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The Economic History Review

Published on behalf of the Economic History Society

Edited by:
Steve Hindle and Jane Humphries

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 85/209 Economics; 3/21 History of Social Sciences
Impact Factor: 0.897

The Economic History Review is published quarterly and each volume contains over 800 pages. It is an invaluable source of information and is available free to members of the Economic History Society. Publishing reviews of books, periodicals and information technology, The Review will keep anyone interested in economic and social history abreast of current developments in the subject. It aims at broad coverage of themes of economic and social change, including the intellectual, political and cultural implications of these changes.

TopNews and Announcements

Listen to the third Economic History Society Podcast!
The prestigious Tawney Memorial Lecture, delivered by Bob Allen is now available to watch online. Please click here to view the lecture Why was the Industrial Revolution British? The 2008 lecture is also available to view.

Read a Review of The Economic History Review during the last 50 years by Tony Wrigley, Vice-President of the Society and a former Editor of the Review. Please click here to read!

Special Issue on Finance, Investment and Risk
Edited by Jane Humphries and Steve Hindle
The articles collected in this special issue are concerned with aspects of financial organisation, investment funding and risk management, subjects which have long interested economic historians. The articles explore the periodic excesses of financial markets and the causes of bank failure, the extent to which financial markets and clever financial instruments serve the economy and society or merely transfer wealth to distinct social and geographical elites, and, the transmission mechanisms from the world of finance to the real economy. Several contributions make connections to the debate about the City's role in British economic performance and to broader themes linking finance capital's power and influence to imperial expansion.
Click here to view the abstracts!

Manuscript Central
Authors are able to submit their paper to The Economic History Review online via the Electronic Editorial Office. Benefits will include:

• Quicker peer review
• Web-based manuscript tracking
• Online Reviewing
• Faster Response

Submit your paper online to The Economic History Review

To submit your Book Reviews and Books for Review please contact:

The Book Review Editor
Economic History Review
Department of Historical Studies
University of Bristol
13 Woodland Lane
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK

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The Economic History Review Illustrative Article
The Economic History Review covers a wide range of topics including: Economics, Business, Social, Finance, Political and Women. Access to the full text of selected articles demonstrating this range is available throughout the year. Currently available are:

Illicit business: accounting for smuggling in mid-sixteenth-century Bristol by Evan T. Jones, as discussed in: 'Bristol's Secret History (Radio 3, 1/6/02) and in 'City of Smugglers' (Radio 4, 13/9/02).

A Review of The Economic History Review during the last 50 years by Tony Wrigley, Vice-President of the Society and a former Editor of the Review.

The Economic History Cumulative Index 1927 - 1995
You can now search the complete contents of The Economic History Review from 1927 onwards. Searches can be made on any combination of Author, Title or Year.

T.S. Ashton Prize - Young Researchers!
The T.S. Ashton Prize, established with funds donated by the late Professor T.S. Ashton (1889-1968), will be awarded, biennially, to the author of the best article accepted for publication in the Economic History Review in the previous two calendar years, who satisfies one of the following conditions at time of submission:

• The author is within five years of receipt of her/his PhD
• The author normally has no previous publication in the field of economic and/or social history, or a closely related field.

Why not submit your article?

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TopHighlights

• Monetization and financial development in Southeast Asia before the Second World War
  W.G. Huff
  
• The seat of death and terror: urbanization, stunting and smallpox
  D. Oxley
  
• Selling to reluctant drinkers: the British wine market, 1860-1914
  J. Simpson
  
• Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341-1450
  B. Dodds
  
• Guilds, efficiency and social capital: evidence from German proto-industry
  S.Ogilvie
  
• Crooks, thieves and receivers: transaction costs in nineteenth century industrial Birmingham
  F. Carnevali
  
• Measuring the national wealth in seventeenth-century England
  P. Slack

TopEndorsements

By far the best European journal for economic history... an excellent journal of world standing. '
Herman Van Der Wee.