TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

How did the Feudal Economy Work? the Economic Logic of Medieval Societies
Chris Wickham

Managing Food Crises: Urban Relief Stocks in Pre-Industrial Holland border
Jessica Dijkman

Fair Trade and the Political Economy of Brandy Smuggling in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
David Chan Smith

The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation
Choon Hwee Koh

The Politics of Musical Standardization in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
Edward Gillin; Fanny Gribenski

Contesting ‘Permit-and-Licence Raj’: Economic Conservatism and the Idea of Democracy in 1950s India
Aditya Balasubramanian

Enchantment in an Age of Reform: Fortune-Telling Fever in Post-Mao China, 1980s–1990s
Emily Baum