The Economic History Review
Volume 79 Issue 1: February 2026
- ISSUE INFORMATION
Issue Information
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- ARTICLES
By-employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems
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The golden layer: the origins, concentration, and transmission of top wealth in Zurich, 1880–1952
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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England
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Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931
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Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco
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Child labour and industrialization: Evidence from factory records and the 1851 British census
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Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
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Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations
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Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550
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A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art
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Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
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- BOOK REVIEWS
Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages: Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration, Tomáš Klír (Karolinum Press, 2025)
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The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship & Economic Growth in Early Modern England, Patrick Wallis (Princeton University Press, 2025)
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An economic historiography of Germany, 1918–1931: How inflation and foreign capital inflows allowed the Weimar Republic to survive, Giovanni B. Pittaluga and Elena Seghezza (Eds.) (Springer, 2024)
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There will be the devil to pay: Central Bankers, uncertainty and sensemaking in the European financial crisis of 1931, Per H. Hansen (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
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Toward a free economy: Swatantra and opposition politics in democratic India, Aditya Balasubramanian (Princeton University Press, 2023)
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The brew deal: How beer helped battle the Great Depression, Jason E. Taylor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Ruins to riches: The economic resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945, Raymond Stokes (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
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Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931, A. G. Hopkins (Princeton University Press, 2024)
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The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars, Cormac Ó Gráda (Princeton University Press, 2024)
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Capitalism and its critics: A history from the Industrial Revolution to AI, John Cassidy (Allen Lane, 2025)
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The real economy: History and theory, Jonathan Levy (Princeton University Press, 2025)
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- LITERATURE REVIEW
Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–1100
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1100–1500
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1500–1700
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1700–1850
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1850–1945
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Review of periodical literature published in 2024: 1945–present
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- CORRECTION
Correction to ‘Large-scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census’
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