FRONT COVER -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- AIR CONDITIONING, MIGRATION, AND CLIMATE-RELATED WAGE AND RENT DIFFERENTIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- ECONOMETRIC FRAMEWORK -- DATA AND EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS RELEVANT TO BOTH ANALYSES -- ANALYSIS OF ELDERLY MIGRATION -- ANALYSIS OF WAGE AND RENT DIFFERENTIALS -- POSSIBLE COUNTERVAILING FACTORS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: ECONOMETRIC APPENDIX -- APPENDIX B: DATA APPENDIX -- THE RAIL-GUIDED VEHICLES INDUSTRY IN ITALY, 1861-1913: THE BURDEN OF THE EVIDENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NEW NATIONAL ESTIMATES -- THE NATIONAL MARKET FOR RAILWAY VEHICLES -- THE NEW REGIONAL ESTIMATES -- REGIONAL PRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: SOURCES AND METHODS: NATIONAL ESTIMATES -- APPENDIX B: SOURCES AND METHODS: REGIONAL ESTIMATES -- ENGLISH BANKING AND PAYMENTS BEFORE 1826 -- INTRODUCTION -- BANKING IN THE PERIPHERY -- BANKING IN THE METROPOLIS -- CORRESPONDENT RELATIONS -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RETAIL TRADE BY FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT, 1919 TO 1939: A STATISTICAL HISTORY -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA SOURCES -- METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING STATISTICAL SERIES -- PATTERNS IN LEVELS OF RETAIL TRADE -- PATTERNS IN GROWTH RATES OF RETAIL TRADE -- PATTERNS IN GROWTH RATES OF PER CAPITA RETAIL TRADE -- RETAIL TRADE AND NBER BUSINESS CYCLES -- GROWTH IN POPULATION -- ACCOUNTING FOR PRICE CHANGES -- THE SEASONAL CYCLE -- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE INITIAL AND FINAL SERIES -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- THE GREAT FORTUNES OF THE GILDED AGE AND THE CRISIS OF 1893 -- A NEW GILDED AGE? -- KEY ECONOMIC FEATURES OF THE GILDED AGE -- SOURCES OF FORTUNE -- THE CRISIS OF 1893 -- FINANCE AND REAL ESTATE.

BOSTON AND CHICAGO -- THE MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.