The following issue is now available online:
The Journal of Economic History Volume 66 - Issue 04 - December 2006
Railroad Impact in Backward Economies: Spain, 1850–1913 Alfonso Herranz-Loncán [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561068> pp 853 - 881
Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas Fabio Braggion, Ran Abramitzky [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561080> pp 882 - 905
Institutional Reforms, Financial Development and Sovereign Debt: Britain 1690–1790 Yishay Yafeh, Nathan Sussman [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561092> pp 906 - 935
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen Matthew E. Kahn, Dora L. Costa [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561104> pp 936 - 962
Banking on the King: The Evolution of the Royal Revenue Farms in Old Regime France Noel D. Johnson [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561116> pp 963 - 991
Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production: Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution Dhanoos Sutthiphisal [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561128> pp 992 - 1025
The Socioeconomic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England JASON LONG [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561140> pp 1026 - 1053
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reassessment DAVID ELTIS, DAVID RICHARDSON, FRANK D. LEWIS [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561152> pp 1054 - 1065
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply PETER C. MANCALL, THOMAS WEISS, JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561164> pp 1066 - 1071
Economic Transformations Joel Mokyr [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561176> pp 1072 - 1075
Editors' Note [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561188> pp 1076 - 1079
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. By Avner Greif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 503. $34.99, paper. KATHRYN REYERSON [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561200> pp 1080 - 1081
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Rachel G. Fuchs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 267. KATHERINE A. LYNCH [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561212> pp 1081 - 1082
Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 364. $32.99, paper. WADE E. SHILTS [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561224> pp 1083 - 1084
The Economics of World War I. Edited by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 345. $80. HANS-JOACHIM VOTH [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561236> pp 1084 - 1086
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. 432. $45. CAROL H. SHUIE [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561248> pp 1086 - 1088
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. Edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $990. Pricing varies for the online version. WILLIAM J. COLLINS [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561260> pp 1088 - 1097
Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. By Jason Scott Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 283. $75. ROBERT K. FLECK [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561272> pp 1097 - 1098
Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military Procurement and Technology Development. By Vernon W. Ruttan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 219. $45. H. A. GEMERY [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561284> pp 1099 - 1100
Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. By Paul D. Moreno. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. 12, 304. $49.95. THOMAS N. MALONEY [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561296> pp 1100 - 1102
Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. By Arthur L. Norberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. x, 347. $40. RICHARD COOPEY [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561308> pp 1102 - 1103
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History. Edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. ix, 386. $75. CHRISTOPHER GRANDY [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561320> pp 1104 - 1105
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970. By Christophe Lécuyer. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 393. $40. REBECCA S. LOWEN [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561332> pp 1106 - 1107
The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective. Edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 319. $80, cloth; $34.99, paper. ERIC HILT [ abstract ] <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=561344> pp 1107 - 1109