Introduction / Peter A. Coclanis -- The Dutch Atlantic economies / Jan de Vries -- Self-organized complexity and the emergence of an Atlantic market economy, 1651 1815 : the case of Madeira / David Hancock -- Cloth and the emergence of the Atlantic economy / Robert S. Duplessis -- The...

"Global Networks and New Histories Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field...

Examines the height of Georgian convicts and concludes that their height declined beginning with the birth cohorts of 1835. The economic transition brought about a decline in their nutritional status.

Examines the height of students who attended The Citadel, the military academy in Charleston in the late-19th and the first half of the 20th century. Shows a long stagnation in the biological standard of living in this part of the South until the 1910s, when it began to increase substantially.

Quantitative economic history was once all the rage. But, until recently, any and all approaches to economic history seemed to be losing ground. The authors tell us why and whether economic history is now making a comeback.