FRONT COVER -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- DEMOCRATIZATION AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING, 1870-1938: EMERGENCE OF THE LEVIATHAN? -- INTRODUCTION -- FISCAL EXPANSION OF THE STATE AND DEMOCRATIZATION -- DEMOCRACIES AND LEGITIMACY -- SOME DATA PUZZLES AND IMPLICATIONS -- DEMOCRACY, INSTITUTIONS, AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING: A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- SWEDISH REGIONAL GDP 1855-2000: ESTIMATIONS AND GENERAL TRENDS IN THE SWEDISH REGIONAL SYSTEM -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EXPECTATIONS -- REGIONAL PRODUCTION DATA AND THE GEARY-STARK METHOD -- DATA AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR SWEDISH REGIONS AND SOME PRELIMINARY TESTS -- THE FINAL REGIONAL GDP ESTIMATION RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B: EMPLOYMENT PER SECTOR, 1860-2000 -- POLITICAL ECONOMIC LIMITS TO THE FED'S GOAL OF A COMMON NATIONAL BANK MONEY: THE PAR CLEARING CONTROVERSY REVISITED -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PRE-FED SYSTEM -- ENTER THE FEDERAL RESERVE -- THE PAR CLEARING CONTROVERSY -- NON-PAR BANKS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE ANTHROPOMETRIC HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS, C.1820-1890 -- INTRODUCTION -- PRIOR ESTIMATES OF THE HEIGHT OF THE NATIVE POPULATION OF NORTH AMERICA -- TRUNCATED REGRESSION -- INDIAN SCOUTS IN THE U.S. ARMY -- DATA ON INDIAN SCOUTS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- THE DISPERSION OF CUSTOMS TARIFFS IN FRANCE BETWEEN 1850 AND 1913: DISCRIMINATION IN TRADE POLICY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISPERSION OF TARIFF PRACTICES IN FRANCE (1850-1910).

EXPLANATIONS FOR DISPERSION OF TARIFFS: SYSTEMATIC ERROR VERSUS DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES -- HISTORIOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF TARIFFS DISPERSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.