1. Growth and transformation during two centuries -- 2. The transformation of agriculture and early industrialisation, 1790-1850 -- 3. Railway construction and expanded industrialisation, 1850-1890 -- 4. The breakthrough of industrial society, 1890-1930 -- 5. The peak of industrial society,...

1. The origins of peasant-friendly research in Germany -- 2. The movement for peasant-friendly plant-breeding, 1880-1905 -- 3. Research, development and extension at the South German stations -- 4. Success breeds trouble: the controversy over public-sector breeding, 1902-1933 -- 5. The fate of...

The effects of commercialization and migration in traditional agrarian economies such as China's during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been a subject of ferocious debate. Using data from Manchuria on soybean cultivation and exports, we employ difference-in-differences and...

The living standards in Korea during the colonial period (1910–1945) have been debated for a long time. We explored this problem using the height of the Hangryu deceased, a dead person who did not have any acquaintances to claim the body. We found that the height of male Hangryu deceased, ages...

We examine econometrically the real effects of paper money's introduction into colonial New England over the 1703–1749 period. Departing from earlier analyses that focus primarily on the depreciation of paper money in the region, we show that expansion of the money stock promoted growth in...

Women were first employed in large numbers by the British banking industry during the First World War, and were an essential part of the industry's labour force thereafter. During the interwar period, women were often confined to routine back office positions, and could not advance past the...