Politics, development and equity in five land-rich countries in the latter 19th century, Cynthia Taft Morris; monotonous but not meagre - the diet of Burgher orphans in early modern Amsterdam, Ann McCants; export versus domestic demand - the determinants of sex ratios in the transatlantic slave trade, Joseph E. Inikori; the long-run trend in the value of European immigrant servants, 1654-1831 - new measurements and interpretations, Farley Grubb; male labour supply in the late 19th century - estimates from micro-data on workers in Maine and Kansas, Joshua L. Rosenbloom; comparable indices of wholesale prices and manufacturing wage rates in the United States, 1865-1914, Christopher Hanes; reestimating the annual unemployment rate series for the United States, 1890-1990 - revised estimates and evidence for stabilization, David R. Weir; the great depression of the 1890s - new suggestive estimates of the unemployment rate, 1890-1905, Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch; a comment, Stanley Lebergott.