. £35))
Ellen Filor
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27.Edward Higgs, Identifying the English: a history of personal identification 1500 to the present (London and New York: Continuum Books, 2011. Pp. vii + 286. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781441182036 Hbk. £25/$44.95))
Tom Crook
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28.Oded Galor, Unified growth theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 325. 74 illus. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780691130026Hbk. £41.95/$59.50))
Peter Foldvari
Bas van Leeuwen
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29.Nicholas Orme, The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Cornwall, vol. II: Religious history to 1560 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010. Pp. xvi + 335. 63 figs. ISBN 9781904356127Hbk. £90/$180))A. R. J. Juřica, The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Gloucester, vol. XII: Newent and May Hill (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010. Pp. xx + 369. 78 figs. 18 maps. ISBN 9781904356363Hbk. £90/$180))
Jon Stobart
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30.C. A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter & Michael Woolcock, eds., History, historians and development policy: a necessary dialogue (Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 276. 4 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 9780719085765Pbk. £15.19))
James Fenske
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31.David Stasavage, States of credit: size, power and the development of European politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 192. 9 figs. 1 map. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780691140575Hbk. £27.95/$39.95))
Eric Chaney
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32.Janken Myrdal & Mats Morell, eds., The agrarian history of Sweden: from 4000 BC to AD 2000 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011. Pp. 336. 37 figs. 17 tabs. 1 map. ISBN 9789185509560Hbk. £34.95/$56))Hans Antonson & Ulf Jansson, eds., Agriculture and forestry in Sweden since 1900: geographical and historical studies, transl. Roger Tanner and Charlotte Merton (Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, 2011. Pp. 542. 203 figs. 10 illus. 13 tabs. ISBN 9789186573119Hbk. £45/$70))
Rodney Edvinsson
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33.Philip Beale, Adrian Almond & Mike Scott Archer, The Corsini letters (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2011. Pp. 224. 128 illus. ISBN 9781445600857Hbk. £40/$64.95))
Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli
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34.Karl Ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell & Gregory H. Maddox, The demographics of empire: the colonial order and the creation of knowledge (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 292. 4 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780821419335Pbk. £25.95/$28.95))
James Hevia
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35.Tracy Dennison, The institutional framework of Russian serfdom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 254. 1 fig. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780521194488Hbk. £60/$99))
Stefan Nafziger
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36.Ayşe Çelikkol, Romances of free trade: British literature, laissez-faire, and the global nineteenth century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 189. ISBN 9780199769001Hbk. £45/$74))
Timothy Alborn
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37.Debin Ma & Jan Luiten van Zanden, Law and long-term economic change: a Eurasian perspective (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 358. 7 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9780804772760Hbk. £56.50/$65))Laura Cruz & Joel Mokyr, eds., The birth of modern Europe: culture and economy, 1400–1800: essays in honour of Jan de Vries (Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. xvi + 254. 13 figs. 5 maps. 38 tabs. ISBN 9789004189348Hbk. £125/€99$141))
Giovanni Federico
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38.Zhongping Chen, Modern China's network revolution: chambers of commerce and sociopolitical change in the early twentieth century (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi + 289. 1 map. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780804774093Hbk. £47.95/$55))
Georgia Abigail Mickey
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39.Donald Harman Akenson, Ireland, Sweden and the great European migration, 1815–1914 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 293. 8 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781846316616Hbk. £65))
David Fitzpatrick
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40.Andrea Colli & Michelangelo Vasta, Forms of enterprise in 20th century Italy: boundaries, structures and strategies (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. Pp. xii + 327. 29 figs. 63 tabs. ISBN 9781847203830Hbk. £75/$145))
Paolo di Martino
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41.Farley Grubb, German immigration and servitude in America, 1709–1920 (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. Pp. xxvi + 433. 28 figs. 70 tabs. ISBN 9780415610612Hbk. £110/$180))
Mark Häberlein
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42.Fernando Collantes & Vicente Pinilla, Peaceful surrender: the depopulation of rural Spain in the twentieth century (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Pp. xiii + 202. 9 figs. 6 maps. 27 tabs. ISBN 9781443828383Hbk. £39.99/$59.99))
Susana Martinez-Rodriguez
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43.John Murphy, A decent provision: Australian welfare policy, 1870–1949 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xvii + 270. 7 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781409407591Hbk. £65))
Shurlee Swain
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44.Charles Kindleberger, Z. Robert & Aliber, Manias, panics and crashes: a history of financial crises (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 6th edn., 2011. Pp. viii + 356. 3 tabs. ISBN 9780230365353Pbk. £20/$21.95))
Ranald Michie
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45.Curzio Giannini, The age of central banks (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011. Pp. xxxi + 298. 15 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9780857932136Hbk. £79.95/$135))
Geoffrey Wood
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46.Mark Casson, Markets and market institutions: their origin and evolution (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. Pp. xxiv + 739. 50 figs. 14 maps. 33 tabs. ISBN 9781849803892Hbk. £245/$415))
Victoria N. Bateman
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