JEH volume 69 issue 4 Cover and Front matter THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY ISSN 0022-0507 Published for the Economic History Association in Cooperation with the California Institute of Technology by Cambridge University Press EDITORS PHILIP T. HOFFMAN PRICE V. FISHBACK EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES ALAN MILLER PAUL W. RHODE EDITORIAL STAFF SABRINA BOSCHETTI AND BRENDAN LIVINGSTON, ASSISTANT EDITORS SABRINA BOSCHETTI, PRODUCTION EDITOR ALEXANDER J. FIELD, EHA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EDITORIAL BOARD Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan Howard Bodenhorn, Lafayette College Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine John C. Brown, Clark University Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia Stephen Haber, Stanford University Michael Haines, Colgate University Eric D. Hilt, Wellesley College Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College David Jacks, Simon Fraser University Shawn Kantor, University of California, Merced Ian Keay, Queens University Christopher M. 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The Journal of Economic History (USPS 279-580) is published quarterly by Cambridge University Press. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994-2133. Printed in the United States of America. THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY Volume 69 December 2009 Number 4 ARTICLES ROBERT C. ALLEN The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India 901 XAVIER TAFUNELL Capital Formation in Machinery in Latin America, 1890–1930 928 RUI ESTEVES AND DAVID KHOUDOUR-CASTÉRAS A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants’ Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment During the Gold Standard Period 951 CHARLES CALOMIRIS AND JONATHAN PRITCHETT Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders’ Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market 986 MARKUS LAMPE Effects of Bilateralism and the MFN Clause on International Trade: Evidence for the Cobden-Chevalier Network, 1860– 1875 1012 KENNETH M. SYLVESTER Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity 1041 LEANDRO PRADOS DE LA ESCOSURA AND JOAN R. ROSÉS The Sources of Long-Run Growth in Spain, 1850–2000 1063 DROR GOLDBERG The Massachusetts Paper Money of 1690 1092 GRAEME G. ACHESON, CHARLES R. HICKSON, JOHN D. TURNER, AND QING YE Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825–1870 1107 NOTES MYUNG SOO CHA Productivity Trend in Korea from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century: A Comment on Jun, Lewis, and Kang 1138 JUN SEONG HO, JAMES B. LEWIS, AND KANG HAN-ROG Stability or Decline? Demand or Supply? 1144 EDITORS’ NOTES 1152 REVIEWS OF BOOKS GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS MADDISON. Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History G. Clark 1156 BELICH. Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783–1939 S. L. Engerman 1162 FREYER. Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004 D. Williamson 1163 ANCIENT TO MODERN EUROPE BANG. The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire P. Temin 1165 VERNON. Hunger: A Modern History T. D. Logan 1166 VAN DOOSSELAERE. Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa D. Williamson 1168 FRIESEN. Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774–1905 T. K. Dennison 1170 TABAK. The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550–1870: A Geohistorical Approach G. Levi 1172 NELSON AND ZECKHAUSER. The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art R. Jensen 1174 DAUNTON. State and Market in Victorian Britain: War, Welfare, and Capitalism D. Oxley 1175 DE VRIES. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present J. Styles 1177 LATIN AMERICA CORTÉS CONDE. The Political Economy of Argentina in the Twentieth Century D. Rock 1179 HABER, KLEIN, MAURER, AND MIDDLEBROOK. Mexico Since 1980 J. Bortz 1180 AFRICA LYDON. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa T. Kuran 1182 ASIA BLUSSÉ. Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans T. Brook 1184 MOSK. Japanese Economic Development: Markets, Norms, Structures P. Francks 1185 TRESCOTT. Jingji Xue, The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas into China, 1850–1950 K. Deng 1187 UNITED STATES AND CANADA MAGRA. The Fisherman’s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution M. Egnal 1188 HERNDON AND MURRAY, Eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice in Early America D. Mitch 1190 ROCKMAN. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore H. Bodenhorn 1191 WILSON. Tenants in Time: Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799–1871 J. J. Liebowitz 1193 LEWIS. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis L. P. Cain 1194 HARTIGAN-O’CONNOR. The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America G. L. Main 1196 FLAD AND GRIFFEN. Main Street to Main Frames: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie P. M. Hohenberg 1197 COSTA AND KAHN. Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War L. A. Craig 1199 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 69 Number 1, March ARTICLES VALERIE A. RAMEY Time Spent in Home Production in the Twentieth-Century United States: New Estimates from Old Data................. 1 MARK DINCECCO Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Revenues in Europe, 1650–1913 ..................................... 48 LEE J. ALSTON, SHANNAN MATTIACE, AND TOMAS NONNENMACHER Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915 ... 104 KRIS JAMES MITCHENER AND MARI OHNUKI Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan ........................................................................... 138 CHRISTIANA STODDARD Why Did Education Become Publicly Funded? Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Growth of Public Primary Schooling in the United States ......................................... 172 DAN BOGART Nationalizations and the Development of Transport Systems: Cross-Country Evidence from Railroad Networks, 1860–1912 ...................................................... 202 JAMES I. STEWART Economic Opportunity or Hardship? The Causes of Geographic Mobility on the Agricultural Frontier, 1860–1880 ........................................................................ 238 LATIKA CHAUDHARY Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India ............ 269 EDITORS’ NOTES .............................................................................................................. 303 REVIEWS OF BOOKS ........................................................................................................ 312 __________________________________________________ Number 2, June ARTICLES ALAN L. OLMSTEAD (Presidential Address) The First Line of Defense: Inventing the Infrastructure to Combat Animal Diseases ................................................. 327 CATALINA VIZCARRA Guano, Credible Commitments, and Sovereign Debt Repayment in Nineteenth-Century Peru ........................... 358 TREVON D. LOGAN The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present ............................................................... 388 ELTJO BURINGH AND JAN LUITEN VAN ZANDEN Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth Through Eighteenth Centuries ................................ 409 GARY RICHARDSON AND PATRICK VAN HORN Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression ........................... 446 ALVARO S. PEREIRA The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake ............................................ 466 CARSTEN BURHOP AND THORSTEN LÜBBERS Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881–1913 ............................... 500 NOTES AND DISCUSSION BRUCE W. HETHERINGTON AND PETER J. KOWER A Reexamination of Lebergott’s Paradox About Blockade Running During the American Civil War ......................... 528 SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AMÍLCAR EDUARDO CHALLÚ Grain Markets, Food Supply Policies, and Living Standards in Colonial Mexico .......................................... 533 VICTOR LAPUENTE GINÉ A Political Economy Approach to Bureaucracies ................ 537 JOHN P. TANG The Yellow Non-Pareil: Industrialization and the Making of Modern Japan ................................................. 542 MARCO SUNDER Passports and Economic Development: An Antropometric History of the U.S. Elite in the Nineteenth Century ......... 546 JOHN PARMAN The Private and Public Effects of School Reform ................ 550 EVAN ROBERTS Her Real Sphere? Married Women’s Labor Force Participation in the United States, 1860–1940.................. 554 KEVIN O’ROURKE Comments on Challú, Giné, and Tang ................................. 558 B. ZORINA KHAN Comments on Parman, Roberts, and Sunder ........................ 564 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING ....................... 569 ABSTRACTS OF POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING .................... 587 EDITORS’ NOTES .............................................................................................................. 593 REVIEWS OF BOOKS ........................................................................................................ 598 __________________________________________________ Number 3, September ARTICLES ERIC HILT AND KATHARINE O’BANION The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822–1858: Partnerships Without Kinship.......................................... 615 MARC FLANDREAU AND JUAN H. FLORES Bonds and Brands: Foundations of Sovereign Debt Markets, 1820–1830 ........................................................ 646 FABIAN LANGE, ALAN L. OLMSTEAD, AND PAUL W. RHODE The Impact of the Boll Weevil, 1892–1932 ......................... 685 ALEXANDER MORADI Towards an Objective Account of Nutrition and Health in Colonial Kenya: A Study of Stature in African Army Recruits and Civilians, 1880–1980 .................................. 719 LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970 ... 755 BRIAN A’HEARN, JÖRG BATEN, AND DOROTHEE CRAYEN Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital ............................................... 783 ELIANA BALLA AND NOEL D. JOHNSON Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France .......................................................... 809 NIKOLAUS WOLF Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885–1933 ...................................... 846 REVIEWS OF BOOKS ........................................................................................................ 882 __________________________________________________ Number 4, December ARTICLES ROBERT C. ALLEN The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India.............................. 901 XAVIER TAFUNELL Capital Formation in Machinery in Latin America, 1890–1930 ..................................................................... 928 RUI ESTEVES AND DAVID KHOUDOUR- CASTÉRAS A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants’ Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment During the Gold Standard Period ................................... 951 CHARLES CALOMIRIS AND JONATHAN PRITCHETT Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders’ Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market ................ 986 MARKUS LAMPE Effects of Bilateralism and the MFN Clause on International Trade: Evidence for the Cobden- Chevalier Network, 1860–1875 ...................................... 1012 KENNETH M. SYLVESTER Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity .................... 1041 LEANDRO PRADOS DE LA ESCOSURA AND JOAN R. ROSÉS The Sources of Long-Run Growth in Spain, 1850–2000 ... 1063 DROR GOLDBERG The Massachusetts Paper Money of 1690 .......................... 1092 GRAEME G. ACHESON, CHARLES R. HICKSON, JOHN D. TURNER, AND QING YE Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825– 1870………………………………………………...…. 1107 NOTES AND DISCUSSION MYUNG SOO CHA Productivity Trend in Korea from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century: A Comment on Jun, Lewis, and Kang ............................................................................... 1138 JUN SEONG HO, JAMES B. LEWIS, AND KANG HAN-ROG Stability or Decline? Demand or Supply? .......................... 1144 EDITORS’ NOTES ............................................................................................................ 1152 REVIEWS OF BOOKS ...................................................................................................... 1156