Economic History Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Economic History Review is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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 £8524
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Correction to ‘Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)’14
Competition, over‐branching and bank failures during the Great Depression: New evidence from Italy11
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–136811
Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒201910
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An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992AlainNaef (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 200. ISBN 9781108839990. Hbk $110)8
Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic8
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)8
A series of (un)fortunate events: Commercial bank interest rates and deposit reallocation during the Great Depression in the Netherlands8
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, Hbk8
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Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice.Eds AnnaBellavitis and ValentinaSapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125)8
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/£377
Correction to ‘Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective’7
Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s7
Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis7
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Missing women in colonial India6
Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia6
The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 19486
Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–19086
Banking on railroads: The effect of market access on banking provision during the Gilded Age6
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Review of periodical literature for 2023: (v) 1850–19456
International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War6
Making Social Spending Work By Peter H.Lindert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. v+422. Hbk. ISBN: 9781108478168Hbk. £25.006
Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–11006
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919. By GhassanMoazzin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 352. ISBN 9781009037891. Hbk £755
No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining5
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–19135
One from the Many, The Global Economy Since 1850.Christopher M.Meissner, (Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780199924462. PbK $32)5
Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–95
Pax Economica: Left‐Wing Visions of a Free Trade World.Marc‐WilliamPalen, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 309. ISBN 9780691199320. Hbk £30)5
Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–745
Catching the technological frontier? Vocational and technical education (VTE) and inventive activity in Italy, 1861–19115
The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–814
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Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century4
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Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000–1800MaartenPrak and Jan LuitenvanZanden, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. 280. ISBN 9780691229874. Hbk £30)4
Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy.TimLankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99)4
The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales4
Correction to ‘Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective’4
‘A new way by her invented’: Women inventors and technological innovation in Britain, 1800–19304
Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop By LachlanMcNamee, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. pp. 256. 30 figs. ISBN 9780691237817. bk £30)4
Sovereignty Without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980 By LeighGardner, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 230. 61 figs. 21 tables ISBN 9781009181105. Hbk £75)4
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Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change By Stephen G.Gross, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023: pp. 408. ISBN: 9780197667712, Hbk £35).4
Neo‐Confucianism and the rise of science and technology in Medieval China4
British imperialism and globalization, c. 1650–1960Joseph E.Inikori (ed.), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022. p. 325. ISBN 9781783276462. Hbk £70.004
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Review of periodical literature for 2023: (ii) 1100–15004
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. Pp. 522. ISBN 9781009505314. Hbk 3
New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–19093
Capital in Banking, The Role of Capital in Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: The United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland.SimonAmrein, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 223
Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations3
Irish regional GDP since independence3
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–17143
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 £24.993
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia3
A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art3
Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–18603
Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas.GérardBéaur and FrancescoChiapparino (Eds.), (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 294. ISBN 9780367615505. Hbk £100)3
Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950.FernandoCollantes, (Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350401549. HbK £85)3
By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems3
Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China3
Review of periodical literature for 2022: (i) 400–11003
Serbia on the path to modern economic growth3
Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders3
Finding a Path for China's Rise. The Socialist State and the World Economy, 1970–1978.PhilippeLionnet, (Transcript, 2023. Pp. 468. ISBN 9783837664225. PbK €55)3
Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–19403
Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World.SusanCarruthers, (Cambridge University press, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781009464284. HbK £25).3
Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics3
The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–14003
Telegraph and capital market integration: Evidence from late imperial China3
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 £25.002
One country, two currencies: The adoption of the Hong Kong currency board, 19832
Carbon technocracy: Energy regimes in modern East Asia.VictorSeow, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. pp. 376. 25 figs. ISBN: 9780226826554. Pbk. $27.50)2
MortenJerven, The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. 198. ISBN 9782
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development2
Review of periodical literature for 20212
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 19022
Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change2
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)2
Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power.VictoriaBateman, (Headline Publishing Group, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9781035415779. HbK £25)2
The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars.Cormac ÓGráda, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 520. ISBN 9780691258751. Hbk £40)2
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–18502
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Review of periodical literature for 2022: (v) 1850–19452
Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco2
Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931.A. G.Hopkins, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 576. ISBN 9780691258843. Hbk £42.00)2
Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology2
Review of periodical literature for 20212
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States2
The growth contribution of colonial Indian railways in comparative perspective2
The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting2
Pawned states: State building in the era of international finance By DidacQueralt, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. p. 368. 43 figs. 19 tables. ISBN 9780691231525. Hbk2
Poverty and wealth in East Africa: A conceptual history By RhiannonStephens, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. pp. 312. 9 figs. ISBN 9781478018827. Pbk $27.952
Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–19402
Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1500–17002
Correction to ‘Evesham Abbey and Local Society in the Late Middle Ages. The Abbot's Household Account 1456–7 and the Priors’ Registers 1520–40’2
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