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Includes six papers in quantitative economic history. This volume considers growth in colonial North America and examines the role of bank failures in propagating the Great Depression. It also examines the heights of rich and poor youth in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

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Exports and the economy of the Lower South region, 1720–1770. Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933. On English Pygmies and giants: the physical stature of English youth in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Fiscal statistics for Sweden 1719–2003. Transport Capacity Management and Transatlantic Migration, 1900–1914. Globalization and labor market integration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Asia. List of Contributors. Editor's introduction.

Research in Economic History

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    A Hardback by Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom

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      Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9780762313709, 978-0762313709
      ISBN10: 0762313706

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Includes six papers in quantitative economic history. This volume considers growth in colonial North America and examines the role of bank failures in propagating the Great Depression. It also examines the heights of rich and poor youth in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

      Table of Contents
      Exports and the economy of the Lower South region, 1720–1770. Quarterly data on the categories and causes of bank distress during the Great Depression, 1929–1933. On English Pygmies and giants: the physical stature of English youth in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Fiscal statistics for Sweden 1719–2003. Transport Capacity Management and Transatlantic Migration, 1900–1914. Globalization and labor market integration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Asia. List of Contributors. Editor's introduction.

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