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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 55 Number I, March ARTICLES DAVID R. WEIR Family Income, Mortality, and Fertility on the Eve of the Demographic Transition: A Case Study of Rosny-sous-Bois ALAN L. OLMSTEAD AND Beyond the Threshold: An Analysis of the Characteristics and PAUL W. RHODE Behavior of Early Reaper Adopters B. ZORINA KHAN Property Rights and Patent Litigation in Early Nineteenth- Century America PAUL E. LOVEJOY AND British Abolition and Its Impact on Slave Prices Along the DAVID RICHARDSON Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783-1850 DAVID M. WISHART Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal ROBERT WHAPLES Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June Papers Presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association CYNTHIA TAFT MORRIS How Fast and Why Did Early Capitalism Benefit the (Presidentia! Address) Majority? EUGENE NELSON WHITE The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, 1770-1815 PHILIP T. HOFFMAN, Redistribution and Long-Term Private Debt in Paris, 1660- GILLES POSTEL-VINAY, AND JEAN- LAURENT ROSENTHAL GENE SMILEY AND Federal Personal Income Tax Policy in the 1920s RICHARD H. KEEHN LEE A. CRAIG The Political Economy of Public-Private Compensation Differentials: The Case of Federal Pensions DAVID ELTIS The Total Product of Barbados, 1664-1701 ELIZABETH HERR Women, Marital Status, and Work Opportunities in 1880 Colorado REVIEW ARTICLE HAROLD D. WOODMAN Capitalism, Morality, and the Peculiar Institution SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS GARLAND L. BRINKLEY The Economic Impact of Disease in the American South, 1860-1940 . DORA L. COSTA Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth- Century America , ANDREW SELTZER Causes and Consequences of American Minimum Wage Legislation, 1911-1947 H. CLARK JOHNSON The Gold Deflation, France, and the Coming of the SRN, STORIES. digreoseeccentntnnnserniniliisicenpiomadmieanbemivepete L. LYNNE KIESLING Collective Action and Assisting the Poor: The Political Economy of Income Assistance During the Lancashire Cotton Famine VA NEE L. VAN VLECK Reassessing Technological Backwardness: Absolving the “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Car Discussion: Lee A. Craig and Barbara Sands ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING CONTENTS OF VOLUME 55 Number I, March ARTICLES DAVID R. WEIR Family Income, Mortality, and Fertility on the Eve of the Demographic Transition: A Case Study of Rosny-sous-Bois ALAN L. OLMSTEAD AND Beyond the Threshold: An Analysis of the Characteristics and PAUL W. RHODE Behavior of Early Reaper Adopters B. ZORINA KHAN Property Rights and Patent Litigation in Early Nineteenth- Century America PAUL E. LOVEJOY AND British Abolition and Its Impact on Slave Prices Along the DAVID RICHARDSON Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783-1850 DAVID M. WISHART Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal ROBERT WHAPLES Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June Papers Presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association CYNTHIA TAFT MORRIS How Fast and Why Did Early Capitalism Benefit the (Presidentia! Address) Majority? EUGENE NELSON WHITE The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, 1770-1815 PHILIP T. HOFFMAN, Redistribution and Long-Term Private Debt in Paris, 1660- GILLES POSTEL-VINAY, AND JEAN- LAURENT ROSENTHAL GENE SMILEY AND Federal Personal Income Tax Policy in the 1920s RICHARD H. KEEHN LEE A. CRAIG The Political Economy of Public-Private Compensation Differentials: The Case of Federal Pensions DAVID ELTIS The Total Product of Barbados, 1664-1701 ELIZABETH HERR Women, Marital Status, and Work Opportunities in 1880 Colorado REVIEW ARTICLE HAROLD D. WOODMAN Capitalism, Morality, and the Peculiar Institution SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS GARLAND L. BRINKLEY The Economic Impact of Disease in the American South, 1860-1940 . DORA L. COSTA Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth- Century America , ANDREW SELTZER Causes and Consequences of American Minimum Wage Legislation, 1911-1947 H. CLARK JOHNSON The Gold Deflation, France, and the Coming of the SRN, STORIES. digreoseeccentntnnnserniniliisicenpiomadmieanbemivepete L. LYNNE KIESLING Collective Action and Assisting the Poor: The Political Economy of Income Assistance During the Lancashire Cotton Famine VA NEE L. VAN VLECK Reassessing Technological Backwardness: Absolving the “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Car Discussion: Lee A. Craig and Barbara Sands ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 3, September ARTICLES THOMAS N. MALONEY AND Making the Effort: The Contours of Racial Discrimination in WARREN C. WHATLEY Detroit’s Labor Markets, 1920-1940 JOHN C. BROWN Imperfect Competition and Anglo-German Trade Rivalry: Markets for Cotton Textiles Before 1914 PAUL HUCK Infant Mortality and Living Standards of English Workers During the Industrial Revolution GILLIAN HAMILTON Enforcement in Apprenticeship Contracts: Were Runaways a Serious Problem? Evidence from Montreal MARGARET LEVENSTEIN Mass Production Conquers the Pool: Firm Organization and the Nature of Competition in the Nineteenth Century JOHN R. GARRETT Monetary Policy and Expectations: Market-Control Techniques and the Bank of England, 1925-1931 NOTES AND DISCUSSION SHAWN EVERETT KANTOR Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism: The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills TUNG LIU, In Search of Stock Market Bubbles: A Comment on GARY J. SANTONI, AND Rappoport and White COURTENAY C. STONE EUGENE N. WHITE Stock Market Bubbles? A Reply RICHARD J. SULLIVAN Patent Counts and Textile Invention: A Comment on Griffiths, Hunt, and O’Brien PATRICK K. O'BRIEN, There Is Nothing Outside the Text, and There Is No Safety in TREVOR GRIFFITHS, Numbers: A Reply to Sullivan AND PHILIP HUNT REVIEW ARTICLES TIMOTHY W. GUINNANE Recent Developments in Irish Economic History, 1850-1914 673 E. L. JONES Uneven World Development THOMAS K. MCCRAW Lives of the Great Economists EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 4, December ARTICLES N. F. R. CRAFTS Exogenous or Endogenous Growth? The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered PAUL W. RHODE Learning, Capital Accumulation, and the Transformation of California Agriculture HANS-JOACHIM VOTH Did High Wages or High Interest Rates Bring Down the Weimar Republic? A Cointegration Model of Investment in Germany, 1925-1930 . LAURA J. OWEN Worker Turnover in the 1920s: What Labor-Supply Arguments Don’t Tell Us TIMOTHY J. YEAGER Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown’s Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America . JON GJERDE AND ANNE Fertility, Marriage, and Culture: Demographic Processes MCCANTS Among Norwegian Immigrants to the Rural Middle West 860 NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS MASAO SUZUKI Success Story? Japanese Immigrant Economic Achievement and Return Migration, 1920-1930 REVIEW ARTICLES RICHARD SYLLA Three Centuries of Finance and Monetary Control in America 902 FRANCOIS CROUZET EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS