Archiv für November 2014

JEH volume 74 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

Miscellaneous The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp f1-f4Abstract

American Banking and the Transportation Revolution before the Civil War

Research Articles Jeremy Atack, Matthew Jaremski, Peter L. Rousseau, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 943-986Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith . Edited by Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli and Craig Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 656. $156.34, hardcover.

Book Reviews George Grantham, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1255-1256Abstract

Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 . By Justin Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 352, $99.00, hardback; $79.00, eBook.

Book Reviews Anne Ruderman, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1253-1254Abstract

The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age . By Robert MacDougall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2014. Pp. 344. $55.00, cloth.

Book Reviews David Gabel, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1249-1251Abstract

Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command . By John S. D. Eisenhower. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 190. $40.00, cloth.

Book Reviews Lee A. Craig, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1251-1252Abstract

The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today . Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xxi, 459. $125.00, hardcover.

Book Reviews Douglas A. Irwin, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1246-1247Abstract

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters. . By Walter A. Friedman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 273. $29.95, hardcover.

Book Reviews Gabriel P. Mathy, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1244-1246Abstract

Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit . By Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 570. $35, cloth.

Book Reviews Howard Bodenhorn, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1241-1242Abstract

Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail . By Marcus Rediker. Boston: Beacon Press. 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $26.95, cloth

Book Reviews David Skarbek, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 74 Issue 04, pp 1238-1239Abstract