Journal of economic history, Vol. 71, No. 4 December 2011

Articles

Did Technology Shocks Drive the Great Depression? Explaining Cyclical Productivity Movements in U.S. Manufacturing, 1919–1939
Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Reitze Gouma

Harvest Shortfalls, Grain Prices, and Famines in Preindustrial England
Bruce M.S. Campbell And Cormac Ó Gráda

Warfare, Taxation, and Political Change: Evidence from the Italian Risorgimento
Mark Dincecco, Giovanni Federico And Andrea Vindigni

On the Economic Consequences of the Peace: Trade and Borders After Versailles
Nikolaus Wolf, Max-Stephan Schulze And Hans-Christian Heinemeyer

Bank-Specific Default Risk in the Pricing of Bank Note Discounts
Matthew Jaremski

The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866–1897
Peter L. Rousseau

Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Toolmakers
Ralf Richter And Jochen Streb

Did R&D Firms Used to Patent? Evidence from the First Innovation Surveys
Tom Nicholas

Depth to Bedrock and the Formation of the Manhattan Skyline, 1890–1915
Jason Barr, Troy Tassier And Rossen Trendafilov

Making Consumers Comfortable: The Early Decades of Air Conditioning in the United States
 JEFF E. BIDDLE

Editors' Notes
Review article

A Reading List for Economic Historians on the Great Recession of 2007–2009: Its Causes and Consequences
Larry Neal

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

ANCIENT TO MODERN EUROPE
The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979. By Forrest Capie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxviii, 890.
Youssef Cassis

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. By Stephen Broadberry and Kevin H. O'Rourke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 2 vols.; Pp. xiv, 329; xviii, 468.
Jan De Vries

The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327. By Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, and Paul R. Dryburgh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 205.
Mark Bailey
1110 - 1112

The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660–1700. By Nuala Zahedieh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xviii, 329.
David Richardson

MIDDLE EAST
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. By Timur Kuran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp.xvi, 405.
Metin Coşgel

LATIN AMERICA
Historia económica general de México: De la Colonia a nuestros días. Edited by Sandra Kuntz-Ficker. México, DF: El Colegio de México y la Secretaría de Economía: Comisión Organizadora de las Celebraciones del Bicentenraio, 2010. Pp. 834.
 Moramay López-Alonso

UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression. By Douglas A. Irwin. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 244.
David S. Jacks

Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade. By Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. 264.
George Colpitts

Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. Edited by Marc Egnal. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. Pp. xiii, 416.
Roger Ransom

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. By Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu. Princeton. NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 420.
Luz Marina Arias

Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s. Edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Pp. ix, 352.
Karen Clay


GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation. By Edward B. Barbier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 748.
Gavin Wright

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