Economic History Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Economic History Review is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to ‘Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)’24
Gender and justice: The status of women in Ottoman courts21
Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View From the Stock Exchange.MariuszLukasiewicz, (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024. Pp. 242. 11 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9783031519468. Hbk £109.99)17
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–136817
By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems15
Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy11
Can colonial institutions explain differences in labour returns? Evidence from rural colonial India11
BenMarsh, Unravelled dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World 1500–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+500. ISBN 9781108418287 Hbk. £29.99)10
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–110010
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (ii) 1100–150010
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 19459
Supervision without regulation: Discount limits at the Austro–Hungarian Bank, 1909–138
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660–1800. By EstherSahle, (Ed.), Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. pp. vi+206. 10 figs. 11 tabs. ISBN Pbk. 9781783275861 £24.998
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StanaNenadic, Craftworkers in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. pp. 1–256. 14 figs. ISBN 9781474490307. Hbk £857
Introduction to the symposium on demographic shocks7
The Roman Stock Exchange Between the 19th and 20th Centuries: A History of the Italian Stock Market By DonatellaStrangio (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. pp. Xxvi + 259. 42 figs. 28 tab7
Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy6
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Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–746
HaroldJames, Making a modern central bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. i+525. ISBN 9781108799492 Pbk. £29.99)6
Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920–39†5
The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt5
CraigVanGrasstek, Trade and American leadership: the paradoxes of power and wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxviii+475. 20 figs. 19 tab5
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 97815036126175
Review of periodical literature for 20215
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–14004
Systems of Deceit: Financial Fraud and Scandal in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010.StevenToms, (World Scientific, 2024. Pp. 320. 46 figs, 7 tabs. ISBN 9789811281006. Hbk £120)4
Aesthetics for a polite society: Language and the marketing of second‐hand goods in eighteenth‐century London4
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–11004
Railways’ Economic Impact on Uttar Pradesh and Colonial North India (1860–1914): The Iron Raj By Ian D.Derbyshire, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. pp. 615. ISBN 97815275869014
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–17144
Stationary steam power in the United Kingdom, 1800–70: An empirical reassessment4
A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960–2017 By TimothyKehoe and Juan PabloNicolini (eds), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. pp. xvii + 569. ISBN Hbk. 9781517911980 Pb4
Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3†4
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier.BogdanPopescu, (Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. 40 figs, 29 tabs. ISBN 9781009365161. Hbk £85)4
Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–16043
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Hot money inflows and bank risk‐taking: Germany from the 1920s to the Great Depression3
Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland3
An Economic History of the First German Unification: State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective.UlrichPfister & NikolausWolf (eds.), (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. pp. 390. 503
Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 19133
Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries3
Property and inequality: Housing dynamics in a nineteenth‐century city3
The Making of a Fiscal‐Military State in Post‐Revolutionary FranceJeromeGreenfield, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. ix+325. 14 figs. 1 tab. ISBN 9781108839679. Hbk. £75)3
The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS3
Review of periodical literature for 20213
From the little divergence to the little divide: Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540‒1850)3
Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber3
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia3
Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China3
The Irish economy during the century after partition3
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From circular to permanent: The economic assimilation of migrants during Spain's rural exodus, 1955–733
Women's work and wages in the sixteenth century and Sweden's position in the ‘little divergence’2
Review of periodical literature for 2020: (iii) 1500–17002
Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England2
Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade?2
Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology2
RobinFleming, The Material Fall of Roman Britain 300–525 CE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. xii + 303. 22 figs. ISBN 978‐0‐8122‐5244‐6. $45/£372
SelinaTodd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)2
Autarky in Franco's Spain: The costs of a closed economy2
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Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s2
Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic2
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–18502
VictoriaBateman, The sex factor: How women made the West rich (Chichester: Wiley, 2019. Pp. v+248. ISBN 9781509526765 Hbk. $69.95)2
BronwenEverill, 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)2
Demographic trends in late‐slavery Jamaica, 1817–322
JaneKershaw and GarethWilliams, 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 Hbk2
Dael A.Norwood, Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early AmericaChicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 270. 9 figs. ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐81558‐9 Hbk. $45.001
The price of poverty: The association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947–20151
Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–19671
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Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol‐West India Sugar Trade, 1783–1802.PeterBuckles, (Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 232. 17 fig 3. ISBN 981802078831, Hbk. £95)1
Should history change the way we think about populism?1
Secret leviathan: Secrecy and state capacity under Soviet Communism.MarkHarrison, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. pp. 372. 9 figs. 23 tabs. ISBN: 9781503628892 $65)1
The Economic weapon: The rise of sanctions as a tool of modern war By NicholasMulder, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. pp. xiv + 434 pages. ISBN 9780300259360 Hbk £25.001
JohnHenderson, 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)1
GreggHuff, World War II and Southeast Asia: economy and society under Japanese occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+524. ISBN 9781107099333 Hbk. £90.00)1
Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard,c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages1
The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century1
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (vi) post‐19451
Introduction to the symposium on inequality1
The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean1
Carbon technocracy: Energy regimes in modern East Asia.VictorSeow, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. pp. 376. 25 figs. ISBN: 9780226826554. Pbk. $27.50)1
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992AlainNaef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)1
Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis1
Back to the future: How economic history can gain more relevance by abandoning modernization thinking1
Three centuries of corporate governance in the United Kingdom1
The great margin call: The role of leverage in the 1929 Wall Street crash1
The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective1
Updated estimates of UK GDP from the income side, 1841–19201
Introduction to the symposium on economic history and India1
ErinWoodruff Stone, Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. pp. 235. 3 maps. 3 figs. 7 tabs. ISBN 9780812253108. Hbk 1
Correction to ‘Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40’1
Child labour and industrialization: Evidence from factory records and the 1851 British census1
Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: The case of Cambridgeshire1
MichaelSchiltz, 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 9780198861
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Corporate taxes, leverage, and investment: Evidence from Nazi‐occupied Netherlands1
Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–91
Missing women in colonial India1
International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War1
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice.Eds AnnaBellavitis and ValentinaSapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125)1
Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.WenkaiHe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 320. ISBN 9781009334556. Pbk. £25.99)1
Virtue capitalists: The rise and fall of the professional class in the Anglophone world, 1870–2008HannahForsyth, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. pp. 317. 12 figs. ISBN: 9781009206488, Hbk1
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 19021
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The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes†1
Central bank cooperation 1930–2: A reappraisal1
Goodbye, Mr. Portugal: Fiscal crisis, constitutional revolution, and the independence of Brazil (1808–22)1
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