THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY Volume 68 - Issue 04 - December 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ordinary Economic Voting Behavior in the Extraordinary Election of Adolf Hitler GARY KING ORI ROSEN MARTIN TANNER ALEXANDER F. WAGNER The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 951 - 996
Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush KAREN CLAY RANDALL JONES The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 997 - 1027
Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913 C. KNICK HARLEY The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1028 - 1058
Corruption, Quasi-Rents, and the Regulation of Electric Utilities JOHN L. NEUFELD The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1059 - 1097
“Una fiera senza luogo”: Was Bisenzone an International Capital Market in Sixteenth-Century Italy? LUCIANO PEZZOLO GIUSEPPE TATTARA The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1098 - 1122
Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy ALAN L. OLMSTEAD PAUL W. RHODE The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1123 - 1171
Did Corliss Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century? Less Sanguine Results BURTON A. ABRAMS JING LI JAMES G. MULLIGAN The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1172 - 1176
Editors' Notes
The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1177 - 1179 A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95, cloth. JAN DE VRIES The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1180 - 1181
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History. By Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $29.00, cloth. JARI ELORANTA The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1182 - 1183
Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny. Edited by Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney. Washington, DC: The World Bank and Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 369. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper. IAN KEAY The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1183 - 1185
Artisan Workers in the Upper South, Petersburg, 1820–1865. By L. Diane Barnes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 230. $37.50, cloth. MARY FERRARI The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1185 - 1186
Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. By Robert Eric Barde. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008. Pp. xi, 283. $45.95, cloth. ERIKA LEE The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1187 - 1188
The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented America. By Maury Klein. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 520. $29.99, cloth. WILLIAM J. HAUSMAN The Journal of Economic History, Volume 68, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 1188 - 1189