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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 62 Number I, March ARTICLES D. M. G. SUTHERLAND Peasants, Lords, and Leviathan: Winners and Losers from the Abolition of French Feudalism, 1780-1820 ROBERT K. FLECK Democratic Opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Land, Labor, and Globalization in the Third World, 1870-1940 GARY D. LIBECAP AND “Rain Follows the Plow” and Dryfarming Doctrine: The ZEYNEP KOCABIYIK Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in HANSEN the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925 RICHARD S. GROSSMAN New Indices of British Equity Prices, 1870-1913 HOWARD BODENHORN Making the Little Guy Pay: Payments- System Networks, Cross-Subsidization, and the Collapse of the Suffolk System RICHARD POMFRET State-Directed Diffusion of Technology: The Mechanization of Cotton Harvesting in Soviet Central Asia CAROLYN DIMITRI Contract Evolution and Institutional Innovation: Marketing Pacific-Grown Apples from 1890 to 1930 REVIEW ARTICLE HARRY KITSIKOPOULOS, Campbell on Late-Medieval English Agriculture: Two Views HAROLD FOX EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June ARTICLES RICHARD SYLLA Financial Systems and Economic Modernization SULEYMAN OZMUCUR AND Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, SEVKET PAMUK 1489-1914 PHILIP T. HOFFMAN, Real Inequality in Europe since 1500 .... DAVID JACKS, PATRICIA A. LEVIN, AND PETER H. LINDERT JOHN E. MURRAY AND Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy RUTH WALLIS HERNDON of Pauper Apprenticeship MICHAEL J. HISCOX Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion Across U.S. Industries, 1820-1990 KEVH. IO’RNOUR KE AND After Columbus: Explaining Europe’s Overseas Trade JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Boom, 1500-1800 PETER L. ROUSSEAL Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic GREGORY CLARK CONTENTS OF VOLUME 62 Number I, March ARTICLES D. M. G. SUTHERLAND Peasants, Lords, and Leviathan: Winners and Losers from the Abolition of French Feudalism, 1780-1820 ROBERT K. FLECK Democratic Opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Land, Labor, and Globalization in the Third World, 1870-1940 GARY D. LIBECAP AND “Rain Follows the Plow” and Dryfarming Doctrine: The ZEYNEP KOCABIYIK Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in HANSEN the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925 RICHARD S. GROSSMAN New Indices of British Equity Prices, 1870-1913 HOWARD BODENHORN Making the Little Guy Pay: Payments- System Networks, Cross-Subsidization, and the Collapse of the Suffolk System RICHARD POMFRET State-Directed Diffusion of Technology: The Mechanization of Cotton Harvesting in Soviet Central Asia CAROLYN DIMITRI Contract Evolution and Institutional Innovation: Marketing Pacific-Grown Apples from 1890 to 1930 REVIEW ARTICLE HARRY KITSIKOPOULOS, Campbell on Late-Medieval English Agriculture: Two Views HAROLD FOX EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 2, June ARTICLES RICHARD SYLLA Financial Systems and Economic Modernization SULEYMAN OZMUCUR AND Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, SEVKET PAMUK 1489-1914 PHILIP T. HOFFMAN, Real Inequality in Europe since 1500 .... DAVID JACKS, PATRICIA A. LEVIN, AND PETER H. LINDERT JOHN E. MURRAY AND Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy RUTH WALLIS HERNDON of Pauper Apprenticeship MICHAEL J. HISCOX Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion Across U.S. Industries, 1820-1990 KEVH. IO’RNOUR KE AND After Columbus: Explaining Europe’s Overseas Trade JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Boom, 1500-1800 PETER L. ROUSSEAL Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic GREGORY CLARK NOTES AND DISCUSSION CHULHEE LEE Sectoral Shift and the Labor-Force Participation of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940 ROBERT WHAPLES The Supply and Demand of Economic History: Recent Trends in the Journal of Economic History SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS REGINA GRAFE Northern Spain Between the Iberian and the Atlantic Worlds: Trade and Regional Specialisation, 1550-1650 .... EONA KARAKACILI Peasants, Productivity, and Profit in the Open Fields of England: A Study of Economic and Social Development CHRISTOPHER M. New World Order: The Emergence of an International MEISSNER Monetary System, 1850 to 1913 WAYNE A. GROVE The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920-1970 DANIEL A. SCHIFFMAN Shattered Rails, Ruined Credit: Financial Fragility and Railroad Operations in the Great Depression FRED H. SMITH Real Estate Values and the Location of Economic Activity: A Case Study of the Urban Form of Cleveland, 1915-1980 ALAN DYE Comments on Grafe, Karakacili, and Meissner HOWARD BODENHORN Tractors, Trains, and Trolleys: Comments on Grove, Schiffman, and Smith ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING ABSTRACTS OF POSTERS DISPLAYED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 3, September ARTICLES GEORGE R. BCYER AND New Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870-1913 ...... 643 TIMOTHY J. HATTON JOHN SEDGWICK Product Differentiation at the Movies: Hollywood, 1946 to CORMAC O GRADA AND JEAN-MICHEL CHEVET WERNER TROESKEN The Limits of Jim Crow: Race and the Provision of Water and Sewerage Services in American Cities, 1880-1925 ... JOHN E. MURRAY Chinese—Filipino Wage Differentials in Early-Twentieth- Century Manila JEREMY ATACK, Part- Year Operation in Nineteenth-Century American FRED BATEMAN, AND Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 ROBERT A. MARGO OSI so. s1g are ta SGN blo Sen ee ale SRM a HAKAN LINDGREN The Modernization of Swedish Credit Markets, 1840-1905: Evidence from Probate Records LINDA M. HOOKS AND Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Texas KENNETH J. ROBINSON Banking in the 1920s EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS Number 4, December ARTICLES ALAN L.OLMSTEAD AND _ The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth PAUL W. RHODE in American Wheat, 1800-1940 STEPHEN BROADBERRY From the Counting House to the Modern Office: Explaining AND SAYANTAN GHOSAL Anglo-American Productivity Differences in Services, 1870-1990 KAREN CLAY AND Strategic Behavior in Whiskey Distilling, 1887-1895 WERNER TROESKEN MARK POTTER AND The Development of Intermediation in French Credit JEAN-LAURENT Markets: Evidence from the Estates of Burgundy ROSENTHAL WILLIAM J. HAUSMAN AND The Market for Capital and the Origins of State Regulation JOHN L. NEUFELD of Electric Utilities in the United States W. G. HUFF Boom-or-Bust Commodities and Industrialization in Pre—World War II Malaya NOTES AND DISCUSSION SIDDHARTH CHANDRA The Role of Government Policy in Increasing Drug Use: Java, 1875-1914 ERIC W. VAN LUIJJK AND The Effects of Government Policy on Drug Use JAN C. VAN OURS Reconsidered REVIEW ARTICLE RICHARD J. SALVUCCI EDITORS’ NOTES REVIEWS OF BOOKS