Vol. 31 (2013): Essays in Economic & Business History

The Journal of the Economic & Business History Society

Published: 2013-06-30

Front Matter

• Title Page and Table of Contents

  Jason E. Taylor (ed.)

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• Editorial Board, The EBHS Officers and Trustees 2012-2013

  Jason E. Taylor (ed.)

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Articles

• Sometimes the Horse Will Drink and Sometimes it Won't: Monetizing the Recoveries from the Great Depression and the Great Recession

  Kenneth Weiher

  1-32

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• Searching for the Big Die-Off: An Event Study of 19th Century Cattle Markets Winner of the James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays 2013

  Randy McFerrin, Douglas Wills

  33-52

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• Reducing, Re-defining and Retaining: The Struggle to Maintain a Stable Workforce and Service in the British Post Office During the Second World War

  Mark J. Crowley

  53-77

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• Steady Customs Duties in the "Daoguang Depression"

  Ni Yuping

  78-91

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• The Real Bottom Line: A History of Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace

  Douglas Karsner

  92-119

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Book Reviews

• America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837. By Alasdair Roberts. Cornell University Press, 2012. 264 pages.

  John Moore

  120-122

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• Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California. By Frances Dinkelspiel. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 2009. 376 Pages.

  Lynne Pierson Doti

  122-124

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• The Eclipse of the ‘Elegant Economy’: The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain. By Martin Cohen. Farnham: Ashgate. 2012. 235 pages.

  Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo

  125-127

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• Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos caras de una misma moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984-2010). [The Social and the Economic: Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Social Foundation and its Companies (1984-2010).] By José Camilo Dávila L. de Guevara,

  Cristina Velez

  128-130

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• Polygon of Satan: Ethnic Traumas and Conflicts in the Caucasus, 2nd Edition. By Anatoly Isaenko. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2011. 418 Pages.

  Pavel Osinsky

  131-133

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Back Matter

• Editor's Notes

  Jason E. Taylor

  134-135

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