Front Cover -- Research in Economic History -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- Decline and Stagnation in the Arab World: Preliminary Real Wage Evidence Comparing Algeria, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia, 1847-1913 -- Introduction -- Constructing Real Wages -- Algerian Real Wages -- Tunisian Real Wages -- Robustness -- Comparing Levels and Trends -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Tunisian Real Wages - Sources and Adjustments -- Algerian Real Wages - Sources and Adjustments -- Syrian Real Wages - Sources and Adjustments -- New Deal Funding: Estimates of Federal Grants and Loans across States by Year, 1930-1940 -- Introduction -- Prior New Deal Datasets -- Federal Spending in the States before the New Deal -- Agricultural Programs in the 1920s -- Federal Spending under the New Deal -- Checking and Extending the OGR Expenditures Data -- Civilian Conservation Corps -- Public Works Administration -- Works Progress Administration -- Federal Emergency Relief Administration -- Social Security Administration Public Assistance -- Farm Security Administration Loans -- Public Building Administration -- Public Works Administration Loans -- Veterans' Bureau Spending -- U.S. Employment Service -- Bureau of Reclamation -- Rivers, Harbors, and Flood Control -- Nontransfer Grants -- Loans -- Farm Credit Administration Loans -- Values of Loans Prior to the FCA that Match the FCA Mission -- Calendar Year Estimates of Farm Credit Administration Loans -- Commodity Credit Corporation Loans Left Out -- Splitting the RFC Loans between Fiscal 1932 and Fiscal 1933 -- Adding Programs -- Loans on World War I Adjusted Service Certificates and the Veterans' Bonus -- Tennessee Valley Authority Spending -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

How Many Calories? Food Availability in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Introduction -- Estimating Food Availability -- Optimists and Pessimists -- Land Under Cultivation -- Yields Per Acre -- Calories from Cereals and Pulses -- Potatoes -- An Eighteenth-Century Peak? -- An Early-Nineteenth Century Peak? -- Weights and Measures -- A Mid-Nineteenth Century Peak? -- Extraction Rates -- Meat and Dairy Products -- Imports and Exports -- Irish Imports -- Irish Grain Exports -- Irish Meat and Dairy Exports -- Irish Potatoes -- Food Availability in a High-Wage Economy? -- The Search for Compromise -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- "Not Much Use in Disliking it": The Work and Wages of Female Home Workers in London, 1897-1908 -- Introduction -- Female Labor Supply in Theoretical and Historical Perspective -- The Home Industries of Women in London Reports -- The HIWL Data: Description and Analysis -- 1897 Report -- 1908 Report -- Factory Work versus Home Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A: Coding the Data Contained in the Home Industries of Women in London, 1897 and 1908 -- 1897 Report -- 1908 Report -- Appendix B: Classification of Trades Into More and Less Desirable Categories -- Capital Inflows, Current Accounts and the Investment Cycle in Italy: 1861-1913 -- Introduction -- Sources and Data -- The Evolution of Italy's Current Accounts -- Testing Fenoaltea's Thesis: An Econometric Strategy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.