Book Reviews

EH.Net Review offers reviews of new releases of interest to scholars and teachers in the fields of economic history, business history, and the history of economics. All book reviews are posted to the EH.Net-Review list, then added to EH.Net's book review library.

Book Review Library

EH.Net's book review library is available to anyone worldwide without charge. The archive is searchable by keyword, author, title, subject, time period, and geographic code. If you use these reviews, please cite EH.Net as the source.

Economic History Classics

During 2006 EH.Net will publish eight "Classic Reviews." Modeled along the lines of our earlier Project 2000 and Project 2001 series, reviewers will “reintroduce” each of the selected books to the profession, "explaining its significance at the time of publication and why it has endured as a classic." Each review will summarize the book's key findings, methods and arguments, as it puts it into the larger context and discusses any weaknesses.

Project 2000/2001

In addition to publishing reviews of recent releases, EH.Net offers two special collections of reviews. Project 2000 features a series of review essays on significant works in twentieth century economic history. These essays survey the works that have had the most influence on the field of economic history and highlight the intellectual accomplishments of twentieth-century economic historians. Project 2001 continues the series with reviews of twelve additional influential works in the field from any time period.

Forthcoming Book Reviews

Following are lists of books in economic and business history that are under review and will be published on the EH.Net Review electronic list and archived in the Book Review Library:

• Forthcoming Reviews in Economic History
• Forthcoming Reviews in Business History
• Forthcoming Reviews in the History of Economics

Recent Reviews

• Pierre-Étienne Will on Lillian M. Li: "Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s"
• Richard Tilly on Christopher Kobrak: "Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present"
• Scott A. Beaulier on Carl A. Zimring: "Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America"
• Richard C.K. Burdekin on Jonathan Kirshner: "Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War"
• Bill Beck on H. Roger Grant: "Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad"
• Mark Thornton on Philip J. Cook: "Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control"
• James Jaffe on David Oldroyd: "Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780"
• Eric Jones on Stephen A. Marglin: "The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community"
• Gary Mongiovi on Geoffrey M. Hodgson: "Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx: Essays on Institutional and Evolutionary Themes"
• Steven Kates on J.E. King (editor): "A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists"