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Toward a More Useful Economic History

PAUL M. HOHENBERG

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 339-354

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000338 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Economic Growth in the Lower Yangzi Region of China in 1911–1937: A Quantitative and Historical Analysis

DEBIN MA

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 355-392

doi:10.1017/S002205070800034X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India

ROMAN STUDER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 393-437

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000351 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Banks, Credit Markets, and Early American Development: A Case Study of Entry and Competition

TA-CHEN WANG

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 438-461

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000363 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s

KRIS JAMES MITCHENER and MARC D. WEIDENMIER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 462-500

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000375 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Advances in Communication Technology and Growth of the American Over-the-Counter Markets, 1876–1929

J. PETER FERDERER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 501-534

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000387 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895–1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution

ALBRECHT RITSCHL

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 535-565

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000399 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Miscellaneous

The Institutional Foundations of the International Capital Market Before 1914

RUI PEDRO ESTEVES

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 566-570

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000405 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Communal Institutions, Resource Allocation, and Russian Economic Development: 1861–1905

STEVEN NAFZIGER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 570-575

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000417 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Lender's Curse: A New Look at the Origin and Persistence of Interest Bans in Islam and Christianity

JARED RUBIN

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 575-579

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000429 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Missouri's Hidden Civil War: Financial Conspiracy and the End of the Planter Elite, 1861–1865

MARK W. GEIGER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 579-584

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000430 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Merchants and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana: New Orleans and Its Hinterlands

SCOTT P. MARLER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 584-590

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000442 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Automobiles, the Mass Market, and the Retail Revolution of the Early Twentieth Century: A Structural Analysis of Changes in American Retail Institutions, Market Power, and Labor Demand

TODD C. NEUMANN

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 591-594

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Comments on Esteves, Nafziger, and Rubin

JOYCE BURENTTE

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 594-599

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000466 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Comments on Geiger, Marler, and Neumann

CAROLYN M. MOEHLING

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 599-602

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000478 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Abstracts

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 603-617

doi:10.1017/S002205070800048X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 618-620

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000491 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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EDITORS' NOTES

Editors' Notes

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 621-625

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000508 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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REVIEWS OF BOOKS

London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussiere . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 367. £50.

STEFANO BATTILOSSI

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 626-627

doi:10.1017/S002205070800051X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Re-Emergence of Global Finance. By Gary Burn. London: Palgrave, 2006. Pp. xii, 231.

FORREST CAPIE

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 628-629

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000521 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume II: The Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coatsworth and Roberto Cortés Conde . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 755. $150.

COLIN M. LEWIS

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 629-632

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000533 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 181. $32.50.

R. TAGGART MURPHY

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 632-635

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000545 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. By Laura Croghan Kamoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. x, 222. $35.

SEAN PATRICK ADAMS

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 635-637

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007. Pp. ix, 395. $35.

CAROLA FRYDMAN

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 637-638

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000569 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $45.

JOHN MAJEWSKI

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 639-640

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000570 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 457. $29.95.

SCOTT A. REDENIUS

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 640-642

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000582 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward S. Miller. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 323. $23.

KRIS JAMES MITCHENER

The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 02, June 2008, pp 642-644

doi:10.1017/S0022050708000594 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 14 May 2008

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