The Economic History Review

Title Publication Date Language Citations
MetinCoşgel and BoğaçErgene, The economics of Ottoman justice: settlement and trial in the Sharia courts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+346. ISBN 9781107157637 Hbk. £64.99)2018/01/18English
WalterScheidel, The great leveler. Violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty‐first century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 528. 45 illus. ISBN 9781400884605 Hbk. £27.95/$35)2018/01/18English
Paul A.vanDyke, Merchants of Canton and Macao: success and failure in eighteenth‐century Chinese trade (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. Pp. xlviii+443. 80 plates. 10 tabs. ISBN 9789888139323 Hbk. £59)2018/01/18English
JanetHunter, ‘Deficient in commercial morality’? Japan in global debates on business ethics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. ix+116. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781137586810 Hbk. £37.99)2018/01/18English
AndrewCohen, The politics and economics of decolonization in Africa: the failed experiment of the Central African Federation (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Pp. x+300. 1 map. ISBN 9781848858824 Hbk. £69)2018/01/18English
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GodriverWanga‐Odhiambo, The political economy of sugar production in colonial Kenya: the Asian initiative in Central Nyanza (Lanham, MD and London: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. xx+285. 3 figs. 25 tabs. ISBN 9781498511636 Hbk. £70)2018/01/18English
DyanColclough, Child labor in the British Victorian entertainment industry, 1875–1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xiv+227. 15 figs. ISBN 9781137503176 Hbk. £60)2018/01/18English
DavidHodgkins, George Carr Glyn: railwayman and banker (Amersham: Wolffe Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+487. 7 maps. 60 plates. ISBN 9781527209497 Pbk. £25)2018/01/18English
DeborahSimonton, ed., The Routledge history handbook of gender and the urban experience (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xxviii+495. 32 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9781138815940 Hbk. £150)2018/01/18English
AntoninusSamy, The building society promise: access, risk, and efficiency (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv+296. 77 figs. 55 tabs. ISBN 9780198787808 Hbk. £65)2018/01/18English
The Spanish fiscal transition: Tax reform and inequality in the late twentieth century By Sara TorregrosaHetland, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 238. 29 figs. 18 tables. ISBN 9783030795405. Hbk £89.992023/06/02English
The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume II By Richard vonGlahn and DebinMa (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 864. 29 figs. ISBN 9781108348485. Hbk £1202023/06/02English
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the course of human history By KyleHarper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.002023/06/02English
The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting2023/05/01English
The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective2024/03/11English
Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi‐occupied Netherlands2024/03/07English
The Making of a Fiscal‐Military State in Post‐Revolutionary FranceJeromeGreenfield, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. ix+325. 14 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781108839679. Hbk. £75)2024/02/22English
An Economic History of the First German Unification: State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective.UlrichPfister & NikolausWolf (eds.), (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. pp. 390. 50 figs. ISBN 9781032254838. Hbk £120)2024/02/22English
Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800MaartenPrak and Jan LuitenvanZanden, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 280. ISBN 9780691229874. Hbk £30)2024/02/22English
Sovereignty Without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 By LeighGardner, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 230. 61 figs. 21 tables ISBN 9781009181105. Hbk £75)2024/02/22English
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change By Stephen G.Gross, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023: pp. 408. ISBN: 9780197667712, Hbk £35).2024/02/22English
Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy2024/03/04English
Bonds for the long run? The rate of return on corporate bonds in Belgium, 1838–19392024/02/28English
Art in times of crisis2024/02/28English
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992AlainNaef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)2024/02/22English
Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis2024/04/03English
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Modifying the success story of Sweden: Revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869–19502024/03/28English
Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–19302023/12/13English