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RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC HISTORY IN GERMANY 513 The Eco?wmic Florescence of Spain in the Sixteenth Century and its Decay ? (1888), by Haebler, is the first work giving a connected account of the development of economic institutions in Spain. It contradicts the widespread assumption that the policy of Charles V. was responsible for their subsequent national decadence, and attaches a proportionately greater significance to the baneful influence of Philip II. and his successors. One work only represents Italian economic history, viz., The Consulate of the Sea in Pisa'Z (1888), an interesting monograph by Schaube, who has already published a work on the consulate of the sea in Genoa. Johann yon Keussler has recently completed his great work, .4 History and Criticism of Village Communal Tenure in Russia. s (1876-1887), a valuable contribution to the knowledge not only of Russia, but also of agrarian history in general. Further in- formation concerning economic and social conditions in Russia is contained in Staehr's On the Origin, of the Russian Artel ? (1890), and in Landlord and _Peasant in Livemia Eighteenth Centuries ? (1890). History, and Significance yon Transehe-Roseneck's in the Seventeenth and Among contributors to the economic history of Switzerland Schanz stands pre-eminent as the author of a great work entitled Taxation in Switzerland and its Development since the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century ? (1890). This is a subject of special ?nd m?nifold interest, due to the gre?t v?riety of .economic ?nd ethnic conditions ?s well ?s the ?dv?nced stage of ?utonomy in the different c?ntons. Besides, the ?uthor does not strictly confine his view to the present century, but t?kes ? retrospect of e?r]ier stages of development. The lion's sh?re of ?11 the research in economic history f?11s n?tur?]]y to Germany. There is ? wealth of interesting m?- terial in Lamprecht's extremely comprehensive work, Economic Life in Mcdieeval Germany ? (1886). It contains at once more and less than th.e title leads us to expect, the focus of his investigations being the cultivation of the soil in the Moselle ?listricts. Further investigations in medimval times, of a highly meri- Die wirtschaftliche Blttte Spaniens im 16. Jahrhundert und ihr ?rfall. Dos Consulat des Meeres in Pisa. Zur Geschichte u?ut Kritik des biiuerlichen Geu?eindebesitzes in Russland. Ueber Ursprung, Geschichte und Bedeutung des russisctwn Artels. Gutsherr und Bauer in Livland im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Die Steuern der Schweiz in ihrer Entwicklung seit Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Deutsches Wirtschaftsleben im Mittelalter. No. 3.--VOL. I L L