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