James Foreman-Peck, Leslie Hannah, Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914, p. 1217
Philip Slavin, The Great Bovine Pestilence and its economic and environmental consequences in England and Wales, 1318–50, p. 1239
Geoffrey A. Barnes, Timothy W. Guinnane, Social class and the fertility transition: a critical comment on the statistical results reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860–1940, p. 1267
Gareth Austin, Joerg Baten, Bas Van Leeuwen, The biological standard of living in early nineteenth-century West Africa: new anthropometric evidence for northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, p. 1280
Peter Scott, The determinants of competitive success in the interwar British radio industry, p. 1303
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Angelo Riva, The Paris financial market in the nineteenth century: complementarities and competition in microstructures, p. 1326
Sara Horrell, Deborah Oxley, Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution, p. 1354
Benjamin L. Wild, Royal finance under King Henry III, 1216–72: the wardrobe evidence, p. 1380
Gelina Harlaftis, George Kostelenos, International shipping and national economic growth: shipping earnings and the Greek economy in the nineteenth century, p. 1403
Hugh Pemberton, The failure of 'nationalization by attraction': Britain's cross-class alliance against earnings-related pensions in the 1950s, p. 1428
Rosemary Elliot, Smoking for taxes: the triumph of fiscal policy over health in postwar West Germany, 1945–55, p. 1450
Pamela Sharpe, Explaining the short stature of the poor: chronic childhood disease and growth in nineteenth-century England, p. 1475
Peter Maw, Terry Wyke, Alan Kidd, Canals, rivers, and the industrial city: Manchester's industrial waterfront, 1790–1850, p. 1495

Jan Luiten Van Zanden, Eltjo Buringh, Maarten Bosker, The rise and decline of European parliaments, 1188–1789, p. 835
Graeme G. Acheson, John D. Turner, Qing Ye, The character and denomination of shares in the Victorian equity market, p. 862
Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Explaining contract choice: vertical coordination, sharecropping, and wine in Europe, 1850–1950, p. 887
Andrew Wareham, Fiscal policies and the institution of a tax state in Anglo-Saxon England within a comparative context, p. 910
Kerstin Manzel, Joerg Baten, Yvonne Stolz, Convergence and divergence of numeracy: the development of age heaping in Latin America from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, p. 932
Peter Kirby, Attendance and work effort in the Great Northern Coalfield, 1775–1864, p. 961
Samuel Cohn, Jr, Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments, p. 984
Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon, Entrepreneurs, formalization of social ties, and trustbuilding in Europe (fourteenth to twentieth centuries), p. 1005
Beatrice Dedinger, The Franco-German trade puzzle: an analysis of the economic consequences of the Franco-Prussian war, p. 1029
Mark Harrison, Nikolaus Wolf, The frequency of wars, p. 1055
Joyce Burnette, Child day-labourers in agriculture: evidence from farm accounts, 1740–1850, p. 1077
Martine Mariotti, Labour markets during apartheid in South Africa, p. 1100
Martin Dribe, Bart Van De Putte, Marriage seasonality and the industrious revolution: southern Sweden, 1690–1895, p. 1123
Michael Schiltz, Money on the road to empire: Japan's adoption of gold monometallism, 1873–97, p. 1147

Jeremy Edwards, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Contract enforcement, institutions, and social capital: the Maghribi traders reappraised, p. 421
Avner Greif, The Maghribi traders: a reappraisal?, p. 445
Giovanni Federico, How much do we know about market integration in Europe?, p. 470
Craig Muldrew, Th'ancient Distaff' and 'Whirling Spindle': measuring the contribution of spinning to household earnings and the national economy in England, 1550–1770, p. 498
James Fenske, Land abundance and economic institutions: Egba land and slavery, 1830–1914, p. 527
Chris Minns, Patrick Wallis, Rules and reality: quantifying the practice of apprenticeship in early modern England, p. 556
Vincent Bignon, Marc Flandreau, Stefano Ugolini, Bagehot for beginners: the making of lender-of-last-resort operations in the mid-nineteenth century, p. 580
Regina Grafe, Alejandra Irigoin, A stakeholder empire: the political economy of Spanish imperial rule in America, p. 609
Max-Stephan Schulze, Nikolaus Wolf, Economic nationalism and economic integration: the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century, p. 652
Rosamond Faith, The structure of the market for wool in early medieval Lincolnshire, p. 674
Maria Fusaro, Cooperating mercantile networks in the early modern Mediterranean, p. 701
Bernard Harris, Martin Gorsky, Aravinda Meera Guntupalli, Andrew Hinde, Long-term changes in sickness and health: further evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society, p. 719
Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson, Patrick Svensson, If the landlord so wanted . . . Family, farm production, and land transfers in the manorial system, p. 746
Ingrid Henriksen, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp, The strange birth of liberal Denmark: Danish trade protection and the growth of the dairy industry since the mid-nineteenth century, p. 770

K. D. M. Snell, Belonging and community: understandings of 'home' and 'friends' among the English poor, 1750–1850, p. 1
Leigh Shaw-Taylor, The rise of agrarian capitalism and the decline of family farming in England, p. 26
Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen, Guilds and middle-class welfare, 1550–1800: provisions for burial, sickness, old age, and widowhood, p. 61
Jose A. Carrasco-Galleg, The Marshall Plan and the Spanish postwar economy: a welfare loss analysis, p. 91
Paolo Di Martino, Legal institutions, social norms, and entrepreneurship in Britain (c.1890–c.1939), p. 120
Brandon Dupont, Alka Gandhi, Thomas Weiss, The long-term rise in overseas travel by Americans, 1820–2000, p. 144
Luke Samy, Extending home ownership before the First World War: the case of the Co-operative Permanent Building Society, 1884–1913, p. 168
Eminegul Karababa, Investigating early modern Ottoman consumer culture in the light of Bursa probate inventories, p. 194
Stephen Hipkin, The coastal metropolitan corn trade in later seventeenth-century England, p. 220
Jim Phillips, Material and moral resources: the 1984–5 miners' strike in Scotland, p. 256
Peter Scott, James Walker, The British 'failure' that never was? The Anglo-American 'productivity gap' in large-scale interwar retailing-evidence from the department store sector, p. 277
Peter Foldvari, Bas Van Leeuwen, Jieli Van Leeuwen-L, How did women count? A note on gender-specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, p. 304
Michael J. Oliver, The two sterling crises of 1964: a comment on Newton, p. 314

ARTICLES
Dan Bogart, Did the Glorious Revolution contribute to the transport revolution? Evidence from investment in roads and rivers, p. 1073
Masato Shizume, Sustainability of public debt: evidence from Japan before the Second World War, p. 1113
Susan Flavin, Consumption and material culture in sixteenth-century Ireland, p. 1144
Mark Freeman, Seebohm Rowntree and secondary poverty, 1899-1954, p. 1175
Melanie Harrington, The earl of Derby and his tenants: sales of Royalist land during the Interregnum revisited, p. 1195
Charles R. Hickson, John D. Turner, Qing Ye, The rate of return on equity across industrial sectors on the British stock market, 1825-70, p. 1218
Jordan Claridge, John Langdon, Storage in medieval England: the evidence from purveyance accounts, 1295-1349, p. 1242
Peter Scott, Anna Spadavecchia, Did the 48-hour week damage Britain's industrial competitiveness?, p. 1266
Romola Davenport, Leonard Schwarz, Jeremy Boulton, The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London, p. 1289

COMMENT
Peter Razzell, The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London: a commentary, p. 1315

Book Reviews, p. 1382

ARTICLES
R. C. Allen, J. L. Weisdorf, Was there an 'industrious revolution' before the industrial revolution? An empirical exercise for England, c. 1300-1830, p. 715
Alexander Klein, Did children's education matter? Family migration as a mechanism of human capital investment: evidence from nineteenth-century Bohemia, p. 730
Richard K. Fleischman, David Oldroyd, Thomas N. Tyson, Plantation accounting and management practices in the US and the British West Indies at the end of their slavery eras, p. 765
Brian Mitchell, David Chambers, Nick Crafts, How good was the profitability of British railways, 1870-1912?, p. 798
T. A. B. Corley, Andrew Godley, The veterinary medicine industry in Britain in the twentieth century, p. 832
Rafael Dobado, Gustavo A. Marrero, The role of the Spanish imperial state in the mining-led growth of Bourbon Mexico's economy, p. 855
Jon Stobart, Gentlemen and shopkeepers: supplying the country house in eighteenth-century England, p. 885
Francesca Carnevali, Social capital and trade associations in America, c. 1860-1914: a microhistory approach, p. 905
Emanuele Felice, Regional value added in Italy, 1891-2001, and the foundation of a long-term picture, p. 929
Timothy J. Hatton, Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910-50, p. 951
Tetsuji Okazaki, The supplier network and aircraft production in wartime Japan, p. 973
Tom Nicholas, Independent invention during the rise of the corporate economy in Britain and Japan, p. 995

Book Reviews p. 1024

ARTICLES
R. C. Allen, Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution, p. 357
Olivier Accominotti, Marc Flandreau And Riad Rezzik, The spread of empire: Clio and the measurement of colonial borrowing costs, p. 385
Patrick O'brien, The nature and historical evolution of an exceptional fiscal state and its possible significance for the precocious commercialization and industrialization of the British economy from Cromwell to Nelson, p. 408
Victoria N. Bateman, The evolution of markets in early modern Europe, 1350-1800: a study of wheat prices, p. 447
Herman De Jong, Pieter Woltjer, Depression dynamics: a new estimate of the Anglo-American manufacturing productivity gap in the interwar period, p. 472
Alexandra Shepard, Judith Spicksley, Worth, age, and social status in early modern England, p. 493
Jelle Van Lottum, Labour migration and economic performance: London and the Randstad, c. 1600-1800, p. 531
Gareth Campbell, John D. Turner, Substitutes for legal protection: corporate governance and dividends in Victorian Britain, p. 571
Samuel Garrido, Salvador Calatayud, The price of improvements: agrarian contracts and agrarian development in nineteenth-century eastern Spain, p. 598
John Dodgson, New, disaggregated, British railway total factor productivity growth estimates, 1875 to 1912 , p. 621
Markus Lampe, Explaining nineteenth-century bilateralism: economic and political determinants of the Cobden-Chevalier network, p. 644

Book Reviews,p. 669

Special Issue: ASIA IN THE GREAT DIVERGENCE

Stephen Broadberry, Steve Hindle, Editors' introduction, p. 1

ARTICLES
Robert C. Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Debin Ma, Christine Moll-Murata, Jan Luiten Van Zanden, Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India, p. 8
Philip T. Hoffman, Prices, the military revolution, and western Europe's comparative advantage in violence, p. 39
Tirthankar Roy, Indigo and law in colonial India, p. 60
Bishnupriya Gupta, Wages, unions, and labour productivity: evidence from Indian cotton mills, p. 76
John P. Tang, Technological leadership and late development: evidence from Meiji Japan, 1868-1912, p. 99
James Kai-Sing Kung, Nansheng Bai, Yiu-Fai Lee, Human capital, migration, and a 'vent' for surplus rural labour in 1930s China: the case of the Lower Yangzi, p. 117
Sunyoung Pak, Daniel Schwekendiek, Hee Kyoung Kim, Height and living standards in North Korea, 1930s-1980s, p. 142
Sevket Pamuk, Jeffrey G. Williamson, Ottoman de-industrialization, 1800-1913: assessing the magnitude, impact, and response, p. 159

Astrid Kander, Paul Warde, Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815-1913: a new comparison, p. 1
Adam Tooze, Martin Ivanov, Disciplining the 'black sheep of the Balkans': financial supervision and sovereignty in Bulgaria, 1902-38, p. 30
Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Poverty in Edwardian Britain, p. 52
Peter M. Solar, Jan Tore Klovland, New series for agricultural prices in London, 1770-1914, p. 72
Louise A. Jackson, Angela Bartie, 'Children of the city': juvenile justice, property, and place in England and Scotland, 1945-60, p. 88
Martin Allen, Silver production and the money supply in England and Wales, 1086-c.1500, p. 114
Peter King, The choice of fuel in the eighteenth-century iron industry: the Coalbrookdale accounts reconsidered, p. 132
Janette Rutterford, David R. Green, Josephine Maltby, Alastair Owens, Who comprised the nation of shareholders? Gender and investment in Great Britain, c. 1870-1935, p. 157
Graeme G. Acheson, John D. Turner, Investor behaviour in a nascent capital market: Scottish bank shareholders in the nineteenth century, p. 188
A. J. Arnold, S. Mccartney, 'Veritable gold mines before the arrival of railway competition': but did dividends signal rates of return in the English canal industry?, p. 214
Elaine Tan, Scrip as private money, monetary monopoly, and the rent-seeking state in Britain, p. 237

Review of periodical literature, p. 256
Book reviews, p. 305