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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations

Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine

Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco

Child labour and industrialization: Evidence from factory records and the 1851 British census

BOOK REVIEW

How did Britain Come to This? A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance. Gwyn Bevan, (LSE Press, 2023. Pp. 326. 56 figs. ISBN 9781911712107. Pbk £26)

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931

By-employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems

BOOK REVIEW

Clothiers and Merchants in Spanish Cloth, 1627–1665: The Ashe Family of Somerset, Wiltshire, and London, and their Account Books. John Gaisford ed., (Somerset Record Society, 2023. Pp. Xvi + 531. ISBN 9780901732514. £48)

Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902: A View From the Stock Exchange. Mariusz Lukasiewicz, (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024. Pp. 242. 11 figs. 8 tabs. ISBN 9783031519468. Hbk £109.99)

The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939. David W. Gutzke, (Routledge, 2024. Pp. 270. 13 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 9781032589800. HbK £135)

Systems of Deceit: Financial Fraud and Scandal in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010. Steven Toms, (World Scientific, 2024. Pp. 320. 46 figs, 7 tabs. ISBN 9789811281006. Hbk £120)

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The golden layer: the origins, concentration, and transmission of top wealth in Zurich, 1880–1952

BOOK REVIEW

Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. Bogdan Popescu, (Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. 40 figs, 29 tabs. ISBN 9781009365161. Hbk £85)

The Material Culture of English Rural Households C. 1250–1600. Ben Jervis, Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski, and Matthew Tompkins, (Cardiff University Press, 2023. Pp. 520. 56 figs, 68 tabs. ISBN 9781911653448. Hbk £64.99)

The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed With Paper Money. Farley Grubb, (The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 296. 29 figs, 27 tables. ISBN 9780226826035. Hbk $65)

Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy. Tim Lankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99)

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98

Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74

Missing women in colonial India

Central bank cooperation 1930–2: A reappraisal

Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth-century rural community

The formation and cross-border connectivity of bank branch networks across the Canadian provinces: regional internationalization via interbank networks and foreign trade (1879–1900)

The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81

Financial crisis of 1931? British banking stability and the role of open-market operations

The political economy of minimum wage setting: The Factories and Shops Act of Victoria (Australia), 1896–1913

Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic

The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean

No gold-diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining

Irish GDP since independence

Back to the future: How economic history can gain more relevance by abandoning modernization thinking

Early modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology

A U-shaped curve of female entrepreneurs? The development of women's entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1899–2020

Stationary steam power in the United Kingdom, 1800–70: An empirical reassessment

Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s

Banking on railroads: The effect of market access on banking provision during the Gilded Age

Overseas trade and taxation in England and Wales, c. 1680–1790

Red gold: Copper and the U.S. mobilization campaign, 1950–3

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–81

From the little divergence to the little divide: Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily (1540‒1850)

Respectable standards of living: The alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270–1860

UK fiscal policy and external balance under Bretton Woods: Twin deficits or distant relatives?

The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–1830

The implementation of national labour legislation in England after the Black Death, 1349–1400

The emergence of double entry bookkeeping

Trade costs and the integration of British West Africa in the global economy, c. 1840–1940

Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853–1913

Breaking free? The evolution of intra-Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795–1839)

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