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Working days in a London construction team in the eighteenth century: evidence from St Paul's Cathedral

A policy of credit disruption: the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900

Factor endowments on the‘frontier’: Algerian settler agriculture at the beginning of the 1900s

For a fistful of pesetas? The political economy of the army in a nonconsolidated democracy: the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931–9)

Can school centralization foster human capital accumulation? A quasi‐experiment from early twentieth‐century Italy

A leader in an emerging new international market: the determinants of French wine exports, 1848–1938

An efficient market? Going public in London, 1891–1911

The price of the poor's words: social relations and the economics of deposing for one's‘betters’ in early modern England

Falling behind and catching up: India's transition from a colonial economy

Inadequate supply and increasing demand for textiles and clothing: second‐hand trade at auctions as an alternative source of consumer goods in Sweden, 1830–1900

Asia's‘little divergence’ in the twentieth century: evidence from PPP‐based direct estimates of GDP per capita, 1913–69

‘The capital market is dead’: the difficult birth of index‐linked gilts in the UK 

Women's labour force participation in nineteenth‐century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 census enumerators’ books

Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

Currency devaluations and beggar‐my‐neighbour penalties: evidence from the 1930s

Speed under sail during the early industrial revolution (c. 1750–1830)

Mistaken wages: the cost of labour in the early modern English economy, a reply to Robert C. Allen

Tobacco retail licences and state formation in early modern England and Wales

‘Stop‐go’ policy and the restriction of postwar British house‐building

The returns to invention during the British industrial revolution

The question of land access and the Spanish land reform of 1932

International bimetallism and silver absorption in Singapore, 1840–73

Real wages once more: a response to Judy Stephenson

UK shocks and Irish business cycles, 1922–79

Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid‐century: evidence from local labour markets

Modernization and rural imagery at the Paris Salon: an interdisciplinary approach to the economic history of art

Women's work and structural change: occupational structure in eighteenth‐century Spain

Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: dividing up a fast‐growing frontier pie, 1821–71

The Hungarian twin crisis of 1931

John Hare, The Victoria history of Hampshire. Basingstoke: a medieval town, c. 1000–c. 1600 (London: University of London, 2017. Pp. xii + 106. 23 figs. 6 maps. 3 tabs. ISBN 9781909646612 Pbk. £12 + £2 p&p)

Michael Zell and Heather Falvey, eds., Walter Morrell's‘Manufacture for the new draperie’ (1616) (Hertford: Hertfordshire Record Society, 2018. Pp. xlii + 181. 9 figs. 1 map. ISBN 9780950174105 Hbk. £22.00 + £3.50 p&p)

Gillian Cookson, The age of machinery. Engineering the industrial revolution, 1770–1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018. Pp. ix + 324. 1 fig. 1 map. 11 plates. ISBN 9781783272761 Pbk. £19.99)

Nicholas Crafts, Forging ahead, falling behind and fighting back: British economic growth from the industrial revolution to the financial crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 152. 1 fig. 41 tabs. ISBN 9781108438162 Pbk.£17.99)

Robbie Shilliam, Race and the undeserving poor (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiv+209. ISBN 9781788210386 Pbk.£18.99)

Andrew Wilson and Alan Bowman, eds., Trade, commerce, and the state in the Roman world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii+656. 94 figs. 14 tabs. ISBN 9780198790662 Hbk.£110)

William Caferro, Petrarch's war: Florence and the Black Death in context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+228. 5 figs. 3 maps. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781108424011 Hbk.£75)

Colin Heywood, Childhood in modern Europe (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2018. Pp. x+286. 22 figs. ISBN 9780521866231 Hbk.£74.99; ISBN 9780521685252 Pbk. £21.99)

David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, and David Richardson, eds., The Cambridge world history of slavery: volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii+705. 9 figs. 3 maps. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780521840669

Simone Selva, Before the neoliberal turn: the rise of energy finance and the limits to US foreign policy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xx+423. 5 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781137574428 Hbk.£120)

Marc Buggeln, Martin Daunton, and Alexander Nützenadel, eds., The political economy of public finance. Taxation, state spending and debt since the 1970s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+313. 26 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9781107140127 H

Kate Philip, Markets on the margins: mineworkers, job creation and enterprise development (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2018. Pp. xvi+222. 22 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781847011763 Hbk.£60)

Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnemacher, Institutional and organizational analysis: concepts and applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. vii+393. 19 figs. 2 tabs. ISBN 978110708637 Hbk.£71.99; ISBN 9

Gregor Benton and Hong Liu, Dear China: emigrant letters and remittances, 1820–1980 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+286. ISBN 9780520298415 Hbk. £66; ISBN 9780520298439 Pbk. £27)

Philip Thai, China's war on smuggling: law, economic life, and the making of the modern state, 1842–1965 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi+380. 8 figs. 5 maps. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780231185844 Hbk. £47/$59.99)

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein, An economic and demographic history of São Paulo, 1850–1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii+ 448. 49 figs. 11 maps. 99 tabs. ISBN 9780503602007 Hbk. £62/$75)

Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt, Botswana—a modern economic history: an African diamond in the rough (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xv+235. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783319731438. €119.59)

Brian James Leech, The city that ate itself: Butte, Montana and its expanding Berkeley Pit (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. Pp. x+414. 25 figs. ISBN 9781943859429 Hbk.£39.95/$39.95)

Tariq Omar Ali, A local history of global capital: jute & peasant life in the Bengal Delta (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+244. 1 fig. 3 maps. 11 tabs. ISBN 9780691170237 Hbk.£30/$39.95)

David M. Higgins, Brands, geographical origin, and the global economy: a history from the nineteenth century to the present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+334. 9 figs. 12 tabs. ISBN 9781107032675 Hbk.£90)

Getnet Bekele, Ploughing new ground: food, farming & environmental change in Ethiopia (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xvi+207. 3 maps. 15 tabs. ISBN 9781847011749 Hbk.£50)