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The economics of historical economics; the open fields of England -rent, risk, and the rate of interest, 1300-1815; labor market behaviourin colonial America - servitude, slavery, and free labor; productivityin American whaling - the New Bedford fleet in the 19th century;households on the American frontier - the distribution of income andwealth in Utah, 1850-1900; businessmen, the Raj and the pattern ofgovernment expenditures - the British Empire, 1860-1912; racialdiscrimination and industrialization - South Carolina, 1910-1970.