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Print ISSN: 0013-0117
Online ISSN: 1468-0289
Issues per Volume: Quarterly
Current Volume: 61
ISI Ranking: 2007: 1/17 (History of Social Sciences); 43/191 (Economics)

Aims and Scope

The Economic History Review is published quarterly and each volume contains over 800 pages. It is an invaluable source of information and is available free to members of the Economic History Society. Publishing reviews of books, periodicals and information technology, The Review will keep anyone interested in economic and social history abreast of current developments in the subject. It aims at broad coverage of themes of economic and social change, including the intellectual, political and cultural implications of these changes.

Many issues contain an essay under the heading Surveys and Speculations which discusses a particular problem in economic and social history in an adventurous way. The extensive book review section in each issue provides a guide to the latest literature on economic and social history in the British Isles and throughout the rest of the world.

Each volume also contains Essays in Bibliography and Criticism which are designed to bring readers up to date with the latest writings on a particular country and topical themes in economic and social history.

By far the best European journal for economic history... an excellent journal of world standing. "
Herman Van Der Wee.

Highlights

Monetization and financial development in Southeast Asia before the Second World War
W.G. Huff
The seat of death and terror: urbanization, stunting and smallpox
D. Oxley
Selling to reluctant drinkers: the British wine market, 1860-1914
J. Simpson
Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341-1450
B. Dodds
Guilds, efficiency and social capital: evidence from German proto-industry
S.Ogilvie
Crooks, thieves and receivers: transaction costs in nineteenth century industrial Birmingham
F. Carnevali
Measuring the national wealth in seventeenth-century England
P. Slack

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