Volume 30 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including 'Democratization and Central Government Spending, 1870-1938: Emergence of the Leviathan?' by Jari Eloranta, Svetlozar Andreev and Pavel Osinsky; 'Swedish Regional GDP 1855-2000,' by Kerstin Enflo, Martin Henning and Lennart Schon; 'Did the Fed Help to Form a More Perfect Monetary Union?' by John A. James and David F. Weiman; 'The Anthropometric History of Native Americans, 1820-1890' by John Komlos and Leonard Carlson; and 'The dispersion of customs tariffs in France between 1850 and 1913: discrimination in trade policy,' by Becuwe Stephane and Blancheton Bertrand.