The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Cambridge Ms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Trimestrale
ISSN: 0022-1953-
Conservata in: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali
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Consistenza: a. I, 1, 1970-a. XXXII, 4, 2002
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Lacune: a. XXXVIII, 2-a. XXXVIII, 1; a. XXXVI, 3/4;
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ARTICLES
Philip Benedict, Was the Eighteenth Century an Era of Urbanization
in France?, p. 179
Peter A. Gunn, Productive Cycles and the Season of Marriage:
A Critical Test, p. 217
RESEARCH NOTES
Peter A. Coclanis, The Wealth of British America on the Eve
of the Revolution, p. 245
Albion M. Urdank, The Consumption of Rental Property: Gloucestershire
Plebeians and the Market Economy, 1750-1860, p. 261
REVIEW ARTICLES
Daniel H. Calhoun, A Question of Convergence: Neural Networks
and the History of Information, p. 283
Marta Petrusewicz, Corsica: Old Vendetta and the Modern State, p. 295
Reviews, p. 303
ARTICLES
Jerome Kroll, Bernard S. Bachrach, Medieval Dynastic Decisions:
Evolutionary Biology and Historical Explanation, p. 1
John D. Post, The Mortality Crises of the Early 1770s and
European Demographic Trends, p. 29
Philip D. Curtin, The End of the « White Man’s Grave »?
Nineteenth-Century Mortality in West Africa, p. 63
RESEARCH ESSAY
Allan G. Bogue, The Quest for Numeracy: Data and Methods in
American Political History, p. 89
Reviews, p. 117
ARTICLES
J. Morgan Kousser, Toward « total » Political History :
A Rational-Choice Program, p. 521
Seymour Drescher, People and Parliament: The Rhetoric of the
British Slave Trade, p. 561
Roger Lloyd-Jones, The First Kondratieff: The Long Wave and
the British Industrial Revolution, p. 581
RESEARCH NOTE
John Komlos, Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century
Germany, p. 607
REVIEW ARTICLE
Kathleen A. Biddick, Malthus in a Straightjacket? Analyzing
Agrarian Change in Medieval England, p. 623
Reviews, p. 637
ARTICLES
Miriam King, Steven Ruggles, American Immigration, Fertility
and Race Suicide at the Turn of the Century, p. 347
Loretta T. Johnson, Chanvari/Shivaree: A European Folk Ritual
on the American Plans, p. 371
James C. McCann, A Great Agrarian Cycle? Productivity in Highland
Ethiopia, 1900-1987, p. 389
RESEARCH NOTE
Farley Grubb, German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to
1820, p. 417
REVIEW ARTICLES
Theodore K. Rabb, The Historian and the Art Historian, III:
Recent Work on The Seventeenth-Century, p. 445
Joseph C. Miller, Africa Past and Present, p. 445
Reviews, p. 463
ARTICLES
Charles Issawi, Empire Builders, Culture Makers, and Culture
Imprinters, p. 177
Konrad H. Jarausch, Gerhard Arminger, The German Teaching
Profession and Nazi Party Membership: A Demographic Logit Model, p. 197
Fred M. Shelley, J. Clark Archer, Sectionalism and Presidential
Politics: Voting Patterns in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, p. 227
REVIEW ARTICLES
Miriam F. Balmuth, Searching for the Origins of Indo-European
Languages, p. 257
Ballard C. Campbell, Migration and Politics, p. 263
Reviews, p. 271
ARTICLES
Joel H. Silbey, After « The First Northern Victory »:
The Republican Party Comes to Congress, 1855-1856, p. 1
Paula A. Treckel, Breastfeeding and Maternal Sexuality in
Colonial America, p. 25
Walter E. Minchinton, Characteristics of British Slaving Vessels, p. 53
Ulrich Pfister, Work Roles and Family Structure in Proto-Industrial
Zurich, p. 83
REVIEW ARTICLES
Stephan Thernstrom, Counting Heads: New Data on the Ethnic
Composition of the American Population, p. 107
Reed Ueda, The Coolie and the Model Minority: Reconstructing
Asian-American History, p. 117
Reviews, p. 125
ARTICLES
Richard J. Jensen, The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in
the Great Depression, p. 553
Ralph Shlomowitz, Epidemiology and the Pacific Labor Trade, p. 585
REVIEW ARTICLES
Matthew Ramsey, Environment, Health, and Medicine in the Old
Regime, p. 611
Alan B. Spitzer, In the Beginning Was the Word: The French
Revolution, p. 621
Ann G. Carmichael, Past Fasts: Medieval Saints with the Will
to Starve, p. 635
Charles Wetherell, Network Analysis Comes of Age, p. 645
Reviews, p. 653
ARTICLES
Thomas W. Gallant, Crisis and Response: Risk-Buttering Behavior
in Hellenistic Greek Communities, p. 393
Nicholas F.R. Crafts, British Industrialization in an International
Context, p. 415
Jonathan J. Liebowitz, Tenants, Sharecroppers, and the French
Agricultural Depression of the Late Nineteenth Century, p. 429
Philip Nord, Manet and Radical Politics, p. 447
REVIEW ARTICLE
J.H.M. Salmon, History without Anthropology: A New Witchcraft
Synthesis, p. 481
Reviews, p. 487
ARTICLES
Patrick Manning, William S. Griffiths, Divining the Unprovable:
Simulating the Demography of the African Slave Trade, p.
177
W. Peter Ward, Birth Weight and Standards of Living in Vienna,
1865-1930, p. 203
Frank Stricker, American Professors in the Progressive Era:
Incomes, Aspirations, and Professionalism, p. 231
RESEARCH NOTE
Stephen E. Pelz, A Taxonomy for American Diplomatic History, p. 259
REVIEW ARTICLES
Ethan B. Kapstein, Cold War Scholarship: Time for a Freeze?, p. 277
Peter C. Perdue, Revolution in Republican China, p. 285
Reviews, p. 293
ARTICLES
John Bohstedt, Dale E. Williams, The Diffusion of Riots: The
Patterns of 1766, 1795, and 1801 in Devonshire, p. 1
Andrew E. Barnes, Cliques and Participation: Organizational
Dynamics in the Penitents Bourras, p. 25
Jürgen W. Falter, Reinhard Zintl, The Economic Crisis
of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote, p. 55
REVIEW ARTICLES
Robert S. Gottfried, English towns in the Later Middle Ages,
p. 87
Joel Perlmann, School Reform and Social Conflict: A Reassessment, p. 93
Reviews, p. 103
THE ORIGIN AND PREVENTION OF MAJOR WARS
INTRODUCTION
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Old Wars and Future Wars: Causation and
Prevention, p. 581
THE ORIGINS OF WAR: STRUCTURAL THEORIES
Robert Gilpin, The Theory of Hegemonic War, p. 591
Kenneth N. Waltz, The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory, p. 615
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Contribution of Expected Utility
Theory to the Study of International Conflict, p. 629
THE ORIGINS OF WAR: EXPLANATION OF NON-RATIONAL CAUSALITY
Jack S. Levy, Domestic Politics and War, p. 653
Robert Jervis, War and Misperception, p. 675
George H. Quester, Crisis and the Unexpected, p. 701
LESSONS AND ANALOGIES FROM EARLY MAJOR WARS
John E. Guilmartin, Jr., Ideology and Conflict: The Wars of
the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1606, p. 721
Myron P. Gutmann, The Origins of the Thirty Years’ War, p. 749
Gunther E. Rothenberg, The Origins, Causes, and Extension
of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, p. 771
LESSONS AND ANALOGIES FROM THE WORLD WARS
Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., The Origins of World War I,
p. 795
Charles S. Maier, Wargames: 1914-1919, p. 819
Jeffrey L. Hughes, The Origins of World War II in Europe:
British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism, p. 851
Scott D. Sagan, The Origins of the Pacific War, p. 893
ARTICLES
Anne Hardy, Diagnosis, Death, and Diet: The Case of London,
1750-1909, p. 387
William A. Green, Supply Versus Demand in the Barbadian Sugar
Revolution, p. 403
Sharon Kettering, The Historical Development of Political
Clientelism, p. 419
RESEARCH NOTE
Mark Olsen, Louis-Georges Harvey, Computers in Intellectual
History: Lexical Statistics and the Analysis of Political Discourse, p. 449
REVIEW ARTICLES
Richard T. Vann, Historians’ Words and Things, p. 465
Stephen Lassonde, Sexuality and Religion in Anglo-American
Culture, p. 471
Douglas E. Wheeler, The Politics of Portuguese Economic Colonialism, p. 481
Reviews, p. 489
ARTICLES
Dauril Alden, Joseph C. Miller, Out of Africa: The Slave Trade
and the Transmission of Smallpox to Brazil, 1560-1831, p. 195
Hilary McD. Beckles, Andrew Downes, The Economics of Transition
to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630-1680, p. 225
Linda C. Hults, Baldung and the Witches of Brerburg: The Evidence
of Images, p. 249
RESEARCH NOTES
Kathleen Biddick, Missing Links: Taxable Wealth, Markets,
and Stratification among Medieval English Peasants, p. 277
Robert V. Wells, Marriage Seasonals in Early America: Comparisons
and Comments, p. 299
REVIEW ARTICLE
Brian M. Fagan, Settlement Patterns, Iconography, and Colonial
Rule: Mesoamerica, p. 309
Reviews, p. 329
ARTICLES
Susan B. Hanley, Urban Sanitation in Preindustrial Japan, p. 1
Robert Woods, p. R. Andrew Hinde, Mortality in Victorian England:
Models and Patterns, p. 27
Rachel G. Fuchs, Legislation, Poverty, and Child-Abandonment
in Nineteenth-Century Paris, p. 55
Peter H. Argersinger, Populists in Power: Public Policy and
Legislative Behavior, p. 81
RESEARCH NOTE
Derek S. Linton, Industrialization and Intergenerational Social
Mobility in a Rhenish Textile town, p. 107
Reviews, p. 127
CARIBBEAN SLAVERY AND BRITISH CAPITALISM
Barbara E. Solow, Stanley E. Engerman (Guest Editors), Introduction, p. 707
Barbara E. Solow, Capitalism and Slavery in the Exceedingly
Long Run, p. 711
David Richardson, The Slave Trade, Sugar, and British Economic
Growth, 1748-1776, p. 739
Joseph E. Inikori, Slavery and the Development of Industrial
Capitalism in England, p. 771
Richard S. Dunn, « Dreadful Idlers » in the Cane Fields:
The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831, p. 795
Selwyn H. H. Carrington, The American Revolution and the British
West Indies’ Economy, p. 823
Gavin Wright, Capitalism and Slavery on the Islands: A Lesson
from the Mainland, p. 851
REVIEW ARTICLE
Herbert S. Klein, New Evidence on the Virginia Slave Trade, p. 871
Reviews, p. 879
ARTICLES
J. Russell Major, « Bastard Feudalism » and the Kiss:
Changing Social Mores in Late Medieval and Early Modern France, p. 509
James C. Riley, Disease without Death: New Sources for a History
of Sickness, p. 537
Farley Grubb, Morbidity and Mortality on the North Atlantic
Passage: Eighteenth-Century German Immigration, p. 565
M. Craig Brown, Charles N. Halaby, Machine Politics in America,
1870-1945, p. 587
RESEARCH NOTE
Christopher J. French, Productivity in the Atlantic Shipping
Industry: A Quantitative Study, p. 613
REVIEW ARTICLE
Michael H. Ebner, The Comparative Tradition in American Urban
History, p. 639
Reviews, p. 645
ARTICLES
John Markoff, Some Effects of Literacy in Eighteenth-Century
France, p. 311
Barry Eichengreen, Unemployment in Interwar Britain: New Evidence
from London, p. 335
Charles Ballard, Drought and Economic Distress: South Africa
in the 1800s, p. 359
John F. McClymer, Late Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class
Living Standards, p. 379
RESEARCH NOTE
Mark D. Schmitz, Donald F. Schaefer, Using Manuscript Census
Samples to Interpret Antebellum Southern Agriculture, p. 399
REVIEW ARTICLE
Paul Wheatley, European Urbanization: Origins and Consummation, p. 415
Reviews, p. 431
Comment and Controversy, p. 499
THE EVIDENCE OF ART: IMAGES AND MEANING IN HISTORY
Theodore K. Rabb, Jonathan Brown, Introduction, p. 1
Diane Owen Hughes, Representing the Family: Portraits and
Purposes in Early Modern Italy, p. 7
Christoph L. Frommel, Papal Policy: The Planning of Rome during
the Renaissance, p. 39
Randolph Starn, Reinventing Heroes in Renaissance Italy, p. 67
J. R. Hale, The Soldier in Germanic Graphic Art of the Renaissance, p. 85
Richard E. Kagan, Philip II and the Art of the Cityscape, p. 115
Jonathan Brown, Enemies of Flattery: Velázquez’ Portraits
of Philip IV, p. 137
Simon Schama, The Domestication of Majesty: Royal Family Portraiture,
1500-1850, p. 155
Antoine Schnapper, The King of France as Collector in the
Seventeenth Century, p. 185
Raymond Grew, Picturing the People: Images of the Lower Orders
in Nineteenth-Century French Art, p. 203
Peter Paret, The German Revolution of a 1848 and Rethel’s « Dance of Death », p. 233
Elizabeth Johns, The Farmer in the Works of William Sidney
Mount, p. 257
Barbara Miller Lane, Architects in Power: Politics and Ideology
in the Work of Ernst May and Albert Speer, p. 283
ARTICLES
John E. Crowley, The Importance of Kinship: Testamentary Evidence
from South Carolina, p. 559
Gerald Ginsburg, Computing Antebellum Turnout: Methods and
Models, p. 579
Walter Dean Burnham, Those High Nineteenth-Century American
Voting Turnouts: Fact or Fiction?, p. 613
Donald E. Stevens, Economic Fluctuations and Political Instability
in Early Republican Mexico, p. 645
RESEARCH NOTE
Michael Toch, Asking the Way, and Telling the Law: Speech
in Medieval Germany, p. 667
COMMENT AND CONTROVERSY
Edward Byers, Putting History Back in Historical Demography:
Nantucket Re-reexamined, p. 683
Barbara J. Logue, Of Sound History and Sound Methodology:
A Rejoinder, p. 691
REVIEW ARTICLE
David Henige, If Pigs Could Fly: Timucuan Population and Native
American Historical Demography, p. 701
Reviews, p. 721
ARTICLES
Claudia Goldin, The Economic Status of Women in the Early
Republic: Quantitative Evidence, p. 375
Katherine A. Lynch, Marriage Age among French Factory Workers:
An Alsatian Example, p. 405
Massimo Livi-Bacci, Fertility, Nutrition, and Pellagra: Italy
during the Vital Revolution, p. 431
RESEARCH NOTES
David E. Davis, The Scarcity of Rats and the Black Death:
An Ecological History, p. 455
Andrew Abbott, John Forrest, Optimal Matching Methods for
Historical Sequences, p. 471
REVIEW ARTICLE
Carl N. Degler, A Tale of Two Cities, p. 495
Reviews, p. 501
ARTICLES
Mary Kilbourne Matossian, Death in London, 1750-1909, p. 183
Nancy R. Folbre, The Wealth of Patriarchs: Deerfield, Massachusetts,
1760-1840, p. 199
RESEARCH NOTES
Daniel J. Gans, Persistence of Party Success in American Presidential
Elections, p. 221
Herbert Moller, Voice Change in Human Biological Development,
p. 239
REVIEW ARTICLES
Anthony Grafton, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Holland without
Huizinga: Dutch Visual Culture in the Seventeenth Century, p. 255
David Harris Sacks, The Hedgehog and the Fox Revisited, p. 267
E. M. Leventhal, Labour’s Golden Age Reconsidered, p. 281
Joseph C. Miller, History and Archaeology in Africa, p.
291
Reviews, p. 305
ARTICLES
David Cressy, The Seasonality of Marriage in Old and New England, p. 1
Rodney D. Bohac, Peasant Inheritance Strategies in Russia, p. 23
Sara Alpern, Dale Baum, Female Ballots: The Impact of the
Nineteenth Amendment, p. 43
RESEARCH NOTE
Howard I. Kushner, Biochemistry, Suicide, and History: Possibilities
and Problems, p. 69
COMMENT AND CONTROVERSY
Raymond Grew, The Comparative Weakness of American History, p. 87
Theodore K. Rabb, The Interdisciplinary Nature of American
History, p. 103
George M. Frederickson, Giving a Comparative Dimension to
American History: Problems and Opportunities, p. 107
John Higham, Paleface and Redskin in American Historiography:
A Comment, p. 111
REVIEW ARTICLE
Walter Licht, The Knights of Labor Commemorated and Reconsidered, p. 117
Reviews, p. 125
POPULATION AND ECONOMY: FROM THE TRADITIONAL TO THE MODERN
WORLD
Roger S Schofield, E. Anthony Wrigley (Guest Editors), Introduction, p. 561
Roger S. Schofield, Through a Glass Darkly: « The Population
History of England » as an Experiment in History, p. 571
Michael Anderson, Historical Demography after « The Population
History of England », p. 595
Peter H. Lindert, English Population, Wages, and Prices: 1541-1913, p. 609
Ronald Lee, Population Homeostasis and English Demographic
History, p. 635
Jan de Vries, The Population and Economy of the Preindustrial
Netherlands, p. 661
E. Anthony Wrigley, Urban Growth and Agricultural Change:
England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period, p. 683
Brinley Thomas, Escaping from Constraints: The Industrial
Revolution in a Malthusian Context, p. 729
Ann Kussmaul, Time and Space, Hoofs and Grain: The Seasonality
of Marriage in England, p. 755
ARTICLES
Barbara J. Logue, The Case for Birth Control before 1850:
Nantucket Reexamined, p. 371
Richard A. Meckel, Immigration, Mortality, and Population
Growth in Boston, 1840-1880, p. 393
RESEARCH NOTES
Jørgen Elklit, Nominal Record Linkage and the Study
of Non-Secret Voting: A Danish Case, p. 419
Stephen R. Ell, Iron in Two Seventeenth-Century Plague Epidemics, p. 445
COMMENT AND CONTROVERSY
Paul E. Bourke, Donald A. DeBats, On Restoring Politics to
Political History, p. 459
J. Morgan Kousser, Are Political Acts Unnatural?, p. 467
Samuel P. Hays, Society and Politics: Politics and Society,
p. 481
REVIEW ARTICLE
David W. Miller, Collective Violence in the Countryside, p. 501
Reviews, p. 507
ARTICLES
Charles Wetherell, « Boom and Bust » in the Colonial
Chesapeake Economy, p. 185
Letty Anderson, Hard Choices: Supplying Water to New England
towns, p. 211
James C. Riley, Monetary Growth and Price Stability: France,
1650-1700, p. 235
George Alter, Work and Income in the Family Economy Belgium,
1853 and 1891, p. 255
RESEARCH NOTE
Frederick A. Bode, Donald E. Ginter, A Critique of Landholding
Variables in the 1860 Census and the Parker-Gallman Sample, p. 277
REVIEW ARTICIES
Julius Silberger, Jr., Private Lives-Public Events, p. 297
James Oakes, The Politics of Economic Development in the Antebellum
South, p. 305
Reviews, p. 317
ARTICLES
John D. Post, Climatic Variability and the European Mortality
Wave of the Early 1740s, p. 1
Priscilla J. Brewer, The Demographic Features of the Shaker
Decline, 1787-1900, p. 31
Bernard Sternsher, The New Deal Party System: A Reappraisal, p. 53
Mark D. Szuchman, Disorder and Social Control in Buenos Aires,
1810-1860, p. 83
RESEARCH NOTE
Judith M. Bennett, The Tie that Binds: Peasant Marriages Families
in Late Medieval England, p. 111
Reviews, p. 131
ARTICLES
Leonard Hochberg, The English Civil War in Geographical Perspective, p. 729
Reed Ueda, The High School and Social Mobility in a Streetcar
Suburb: Somerville, Massachusetts, 1870-1910, p. 751
Mary E. Cookingham, Working after Childbearing in Modern America, p. 773
RESEARCH NOTES
John Campbell, Work, Pregnancy, and Infant Mortality among
Southern Slaves, p. 793
Philip T. Hoffman, Wills and Statistics: Tobit Analysis and
the Counter Reformation in Lyon, p. 813
Reviews, p. 835
ARTICLES
Lynn Hunt, The Political Geography of Revolutionary France, p. 535
Rose A. Cheney, Seasonal Aspects of Infant and Childhood Mortality:
Philadelphia, 1865-1920, p. 561
RESEARCH NOTES
Myron P. Gutmann, René Leboutte, Rethinking Protoindustrialization
and the Family, p. 587
James Matthew Gallman, Relative Ages of Colonial Marriages, p. 609
S. Charles Bolton, Economic Inequality in the Arkansas Territory, p. 619
REVIEW ARTICLES
James Axtell, Invading America: Puritans and Jesuits, p. 635
Theodore K. Rabb, The Historian and the Art Historian Revisited, p. 647
Reviews, p. 657
HUNGER AND HISTORY: THE IMPACT OF CHANGING FOOD PRODUCTION
AND CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ON SOCIETY
Robert I. Rotberg, Nutrition and History, p. 199
Susan Cotts Watkins, Etienne van de Walle, Nutrition, Mortality,
and Population Size: Malthus’ Court of East Resort, p. 205
Thomas McKeown, Food, Infection, and Population, p. 227
Ann G. Carmichael, Infection, Hidden Hunger, and History, p. 249
Roger Schofield, The Impact of Scarcity and Plenty on Population
Change in England, 1541-1871, p. 265
Massimo Livi-.Bacci, The Nutrition-Mortality Link in Past
Times: A Comment, p. 293
Joan Thirsk, The Horticultural Revolution: A Cautionary Note
on Prices, p. 299
Olwen Hufton, Social Conflict and the Grain Supply in Eighteenth-Century
France, p. 303
Louise A. Tilly, Food Entitlement, Famine, and Conflict, p. 333
Michelle B. McAlpin, Famines, Epidemics, and Population Growth:
The Case of India, p. 351
Santhebachahalli G. Srikantia, Better Nutrition and India:
A Comment, p. 367
Philip D. Curtin, Nutrition in African History, p. 371
Ester Boserup, The Impact of Scarcity and Plenty on Development,
p. 383
Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Functional Consequences of Malnutrition
for Human Populations: A Comment, p. 409
Julian E. Simon, The Effects of Population on Nutrition and
Economic Well-Being, p. 413
Roderick C. Floud, Economics and Population Growth: A Comment, p. 439
Robert W. Fogel et al., Secular Changes in American and British
Stature and Nutrition, p. 445
Carl E. Taylor, Synergy among Mass Infections, Famines, and
Poverty, p. 483
The Conferees, The Relationship of Nutrition, Disease, and
Social Conditions: A Graphical Presentation, p. 503
Gretel H. Pelto, Pertti J. Pelto, Diet and Delocalization:
Dietary Changes since 1750, p. 507
Nevin S. Scrimshaw, The Value of Contemporary Food and Nutrition
Studies for Historians, p. 529
ARTICLES
Robert L. Woods, Jr., Individuals in the Rioting Crowd: A
New Approach, p. 1
Raymond Grew, Patrick J. Harrigan, James Whitney, The Availability
of Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France, p. 25
Jerome S. Handler, Robert S. Corruccini, Plantation Slave
Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis, p. 65
RESEARCH NOTES
Richard Jensen, The Microcomputer Revolution for Historians, p. 91
Eric H. Monkkonen, The Organized Response to Crime in Nineteenth-
and Twentieth-Century America, p. 113
Christian Pouyez, Raymond Roy, François Martin, The
Linkage of Census Name Data: Problems and Procedures, p. 129
REVIEW ARTICLE
John D. Post, Climatic Change and Historical Discontinuity, p. 153
Reviews, p. 161
THE MEASURE OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Theodore K. Rabb, The Development of Quantification in
Historical Research, p. 591
Joel H. Silbey, « Delegates Fresh from the People »:
American Congressional and Legislative Behavior, p. 603
Melvyn Hammarberg, An Analysis of American Electoral Data, p. 629
Kathleen Neils Conzen, Quantification and the New Urban History, p. 653
Diane Lindstrom, Macroeconomic Growth: The United States in
the Nineteenth Century, p. 679
Claudia Goldin, The Changing Economic Role of Women: A Quantitative
Approach, p. 707
Daniel Scott Smith, Differential Mortality in the United States
before 1900, p. 735
Maris A. Vinovskis, Quantification and the Analysis of American
Antebellum Education, p. 761
Robert P. Swierenga, Quantitative Methods in Rural Landholding, p. 787
ARTICLES
Avery M. Guest, Stewart Tolnay, Urban Industrial Structure
and Fertility: The Case of Large American Cities, p. 387
Kenneth J. Winkle, A Social Analysis of Voter Turnout in Ohio,
1850-1860, p. 411
RESEARCH NOTES
Steven G. Reinhardt, Crime and Royal Justice in Ancien Régime
France: Modes of Analysis, p. 437
J. R. Kearl, Clayne L. Pope, Wealth Mobility: The Missing
Element, p. 461
Ivy Broder, Allan J. Lichtman, Modeling the Past: The Specification
of Functional Form, p. 489
REVIEW ARTICLES
Richard Elphick, A Comparative History of White Supremacy, p. 503
Mary Jo Maynes, Schooling and Hegemony, p. 515
Reviews, p. 521
ARTICLES
Stanley E. Engerman, Economic Adjustments to Emancipation
in the United States and British West Indies, p. 191
Steven L. Hoch, Serfs in Imperial Russia: Demographic Insights, p. 221
Carole Shammas, How Self-Sufficient Was Early America?,
p. 247
RESEARCH NOTE
Alice Hanson Jones, Estimating Wealth of the Living from a
Probate Sample, p. 273
REVIEW ARTICLES
Daniel Scott Smith, Sociobiology and History, p. 301
Lois Banner, Fashion and History, p. 311
COMMENT AND CONIROVERSY
Raymond E. Cohn, Richard A. Jensen, Mortality in the Atlantic
Slave Trade, p. 317
Joseph C. Miller, A Reply, p. 331
Reviews, p. 337
ARTICLES
P. G. Aaron, Robert G. Clouse, Freud’s Psychohistory of Leonardo
da Vinci: A Matter of Being Right or Left, p. 1
Edward Byers, Fertility Transition in a New England Commercial
Center: Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1680-1840, p. 17
Daniel Snydacker, Kinship and Community in Rural Pennsylvania,
1749-1820, p. 41
San Bennett, Carville Earle, The Geography of Strikes in the
United States, 1881-1894, p. 63
REVIEW ARTICLE
Richard E. McCormick, The Realignment Synthesis in American
History, p. 85
Reviews, p. 107
ARTICLES
J. Morgan Kousser, Restoring Politics to Political History, p. 569
Joel Best, Careers in Brothel Prostitution: St. Paul, 1865-1883, p. 597
Paul Kleppner, Were Women to Blame? Female Suffrage and Voter
Turnout, p. 621
RESEARCH NOTE
James R. Lehning, Family Life and Wetnursing in a French Village, p. 645
REVIEW ARTICLES
Fritz K. Ringer, A New Vitality: The History of Education, p. 657
James Axtell, Bronze Men and Golden Ages: The Intellectual
History of Indian-White Relations in Colonial America, p. 663
John P. Radford, Blacks in Boston, p. 677
Reviews, p. 685
ARTICLES
John C. H. Fei, Ts’ui-jung Liu, The Growth and Decline of
Chinese Family Clans, p. 375
Fred W. Peterson, Vernacular Building and Victorian Architecture:
Midwestern American Farm Homes, p. 409
Shepard Krech III, Black Family Organization in the Nineteenth
Century: An Ethnological Perspective, p. 429
RESEARCH NOTES
David Eltis, Nutritional Trends in Africa and the Americas:
Heights of Africans, 1819-1839, p. 453
David Cohen, Eric A. Johnson, French Criminality: Urban-Rural
Differences in the Nineteenth Century, p. 477
COMMENT AND CONTROVERSY
Victor B. Howard, Comment, p. 503
J. Morgan Kousser, A Reply, p. 509
REVIEW ARTICLE
Jack P. Greene, The Southern Colonial Mind and American Culture, p. 515
Reviews, p. 523
THE NEW HISTORY: THE 19805 AND BEYOND (II)
The Editors, Introduction, p. 177
ECONOMIC HISTORY IN THE 1980s
Peter Temin, The Future of the New Economic History, p. 179
Barry Supple, Old Problems and New Directions, p. 199
POPULATION HISTORY IN THE 1980s
E. A. Wrigley, The Prospects for Population History, p. 207
ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY IN THE 1980s
Bernard S. Cohn, Toward a Rapprochement, p. 227
John W. Adams, Consensus, Community, and Exoticism, p. 253
Natalie Z. Davis, The Possibilities of the Past, p. 267
Carlo Ginzburg, A Comment, p. 277
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN THE 1980s
William J. Bouwsma, From History of Ideas to History of Meaning,
p. 279
Joel Colton, The Case for the Defense, p. 293
HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE 1980s
Arnold Thackray, Science, Technology, and Medicine, p. 299
TOWARD THE FUTURE
Theodore K. Rabb, Coherence, Synthesis, and Quality in History, p. 315
Reviews, p. 333
THE NEW HISTORY: THE 198OS AND BEYOND (I)
The Editors, Introduction, p. 1
POLITICAL HISTORY IN THE 1980s
Peter H. Smith, A View from Latin America, p. 3
Jacques Julliard, Reflections on its Present and Future, p. 29
Peter Clarke, Ideas and Interests, p. 45
Jacques Revel, A Comment, p. 49
FAMILY HISTORY IN THE 1980s
Lawrence Stone, Past Achievements and Future Trends, p. 51
BIOGRAPHY IN THE 1980s
Miles E. Shore, A Psychoanalytic Perspective, p. 89
QUANTIFICATION IN THE 1980s
David Herlihy, Numerical and Formal Analysis in European History, p. 115
Allan G. Bogue, Numerical and Formal Analysis in United States
History, p. 137
ARTICLES
Michael B. Katz, Social Class in North American Urban History, p. 579
James Borchert, Urban Neighborhood and Community: Informal
Group Life, 1850-1970, p. 607
RESEARCH NOTES
Susan L. Swan, Mexico in the Little Ice Age, p. 633
Peter H. Lindert, An Algorithm for Probate Sampling, p. 649
REVIEW ARTICLES
David Levine, The « Correct » Principles of Social
Organization, p. 669
Charles E. Rosenberg, Medicine and Community in Victorian
Britain, p. 677
A. Hunter Dupree, Does the History of Technology Exist?, p. 685
David C. Hammack, Economic Interest Groups and Path Analysis:
Two Approaches to the History of Power, p. 695
Reviews, p. 705
Comment and Controversy, p. 765
ARTICLES
Joseph C. Miller, Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade: Statistical
Evidence on Causality, p. 385
Jane Menken, James Trussell, Susan Watkins, The Nutrition
Fertility Link: An Evaluation of the Evidence, p. 425
John A. James, Financial Underdevelopment in the Postbellum
South, p. 443
James William Anderson, The Methodology of Psychological Biography, p. 455
REVIEW ARTICLES
FAMILY IN MEDIEVAL TUSCANY: CRITIQUES AND A REPLY
Edward Muir, New Light on Old Numbers: The Political and Cultural
Implications of « Les toscans et leurs familles », p. 477
Myron P. Gutmann, Demographic and Economic Issues in « Les
toscans et leurs familles », p. 487
Susan Mosher Stuard, Family Confronts the Renaissance Household:
A Review of « Les toscans et leurs familles », p. 495
David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Reflections and
Responses, p. 503
COMMENT AND CONTROVERSY
Lawrence Stone, Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England:
Again, p. 507
Belinda Meteyard, A Reply, p. 511
Reviews, p. 515