{"title":"Money of the Masses: Copper coin production and circulation in India 1500–1900 , Jan Lucassen, (Manohar, 2026. Pp. 1068. ISBN 9789360806675. Hbk £93)","authors":"Dhiraj Kumar Nite","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1644-1646"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City: The Urban Historical Demography of Würzburg Jan de Vries, (Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781009641517. Hbk £95)","authors":"Bernard Harris","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1656-1657"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavery, freedom, and development By Warren C. Whatley, (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Pp. 237. Hbk £35. ISBN 9781009407144.","authors":"Johan Fourie","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1653-1655"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies From Croesus to Crypto , Barry Eichengreen, Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 344. £25 (Hbk). ISBN 9780691280530","authors":"Harold James,","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1642-1643"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-run housing price indices and determinants: New data from Huizhou, China, 1570–1949","authors":"Siyu Pan","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Economic studies on historical housing markets have gained increased popularity in recent years, yet remain limited by data scarcity. In this paper, a novel housing transaction dataset with more than 1000 observations from the historic Huizhou prefecture in south China is collected. This study develops housing price indices spanning the late Ming, Qing, and Republic of China eras (1570–1949). Results from hedonic ordinary and quantile regressions reveal unique housing price determinants tied to the region's cultural background: property orientation, proximity to ancestral halls and Buddhist temples, and seller's gender. Sellers being in urgent financial situations is positively correlated with the sales price.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1608-1641"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages","authors":"Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita, Spike Gibbs","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre-industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who experienced no real increases. We argue that wage inequality in post-Black Death England reflects the uneven penetration of market forces across occupations and regions, with deep-rooted customary structures continuing to shape remuneration. Its findings suggest that a more nuanced approach is essential for understanding the complexities and continuities of pre-industrial labour dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1409-1442"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019","authors":"William Quinn, John D. Turner, Clive B. Walker","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in <i>The Times</i> newspaper. Our monthly speculation index reveals four distinct epochs of speculation in the United Kingdom. Epochs of high speculation coincide with higher stock market returns and higher economic growth, while low-speculation periods coincide with high levels of government debt and financial repression. We find that low interest rates foment the development of higher speculation, and that eras of higher speculation are often followed by greater banking instability.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1443-1473"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training as a club good: Merchant apprenticeship in sixteenth-century Europe","authors":"Esther Sahle","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on the extensive correspondence of the sixteenth-century merchant firm of Tucher, this article casts pre-modern mercantile training in a new light. Rather than training for seven or more years with one master, including a possible sojourn abroad, apprentices served a string of short-term contracts with masters across different European countries. This form of organization raised the cost of training significantly. I argue that participants bore these costs because apprenticeship served a purpose beyond the transmission of skills. The network-based nature of trade meant that firms could expect to retain their investment in training through future business ties with the former apprentice. Over the course of the apprenticeship, reputation mechanisms served to vet the apprentice's suitability as a future trading partner. Under these circumstances, training became a club good. It facilitated network expansion and contributed to solving the fundamental problem of exchange.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1301-1326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life-cycle living standards of male-headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80","authors":"Anton Svensson","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard-of-living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male-headed households in Stockholm 1800–80, linking individuals and their households in the tax records throughout the life cycle. We compile a random sample of approximately 400 male-headed households to examine how living standards developed and whether they were able to save to mitigate income decline in old age. Distinguishing between manual- and non-manual-worker households, this study finds that the manual-worker household size outgrew income in early adulthood, creating a temporary downturn in welfare ratios. Living standards rose in subsequent stages but declined again when the head of the household approached old age. Manual-worker households suffered a more pronounced decline in income during these later years than non-manual-worker households. The latter had better opportunities to smooth consumption over the life cycle by setting money aside, although manual-worker households that survived into old age had some capacity for small savings, which may have eased but not offset the decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1551-1578"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market integration in the Ottoman Balkans and the Middle East from the sixteenth century until the First World War","authors":"Pınar Ceylan, K. Kıvanç Karaman, Şevket Pamuk","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a large body of mostly archival price data, this study examines wheat market integration across the Ottoman Empire and puts it in the context of broader European trends. We find that rates of Ottoman market integration fluctuated without a clear trend during the early modern era followed by greater international integration and geographically uneven domestic integration in the nineteenth century. Overall, Ottoman gains were slower than those in western Europe in both periods. Our regression analysis points to the role of geography and technological and institutional changes including changes in state capacity as the main determinants shaping integration patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 4","pages":"1379-1408"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}