The Economic History Review
Volume 74 Issue 2: May 2021
- ISSUE INFORMATION
Issue Information
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- SURVEY AND SPECULATION
Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution
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- SYMPOSIUM: HEALTH
The growth pattern of British children, 1850–1975
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- ARTICLES
The real urban wage in an agricultural economy without landless farmers: Serbia, 1862–1910
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Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas
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Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922
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Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900
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Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60
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- BOOK REVIEWS
Jane Kershaw and Gareth Williams eds., Silver, butter, cloth: monetary and social economies in the Viking Age ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. v+306. 69 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN 9780198827986 Hbk. £75.00)
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Bronwen Everill, Not made by slaves: ethical capitalism in the age of abolition ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 318. ISBN 9780674240988 Hbk. $39.95/£31.95)
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Kathleen Monteith, Plantation coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 ( Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. Pp. xv+250. ISBN 9789766407261 Pbk. $60.00)
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Xavier Lafrance, The making of capitalism in France: class structures, economic development, the state and the formation of the French working class, 1750–1914 ( Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. x+312. ISBN 978-90-04-27632-1 Hbk. €118)
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Aaron G. Jakes, Egypt’s occupation: colonial economism and the crises of capitalism ( Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+352. 1 tab. ISBN 9781503607194 Hbk. $90.00; ISBN 9781503612617 Pbk. $30.00)
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