{"title":"Soldiers, Wages and the Hellenistic Economies. Charlotte Regenmortel, (Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781009408981. Hbk. £85)","authors":"Sitta von Reden","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":"975-976"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519678","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":"Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. Daniel Waldenström, (Polity Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781509557783. Hbk £25)","authors":"Neil Cummins","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":"991-992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519676","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":"Finding a Path for China's Rise. The Socialist State and the World Economy, 1970–1978. Philippe Lionnet, (Transcript, 2023. Pp. 468. ISBN 9783837664225. PbK €55)","authors":"Stefan Messingschlager","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":"987-988"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519735","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":"Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. Marc-William Palen, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 309. ISBN 9780691199320. Hbk £30)","authors":"Marvin Suesse","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":"982-983"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519734","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":"Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf. Norifumi Daito, (Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN: 9781350399211. Hbk $115)","authors":"Karolina Hutková","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":"977-978"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519836","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":"Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas. , Gérard Béaur and Francesco Chiapparino (Eds.), (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 294. ISBN 9780367615505. Hbk £100)","authors":"Mark B. Tauger","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":"984-986"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519837","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":"Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics","authors":"Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola","doi":"10.1111/ehr.13410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.13410","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we explore the long-run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio-economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the Altmark Truce (1629) between Sweden and Poland–Lithuania. We find that there is a positive post-imperial persistence of the Swedish legacy that explains modern Baltic development. Our results are robust to the RD estimation of the post-1629 Swedish–Swedish border between North Livonia and Estland, the Pale of Settlement, spatial noise, placebo outcomes, and the introduction of a quadratic polynomial, as well as different bandwidths. Higher historical shares of Lutherans, Germans, and landowners may predict higher levels of contemporary socio-economic development in the Swedish partition of South Livonia than in the Polish–Lithuanian partitions of Courland and Lettgallia.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"342-376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.13410","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057805","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":"Correction to ‘Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rönnbäck, K. & Theodoridis, D. (2022). Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective. <i>Economic History Review</i>, 75, 374–395. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13094</p><p>In paragraph 3 on page 375, the sentence “Labour costs per unit of output in India were therefore roughly twice those of the US at around the same time” was incorrect. This should have read “Labour costs per unit of output in the US were on average roughly twice those in India at around the same time”.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519789","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":"Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean","authors":"Conrad Copeland","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70016","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind-speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in the Indian Ocean. Whilst distance was an important factor in maritime trade, the speed of travel was the defining feature, with a substantially non-linear effect. Trade is shown to be lower between locations that are close together with similar export baskets, reinforcing an endowment-based, Ricardian specification of the gravity model for this period. Additionally, there is significant evidence for both export-led growth and an ancient version of the ‘resource curse’. Cities that export a greater variety of goods exhibited a significant increase in density during the period. Similarly, areas around cities with exports that relied more heavily on manufactures and artisanal goods grew at a faster rate than areas around cities that focused more on cash crops.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"312-341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057988","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":"A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art","authors":"Federico Etro, Elena Stepanova","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study art trade in New York between 1870 and 1970, analysing returns on investment by the renowned Knoedler gallery to shed light on the evolution of the American art market. A generalist art gallery should allocate investments to equalize expected returns, with differences in effective returns depending on purchase prices, number of traded works per artists, search costs, and shocks. We confirm these principles, finding that returns were higher for cheaper artworks, by more frequently traded artists, in stock for a shorter time, after solo exhibitions for the authors, or during booms and after the death of the artists. A key interest in the story of New York's leading gallery is in its connection with the history of American art over a crucial century. We find that the returns on European old masters follow an inverse U-shape, peaking during the First World War and declining thereafter, whilst the returns on American modern artists increase consistently throughout the century. This pattern aligns with a shift in demand towards American art that began in the 1920s and was instrumental in promoting the innovations of the New York school from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"281-311"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057717","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}