The Economic History Review
Volume 74 Issue 3: August 2021
- ISSUE INFORMATION
Issue Information
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- SYMPOSIUM: INEQUALITY
Introduction to the symposium on inequality
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Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico
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Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800
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The anatomy of Britain’s interwar super-rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population
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Historical social stratification and mobility in Costa Rica, 1840–2006
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- ARTICLES
Skills and human capital in eighteenth-century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)
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Water theft as social insurance: south-eastern Spain, 1851–1948
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Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset
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Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism
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War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913
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Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–39
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- BOOK REVIEWS
Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine de Moor, and Sarah Carmichael, Capital women: the European Marriage Pattern, female empowerment, and economic development in western Europe, 1300–1800 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+278. 27 figs. 41 tabs. ISBN 9780190847883 Hbk. £47.99)
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John Henderson, Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+363. 39 plates. 4 maps. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780300196344 Hbk. £30.00)
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A. G. Hopkins, An economic history of West Africa ( London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. v+399. 17 maps. 6 figs. ISBN 978036700243 Hbk. £120.00)
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Michael Schiltz, Accounting for the fall of silver: hedging currency risk in long-distance trade with Asia, 1870–1913 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. v+224. 48 figs. 17 tabs. ISBN 9780198865025 Hbk. $85.00)
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Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis, and Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the modern world: the moral economy of famine relief ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+310. 30 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9781108493529 Hbk. £75.00)
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Bas Leeuwen, Robert C. M. Philips, and Erik Buyst, eds., An economic history of regional industrialization ( London: Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 2021. Pp. v+300. 60 illus. ISBN 9780367197520 Hbk. £120.00)
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