Journal of economic history Vol. 69, No. 2 june 2009

ARTICLES

Alan L. Olmstead
The First Line of Defense: Inventing the Infrastructure to Combat Animal Diseases

Catalina Vizcarra
Guano, Credible Commitments, and Sovereign Debt Repayment in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Trevon D. Logan
The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present

Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten Van Zanden
Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries

Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn
Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression

Alvaro S. Pereira
The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

Carsten Burhop and Thorsten Lübbers
Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881–1913

NOTE

Bruce W. Hetherington and Peter J. Kower
A Reexamination of Lebergott's Paradox About Blockade Running During the American Civil War