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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 64 Number 1, March ARTICLES Dora L. COSTA The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample EONA KARAKACILI English Agrarian Labor Productivity Rates Before the Black Death: A Case Study NATHAN ROSENBERG AND A General-Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss MANUEL Steam Engine in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United TRAJTENBERG CAROL H. SHIUE Local Granaries and Central Government Disaster Relief: Moral Hazard and Intergovernmental Finance in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century China MASAO SUZUKI important or Impotent? Taking Another Look at the 1920 California Alien Land Law GUILLAUME DAUDIN Profitability of Slave and Long-Distance Trading in Context: The Case of Eighteenth-Century France JEREMY ATACK, FRED BATEMAN, AND Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth- ROBERT A. MARGO Century American Manufacturing LIAM BRUNT Nature or Nurture? Explaining English Wheat Yields in the Industrial Revolution, c.1770 NOTES AND DISCUSSION ANDREW J. SELTZER Democratic Opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Comment on Fleck ROBERT K. FLECK Democratic Opposition to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Reply to Seltzer REVIEW ARTICLE MARCUS ALEXIS Brownsville, Brooklyn EDITORS: NODES, ...64..<:.. REVIEWS OF BOOKS ARTICLES THOMAS WEISS ANTOINE PARENT AND CHRISTOPHE RAULT MICHELLE CONNOLLY Human Capital and Growth in the Postbellum South: A Separate but Unequal Story ROBERT C. ALLEN AND Saving the Whales: Lessons from the Extinction of the IAN KEAY Eastern Arctic Bowhead STEPHEN T. ZILIAK Self-Reliance Before the Welfare State: Evidence from the Charity Organization Movement in the United States ..... HARRY KITSIKOPOULOS Convertible Husbandry vs. Regular Common Fields: A Model on the Relative Efficiency of Medieval Field RO RIES ce cats atest oe nasa Suge oearervor cascade ead eatin ckteereninatenscents ROBERT HIGGS Wartime Socialization of Investment: A Reassessment of U.S. Capital Formation in the 1940s.................sscccssecceeees NICHOLAS CRAFTS Productivity Growth in the Industrial Revolution: A New Growth Accounting Perspective REVIEW ARTICLE MELVIN REDER The New Financial Order SUMMARIES OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ALFONSO HERRANZ- Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Spain, 1845-1935. LOCAN Mu Y.LI Public Finance and Economic Development in a Historical Institutional Perspective: China 1840-1911 PETRA MOSER Determinants of Innovation: Evidence from 19th Century NAIR ROMNESS 55o on cacnde ces ehe spaesevegis Sisnsy duesateibisvecaaianassitvbekent RYAN S. JOHNSON The Economic Progress of American Black Workers in a Period of Crisis and Change, 1916-1950 MARCT . LAW Specialization, Information, and Regulation in American Economic History CLAIRE PRIEST Currency Policies and the Nature of Litigation in Colonial New England MARK THOMAS Comments on Moser, Herranz-Locan, and Li PAUL W. RHODE The Dissertations of Doctors Law, Johnson, and Priest: 2003 Allan Nevins Prize Competition of the Economic History Association 579 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 587 ABSTRACTS OF POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 602 EDITORS’ NOTES................ 606 REVIEWS OF BOOKG......... 610 Number 3, September ARTICLES OSCAR GELDERBLOM AND Completing a Financial Revolution: The Finance of the JOOST JONKER Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam MeN RTE, BIS—1G 1S oos ss cas eccscsossinncessansescnsoticvssonsés 641 ALAN DYE AND RICHARD SICOTTE The U.S. Sugar Program and the Cuban Revolution 673 PETER TEMIN Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire 705 ALAN L. OLMSTEAD AND PAUL W. RHODE An Impossible Undertaking: The Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the United States .....5..:.<.sccsseecsssescesssessee JOHN E. MURRAY Family, Literacy, and Skill Training in the Antebellum South: Historical-Longitudinal DOUGLAS A. IRWIN The Aftermath of Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures” .... ISABEL SCHNABEL The German Twin Crisis of 1931 NOTES AND DISCUSSION THOMAS FERGUSON AND PETER TEMIN Comment on “The German Twin Crisis of 1931” ISABEL SCHNABEL Reply to Thomas Ferguson and Peter Temin’s “Comment on ‘The German Twin Crisis of 1931°” MARIANNE WARD AND Relative U.K./U.S. Output Reconsidered: A Reply to JOHN DEVEREUX Professor Broadberry EITORS’ NOTES........:....s- 892 REVIEWS OF BOOKG......... 894 Number 4, December ARTICLES ALAN L. OLMSTEAD AND PAUL W. RHODE The “Tuberculous Cattle Trust”: Disease Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty MICHAEL HUBERMAN Working Hours of the World Unite? New International Evidence of Worktime, 1870-1913 KERRY A. ODELL AND MARC D. WEIDENMIER Real Shock, Monetary Aftershock: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907 1002 JAN LUITEN VAN ZANDEN On the Efficiency of Markets for Agricultural Products: Rice Prices and Capital Markets in Java, 1823-1853... 1028 Dora L. COSTA Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 1056 NOEL MAURER AND When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and ANDREI GOMBERG Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico 1087 MARSHALL GRAMM AND The Free Silver Movement in America: A PHIL GRAMM Reinterpretation 1108 EDITORS’ NOTES ......... 1130 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 1133 Qi, tA