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Poverty or prosperity in northern India? New evidence on real wages, 1590s–1870s†

UK investment trust portfolio strategies before the First World War†

Uncertainty and the Great Slump†

Mites and merchants: the crisis of English wool and textile trade revisited, c. 1275–1330†

Sanitary infrastructures and the decline of mortality in Germany, 1877–1913†

Urbanization and mortality in Britain, c. 1800–50

Integration in European coal markets, 1833–1913†

Trade in the shadow of power: Japanese industrial exports in the interwar years

A silver transformation: Chinese monetary integration in times of political disintegration, 1898–1933†

Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited 

Review of periodical literature published in 2018

‘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

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

The gender division of labour in early modern England

Institutions for the taking: property rights and the settlement of the Cape Colony, 1652–1750

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

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

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

What explains the missing girls in nineteenth‐century Spain?

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

Agglomeration externalities and productivity growth: US cities, 1880–1930

Susan Oosthuizen, The Anglo‐Saxon Fenland (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. Pp. xx+156. 55 figs. ISBN 9781911188087 Pbk. £29.95)

Adrian Green and Barbara Crosbie, eds., Economy and culture in north‐east England, 1500–1800 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi+293. 9 figs. 7 maps. 26 tabs. ISBN 9781783271832 Hbk. £65)

Adrian James Webb, Handlist of Somerset probate inventories and administrators' accounts, 1482–1924. (Taunton: Somerset Record Society, 2019. Pp. vi+282. ISBN 9780901732460 Hbk. £16)

Amy M. Froide, Silent partners: women as public investors during Britain's financial revolution, 1690–1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 225. 13 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9780198767985 Hbk £60)

Brenda King, The Wardle family and its circle: textile production in the Arts and Crafts era (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. xix+218. 14 plates. 15 figures. ISBN 9781783273959 Hbk.£29.95)

Michael Anderson, with mapping by Corinne Roughley, Scotland's populations from the 1850s to today (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi+458. 85 figs. 13 maps. 94 tabs. ISBN 9780198805830 Hbk.£85)

Taco Terpstra, Trade in the ancient Mediterranean: private order and public institutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. v+277. photos 14 figs. ISBN 9780691172088 Hbk.£30.00)

Niv Haresh and Kean Fan Kim, An East Asian challenge to western neoliberalism (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. Pp. 142+ref. ISBN 9281138926745 Hbk.£110; ISBN 9780367189945 Pbk. £36.99)

Mark H. Rose, Market rules: bankers, presidents, and the origins of the Great Recession (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. vii+253. ISBN 9780812251029 Hbk.£33.00)

Sumner La Croix, Hawai'i: eight hundred years of political and economic change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. ix+389. 31 figs. 16 tabs. ISBN 9780226592091 Hbk. $60.00) 

Masayuki Tanimoto and R. Bin Wong (eds.), Public goods provision in the early modern economy: comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. v+331. 11 figs. 4 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9780520

Francesca Trivellato, The promise and peril of credit: what a forgotten legend about Jews and finance tells us about the making of European commercial society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 405. 20 figs. 5 apps. ISBN 9780

Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel‐Vinay, and Jean‐Laurent Rosenthal, Dark matter credit: the development of peer‐to‐peer lending and banking in France (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+303. 28 tabs. 35 figs. ISBN 9780691182179

Anne G. Hanley, The public good and the Brazilian state: municipal finance and public services in São Paulo, 1822–1930 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+290. 4 figs. 1 map. 32 tabs. ISBN 9780226535074 Hbk. £45/$60)

Şevket Pamuk, Uneven centuries: economic development of Turkey since 1820 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. v+352. 1 map. 17 tabs. 48 figs. ISBN 9780691166377 Hbk. £27) 

Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler, Swiss monetary history since the early 19th century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xx+244. 51 figs. 20 tabs. ISBN 9781107199309 Hbk.£85)

Graham D. Taylor, Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian oil industry from 1880 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019. Pp. v+368. 6 maps, 31 figs. ISBN 9781773850351 Pbk. $39.99)

Mary E. Cox, Hunger in war & peace: women & children in Germany, 1914–1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+383. 75 figs. 34 plates. 25 tabs. ISBN 9780198820116 Hbk. £70.00)

Aaron Hale‐Dorrell, Corn crusade: Khrushchev's farming revolution in the post‐Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. v+328. 11 figs. ISBN 9780190644673 Hbk. £47.99)

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The limiting factor: energy, growth, and divergence, 1820–1913

Mentality, motivation, and economic decision‐making in Ancient Rome: Cicero and Tullia's shrine

Commodity option pricing efficiency before Black, Scholes, and Merton

Intoxicants and the invention of‘consumption’ 

Between Malthus and the industrial take‐off: regional inequality in Sweden, 1571–1850

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

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)