How Much Can a Victor Force the Vanquished to Pay? France under the Nazi Boot
FILIPPO OCCHINO
KIM OOSTERLINCK
EUGENE N. WHITE
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 1 - 45
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000016 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Logistics, Market Size, and Giant Plants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Global View
LESLIE HANNAH
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 46 - 79
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000028 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil
ALDO MUSACCHIO
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 80 - 108
doi: 10.1017/S002205070800003X Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
[ abstract ]

The Contribution of Economists to Military Intelligence During World War II
MARK GUGLIELMO
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 109 - 150
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000041 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Stability of the Interwar Gold Exchange Standard: Did Politics Matter?
KIRSTEN WANDSCHNEIDER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 151 - 181
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000053 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
[ abstract ]

The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis
ROBERT C. ALLEN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 182 - 210
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000065 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Welfare State and Labor Mobility: The Impact of Bismarck's Social Legislation on German Emigration before World War I
DAVID KHOUDOUR-CASTÉRAS
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 211 - 243
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000077 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith
JUN SEONG HO
JAMES B. LEWIS
KANG HAN-ROG
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 244 - 282
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000089 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
[ abstract ]

The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?
FARLEY GRUBB
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 283 - 291
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000090 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Editors' Notes
JEREMY ATACK
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 292 - 299
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000107 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece. By Takeshi Amemiya. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 184. $125.
DAVID TANDY
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 300 - 301
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000119 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
[ abstract ]

A History of Scottish Economic Thought. Edited by A. Dow and S. Dow. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. vii, 261. $135.
MARTIN KRAGH
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 302 - 303
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000120 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The British Whaling Trade: Research in Maritime History Number 29. By Gordon Jackson. St. John's, NL: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. Pp. xvi, 293. Free to members of the association; $15.00 for nonmembers, paper.
IAN KEAY
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 303 - 305
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000132 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850–1914: Social Policies Compared. By E. P. Hennock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 381. $99, cloth; $35.99, paper.
GEORGE R. BOYER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 305 - 307
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000144 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 377. $75.
MARK HARRISON
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 307 - 308
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000156 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Sozialstruktur und biologischer Lebensstandard in München und dem südlichen Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert. By Klaus Schuster. Studien zur Wirtschafts- -und Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 25. Pp. 287, illustration, tables, bibliography. St. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag St. Katharinen 2005. Euro 29.
MOJGAN STEGL
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 309 - 310
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000168 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. By Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy. St. John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. Pp. xi, 364. $15.00, softback.
TONY ARNOLD
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 310 - 311
doi: 10.1017/S002205070800017X Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer. By Gary D. Libecap. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 209. $24.95, paper.
MATTHEW E. KAHN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 312 - 313
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000181 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John. E. Murray. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40.
PRICE V. FISHBACK
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 313 - 315
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000193 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States. By Susan Porter Benson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 233. $45.
TOMAS CVRCEK
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 315 - 316
doi: 10.1017/S002205070800020X Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 1, 398. $35.
MARK C. SMITH
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 317 - 318
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000211 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 242. $50.
WERNER TROESKEN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 318 - 320
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000223 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920. By Maury Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 224. $22.99, paper.
SUKKOO KIM
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 320 - 322
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000235 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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An American Planter: Steven Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York. By Mary Jane Brazy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006. Pp. xiii, 232. $45.
AARON ANDERSON
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 322 - 324
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000247 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. By Kim Moody. New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii, 289. $29.95, paper.
JOHN BRUEGGEMANN
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 324 - 325
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000259 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95.
PRICE V. FISHBACK
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 325 - 328
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000260 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 316. $44.95.
JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 328 - 329
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000272 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets. By Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 11, 263. $27.95.
RICHARD SYLLA
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 330 - 331
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000284 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870–1913 and Today. By Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 193. £20.
ALDO MUSACCHIO
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 331 - 333
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000296 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order. By Filippo Cesarano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 248. GBP 51.00.
KIRSTEN WANDSCHNEIDER
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 333 - 334
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000302 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850–2000; British Performance in International Perspective. By Stephen Broadberry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 409. $101.
JAMES FOREMAN-PECK
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 334 - 337
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000314 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. Edited by Peter C. Mancall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 596, $65, cloth; $27.50, paper.
RUSSELL R. MENARD
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 01, March 2008, pp 337 - 338
doi: 10.1017/S0022050708000326 Published online by Cambridge University Press 28 Feb 2008
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