Forthcoming Book Reviews in Economic History

Updated: December 19, 2011

Author:  Liaquat Ahamed
Title:  Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Publisher:  Penguin

Author:  Esben Sloth Andersen
Title:  Joseph A. Schumpeter: A Theory of Social and Economic Evolution
Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:  Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes, editors
Title:  Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives
Publisher:  Routledge

Author:  Sambit Bhattacharyya
Title:  Growth Miracles and Growth Debacles: Exploring Root Causes
Publisher:  Edward Elgar

Author:  Johanna Bockman
Title:  Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism
Publisher:  Stanford University Press

Author: Michael B. Boston
Title:  The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation
Publisher:  University Press of Florida

Author:  D. Clayton Brown
Title:  King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945
Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi

Authors:  Fernando Collantes and Francisco Pinilla
Title:  Peaceful Surrender. The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century
Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Authors:  Andrea Colli and Michelangelo Vasta, editors
Title:  Forms of Enterprise in 20th Century Italy: Boundaries, Structures and Strategies
Publisher:  Edward Elgar

Author:  Jessica Dijkman
Title:  Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c. 1200 - c. 1450
Publisher:  Brill

Author:  Stefano Fenoaltea
Title:  The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author:  James R. Fichter
Title:  So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author:  Orfeo Fioretos
Title:  Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism after 1950
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Author:  Catherine L. Fisk
Title:  Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Author:  Oded Galor
Title:  Unified Growth Theory
Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Author: Perry Gauci, editor 
Title:  Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850
Publisher:  Ashgate

Author:  Curzio Giannini
Title:  The Age of Central Banks
Publisher:  Edward Elgar

Author:  Edward Glaeser
Title:  Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Publisher:  Penguin

Author:  Leonard Gomes
Title:  German Reparations, 1919-32
Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan

Author:  Farley Grubb
Title:  German Immigration and Servitude in American, 1709-1914
Publisher:  Routledge

Author:  Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
Title:  The Ties That Buy: Woman and Commerce in Revolutionary America
Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press

Authors:  Robert F. Hebert and Albert N. Link
Title:  A History of Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Routledge

Author: Donald W. Katzner
Title:  At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times
Publisher:  Oxford University Press

Author:  Christopher Kennedy
Title:  The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth
Publisher:  University of Toronto Press

Author:  Martijn Konings
Title:  The Development of American Finance
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Author:  Simon Kuznets (Stephanie Lo and E. Glen Weyl, editors)
Title:  Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in American and Beyond – Volume 1: The Economic Life of American Jewry
Publisher:  Transaction Publishers

Author:  Jim Lacey
Title:  Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II
Publisher:  Naval Institute Press

Author:  Robert Leonard
Title:  Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Authors:  Roger Lloyd-Jones, Myrddin John Lewis, Mark David Matthews, and Josephine Maltby, editors
Title:  Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance: British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Publisher:  Ashgate

Authors: Robert A. McGuire and Philip R.P. Coelho
Title:  Parasites, Pathogens and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
Publisher:  MIT Press

Author:  Sharon Ann Murphy
Title:  Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America
Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press

Author:  Sylvia Nasar
Title:  Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Publisher:  Simon and Schuster

Author:  Prasannan Parthasarathi
Title: Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Author:  Helen Paul
Title:  The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of Its Origins and Consequences
Publisher: Routledge

Author:  Richard Pomfret
Title:  The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective
Publisher:  Harvard University Press

Author:  Sophus A. Reinert
Title:  Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
Publisher:  Harvard University Press

Authors:  Paul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman, editors
Title:  Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time
Publisher:  Stanford University Press

Author:  William Rosen
Title:  The Most Powerful Idea in the World: The Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Publisher:  Random House

Authors:  Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong
Title:  Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe
Publisher:  Harvard University Press

Author:  Warren J. Samuels (with assistance from Marianne F. Johnson and William H. Perry)
Title:  Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press

Author:  Agnar Sandmo
Title:  Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought
Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Author:  Brian Schoen
Title:  The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University

Author:  Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editor
Title:  The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc
Publisher:  Cornell University Press

Author:  James Simpson
Title:  Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914
Publisher:  Princeton University Press

Author:  Vaclav Smil
Title:  Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
Publisher:  MIT Press

Author: David L. Stearns
Title:  Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System
Publisher:  Springer

Authors:  Jim Tomlinson, Carlo Morelli and Valerie Wright
Title:  The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change
Publisher:  Pickering and Chatto

Author:  Gail D. Triner
Title:  Mining and the State in Brazilian Development
Publisher:  Pickering and Chatto

Author:  Carl Wennerlind
Title:  Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1702
Publisher:  Harvard University Press

Author:  Olivier Zunz
Title:  Philanthropy in America: A History
Publisher:  Princeton University Press