{"title":"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)","authors":"Peter Scott","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"687-688"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809659","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":"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)","authors":"N. B. Harte","doi":"10.1111/ehr.13396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"675-676"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809953","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":"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)","authors":"Lloyd Maphosa","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"685-686"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809934","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 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)","authors":"Julie Bower","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"683-684"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809708","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":"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)","authors":"Tomas Cvrcek","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"677-678"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809533","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 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)","authors":"Sharon Ann Murphy","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"679-680"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809534","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 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)","authors":"Luis Almenar Fernández","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"673-674"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809478","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":"Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy. Tim Lankester, (Policy Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN: 9781447371359. HbK £19.99)","authors":"Jim Tomlinson","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"689-690"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809479","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":"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)","authors":"Sarah Wilson","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"681-682"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809535","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":"Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98","authors":"Andrew Primmer","doi":"10.1111/ehr.13414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the relationship between national politics, sovereign default, credit rationing, and their effects on fiscal revenues and exports in nineteenth-century Colombia. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, it challenges existing narratives on Colombia's lack of sustained nineteenth-century export-led development, showing that sovereign default was a political choice with long-term negative impacts. The study highlights how credit rationing and technological backwardness hindered economic growth. It argues that these policies caused Colombia's economic stagnation, leading to boom-and-bust cycles in export crop production. It identifies substantial growth during the liberal era and minimal growth during the regeneración period.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"78 4","pages":"1118-1150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.13414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204824","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}