Journal of economic history, Vol. 71, No. 2 june 2011

Articles

The Mystery of Property Rights: A U.S. Perspective
Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Repairing a Mortgage Crisis: HOLC Lending and Its Impact on Local Housing Markets
Charles Courtemanche and Kenneth Snowden

The National Banking Acts and the Transformation of New York City Banking During the Civil War Era
John A. James and David F. Weiman

Do Patents Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World's Fairs
Petra Moser

Thrifty Pensioners: Pensions and Savings in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Jérôme Bourdieu, Lionel Kesztenbaum and Gilles Postel-Vinay

Networks in the Premodern Economy: The Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600–1749
Tim Leunig, Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis

Net Exports and the Avoidance of High Unemployment During Reconversion, 1945–1947
Jason E. Taylor, Bharati Basu and Steven McLean

Notes

The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal
Ugo Gragnolati, Daniele Moschella and Emanuele Pugliese

The Spinning Jenny: A Fresh Look
Robert C. Allen


Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting

Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting

Editors' Notes

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

ANCIENT TO MODERN EUROPE
The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery. By Nicholas Draper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 401.
 Stanley L. Engerman

The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany. By Rebecca Jean Emigh. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009. Pp. xv, 271.
Steven A. Epstein

Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595–1660. By Robert Parthesius. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. 217.
Hugo S'jacob

La fin des corporations. By Steven L. Kaplan. Trans. Béatrice Vierne. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2001. Pp. xvi, 740.
James R. Farr

UNITED STATES
A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862. By Craig Miner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Pp. vii, 325.
Keith T. Poole

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865. By Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi, 617.
Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xxix, 273.
William J. Collins

Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. By Benjamin Cloyd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
 Michael Bonner

ASIA
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858–1954. By Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xv, 490.
Gregg Huff

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World.By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi, 571.
Paul M. Hohenberg

The Ideologies of Taxation. By Louis Eisenstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii, 220.
Daniel Marcin

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010.
Philip T. Hoffman

So Great a Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. By James R. Fichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 384.
Douglas A. Irwin

Flick. Eine Konzerngeschichte vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik. By Kim Christian Priemel. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. Pp. 864.
Peter Hayes

Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860.By Janet Greenlees. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. Pp. xx, 244.
Gillian Hamilton

Hispanics in the United States: A Demographic, Social, and Economic History, 1980–2005. By Laird Bergad and Herbert Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Robert Fairlie

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